{"id":661311,"date":"2026-09-23T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=849934"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:05:13","slug":"bitcoin-losing-ai-payments-battle-per-blackrock-but-not-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/bitcoin-losing-ai-payments-battle-per-blackrock-but-not-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Losing AI Payments Battle per Blackrock, but Not the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/olga-guryanova-ft7vjxwl2ry-unsplash-768x444.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"A group of rugby player\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A new report from Blackrock and new findings by the Bitcoin Policy Institute show that bitcoin is losing the agentic payment battle in the medium term at least, but the longer-term war is still undecided. The latest paper from Blackrock on \u201cThe Machine-Native Economy\u201d essentially omits bitcoin, assigning it only the role of a savings [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from Blackrock and new findings by the Bitcoin Policy Institute show that bitcoin is losing the agentic payment battle in the medium term at least, but the longer-term war is still undecided. The latest paper from Blackrock on \u201cThe Machine-Native Economy\u201d essentially omits bitcoin, assigning it only the role of a savings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-661311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}