In a short video posted on X, O’Leary outlined a concept where a voice command replaces a traditional order. He described a scenario in which the interface between the customer and the vendor becomes fully automated: the user simply asks their phone to order a coffee, and artificial intelligence selects the nearest café and instantly pays for it via blockchain.
“You just tell your phone you want a latte and then go pick it up. By the time you arrive, the barista already knows your name,” he said.
O’Leary emphasized, however, that no current blockchain system is capable of handling millions of micropayments simultaneously. He noted that networks like Ethereum process transactions sequentially, leading to congestion and higher fees during peak hours.
According to the investor, whoever solves this scalability problem first will gain a decisive technological advantage, since every large and small business – from Walmart to a local burger shop – will need platforms capable of executing vast numbers of autonomous payments in real time.
O’Leary believes that integrating artificial intelligence and blockchain into a unified system will eliminate intermediaries and accelerate settlement processes. This approach, he said, will drive the next business revolution by creating a faster, more autonomous, and transparent economy. The emergence of such a platform, in his view, is only a matter of time.
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