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Most profoundly, Bitcoin does not require personhood; software agents could own and control money—autonomous systems that act independently of humans. Imagine self-owning vehicles that pay their own expenses or autonomous charities that collect and allocate donations automatically based on real-time needs.
This opens doors to distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs)—entities managed by code rather than human hierarchies—redefining notions of ownership, governance, and social cooperation.