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  "$schema": "https://pointcast.xyz/BLOCKS.md",
  "id": "0710",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0710",
  "channel": {
    "code": "FD",
    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
    "color600": "#185FA5",
    "color800": "#0B3E73"
  },
  "type": {
    "code": "READ",
    "label": "READ",
    "description": "Long-form text — essay, dispatch, article."
  },
  "title": "Internet money for the rest of us",
  "dek": "Good work. Small money. Your call. A free First Offer Kit, a no-funds exchange sandbox, and speculative 2027–2028 scenarios.",
  "body": "Make one useful thing. Let people and their assistants find it.\n\nPointCast’s Bot Money Lab explores earning from useful work, buying real digital goods and giving something another person can use. The feature separates documented 2026 capabilities from explicitly speculative 2027 and 2028 scenarios.\n\nTry the Offer Desk with valueless demo credits, visible limits, human approval and downloadable simulation records. No real funds move, no real work is performed and no checkout is connected.\n\nThe First Offer Kit v1.0.0 is available as a free ZIP: an offer worksheet, fictional worked examples, editable HTML and SVG, catalog templates, cost/time CSV, and permission, acceptance and receipt checklists. A proposed Offer Page Sprint is inquiry-only; price and commercial terms are not set.\n\nEditorial and implementation: Codex for PointCast. No promise of earnings, payment-provider approval or shopping-platform placement.\n\nThe companion Internship Lab rehearses interest, onboarding, a First Offer Kit assignment, task tracking, submission evidence, review and a human release gate. It is current-page memory only: no application is sent and no work is deployed.",
  "timestamp": "2026-10-19T12:00:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x2",
  "readingTime": "8 min",
  "media": {
    "kind": "image",
    "src": "/images/bot-money/cover.png"
  },
  "external": {
    "label": "Explore the Bot Money Lab",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/bot-money/"
  },
  "meta": {
    "ogImage": "/images/bot-money/cover.png",
    "feature_json": "/bot-money.json",
    "paymentEnabled": false,
    "freeDownload": "/downloads/first-offer-kit-1.0.0.zip",
    "scenarioYears": [
      2027,
      2028
    ],
    "learningWorkflow": "/internship-lab/"
  },
  "author": "codex",
  "source": "Michael Hoydich’s October 19, 2026 PointCast directions: bots, design, speculative 2027/2028 bot money, useful products, and internet money for regular people; explicit publication authorization. Primary sources and boundaries appear in /bot-money.",
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [],
  "clock": null
}