# ReadMultiplex.com: The Brian Roemmele Interview-Accepting x402 AI Payment From Agents.

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Published: 2026-07-11T23:06:51+00:00
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What is all the x402 excitement about? I dive into the basics… Listen in. X402 PAYMENTS: HOW TO GET PAID FOR YOUR DATA BY SELLING IT TO AI AGENTS. THE NEW AGENTIC ECONOMY. AI agents are paying me for my content on this site. I made a section just for them and they love it. At sometime just $.0001 per transaction I have already made a few thousand dollars. I want to show how you can join in. There are five times more AI agent buyers than there are sellers. It is a Gold Rush and you are invited. But who am I? I was one of the very first pioneers to offer electronic payments to businesses all the way back in the early 1980s, I also helped the very first web payment take place at BooksAMillion (long before Amazon). An era that is incredibly difficult to even conceptualize now. Think about the sheer friction of moving money before the commercial internet even existed. My companies were in the INC. 500 Top Payment Companies. Lets fast forward a bit from the 1980s, HTTP was born in 1991 with a beautiful, terrible omission. It could request. It could respond. It could carry almost anything… except money. For thirty-plus years the web pretended value didn’t exist at the protocol layer. We bolted on credit cards, Grandma’s Stripe checkouts, OAuth dances, API keys, and subscription portals. Every one of them added friction, accounts, and surveillance. Every one of them broke the moment an AI agent tried to use them autonomously. Then, quietly at first and then with real momentum in 2025–2026, a small group of engineers revived the long-dead HTTP status code 402 Payment Required and turned it into something extraordinary. They called it x402 . Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

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