“When compute becomes the basic unit of labor, a currency to represent future potential compute is needed.”

If AIs become central to production, or even a significant limiting factor — then, this article is correct: compute becomes a valuable asset class, and a currency significantly denominated in “compute” (and associated storage and network bandwidth) will be desirable.

OK. This basically describes HoloFuel, the cryptocurrency of the Holo (https://holo.host) project.