A good number of people in my mentions/DMs are looking for help taopilling the masses. In the interest of saving time, here is all you need to get started: 1.) If you only have time to do one thing, sit in on Bittensor co-founder @const_reborn's 1-hour lecture on Bittensor: youtube.com/watch?v=XRhTE9Mt… 2.) If your interest is sufficiently piqued, watch the best documentary of 2025 created by the @evert_scott and featuring all the usual suspects: youtube.com/watch?v=71rvASmX… 3.) If you now understand Bittensor at a high level and want to peel the onion a layer deeper without getting completely lost in the sea of complexity, check out @markjeffrey's of @stillcorecap's "State of TAO" report: youtube.com/watch?v=wJ2LahuT… 4.) Follow/sub to this Bittensor list I maintain that will be a portal into the ecosystem for you: x.com/i/lists/20323003128248… If these three things weren't enough to taopill you, feel free to slide into my DMs, and I'll get to you eventually (maybe). Cheers.

Bittensor = actually decentralized Important point

Crypto to AI pivot in 2023 BTC to TAO pivot in 2026 I predict that in 5 years when people look back at the best investors from the 2020s Jcal will be high on the list for these calls

A Happy Bubbles day. Bittensor $TAO subnets:

Chutes Targon Actual

TAO = The Way

If you’re doing a proper Bittensor deep dive after the recent Anthropic chaos look no further than the Unsupervised Cap valuation framework

It is now more important than ever to build open and government-resilient AI infrastructure If you’re a datacenter operator concerned that your investment now carries significant political political risk, please reach out We have spent the last 3 years building @TargonCompute and are ready to scale compute in order to: 1.) ensure compute investors can monetize their asset, 2.) ensure the World has openly accessible compute to both train and serve frontier models

I can’t wait for the day CT realises this: @chutes_ai is perhaps the only scaled confidential inference provider in the world whose GPUs can’t be switched off by a government entity. Not Venice. Built on Bittensor. $TAO

⚡️Interesting bittensor:native

The fact is that the vast majority of, if not all Crypto AI projects, could just be a subnet on Bittensor. That's size of the opportunity.

Everyone is becoming woke to DeAI today. Long time coming, very bullish. But once you accept the DeAI premise, the next thing to contemplate is which network is primed with the proper moats and network effects to dominate this multi trillion dollar market long term. That’s what Bittensor has been working on for 3 years now.

> be jacob steeves - @const_reborn > math cs kid from simon fraser > software engineer at google > realizes AI is owned by a handful of companies > hates it > quits to build the opposite with $TAO > takes bitcoin's idea: pay people to do useful work > points it at intelligence itself > co-founds bittensor with ala shaabana > miners produce AI > validators grade it > $TAO pays whoever's best > no lab, no gatekeeper > just an open market for intelligence > everyone calls it a science project > "why would i use this over claude" > then one day the centralized one goes dark > "claude fable is no longer available" > no warning > no vote > no appeal > millions realize they were renting intelligence > and the landlord changed the locks > suddenly a model nobody can switch off doesn't sound crazy > suddenly bittensor makes sense jacob steeves built the answer years before anyone asked the question that's the day they finally get $TAO

Unlike many investors in crypto, I did not pivot to AI in the last few years. However, since 2020, I built some of the deepest understanding in this industry on the intersection of AI and decentralized networks (crypto, web3). From the start, it was very clear that AI models are a centralizing force and the biggest target for government control. That point became market fact last night, with @AnthropicAI’s export control compliance. As an investor in decentralized AI, I know that d-networks are a counterbalance to this state of affairs. In particular, the starting point of sovereign, open, public, decentralized AI is the seemingly insurmountable compute problem. How are people supposed to source more industrial compute for frontier training than these huge trillion dollar companies? The answer is simple: there is enough commodity GPU compute in the world to compete on the frontier, but to make use of it we need new algorithms for training. That’s what a few companies like @gensynai @PrimeIntellect @bageldotcom @Pluralis @NousResearch @MacrocosmosAI @covenant_ai set out to research, while everyone on the planet told them it was impossible. The result is that it is not only possible, but it can be cheaper and nearly as efficient as the alternative process. The second major problem is economic sustainability. Open source models are great, however, they are not economically viable as they don’t have a business model. So far in decentralized AI, only @Pluralis has an answer — by breaking up the weights of the model among participants, we create a business model for tokenized AI models. This is the moment of truth — will AI become fully centralized and fall under censorship and unilateral government control? Or will the AI world realize the importance of public AI on open decentralized networks?

There have been many interesting new DeAI projects popping up of late which I support wholeheartedly But none of them hold a candle to Bittensor and this is the main reason why (3-5 year head start) This will become more and more obvious to the many of the people just looking into this sector for the first time

There’s only one ecosystem that’s spent the last 3 years working on building the entire stack required to produce intelligence with no reliance on centralized companies Bittensor has been preparing to go to war for a while now

Presumably, so long as there are network participants, it would be roughly equivalent to trying to exterminate all ants on planet earth. Good luck.

Probably as good of a time as ever to resurface the below. Dive into the rabbit hole anons. Take your friend and family with you. Take the taopill.

Good morning. Bittensor.

don’t ever ask me again why we’re building open source and decentralised models

Not your weights, not your model. Bittensor fixes this.