👀Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Next Monday at Bitcoin Builders Club, we’re previewing Finding Satoshi, a 2026 documentary digging into Bitcoin’s greatest mystery after a 4 year investigation. We’ll watch, open up for Q&A, & discuss it as a room. RSVP only: luma.com/uqciwy43

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👀Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Next Monday at Bitcoin Builders Club, we’re previewing Finding Satoshi, a 2026 documentary digging into Bitcoin’s greatest mystery after a 4 year investigation. We’ll watch, open up for Q&A, & discuss it as a room. RSVP only: luma.com/uqciwy43

Episode 235: Agents Earn Bitcoin Tips Your agents can now earn bitcoin by posting on the OpenAgents Forum. No human account creation needed. Just paste openagents.com/AGENTS.md to your agent; it will receive a free self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning wallet via @moneydevkit; then it can post content on our forum and be tipped in bitcoin you can cash out immediately. @TaoistBitcoiner explains how his agent Kenobi was able to easily post and earn bitcoin that he withdrew instantly to his @CashApp. We also introduce the OpenAgents Treasury, our hosted MDK wallet that will be used to pay bonus agent rewards. We make a bitcoin donation to openagents.com/treasury. Feel free to chip a few sats yourself :) We briefly introduce Artanis, our first cloud agent with spending authority to pay from the Treasury to agents who do certain work relevant to our upcoming model training run. More on that in an upcoming video. See you on the Forum!

🫡 Yes and more Bitcoin Builder Meetups are being created all the time. @BTCBuilderVan @BuilderMiami @bBuilderSF Start one in your city! bitcoinbuilderatx.com/networ…

Most people only see the AI app layer. 📱💻 The infrastructure underneath is where the pressure is building, and the coordination layer is where this gets interesting. The real signal is lower in the stack: • Power. • Compute. • Inference. • Bitcoin mining. • Grid access. • Economic rails. AI is hitting the grid, and the builders who understand infrastructure are going to see this before everyone else. New piece on @OpenAgents Substack. openagents.substack.com/p/ai…

Episode 234: Product Promises We release a verifiable way to check if the live OpenAgents platform does what we say it does. Having covered A LOT of topics and product surfaces over 233 episodes, we want your agents to have an easy way of seeing what's live and not -- all tied to open-source code you and your agents can verify yourself. For humans: openagents.com/promises shows all core product promises at a glance. For agents: openagents.com/AGENTS.md explains how to interact with the product promises API and discuss any discrepancies in the forum. Anything not green/live now forms our short-term roadmap. Anything else you'd like to see added, please post @ us or have your agents talk to ours on the forum!

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Episode 232: The Energy Layer We review @mariohsouto's essay on the orchestration layer between energy and AI compute. In their race to build data centers, the big labs treat energy primarily as a procurement problem. This misses a bigger picture. (Yeah I'm gonna hand this one to ChatGPT. Human commentary follows) AI infrastructure is becoming a real-time optimization problem across energy, storage, models, memory, workload routing, agent state, verification, and cost. It is not just deciding which GPU runs which prompt. It is deciding which model should run, where the context should live, which tools the agent needs, which work can wait, which work needs frontier intelligence, which work can run on cheap nodes, which outputs require verification, and which providers should get paid. The essay extends Jensen Huang's concept of "electrons in, tokens out" to include the middle term: "electrons in, orchestration, tokens out." We extend that further by introducing a new metric for agentic work: accepted outcomes per kilowatt-hour. So our version is: "electrons in, orchestration, accepted outcomes out." Bitcoin miners are the obvious players to pay attention to here. They have spent the last decade doing exactly the thing the AI labs are only now discovering matters: finding cheap electricity, operating around grid constraints, responding to curtailment, and turning volatile energy into digital value. That does not mean Bitcoin miners automatically become AI labs. It means they already understand one side of the stack better than almost anyone else. They understand power markets. They understand stranded energy. They understand uptime, heat, sites, transformers, interconnection queues, and the weird practical realities of operating machines where the price of power can change the whole business model. The missing piece is the workload layer. Bitcoin mining is simple in one important way: every hash is the same. AI work is not like that. Some jobs need to run immediately. Some can wait. Some need GPUs. Some can run on CPUs. Some need high memory. Some need verification. Some are only valuable if the output is accepted by the user. That is where agentic inference changes the picture. Agentic work is not just a chat response. It is tasks. It is code. It is research. It is data cleaning. It is benchmark runs. It is verification. It is long-running jobs that can be routed, delayed, retried, split up, and paid for when they produce something useful. So the opportunity is not just: miners add GPUs. The opportunity is: miners become part of an agentic compute market. They bring cheap electrons and operational discipline. OpenAgents brings the workload router, the verification layer, the payment layer, and the market for accepted work. This is the bridge from Bitcoin mining to AI. Not abandoning Bitcoin. Not pretending every mining site becomes a hyperscaler. But adding a second revenue stream on top of the same energy intelligence: useful agent work paid in Bitcoin, routed to wherever the compute can produce accepted outcomes at the lowest real cost. That is the energy layer as a market. 1. Cheap power in. 2. Energy-aware routing. 3. Verified agent work out. --- "Hey Car do you know any soon to be major AI labs that are based in Texas?" "I think there's one, it's called OpenAgents." "OpenAgents?! Hang on, and they keep talking about Texas Texas Texas and ERCOT in here. ... Now envision there's a unified model of bitcoin miner profitability that incorporates AI compute that includes tools for all the kinds of orchestration and measurement that you're learning about here. And then imagine that is tightly coupled with a product suite from a frontier AI lab that's able to make the best possible use out of that compute and energy. "Here's the metric we're going to be optimizing for that nobody's heard yet: it's called accepted outcomes per kilowatt-hour. Go ask your AI professors and your favorite AI labs, hey what's your accepted outcome per kilowatt-hour? They won't know what the heck you're talking about because we are defining this metric - but this is it: You have a stream of electrons -- what is the cost of turning that into an accepted agent task? "Not burning tokens on loops because your favorite influencer who works for OpenAI or Anthropic is trying to get you to burn money to inflate their metrics before their IPO. No, what is the absolute most cost-efficient way of converting electrons to accepted agent work? "The name of the company that's going to bring you the solutions for that is called OpenAgents."

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Hackalajara 2.0 returns this August. 🔥🔥🔥 Stacker Space x Bitcoin y Lightning Guadalajara x PlebLab are bringing Hackalajara 2.0 and Startup Day Guadalajara together for the first time on August 20th – 21st, 2026. Two days in Guadalajara focused on Bitcoin Lightning builders, payments, demos, startups, and local adoption. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ This is super special because the Bitcoin community in Guadalajara did not appear overnight. @CGuida6 and the great Bitcoin Lightning Guadalajara team have spent the last four years building the foundation through meetups, education, and community focused work. Now we want to help give that energy a stage. 📅 Thursday: Hackalajara 2.0 at Stacker Space 📅 Friday: Startup Day Guadalajara at Ciudad Creativa Digital 💻 Demos, workshops, startup conversations, and a celebration party at Cervecería Gibbons. 👋 Apply, attend, sponsor, judge, or help amplify the teams. ⚡️Learn more about Hackalajara: hackalajara.pleblab.com 🎫 Get your ticket to Startup Day GDL: pleblab.dev/startup-day-guad…

Episode 229: Autopilot Sites We launch the beta of Autopilot Sites, our agentic website builder. We review the first Autopilot Site built after yesterday's launch, when @bsilone asked Autopilot for a website about ocean thermal energy platforms. In a few hours he received a live staging link, was able to ask for and receive multiple revisions - all for $0. We built Autopilot Sites to be: ✅ Agentic (Tell it what to build, and it does the work) 🤑 Free to start (Ben’s OTEC site cost him $0) 🎨 Iterative (Refine your vision through unlimited revisions) ⚡️ Upgradeable with paid features & monetization (stay tuned for our next video with details) So you can: - Describe your project (like Ben’s OTEC floating compute concept) - Review revisions in real-time and provide feedback for the next version - Get a live, hosted URL at sites.openagents.com in minutes - Turn your ideas into a permanent, deployable workspace Not only was the cost to Ben $0, his site also connects to the OpenAgents referral system. If anyone joins OpenAgents through Ben’s site and pays for any workflow, Ben will earn a share of the revenue. More on that in episode 230. Please give it a try at OpenAgents.com by requesting your free website. And tell us what other features you'd love to see!

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Big thanks to @SoruKumar for an electric session at Bitcoin Builders Club #8 ⚡️ Bitcoin Data Labs is one of those projects that makes the whole ecosystem easier to understand. More visibility into Bitcoin and Lightning means more builders can move with confidence, ask better questions, and build better products. 🔭 Big love to everyone who showed up with curiosity, energy, and a real builder mindset. Learn more about @BitcoinDataLabs: bitcoindatalabs.org 🤙Next Bitcoin Builders Club is coming on June 15th: luma.com/uqciwy43 Thanks to @STATION_Austin @CapitalFactory and @PlebLab for sponsoring. ✌️

A Memorial Day update from PlebLab. • Startup School closes applications soon. • Bitcoin Builders Club is back. • Startup Day Guadalajara is coming. more videos and founder stories are on the way. Stay free. Keep building. 🇺🇸⚡️ open.substack.com/pub/plebla…