He Mined Bitcoin in 2009. Now He’s Betting on TAO In this episode, Shizzy sits down with @rBryer23 , an early Bitcoin miner from 2009, to talk through the wild early days of crypto and how it has evolved into the rise of Bittensor and decentralized AI. RL shares his story of mining Bitcoin back when almost nobody understood what it was, then walks through major moments in crypto history including Mt. Gox, Silk Road, Ethereum in 2016, and the lessons learned from each cycle. The conversation then shifts into artificial intelligence, DeAI, TAO, and why Bittensor could become one of the most important networks in crypto. RL also shares his favorite subnet pick, other subnets he is watching, and where he thinks crypto and Bittensor are heading next. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Shizzy’s Monologue 00:01:33 RL Bryer Joins the Show 00:02:55 RL Explains His 2009 Bitcoin Story 00:18:25 Mt. Gox Historical Talk 00:23:35 The Early Days of Silk Road 00:29:13 Ethereum in 2016 Historical Talk 00:38:00 Artificial Intelligence and What DeAI Can Become 01:06:40 RL Explains His Favorite Subnet Pick and Other Subnets He Finds Interesting 01:10:15 RL Shares His Thoughts on the Future of Crypto and Bittensor 01:22:40 How to Find RL Bryer and Final Words 01:26:19 Final Words from Shizzy $TAO #Bittesnor #Bitcoin

Many will fall into the $TAO rabbit hole this week 🕳️ let’s give them a warm welcome #bittensor fam. Some names to start your search: @const_reborn @TAOTemplar @TaoOutsider @taostats @jon_durbin @MaxScore @markjeffrey @BarrySilbert @ShizzyUnchained

Bittensor is on an absolute tear right now. TAO is up almost 40 percent off the lows right after having its Anthropic moment, and people still do not understand how big this setup could get. Bitcoin had Cyprus in 2013. Banks froze access, people woke up, and BTC went from around $47 to $266 in about 3 weeks. That was the moment decentralized money made sense. Now Bittensor is having its moment with AI. The government can restrict access to intelligence, centralized labs can gate the models, and suddenly decentralized AI stops sounding like a niche crypto idea. It starts sounding necessary. bittensor:native already had its halving last year. Now it has the narrative shock. I think people are waking up to Bittensor now, and this move could be way bigger then most are ready for. Cyprus showed why Bitcoin mattered. Anthropic might show why Bittensor matters. #Bittensor bittensor:native

BTC went from ~$40 in Mar 2013 in reaction to Cyprus incident to $1200 (40x) by Nov 2013. $TAO has a bigger tailwind - entire AI Revolution. TAO can easily do a 80-100x from here as long as subnets also keep shipping excellent, frontier SOTA AI models as they're doing right now.

Unstoppable, uncensorable, global decentralized AI seems like a good investment bet to make. The “Bitcoin of AI” so to say…

Bittensor just had its Cyprus moment. In 2013, Cyprus showed the world why we needed decentralized money. People learned real fast that money in the bank was not really theirs if someone else could freeze it. Now the same thing is happening with AI. Access to intelligence can be restricted, gated, or shut off by centralized powers. That is why bittensor:native matters. Bittensor is not just building AI. It is building decentralized intelligence with no single company, government, or gatekeeper in control. Cyprus gave Bitcoin its why. AI control may give Bittensor its why. #Bittensor $TAO

At @proofoftalk, the @DeSciClaims team raised $184k in 45 minutes. Powered by the @bitstarterAI team, a competition was held, where Claims won for a Subnet slot. And so, Bitstarter has had a slot ready for Claims, which should be going live in a few hours. In their own words: "We build the canonical claim-evidence record for science, enabling AI to do precise scientific reasoning." Being able to be picked out by strong names in the ecosystem such as Bitstarter AI, et al. is no small feat. I have a very strong idea of which subnet slot they will be receiving, but the official team has not made this announcement yet - and so I will honor their decision by not disclosing any speculative information as well. Every day we are seeing innovation hit the eco, with news of partnerships, development milestones, and growth - within several subnets. Follow me for more updates as they happen. The future is $tao.

The biggest bottleneck for AI agents is not intelligence. It is context. You can have the smartest model in the world, but if it forgets the workflow, the tools, the user, and what happened yesterday, it still feels broken. @heydittoai fixes that layer. Ditto gives agents memory, continuity, and a shared place to remember, retrieve, and act across workflows. That is how you supercharge agents. Not by making them louder. By making them remember. #Bittensor $DITTO bittensor:native

SN38 did not just rebrand, it walked into one of the biggest problems in AI. Colosseum is now ChronoLLM, moving from peer to peer betting into chronologically consistent LLMs. That means models with strict time cutoffs. No lookahead bias. No fake intelligence from knowing the future. This is a way bigger idea then people realize, especially if @herelle_jean and CrunchDAO firepower starts coming behind it. Temporal intelligence sounds boring until you realize it might be one of the missing pieces for real AI markets. Who is mining this? $TAO #Bittensor

My full conversation with @MaxScore $TAO 0:00 — Intro · Who is Max from Score? 1:00 — From Photographer to AI Founder — The Origin Story 3:00 — Crunchdown, Sports Hedge Funds, and Computer Vision 5:30 — How DCG Helped Register Score on Bittensor 7:00 — What Is Score SN44? The Simple Explanation 10:00 — What Is Manako? Layer 1 vs Layer 2 Explained 14:00 — How Does The Camera Talk To The Miner So Fast? 18:00 — Public Track vs Private Track — The Manifest System 22:00 — Data Pipeline, Synthetic Data, and The Tesla Comparison 26:00 — Sales Conversation — How Do You Convince Enterprise Clients? 29:00 — Is Score A Profitable Subnet? Max Keeps It Real 32:00 — TaoWeave NASDAQ Investment $1M Conviction Lock 35:00 — Other Companies Building On SN44 — The Roboflow Vision 37:00 — Drones, Robotics, World Models — Where Vision AI Goes Next 40:00 — A Live Drone Fire Detection Demo Using Score Models 42:00 — What Keeps Max On Bittensor After Covenant? 44:00 — The Business Case For Staying — Max's Real Answer 46:00 — Final Alpha Drop Where To Find Score SN44

My Proof-of-Talk recap -- I did it on the Shizzy show:

Especially if you’re new to the $TAO @bittensor ecosystem you have to watch this new episode of @ShizzyUnchained with guest @markjeffrey . Plenty gems here and glimpses of how relationships are forged between token holders, subnet owners, validators and content creators.

bittensor:native is ridiculously undervalued. [1.] It will remain undervalued even after a 10x price increase during the upcoming cycle. Target is $3,000 per bittensor:native. [2.] The project represents a superior form of capitalism with no monopoly privileges. [3.] Its value comes from competition between subnets (specialized AI networks in most cases) to provide the best digital commodities and intelligence. This is the most exciting innovation in technology since smart contracts on Ethereum.

On behalf of the entire $TAO community we all throw a massive THANK YOU to @markjeffrey @ShizzyUnchained for consistently and seamlessly delivering the #1 message. 2 Clearest Voices in Bittensor converge I Finally dropped in for a listen on my LA commute. I’m sure Mark feels like a broken record at this point but the world needs to hear it until it’s deafening. Bullish!

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