Bittensor is going to save crypto; spiritually, reputationally, and economically.

on sept 15 2008, lehman brothers collapsed and gave the whole world a reason to believe in $BTC on june 12 2026, a single government order forced anthropic to pull its most capable models offline for every foreign national on earth, and gave the whole world a reason to believe in bittensor:native humans only react to negative things. sad but true. in 2008 we learned the banks were the problem. in 2026 we’ll learn that one kill switch sitting inside a centralised AI lab is the problem.

Two massive implications from the US/Anthropic directive: (1) Mandated KYC coming for usage of Ant models (2) Non-Americans are/will be gate-kept from building/using the most capable version of the most important technology of (at least) our lifetimes What do you think the Governments, Sovereign Nations, and billions of people who are being left behind here are going to do? They’ll find a new, alternative technology stack with different properties from the system they’re being pushed out of, where they can build/use AI. By definition, it will have to be something that allows them to coordinate on a global scale, all without necessarily trusting one another. To that last point, the technology will have to be built to work even in the most adversarial of conditions. The good news is that this technology stack already exists. It goes by many names: • Blockchain • Decentralized Networks • Decentralized Information Networks, Incentivized via Token (h/t @cburniske) • Computers that can make commitments (h/t @cdixon) • Token Incentivized Computing (h/t @const_reborn) Call it whatever you want, but it should come as no surprise, as we've seen the first use case of this technology emerge and come to fruition over the last ~2 decades now. The same will inevitably come to pass for AI, although there's good reason to assume it's now on an accelerated path. Buckle up.

bittensor in a nutshell

Something everyone should understand about IOTA is that the technical team is made up of PhDs who studied directly under AI revolutionaries, the same ones who are now household names in the industry. The challenge IOTA is tackling is profoundly complex and intellectually stimulating. That's half the picture. The other half is that it's spiritually aligned with the egalitarian vision for AI that the field has slowly strayed from in recent years: "His final points framed his entire conversation. AI is meant for human flourishing. That’s what distributed technologies are trying to do: give people the autonomy to build their own collective systems that serve them. The field has an egalitarian streak, one that’s been slowly forgotten in the frenzy of continuous breakthroughs. But when developers remember this as their north star, that’s when we really benefit. Alan asked who’s going to protect the people? I don’t think he noticed that, as of right now, he’s one of them." Crypto has also strayed too far from its founding ideals. We've traded rebellion against a global financial system that bails out corporations at everyone else's expense for Bitcoin ETFs and 'institutional adoption' by the very institutions Bitcoin was built to replace. Decentralized AI is now offering us an opportunity to absolve ourselves of this philosophical betrayal and refocus on what matters: returning power to the people. In other words, Bittensor fixes this.

so you can either get exposure to SN9 now or after they've completed a permissionless 100B param run to convergence on heterogenous, interuptable, consumer-grade hardware. choose wisely.

Just orchestrated a 128 node permissionless decentralized training run, in 5 minutes, for 5 TAO, via @IOTA_SN9 They can do this up to 100B param models. Unbelievable. iota.macrocosmos.ai/dashboar…

The beauty of decentralized technologies is that they beget each other, a protocol of decentralized compute is only relevant when there is a protocol for decentralized training.

Extremely excited to announce that I’ve joined @UnsupervisedCap to invest alongside @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth in what I believe is the most meaningful movement in decentralized technology. In hindsight, becoming a believer was inevitable. At the heart of the Bittensor thesis is the idea that crypto is, and has always been, a highly optimized global coordination engine. That idea is what originally drew me into the crypto industry, and the one that has kept me here for the past five years. Bitcoin proved the idea works for running cryptographic algorithms. Bittensor extends it to any objective with a reliable reward function. My long term conviction is that Bittensor will coordinate intelligence on an unimaginable scale, fueling a virtuous cycle that pulls immense amounts of capital and talent into our industry while erasing years of reputational damage done by opportunistic actors who were never aligned with the foundational ideology crypto was built on. After that who knows - but you gotta start somewhere. If you want to chat about anything and everything Bittensor, my DMs are open.

There are some accounts on this app you should never fade

Targon is shipping custom clusters to solve the network's supply constraints while capturing extra margin on the solution. Furthermore, to secure H100s at scale in this environment, you gotta know a guy. Seems pretty likely that Targon knows a guy.

it all comes down to incentive structures

"Lock yourself in a room doin' five beats a day for three summers."

long token factories

agent subnets are trajectory factories

what if... @IOTA_SN9

When you see a dev casually training a 176b model using a frontier decentralized training technique he's about to release, you probably don't want to fade him

you know, just for fun

“We must build forms of cooperation that respect the various levels of the global community” yeah he’s TAO pilled

You don’t own enough IOTA

There unironically is no second best.