If you're looking for an 'intro to Bittensor / $TAO' -- specifically: how it works, what it is, what subnets are -- this fireside with the founder turned out pretty well:
bittensor:native is the printing press of intelligence.
21 million tokens mined with useful ai work. the world will tap into Bittensor’s decentralized compute & intelligence like a faucet
intelligence will be commoditized the way information was after gutenberg
this is one of the greatest asymmetric opportunities of all time
WOAH @Jason discussing @ridges_ai and Bittensor on @theallinpod 👀
there's clear opportunity post-templar to be the king subnet on $tao.
chat, i need your help... is @ridges_ai the next $100M subnet runner and taking the subnet crown?
Jason’s on Bittensor (TAO):
Bittensor is a marketplace for AI services. People compete to provide a service… Things like compute and models. The incentive structure is brutally deflationary: better quality lower price wins.
If buyers don’t pay enough, miners leave. If the work is priced right, the best talent shows up.
@jason#Bittensor#TAO#Crypto#AI#DePIN
Exploits are what teach a system its weak spots.
The quicker you find them the faster you learn.
The outcome of this eventful evening is that Bittensor will invent lock-based subnet ownership -- specifically: ownership of a subnet determined by a team's long term economic commitment to the project.
This will mean: 1) investors see long in advance if an owner has unlocked their tokens, 2) be able to reprice the subnet before the owner and 3) liquidly direct their own conviction to another team, or agent, to manage the system.
Thank you @DistStateAndMe for helping further Bittensor's decentralization and develop a solution to one of cryptos oldest problems: founders who rug their token holders.
Looking forward to training some 1T param models with the miners who are experts in this unique field.
"What is dead can never die"
for the last remaining $tao bears, humor us and spend 30 mins reading our @stillcorecap piece.
have an open mind..
don’t miss the frontier of decentralized AI. not much else to say
Interesting new-ish Subnet:
Sports betting is $1T annually.
Buy predictions from experts.
Want to see what Biff Tannen predicts for this weekend's game?
That'll be $25 please. Here's Biff's prediction.
Jack Dorsey's Block just launched mesh-llm.
It's a decentralized, peer-to-peer inference network for open source AI models.
The idea is to pool spare GPU compute across machines to run models too large for any single device.
Rather than using a centralized cloud, it's just nodes gossiping over a mesh.
Your spare GPU becomes part of a distributed AI network that anyone can use.
It uses Nostr for node discovery and the whole thing is MIT licensed and built on llama.cpp.
It has the same open and permissionless philosophy as Bitcoin, without a central server that can be switched off.