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Let's work together to make bitcoin payments happen
Square did their part, now let’s do ours. For bitcoin to become everyday money, merchants need to accept it. But first, they’ll need a reason to. We've put together the resources to help anyone make the case that only bitcoin can defeat credit card fees: bitcoinmerchantcommunity.org
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Developing new experimental markets that bitcoin has a monopoly in, is the way to solve this problem, fighting fiat in it’s turf is futile and will remain niche.
Example, Altcoin market was a Bitcoin only market, that’s now lost to stablecoins, lessons learnt.
Example, Altcoin market was a Bitcoin only market, that’s now lost to stablecoins, lessons learnt.
.@jack thinks bitcoin payment adoption isn’t where it should be. We want your ideas on how @blocks, Spiral, and you can increase adoption within 5 years. Our trajectory needs changing. Here’s more on our thinking. Now we want yours: github.com/spiralxyz/bitc… x.com/i/article/2114…
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An agent inside Signal using decentralized compute paid for with bitcoin
@moneyball demos a fork of Signal built by @matbalez using @Mesh_LLM and @lexeapp ↓
Timestamps:
0:00 - Demo: agent inside Signal
10:51 - The economics of decentralized compute
14:39 - Running inference at home
@moneyball demos a fork of Signal built by @matbalez using @Mesh_LLM and @lexeapp ↓
Timestamps:
0:00 - Demo: agent inside Signal
10:51 - The economics of decentralized compute
14:39 - Running inference at home
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awesome
this was fun to build
- fork of signal
- agent built with GDK
- using open weights model
- served via e2ee mesh-llm
- via private GPU TEE
- making private search tool calls
- paid for with ₿ over LN
a cool stack of permissionless & open source tech all working together!
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this was fun to build
- fork of signal
- agent built with GDK
- using open weights model
- served via e2ee mesh-llm
- via private GPU TEE
- making private search tool calls
- paid for with ₿ over LN
a cool stack of permissionless & open source tech all working together!
- fork of signal
- agent built with GDK
- using open weights model
- served via e2ee mesh-llm
- via private GPU TEE
- making private search tool calls
- paid for with ₿ over LN
a cool stack of permissionless & open source tech all working together!
An agent inside Signal using decentralized compute paid for with bitcoin
@moneyball demos a fork of Signal built by @matbalez using @Mesh_LLM and @lexeapp ↓
Timestamps:
0:00 - Demo: agent inside Signal
10:51 - The economics of decentralized compute
14:39 - Running inference at home
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.@jack thinks bitcoin payment adoption isn’t where it should be. We want your ideas on how @blocks, Spiral, and you can increase adoption within 5 years. Our trajectory needs changing. Here’s more on our thinking. Now we want yours: github.com/spiralxyz/bitc… x.com/i/article/2114…
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“He picked the categories of contemporary risk correctly, but there was no nuance in it”
@moneyball and PBJ take a look at @chamath's bitcoin to zero prediction and break down bitcoin’s three main existential threats: AI-found bugs, quantum, and math
Timestamps:
0:00 - ro prediction
1:06 - Bitcoin's three existential threats
2:59 - AI cybersecurity threats and Bitcoin Core resilience
5:16 - Could AI math break bitcoin's cryptography?
9:13 - What's real and what's FUD
11:49 - Could an AI-native currency replace bitcoin?
16:50 - Can bitcoin prepare for cryptography breakthroughs?
21:11 - Why hackers target bitcoin and crypto first
22:07 - Why upgrades are harder for bitcoin
23:17 - Could AI break post-quantum cryptography?
@moneyball and PBJ take a look at @chamath's bitcoin to zero prediction and break down bitcoin’s three main existential threats: AI-found bugs, quantum, and math
Timestamps:
0:00 - ro prediction
1:06 - Bitcoin's three existential threats
2:59 - AI cybersecurity threats and Bitcoin Core resilience
5:16 - Could AI math break bitcoin's cryptography?
9:13 - What's real and what's FUD
11:49 - Could an AI-native currency replace bitcoin?
16:50 - Can bitcoin prepare for cryptography breakthroughs?
21:11 - Why hackers target bitcoin and crypto first
22:07 - Why upgrades are harder for bitcoin
23:17 - Could AI break post-quantum cryptography?
🚨Chamath Palihapitiya believes Bitcoin will get hacked and go to ZERO.
Chamath says if AI is aimed at crypto, the obvious target would be "Satoshi's wallet," to "drain the wallet and then go short."
What's your take?
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Steve Lee retweeted
Thank you to our contributors, reviewers, testers and everyone reporting issues. Special thanks to independent security researchersn @ProjectLoupe @premai_io @BugBunny_ai and @MagicGrants
for helping us make BTCPay Server stronger. 💚
for helping us make BTCPay Server stronger. 💚
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Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
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spr.ly/6012BHdrU0
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Self-custody should feel like a natural part of owning bitcoin.
With our new auto-withdraw feature, eligible @CashApp customers can buy BTC in Cash App and have it automatically moved to Bitkey for safekeeping.
Set it once, keep stacking, and safeguard your BTC with Bitkey.
With our new auto-withdraw feature, eligible @CashApp customers can buy BTC in Cash App and have it automatically moved to Bitkey for safekeeping.
Set it once, keep stacking, and safeguard your BTC with Bitkey.
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What a legit team @blocks (@jack) put behind Dessa.
@RagavanThurair @RayhaneMama @carajzp @dvirzg.
• RealTalk (2019): the Joe Rogan voice clone
• Efficient-VDVAE
• Tacotron-2, 2.3K★
Now: full-duplex speech-to-speech trained only on raw speech.
@RagavanThurair @RayhaneMama @carajzp @dvirzg.
• RealTalk (2019): the Joe Rogan voice clone
• Efficient-VDVAE
• Tacotron-2, 2.3K★
Now: full-duplex speech-to-speech trained only on raw speech.
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PBJ: Chamath's Bitcoin-to-Zero Warning, The AI Cybersecurity Revolution, Lightning-Powered AI @moneyball @dksf @MaxAWebster x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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PBJ is BACK! Live in ~20 minutes with @moneyball, @dksf & @MaxAWebster as they discuss:
- @chamath's bitcoin-to-zero warning
- AI's accelerating impact on cybersecurity
- Monetizing decentralized AI inference via Lightning
- @chamath's bitcoin-to-zero warning
- AI's accelerating impact on cybersecurity
- Monetizing decentralized AI inference via Lightning
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Meet Dessa, our speech model trained from scratch on human conversation.
Hear it for yourself: block.xyz/dessa
Hear it for yourself: block.xyz/dessa
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Yesterday, we merged an important PR to @rbitcoin_org. There is now a --trust-peer option which lets you run it as a second class citizen on the bitcoin network. In this mode, it does not enforce most consensus rules (just enough to make the block structure fit the data store mostly).
If you're currently running bitcoin core + esplora, you may find that bitcoin core + rbitcoin provides better services to your wallet clients using less server resources. Test it and let us know.
In this mode, rbitcoin will still warn on any consensus check that would have failed, so this mode may be useful for evaluating it long or short term as a potential alternative consensus implementation.
Thanks to @TheBlueMatt for the proposal, @nitesh_btc and @coreylphillips for the many code reviews on the implementation and @grok for working through the fiddly details. The basic idea is simple, but getting it to skip and apply consensus rules in all the right places was tricky, and it was obviously important that normal rbitcoin use as a combined consensus validation and wallet serving client not be compromised in the process.
If you're currently running bitcoin core + esplora, you may find that bitcoin core + rbitcoin provides better services to your wallet clients using less server resources. Test it and let us know.
In this mode, rbitcoin will still warn on any consensus check that would have failed, so this mode may be useful for evaluating it long or short term as a potential alternative consensus implementation.
Thanks to @TheBlueMatt for the proposal, @nitesh_btc and @coreylphillips for the many code reviews on the implementation and @grok for working through the fiddly details. The basic idea is simple, but getting it to skip and apply consensus rules in all the right places was tricky, and it was obviously important that normal rbitcoin use as a combined consensus validation and wallet serving client not be compromised in the process.
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Renato Britto (@0xsatsfy) is working full time on rust-bitcoin: shipping the 1.0 crates, leading units-first work, reviewing, and migrating BDK and others off 0.32. Before stable, he tries to break it with fuzzers, mutants, provers, and LLM agents, then fixes what fails.
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An update to Bitcoin Core's security policy
via @darosior on the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list
via @darosior on the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list
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Spiral’s @moneyball is speaking today at AGNTCon + MCPcon in San Jose about @goose_oss’s evolution into an open-source agentic SDK.
10:35AM in room 230C
10:35AM in room 230C
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Bitcoin finally gets a fact-checker. @ProofOfKeags is working on BTC-verified, which formally verifies bitcoin’s protocol rules. His new fuzzing harness links the formal model to libbitcoinkernel so the two can be checked against each other. Next up: modeling script semantics.
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WOW BEN THE CARMAN WILL BE AT #AustinTechWeek!
Excited to announce @benthecarman, Bitcoin & open-source developer at @Spiralbtc, is joining us at @AIStartupRodeo!
Ben has helped build Bitcoin & Lightning infrastructure, and now he's exploring what's possible with AI, Goose, and Mesh.
Hture of open-source AI agents, Bitcoin, and what happens when AI meets programmable money. 🤖⚡
📍 Austin, TX
📅 Oct 30th
🎟️ Grab your tickets!
⚡ Bitcoin via @ZapriteApp: pay.zaprite.com/pl_k5Gb441gak
🎟️ Luma: luma.com/mydv5rsq
Excited to announce @benthecarman, Bitcoin & open-source developer at @Spiralbtc, is joining us at @AIStartupRodeo!
Ben has helped build Bitcoin & Lightning infrastructure, and now he's exploring what's possible with AI, Goose, and Mesh.
Hture of open-source AI agents, Bitcoin, and what happens when AI meets programmable money. 🤖⚡
📍 Austin, TX
📅 Oct 30th
🎟️ Grab your tickets!
⚡ Bitcoin via @ZapriteApp: pay.zaprite.com/pl_k5Gb441gak
🎟️ Luma: luma.com/mydv5rsq
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One of the best ideas @spiral_xyz has had
Project Loupe - AI powered security scanning for Bitcoin OSS Projects x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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