balanced binary tree
private, borderless money promotes financial inclusion and allows for cheaper remittances
peer-to-peer transactions negate censorship and bolster local/online communities
bitcoin brings together all the best aspects of gold and fiat money, while removing counterparties and reducing the tendency towards centralization
Bitcoin is a financial asset like Gold and a payments network like Visa, but without all the middlemen.
Thereby, it is detestable to both goldbugs and monopoly money enthusiasts alike.
when they don't like your tech, they'll call it 'unproven'
once it's proven itself, they'll call it 'outdated'
ignore the haters
#ProofOfWork
Falcon is a 40B parameters autoregressive decoder-only model trained on 1 trillion tokens. It was trained on 384 GPUs on AWS over the course of 2 mo.
#1 on Hugging Face for LLMs. Outperforms competitors like Meta's LLaMA & Stability AI's StableLM.
Tether (company) is mining Bitcoin in Uruguay
(Never thought I would write that sentence!)
https://tether.to/en/tether-invests-in-energy-production-and-sustainable-bitcoin-mining-in-uruguay/
"Please build a GAN that can simulate and evolve cold fusion reactor designs autonomously."
A lot of L2's are possible on bitcoin. It is an open question which one(s) will take the lion's share over the long run.
My bias atm is still towards Lightning and Liquid, since they've been around for 5+ years, but I'm open to alternatives and will even test them myself.
Connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram Alpha's computational framework... 🤯
The Tom Woods Show, Ep. 2339: Stephen Wolfram on Our AI Present and Future
Macro Value Bros:
"X, Y and Z are massively overvalued. Don't people realize P, D and Q are imminent? IMMINENT, I tell you! When SHTF these investors are going to be FUBAR."
Markets:
"Nobody cares. You've been saying the same thing for 10 years."
H/T: UncompromisingM (other bird app)
"Did Tape Storage Die Today?"
No.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tape-storage-trundles-on-increases-yearly-volume-to-128-exabytes