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Lol. You'll find out but by that time it will be dire. Look what's happening to white women in the UK. Grooming gangs run rampant and rape and murder rates against women are through the roof. Pure tragedy, we can't have that in the US.

Replying to Avatar LiberLion

FROM PROOF OF WORK TO PROOF OF COMPUTE

Why #Bitcoin miners are abandoning their ASICs for AI.

What you are about to read is my opinion based on data.

Bitcoin's ROI is drying up.

By the end of 2025, the total cost of mining 1 BTC (including equipment renewal) will be around $130,000. With such tight margins and network difficulty at historic highs, buying the latest generation of ASICs is no longer the obvious move for capital.

The real asset is energy. Miners have discovered that their greatest treasure is not their machines, but their energy contracts and electrical substations. In a world hungry for computing power, having gigawatts ready to use is like having liquid gold.

But what yields more per watt?

AI. The neighbor who pays better.

While Bitcoin mining depends on market volatility, AI offers 10-year hosting contracts with fixed income. It is estimated that 1 kWh dedicated to AI generates between 15 and 20 times more value than that same kWh dedicated to mining satoshis.

From warehouses to high-tech clouds.

The transition is not easy.

Miners are moving away from buying “Antminers” to investing in fiber optics and liquid cooling. They are converting rustic warehouses into High Performance Computing (HPC) data centers capable of housing Nvidia Blackwell racks.

And whether you like it or not, Bitcoin is traded on the stock market, not only because of ETFs but also because the big mining companies are owned by bankers.

Wall Street dictates the verdict. The markets are rewarding this change.

Companies such as Core Scientific and IREN have seen their valuations skyrocket after announcing deals with AI giants.

The message from investors is clear: they prefer the predictability of AI to the roller coaster of hash prices.

A Bitcoin ASIC is a chip designed to do one thing: solve the SHA-256 algorithm. It's like a hammer that only works for one type of nail. It cannot process the matrix and tensor calculations required by AI (such as ChatGPT or Llama).

AI needs GPUs (and CPUs): To generate AI power, miners have to buy completely new hardware (mainly Nvidia GPUs). Old ASICs cannot be “reprogrammed”; if they are not suitable for mining, they become electronic scrap or are sold to countries with extremely cheap energy (such as Ethiopia or Paraguay).

What we are seeing is that companies are becoming hybrid:

-Bitcoin as a “cushion”: They mine BTC when energy is cheap or when they don't have AI customers lined up.

-AI as a “premium”: They lease their power to tech companies for long-term contracts.

The end of mining?

No, but its transformation.

Bitcoin is becoming a “network balancing” tool: data centers will mine when there is excess energy or when AI does not need it.

The future of the sector is no longer just crypto, it is the infrastructure that supports the entire digital economy.

Sources:

1. https://www.theblock.co/post/375957/jpmorgan-bitcoin-miners-decoupling-bitcoin-price-pivot-ai

2. https://coingeek.com/miners-are-eyeing-that-ai-payday-but-its-no-cakewalk/

3. http://www.rootdata.com/news/471838

Bitcoin fees will go bonkers as a result and there's no consensus to add a tail emission without a DOA hard fork. Very sad for Bitcoin as medium of exchange and for self custodial LN security (it depends on low fees for force closure safety)

Interesting idea. Gives much more confidence in the slow organic growth plan for adoption. That "slow" portion will only be so in this early adopter phase. If we hold the line and stay true to our ideals we can reach an organic exponential boom that's unstoppable.

How would that reflect on you? He made a clear disclaimer against any association with you. For the customer they are clearly not interacting with your business, just a person buying from you and accepting payment in Monero.

If this listing were to appear as an official listing without a clear disclaimer I understand the objection. Perhaps you've copyrighted those photos and thus you wish to claim copyright over them maybe that's the objection I could see that too but that seems to be fair use from my understanding of the law.

Why? It's your objection, how would someone else know better than you about your offense in the matter?

Common decency? Why would they need to ask you? What damage is done to your business or reputation? I fail to see what moral wrong is committed please enlighten me.

You're bitcoin only so is Strike in the wrong if I use them to send dollars converted to lightning? In that case they act as a payment proxy. Can I have my wife buy from you I'm lightning and I give her cash? Do I need to ask you if I can use a UTXO from an exchange or does it need to be mined by me to ensure its never been another currency. Like seriously where's the wrong here?

I'm so confused out the outrage. He explicitly says he's just a payment proxy and doesn't represent you. Unless this was explicitly banned in terms of purchase what wrong has been committed? You're getting paid 100% of the cost of service so there no sin of wage theft. I don't understand.

Seriously what's wrong with this? Is this a violation of your terms of purchase somewhere? It's bringing more business in from people who prefer to pay with a more private currency through someone else. I do this often for many fiat only businesses.

Replying to Avatar Hanshan

this is nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s suggesting that #monero has a UX problem because a TARGETED attack by a SOPHISTICATED attacker sending a custom transaction *could link together ownership of two different subaddresses (if the monero user had shared both of them with the adversary of course)

meanwhile

in the VAST majority of the ways LN is actually used,

ALL your sends and receives are trivially known by someone to belong to a single entity.

because you're using a custodian. or you only have one or two fat channels with a LSP.

what to do to get transaction unlinkability??

no problem!

Just run a full-stack #Bitcoin lightning routing node! Open lots of channels and tie up your liquidity while fees are low!

You can establish plausible deniability for your LN txs and not have to worry if the FBI is sending custom txs to link your monero subaddresses together. easypeasy!

anyone who has run a LN node can confirm you can just "set-it and forget it."

Just like making a monero node available over tor!

ok. I'm done.

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Yeah we covered those points pretty well I'd say. I just with STN was more open minded to give Monero the intellectual thought it deserves. If he applied just a portion of his LN efforts I think he'd see our point at of view.

Seriously what's wrong with this? If someone purchases from you with fiat via strikes fiat to lightning rail, Strike is serving as the same thing acting as a proxy to another currency.

People who use proxies with Monero do so for OPSEC reasons. I use xmrbazaar proxy sellets for Amazon for obvious reasons. You wouldn't have gotten their business either way and in this scenario you're getting more business than not.

What business is yours if the proxy seller is buying for themselves or for someone else and taking Monero from it?

I'm very curious about the backlash, they're not taking profit from you you're getting 100% of the sale. I'm open to your perspective I want to know what's offensive about it.

I agree it's quite quick but crashes aren't necessarily a given for something so undervalued. That said I do wish to see a less volatile price action.

Lol nobody wants to sell, Monero's worth way more than the current price. There's still more retoswap liquidity of people wanting to buy XMR than wanting to sell.

Yeah it's quite frustrating. Preventable, completely innocent loss of life. These tragedies are too numerous and stab at the heart like nothing else.

Corporate capture is happening quicker than expected.

Please read my reply to the OP.

Its definitely this. Having your identity linked to your messaging metadata is huge for state intelligence surveillance. Combine this with the fact that iOS and Google Play push notifications are sent their servers in plaintext, you then have a good setup to passively collect huge amounts of user data when they think they're being private. It doesn't help also that Signals database relies on the phones "secure" element for encryption. Placing trust in Apple's and Google's proprietary software to keep your messaging private.

These insecurities are addressed in the Molly client (android hard fork of the Signal client) on a FOSS ROM like GrapheneOS. It does not use Google push notifications and allows database encryption with a passphrase. Then using smspool.net you can get non KYC SMS codes paid with monero or lightning.

Even with all this though, nearly everyone else you communicate with will have the compromising defaults. This is what they want.

Why is the app always weeks out of date on the F-Droid repo and Accrescent? It's my only critique.