Hash Rate - Ep. 176: Macrocosmos IOTA (9) + APEX (1) 🧙 Guests: @WSquires and @macrocrux of @IOTA_SN9 and @Apex_SN1 Download SN9's Home Mac Miner: iota.macrocosmos.ai/ 00:00 Orion 100B Model 03:27 Comparing Training Approaches 10:15 Liquid Training 12:17 IOTA: One-Click Mining 25:58 The Journey of IOTA: A Year in Review 33:04 Training Models: The Lifecycle and Challenges 36:06 Balancing Training and Inference in AI 37:56 AI: Scaling and Diminishing Returns 43:00 Aurelius: New Partnership 58:55 Upcoming Events and Community Engagement

My reaction is we wouldn’t know half the stuff we know — including the real deal about this — without Elon.

So Kamala is polling catastrophically with men. So the answer is to yell at women to yell at men. Joy!

Thank you. Can't say it enough. You could have sat there on Mt Olympus and done zero. Instead, you hopped into the ring and started swinging for free speech.

Easy. Dems. He’s a crimelebrity now.

Even in Monopoly -- where the goal is to own everything -- everyone starts with $200 in UBI.

YES. This is from my friend in Arizona just yesterday:

Literally every Presidential assassin has been a white male. We ARE the suspicious demographic of choice for this particular crime.

I noticed this as well. The phrase is suddenly, globally, everywhere.

A wise man once said

Another day, another 48 hour #Solana outage. This is like the sixth time this has happened in 3 months. I have zero faith in it now. It is the new EOS. The fight is now between ETH, BSC, Fantom, Avalanche and Terra.

Gamestop and AMC have now distributed COVID relief money to the middle class more effectively than the US government.

SEC is investigating @Uniswap. Uniswap is everything good about America -- tech leadership, innovation, MASSIVELY successful, produces massive revenue. Everyone is HAPPY with Uniswap. There are NO COMPLAINTS. So the SEC is NOT protecting US. They're protecting someone else.

Proof that Apple was right not to give NSA back door keys: they will lose them.

So ai16z is: 🔘 a crypto hedge fund 🔘 run by an AI 🔘 with $10M AUM ... 🔘 ... but none of it deployed 🔘 So nothing has actually happened yet, except for the $10M 'capital raise' And it has a $1.3B market cap?

Damn. All the right moves.

Here's what we should do. We should hide six golden tickets in candy bars. @elonmusk will take the six ticket finders on a tour of Twitter, presenting severe temptations at each stop. Whoever is left, boom! CEO of Twitter.

Absolutely not. Haley is deep Cheney.

You have jailed your major political opponent with a Soviet show trial. You are the bad guy.

Terrible, horrible take. X was a fantastic primary news source, much, much better than television or web. The reporting and analysis here was realtime and second to none. Free speech made this possible. I seriously doubt we'd know HALF as much as we do now without that on X.

You don't want to deal with the fact that HE ANSWERS QUESTIONS. For HOURS. EVERY DAY. Kamala is still clocking in 18 minutes TOTAL since she became a candidate. With a chaperone. Edited.

IRS says crypto is property. SEC (maybe) says its a security. FinCEN says its money. They cannot legally ALL be true. The only thing that is 100% certain is that crypto defies classification -- so it's mostly likely an entirely new species of thing.

Holy crap. Not only is this an awesome idea, but it's a THREE PAGE BILL, not the goddamn Silmarillion like how we do it. SIMPLE. Brilliant. #Bitcoin law.

"Collapse". "What went wrong". How about: "Fraud". "Crime". "Theft of $10 Billion of customer funds."

"I shouldn't have suggested that Charlie Kirk's shooter was MAGA, when we knew he wasn't. That was wrong of me, and I apologize." It wasn't hard. He didn't do it.

Dude. You're shooting down UFO's and this is happening in Ohio -- and you're talking about ticket fees???? Some DETAILED updates on THOSE two things first, please.

I prefer my He/Man pin

You are protecting your banking cronies. You are NOT protecting American citizens. DeFi and decentralized stables spread the wealth from the center, where mafias always form, to the people. If you were TRULY progressive you would love this stuff.

I am very excited to announce the launch of Stillcore Capital, a new Bittensor fund. My partners are @jason and @rob_svrn. Our focus will be $TAO and Bittensor subnet alpha tokens. More at @stillcorecap and stillcorecapital.com.

Results for the year chart: The big chain winner in 2021 was #Fantom $FTM -- not #Solana or #Avalanche or $MATIC -- despite all the hype. Fantom is *still* massively undervalued in terms of TVL and transactions and projects and market cap compared to it's peers.

Thank you for your work on this. Very well done, as were #1, #2 and #3.

Horrible choice. Shame on you for supporting a deep state puppet. After the last four years, especially after everything we've seen on X, you should know better. This is not okay.

Great analysis of Munger's #Bitcoin outburst this past week from @APompliano:

1/ Having a look around @virtuals_io. Here's the site: app.virtuals.io/ You can see the 'coinmarketcap'-ish front door. It's basically a bunch of agentic AI chatbots, each with an associated meme coin. The bots have crypto wallets and can use them.

Absolutely insane month bubble chart for $TAO. Largest liquidation wipeout in crypto history -- and $TAO manages to surge anyway. I don't think I've ever seen strength quite like THIS -- in an earlyish coin -- in a down market.

In case you missed it -- this was an historic interview. You truly don't hate the mainstream media enough. This single hour blows away any Trump interview done over the last decade. Calm. Thoughtful. Full questions. Full answers. What you always knew media COULD be.

Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone

We shouldn't forget this as a very basic principle of ANY medical procedure -- and the fact that it is enshrined in no less than the Nuremberg Code. This is a BIG line to cross.

David Byrne right now: "Well, how did I get here?"

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I can't even follow this conspiracy logic. How is restoring free speech a terrorist or foreign plot? "Yes! Tell the world's richest man -- who we somehow control! -- tell him this: Let them all speak freely again! That will show those American pigs! Bwwwahaahhahah!"

I thought you were making a joke. I thought wrong.

The Mexican government just said they have alien bodies, and they're showing them. I have no idea if this is real or not, but this IS Mexico's Congress, live on YouTube right now:

Whatever else is afoot, #Fantom just flippened both #Avalanche and #Solana. $FTM is now officially the #4 chain by TVL.

LOL. Dude. No wars. Gas prices were low. No inflation. Abraham accords. North Korea peace gestures. The Wall (which was a good idea, it turned out). Yes mean tweets, but whatever. Biden, on the other hand, has been mess after mess after mess. Ukraine. Afghanistan. Inflation. Border invasion - 10 million illegals. Violated 1A to censor social media. Now stumbling into WW3. The comparison is stark. Maybe November be orange.

Censorship is preventing vital discussion which hides the truth in favor of approved propaganda. It is imperative that we return to the 🇺🇸 American concept of free speech for all.

I'm not sure who to root for. This is like Joker v Riddler. Nobody is Batman.

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So SETI announced they MIGHT have a signal .... You know, like in CONTACT.

Wait. You liked the censorship? The totalitarian tilt we're seeing exposed in the Twitter Files? I prefer the free speech, the fresh air and blazing American sunshine.

“Hey we found 12,000 yr old ruins, upending our previous idea that Sumer was the first ancient civilization 6,000 years ago. Should we excavate it?” “Nah. Turn it into like archeological Disneyland and leave 95% of it fully unexamined.”

This is pretty weird ... The Netherlands farmer crisis is a replay of what happened in Sri Lanka -- which ended in absolute disaster. Why are the Netherlands & Trudeau repeating what has been shown to be disasterous? And attacking farmers seems like a super bad plan.

I have watched the #Bobulinski interview. He is credible. He has *abundant* evidence: emails, recordings, texts. He was Biden's partner for years, and is a Navy veteran who clearly loves America. So @RepAdamSchiff flat-out lied when he called this 'Russian disinformation'.

At Bittensor Endgame, we just had a talk from ex-nvidia chip designer who got his start at IBM working on OS/2. He’s now fulltime TAO specifically because he saw open source Linux crush everything. He thinks centralized AI is in for a similar thrashing from Bittensor. tAO = the Linux of AI

I'll take "People predicting a recession while already inside a recession" for $100, Alex.

Show me a dream movie then. Until then, I call BS on this one.

Ah, attempting to wash this one away, eh? If this WAS an insurrection, then Ray Epps was Captain Insurrection. Based on FILMED EVIDENCE -- undeniable, volumnious -- this dude was central to starting EVERYTHING that day. And yet, he is unindicted, unquestioned under oath. So weird. And now 60 minutes is trying to give him a makeover.

Benioff is starting to see the wizard behind the curtain. Even the Border Patrol endorsed the Border Czar's opponent.

I think @NickSzabo4 is right. We should not eff around with Bitcoin. At. All. Do not bloat the chain with OP_RETURN nonsense. It introduces too much risk in multiple dimensions (technical and legal). Be Boringcoin. Boring is awesome. Digital gold is enough. But it requires Ongoing Boring to protect it. "Nick Szabo, the cryptographer and creator of Bit Gold (a Bitcoin precursor), has recently shared detailed views on OP_RETURN in the context of Bitcoin Core's v30 update. After a nearly five-year hiatus from X (formerly Twitter), he returned in late September 2025 to criticize the proposed increase in OP_RETURN's data limit from 80 bytes to up to 100,000 bytes (or potentially more). His concerns center on technical, economic, and legal risks, emphasizing that while OP_RETURN has legitimate uses (like embedding metadata for financial protocols), expanding it for arbitrary non-financial content could harm the network." "Szabo explicitly urges caution, recommending users skip the update and switch to Bitcoin Knots—a fork of Core with extra "knobs" for customization (e.g., stricter data policies). Strong recommendation (Oct 8, 2025): "As a (hopefully) temporary measure, run Knots. I strongly recommend not upgrading to Core v30. On forks as a last resort (Oct 2, 2025): "If core can't fix it, then we will need solutions like Knots, as awful as those might be in terms of censorship resistance."

When Biden flies illegals straight over the border to sanctimonious cities, the entire supposed point of REAL ID is nullified. Obviously it was a scam.

Absolute genius cartoon

I figure Nostraswamy is probably right again.

I just voted against Schiff. I very, very strongly encourage my fellow Californians to do likewise.

And how many citizens are complaining about getting scammed in DeFi? Right. None. The people are happy with it. DeFi is protected by code and smart contracts and double collateralization and transparency. The ONLY people complaining about DeFi are the banks it is hollowing out

You will need to fix ETH scalability *immediately*. There IS a way to do this: somehow get @SonicLabs just-launched EVM tech with 10,000 tx / 1 sec finality on Ethereum. @VitalikButerin and @AndreCronjeTech should merge. Each solves the other's problem. You cannot compete in a Solana world otherwise.

Trump turning the water back on:

Hash Rate - Ep. 46: Bittensor AI Venture Capital 🧙 Guest: @JosephJacks_ of OSS capital - $25M committed to #Bittensor ecosystem!!! - What is OSS interested in funding? - Subnet tour: make it tangible - AI startups make more revenue on Bittensor (!) - $TAO to 1 Trillion+? A #Bitcoin-like asset? - Talking $TAO with Redhat Founder Bob Young - Bittensor is generating more revenue than OpenAI? - Are blockchains socialism? Or capitalism? Or BOTH? - Should $TAO rewards flow to market usage also? - Get compensated for building raw AI infrastructure HASH RATE is published exclusively on @X

I dug into Thorchain pretty hard recently -- after ignoring it for years -- I'm a believer now. This is a very big deal, especially for native #Bitcoin.

In case you missed this: Binance invested in Bittensor $TAO today.

Turns out, I have a Runestone I did not know about until just now. Thanks, @LeonidasNFT. Waiting for the halving for the xtra goodies.

A Bittensor subnet is now mining Bitcoin.

Chainlink adds Bittensor.

What's 'europe'?

Time to replace @SpeakerJohnson — we need Americans in charge who don’t believe in secret courts and abusive practices abhorrent to the Constitution.

Was the Biden White House specifically ordered to stop violating the First Amendment with socials after Missouri v. Biden? Does this, like, super violate that order and the First Amendment yet again?

Absolutely insane. South Park has become reality. No wonder they're having trouble coming up with new episodes -- actual earth keeps beating them to the punchline.

Hash Rate - Ep 107: Bittensor Explained Simply: The Coming $TAO Tidal Wave 🧙 Guest: @markjeffrey I take it from the top, and explain everything Bittensor for the new people. 00:00 Introduction to Bittensor and $TAO 05:16 Understanding Subnets 15:20 Emission Dynamics 26:59 AI Model Training and Cost Efficiency 27:54 The Rise of Decentralized AI Networks 30:49 Subnet Tour 38:11 Real-World Applications and Challenges 41:28 The Cathedral and the Bazaar 44:52 The Coming $TAO Tidal Wave

Interesting. So the price of real #Bitcoin is artificially supressed by the paper Bitcoin.

There was a moment about a year ago where I had to decide on #Fantom v #Solana ... I went $FTM. Neither were a bad bet But Fantom's market cap is only $6B with a total value locked of $9B ... ... while Solana's market cap is $73B with a TVL of only $15B Staying in FTM.

Bittensor $TAO AI subnets going absolutely crazy right now. Bull market in the first few days of dTAO launch. This was a big success. And most of the $TAO has yet to be deployed.

Norwegian public Bitcoin treasury company announces $TAO will be added to the treasury. It will also start adding subnets (a first). taodaily.io/new-public-compa…

OMG. Hillary killed 13, 14, and 15!!!!!!

Yeah. I had the same thought. Nothing feels organic about Taylor's rise -- or this whole 'relationship' -- or now this whole Superbowl thing.

It's been a rough month for everyone - except SONIC $S. It ramped from zero to $700M in TVL in the past two months. Something really interesting is happening here. SONIC could be THE chain of choice in the next DeFi run.

Horrible take, Ted. You are my rep. I voted for you. But ever since, I am increasingly ashamed of you. Matt T has provided MASSIVE EVIDENCE and details. You should be apologizing. "I'm sorry, we got this wrong, we'll do better." Instead you double down on lies. Why?

Bittensor $TAO has its first $100M subnet, just 9 weeks after dTAO launch. Congrats Chutes (SN64)! Chutes is 'serverless AI' providing 'instant on' AI model hosting (DeepSeek, Mistral, etc.) for 85% less cost than AWS.

Every single El Salvador citizen recieved free #Bitcoin several weeks back. They are ALL up now. Every single citizen has made money. @nayibbukele looks like a genius.

Weathermen - Today's Terror Tip: The exact same temperatures, but showing "happy yellow sunny" versus "scorching sackcloth black-blood-red" can make all the difference in scaring the pants off your viewers. raheemkassam.substack.com/p/…

Holy crap! The Senate passed the SEC crypto bill in addition to the House. This now puts @POTUS in an awkward position. He said he'd veto it, but a veto would be incredibly unpopular. 50 million voters hold crypto. And Trump just declared himself the pro-crypto candidate, holding a dinner for his NFT holders last week. The contrast is stark. Which way, Joe Boden?

Cuban is shilling $MATIC now (he's not wrong): finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-…

Fake stats. You just don't like free speech returning. That's really what's going on here. People thinking for themselves, speaking freely, and calling out your corruption are a problem for you. You will not win.

Barry Silbert (Bitcoin billionaire) went on Raoul Pal recently. He talks about his new, all-in bet on AI network Bittensor $TAO -- and why it's 'the next Bitcoin'. I agree 100% with him -- and have invested accordingly (as most of you know :) ). There are complicated ways to play this -- but the easiest way is simply to buy and hold $TAO (you can get it on Kraken or Coinbase). piped.video/XoqdTfKQCjA?si=nCUJ…

And there it is. THE DOORS HAVE OPENED! $TAO subnets on Solana.

South Park becomes reality

Wow -- $TAO almost doubled on the week bubble.

But this one goes to 11. $TAO

Looks like the SEC Hinman speech WAS official market guidance -- not just his personal opinion.

Yes I joined Fred in experimenting with pump.fun — launched WHEE. :) I own very little of the supply, 5M coins total, this is just a test to see how it all works.

Well hello, $TAO. Impressive. But also not. We're just back to where we were three days ago.