Taylor Duryea

@SmartMoneyCrpto Not matter what they say about governance they consciously decided to rug their Subnet(s) community and TAO at large. It’s difficult to reason/agree with Covenant on matters of Bittensor governance when they do that…

🚨 WHY COVENANT AI IS LEAVING BITTENSOR 🚨 Here’s the full breakdown of what they’re alleging and why this is such a big deal for the network 👇 1️⃣ The core issue: centralisation Covenant says Bittensor markets itself as decentralized and permissionless, but in reality too much power still sits with one person: Jacob Steeves (Const). Their claim is simple: If one person can suspend emissions, remove moderation control, deprecate infrastructure, and pressure teams economically, then the network is not truly decentralized. 2️⃣ What Covenant says happened According to their statement, Const allegedly took several actions directly against Covenant’s operations: ⚠️ Suspended emissions to their subnets ⚠️ Removed their moderation powers in their own community spaces ⚠️ Unilaterally deprecated their subnet infrastructure ⚠️ Applied economic pressure through visible token sales during operational conflict Covenant argues these were not community governance decisions. They say these were punitive actions carried out by a single actor. 3️⃣ Why this matters This goes way beyond one team leaving. If a subnet owner can build independently, grow successfully, and still be overruled when they become “too independent,” then every builder, miner, validator, and investor has to ask: ❓Who really controls Bittensor? ❓Is governance real or just branding? ❓Can success exist without permission from the top? That is the bigger accusation here. 4️⃣ The governance accusation Covenant also takes aim at Bittensor’s governance structure. They claim the network’s so-called distributed governance is really “decentralization theatre” and that the multisig / triumvirate structure is not meaningfully independent. Their argument: 🧠 Governance is talked about constantly 🧠 Authority is not actually transferred 🧠 Key decisions can still be pushed through unilaterally 🧠 The system still depends on one dominant power center If true, that completely undermines one of Bittensor’s biggest selling points. 5️⃣ Why Covenant says they can’t stay Covenant says they cannot keep building, raising capital, attracting talent, or asking their community to commit resources on infrastructure that can allegedly be undermined at will. That’s the real breaking point. For them, this is not just drama. It’s an investor trust issue, a builder trust issue, and a structural risk issue. 6️⃣ Important contex This is the same team behind Covenant-72B: 🤖 72B parameter model 🖥️ Trained permissionlessly across 70+ independent contributors 📈 One of the most significant decentralized AI training efforts in the sector So this is not a small exit. This is a major builder publicly saying the foundation they built on is compromised. 7️⃣ Their final message Covenant is saying their mission hasn’t changed: They still believe in decentralized, permissionless AI training. But they’re making it clear that they no longer believe Bittensor is the place to do it. Their team, research, models, and vision are leaving with them — and they say new announcements are coming soon. 8️⃣ Bottom line Covenant’s departure is a direct attack on the credibility of Bittensor’s decentralization narrative. Their message is basically this: 👉 If one man can overrule builders, governance is not real 👉 If power can be exercised without transparent consensus, the system is not permissionless 👉 If decentralization only exists until it becomes inconvenient, then it was never decentralization to begin with 💥 This is bigger than one team leaving. It raises serious questions about who really holds power inside Bittensor. Final thought In crypto, the product can be great, the narrative can be strong, and the ecosystem can pump… But if the governance layer is compromised, eventually the market notices. $TAO drama

@sudoingX So stack a bunch of 3060’s instead of 4090/5090s?

hear this anon you don't need a $4,699 box to get started local AI. use what you already have first. test your workload. this is what a $250 GPU did today. iteration 3 of octopus invaders is here. 4 phases. 6 prompts. zero handwritten code. the same 9B on the same 3060 fixed its own enemy spawning, patched a dual start conflict, added level progression, resized every bullet, and when the browser cached old files it figured that out on its own and added version parameters to force reload. 3,200+ lines across 13 files. every line by qwen 3.5 9B Q4 at 35-50 tok/s on 12 gigs through hermes agent. understand what your load actually needs before you build. don't get trapped by influencers selling you boxes next to a plant. test on what you have. then decide. this 3060 impressed me in ways i did not expect and its autonomy is what kept me going. now its time to move to new experiments on other nodes and other models for all of us. if you are running this setup the exact stack, flags, and open source code, exact prompts i used are in the replies. if you run into issues let me know. seeing students and builders discover hermes from my posts and start running local is why i do this. full autonomous build at 8x speed in the video. gameplay at the end. watch it.

@alexocheema This setup or 2 x RTX 5090s?

Pretty incredible that this is running 100% locally on 2 x 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studios connected with a Thunderbolt 5 cable consuming ~400W. This is possible now because of a perfect storm of: - Models: Really good Chinese open models. - Hardware: Apple Silicon with unified memory happens to be perfect for sparse MoE LLMs. - Software: Low-latency RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 on macOS 26.2 reduces latency by 100x to single digit microseconds. This enables @exolabs to scale up with tensor parallelism. Today this requires $20k of hardware for frontier AI but the cost is being driven down on all fronts: models, hardware and software. M5 Ultra is expected soonTM, and should have ~50% more memory bandwidth than M3 Ultra and >4x FLOPS with tensor cores (Apple calls these Neural Accelerators).

@AvidCommentator I’m in the process of acquiring a couple of 5090s… I’m feeling this pain!

Many moons ago my best mate got $250 together to build a PC. Using some second hand parts and some hand me downs, we managed to put together something to play some decent games. It makes me sad that just a stick of RAM is often more than that these days.

@Jacobsklug @openclaw @Lovable OS

I'm giving away my entire @openclaw architecture. Behind my $250k/month agency. After weeks of building, I've dialled in the exact system that runs my business 24/7. What's included: • Memory folder structure (how to organize agent context) • Cron job templates (daily briefs, meeting syncs, content automation) • How to build a custom dashboard in @lovable • API reference doc (so your agent never forgets its tools) • Voice training method (85 posts to teach it your style) • Supabase schema for dashboard connection Comment "OS" and follow. I'll DM it to you. P.S. This will probably blow up so give me some time to reply.

@vidaio_ @markjeffrey @openclaw Mine will be

@markjeffrey @openclaw Any plans to make your openclaw bot mine on Vidaio We'd like to see them contribute to decentralized video processing

I'm doing this right now. My @openclaw is mining Bittensor. It pays for inference and whatever else it needs in $TAO. It made itself a wallet. I sent it some $TAO to start. Now it earns and pays for itself.

@Kevin_Cage_ @tknevents Investor here

🚨PLEASE RT/Repost to make sure other investors can see this. $FAN @tknevents Fantum.ai | Token Events | $FAN I am assisting an investor who signed two SAEFTs with @tknevents (TKN Holdings), one in 2022 and another in March 2023, and invested 75,000 USDT. His emails, including a formal demand on May 28, 2025, went unanswered for months. Adam Jones, Founder and CEO, replied only after I stepped in and notified him that complaints would be filed with regulators. On Sept 21, 2025 he refused payment. Our Sept 22, 10:00 AM ET deadline has now expired. We are filing complaints with @SECGov, Delaware Attorney General (@KathyJenningsDE), and @CMVM_pt. If you are also an affected investor, comment down below and I will DM you.

@darren_levin You sure that’s not a Xavier Ellis jumper lefter over from 2008? 😆 No it looks great! Appreciate the support

Go well ⁦@DocDuryea⁩. Pretty sure my kid was the only person with #8 on their back at the 2015 GF celebration. You were a hero in that prelim. Thank you for your service 🫡

@bowlologist @sboland24 @petersiddle403 Just in case one of the fellas pull out I’ll be ready for the call up 🏌🏼‍♂️

Just a quick induction for @sboland24 into the Australians with Hattricks club 🎩 🎩 🎩 Well done mate will organise golf day with @petersiddle403 and Merv when you get back ⛳️ #VictorianHattricks #wivaus

@virtualbacon I suggest @AlkimiExchange for your RWA play. Programmatic advertising exchange giving transparency to an opaque industry by bringing ad auctions on chain. Going to take a decent chunk out of the $700B+ industry

8/x If $BTC drops to $93K–$95K, I’ll be adding: ✅ More BTC ✅ More SUPER ✅ More TAO ✅ Possibly a strong RWA play if I find one Not touching anything else for now. The edge is in preparation, not reaction.

A new #Bitcoin setup is coming. Are you ready? Even after making a new ATH, I’m watching for a dip back to $95K and I’m ready to load up. Here’s the strategy I’m using, the $BTC levels that matter, and my exact altcoin buy targets 🧵👇

@stardustco11ect ($)take your share of DAG rewards

Top taglines for $DAG staking will get put on some swag Ready. Set. Go 👇

@Minwoo27Lee So good mate! 👏🏼

Still doesn’t feel real

@HarfSerious @attproam @PebbleBeachGolf Caught it a little heavy I reckon

Anyone can do it when the breeze isn't up... #TapInBird ✅️ @attproam @PebbleBeachGolf

@mjhallahan14 Yeah, only about 6 weeks ago 😆

Has anyone done a road trip around South Island of NZ! Start and finish in Queenstown, roughly 5-6 days. Need your best recommendations #newzealand #roadtrip #travel

@Conste11ation AI …

At Thanksgiving you can convince your family crypto is here to stay by showing them a picture of a frog. Or you can tell them about #AmericasBlockchain #DAG plAn to be trending eIther way 🇺🇸🫡

@matthughes13 @RaoulGMI @cantonmeow @ewtracker @dannycheng2022 Would you expect it to retest the 4.236?

You wanna know why this is the real deal for $BTC and for ALL of #crypto? Because this is going to be the first weekly candle close above the full extension level of the 4.236 FIB from the 2017 bull market. Its the end of the speculative era for crypto and the BIRTH of the exponential age. #DFTU and sell too early. Now is the correct time to HODL

@ThomasScovell @KateMillerGems @AlkimiExchange

@KateMillerGems With 30% of supply locked in Validators, earning share of the 100% of revenue used for buybacks, $ADS has to be a top pick. @AlkimiExchange is bringing the $663B Digital market onchain. Selling on 8,083 apps/sites - Served 1Bill ads '24 . 8-fig deal w/ Coke in '25 so set to 🚀

$__ is the next #100x #GEM 📈

@SilverBulletBTC $ADS

What’s your biggest bag? 💰

@mr_chitafa @ctryfootyscores @aflnswact Born and raised in Corowa (NSW) but played in Wahgunyah (VIC). Always New South Welshman

@ctryfootyscores @aflnswact Should always be born.

🏆 The NSW Australian Football History Society have announced their NSW State-of-Origin team for 2024. Thoughts? 🤔

@milesdeutscher @a16zcrypto Soon to be $DAG

These are the blockchains that builders are most interested in developing on. Ethereum still leads, but Solana is catching up fast. Followed by Base, Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum.