A new study tested 36 different artificial intelligence models using 9000+ conversations, and the AIs overwhelmingly chose paying with bitcoin to accomplish the prompts given to them
Michael Saylor was asked what he feels in the morning waking up knowing his company bought $64,000,000,000 worth of bitcoin.
Saylor’s answer, “I wake up, I feel invigorated. Fix the money, fix the world. I feel blessed with a mission that is meaningful”
On this day in history, 16 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto explained why Bitcoin is safe from quantum computing breaking the software because, “When you run the upgraded software for the first time, it would re-sign all of your money with the new stronger signature algorithm”
This new open-source software lets your bitcoin mining machines automatically use the extra energy from your solar panels. It adjusts in seconds, from about 1–3 kW per miner, so excess electricity can be converted into bitcoin instead of sold back to the grid cheaply.
New app lets people send bitcoin with no internet by tapping together the NFC chips in their phones. Based on a project from the 1980’s called Chaumian ecash, the app Cashu is a modern implementation of it designed for bitcoin.
On this day in history, 16 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto wrote, “When someone tries to buy all the world's supply of a scarce asset, the more they buy the higher the price goes…it gets too expensive for them to buy any more…some people keep holding out…and refuse to sell”
Efficiency of the Bitcoin blockchain’s initial sync became faster today with the merge of @Andrew_S_Toth’s parallel input prevout fetcher, after two years of review and 1,000+ comments. The update parallelizes UTXO lookups during block connection, improving IBD and validation.
Devin Coleman drove an hour and a half into the city everyday for work. But thanks to a new Bitcoin mine in his small Texas town, Devin was able to find work and be more present in his family’s life.
On this day in history, 16 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto was asked if a nation-wide Internet firewall could stop Bitcoin.
Their response was, “Any node with access to both sides would automatically flow the blockchain over...It would only take one node”