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@Kurtis_NZ @dathon_ohm 1) Hardware can't keep up. Storage isn't relevant. 2) It's not enough that people _can_ run a node. They must also _choose_ to run a node. youtube.com/watch?v=CqNEQS…

I had a bad link to the show posted earlier. Here is the correct one: youtu.be/4FYdfUTFitc

@isabellasg3 ;) bitcoinartmagazine.com/education/

What book am I missing?

Art

OK, So it looks like I got hacked by the DPRK using a zoom call trick. If you got contacted by me on telegram and they asked to meet with you over zoom, this is why. It's to compromise your computer. Reset the computer. Change all your passwords. x.com/i/status/19999…

I'm not sure how my X post from last night got deleted, but my original telegram handle (jimmysong) is compromised, and perhaps my X is, too. If someone with that username contacts you, it's not me.

Coming out tomorrow - a new Episode of Old Man Yells! This one is a 2.5 hour conversation with Bitcoin Core Developer Jon Atack. If you are tired of the same old stuff in Bitcoin podcasts then you'll love this one. Lot's of fresh stuff. It'll go live at 7am Eastern on YouTube and later in the day on other podcast platforms. You will be able to find it here tomorrow: youtube.com/channel/UCb8kQ… Subscriptions to the channel are appreciated and follow @jonatack.

@BitcoinNewsCom Just how private remains to be seen x.com/simplestbtcboo…

NEW: Tether just unveiled a major breakthrough in local AI. Its new QVAC Fabric lets powerful AI models run directly on your smartphone or laptop, no data centers or expensive hardware required. Key points: • Runs on iPhone, Android, and desktop • Up to 90% less memory needed • Faster performance than traditional setups • No reliance on NVIDIA GPUs or the cloud AI is moving from big servers to your pocket, opening the door to faster, cheaper, and more private intelligence.

@paoloardoino Some potential privacy concerns to be aware of: 1. Pre-built binaries could quietly send telemetry/usage data home 2. Company history means future regulator-forced backdoors possible 3. "Safe" federated updates still risk leaking patterns from your personal data

Tether AI breakthrough Tether AI team just released new version of QVAC Fabric to include the World’s First Cross-Platform BitNet LoRA Framework to Enable Billion-Parameter AI Training and Inference on Consumer GPUs and Smartphones. Background Microsoft's BitNet uses one bit architecture to dramatically compress models. Traditional LLMs operate on full-precision computation, where weights are stored as complex, high-resolution numbers. The innovation of BitNet is that it shrinks these weights into a tiny ternary range of only -1, 0, and 1. significantly reducing memory usage and computation. LoRA, is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique that reduces the number of trainable parameters by up to ninety-nine percent. Together they slash memory and compute requirements. Yet BitNet has mostly been limited to CPU or CUDA NVIDIA backends, and lacked the support of LoRA fine-tuning. Enters QVAC Fabric: the unlock Today, with QVAC Fabric LLM, is the first time BitNet LoRA fine-tuning and inference work cross-platform across GPU vendors and operating systems using Vulkan and Metal backends. That means support for AMD, Intel, Apple Metal and also Mobile GPUs. And for the first time ever, BitNet inference runs efficiently on smartphones using mobile GPUs. On flagship devices, GPU inference is 2 to 11 times faster than CPU while using up to 90% less memory than the full precision models. The biggest unlock: QVAC Fabric LLM support for BitNet LoRA fine-tuning on heterogeneous GPUs. Our team was able to demonstrate this by fine tuning models up to 3.8 billion parameters on all flagships phones such as Pixel 9, S25 and iPhone 16 and up to 13 billion parameter models on the iPhone 16. Github repositories: github.com/tetherto/qvac-… : general QVAC Fabric codebase github.com/tetherto/qvac-… : specific QVAC Fabric's BitNet knowledge base, architecture docs and pre-built binaries What does it mean? What used to require dedicated GPUs now runs on consumer hardware. This breakthrough is the first real-world signal of a local private AI that can truly serve the people. And this is just the beginning. In the next months and years Tether will relentlessly continue to invest significant amounts of resources and capital to continue to research and develop open-source intelligence that can scale and evolve on local devices, providing maximum utility and privacy to its users. The era of Stable Intelligence has just begun. Free as in freedom.

🚀 Bisq 2 v2.1.10 is out! Check the release: github.com/bisq-network/b… Here’s what’s new 👇

@lukedewolf @CunyRenaud I don’t see how it would ever not be massively contentious, being that the VC fueled spam scam machine is as big as it is at this point. They will make sure it’s contentious regardless.

I know you've done some great work on documenting the problem. What do you say to the claim that it is trivial to switch to other mechanisms of spam? Technically, I don't think that claim is wrong. That doesn't mean that I don't think there's a role for filters or for a consensus change. But it's complicated. A change for the sake of a change isn't necessarily the best path forward. And if it's contentious enough to result in a chain split, or at least a permanent community fracture, I'm not sure it's worth it.

My thinking on BIP-110 has shifted quite a bit in the last weeks and months. Where I currently stand is complicated. Honestly, I'm a bit tired of the whole thing. I stand with BIP-110 in principle, in that I disagree strongly with the proliferation of arbitrary data on Bitcoin. At the same time, my reasoning has always been a little different from the motivations cited in the BIP itself. I view arbitrary data as an attack on Bitcoin's availability as a monetary network. I mean that in a technical sense, from the cybersecurity world, where availability refers to one of 3 primary ways that cyber attacks target systems and information, the others being data confidentiality and information integrity. Arbitrary data isn't the same thing as gold jewelry, which only takes a portion of the stock off the open market and distorts the price a little. Arbitrary data also competes for the throughput of scarce block space. It's shortsighted to think that fees generated by arbitrary data are a good thing. The situation might be somewhat positive for the miners, but again, only in the short term. The real effect on users, making it more expensive to transact and potentially pushing activities off the main chain, is only net negative in my view. Growing real adoption will solve the fee issues in the long run. We don't need arbitrary data protocols for that. This is all to say that my concern over spam isn't quite the same as cited in the BIP. I'm not as worried about contiguous data as the strongest proponents are. I'm more frustrated by the size and volume generally. It has also been truly concerning to me the way that Bitcoin Core tacitly allowed the propagation of arbitrary data even before the OP_RETURN change. Taproot shipping without covering Tapscript with datacarriersize and adhering to previously established limits made it much easier for inscriptions to get a foothold in the market when it did. Refusing to fix those bugs in Core feels strongly disingenuous to me. On a technical level, I believe the BIP has some flaws. I wouldn't have set the OP_RETURN limit at 83 bytes by consensus. If the goal of the BIP was to limit data vectors to 256 bytes, set that to 256 bytes also. I've been consistent on this point. I would also have preferred to see a method of closing the "OP_FALSE OP_IF" envelope without totally disabling OP_IF in Tapscript. Breaking Miniscript isn't a good thing. At the same time, I also assert that it must be possible to walk back certain parts of upgrades, at least temporarily. Otherwise, there's nothing we can do in the case of unforeseen consequences in future upgrades. Breaking user space isn't a good excuse here. Bitcoin is a distributed system, not individual computers. It's not a valid security model to say that no individual can ever be impacted by network-level changes. Therefore, I assert that the tradeoffs of BIP-110 are technically acceptable to me. Having a little bit less development freedom (again, temporarily) is perfectly fine if it serves greater network goals. As to whether BIP-110 will actually reduce spam, honestly I'm not convinced about that anymore. I see the willingness for arbitary data enthusiasts to move to other methods. Perhaps the cost can be increased for them, somewhat, but the claim at least is that the cost increase is negligible. Still, I come back to another cybersecurity principle, where actively exploited bugs are prioritized and fixed first. Closing off the vectors that are being actively used at least forces the spammers to do something in order to salvage their precious JPEGs and tokens. Then again, is any of this worth a potential chain split? I don't think so. There are 3 logical scenarios here: One is that BIP-110 fails entirely, and the status quo is maintained. At this point, I find that scenario acceptable. Move on, continue the fight another day. The other is that BIP-110 succeeds, activates, and becomes the rules of Bitcoin. I believe this is a good outcome, and will be good for the network in the long run. Others disagree, and say that Bitcoin's reputation will be permanently damaged by a change being forced through without consensus. The final scenario is a protracted chain split. I'm told that this is unlikely by BIP-110 proponents, and that it's extremely likely by opponents. I at least acknowledge that it's a possibility. And I unequivocally believe that this outcome would be bad for Bitcoin. All scenarios probably result in some individuals leaving the space, for better or worse. It would be a shame for monetary maximalists to give up on Bitcoin. I don't want that, considering I consider myself one. It would also be negative if a lot of dedicated developers left the space if 110 activates. And a split is a split. Not good either. This whole post is mostly all to say that I'm tired of fighting for the merits of this BIP when I don't really believe in it entirely. I like the idea of the BIP, and the idea of taking action against arbitrary data. But if the BIP isn't going to be truly effective, and all it's going to do is cause community controversy, then I don't think it's a net positive. I still support the idea of taking action against arbitrary data in the future. I also support increasing the share of node implementations other than Core. In my ideal scenario, no one implementation has the majority of the market share. Perhaps it's optimal to have only one primary implementation, but in the case where multiple implementations exist, not having any one be dominant is preferable to me. So, I'm withdrawing from the fight, for now at least. I'm continuing to work on Bitcoin education and adoption efforts. Whatever happens, all I care about is Bitcoin fixing the money and fixing the world. I hope that's still possible.

@BtcpayServer @DonjonLedger 🙏🧡

BTCPay 2.3.6 is out! New features, bug fixes and security patches. Huge thanks to @DonjonLedger for using their new AI security agent to review our project ahead of release and all contributors who made it happen.

Need inspiration? 📱Check out this hands-on learning and open discussion workshop @btc_dada provided at their Dada Hub space, teaching their community how to use @vexl. Very cool! 💛🧡 The DADA Ladies continue to lead the way!

@ModeotecArt GM! Love that piece by Fzero, is that printed on PCB board? And a🔥backdrop there on the @asanoha_gold t-shirt :)

GM!

@3dmultisig @slohmfi @opnetbtc Lol

.@slohmfi probably one of the first most important infra project on @opnetbtc

@BitcoinEkasi @the_surfer_kids Congratulations Phumlisa "Ama" Madiavula!! Epic win, keep up the great surfing, you’re gonna go far! 🙌🌊🌊🌊

It's moments like this that keep us going. If you've ever felt it, you know: nothing else compares. @the_surfer_kids' Phumlisa "Ama" Madiavula - Western Cape U8 Champion!!!

@AC_616 @isabellasg3 @JeffBooth @natbrunell @GoingParabolic @edstromandrew @LynAldenContact @JasonPLowery @r0ckstardev 🤗🧡🧡

@isabellasg3 Some great #Bitcoin books to add to your stack that I L🧡VE… (in no particular order) thanks to: @JeffBooth @natbrunell @SimplestBTCBook @GoingParabolic @edstromandrew @LynAldenContact @JasonPLowery *Shoutout to @r0ckstardev (action figure) for showcasing my stack!📚😎 Lol