Anders Brownworth

My brother, Lars Brownworth, is on Lex Fridman’s podcast youtu.be/iKx3gAODybU

@rgY0UTH 🙏

andersbrownworth.com/blockchain/hash by @anders94 has a lot of cool demos you can try for yourself, also check how blocks and Transactions generate their own hash with the SHA256

This is SHA256 (Secure Hash Algorithm 256-bit) used on the Bitcoin Network similar to that of $ETH and I just used it to generate hash for random data No matter how much data is put in, it will always give me a fixed 64 hexadecimal character output for each same data input

@KyleSamani Built this at Circle back in the day!

Is anyone building the ability to do ACH and wires to stablecoins *for free*? it is very hard to build an RH competitor with the current fees that vendors are charging If you are or know someone who is, please get in touch. My DMs are open

Only 3.6M BTC of the 20M BTC out there is quantum vulnerable bitcoin-supply.com

What a week for @circle and @USDC. Just in the past 7 days: • Circle received final OCC approval to establish Circle National Trust, bringing USDC infrastructure under a federally regulated trust bank framework. • USDC served as the preferred stablecoin for the cash leg of transactions behind @The_DTCC’s move into live, production-grade tokenization. • Marex began allowing clients to post USDC as margin for derivatives, bringing stablecoins into institutional clearing and collateral workflows. • Circle signed an agreement with JCB, Japan’s largest card network, to explore USDC-powered cross-border payments and merchant transactions. • Circle Gateway and Circle Payments Network became natively accessible through @FireblocksHQ, making it easier for institutions to manage USDC across chains and settle payments globally. • Circle joined the @x402Foundation as a founding member, helping establish an open standard for internet-native payments across AI agents, APIs, and applications. • Circle partnered with Grupo BIND to expand institutional access to USDC in Argentina. • @BNYglobal highlighted its expanded partnership with Circle during its Q2 earnings call, including new capabilities that allow institutional clients to custody, mint, and redeem USDC through BNY’s banking platform. Mainstream stablecoin adoption has arrived and it is being powered by Circle & $USDC.

I guess you could say “up to the right” suggesting that as we go inexorably to the right, it goes up. That makes sense. It’s just the addition of “and” which suggests time is changeable.

I have a similar problem with “up and to the right”. “Up” I get but time moves inexorably to the right. There is no other option than “to the right” - the only variable in that equation is “up”! Why add an invariant as a qualifier?

Why do people say, “if and when”? If “when” is added as a required option then there can be no “if”. Makes no sense.

Just released bcr 0.2.0 - a modern broadcast relay for Linux. github.com/anders94/bcr/r…

scheerpost.com/2026/06/12/ai-… “In contrast, under Project Hamilton a public digital-dollar system was built, tested and proved that could have blocked surveillance, protected privacy, and given Americans a cash-like digital option. Developed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, Project Hamilton was a working prototype. Phase 1 delivered something no private payment network has ever offered: 1.7 million transactions per second, with settlement in under a second, no personal data stored on the ledger, no transaction history, no account numbers, and no surveillance architecture.”

@intern First item of business, get a better name than “robotics”

Why I bet my career on robotics - skip to 1:24 for thoughts on crypto - skip to 5:15 for my robotics thesis

@Selkis_2028 @robustus @zpartan @zooko @TomZarebczan Yeah that was me. Many moons ago.

@zooko - Will Zerocoin be auditable as a whole? eg, will we we always be able to prove there's no error/bug/attack messing with coin supply?

He’s also on the Netflix miniseries Rise of Empires: Ottoman. More links to his books as well are at his website larsbrownworth.com

My brother Lars Brownworth’s interview on @lexfridman’s podcast has over 1 million views. youtu.be/iKx3gAODybU

Dear all companies sending me surveys: my willingness to recommend your product (nearly 0) is disconnected from how much I like your product. (ranges from 0 to 10) Please do not convolve them.

@Cdempsey44 Fun read! I was right there with you about half the way!

Over 800k views in 3 weeks of my brother Lars Brownworth’s Vikings interview on Lex Fridman’s podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=iKx3gA…

@Falconortizx IMHO this is the major unsung win Apple has - unified memory and token generation performance per watt. Nobody seems to be talking about this but it’s a huge advantage.

@anders94 I think that’s one of the best approach we can have right now . Having in mind there’s so much competition for comercial ones everyday. Qwen has become one of the best options right now

Just learned that in Xcode’s Apple Intelligence you can add a local LLM using ollama and have private AI coding assistance without an internet connection.

@Falconortizx For me the quality lags commercial models only by a matter of months. At this point I use local models (gemma4 / qwen3-coder) to write tests and non-essential UI / backends. I’ll use a commercial model for architectural planning but implement things myself using local models.

Apple Intelligence + Ollama for local AI coding in Xcode is the combo most devs are missing 🍎 I've been running local models on my Mac for months. The privacy advantage alone is worth it — no code leaving your machine, no API costs, no rate limits. But real question: has anyone actually benchmarked this vs sending to Claude/Copilot for real-world coding tasks? I'm curious if the quality gap is still noticeable or if local models have caught up enough for daily work.

The Chernobyl accident happened 40 years ago today. It is a fascinating case of large system breakdown that hastened the end of the Soviet Union. The Chernobyl series HBO did on it is required watching. amazon.com/Chernobyl-Seas…