Jesse Posner

Silent payments aren't just about privacy. They also make addresses far more secure and usable because they enable human readable addresses: bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-w…

Nested MuSig2 now has a Python reference implementation. @BeulahEvanjalin built it on secp256k1lab with tests, examples, and protocol notes—generally in a good state for review and discussion. This is the blueprint that will inform the secp256k1-based C work.

Episode 2 of Decentralizing AI is live! @jesseposner and @dtdannen discuss why AI is your birthright (if you’re American or European), private/user-controlled models, and why the next phase of AI will need more than LLMs ↓ Timestamps: 0:00 - Why AI is your birthright 5:00 - The fight over training data 10:29 - Was AI invented or discovered? 18:31 - Why open models matter 27:34 - Building a better AI workflow 47:44 - Why agents need world models 56:52 - Choosing the right AI & why AI needs more than LLMs 1:11:51 - Coding as discovery not execution 1:13:56 - Can the world become language? 1:28:23 - How names unlock understanding 1:41:00 - Why private AI matters 1:47:30 - Will superintelligence = superwisdom?

@pmarca Γνῶθι σεαυτόν

You can’t write that fast if you’re sitting around introspecting.

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Bitcoin is valuable because its best competitor is a million years old and doesn't work on the internet

Every year, we host a handful of technical workshops that bring together top talent to solve the bottlenecks in frontier science and technology. Together with @protocollabs, we’re inviting leading researchers, engineers, cryptographers, and funders to Berlin, July 18-19, for a two-day workshop on how AI can become an engine of defense in a multipolar human-AI world. We will explore: • AI for Secure AI: Building self-improving defense systems where AI autonomously identifies vulnerabilities, generates formal proofs, red-teams, and strengthens our digital infrastructure. • AI for Private AI: Constructing confidential compute environments, scaling encrypted mechanisms for handling data, and designing infrastructure that distributes trust. • AI for Decentralized & Cooperative AI: Building decentralized intelligence ecosystems using tools in economics, game theory, and mechanism design, where AI systems cooperate, negotiate, and align. Speakers include: • @robinhanson, George Mason University • @FazlBarez , University of Oxford • @ml_sudo, Project Sovereign • @DavideCrapis, Ethereum Foundation • @NitzanShulman, Heron AI • @jesseposner , Vora • @AlexObadia, ARIA • @jsotterbach, SPRIND • @juanbenet, Protocol Labs If you’re researcher or builder in this space, apply to attend: foresight.org/events/2026-se…

Excited to release the first episode of Decentralizing AI with Jesse (@jesseposner) & Dustin (@dtdannen)! Learn about their backgrounds and explore some of the ideas that’ll shape the show, including AI, world models, workflows, the future of software, decentralization, bitcoin, and the importance of AI serving the individual rather than the interests of platforms, governments, or other actors. Timestamps: 0:00 Podcast origins and the AI moment 3:11 Dustin’s background: AI research, bitcoin, Nostr, and decentralization 11:20 Jesse’s background: from philosophy and law to bitcoin security 17:18 Dustin’s startup (Delegance) vision and world models explained through chess 25:45 Determinism: why AI works better with structure and clear rules 34:05 Reflecting on process: how to debug better, waste fewer tokens, and improve workflow 50:50 The end of apps and the rise of personal AI interfaces 1:06:48 The stakes of AI that serves the individual

"In inconspicuousness and unascertainability, the real dictatorship of the 'they' is unfolded. We take pleasure and enjoy ourselves as they take pleasure; we read, see, and judge about literature and art as they see and judge; likewise we shrink back from the 'great mass' as they shrink back; we find 'shocking' what they find shocking. Thus the 'they' maintains itself in averageness, of that which it regards as valid and that which it does not, and of that to which it grants success and that to which it denies it. In this averageness with which it prescribes what can and may be ventured, it keeps watch over everything exceptional that thrusts itself to the fore. Every kind of priority gets noiselessly suppressed. Everything that is primordial gets glossed over as something that has long been well known. Everything gained by a struggle becomes just something to be manipulated. Every secret loses its force. Everything gets obscured, and what has been covered up gets passed off as something familiar and accessible to everyone. Everyone is the other, and no one is himself." – Heidegger

Video: watch Dylan Borlands visceral reaction as Jeremy Corbell asks him about "Project Rubiks Cube". Borland: "I am not in this skiff. I am not going to jail"🧐🤔

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats

@sundial1000 Are they against address reuse as well? I guess they’ll also refuse to use MuSig2 and FROST. How about Lightning or Segwit, or are they strictly P2PK only? 🤣

@jesseposner Central banks ain't using Coinjoin or Payjoin.

Apparently these guys have never heard of CoinJoin and Payjoin.

@kareem_carr Try an abliterated local model.

My concern with AI as a tool for knowledge work is how middlebrow it is. If Nabokov had written Lolita with an AI assistant, it would have constantly nagged him about "unsafe" themes, and probably flagged his account. These tools aren't made for serious thinking and it shows.

@pmarca Imagine thinking Dostoevsky wasn’t introspective. 😂

Many people are saying.

@MandleHu @newzealandhodl imagine Coinbase not accepting the Federal Reserve’s bitcoin because they used a mixer 🤣

@MandleHu @newzealandhodl imagine a central bank worrying about their coins being tainted 😂

@cycyc177327 @kechogarcia u have clanker derangement syndrome

@jesseposner @kechogarcia u have clanker cadence

Refuse all this AI garbage. Do not budge. Your brain is a beautiful gift. Every decision you outsource you will pay it with your cognitive decline.

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not your model not your mind is the new not your keys not your coins

@krzyzanowskim So don’t use it. But I will.

@jesseposner ha, yes. what I'm saying is llm chat is not the right tool for the job given how llm works and what is the job.

vibe coding is actually harder because now I have argue with random machine about things I have no control, and it lies to me about. One line fix turns into 30m fight with who has better arguments. I hate it here.

@krzyzanowskim “It always seems impossible until it is done.”

@jesseposner what if we can move faster than speed of light, that would be such unlocker.