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@erskingardner I don't think they can compete with permissionless system like Bitcoin. Maybe this time their permissioned system will make the UX for agents much worse than what we can do. See Breez SDK with Spark, we need more solutions and no api key but imo this time we have an advantage.

Well. I hate to say it but while some of you were arguing about filters, the tradfi system has caught up and made surveillance money the default for AI. Painful own goal for Bitcoin. Colossal loss for freedom and agency.

tfw the guys merging the age verification code into open source operating systems are @Microsoft 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

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@LundukeJournal @giacomozucco @DevuanOrg Thankful for people like @jaromil & @dhh who actually stand up and fight to preserve freedom. x.com/i/status/20292…

I’m compiling together a list of which Open Source Operating Systems (Linux, BSD, etc.) do (or do not) plan to comply with new Age Verification laws. I need to track these for the purpose of reporting on the story, and I figured others would find having a list handy as well. If you’d like to contribute, feel free. Will be adding to the list as more systems are confirmed as either implementing or opposing Age Verification. github.com/BryanLunduke/D…

I find it frustrating that none of these "guardians" of Linux and open source have reacted to the OS-level age verification law: - Linux Foundation - Open Source Initiative - Free Software Foundation - Software Freedom Conservancy

@NicolasDorier Sad, you can't even count on Linux nerds these days. Sheeples all around...

Bootlickers github.com/systemd/system…

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@lukedewolf @Boltzhq or megalith, olympus, flashsats if you use BTCPay there is a plugin x.com/i/status/20266…

What would be the best LSP to open an inbound liquidity channel from? For merchants. Preference is an LSP that works directly with @Boltzhq for easy access to their swaps.

@lukedewolf @Boltzhq x.com/i/status/20339…

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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.

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#SPEDN cheru@blink.sv btcmap.org/merchant/27155 Today a car wash owner paid a grocery shop with Bitcoin.⚡️ No banks. No fiat conversion. Just sats moving between merchants. This is how a Bitcoin circular economy grows. Bitcoin is money. 🟠

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1/ Neues Logo. Neue Website. Gleiche Mission. Bitcoin Austria hat ein neues Gesicht bekommen.

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.