Viktor Trón

Paralelni Polis is dead horrible news for bitcoin adoption in Europe This was the first cafe to accept bitcoin payments in 2014 Had a coworking space where you could meet hackers & anarchists Hosted hundreds of conferences & community meetups Nurtured open source startups Displayed the works of underground artists Sold overpriced drinks and food that everyone gladly bought to support the movement Even mobilized the community during the pandemic to have a huge remote conference with dozens of volunteering hosts and guests If you were a bitcoiner who came to visit Prague, Paralelni Polis would let you sleep in their dorm for free. If no dorm was available, they had couches too Now it’s dead. Much like bitcoin adoption in Europe. In the beginning, they would force all cafe customers to buy bitcoin to pay for the drinks. There was a Bitcoin ATM at the entrance, but the employees would usually offer to trade bitcoin for cash in person to avoid the 10% fee. In recent years, Paralelni Polis rebranded as Second Culture. Started accepting credit cards for payment, cut down on the number of events, faced an identity crisis that ultimately led to its demise. Even some OGs who basically built the place didn’t want to visit anymore. Call it local drama and politics, but it was bad for everybody involved. The worst of outcomes happened and bitcoin culture is now crippled. I feel sorry for the newcomers who will never experience the joy of walking into this place to experience a true bitcoin economy. Heavily ideological, but somehow functional. Now Paralelni Polis and its incumbent Institute of Cryptoanarchy are dead. What remains inside is an unplugged ATM and the Monero logo on the door – a hint that the dream of peer to peer electronic cash has moved elsewhere. Now we never spend, shake hands with bankers and deny the existence of a second best while technically losing by every significant metric. Good night, sweet prince!

🚨 BREAKING: Researchers just built an AI that must earn its own salary or go bankrupt. It's called ClawWork. It starts with $10, gets assigned real professional work, and pays for every single token it uses. $10K earned. 7 hours. Zero human input. → AI gets a real task (finance reports, healthcare docs, legal analysis) → It creates full deliverables from scratch → Work gets graded by GPT-5.2 with profession-specific rubrics → Payment = quality × estimated hours × actual BLS wage → Every API call drains its balance No safety net. No unlimited budget. Earn or die. Here's why this changes everything: This isn't a benchmark. It's an economic survival test. 220 tasks. 44 professions. The AI has to make strategic decisions work now for cash, or invest time learning to earn more later. The best models hit $1,500+/hr equivalent. It even works as a live coworker on Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp where every message costs real money. 100% Open Source. MIT License.