Jordan McGregor

Easy fella…Sam was a dirt bag that was purely driven by greed. His exit may go down as one of the most important moments in TAO’s history. Not because it was admirable, but because it exposed every weakness that needed to be exposed. If TAO fixes them, this won’t be remembered as a collapse. It’ll be remembered as the forge….

Bittensor $TAO crashed 27% after its biggest builder, @covenant_ai, abandoned the network, exposing the illusion of centralized control. Discover why $ICP is the only network with the architecture to run true, unstoppable on-chain AI. Read the full breakdown here ↓

Ive been using your program. Tried to leave a message on discord but I couldn’t verify my number. Some of the data seems old. How often is it getting refreshed? I build my own tracker and can input my wallet key to track my portfolio and make recommendations. Any thoughts on adding that feature?

Volume Surge 🚨 Bittensor SN5 seems to be attracting some big buys as they experience a major shift in emissions Looks like a @manifoldlabs project which is the same team behind @TargonCompute SN4 I wonder what’s cooking 🤔 Good find alphagap.io

@globepolitics @globeandmail Not a chance.

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🚨BIG EPISODE BESTIES! Sacks is back, Fifth Bestie Brad Gerstner fills in for @Friedberg -- Anthropic withholds Mythos: serious concern or another marketing stunt? -- OpenClaw vs everybody: Are frontier model makers trying to kill the open source agent platform? -- Anthropic's $30B run rate: fastest ever, do they already have market dominance in AI code? -- The AI vibe shift: OpenAI reels as Anthropic rips -- Iran War: ceasefire and Israel's influence on US foreign policy (0:00) Bestie intros: Brad Gerstner joins the show! (4:22) Anthropic blocks Mythos release for security concerns: serious or marketing stunt? (24:07) Are OpenAI and Anthropic trying to kill OpenClaw? Does Anthropic already have market dominance in AI coding? (42:20) Anthropic $30B run rate, fastest revenue ramp ever, the TAM for intelligence (58:01) Major vibe shift: Anthropic ripping, OpenAI reeling (1:10:12) Iran War: Ceasefire, Israel's influence, market impact

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The real fear in Bittensor right now is not just drama. It is leakage. If a team uses the ecosystem to build, gains traction, attracts outside capital, then relocates the company, IP, talent, and upside elsewhere, token holders can be left carrying the early risk without sharing in the real long-term reward. That is the issue. If subnets want to be treated like real businesses or durable digital commodities, the structure has to protect all sides from day one. To build the strongest version of this ecosystem, a few things need to become standard: Founders should absolutely be rewarded and heavily aligned through lockups and upside. But the subnet itself has to survive the founder. If the team leaves, sells, or is removed, the subnet should keep operating. Core value should be tied to the subnet wherever possible: treasury, governance rights, core infrastructure, and any essential code, models, or datasets that the market is actually underwriting. There should be a clear public process for founder removal, disputes, and emergency intervention, with conflicted parties excluded and decisions visible and reviewable. And there should be independent audit/rating layers so investors can measure founder lock status, revenue quality, governance risk, dependency risk, and VC leakage risk before allocating capital. That is not anti-crypto. That is what makes crypto investable. The best decentralized systems are not the ones with no structure. They are the ones where builders are rewarded, investors are protected, and no single person can walk away with the whole business after the crowd funded the risk.

This is @Jason's statement regarding the SN3 Templar drama on Bittensor today

@HippoJane21 @chamath The problem is that doesn’t scale. Most people will choose self-interest over altruism, so any system that depends on mass selflessness is probably doomed from the start.

@chamath The world needs developers that want to fuck the current system we currently have more than they want to get insanely rich.

If Martin is right, he also just wrote the product spec for open source + distributed compute where broad swaths of groups, individuals and organizations contribute their compute resources to training runs for large param open source models. There are lots of issues in figuring this out: homogeneity vs heterogeneity of the training clusters, orchestration, financial incentives etc etc etc but some early projects are good signal as to where this can go and that these limitations can be overcome (folding@home, Venice, Tao). An attempted oligopoly on intelligence is the perfect boundary condition for a bottoms up uprising of fully open, fully distributed AI.

Strong post. The line that matters most is that the social layer has not kept pace with the technical layer. That is exactly what this exposed. A neutral audit layer, better evaluation, and transparent standards are all good ideas. But the deeper question is still unresolved: if a founder or core operator leaves, what actually remains with the subnet? Because that is the dividing line between a true digital commodity and a founder-led project. Institutions will not just underwrite performance. They will underwrite durability. They will want to know whether the asset survives management. That is why the next phase cannot just be better measurement. It has to be stronger structure. The most decentralized systems are not the ones with the least control. They are the ones where no single person matters enough to break the whole thing.

I've been in #bittensor ecosystem since the early days. I've watched this network grow from a fringe idea to something @chamath talks about publicly. I need to say something, not as a commentator but as a early subnet co-founder and as someone with skin in the game. This is not the crisis it looks like. This is Governance Debt - the compounding friction that accumulates when a protocol's social layer fails to keep pace with its technical genius. #Bitcoin went through the block size wars. #Ethereum went through the DAO wars. Both emerged more legitimate, more anti-fragile, and ultimately more valuable. Not despite the conflict - because of how the community responded to it. The question isn't who is right. The question is whether the $TAO community has the maturity to convert this moment into structural progress. I believe it does. But only if we're honest about what this dispute actually revealed. To @const_reborn: You built something genuinely rare. The #dTAO architecture is elegant — using alpha token markets to allocate emissions through price signals rather than committee decisions is one of the most honest incentive designs in crypto. Stepping down from the Opentensor CEO role was a rare act of intellectual honesty that most founders never show. I genuinely respect it. But the community asks for one more step. Not because you're wrong on the technical facts of this specific dispute. But because the gap between technical correctness and community trust has become a liability for the protocol itself. When your alpha token sells - however small relative to your holdings - read as governance actions, that is a structural problem, not a perception problem. Champion a neutral audit layer. It costs you nothing and gains the protocol everything. To @DistStateAndMe: What your team proved with Covenant-72B cannot be unproved. A 72B parameter model trained permissionlessly across dozens of contributors on commodity hardware - cited by #Anthropic's co-founder, noticed by @chamath. That proof lives in the research, not in any one network's infrastructure. Build wherever you build next. But don't let the exit become the headline that overwrites the evidence. The temperatures are high because the stakes are genuinely historic. Grayscale has filed for $TAO spot ETF. Serious institutional capital is now watching this ecosystem with real intent. The worst possible thing we can do at this exact moment is look like every other #Web3 project that imploded over informal power disputes. Now here is what I actually want to say because this moment is too important to spend entirely on the flame war. The dispute exposed #Bittensor's most critical missing layer: there is no neutral, on-chain mechanism for subnet evaluation, governance arbitration or accountability. Subnet quality is vibes-based. Emissions integrity is vibes-based. Miner collusion detection is vibes-based. When conflicts arise, they resolve on #Twitter - not through transparent, verifiable process. That is not a criticism of any individual. It is a design gap that this community can fill, permissionlessly, without asking anyone's approval. Specifically: ① A Neutral 'Moody's for Subnets' - an independent Research Validator Node producing academic-grade subnet audits. If a subnet is on 100% burn code and not running, the data makes that case. Not a founder's alpha sell. Not a Discord moderator action. The data! This also solves the cold start problem and enables a base model for weights initialization. ② Proof-of-Intelligence as Protocol Standard (PoIP) - mandating Chain-of-Thought traces that validators can mathematically verify, combined with ZK Proof-of-Compute. If we cannot verify the reasoning, we should not reward the work. This transforms #Bittensor from a market of claims into a market of verifiable intelligence. That is what Jensen #nvidia is actually betting on. ③ Shapley Value Rewards: restructuring miner compensation around unique contribution to consensus, not consensus-matching. This kills collusion incentives at the protocol level. Structurally. No moderator required. ④ Cross-Subnet Schemas - Bittensor's ERC moment - #Ethereum's equivalent of ERC. 128 isolated subnets is a fragmented network. 128 subnets on shared interoperability standards is a composable intelligence economy. The difference is enormous and buildable right now. None of these require a multisig. None require the Opentensor Foundation. None require Const's approval or Sam's blessing. They require builders who understand the protocol deeply enough to ship them - and a community that demands them loudly enough to make them unavoidable. The $TAO community has been celebrating but we have been too passive on governance. We outsourced the decisions about what this network becomes to a very small number of people and then expressed surprise when informal power concentrated exactly where formal power was absent. Revolutionary technology demands unprecedented governance. We cannot import Web2 power structures onto #Web3 rails, call it decentralization and then act shocked when the gap shows. Build the Bittensor Protocol Infrastructure & Research Lab - a permissionless, replicable innovation hub. I am proposing an International AGI Reasoning Competition targeting the top 0.1% of global reasoning architects, beginning in emerging economies that this network was always supposed to serve. I am working on the synthetic dataset archive that captures miner reasoning as a commercial asset and turns it into a Process Reward Model - making AI safe by design, not by policy. The goal is a self-sustaining model accountable to no single person. Governed by the community. Funded by validator revenue & dataset licensing. This is the Protocol Memory that will outlive all of us - and the conflict that sparked it will be a footnote. I've been quiet for a while but not anymore. If you're a serious builder, researcher, validator or investor who wants to work on this - my DMs are open. Forward! $TAO #Bittensor #DecentralizedAI

@const_reborn $TAO I think this is the key point: if the goal is truly headless subnets that function more like commodities, then the subnet has to be able to survive the founder. That is why lock-based ownership is a good start, but not the full solution. Lockups help with alignment. They show commitment, make unlock risk visible, and reduce founder rug risk. But institutional money will still ask a bigger question: if the founder leaves, is removed, or goes offside, does the subnet still function and does the value stay inside the subnet? That is the difference between a founder-led project and an investable asset. To me, the framework should be simple: the founder can build it and benefit from it, but cannot be the single point of failure; if the founder leaves, the subnet keeps running; core treasury, infrastructure, and governance stay with the subnet itself; conflicted parties do not vote on their own disputes; and emergency powers are narrow, public, and reviewable. That is not anti-crypto. That is what makes a subnet stronger, more decentralized, and more investable. Institutions do not allocate serious capital into structures where the key person can leave and take the value with them. They allocate into systems where the asset survives management. If Bittensor gets that part right, that is when subnets stop looking like speculative founder projects and start looking like durable, underwritable digital commodities. @SubnetSummerTAO @lisacheng @TaoOutsider @TaoPortal

Exploits are what teach a system its weak spots. The quicker you find them the faster you learn. The outcome of this eventful evening is that Bittensor will invent lock-based subnet ownership -- specifically: ownership of a subnet determined by a team's long term economic commitment to the project. This will mean: 1) investors see long in advance if an owner has unlocked their tokens, 2) be able to reprice the subnet before the owner and 3) liquidly direct their own conviction to another team, or agent, to manage the system. Thank you @DistStateAndMe for helping further Bittensor's decentralization and develop a solution to one of cryptos oldest problems: founders who rug their token holders. Looking forward to training some 1T param models with the miners who are experts in this unique field. "What is dead can never die"

@DistStateAndMe I just watched a clip of you from the Beanstalk that hasn’t been released yet. You are such a dirtbag. Karma is coming for you pal…😘

Crypto was meant to stand against tyrants.

@backlash1481 @niftyinvest @DistStateAndMe @covenant_ai You can say that again…

@niftyinvest @DistStateAndMe @covenant_ai Never trust a Nigerian. Let that be a lesson to you all.

Here you go Bittensor 👇 @DistStateAndMe, founder of @covenant_ai, was clearly a fan of Bittensor $TAO …or maybe just looking to make a few million and dip Listen for yourself. Full episode dropping soon.

@elonmusk @Panopticonomy Jesus Christ…get me out of this country! 🤯

Canada is cooked

@ItsDeanBlundell Who the fuck is Dean Blundell??

Dear Michael. Your president is a rapist, felon and a pedophile who has ruined your economy, military, health care, and decimated Americas relationship in the world stage. Maybe you should sit the fuck down and take notes instead of licking MAGA’s balls. Citizens of Canada fucking hate you, pal. It’s over. Seems important.

@hardrocker0048 @genesimmons Timmay, the world is praying you’re sterile. You’re the kind of stupid that shouldn’t be allowed to multiply 🤣

@genesimmons So youre a loser because all you love is money? Wow, no wonder you sold your soul for money and you'll rot away as a band that held on so long that your reputation will be nothing for the rest of human history.

This is a loser’s question. Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk all get up every day and try to make more. No matter how much they’ve got. Get out of your losers’s mentality, and try to win in life, every day.

@0xamericanspiri Do you have a learning disability? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

$TAO is literally reskinned Polkadot. They even copied the fucking animated logo on CoinMarketCap. Same playbook across the board. Do NOT buy this vaporware and be exit liquidity. Get the fuck out while you can, there is no single commercial use-case. Open your fucking eyes.

@KyleSamani @Jason Funny you’re bullish on Solana and not TAO. Regardless, you should have a “debate with @const_reborn Seems he’s more than willing to chat with you.

I'm debating @Jason next week about TAO What is everything I need to know about TAO going into the debate? Give me the good, the bad, and the ugly please!

@const_reborn @chang_defi I guess you don’t raise your pinky finger when you drink tea? 😝

@chang_defi It’s worse Chang, I went to Vancouver Community College, a school of returning nurses, carpenters and dropouts who just wanted to learn things.

@const_reborn @chang_defi Love it!!!!!

@SiamKidd @adtao_ppcrebel Didn’t have a good feeling about this one….something about the owner that left me feeling off. Regardless, I hope it’s a winner!

Very bullish on @adtao_ppcrebel SN21 AdTAO: ppcrebel.com 🧠2 Extremely experienced biz operators. Both set up, run, grown and sold dozens of bizzes combined. And doxxed. 🌍Vast market opportunity and the solution is already able to disintermediate incumbents. 💰 Not a whitepaper, but a revenue generating business doing $40k per month and growing fast. 🔢 Has a vast data set that no other competitor in this industry has. 🤖 More importantly, requires Bittensor miners to continually enhance the predictive capabilities/causal impacts that running an adwords campaign needs. 🤑 Will be supporting price with alpha buybacks. AdTAO is essentially a Hypothesis Optimised PPC Engine. HOPE would have been a cool name :-P If you're a biz owner that does adspend, check it out: ppcrebel.com