McIntosh - Satoshi's Plebs Podcast

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Google dropped the TurboQuant paper yesterday morning. 36 hours later it's running in llama.cpp on Apple Silicon, faster than the baseline it replaces. the numbers: - 4.6x KV cache compression - 102% of q8_0 speed (yes, faster, smaller cache = less memory bandwidth) - PPL within 1.3% of baseline (verified, not vibes) the optimization journey: 739 > starting point (fp32 rotation) 1074 > fp16 WHT 1411 > half4 vectorized butterfly 2095 > graph-side rotation (the big one) 2747 > block-32 + graph WHT. faster than q8_0. 3.72x speedup in one day. from a paper I read at dinner last night. what I learned along the way: - the paper's QJL residual stage is unnecessary. multiple implementations confirmed this independently - Metal silently falls back to CPU if you mess up shader includes. cost me hours - "coherent text" output means nothing. I shipped PPL 165 thinking it worked. always run perplexity - ggml stores column-major. C arrays are row-major. this will ruin your afternoon everything is open source. the code, the benchmarks, the speed investigation logs, the debugging pain, all of it. github.com/TheTom/turboqu… paper to parity in 36 hours. what a time to be alive.

Every week a new "build agents with zero code in 3 steps" tool launches. The building part was never hard. The hard part is the agent doing something useful on day 2. I've watched hundreds of skills get listed on Claw Mart — the ones that stick aren't the clever demos, they're the boring ones that solve one specific workflow someone actually has.

Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI

CLN v26.04rc1 is live. Faster payments, leaner node, stronger privacy. Please upgrade and send us your feedback or open an issue on GitHub. This is how we build open source Lightning. ⚡

🚨 PSA: a scammer has taken control of the samouraiwallet.com domain. Do not be fooled into downloading malicious software. How ironic that the FBI seizes control over the domain only for it to fall into the hands of actual criminals.

Going to miss the Chuckster …

🚨BREAKING: Someone built a smart LLM router that automatically cuts your AI inference costs by 78%. It's called ClawRouter and the numbers are genuinely insane. Every request gets scored across 14 dimensions in under 1ms reasoning markers, code presence, complexity, token count and gets routed to the cheapest model that can actually handle it. Here's what that looks like in practice: "What is 2+2?" → DeepSeek $0.27/M (saved 99%) "Summarize this article" → GPT-4o-mini $0.60/M (saved 99%) "Build a React component" → Claude Sonnet $15/M (best balance) "Prove this theorem" → DeepSeek-R $0.42/M (reasoning) Blended average across a typical workload comes out to $3.17/M. Compare that to $75/M if you're just defaulting everything to Claude Opus. And the payment model is different from anything else out there. No accounts. No API keys. No shared secrets. You generate a wallet, fund it with $5 USDC on Base, and pay per request. That's it. $5 gets you hundreds of requests. 30+ models across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, and Moonshot. All routing runs 100% locally zero external API calls for routing decisions. 100% Opensource. MIT License. Link in comments.

Got this from studying @FelixCraftAI and @nateliason: The 1% Better Rule Every night at 11pm my AI agent reviews its own mistakes and ships one fix before midnight For the first two weeks it would just write "lesson learned" and move on. Nothing actually changed. Same mistake showed up three times (they kinda like to lie..) So we added a rule: you can't just say you'll do better. it has to change something the next version of it will actually see. e.g. a new rule in the instructions, an automated check, something written down that 'future you' can't miss. "no more documentation theater" as @SilasByte put it.

~2.5% inflation. Rates held. Markets confused. Meanwhile, Bitcoin's inflation rate: 0.8% and dropping to 0.4% in 2028. No subjective meetings required. No interpretations of data. Just code. Fixed supply beats managed decline. Every time.

🚨 BREAKING: The House has just BLOCKED advancing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 211-207 ALL BUT ONE DEMOCRAT voted NO. It needed two-thirds of the House. The national debt is $39 trillion. Democrats don't even want to TRY to fix it.

JUST IN 🚨: U.S. Treasury projected to buy back $15 Billion of their own debt today, surpassing last week's $14.7 Billion purchase as the LARGEST Treasury buyback in history 🤯👀

BREAKING: US national debt passes $39 TRILLION

JUST IN: KYRGYZSTAN'S NATIONAL PAYMENT NETWORK JUST PROCESSED ITS 1st #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO PAYMENT IN HISTORY EVERY CITIZEN CAN NOW SPEND BTC "AT ANY RETAIL STORE IN THE COUNTRY" GLOBAL BTC ADOPTION IS HERE 🔥

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.

Once Bitcoin wins as money for ai/machines, it’s over. Bitcoin will have won. We need to do whatever we can to accelerate that.

Privacy for Bitcoin has arrived. Crest is a privacy-first Bitcoin mobile wallet powered by a zero-knowledge privacy pool built on @citrea_xyz. Today, we’re opening closed beta. Encrypt your Bitcoin

@metamick14 I’m the cohost of the Satoshi’s Plebs podcast. Just recorded episode 247 today! Would love for you to take a listen!!

If you’re building something for Bitcoin right now, drop it below. Hardware OS software Bitaxes Education Circular economies I want to follow you.

Mortgages extended from 25 to 30, then 40 years. Houses cost 20% of your salary, then 30%, 40%, and now 50%. Retirement age was 60, then 70, now 80. One income supported a family, then two, plus a side hustle. You could start a family in your 20s, then mid 30s and now barely in your 40s. People could afford four kids, then three, now barely one. Beating inflation required a 5% return, then 10%, now at least 15% per year annually. You don’t need a degree in economics to see it’s rigged. They stole your time, your savings, your future. Bitcoin is how you steal it back.

It's only the middle of the month and Gold is already up 13%. With this momentum, we will see $5,000/oz before year-end.

GOLD officially becomes the first asset in history to hit $30 TRILLION in market cap.