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@WhiteHouse The Epstein Arch 🔜👍🤡

“I am pleased to announce that TODAY my Administration officially filed the presentation and plans to the highly respected Commission of Fine Arts for what will be the GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL Triumphal Arch, anywhere in the World. This will be a wonderful addition to the Washington D.C. area for all Americans to enjoy for many decades to come!” - President DONALD J. TRUMP

@ProfFahdKhan @chamath That’s a lot of text you need to protect your investment…

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

@leenders_geert Dat opdelen van de wereld in “links versus rechts” vertrekt van een ongelofelijk zwart-wit, dom simplisme. You should know better…

Europa wordt geregeerd door overwegend rechtse en radicaal rechtse regeringen die één ding gemeen hebben: "Nooit Trump en Netanyahu helder zeggen waar het op staat". Eén Europees land durft dat wel, nl. het linkse Spanje van Pedro Sánchez. ¡No es nuestra guerra! Duidelijk!

@BankQuote Very informative post 👌

Bittensor just had its decentralization theater moment, and TAO paid for it immediately. Covenant AI, the team behind SN3, SN81, SN39, and the Covenant-72B model Jensen Huang was praising just two weeks ago, has now publicly walked away. Sam Dare went public and accused Jacob Steeves of running Bittensor through a small power center, suspending subnet emissions, stripping moderation rights from teams inside their own channels, deprecating live subnets, and unloading tokens into the middle of the dispute. On the way out, he sold his full 37,000 TAO position. That is not some random account posting through emotion. That is one of the largest subnet operators on the network telling the market, in plain language, that the governance story and the actual power structure are not the same thing. And the market understood it instantly. TAO went from roughly $340 to $263 in a matter of hours. Volume exploded. Open interest got hit across OKX, Gate, Bitget, and Hyperliquid. This was not just a red candle. This was a live repricing of governance risk. The "Bitcoin of AI" narrative spent March running on decentralization optics, Grayscale headlines, and reflexive momentum. Then one public rupture exposed the part nobody wanted to examine too closely: if one man can effectively decide which subnets continue to matter, then the system is not trustless. It is discretionary. That is the real issue here. You cannot build permissionless agent infrastructure on top of a power structure that remains socially centralized when it matters most. If emissions can be turned off, if subnets can be deprecated through unilateral force, if disagreement has no neutral process and only political consequences, then this is not decentralized coordination. It is a company structure wearing open-network branding and using a token as camouflage. Covenant did not just leave over a dispute. They left because the dispute itself appears to have revealed there was no credible process inside the system for disagreement to exist without punishment. That is a fatal distinction. Decentralization is not tested when everyone is aligned. It is tested when incentives break, when power is challenged, when conflict becomes expensive. That is when architecture stops being theory and starts becoming truth. Meanwhile Kaspa is sitting here with the opposite design philosophy. No foundation. No premine. No triumvirate. No emissions committee. No subnet class that can be politically deprecated. No founder sitting above the machine with an informal kill switch. Just proof of work, open competition, and consensus rooted in physics rather than personalities. GHOSTDAG already changed the scaling conversation. The May 5 hardfork is approaching. DAGKnight is in the pipeline. vProgs and zk-based execution research are moving forward. Whether people like it or not, that is what a real base layer looks like: not a governance brand, but a system that minimizes the amount of human discretion that can corrupt it. That is why this TAO episode matters beyond price. It is a reminder that "decentralized AI" is not a slogan. It is an architectural burden. Most projects cannot carry it. The second the chain of command becomes more important than the chain itself, the story collapses. The Bitcoin of AI was supposed to remove trust. Instead, it appears to have concentrated it. And once the market saw that, it priced the difference in real time.

@nordin_eth A co-founder nonetheless… 🥴

interesting how folks short $TAO as soon as a subnet rugs you guys do understand subnets are individual projects/companies right? shorting TAO over it is like shorting ETH because a random dapp got hacked smh

@cryptomatt1983 Just stick with $KAS and you’ll avoid a lot of troubles….

$TAO will prevail as the number 1 AI project.

@pumpolinsky I should be very careful with unfair launched coins that are built on AI hype….

$TAO continues to dump. Are you buying or waiting for it to go lower?

@elonmusk Is this administration of thiefs and broken promises a better alternative? I think not 🤔

True

@MapleBitcoin @realvijayk That measuring stick is actually a self-fulfilling prophecy. One day that fairy dust will settle…

@realvijayk No it went down. Doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin is the measuring stick. Measure every alt coin since their inception against Bitcoin. Measure the real estate market over the 17 years against Bitcoin. $TAO will be no different. Which is what I said in the first comment.

Holy moly what happened to $TAO?

@JimHansonDC @JohnCleese America First 🔜 America Alone

@JohnCleese You should leave geopolitics to those better equipped. Trump is many things, but a Russian agent is the not one of them. That was sadly popularized by a disgraced MI6 agent. Hate Trump if you want, but hate him for being America First not some false smear.

I think that the US withdrawing from NATO is a good idea while the US is governed by a Russian agent Later, when the US is run again by a government not beholden to Russia, they may want to rejoin NATO and at that point I'm sure they will be welcome

@BoLoudon The poor basterd …. 😂

President Trump has been President of the United States for over 6 years so far and has been paid a grand total of $0.00... The fact every American doesn't know this shows how corrupt the mainstream media is. God bless Trump. He didn't have to do this.

@elonmusk I think a person like POTUS baked a lot more pies and ate them himself….

Exactly

@joshuabecket @fandompulse Which is a scientific fact….

@fandompulse That’s funny cuz his protagonist says ‘climate change is real’ in PHM

Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books: "I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that." "I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that." "To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff." Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?

@Srodland Funny how obsessed you are with $KAS.

🚨 $Kas has failed to deliver. For years it has pushed the same story of unmatched speed and blockDAG innovation while producing almost nothing that matters in practice. The network still runs mostly empty blocks. There are no major applications or ecosystems built on it. Programmability upgrades keep getting delayed with the latest hardfork now pushed into June 2026. Serious developers stay away because the chain offers little beyond raw throughput and endless speculation. The project feels stuck in marketing mode with limited real execution. $Qubic operates on a different level. Miners generate actual revenue from $Doge coin blocks right now and that revenue funds direct buybacks of $Qubic which tightens supply and rewards participants. The same infrastructure runs useful AI computations instead of wasting power on meaningless hashes. Programs and smart contracts already function on the live network. Development moves fast with consistent upgrades that add tangible value. In revenue generation in useful work in transaction utility and in creating real economic incentives $Qubic outperforms $Kas on every front that counts. $Kas had its moment but that moment has passed. The project drifts toward irrelevance while $Qubic builds clear advantages every single month. Serious capital should move where the progress actually exists. #Kas #Qubic #Crypto #DogeMeetsQubic

@BTCBreadMan So you as a BTC investor is actually worried about ultra-short PA? LMAO 🤣

10 Day Update: #Bitcoin +0.5% $KAS -12.5% What have I done?

@Srodland What drugs are you on, seriously? 😂

$Kas chart: This isn’t the chart of a mature, steadily growing asset. It’s the chart of a speculative mania that delivered generational returns to the earliest buyers and heavy losses to everyone who chased the top. The current price still being 1,600x the 2023 low is impressive on paper - but the 85%+ drawdown from ATH and the ongoing downtrend tell the more important story: once the hype fades, these coins can stay depressed for a long time. Insane upside potential, equally insane downside risk, and a chart that looks a lot prettier in the rear-view mirror than it did in real time. $Qubic chart: depicts a project that got overheated, got punished like almost every altcoin, hit a probable bottom, and is now quietly rebuilding with real tech progress. For believers in decentralized AI and useful Proof-of-Work, this looks like an early-stage opportunity rather than a dead project. The biggest winners often come from those who weathered the ugliest parts of the chart.

@leenders_geert Kiesvee, wat een theatraliteit weeral 😂

NVA is tegen energiesteun. Logisch. Een groot deel van haar kiesvee rijdt met een bedrijfswagen en heeft een gratis tankkaart.

@Srodland If you want to see a complete collapse, take a look at the $Qubic chart. 😂😂😂

Kaspa is heading for complete collapse. Its computing power keeps dropping fast because miners are turning off their machines. They earn too little to cover electricity and costs. With so little power left anyone could seize control rewrite records or stop the network entirely. Trust will disappear overnight. Users and investors will flee and the coin will become worthless. Kaspa is hyper inflationary. It floods the market with new coins every month. Miners have no reason to come back. The project ignored the need for steady long term security and now it pays the price. In sharp contrast $Qubic shows what real strength looks like. It runs on bulletproof useful proof of work. Miners train artificial intelligence while they secure the network. It can merge mine $doge and $xmr, and properly incentivize miners yet it stays deflationary 🤯 This is why $Kas will fail while $Qubic rises. #Kas #Qubic #KaspaCollapse #CryptoReality #qubicmeetsdoge

@SonsOfLib1776 @JohnCleese You can’t even arrest your own president for abusing young girls on the E-island

@JohnCleese You only say Trump is helping Russia because you know it's BS. If Trump were really with Russia, Europe would collapse under its own current stupidity. You guys can't even arrest rapists who happen to be Muslims out of wokeness.

Please, please...leave NATO It doesn't work at the moment because the strongest military member is helping Russia NATO was formed to confront Russia, remember ? But once Putin got kompromat on Trump. America changed sides So now NATO doesn't work because its strongest military member is working for the enemy Good bye. Please

@jimmcerlean2025 @JohnCleese Dream on

@JohnCleese Do you speak russian ? Of course all of you private school brits do . Well without the US you will be speaking russian within a year