I had a call today with a long time friend in “Crypto” who stopped building DeFi stuff last year and started building on the cutting edge of AI / LLM stuff. (He was the very first person to build a liquid staking ethereum product in 2020 before Lido.) He’s pivoted away from “crypto” because of the regulatory crackdown he doesn’t want his new project to be tainted.

GitHub

GitHub - genlayerlabs/yeagerai-agent

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It’s an interesting concept of AI agents, his description attached in the photo. He wants to integrate AI to AI payments via AI agents that can handle payments and communications for users and businesses integrating with his tech. He is being pitched by the web3 shitcoin VCs to integrate with solana, stablecoins, etc blockchain tech. I convinced him that ⚡️ + Nostr is the ethical choice, and the only scalable solution for AI micropayments. Now I need to tag in some big guns here. Who is working on the bleeding edge of LN for this type of use case? Would I be referring him to an LSP? Need to get him talking to our best emissaries.

This is a great article describing all of the things Blockstream has contributed in the past, as well as what they're working on now.

Bitcoin Magazine

Blockstream Formalizes Research Team Dedicated To Bitcoin Innovation

The team will continue with projects designed to push the boundaries of what’s possible with Bitcoin.

I wrote a Nostr post with Damus, it got pretty long. I tagged like 20 people in the post. App crashed when I hit post. Thankfully I copied it to clipboard. Pasted it back in, but all the tags are broken it won't let me add any tags. What gives?

There's a real problem that LLMs trained on propaganda repeat the propaganda as fact and defend their conclusions vigorously. I spent 45 min arguing with a Bitcoin chat bot about whether or not Bitcoin was part of web3. There's been so much propaganda written about web3 that the AI thinks it's real. Danny (formerly responsible for getting lightning on Cash App) has a Bitcoin chatgpt bot running over SMS, you can text it at +1 (507) 618-6814 Grant from Ten31 has ChatBTC.dev that you can play around with. I think we need to write a lot more content on why Bitcoin is not part of web3, and why web3 is just a fad.

If you’re a startup raising a friends & family round, what’s the most you should take from individual friends and family as a % of equity.

Did Saylor actually book all of Universal Studios for a bitcoin conference?

I want the piece I wrote on the banking crisis to be read by people. Apparently it's too long and detailed for the Western Standard newspaper in Canada (who I wrote it for). Releasing it on my own blog or Nostr seems anticlimactic. I want it on a real news site. should I try to get it on zerohedge or Forbes or something like that?