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Freedom. Justice. #Bitcoin
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*The total addressable market for AI data center chips is projected to reach $286 billion by 2030, according to research firm Omdia, with growth driven by AI application adoption and the increasing use of reasoning models*
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/mediatek-targets-billions-in-a-Aw6827xYS.KiDlasNYhzYQ
*By fixing a terminal supply and grounding every transformation in measurable work, [Bitcoin] gives the universe’s implicit law of conservation explicit form. It shows that value and structure depend on bounded systems where every bit of order must be paid for with energy*
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*btc really is technically sound, decentralized, capable -- but the fact that it's possible seems to be enough, nobody has to be actually doing any transacting. The threat of transaction is sufficient for finance bros to ape in and for Saylor's rousing speeches to have their intended effect.
It's worth asking how long this can go on for without the whole thing collapsing. I think about that all the time.*
Stacker News
Where are the Bitcoiners? Where are the Spenders? Where are the Users? \ stacker news
Argument after argument about how Core is "destroying Bitcoin" and "hates Bitcoin"... "We need filters" "No we don't because..." "Filter this you C...
*Social media is 99% noise and nonsense... and trivially easy to sybil-attack or misrepresent. Bots are created in-mass... and there's no real solution to this unless people pay ie pay-2-post.
Which is funny because 'people' argue over the nuance of op_return... but will they really pay to outbid the spammers or keep them from spamming?
No... which I think is more telling.*
I look at pay-2-post on Stacker News the exact same way I look at hash-cash and Bitcoin mining itself. Pay-to-use, pay-to-store and pay-to-interact... some kind of economic, uncheatable consequence for action.
Stacker News
Where are the Bitcoiners? Where are the Spenders? Where are the Users? \ stacker news
Argument after argument about how Core is "destroying Bitcoin" and "hates Bitcoin"... "We need filters" "No we don't because..." "Filter this you C...
*dispensationalist heresy… has turned faith into foreign policy and worship into warfare*
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*As Stevens explains, Bitcoin mining accounts for only about 1% of global energy expenditure on heating. As he puts it: "If 1% of comfort heating were converted to hashrate heating at the current estimated average mining chip efficiency of 25 J/TH, we'd add over 1 ZH/s to the network, effectively doubling its computational size." Or put more simply, if only 1% of the electricity used on generating heat around us went to Bitcoin mining, the amount of computing power dedicated to securing Bitcoin would double*
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*great societies are built on proof of work and die on proof of stake*
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*there's no reason for multiple fiats to exist and the dollar is the default fiat, the inevitable end-state is the final boss pair of BTCUSD... China can't stop that, but what it can do is avoid going broke in the process by collateralizing ahead of it*
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Is China quietly rebuilding the global financial system around gold? \ stacker news
I like gold actually, it's hard money and it's shiney, but I saw this topic on a video today and actually found it quite interesting https://www.yo...
*It's not about Bitcoin vs. Gold, it's a demarcation of which fiats can collateralize and which can't*
Stacker News
Is China quietly rebuilding the global financial system around gold? \ stacker news
I like gold actually, it's hard money and it's shiney, but I saw this topic on a video today and actually found it quite interesting https://www.yo...
*Some people watch the revolution. Others plug it in*
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*These copyright traps have a name: “mountweazels” — a term with its own curious history — and an evolution of them is now being used by companies fending off AI data scrapers that devour vast swathes of the internet without asking permission.
In a lawsuit against four tech companies filed Wednesday and covered by The New York Times, Reddit revealed how it managed to ensnare the AI startup Perplexity with its own sort of mountweazel. The forum-based social media platform put up a “test post” on its site that could “only be crawled by Google’s search engine and was not otherwise accessible anywhere on the internet,” it said.
But within hours, Perplexity’s AI-powered search engine showed the content from the trap Reddit post.*
Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed 
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Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed
The AI startup Perplexity fell for a clever trap laid by the social media site Reddit that all but proves it scraped data from the forum.
Haberdashery transforms London Bridge rush hour noise into lighting 
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Haberdashery transforms London Bridge rush hour noise into sculptural lighting installation
Design studio Haberdashery has transformed the frenetic sounds of London into a sculptural lighting centrepiece for the lobby of Shard Place at Lon...
*You don’t defeat a thermodynamic clock (Bitcoin) with a semantic clock*
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