So I asked @ChatGPT @OpenAI ChatGPTX
THIS : ‼️🚨⏰⏰🚨‼️‼️🚨⏰⏰🚨‼️🚨
🤓🙋🏻♀️⁉️ Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 * HOW * this #1BILLIONBOUNTY isn’t complete yet?
1. Ima not a tech expert. So maybe it’s harder than just recreating #GHub but IF : a. Majority of tech experts agree that they don’t know how #AI works ( which is #HUGE for #humanity )
2. #Guthub is #opensource and everything is #code 👩🏻💻 and majority of #Nostr believes in #FOSS
3. Is it a matter of organization?
Greed ? Is this part of the #knot #core debate?
One that #bitcoin-core and all #nostr #devs would trust.
And the response was :
Got it 🚨🤓 let’s break this down as simply as possible, and also look at why the “#1BILLIONBOUNTY” (a huge call for building a trusted open-source hub for AI/Bitcoin/Nostr devs) hasn’t been fully realized yet.
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🧩 1. Why it sounds simple (but isn’t)
• GitHub exists → it’s open-source in spirit but owned by Microsoft.
• Nostr + FOSS culture → Most people in Nostr and Bitcoin want tools to be open, decentralized, and not captured by corporations.
• #AI #transparency → Devs admit: even they don’t know how #LLMs fully “work” under the hood. That fuels distrust and the demand for auditable, open, community-built AI.
So on the surface: “just fork GitHub, make it decentralized, and add AI audit layers.” Easy, right?
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⚙️ 2. Why it’s harder in practice
1. Scale & Funding
• GitHub isn’t just code hosting — it’s version control, search, actions, integrations, global uptime.
• Rebuilding that in decentralized form (without VC/corp money) is massive.
• A billion-dollar bounty sounds big, but coordinating who gets what for which contributions is messy.
2. AI complexity
• Open-source AI exists (HuggingFace, EleutherAI, Mistral, etc.), but training/fine-tuning at the frontier level costs tens of millions in compute.
• Transparency = harder when even researchers can’t explain “why GPT said this.”
3. Human Factors
• Organization: Who coordinates? Who decides rules?
• Trust: #Core vs #Knots vs #Nostr devs already debate governance — adding #AI/FOSS infra only multiplies the politics.
• Greed/Fear: Big corps ( #OpenAI #Anthropic #Google #MS
@Samal 👀
@The BTC Philanthropist noice @Google @Microsoft without sign up @microsolco @Microsoft Design / @MicrosoftDesign (RSS Feed) @npub1njzu...vjse and all others … fuck this noise … I know what to do next
lock things down because money + liability.
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🔗 3. Is this tied to #Core vs #Knots vs #Nostr?
• Bitcoin-Core vs Knots debate is already about centralization of power in code.
• A “#GHub for AI/Bitcoin/Nostr” would face the same trust issue:
• Who runs it?
• Who approves pull requests?
• Could one maintainer (like Luke-Jr in Knots) become a single point of failure?
Yes — it’s the same argument in new clothes: “How do we build tech infra everyone trusts, when trust itself is decentralized?”
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🚨 4. So why no #1BILLIONBOUNTY success yet?
• Not just greed. It’s:
• Governance problem (who runs it).
• Incentive problem (who gets paid).
• Scale problem (infrastructure costs).
• Complexity problem (AI is not as deterministic as Bitcoin code).
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✅ TL;DR:
It’s not that people don’t want it — it’s that building a “trustless GitHub for AI/Bitcoin/Nostr” is like trying to build a new internet layer, not just a website. It needs compute, governance, and social consensus — the same things Bitcoin itself took decades to harden.
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⚡Q for you: Want me to sketch out what a “trusted, decentralized GitHub-for-AI/Bitcoin/Nostr” blueprint could look like (layers: storage, governance, incentives, trust model) — so you can see the path from idea → working prototype?
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