On December 11 TGIFT community call (watch below), the Bittensor team (including Const and Shib) shared a set of upgrades aimed at making the network safer and more professional, especially for people who stake TAO. With the halving just days away and new institutional interest coming in, the team focused on strengthening the network, improving…
Note: Full article below was written by Phil. From economics to biology, decentralization combined with competition has repeatedly proven to be the best environment for producing resilient, high-performance systems. This article looks at subnets as an organizational methodology and compares them to traditional hierarchical (boomer) companies. Competition as the Edge Centralized systems with limited competition…
SUMMARY: This video demonstrates how a Bittensor miner debugged and troubleshooted a Flamewire (Built on Subnet 97) node as a complete beginner with no extensive Linux or coding skills, while relying heavily on ChatGPT to generate commands and explain technical issues. The main problem involved discovering that the subtensor archive node was reading from the…
Introduction With Bittensor’s first halving less than four days away, narratives are flying everywhere: Will miners shut down? Will emissions cuts hurt subnets? Will TAO supply shock trigger price volatility? But in the middle of all the noise, Barry Silbert — one of crypto’s most seasoned investors and the founder of Digital Currency Group —…
In every corner of global finance, security teams are fighting a war most people never see. Fraud is expanding and money launderers are becoming more sophisticated. While deepfakes are accelerating the pace of identity theft, regulators have issued more than $300 billion in fines for compliance failures. Against that backdrop, Hash Rate Podcast’s Mark Jeffrey…
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than even experts predicted. As models grow more capable, autonomous, and unpredictable, the question of alignment has become unavoidable. How do we make sure increasingly powerful AI systems behave safely, reliably, and in ways that actually serve society? Ventura Labs podcast (see below) sat down with Nav Kumar, founder of…
SUMMARY: Crypto AI Day 2025 ended with a wrap-up session where attendees shared their biggest takeaways from the Bittensor community event, ranging from excitement about subnet innovations to concerns about short term $TAO sentiment. While many praised the clarity and insight from subnet teams, one participant voiced a grounded concern that real revenue and short…
Contributor: Crypto Pilote I – Halving is coming You’ve probably seen it everywhere: the TAO halving is happening this week. Daily emissions will be cut from 7,200 TAO to 3,600 TAO per day, marking a milestone in the history of the Bittensor ecosystem. At the same time, adoption of TAO continues to accelerate. New subnets…
Artificial intelligence has become the defining technology of our time, yet most people remain shut out from contributing to its creation. Training frontier models typically requires massive data centers, expensive hardware, and tightly controlled environments. Macrocosmos, led by CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Will Squires and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Steffen Cruz, wants to change that….
If you use AI for business, you have a big problem: Trust. When you send a private document to an AI, you have to trust the company running the server. You have to hope they don’t look at it or steal it. A key quote from Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) about privacy in AI:…
