How IOTA is Turning People’s MacBooks Into a Global AI Training Swarm

Artificial intelligence has long been trained in massive data centers, behind closed doors, powered by specialized hardware and deep technical expertise. That model is now being challenged right on Bittensor ecosystem. Train at Home, built by Macrocosmos under its Iota (Subnet 9), has officially been opened to the public. What began as a carefully controlled…

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Crunch Brings 11,000 AI Experts To Mine Bittensor. Here’s an Interview with the Founder

A new wave of “human miners” is quietly entering the Bittensor ecosystem, and it’s coming from a place most crypto-native builders rarely reach: the global machine learning talent pool. In a recent Hash Rate interview (watch below), Jean Herelle, founder of Crunch, explained how his company has built a bridge between high-level data scientists and…

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Anyone Can Join Fun Competitions and Earn as Miner on Apex (SN1)

Subnet 1 (SN1) Apex is part of the Macrocosmos ecosystem, focused on game-theoretic AI and open-ended intelligence. Instead of a single mining task, SN1 runs multiple live competitions where miners compete by submitting algorithms or models. Each competition has its own incentive pool, meaning miners can specialize in different problem areas while emissions are distributed…

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American Bitcoin Orders Bitmain Mining Rigs Amid Trade Tensions

[ad_1] American Bitcoin, a Bitcoin (BTC) mining company backed by members of US President Donald Trump’s family, exercised an option to purchase up to 17,280 application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), hardware for crypto mining, from Bitmain earlier this month. The mining company purchased a fleet of 16,299 Antminer U3S21EXPH units from Bitmain, capable of 14.02 exahashes…

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Qubic Claims 51% Control of Monero in Hashrate Battle

[ad_1] Update (Aug. 12, 2025, at 1:30 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add a Qubic announcement. Layer-1 blockchain Qubic said it has “completed its attempt to dominate the Monero network,” claiming a month-long push culminated Monday with 51% control of Monero’s hashrate. According to a Monday blog post, the “month-long, high-stakes technical…

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