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Is Bitcoin "Tokenized Compute"? Jason Lowery's AI Argument, Checked

Jason Lowery, the MIT researcher behind Softwar, posted that Bitcoin is "tokenized compute" and that AI will need BTC to afford its own actions. Some links in that chain hold and some strain. Here is what his thesis actually says, what the numbers on AI payments look like today, and where I think th

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One Watt a Terahash, and the Math It Skips

A real mining-hardware company tweeted this week that it built a Bitcoin miner out of a fruit fly's brain, claiming ten times the efficiency of the best silicon ASIC on the market. The neuron map behind it is genuinely new science, released this month. The miner is one tweet, no paper, no repository

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