LiveFree₿TC | Mentor @thebtcmentor | Advocate for Bitcoin adoption in NH | Visit my free learning tool 👇
New Hampshire, USA
Joined September 2016
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Outsourcing your thinking and work to an AI and saying it is as addictive as video games is not a flex...
Controversial opinion:
AI is overhyped.
AI is addictive.
AI is making you average in watever you use it for.
Do not offload creative work to it, it robs you of any and all meaning you will derive from the process.
AI is not good for you; You should stop using it for 90%+ of what you are currently using it for and actually learn the skill instead.
Edward retweeted
I think I just found my new favorite VPN. 👀
I set up @obscuravpn, paid with Bitcoin over Lightning, and explored how its two-party design uses @mullvadnet exit nodes to separate who you are from what you do online.
Watch: youtu.be/qjemXQgBJLw
🤖 Made with AI
LLMs, by nature, always want to provide output (from your input) in a way that makes you want to give more input and query it again.
This is the acceleration of echo chambers.
Brave new world
you can just hallucinate the entire internet with Qwen 3.8 27b running at 2,000 tokens/second?
part 2 of turning @cerebras + @Alibaba_Qwen 3.8 27B into an OS:
built an offline browser with zero network calls and mounted it directly the JIT ubuntu desktop.
no wifi. no scraping. zero packets sent to external CDNs.
you search a site, set a year, and qwen 27b at 1,950 tok/s synthesizes the entire DOM on the fly.
here is youtube in 2045 vs 1999:
→ search google for youtube inside the OS
→ scrub to 2045: instant futuristic feed
→ scrub to 1999: raw web 1.0 time capsule in seconds
at this speed, browsing isn't retrieving files from a server, it's querying an alternate reality.
a 2D browser window is just step zero.
imagine full operating systems, virtual worlds, and complex simulation engines existing purely as model weights. zero gigabytes stored on disk, just pure interactive reality streamed on demand.
What else becomes a possibility with the qwen 3.8 27b (dense) at 2000 tokens/sec?
Edward retweeted
Don’t look at this and think “yay! The individual has the power still”
Let’s not be confused about this. That gold bar is a fucking problem for every powerful institution on earth.
You think they want a bunch of fuck ass retard nerds to be able to control the global monetary supply? lol
To them you’re just some lucky idiot who’s in their way and they will do anything in their power to separate you from your coins including torture and murder.
The game we are playing is deadly serious.
Bitcoin is a weapon.
All weapons belong to the state/military and this is a weapon they don’t yet own.
When you put yourself on the same level as the sovereigns through technological equality, you play the game at their level.
Actual anarchy.
Where violence is the only authority.
This is straight up hunger games shit and we’ve all been too fucking cute about it all these years.
That said they probably just want to buy your coins off you and most will sell, but those with very large stacks (thousands) who don’t want to play ball? Watch what happens to them over the years.
It will not be pretty.
When you play the game of coins you win or you die.
Edward retweeted
Your Bitcoin security starts with randomness.
But how random is random enough?
@BTCsessions and @theBTCmentor join Plan ₿ Forum 2026 for the masterclass:
WTF Is Entropy and How Do You Get It?
A practical session on what entropy actually is, why it matters when generating Bitcoin keys, and how to make sure the randomness protecting your Bitcoin is actually… random.
Because when your Bitcoin depends on a secret, you probably don’t want that secret to be predictable.
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📅 October 23–24, 2026
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Edward retweeted
Do not prove the efficiency of replacing silicon with brains
You will not like where it leads to
FRUIT FLY BRAIN MINES BITCOIN AT POTENTIAL 10X ASIC EFFICIENCY
Introducing HashFly by @FutureBit, an experimental Bitcoin miner based on a reconstructed fruit fly brain using 2,914 real neuron connections to run SHA-256.
The team says that if the system could be scaled using actual organic neurons, it could theoretically hash at roughly 1 W/TH, around 10x more energy efficient than leading 3nm silicon ASICs.
For now, it’s an experiment. But biologically inspired Bitcoin mining is officially a thing.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The claims describe a humorous meme visualization of simulated fruit fly connectome data deciding minimal SHA-256 attempts, not a real experimental miner or product by FutureBit.
shop.futurebit.io
research.google/blog/a-connect…
theflyminer.xyz
x.com/FutureBit/stat…
Edward retweeted
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0.
The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations, stronger sandboxing, native macOS app, vulnerability checks, advisory database, end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs to Tier 3.
brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-…
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
Edward retweeted
This is a completely unserious industry, and the entire reaction to the Liquid hack is just a definitive demonstration of it.
This is an important conversation.
Appreciate and respect @PeterMcCormack for his honesty here about how we should be the change we want to see in the world (regarding our use of social media and algorithms)
I sat down with the wonderful @johannhari101 to discuss how we're building a world which isn't for humans.
We also discuss how digital algorithms stole human attention and dismantling the "rage machine" (eek).
He really is a wonderful human.
Full show below 👇
Edward retweeted
Omarchy now has the coolest website I've ever seen. Truly incredible work by the Omarchy website design team lead by @BarisGirismen. This is what computers can look (and sound) like! omarchy.org
Edward retweeted
Liquid got got?
Liquid Pegout tx 4000/4200 BTC
8db751a650ae2f12006b7e8c69a75e4df360e8afd6b9e05ae0b9fa6458a7b140
Hacker message: "we are whitehats. contact us on chain"
c103de95817b43f2df635ec6f35ff126ca26a7c6d20570c4b01866b2b3e69a19
Edward retweeted
Not even worth dumping this shitcoin. The lack of replay protection means if you don't know what you're doing, you may risk your real Bitcoin worth 900x the price to snag yourself a measly $82. Imma sit this one out and leave those sats on the table.
BLAKE2B “BITCOIN” TRADES FOR $82 AS BTC HOLDS NEAR $77,000
The BLAKE2b fork is seeing trades around $82 per coin on the Neoxa Exchange, roughly 900x below the price of BTC.
The market is also extremely illiquid, with the highest bid at $82 and lowest ask at $190, creating a massive 131.7% spread.
Sell orders extend as high as $389, highlighting the thin liquidity and potential for extreme price swings from relatively small trades.
Edward retweeted
I remember as a PC guy how I bought my first Apple device, a MacBook Pro, in 2013
I bought it because that's what my brother had (a pro VFX guy) and also a lot of people in startups around then switched to MacBooks
Back then Windows had become such a POS to use
I'm starting to feel we're reaching a similar moment with Apple
I just saw @dhh's Omarchy's foundation announcement and this video by @theo is also accurate
Apple has given a consistent big F U to developers for over a decade, but at least their software worked well enough. The last few years that changed and you start seeing really dumb and messy bugs everywhere especially in iOS but also MacOS
As an example every time I open my camera from my iPhone's homescreen to quickly picture somethig that quickly happened (like a plane flying by slow) I miss it because my Camera app goes into a weird blur freeze or just stays black
Just basic software things Apple can't even do anymore
A big reason for this of course, may I say it, is Steve not being there. Steve was obsessed about details. Modern Apple doesn't care about details at all
Developers are just a tiny sliver of society but they are trend setting and if you lose them, there's a good chance the rest of people will move on to other platforms too
Apple should be studying what's happening now because add this to also investing $0 into AI (which people call a "great move" as models go open, I'm really not sure about that) they might not have a moat left
I know for sure if I switch from a MacBook Pro running MacOS to a Dell XPS with Linux that will be a gateway drug for me to also move my iPhone with iOS to some great hardware phone running a great custom minimal Android install
And I never even considered switching before this year!
