Source? In any case, a fork of Bitcoin with bigger blocks has existed for years and the market doesn't prefer it despite all the big names and companies hyping it up at the time of the split. Satoshi left Bitcoin so…
If all you care about are transaction speeds then use the lightning network. Instant settlement of bitcoin and much lower fees. There are protocols like Cashu [1] that allow you to transact offline anonymously for no…
Transaction fees have been about as low as they can possibly be for months. It costs roughly $0.15 to move a UTXO right now. The people who argued for increasing the block size were making a tradeoff between…
There are methods that make it feasible to train models over the internet. DiLoCo is one [1] and NousResearch has found a way to improve on that using a method they call DisTro [2]. 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08105…
The fentanyl crisis should serve as a warning here. Precursors can be made in labs elsewhere and smuggled in and assembled in a lab of nearly arbitrary quality if a hostile nation state was motivated. Perhaps $20k isn't…
Source? In any case, a fork of Bitcoin with bigger blocks has existed for years and the market doesn't prefer it despite all the big names and companies hyping it up at the time of the split. Satoshi left Bitcoin so…
If all you care about are transaction speeds then use the lightning network. Instant settlement of bitcoin and much lower fees. There are protocols like Cashu [1] that allow you to transact offline anonymously for no…
Transaction fees have been about as low as they can possibly be for months. It costs roughly $0.15 to move a UTXO right now. The people who argued for increasing the block size were making a tradeoff between…
There are methods that make it feasible to train models over the internet. DiLoCo is one [1] and NousResearch has found a way to improve on that using a method they call DisTro [2]. 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08105…
The fentanyl crisis should serve as a warning here. Precursors can be made in labs elsewhere and smuggled in and assembled in a lab of nearly arbitrary quality if a hostile nation state was motivated. Perhaps $20k isn't…