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AI Podcasts

July 29, 2025

Will Squires & Chris Zacharia: Macrocosmos Bittensor Subnet 13, Data Scraping, AI Training | Ep. 54

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Macrocosmos is transforming Subnet 13 from a brute-force data scraper into a sophisticated, revenue-generating marketplace that serves as a foundational utility for the entire Bittensor ecosystem. Their core advice to the ecosystem is to relentlessly pursue real-world market validation over passively collecting protocol emissions.
  2. Data is the New Oil, Subnet 13 is the Rig: With 55 billion rows scraped, Subnet 13 is the de facto data layer for Bittensor, providing the essential fuel for everything from AI model training to real-time sentiment analysis for other subnets.
  3. From Raw Scale to Refined Value: The focus is shifting from merely scraping data to making it accessible. The upcoming "Data Universe" marketplace aims to be a "Bittensor Hugging Face," turning a chaotic data ocean into a library of actionable insights.
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July 28, 2025

Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Polytheism, Not Monotheism.** The future contains many culturally-specific, specialized AIs, not one superintelligence. The "war of the gods" is a more apt metaphor than a single, all-powerful deity.
  2. **Crypto is AI's Anchor to Reality.** As AI generates infinite probabilistic fakes, crypto's deterministic, on-chain data becomes the gold standard for verifiable truth in finance, media, and beyond.
  3. **The Real AI Threat is Physical, Not Persuasive.** Forget rogue chatbots. The immediate danger is autonomous drones, which are already transforming warfare and turning digital firewalls into hard, physical borders.
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July 28, 2025

James Woodman & Joshua Brown: Targon, Manifold Labs, Bittensor Subnet 4, Compute Markets | Ep. 53

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Price Discovery is the Product: Targon's auction mechanism isn't just a feature; it's the core product. By forcing compute providers to bid for their payout, the system creates a hyper-competitive environment that reveals the true, market-driven price of compute, incentivizing efficiency and driving costs down.
  2. The Race for Organic Revenue: The entire model hinges on achieving "escape velocity" where organic revenue from inference clients outpaces the reliance on network emissions. With $52,000 returned to the subnet in just eight days, they are proving the model works, but scaling this revenue is the central challenge.
  3. The Future is Financialized Compute: The end goal extends far beyond simply renting out GPUs. By establishing a liquid spot market, Targon is laying the groundwork to introduce financial derivatives like forward contracts and options, allowing enterprises to hedge against compute price volatility just as they do with other commodities.
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July 26, 2025

Intelligence = Doing More with Less (David Krakauer)

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Redefine Your Metrics. Judge intelligence not by what a system knows, but by its resourcefulness—its ability to solve novel problems with minimal information.
  2. Demand Deeper Proof. Don't accept claims of "emergence" based on performance charts. Look for evidence of a representational phase shift—a simpler, more abstract model of the world forming inside the machine.
  3. Think for Yourself. Resist the powerful urge to outsource your thinking to AI. Actively using your cognitive "muscles" is the only defense against the atrophy that convenience culture promotes.
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July 26, 2025

Bittensor Brief #2: VoidAI Wrapped TAO & Subnet Tokens

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Arbitrage Unlocked: The bridge exposes deeply undervalued Bittensor subnet tokens to the Solana ecosystem, creating a direct pathway to capture the 100x-1000x valuation gap between on-chain and off-chain AI projects.
  2. Incentivized Liquidity: Don’t be deterred by low initial liquidity. VoidAI's Subnet 106 is purpose-built to reward liquidity providers, creating a powerful economic engine designed to bootstrap and sustain deep markets for wrapped Bittensor assets.
  3. AI Meets DeFi: Wrapped TAO and subnet tokens can now be plugged into any Solana DeFi protocol. This opens a new frontier for financial products, allowing users to lend, borrow, and build derivatives on top of assets powered by a decentralized machine intelligence network.
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July 25, 2025

Bittensor Novelty Search :: Subnet 62 Ridges :: Open-Source AI

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Incentives Outpace Centralized R&D.** Ridges proves that a transparent, competitive market can drive faster innovation than a closed-door lab. The "winner-takes-all" model forces rapid, compounding improvements that are immediately absorbed by the entire network.
  2. **Bittensor's Economic Flywheel is Real.** Ridges is a prime example of subnet composability, creating a powerful economic moat. By using other subnets for cheap inference, it builds a product with R&D and operational costs orders of magnitude lower than competitors.
  3. **The Future is Abstracted.** The plan to onboard developers via Google/Plaid logins with a 30% fee is a brilliant Trojan horse. It lowers the barrier to entry for top talent while creating a powerful, built-in incentive for them to dive deeper into the crypto ecosystem to maximize earnings.
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July 23, 2025

The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Mining is a software problem. The biggest gains aren't just in new drilling tech, but in using AI to optimize complex, thousand-variable refining processes and automate construction, slashing project timelines from years to months.
  2. Vertical integration is non-negotiable. Selling point solutions to "calcified" incumbents is a dead end. To capture efficiency gains, a company must own the entire process from mine to metal, internalizing risk and innovation.
  3. Government’s biggest lever is buying. To unlock trillions in private capital for this critical sector, the government must act as a reliable customer, providing offtake agreements and price floors that de-risk projects in a volatile commodity market.
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July 22, 2025

Live Demo & Review of the Newest AI Browsers: Dia vs Comet

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Comet is the agent, Dia is the assistant. Comet acts on your behalf across your digital life (scheduling, buying, emailing), while Dia excels as a hyper-competent assistant for automating complex research and content creation.
  2. The killer app is integration, not just chat. The browser that wins will be the one that most seamlessly orchestrates a user's entire digital ecosystem. Comet’s ability to connect and push tasks to core apps gives it the current edge.
  3. The sleeping giants are waking up. With vast user data and powerful proprietary models, Google and OpenAI’s eventual entry into the agentic browser market will be the next major catalyst, likely redefining the competitive landscape.
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July 21, 2025

Pushing compute to the limits of physics

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hardware is the New Frontier. The scaling race isn't about building more data centers for the same old chips. The next 1000x improvement will come from a fundamental paradigm shift that works with physics, not against it.
  2. Noise is a Feature, Not a Bug. The future of efficient computing lies in harnessing stochasticity. The "noise" we spend billions to suppress in classical chips is the very resource that can power probabilistic AI models with unparalleled efficiency.
  3. Prepare for an Algorithmic Renaissance. The dominance of Transformers is a temporary state dictated by current hardware. As thermodynamic computers become available, developers and researchers should dust off their probabilistic ML textbooks—the algorithms of tomorrow will look very different.
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Crypto Podcasts

March 30, 2025

GameStop Goes Full Saylor: Bitcoin or Bust, Lads?

blocmates.

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Debt-Fueled Gamble:** GameStop's $1.3B Bitcoin buy using convertible bonds is a high-risk bet entirely dependent on BTC price appreciation for success and debt repayment.
  2. **Stock Price Over Operations:** The primary goal seems to be inflating the stock price via Bitcoin exposure, rather than fixing the underlying retail business.
  3. **Saylor Strategy Goes Mainstream:** This move signals the "Saylor Strategy" is spreading, potentially pushing more non-tech companies towards Bitcoin treasury reserves, amplifying both adoption and systemic risk.
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March 30, 2025

Finding Successful Investments

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on Established Networks or Speculate on Potential: Choose Bitcoin/Ethereum for proven network effects or new L1s/L2s/Meme Coins for higher-risk, potential-driven bets.
  2. Community is the First Utility: Strong communities are the initial network effect in web3; projects building utility (games, L2s) on this base signal deepening value.
  3. Meme Coins Evolve: Watch for meme communities launching games or infrastructure (L2s/L3s) as a sign of longevity and network effect expansion.
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March 28, 2025

How to Become a Millionaire Crypto Insider (FREE 5 STEP GUIDE)

Taiki Maeda

Crypto

Key Takeaways:


1. Beware the Playbook: Recognize the cynical cycle of hype, VC validation, token launch, strategic pumping, and insider dumping.


2. Airdrops Aren't Free Lunch: Understand that airdrop campaigns primarily benefit projects via free marketing and liquidity, with insiders potentially gaming the system.


3. Demand Better: The crypto space needs greater transparency and accountability; the current incentive structure rewards manipulative behavior until it becomes unprofitable.

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March 28, 2025

Why MegaETH Trusts Ethereum’s Escape Hatch

The DCo Podcast

Crypto

Key Takeaways:


1. Trust Ethereum, Not Just the Rollup: MegaETH's security model fundamentally relies on users trusting Ethereum's liveness and escape hatch mechanism to guarantee fund safety and eventual transaction correctness, acknowledging its own lack of *real-time* censorship resistance.


2. Focus on Practical Guarantees: The emphasis shifts from the abstract ideal of "decentralization" to concrete properties like liveness and the *ability* to exit (censorship resistance), even if delayed via Ethereum settlement.


3. Modular Security is the Trend: MegaETH exemplifies the modular blockchain thesis where Layer 2 solutions inherit security from a robust base layer (Ethereum), with future developments likely deepening this integration (e.g., base/native rollups).


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March 27, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 102: Lyn Alden - 'Broken Money'

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Technological advancements significantly impact the monetary system, creating both opportunities and risks.
  2. The current dollar system, based on circular logic and continuous expansion, faces systemic fragility.
  3. Bitcoin's ability to offer fast, decentralized settlements represents a potential solution, but scalability and the quantum threat need to be addressed.
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March 26, 2025

The Foundation for Banking’s Next Evolution | Live From DAS

Bell Curve

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. The blockchain market is maturing, with revenue generation becoming a key valuation metric.
  2. User experience and customization are driving the evolution of smart contract platforms.
  3. Web3 banking and open finance are poised for significant growth, driven by evolving regulations and institutional adoption.
  4. Vault (formerly EOS) is positioning itself as a key player in the Web3 banking space,** emphasizing regulatory compliance, predictable transaction costs, and customizability.
  5. Investors should focus on blockchain projects that demonstrate real-world utility and generate revenue.**  Mere speculation and hype are no longer sufficient.
  6. The convergence of factors like Bitcoin scaling solutions, Bitcoin ETFs, and a more favorable regulatory environment is creating an inflection point for Web3 banking and open finance.
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