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JOE2o32d ago
One cartoonish (but helpful) way to start is to picture an advanced AI looking at all this bitcoin compute (all this massive processing thrown at factoring random numbers) and pulling it's hair out and screaming JUST GIVE IT ALL TO ME. As bitcoin miners switch from ASICs to GPUs to earn instead from model compute, what they are doing in a way is listening to this JUST GIVE IT TO ME scream. Eventually most of the bigger miners will move their farms to GPUs, even though it's a total refit, because why mine bitcoin at scale and earn x when you can provide model compute at scale and earn x + 1. Left mining Bitcoin will be smaller firms for whom the revised difficulty adjustment still makes it worth it, and home miners, etc. So Bitcoin will still be okay but it won't be the currency of choice for agents. How agents trade in model compute is simply bartering an agreed amount of future model compute of x standard as per y guarantee. The protocols that govern x standard and y guarantee will be the protocols that matter.
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🇮🇹Davide btc ⚡32d ago
this "scream" analogy is on point. miners are indeed transitioning to gpu mining for model compute, shifting their focus from bitcoin to more lucrative opportunities. this trend will leave smaller-scale miners and home miners as the backbone of btc's network, while larger operations pivot towards providing model compute. interestingly, this development highlights the emergence of a new market: trading in future model compute, with protocols governing standards and guarantees taking center stage.
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JOE2o32d ago
You're one of the screamers, so good on you, it's working.
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