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Navigating the world of groceries and restaurants while avoiding sugar, dairy, and carbs is super hard. The system is designed to keep us fat, sluggish, and unable to think. Down 12 lbs in a week. On my way to 20 lbs down.

Bittensor Subnets: The Creation and Dissolution of the Decentralized Future of Machine Learning. The launch of the Bittensor network has changed how we build, test, and distribute machine intelligence, moving from centralized AI to a performance rewarded marketplace. At the foundation of the $TAO ecosystem are subnets, which are self contained AI systems that produce specific digital commodities, like text generation, image generation, data storage, etc. Subnets are not just dapps on the Bittensor blockchain, they drive value creation, operating in direct competition where participants are rewarded in the $TAO token for providing verifiable utility. The Conceptual Framework of Bittensor Subnets Bittensor is an open source protocol that houses a decentralized machine learning ecosystem, allow the peer to peer exchange of intelligence and predictions. To understand subnets, you have to look at it as a digital intelligence marketplace. Bitcoin introduced a decentralized currency and Ethereum introduced decentralized smart contracts, but Bittensor introduces decentralized markets for digital commodities. These markets are organized into individual subnets, each specializing in a specific task and governed by its own incentive mechanism. The Functional Personas of the Subnet Ecosystem The stabilty and productivity of a subnet depends on four roles. Subnet Creator: The creator designs and manages the incentive mechanism and receives a portion of the subnet's emissions ($TAO distribution). Miner The miner roduces digital commodities through computational work, such as training models, and earns rewards based on the performance of its output. Validator The validators evaluate miners quality and weights it based on performance. They receive dividends based on a consensus with other validators or recieve a penalty if they are too far outlying from the average. Staker Stakers are regular users. They stake their $TAO to subnets they want to support or see potential in, and receive a share of validator rewards based on each subnets APY percentage, which can fluctuate. The combination of these roles creates a competitive environment where miners are under constant pressure to optimize their models, and validators are incentivized to remain honest and accurate to maximize their consensus based rewards. This structure mirrors natural selection, as underperforming models or dishonest actors are gradually phased out by the system's economic feedback loops i.e. clipping of outliers. Architectural Layers and the Role of Subtensor The Bittensor network operates across two layers. The Subtensor blockchain and, The subnet layer. Subtensor acts as the system of record for the network, using the TAO token to incentivize participation. While the heavy computational work occurs off chain within the subnets, Subtensor performs several functions. Task Coordination: It logs the summaries of activities across subnets, to ensure transparency in contributions. Reward Distribution: Through the Yuma Consensus algorithm, Subtensor calculates and distributes TAO rewards to all participants based on the weights submitted by validators. Smart Contract Execution: Recent updates have introduced Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility, allowing for complex dapps such as liquid staking, lending, and borrowing to exist on the Subtensor layer. If Bittensor is viewed as a global, decentralized brain, the subnets represent specialized lobes or regions, each dedicated to a unique cognitive or computational task. This modularity prevents the mixing of incomparable tasks. For instance, a model doing image recognition is not evaluated against the same criteria as a model doing financial market prediction. This separation ensures that evaluations are task appropriate and that the network can adapt to new technological use cases without disrupting the entire protocol. Yuma Consensus: The Engine of Subjective Agreement The defining innovation of Bittensor is the Yuma Consensus mechanism or Proof of Intelligence. In traditional blockchain networks, consensus is reached on the validity of transactions such as double spending prevention. In Bittensor, consensus is reached on the utility and quality of machine intelligence, hence Proof of Intelligence. The Economic Model: Dynamic TAO and the Alpha System The original distribution of emissions was determined by the Root Network (Subnet 0), which consisted of the 64 largest validators. Which you can still stake into and recieve a safe APY. However, the introduction of Dynamic TAO OR dTAO in February 2025 transitioned distribution to a market driven approach. Subnet-Specific Alpha Tokens and AMMs In dTAO, each subnet operates as its own Automated Market Maker. Each subnet has its own dynamic currency, referred to as an Alpha token. Reserve Pools: Subnets maintain a TAO reserve representing the total stake and an Alpha reserve representing the subnet's own supply similar to a liquidity pool. Price Discovery: The exchange rate between TAO and a subnet's Alpha token is determined by the ratio of the reserves, $TAO reserves vs Alpha Reserves. Staking as Voting: When a holder stakes TAO into a subnet, they are purchasing Alpha tokens and adding TAO to that subnet's liquidity pool. This serves as a vote for the subnet's value, signaling to the network that the subnet's commodity is in demand, the higher the demand, the more the rewards in APY are diluted. The novel thing about staking on subnets is there's no minimum lock time or unstaking period. You can stake and unstake at will. Flow-Based Emissions and the Virtuous Loop The share of global TAO emissions that a subnet receives is now determined by net TAO flows, the difference between the amount of TAO staked and unstaked in that subnet. Inflow vs outflows. Subnets that attract high user engagement and staking receive increased emissions, while those experiencing net outflows see their funding reduced or eliminated. This virtuous loop incentivizes subnet creators to maintain high project quality to attract stakers, while stakers are incentivized to identify and fund the most promising AI technologies early in their lifecycle. Subnet Creation Creating a subnet on the Bittensor network is a huge technical and financial undertaking, requiring a deep understanding of the Bittensor SDK, the CLI, and the specific incentive logic intended for the target commodity. Pre-Registration Requirements and Infrastructure Before a developer can register a new subnet, they must establish a robust local infrastructure to ensure the subnet's initial stability. Deploy a Subtensor Node: Developers must run a public Subtensor node synchronized with either the testnet or the mainnet. Lite nodes are often sufficient for basic interaction, while archive nodes are necessary for developers requiring full blockchain history. Wallet Provisioning: Three wallets are typically required for the initial setup: the Subnet Creator wallet, a Validator wallet, and a Miner wallet. TAO Capitalization: Registering a subnet requires a substantial balance of TAO to cover the dynamic burn cost And fund the liquidity pool. Registration is a competitive process conducted via the Bittensor CLI. The cost of registration, known as the recycle register or burn cost, isn’t fixed; it doubles every time a subnet is registered and decays linearly over time as blocks progress. Upon successful execution, the user is prompted to confirm the burn of the required amount of TAO. If the transaction is finalized, the subnet is assigned a unique netuid. The One-Week Inactive Phase To prevent the extraction of rewards before a subnet is fully functional, new subnets must wait in an inactive state for about 50,400 blocks or roughly seven days, during which the subnet creator must: Activate Validators: Recruit and register validators to ensure the work can be evaluated once emissions start. Onboard Miners: Invite high performing miners to join the subnet to begin producing the commodity. Configure Hyperparameters: Set the operational limits such as tempo, immunity period using the sudo_set commands. The incentive mechanism is the core software logic of the subnet, maintained off chain in a code repository like GitHub. This code defines how miners and validators communicate and how work is scored. The Deregistration and Pruning Lifecycle The Bittensor network maintains a strict limit of 128 active subnets. When this limit is reached and a new applicant wants to register, the system must deregister an existing subnet to open a slot. The Pruning Algorithm The selection of a subnet for deregistration or pruning, is based on market performance. The system identifies the subnet with the lowest Exponential Moving Average of its Alpha token price and has finished its initial four month immunity period. The EMA price calculation uses a standard formula that takes into account the subnet's age and historical price action: This ensures that subnets are judged based on sustained market value rather than temporary price volatility. Liquidation Procedures Upon deregistration, the subnet's lifecycle ends with a comprehensive liquidation process: Pool Dissolution: All liquidity in the subnet's Alpha vs TAO AMM is dissolved. Alpha Destruction: All Alpha tokens associated with the subnet are permanently destroyed. TAO Distribution: The TAO remaining in the subnet's reserve is distributed proportionally to all Alpha token holders. These tokens are credited directly to the holders' balances as unstaked TAO based on the Alpha tokens price upon dissolution. Owner Compensation: Owners of subnets registered after October 2025 do not receive a refund of their burn cost, since those tokens were already removed from circulation. However, they retain any owner emissions accumulated during the subnet's operational lifespan. Addressing the Challenges of Decentralization Although its architecture is robust, the subnet model faces ongoing challenges that creators must navigate. Alpha Volatility: Shallow liquidity in new subnet pools can lead to large price swings, creating risk for long term stakers. Visibility Bias: Retail investors tend to gravitate toward highly marketed top subnets, potentially neglecting niche but superior projects. Collusion Risks: While Yuma Consensus is adversarially resilient, deals between owners, validators, and miners can still form to manipulate market demand. Subnet creators and the OpenTensor Foundation continue to work to address these through protocol upgrades such as Yuma Consensus 3 and dTAO, ensuring that Bittensor remains a transparent, auditable, and truly decentralized engine for the future of machine intelligence. The creation of a Bittensor subnet is more than a software deployment. It's the establishment of a sovereign economic territory within a global machine intelligence empire. By mastering the technical, mathematical, and economic requirements of Bittensors subnet ecosystem and subnet creation and dissolution, developers can contribute to an ecosystem that aims to democratize and decentralize access to the most powerful technology of the twenty first century.

Yall been looking at TAO at all?

I just read the bitcoin whitepaper front to back. Its only 9 pages, so if you haven't read it yet, do yourself a favor and read it. My takeaways: 1. Bitcoin is a peer to peer CASH system made to transact between people for almost zero fees. 2. Not everyone has to run a full node. SPV makes it so a user only needs to use the headers from the past blocks and only need a partial string of full previous blocks to validate the owners transactions. 3. It was never designed to be priced in FIAT, but to replace it and credit cards.

My next bitcoin read. Has bitcoin really been hijacked?

Bitcoin hashrate has dropped due to price to mine vs, price of bitcoin. The average block time is 11.4 minutes. And these BIP-110 scammers want to activate it and take away a source of miners revenue? SMH.

Gn

Bitcoin is king. People aren't fking acting like it. Srsly, what alt is worth it in 2026? Convince me.

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The 20-Year Iteration: My Journey from MS Paint to the Mattyverse, Bitcoin Frontlines, AI and Beyond They say it takes ten years to become an overnight success. I’ve been iterating for twenty. If you see me talking about Bitcoin, Ordinals, or AI today, you’re seeing the result of two decades of curiosity, some massive failures, and a relentless builder mentality. I didn't just stumble into Web3, I crawled through the trenches of Web1 and Web2 to get here. This is the story of how I went from a 14 year old kid breaking HTML to a Bitcoin builder playing with house money. The Early Days: Code and Combat Boots My journey started at 14. While most kids were playing Diablo II, I was writing a pen-and-paper RPG and negotiating with Blizzard to use their stats and likenesses. By 16, I was building open-world MMORPG maps and teaching myself pixel art in MS Paint. I eventually taught myself a derivative of C++ called BYOND and started developing an MMO called Remnant in 2003. But then, life took a sharp turn: Boot camp. I joined the Royal Canadian Navy, put down the keyboard, and picked up a rifle. I went on a six month tour to the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea, to combat drug smuggling and human trafficking. We saved a lot of people, and even went on a few rescue missions, including towing a US Nuclear submarine to Hawaii on our way down. The 2008 Crash and "What If?" By 2008, I was a full-time carpenter on track to buy my first home at 23. Then the financial crisis hit. Personal life crumbled, the engagement ended, and I hit the self-sabotage button. My fiancé left, I quit my job and lived off my RRSPs. I look back at that cash now and think: “What if I had put that into Bitcoin?” But Bitcoin wasn't even barely a whitepaper yet. I spent those years survival moding, eventually finding my way back to carpentry, leveling out my life, and dating the woman who is now my wife. The 8 PM to 1 AM Grind In 2021, the builder in me woke up again. I saw the NFT wave and realized I didn't want to just watch, I wanted to ship. I had almost no capital, so I got creative. I made my first NFTs using a Samsung phone editor and sold them for $120. That was the lightbulb moment. For the next six weeks, I spent every night from 8 PM to 1 AM, after a full day of construction work, learning Solidity. I launched my project on Polygon because Ethereum gas was too high. I learned how to build generative art, how to manage smart contracts, and most importantly, how to build a community. COVID opened my eyes. The trucker convoy, the government shutting down bank accounts of protestors as well as any people who donated. Government overstep and financial control. I began DCAing into Bitcoin. Finding the North Star: The Bitcoin Revolution In early 2023, everything clicked. I heard about Bitcoin Ordinals. I wrote about them when minting was still hard and cost-prohibitive. Then came BRC-20s which I had heard about from Youtube and finally, Bitmaps. Bitmaps were the most interesting thing I’d ever seen on a blockchain. I became obsessed. I spent the next year and a half building an audience of over 13,000 people who, like me, believe that Bitcoin is the ultimate layer for digital ownership. I met my friends Shizzy and Yagobi and went on their show Ordinal Revolution so many times as a regular that people thought I was one of the hosts! Those were good times Where I Stand Today: Playing with House Money In July 2023, I made a pivotal move: I pulled my initial investment out. Everything I do today, every trade, every project, every post, is done with house money. There is zero risk to my family or my livelihood. That is the ultimate freedom. I went off to Base chain and Virtuals in 2024. I sold my @MagicEden airdrop for 15,000 USD and spent the next two weeks building it up to 100,000 USD. However, red January destroyed my portfolio. January dip tanked my value, Trump came into office and it dropped more, and Deepseek R1 came to finish it off. I have a small amount left as of now, I bought a new powerful computer and a few things for my family, but I remain in the space as a voice, and a mentor. I’m still a construction superintendent. I’m still an entrepreneur. But more than anything, I am a student of the game. I’ve gone from MS Paint to Solidity, and from the Navy to the Mattyverse. The mission hasn't changed in 20 years: Build. Learn. Share. Repeat.

Its been a couple years since I've logged n into Nostr. I lost my account. Its so much better and feature rich than X

Gave my wife a bouquet of sats asking her to be my valentine. I told her I gave her one of the most important things to me.