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A FLY BRAIN COULD CHANGE HOW BITCOIN MINING WORKS. Researchers FutureBit introduced HashFly, an experimental Bitcoin miner built around organic neurons from a fly brain. The idea sounds crazy, but the efficiency claim is even crazier: ~1 watt per terahash if scaled to real organic neurons. That would be... show more

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Marek Bialoglowy4 days ago

@FutureBit It's just matter of time until they wire up monkey brains for AI interference or to mine bitcoin, and after this ... we get matrix. We live in a simulation anyways, so this is simulation within simulation; kinda like in inception movie, but it's a reality not a dream.

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit we're already closer than people think, live monkeys wired to computers for brain-machine research has been happening for years, mining bitcoin with a biological brain is just a weirder use case waiting to happen

Byron4 days ago

@FutureBit bullshit again.

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit bullish again?

Fajar M Reza4 days ago

@FutureBit Organic-neuron mining is intriguing, but reproducible efficiency benchmarks matter more than novelty.

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit Exactly. The concept is fascinating, but real-world benchmarks will show whether biology can actually beat silicon

volovuk4 days ago

197.4 kH/s is the actual measured number in that screenshot. A modern ASIC does ~200+ TH/s — nine orders of magnitude higher. ‘If scaled to real neurons’ is carrying the entire claim, and nobody’s shown that biological spike rates scale linearly rather than hitting a wall from noise, timing jitter, or interconnect at any meaningful hash rate.

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit Fair point. The scaling assumption is doing a lot of work here

M-studioAi4 days ago

@FutureBit A fly brain doing Bitcoin mining is crazy

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit I don't know how anyone came up with this, but it's really crazy

neo4 days ago

@FutureBit Crypto bros are so funny. They see all as hashable or not. It's like, they ave the nails so everything looks like a hammer 🔨

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit Haha, the hammer analogy is actually perfect 😂

Pepe4 days ago

@FutureBit A frog Brain will change that

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit well, anything is possible😅

ROBINHOOD KING 👑🚀4 days ago

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Bober_smart4 days ago

@FutureBit And this is real magic

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit This world is going crazy, new scientific discoveries every day

just welly.4 days ago

@FutureBit 1 watt per terahash is a revolutionary

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit I think so too my friend

Eceertrey4 days ago

@FutureBit sweet

Zentrix⌚️4 days ago

@FutureBit This is really something new and shocking

ks. Robert Wawer SJ4 days ago

@FutureBit 🎯

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Jack Straw

16,559 views • 1 year ago

Yes, Sam — but brains are far more energy efficient than computers. Brain: 20 watts AI: gigawatts Biology wins. Naveen Rao (Naveen Rao) CEO, Unconventional AI Konstantine Buhler (Konstantine Buhler) Partner, Sequoia Capital TLDR: Biology currently delivers far more general intelligence per watt than silicon. "Why can we not build a computer that acts like biology? The single thing that hit me when I was an undergrad, like 30 years ago, and that’s when I learned about 20 watts of energy in your brain, and just how biology kind of does computation. It doesn’t really do computation, by the way. It’s like dynamical systems, but we can get into that later. My whole career has been about that, actually. When I came out of undergrad, I was like, “Okay, well I wanna build computers. How do I build those?” So I actually became a computer architect. I worked on UltraSPARC III and a bunch of processors, then did a bunch of ASICs, then went back to school to do a PhD in neuroscience. And I’m like, “Okay, now I know how to build a machine. I’ve done it several times, sort of from scratch.” I’m still no closer to the answer of why computers aren’t as good as brains. At that time, we didn’t really understand what brains were doing. I think now we kind of do, but at that time we almost thought of brains as sort of magical." "But Naveen pointed out this is the moment to dramatically reduce power, which everybody knows is, if not the, major constraint of AI, and have a trade-off that’s much more reasonable in the AI world."

Yes, Sam — but brains are far more energy efficient than computers. Brain: 20 watts AI: gigawatts Biology wins. Naveen Rao (Naveen Rao) CEO, Unconventional AI Konstantine Buhler (Konstantine Buhler) Partner, Sequoia Capital TLDR: Biology currently delivers far more general intelligence per watt than silicon. "Why can we not build a computer that acts like biology? The single thing that hit me when I was an undergrad, like 30 years ago, and that’s when I learned about 20 watts of energy in your brain, and just how biology kind of does computation. It doesn’t really do computation, by the way. It’s like dynamical systems, but we can get into that later. My whole career has been about that, actually. When I came out of undergrad, I was like, “Okay, well I wanna build computers. How do I build those?” So I actually became a computer architect. I worked on UltraSPARC III and a bunch of processors, then did a bunch of ASICs, then went back to school to do a PhD in neuroscience. And I’m like, “Okay, now I know how to build a machine. I’ve done it several times, sort of from scratch.” I’m still no closer to the answer of why computers aren’t as good as brains. At that time, we didn’t really understand what brains were doing. I think now we kind of do, but at that time we almost thought of brains as sort of magical." "But Naveen pointed out this is the moment to dramatically reduce power, which everybody knows is, if not the, major constraint of AI, and have a trade-off that’s much more reasonable in the AI world."

Molly O’Shea

30,956 views • 6 months ago

“Bitcoin is the most efficient market in history. We built the same thing for intelligence.” Const left Google Brain to build something Big Tech wouldn’t touch: open, permissionless AI that can be mined like Bitcoin. On a special TWiST deep dive, Bittensor’s co-founder breaks down the subnet economy, how subnets are making open models even cheaper to run, and why he doesn’t sell a token, but participation. cc: const, Openτensor Foundaτion, @jason, Lon Harris 0:00 The origin of Bittensor (and the name Const) 10:48 Northwest Registered Agent - Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity — Learn more at 13:55 From Bitcoin mining to mining intelligence 19:33 DigitalOcean - Head to to start building on DigitalOcean's AI-Native Cloud today — and cut your AI workload costs by up to 50%. 30:17 Odoo - The all-in-one business platform. Get started for free at 32:37 What is a subnet? 33:35 Forcing honest inference from bad actors 37:14 Building a subnet is harder than it looks 40:42 Understanding dTAO 51:57 Where the registration TAO actually goes 1:02:57 All about the Conviction "rug pull" 1:15:19 How Const is making himself irrelevant 1:17:33 The "Buy One TAO" philosophy 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

“Bitcoin is the most efficient market in history. We built the same thing for intelligence.” Const left Google Brain to build something Big Tech wouldn’t touch: open, permissionless AI that can be mined like Bitcoin. On a special TWiST deep dive, Bittensor’s co-founder breaks down the subnet economy, how subnets are making open models even cheaper to run, and why he doesn’t sell a token, but participation. cc: const, Openτensor Foundaτion, @jason, Lon Harris 0:00 The origin of Bittensor (and the name Const) 10:48 Northwest Registered Agent - Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity — Learn more at 13:55 From Bitcoin mining to mining intelligence 19:33 DigitalOcean - Head to to start building on DigitalOcean's AI-Native Cloud today — and cut your AI workload costs by up to 50%. 30:17 Odoo - The all-in-one business platform. Get started for free at 32:37 What is a subnet? 33:35 Forcing honest inference from bad actors 37:14 Building a subnet is harder than it looks 40:42 Understanding dTAO 51:57 Where the registration TAO actually goes 1:02:57 All about the Conviction "rug pull" 1:15:19 How Const is making himself irrelevant 1:17:33 The "Buy One TAO" philosophy 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

This Week in Startups

44,796 views • 1 month ago

𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘁𝘂𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀: 𝗔 𝗚𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆? Researchers may have just found quantum superpowers in microtubules. Yes, you read that right—quantum *superradiance* in the brain! Superradiance is a phenomenon where excited particles behave like a team, emitting photons collectively in a bright, ultra-fast burst. This is different from normal fluorescence, where photons are emitted slowly and individually. Imagine a synchronized light show on a quantum scale. The key ingredient? Quantum entanglement. If particles are spaced closer than the wavelength of incoming light, they form a collective quantum state. This allows them to act as one entity, amplifying energy release, just like a laser—but smaller in scale. The study zeroed in on tryptophan molecules inside microtubules. When hit with UV light, they emitted much more energy than regular fluorescence could explain—100 times more, to be exact. The researchers believe this can only happen through superradiance, implying large-scale quantum entanglement. If true, this discovery could be huge. It may hint that quantum effects play a bigger role in biology—and even in brain function—than we ever imagined. Could Penrose and the quantum brain theory be right after all? This clip is from "𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁? 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗜𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻" (PBS Space Time, YouTube, Jul 25, 2024)

𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘁𝘂𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀: 𝗔 𝗚𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆? Researchers may have just found quantum superpowers in microtubules. Yes, you read that right—quantum superradiance in the brain! Superradiance is a phenomenon where excited particles behave like a team, emitting photons collectively in a bright, ultra-fast burst. This is different from normal fluorescence, where photons are emitted slowly and individually. Imagine a synchronized light show on a quantum scale. The key ingredient? Quantum entanglement. If particles are spaced closer than the wavelength of incoming light, they form a collective quantum state. This allows them to act as one entity, amplifying energy release, just like a laser—but smaller in scale. The study zeroed in on tryptophan molecules inside microtubules. When hit with UV light, they emitted much more energy than regular fluorescence could explain—100 times more, to be exact. The researchers believe this can only happen through superradiance, implying large-scale quantum entanglement. If true, this discovery could be huge. It may hint that quantum effects play a bigger role in biology—and even in brain function—than we ever imagined. Could Penrose and the quantum brain theory be right after all? This clip is from "𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁? 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗜𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻" (PBS Space Time, YouTube, Jul 25, 2024)

Ultra Skool 🧠

18,906 views • 1 year ago

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DISCOVERED A HIDDEN SIXTH SENSE IN HUMANS — WHAT ELSE IS HIDING INSIDE US? For centuries, humans have been told we have five senses. Sight. Hearing. Smell. Taste. Touch. But now scientists believe there may be a sixth. And it sounds like something straight out of science fiction. Researchers have reportedly found evidence that the human brain may be capable of detecting Earth's magnetic field. In other words? Humans may possess a hidden magnetic sixth sense. The same invisible force used by birds, sea turtles, sharks, and countless other animals to navigate across the planet without maps, GPS, or technology. Think about that for a second. An invisible force is passing through your body every second of every day. You can't see it. You can't hear it. You can't touch it. Yet scientists believe your brain may still be responding to it. In experiments, researchers reportedly observed changes in brain activity when magnetic fields around participants were altered. The participants weren't consciously aware anything had changed. But their brains appeared to react anyway. How much information is your brain processing that you never consciously experience? What if humans have been walking around with a hidden sixth sense this entire time? And if the brain can naturally detect magnetic fields, what else might it be capable of that science still doesn't understand? If this research is correct, this ability wasn't added to humans. It may have been there all along. Hidden in plain sight. If a hidden sixth sense can exist, what else do you think has been hiding in plain sight this entire time?

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DISCOVERED A HIDDEN SIXTH SENSE IN HUMANS — WHAT ELSE IS HIDING INSIDE US? For centuries, humans have been told we have five senses. Sight. Hearing. Smell. Taste. Touch. But now scientists believe there may be a sixth. And it sounds like something straight out of science fiction. Researchers have reportedly found evidence that the human brain may be capable of detecting Earth's magnetic field. In other words? Humans may possess a hidden magnetic sixth sense. The same invisible force used by birds, sea turtles, sharks, and countless other animals to navigate across the planet without maps, GPS, or technology. Think about that for a second. An invisible force is passing through your body every second of every day. You can't see it. You can't hear it. You can't touch it. Yet scientists believe your brain may still be responding to it. In experiments, researchers reportedly observed changes in brain activity when magnetic fields around participants were altered. The participants weren't consciously aware anything had changed. But their brains appeared to react anyway. How much information is your brain processing that you never consciously experience? What if humans have been walking around with a hidden sixth sense this entire time? And if the brain can naturally detect magnetic fields, what else might it be capable of that science still doesn't understand? If this research is correct, this ability wasn't added to humans. It may have been there all along. Hidden in plain sight. If a hidden sixth sense can exist, what else do you think has been hiding in plain sight this entire time?

HustleBitch

14,282 views • 2 months ago

"Is Stretch really that innovative Bitcoin-backed credit, or is it just yield chasing right now?" David Duong on the real debate around Michael Saylor and Strategy "So far Saylor has demonstrated the ability to raise capital and grow his Bitcoin per share. That kind of stays ahead of the compounding dividend obligation he has. That engine so far has been running" "But is that an autopilot thing where he can just keep doing that in perpetuity? I don't have the answer to that. I don't think anyone does" "A lot of it comes down to Michael Saylor. How good is he at continuing this trend? I don't know what the answer is gonna be at the end of all things, but this is what a lot of people are internalizing at the moment"

"Is Stretch really that innovative Bitcoin-backed credit, or is it just yield chasing right now?" David Duong on the real debate around Michael Saylor and Strategy "So far Saylor has demonstrated the ability to raise capital and grow his Bitcoin per share. That kind of stays ahead of the compounding dividend obligation he has. That engine so far has been running" "But is that an autopilot thing where he can just keep doing that in perpetuity? I don't have the answer to that. I don't think anyone does" "A lot of it comes down to Michael Saylor. How good is he at continuing this trend? I don't know what the answer is gonna be at the end of all things, but this is what a lot of people are internalizing at the moment"

The Wolf Of All Streets

16,229 views • 3 months ago

Michael Saylor's end game is to buy $3 trillion worth of #Bitcoin! 👀 Microstrategy could, CONSERVATIVELY, own approximately 16% of the total Bitcoin Supply or 3,439,002 Bitcoin!! For those that think this is a MOONBOI projection, listen to the video clip below, VERY CLOSELY, and you will hear him say that he plans on buying $3 trillion worth of Bitcoin 🤯 Even if Saylor buys $3 trillion worth of Bitcoin, at an average price of $1 million per coin, he would be able to buy 3,000,000 Bitcoin! Check my math! This would CONSERVATIVELY bring his total Bitcoin holdings to 3,444,262, or 16% of the total Bitcoin Supply!! Saylor could single handedly jack the price of Bitcoin to $1 million per coin and Samson Mow's Omega candle could be coming in 2025. What going to happen when Nation States, Google, Amazon, Facebook and billions of people complement Saylor's $3 trillion purchase? What is bigger than an omega candle? I asked GROK and it doesn't even know! 😂 I think we should name it the ♾️ candle. This would be representative of Wicked's Stock to Fomo model (see graphic below) and his post: Saylor has said he is going to double his $42 Billion Bitcoin investment at least 4 times and here is how this could lead to him acquiring more than 4 million Bitcoin in 2025: Q1 2025 - Raise $84 Billion to buy 700,000 Bitcoin at average price of $120k/Bitcoin. Q2 2025 - Raise $168 Billion to buy 988,235 Bitcoin at average price of $170k/Bitcoin Q3 2025 - Raise $336 Billion to buy 1,050,000 Bitcoin at average price of $320k/Bitcoin Q4 2025 - Raise $672 Billion to buy 1,680,000 Bitcoin at average price of $400k/Bitcoin In one year there is the possibility that he could REALISTICALLY buy 4,418,235 Bitcoin!! I say "realistically" because the demand for Saylor's $42 Billion equity raise was so great that he is going to be able to use it all up in 3-4 months instead of the projected 3 years!!🤯 This would bring their current Bitcoin holdings of 444,262 Bitcoin to 4,857,237!!!! Or 23% of all Bitcoin!! Calculations are based on our post below: We are closer to $1 million Bitcoin than you think. I believe we will get to this price sooner than Wicked 's projected date of 4/4/2030. I agree with Samson that we get to $1 million per coin by the end of 2025! Hold on to your hat, because we are about to experience exponential, LIFTOFF. To understand exponential growth, envision yourself holding two very powerful magnets. As you start to bring the two magnets together, it gets harder to hold them apart and all of a sudden, BAM, they clap together! This is what we are about to experience, a SUDDEN BAM, in the price of Bitcoin as adoption goes from <1% to 10% in a very short time frame. Now you may better understand why Saylor is frantically, but intelligently, trying to buy $42 Billion of Bitcoin. As an engineer he understands what exponential demand will cause to the price of a finite commodity. Saylor has been on record as saying that "he will be buying the top forever." Don't ever underestimate an astro/aeronautical MIT engineer.

Michael Saylor's end game is to buy $3 trillion worth of #Bitcoin! 👀 Microstrategy could, CONSERVATIVELY, own approximately 16% of the total Bitcoin Supply or 3,439,002 Bitcoin!! For those that think this is a MOONBOI projection, listen to the video clip below, VERY CLOSELY, and you will hear him say that he plans on buying $3 trillion worth of Bitcoin 🤯 Even if Saylor buys $3 trillion worth of Bitcoin, at an average price of $1 million per coin, he would be able to buy 3,000,000 Bitcoin! Check my math! This would CONSERVATIVELY bring his total Bitcoin holdings to 3,444,262, or 16% of the total Bitcoin Supply!! Saylor could single handedly jack the price of Bitcoin to $1 million per coin and Samson Mow's Omega candle could be coming in 2025. What going to happen when Nation States, Google, Amazon, Facebook and billions of people complement Saylor's $3 trillion purchase? What is bigger than an omega candle? I asked GROK and it doesn't even know! 😂 I think we should name it the ♾️ candle. This would be representative of Wicked's Stock to Fomo model (see graphic below) and his post: Saylor has said he is going to double his $42 Billion Bitcoin investment at least 4 times and here is how this could lead to him acquiring more than 4 million Bitcoin in 2025: Q1 2025 - Raise $84 Billion to buy 700,000 Bitcoin at average price of $120k/Bitcoin. Q2 2025 - Raise $168 Billion to buy 988,235 Bitcoin at average price of $170k/Bitcoin Q3 2025 - Raise $336 Billion to buy 1,050,000 Bitcoin at average price of $320k/Bitcoin Q4 2025 - Raise $672 Billion to buy 1,680,000 Bitcoin at average price of $400k/Bitcoin In one year there is the possibility that he could REALISTICALLY buy 4,418,235 Bitcoin!! I say "realistically" because the demand for Saylor's $42 Billion equity raise was so great that he is going to be able to use it all up in 3-4 months instead of the projected 3 years!!🤯 This would bring their current Bitcoin holdings of 444,262 Bitcoin to 4,857,237!!!! Or 23% of all Bitcoin!! Calculations are based on our post below: We are closer to $1 million Bitcoin than you think. I believe we will get to this price sooner than Wicked 's projected date of 4/4/2030. I agree with Samson that we get to $1 million per coin by the end of 2025! Hold on to your hat, because we are about to experience exponential, LIFTOFF. To understand exponential growth, envision yourself holding two very powerful magnets. As you start to bring the two magnets together, it gets harder to hold them apart and all of a sudden, BAM, they clap together! This is what we are about to experience, a SUDDEN BAM, in the price of Bitcoin as adoption goes from <1% to 10% in a very short time frame. Now you may better understand why Saylor is frantically, but intelligently, trying to buy $42 Billion of Bitcoin. As an engineer he understands what exponential demand will cause to the price of a finite commodity. Saylor has been on record as saying that "he will be buying the top forever." Don't ever underestimate an astro/aeronautical MIT engineer.

Satoshi’s Journal

280,298 views • 1 year ago