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Bitcoin wastes so much power and compute on solving unnecessary problems, creating artificial scarcity. But Bittensor actually USES this compute to power state of the art AI tools. Here’s how it works, and how you can start owning a small piece of the AI revolution: CC: @jason, Mark Jeffrey,... show more

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