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Watch Ben McKenzie ignore ⚡️ Lightning Network to claim Bitcoin can only handle 5-7 TPS and that miners, who are somehow profitable with increasing inefficiencies, should be heavily taxed. Meanwhile, L402 protocol unlocks frictionless micropayments and the machine payable web 🤦‍♂️

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Learn why unlimited AI agents require an instant, global and frictionless digital bearer instrument that can infinitely scale. ₿ 🎧👇

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“The machine payable web is currently experiencing it's "idea whose time has come" moment... The infrastructure wasn't ready for it until this very moment. We're entering uncharted territory that should reap massive benefits for bitcoin, humanity and AI.”

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"L402 can also help to increase the accessibility of the latest n greatest AI models for the rest of the world 🌎 with LN, creators can create applications that monetize from day one, and are able to reach a global audience."

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"...Out-of-the-box cost effective LLM tooling which seamlessly incorporates Lightning and bitcoin. These tools are built on the L402 protocol... and Langchain a popular library to simplify working with AI agents..."

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Level39vor 3 Jahren

This all begs the question, will Bitcoin skeptics refuse to use AI agents that are made more cost-efficient and open by L402? Or will they be oblivious to the fact that the AI agents they employ will be using Bitcoin to reduce friction behind the scenes?

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Level39vor 3 Jahren

There was a time when Internet skeptics started having their telephone calls routed across internet protocols, without their knowledge. Perhaps we shall see a similar phenomenon with AI agents in the years to come.

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Level39vor 3 Jahren

Worth mentioning that @TheStalwart knows full well that @ben_mckenzie is either misinformed or is intentionally misinforming the audience by refusing to acknowledge Bitcoin L2s.

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Preston Pyshvor 3 Jahren

@ben_mckenzie “Deep-dive Ben” hasn’t even got out of the kiddie pool. What an eye-roll take.

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Core, ‌the Bitcoin-first ‌chain, and how it’s trying to stretch BTC’s usefulness Core DAO (Core DAO 🔶) brands itself as “The Bitcoin Everything Chain.” The pitch is simple: take Bitcoin’s strengths and push them beyond the usual buy-and-hold story. The protocol centers on one main idea: BTC shouldn’t sit still. Core wants idle Bitcoin to earn, but without giving up the properties people care about most: safety, decentralization, and full self-custody. To get there, Core leans on a mix of Satoshi Plus, timelocks, and a quick Layer 1 EVM chain. Satoshi Plus folds in Delegated Proof of Work (so Bitcoin miners can participate), self-custodial Bitcoin staking, and staking of the $CORE token. Core frames the relationship with Bitcoin as mutualistic. It borrows security and incentive alignment from Bitcoin, then tries to send value back through extra miner rewards, trustless yield opportunities for BTC holders, and infrastructure that makes it easier for Bitcoin products to plug in and scale. Key ways Core aims to expand Bitcoin utility: 1.) Self-custodial Bitcoin staking Lock BTC with timelocks directly on the Bitcoin network (CLTV) and earn CORE yield, no wrapping, no bridges, and no handing custody to anyone else. 2.) Dual staking Stake $BTC and $CORE together to reach higher yield tiers. 3.) Tapping Bitcoin’s hash power Miners can delegate hash power to earn extra CORE rewards, while Core itself is secured using a majority share of Bitcoin’s hash rate. 4.) The “Bitcoin Power Grid” A set of rails Bitcoin products can connect to, built around yield, collateral, payments, and DeFi use cases. 5.) Scalable Bitcoin DeFi An EVM-compatible network designed for faster, cheaper BTCFi apps. 6.) Two-way value flow The goal is to strengthen Bitcoin’s security budget over time, while also turning dormant BTC into something that can actively do work. In plain terms, Core DAO’s broader mission is to make Bitcoin more productive without piling on trust assumptions, converting energy and capital tied up in Bitcoin into yield, DeFi activity, and scalable infrastructure.

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"I used to be a bitcoiner. The transition to a new store of value only happens once every 3,000 years. That's the main prize -- just focus on that. But [security] is the criteria that ultimately convinced me to flip from Bitcoin to ETH." "I have a higher degree of certainty that Ethereum will be around longer [than Bitcoin]. The reason for that is because Bitcoin relies on proof-of-work, which is less efficient than proof-of-stake and doesn't scale with the value of the network. And as the block subsidy of Bitcoin halves every four years, it is increasingly becoming more and more reliant on transaction fees to fund the security budget paid to miners." "If you look at [Bitcoin's] security budget right now, about 0.6% of revenue to miners is transaction fees... The problem with that is if Bitcoin becomes 'digital gold', flips gold, and becomes a $30 trillion asset, but it only costs $10-20 billion to attack it, that's too asymmetric." "You want the security budget to scale with the market cap, similar to how countries spend a % of their GDP on defense. The more valuable something is, the more you need to spend to protect it." "Ethereum, with the Merge, migrated to proof-of-stake, which is fundamentally more secure because it's less reliant on transaction fees and it scales with the value of the network. If 1/3rd of ETH is staked and then you need 1/3rd of those ETH to censor the network, you're looking at roughly 10% of the total market cap as the cost to attack the network." "So if Ethereum flips Bitcoin and gold and becomes a $30 trillion asset, it'll cost ~$3 trillion to attack the Ethereum network versus Bitcoin at like $10 billion." "The other aspect here is that as AI hyperscalers invest more and more in AI, proof-of-work becomes increasingly vulnerable because the cost to attack the Bitcoin network is starting to look close to the quarterly CapEx these hyperscalers are spending on their data centers." Full interview on Bankless with Vivek Raman discussing the new Etherealize "Productive Money" report below.
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"I used to be a bitcoiner. The transition to a new store of value only happens once every 3,000 years. That's the main prize -- just focus on that. But [security] is the criteria that ultimately convinced me to flip from Bitcoin to ETH." "I have a higher degree of certainty that Ethereum will be around longer [than Bitcoin]. The reason for that is because Bitcoin relies on proof-of-work, which is less efficient than proof-of-stake and doesn't scale with the value of the network. And as the block subsidy of Bitcoin halves every four years, it is increasingly becoming more and more reliant on transaction fees to fund the security budget paid to miners." "If you look at [Bitcoin's] security budget right now, about 0.6% of revenue to miners is transaction fees... The problem with that is if Bitcoin becomes 'digital gold', flips gold, and becomes a $30 trillion asset, but it only costs $10-20 billion to attack it, that's too asymmetric." "You want the security budget to scale with the market cap, similar to how countries spend a % of their GDP on defense. The more valuable something is, the more you need to spend to protect it." "Ethereum, with the Merge, migrated to proof-of-stake, which is fundamentally more secure because it's less reliant on transaction fees and it scales with the value of the network. If 1/3rd of ETH is staked and then you need 1/3rd of those ETH to censor the network, you're looking at roughly 10% of the total market cap as the cost to attack the network." "So if Ethereum flips Bitcoin and gold and becomes a $30 trillion asset, it'll cost ~$3 trillion to attack the Ethereum network versus Bitcoin at like $10 billion." "The other aspect here is that as AI hyperscalers invest more and more in AI, proof-of-work becomes increasingly vulnerable because the cost to attack the Bitcoin network is starting to look close to the quarterly CapEx these hyperscalers are spending on their data centers." Full interview on Bankless with Vivek Raman discussing the new Etherealize "Productive Money" report below.

Michael McGuiness

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CJ KONSTANTINOS: "Nothing stops this train. Not even the smartest, best, most rich entrepreneur in the world with political support can stop the train." "If you're not on the Bitcoin train when it comes, you are going to miss one of the biggest moves that we're going to see in Bitcoin." "I think diminishing returns is going to be put to rest. And we are going to see a full-on panic into hard assets that supply cannot be expanded that easily, specifically real estate. And of course, Bitcoin with finite supply, you can't increase the supply at all. And the only way to get the existing supply back onto the market is a higher price." "That dynamic is going to create massive returns for those who are patient in Bitcoin."
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CJ KONSTANTINOS: "Nothing stops this train. Not even the smartest, best, most rich entrepreneur in the world with political support can stop the train." "If you're not on the Bitcoin train when it comes, you are going to miss one of the biggest moves that we're going to see in Bitcoin." "I think diminishing returns is going to be put to rest. And we are going to see a full-on panic into hard assets that supply cannot be expanded that easily, specifically real estate. And of course, Bitcoin with finite supply, you can't increase the supply at all. And the only way to get the existing supply back onto the market is a higher price." "That dynamic is going to create massive returns for those who are patient in Bitcoin."

Simply Bitcoin

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