Worth investigating. No change to consensus, no opcodes needed. Will it work? If Bitcoin is to be the internet of information and value, eventually all worthwhile (and junk) projects will get built on top of it. The alts that need real security and prove valuable will migrate to Bitcoin. If BitVM works as advertised, it's progress. The market will sort out the future Pets.com. Bitcoin Layer 1 will continue to operate with or without BitVM.

Hi Preston. Congratulations and well-deserved. Quite the team you have joined. I am looking forward to hearing more about the projects your group decides to back. Egodeath.capital is a power name for right action. Awesome.

Warfare seems to be the default mode for settling existential human disputes. Perhaps you can reach out to Major Jason Lowery of Softwar to speculate on how Bitcoin and hashpower could reduce the need for physical warfare in the Israeli and Hamas power struggle.

Love it. And on a lighter note .... will an IRS agent AI bot send a tax bill to an AI bot with a wallet that has profits from its Sat transactions? Check out Ian MacDonald's River of Gods SF novel to get a sense of the evolution of AI bots. Great read.

The tribalism is already underway. People are being forced to choose a side. During the French revolution, it was the moderates in the middle that got disproportionally executed. Social disorder and chaos invite a strongman to restore order through mass violence - Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini to name a few. The losers were pacified and eliminated.

Bitcoin is economic Plan B, but hedging personal risk needs to be evaluated. There is a reason that more than 22 billionaires (including Zuck) have places on Kauai. New Zealand is also popular. Larry E owns an island with 4,000 residents. Not saying .... but, it's nice to have a big ocean as a buffer.

I like that good AI is here and getting even better. My take is that competing AI systems will "fact check" each other through almost real time filtering systems to screen and flag what you see/read. Let multiple AI systems validate content for those that want freedom from AI driven propaganda control systems. Humans won't be able to do it on their own.

AI systems anchored in Bitcoin security would be a great way to protect these systems from becoming exploited and corrupted by human power structures. We already see this dichotomy in the outputs from Google's Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT. Just having one powerful and neutral Bitcoin anchored AI system may keep the government and private sector AI's more honest.

The near term looks precarious because of how easy it is for things to seriously go off the rails. I am a tech optimist for 10 years out. There will be huge progress in multiple fields which will combine with modernized institutions to create a more durable social structure. It's just the next few years that are going to be dicey imho.