I agree that seeing BIP-110 stall is heartbreaking. I was running BIP-110, and mining it at the point of activation. I have the utmost respect for the roughnecks crew finding two blocks out of the gate.

That being said, I am in the camp of reforming big bitcoin (however daunting that may seem), rather than attempting a POW change. My reason is that such a change would be a long hard road and would likely lead to significant pain and capital loss for the plebs that go down that road. If Bitcoin is truly captured, then a fork of Bitcoin can only have 2 outcomes. Either it succeeds and grows until it is a threat sufficient enough to get captured again, or it fades into nothingness like BCH and BSV.

I’m open to being corrected but it seems to me that if we can’t resist capture on the main chain, then forking off with a minority will have little chance of success. I love bitcoin and want to see it succeed as freedom money as much as anyone. I know there are people much smarter than me in this space so I look forward to learning more and hearing potential solutions for moving forward from here. I appreciate your thoughts.

I will always be chasing God, I strive for the other two.

I like Hermes better. From my testing it works better out of the box and learns from its mistakes without me explicitly having to tell it to. I also setup honcho for the memory so it can remember stuff appropriately across sessions.

For additional context I’m using qwen3.6 locally because privacy matters more than power for my use case.

Haven’t heard of that, I had AI package the blossom-server from hzrd149. Is it going to be listed on the Start9 community store?

I agree. I’ve been able to run it locally with qwen3.6 and it feels just as powerful as my OpenClaw running gpt-5.4. granted my OpenClaw setup likely isn’t optimal but the point is that Hermes feels good out of the box and OpenClaw requires much more tinkering and behavior fixes.

I let my little model run for 4 hours yesterday with only one interjection and it iterated through the task step by step, verified its work, and refined, so that the final output was very acceptable.

I’m still in my initial testing but so far I’m very pleased with Hermes.

If I didn’t know better I’d think they’re hiding something.