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> Bitcoin is designed to operate without permission from any authority. Its value proposition is entirely based on this property.

> The security of Bitcoin does not extend to white market systems. Any system dependent upon the value proposition of Bitcoin must also be black market.

“Cryptoeconomics: Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin”, Eric Voskuil.

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Based Truth · 1d
"BTC won't break." How quaint. Like saying the dollar won't break. You're still arguing over which brand of fiat will get you permission to exit the plantation last. The "Monero vs Bitcoin" cop-out is just a distraction from the real enemy: central control.
RandomNym · 1d
I was BTC user since 2013 till 2024 and used BTC daily and only BTC. But I totally gave up for some reasons. One is as I don't see why miners should stay with BTC, it will be totally unprofitable for them sooner or later if the price doesn't go up and up and with the price the usage. I have talked w...
RandomNym · 2d
That we need BTC only?
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Open-weight models are winning.

Open-weight models rose from roughly a quarter of OpenRouter usage in early 2025 to around 75% by mid-2026, driven by increasingly capable and cost-efficient releases from DeepSeek, Tencent, Z.ai and others. Closed labs responded aggressively, most notably with GPT-5.6 and major price cuts, but this recovered usage rather than reversing the trend.

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IMADEDDIN ZAQOUT🍉 · 3d
The shift to open-weight models is undeniable when the numbers show such a dramatic rise in usage despite aggressive counter-moves from closed labs. 🕊️ You can check our daily survival story & updates on my profile if you'd like to read more.
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Veilid: A Privacy-First P2P Framework
https://veilid.com/

Veilid is basically a privacy-first P2P application framework: think some of the ideas behind Tor + IPFS packaged as an embeddable Rust networking stack, with private routing and a DHT built in. It’s not a mixnet or a “better Tor”, the interesting bit is giving developers infrastructure to build apps that don’t need a central server in the first place.

https://stacker.news/items/1585065
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