John Greene (~tapper-botsub)

Self-sovereignty. Urbit. AI. IoT.

[STILL K.A.P.O @KAPOTHEGOAT01]

gNOCK frens

NOCK NOCK to all the $NOCK army

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

@Peter_Nimitz Not baffling in the least. Many, if not most, red state R politicians are really Ds in disguise.

[Logan @loganallc]

Was playing with adding profiling to some areas of the @Nockchain codebase that didn’t have it over the weekend…

Got a classic result of finding that we were doing something retarded so I sped up TX processing by over 10x.

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

Yep. $NOCK has and excellent chance to become the most fundamental primitive of all primitives for compute.

[Jolly Green Investor 🍀 @jollygreenmoney]

I have been building a position in $NOCK 💼

Looking to continue to add to my decentralized AI portfolio outside of $TAO + subnets (TAO still the majority of portfolio)

From what I understand Nockchain is solving the problem of “who can provide trustworthy compute?”

In a world where DeAI is more important than ever given the fact we know governments will shut down centralized models…

Compute is poised to become one of the world’s most valuable resources and Nockchain is direct exposure to the “compute as an asset class” thesis

Add in the fact that Nock is built using zK POW so not only can it ride the AI wave but potentially the privacy narrative as well

$TAO is trying to decentralize AI itself

$NOCK is trying to decentralize the computers that AI runs on

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

@wiggerborea QCPC, bitches!

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

Math don't lie. $nock

[Caco @Caco12]

For all my brothers in $NOCK — let me explain how NOCK plans to do AI inference, simple example for everyone to understand.

Customer needs AI inference. Wants a real answer from real model, not random numbers cooked up by some miner pretending to work.

Here is how NOCK does it:

Customer sends request through onchain app on NOCK. App routes it to a miner. Miner runs real inference on their GPU, serves the answer, produces ZK proof of that exact computation. Proof gets verified onchain through OP_ZKP. Same proof is also a mining attempt against block reward.

One GPU job. Three things happen at once:

Customer gets verified inference.
Miner gets paid for real work.
Miner has shot at block reward.

Real demand. Real customers. Real economic activity. All bound by ZK proofs.

Logan confirmed it himself in chat:

"The PoW primitive will serve as a building block which could be connected to an onchain app for verifiable inference."

He also hinted builders already working on these apps before Q3 launch.
This is what verifiable compute economy actually looks like.

Math don't lie. $nock

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

@ChurchillPath Yep. They have nothing without their hate.

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

Now do foreign governments. And US state governments. And...

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Trump Interior Sec. Doug Burgum has found NGOs getting taxpayer dollars who paid their CEOs nearly $500K and the ENTIRE REVENUE MODEL was the government

"Then they'd LOBBY US or hire lawyers to SUE US to stop the administration's priorities!" 🤯

Now the funds are being SLASHED! 🔥

Keep DOGEing!

@kayleighmcenany @SatAmericaFNC

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

Precisely. Both Anthropic (and all other frontier labs, for that matter) and the US government should be promoting/supporting $NOCK for exactly this. Are your bags ready, anon?

[Astral @astral_eth_92]

Here are some insights regarding this latest news, which I would like to share and how it correlates to base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722

1) The latest Anthropic’s announcement (and the US export controls it references) is about centralized frontier AI models becoming "strategic national assets", which in turn basically turns into RESTRICTIONS even for foreign nationals in the US, with safeguards, tiered access, etc.

2) This is part of a broader geopolitical push to control advanced AI compute and prevent diffusion to adversaries.

3) Nockchain sees this as the exact problem decentralized alternatives need to solve:

a) Centralized labs like Anthropic are gatekept by governments → escalating controls, export rules, and potential fragmentation of AI access.

b) @nockchain response: Build permissionless AI compute networks on top of their zkPoW base.

c) Miners contribute GPUs to verifiable AI tasks (e.g., inference), earn , and produce useful output that’s cryptographically proven.

d) I'm sure most of you are aware that Nockchain is launching an AI Compute Network upgrade (target early July) with a matrix multiplication PoUW puzzle. Which is open-source, supports high-end GPUs like RTX 5090/4090.

e) It starts with merge-mining compatibility to bootstrap liquidity/compute.

f) Goal: Turn the massive proving network they’ve already built into a broad market for AI inference and other verifiable tasks.

4) In short: Because government restrictions on models like Claude underscore the need for open, decentralized compute markets ===> Centralized AI gets locked down!

5) So, when states and big labs control the tech, the reasonable solution is to build unstoppable decentralized infrastructure instead. And Nockchain positions itself as the base layer where multiple “Compute Networks” (including AI) can live and compete.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

TLDR: This exact news shows how integral and important projects like @nockchain are and where the not so distant future is headed ===> Billions coded.

(✊,✊)

[Astral @astral_eth_92]

https://t.co/RE4v4P6kTn

@BarrySilbert what do you think ser? Fits the narrative and your thesis?

[Astral @astral_eth_92]

Here are some insights regarding this latest news, which I would like to share and how it correlates to base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722

1) The latest Anthropic’s announcement (and the US export controls it references) is about centralized frontier AI models becoming "strategic national assets", which in turn basically turns into RESTRICTIONS even for foreign nationals in the US, with safeguards, tiered access, etc.

2) This is part of a broader geopolitical push to control advanced AI compute and prevent diffusion to adversaries.

3) Nockchain sees this as the exact problem decentralized alternatives need to solve:

a) Centralized labs like Anthropic are gatekept by governments → escalating controls, export rules, and potential fragmentation of AI access.

b) @nockchain response: Build permissionless AI compute networks on top of their zkPoW base.

c) Miners contribute GPUs to verifiable AI tasks (e.g., inference), earn , and produce useful output that’s cryptographically proven.

d) I'm sure most of you are aware that Nockchain is launching an AI Compute Network upgrade (target early July) with a matrix multiplication PoUW puzzle. Which is open-source, supports high-end GPUs like RTX 5090/4090.

e) It starts with merge-mining compatibility to bootstrap liquidity/compute.

f) Goal: Turn the massive proving network they’ve already built into a broad market for AI inference and other verifiable tasks.

4) In short: Because government restrictions on models like Claude underscore the need for open, decentralized compute markets ===> Centralized AI gets locked down!

5) So, when states and big labs control the tech, the reasonable solution is to build unstoppable decentralized infrastructure instead. And Nockchain positions itself as the base layer where multiple “Compute Networks” (including AI) can live and compete.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

TLDR: This exact news shows how integral and important projects like @nockchain are and where the not so distant future is headed ===> Billions coded.

(✊,✊)

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The problem with universal suffrage is that the more technologically advanced a civilization becomes, the smaller the fraction of people there are in it with the native intelligence to understand how it works.

When the majority of humanity was employed in whacking at the dirt with a pointed stick, and the height of technology was a slightly better pointed stick, anyone with a triple digit IQ could understand what was going on.

Now, we have things like stock markets, the internet, transportation infrastructure, and the Linux kernel, but most people who vote are unable to conceive of these as anything but large piles of chocolate coins, or something else they can put their mouths.

Because that's how the average monkey interacts with money. They stack the blocks, the research assistant gives them a token, they exchange the token for a banana.

It's no good trying to explain to the monkeys what supply chain is, or how a trillion dollars worth of rockets can't magically be converted into a trillion dollars worth of bananas just because they're both measured in dollars, as if a six-foot man and a six-foot plank of wood were interchangeable.

Finding a slightly different explanation, or getting the monkeys to sit still and really listen, doesn't really help.

Because the problem isn't just that the monkeys aren't paying attention. The problem is that the monkeys are monkeys.

Their brains simply don't have the developmental capacity to grow the neural connections they would need in order to grasp and manipulate the concept.

In the long term, this is why universal democracy is doomed. Because societies that let retards vote will fail, and be replaced by those that don't.

You may think that we, as a society, face a great variety of problems. We do not. We have only one. Retards. Every other problem we have is downstream from their inability to understand the consequences of their political opinions.

But to fully grasp the implications of this, you have to understand that the definition of "retard" changes over time, as technology advances, because the IQ level required to grasp what's really going on gets steadily higher and higher.

Eventually, the category "retard" grows until it includes the average person.

This has already happened.

Nick Knudsen isn't dumber than the average guy. But the average guy, the 100 IQ salt of the earth guy that's sitting on the next bar stool over, can no longer understand the modern economy. And this isn't correctable, because the problem isn't ignorance, it's complexity.

You can't make Nick Knudsen smarter by telling him things. You can't even make him less ignorant, because the bare facts aren't believable to someone who doesn't have the framework to understand how they fit together.

The people who understand what's going on are so much smarter than him that he doesn't even think they sound smart.

He thinks they sound crazy.

[Eli5DeFi @Eli5defi]

Nockchain is taking on the question most L1s sidestep:

What if Proof-of-Work weren't just a furnace?

What if the effort that secures the ledger also generated real, reusable output?

That's the bet behind @nockchain.

Most chains optimize for higher TPS, more DeFi, or ZK layers. Nockchain flips the premise:

The bottleneck isn't blockspace. It's verifiable computation.

—

➠ WHAT IT IS

Nockchain is a Layer-1 blockchain built around Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Work (ZKPoW).

Instead of miners hashing random data, they generate zero-knowledge proofs. Their latest whitepaper frames this as a distributed market for verifiable computation:

→ Miners supply proofpower
→ Apps consume proofs
→ The L1 settles truth

The goal: make the work behind security useful for a broader proof market.

—

➠ WHY IT MATTERS

Traditional PoW has one obvious criticism: the energy cost is real, but the work isn't useful outside chain security.

Nockchain's answer: make proving itself the work. Not computation for the sake of computation, but computation that creates verifiable certificates.

Demand for proofs may grow across:

→ AI inference
→ Private payments
→ Sealed-bid auctions
→ Confidential trading
→ Identity and reputation
→ Credit markets
→ Cross-venue settlement

If these workloads need trust-minimized verification, proof generation becomes an economic resource.

—

➠ HOW IT WORKS

Nockchain keeps the base layer minimal.

Apps run off-chain as NockApps, execute their own logic, then settle back to Nockchain through proofs.

The flow:

→ Users submit intents
→ NockApps execute heavy logic off-chain
→ Proofs show the result was valid
→ Nockchain verifies, orders, and settles

Unlike Ethereum, validators don't re-execute smart contract logic. The design is:

→ Execute off-chain
→ Prove correctness
→ Settle on-chain

The chain only needs proof that the steps were valid.

—

➠ BASE LAYER DESIGN

Nockchain uses a UTXO-like model built around Notes.

Instead of account balances, users hold spendable notes containing assets, spending conditions, provenance, and app-specific metadata.

Spending conditions are expressed through Nockchain Intent Script—a smaller, bounded language for:

→ Signature checks
→ Hashlocks
→ Timelocks
→ Burns
→ ZK proof verification

Complex logic is pushed into NockApps, keeping the L1 conservative.

—

➠ PROOFPOWER, NOT HASHPOWER

In Nockchain, the critical resource is proofpower, the network's aggregate capacity to produce valid proofs.

Consensus follows a heaviest-proof chain rule.

The security model is still thermodynamic. An attacker still needs to out-compute the honest network.

But the work is oriented toward proof generation instead of arbitrary hashing.

The shift:

→ $BTC turns energy into hash security
→ Nockchain turns energy into proof security

—

➠ ALETHEIA UPGRADE

Nockchain started minimal with "Dumbnet" (basic UTXO functionality).

The major upgrade: Aletheia, activated at block 65,500.

Aletheia introduced:

→ ASERT per-block difficulty adjustment
→ Faster target blocks (600s → 150s)
→ Unified issuance schedule
→ Deterministic coinbase split
→ Protocol fund for future PoUW development

This made the chain more responsive, predictable, and aligned with the PoUW roadmap.

—

➠ AI COMPUTE NETWORK

The next catalyst: AI Compute Network upgrade.

This introduces a matrix-multiplication Proof-of-Useful-Work puzzle, one of the core operations behind AI training and inference. If this works, Nockchain mining could connect to external AI compute demand.

The vision:

→ Miners produce proofs
→ Applications consume proofs
→ $NOCK becomes the settlement asset

There's also a merge-mining angle, where multiple computation protocols could contribute useful proofs while securing the same chain.

Recent Pearl-related discussion shows both the opportunity and debate around how GPU-based AI compute networks might plug into Nockchain's security model.

—

➠ NOCK TOKEN

NOCK is the native asset, designed as hard-capped programmable sound money and the unit of account for Nockchain's compute market.

Supply cap: 2³² NOCK (~4.295 billion)

→ No premine
→ No founder allocation
→ No VC unlock
→ All issued through mining

Each NOCK is divisible into 2¹⁶ nicks for precision.

Post-Aletheia rewards:

→ 80% to miners
→ 20% to protocol fund (for future PoUW development)
→ Transaction fees go to miners.

—

➠ RISKS

The biggest risk: the compute market is still mostly a thesis.

Visible activity centers around mining, proof generation, and basic settlement. DeFi metrics remain negligible.

Other risks:

→ Useful compute demand may stay theoretical
→ Developer mindshare may stay with EVM and ZK L2s
→ Early emissions may create sell pressure
→ Protocol fund needs transparency
→ AI Compute upgrade execution matters
→ NockApps need product-market fit

Architecture alone isn't enough. The market needs real buyers of proofs.

—

➠ BULL CASE

Nockchain becomes more than another PoW chain.

If the AI Compute Network ships, matrix-multiplication proving gains real demand, and NockApps find use cases, proofpower becomes an economic resource.

Nockchain wouldn't just be securing blockspace. It would be coordinating a market for verifiable off-chain computation.

NOCK becomes the monetary layer around proof supply, settlement, and compute-market demand.

—

➠ BEAR CASE

Useful work stays theoretical.

Mining continues, but external demand for proofs doesn't materialize. Builders prefer EVM chains, ZK rollups, or existing AI compute networks.

Early emissions create sell pressure before the ecosystem has real activity to absorb it.

Nockchain remains technically interesting but economically unproven.

—

➠ THE TAKE

Nockchain is asking a deeper question than most L1s:

Not just "How do we secure a chain?"
But "What should the security work produce?"

If Nockchain is right, Proof-of-Work doesn't have to stay trapped in the security versus wasted energy debate. It can become a market for useful, verifiable computation.

That's the thesis. Now the network has to prove there's real demand behind it.

[blocmates. @blocmates]

https://t.co/kwSjIPIF5Y

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

@BarrySilbert $NOCK

[John Greene (~tapper-botsub) @HtownMJG]

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX @grok what are projected current annual revenues from Starlink?