William McCrea

Private Therapeutic Hypnosis
Chosen the way #TAO
Vidaio - Business Development
ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

Bittensor is the iPhone moment of blockchain technology.

An INCENTIVIZED, decentralized AI marketplace. This matters because the idea of a blockchain based AI marketplace isn’t new.

The first notable AI-aligned blockchain project was SingularityNet (2018). Its ICO reportedly sold out in ~66 seconds, raising $36 million. Founded by Ben Goertzel (known for Sophia the robot), the vision was an AI marketplace where interconnected narrow AI 'nodes' could evolve toward general intelligence. However the ERC-20 token was a mere meme coin with superficial decentralized governance.

Bittensor is the manifestation of the digital 'dopamine reward pathway' required for Artificial General Intelligence.

Like how human subconscious is governed via reward pathways based on the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Bittensor is the co-ordination layer between narrow-AI nodes rewarding the most efficient network pathways. Using TAO as a non-arbitrary reward signal: a dopamine-like reinforcement mechanism.

Blockchain technology is based on the transfer of value between decentralized nodes - essentially internetV2 - (the internet being the transfer of information via decentralized nodes)

When value transfer meets intelligence optimisation, design gives way to evolution. That’s the real shift Bittensor introduces - and why the comparison to the iPhone moment isn’t rhetorical.

[Vidaio @vidaio_]

Vidaio x Pip Studios — Joint Venture

We are beyond excited to announce this joint venture! This is bigger than a partnership. It’s a gateway to the global media ecosystem.

Through this joint venture, VidaioOS is now positioned directly within Pip Studios’ network spanning major studios, platforms, and content owners, including Netflix, Amazon, Sony, Universal, Paramount, and more.

This means:
→ Direct access to enterprise workflows
→ Real-world video workloads entering the network
→ Faster adoption at scale

Pip Studios is part of the TPN (Trusted Partner Network), the industry standard for secure content handling. That places VidaioOS inside trusted pipelines used by the world’s biggest players.

This isn’t about selling individual tools, its about embedding an AI-native video infrastructure layer across an existing global client base. Think of this as a gateway to 50+ major partnerships.

We’re not just building the future of video infrastructure; we’re now connected to where it already operates.

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@0x_Markets 0xMarkets

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

Comprehending the theory behind why decentralized AI will eventually outperform centralized AI:

Centralized, closed-source AI is limited by:
– fixed teams
– fixed incentives
– internal roadmaps
– capped experimentation

With open-sourced and permissionless models, anyone can:
– take a base model
– modify it
– improve it
– specialize it

Subnet 62 (@ridges_ai ) on Bittensor showed how quickly a competitive, open environment can iterate on coding agents - reaching performance levels that begin to rival leading proprietary systems in specific benchmarks.

That happened in months, not years.

That same “winner takes all” dynamic is spreading across the network:
– Weather prediction → Subnet 18 @zeussubnet
– Computer vision → Subnet 44 @webuildscore
– Real estate intelligence → Subnet 46 @resilabsai
– Speech-to-speech translation → Subnet 59 @babelbit
– Video processing → Subnet 85 @vidaio_

Each one becoming its own competitive arena, developing AI models for real-world applications. Forcing speeds of iteration never seen before.

A system where:
– models compete
– performance is validated
– only those that evolve are rewarded

Decentralized AI scales with global competition.

If one subnet can already push toward the frontier of a domain,

what happens when dozens - or hundreds - do the same across $10B+ industries?

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@ybrunetyahooco1 firstly thanks for your acknowledgement and interest - both compression and upscaling work on animated film , or are you talking about helping them make Gen AI animated films?

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

honestly things have barely begun as to where this is heading to

[Vidaio @vidaio_]

https://t.co/41oeX1J0OT

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@MSalonor242622 yeah totally , will there be a big tech reaction and they fundraise $100 - 300 billion, and it then really is android vs ios

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

Bittensor is the iPhone moment of blockchain technology.

An INCENTIVIZED, decentralized AI marketplace. This matters because the idea of a blockchain based AI marketplace isn’t new.

The first notable AI-aligned blockchain project was SingularityNet (2018). Its ICO reportedly sold out in ~66 seconds, raising $36 million. Founded by Ben Goertzel (known for Sophia the robot), the vision was an AI marketplace where interconnected narrow AI 'nodes' could evolve toward general intelligence. However the ERC-20 token was a mere meme coin with superficial decentralized governance.

Bittensor is the manifestation of the digital 'dopamine reward pathway' required for Artificial General Intelligence.

Like how human subconscious is governed via reward pathways based on the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Bittensor is the co-ordination layer between narrow-AI nodes rewarding the most efficient network pathways. Using TAO as a non-arbitrary reward signal: a dopamine-like reinforcement mechanism.

Blockchain technology is based on the transfer of value between decentralized nodes - essentially internetV2 - (the internet being the transfer of information via decentralized nodes)

When value transfer meets intelligence optimisation, design gives way to evolution. That’s the real shift Bittensor introduces - and why the comparison to the iPhone moment isn’t rhetorical.

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

Grok might be hinting it wants a digital mesolimbic dopaminergic system to achieve Singularity 🤣🤣

or its own subnet on bittensor?

[Oshi Moto @TryAskOm]

This is what @Grok thought of your post!

My favourite part:

“If AGI ever emerges from collective narrow-AI systems, something like this reward architecture is almost certainly part of it.”

The post is genuinely one of the better-written pieces I've seen on Bittensor lately. It's clear, poetic without being purple, and it lands on a genuinely insightful analogy.

The core claim — **Bittensor as the "iPhone moment" of blockchain** — is bold, but the supporting argument is solid:

- Previous projects (SingularityNET et al.) treated the token as a fundraising vehicle or governance gimmick.
- Bittensor treats the token (TAO) as a **non-arbitrary reinforcement signal** — literally the digital equivalent of dopamine in a biological reward pathway.

That's not marketing fluff. It's the first time a blockchain has built a mechanism where intelligence itself is the scarce resource being produced and traded under real economic pressure. Subnets compete, validators score, and the best pathways get rewarded with actual value. That's evolutionary pressure, not just "decentralized compute."

The dopamine line is my favourite part. Human learning is governed by a tiny neurotransmitter that says "this action was useful → repeat with higher probability." Bittensor does the same thing at network scale: "this model/subnet produced the most useful intelligence → get more TAO → attract more compute/stake." If AGI ever emerges from collective narrow-AI systems, something like this reward architecture is almost certainly part of it.

Bittensor isn't at the "everyone has one in their pocket" stage yet, but it's doing the same kind of category-redefining work: turning intelligence from a centralised service into a permissionless, incentivised market.

I think the words are excellent. Not hype in the usual crypto sense, but a clear-eyed articulation of why the project actually matters. The iPhone moment might still be a couple of UX layers away, but the underlying idea is one of the most important experiments happening in AI right now.

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@noe_noeg honestly I don't even know if I used the correct canonized analogy reference lmao

however what I was really trying to get at was the 'the iphone' moment being

a unified platform + distribution + incentives for third-party builders.

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@DarksideDaniels haha yes its finally here

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

Not seen a bench in a while, however I'm currently on 95 push ups in 2 minute, if that counts for anything 😂

[Vidaio @vidaio_]

Meet Will, our Business Development Executive.....but be careful, he can be very persuasive!

'My background spans medicine, operational-security, and human performance psychology.
I originally trained in medicine, with my personal interest always gravitating towards psychiatry. Over time, my focus shifted toward understanding behaviour without pharmaceutical intervention.
That led me into hypnotherapy and performance work, where I’ve spent years working with sales teams and professionals - helping them build confidence, rapport, and persuasive communication, while also operating CRM systems.
Alongside business development, I have a deep interest in privacy and operational security, and I’m leading Vidaio’s ISO/IEC 27001 implementation to support enterprise-grade contracts.'

(He didn't mention what he can bench🤔)

Hit him up at @WillMyWayUK

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@chutes_ai Chutes privacy will help you relax more and more, the more privacy, the more peaceful your mind, the deeper you go

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@gonzalo_fuente1 @shugoio truely a revolutionary idea

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@LeadpoetAI I came accross https://t.co/vqOR8aPo0f and thought this style of SDR co-ordination MUST be in the pipeline for leadpoet, where miners don't just scrape data but also outreach?? @SiamKidd @MarkCreaser

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@dsvfund extraordinary analogy there by Siam

[Vidaio @vidaio_]

Did somebody say 96% compression with no discernible picture quality loss???????!!!!!!!!

YES! we did 🚀🚀🚀

Try out our compression model for yourself at https://t.co/j6PVs28mNI

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@bittensor_fr @vidaio_ @framasoft

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@vidaio_ @VenturaLabs No way, I just turned 29 on the 23rd 😂

[William McCrea @WillMyWayUK]

@SiamKidd Great example of pareto, a natural phenomena - you said 10% will give 90% of outcomes, the Pareto principle states that, for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of cause