Dylan Wheeler

🇺🇲 Founder & Software Engineer @_WildCapital, dww.eth • I love humanity, create technology, and write about my experiences
#Bitcoin

[Dylan Wheeler @_dylanwheeler]

This is my new favorite video explainer. Watch to discover our problem. Reflect to understand why #Bitcoin is the solution.

Fix the money, fix the world. Thank you @satsvsfiat 🙏

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

What's The Problem?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time.

I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!

[The Free State Project @FreeStateNH]

The Sovereign Stack: Energy, Compute, and Sound Money as State Policy with Rep. Keith Ammon

Representative Keith Ammon (@RepKeithAmmon) introduces his “Sovereign Stack” concept, arguing that true individual sovereignty depends on control over three key layers: energy, computing, and sound money. He highlights New Hampshire’s push for policies like decentralized energy, advanced nuclear, Bitcoin reserves, and legal frameworks for DAOs to strengthen independence and innovation. Ammon emphasizes the growing importance of computational power and AI, warning that states that control compute will shape the future, while advocating for “computational freedom” and pro-tech legislation. He concludes that advancing liberty through these systems will drive prosperity, framing sovereignty as something actively built through policy and technology.

[Dylan Wheeler @_dylanwheeler]

Just discovered this cool account

Live posting from 25 years ago, and they also have ones going for 50, 100, and 250 years ago

Especially looking forward to 250 in July!

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

It is reported that Enron cannot keep up with accounting meetings, and that its audit committee is not knowledgeable about the company’s financial situation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opens an investigation into Enron’s finances.

[Dylan Wheeler @_dylanwheeler]

@tesla_na Batteries at scale 👨‍🍳

[Dylan Wheeler @_dylanwheeler]

This is what a currency collapse looks like

On January 9, the Iranian rial lost 99% of its value within hours

After the collapse, the entire price history of #Bitcoin denominated in IRR becomes almost a flat line

Bitcoin went from a hedge to a lifeboat overnight

[Rae 🍽️ @raechellambert]

Come build in New Hampshire. I’ll help you move.

No state sales, income, dividend, capital gains, or estate tax. Just property tax.

📍Near Boston and NYC.
⚕️Right to Try (medical)
☢️56% of energy from nuclear
💜Politically balanced

We’re building Freedom Village — a new neighborhood for entrepreneurs to live

[Live Free Press @LiveFreePressNH]

Most of NH's School Administrative Units (SAU) now pay their superintendent more than the Governor while property taxes keep climbing.

We mapped every town.

Read the full breakdown and explore the interactive map ⬇️

https://t.co/o5VQeeJi4E

[Erin Price-Wright @espricewright]

Today we @a16z are announcing American Dynamism Fund II! Together with Fund I, we have raised a total of $1.776 billion to invest in companies advancing America’s national interest.

Happy 250th birthday, America! It's time to build.

[Bearly AI @bearlyai]

Stack Overflow has seen the number of monthly questions on its platform collapse from 300k to ~0 since launch of ChatGPT.

But annual revenue is acrually up 2x over that span to $115m.

How? It has licensed its back-catalog of human answers to AI labs and created an enterprise product called “Stack Internal”, a GenAI tool powered by millions of its Q&A (currently used by 25,000 companies).

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

A brilliant new article by Saloni.

We can now develop vaccines in weeks, designed atom-by-atom, and manufacture billions of doses of them within months. We are protecting against more and more diseases faster and faster.

The golden age of vaccines is now.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

https://t.co/nVVqSm8DhO

[Wild Capital 🚾 @_WildCapital]

This season, homes become more than assets.

Kitchens get louder. Living rooms fill. Traditions repeat.

We think about housing the same way: built for real life and held long term.

Grateful for our partners, residents, and communities. Wishing everyone a warm holiday season!

[jack @jack]

the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence

[Rasty Turek @synopsi]

@typesfast Fahrenheit is how a human feels, Celsius is how a water feels, and Kelvin is how an atom feels.

[Georges St-Pierre @GeorgesStPierre]

One of my favorite quotes is the one from Marcus Aurelius: ‘The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.’
I think it’s always good to remember it.

[JT @jiratickets]

Poor guy has never ridden a bike down a big hill before

[Dylan Wheeler @_dylanwheeler]

The best conversations are the ones that make you look up from the spreadsheet model and wonder:

What if?

Grateful for friends who keep that instinct alive

Appreciate the shout 🙌 let’s keep building

[TJ Evarts @TJEvarts]

"If you’ve built an empire, the best possible use of it is to burn its capital like a torch and light up a corner of the future."

This goes so hard. @_dylanwheeler hold me accountable to this.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Man is made to create, not retire

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Capitalism doesn’t assume humans aren’t greedy. It assumes they are and refuses to give them power over others.

That’s the point.

Greed under capitalism is constrained by consent. You only get richer by offering something others voluntarily choose to pay for. If you stop providing value, the money stops.

Greed under collectivism is unconstrained. It’s backed by force. You get resources whether you create value or not, so long as you can moralize need or capture political power.

Also, capitalism doesn’t pit competition against cooperation. Competition is how we discover who can cooperate best. Every successful business is a massive act of cooperation with customers, workers, suppliers, and investors. It just isn’t coerced cooperation.

And the claim that capitalists never give back is empirically false. Private charity, philanthropy, reinvestment, and voluntary aid explode under capitalist systems and collapse under socialist ones.

What you’re really saying is this:

You don’t trust individuals to choose generosity. You trust the state to enforce it.

That isn’t moral. It’s just replacing voluntary cooperation with compulsory obedience.