Echos

Free, open-source AI transcription app. Private, offline-first voice-to-text transcription. No accounts or data sharing. Developed by @A1Laboratory & @JAN3com.

[Echos @A1Echos]

Every time you record a meeting or a private thought, that audio is uploaded to a server, processed, and then used to train a big company's AI. 🤖

What if you could take notes and transcribe your thoughts while maintaining your privacy?

We made it possible! 🔥

[Tobias Wupperfeld @tobiaswup]

Most downloaded open-source LLMs last month.
Qwen and Gemma are the most popular model families.
You can run most of them on your laptop.

[Tobias Wupperfeld @tobiaswup]

I think you can learn anything 10x faster now with LLMs. You basically have a super-intelligent teacher who can adapt exactly to your learning style.

[ndeet ∞/21M @ndeet]

Watching GPU/ram prices for months now hoping it will get cheaper. It didn't and it won't 12+ months. I had to pull the trigger. Open models get better and more efficient. Frontier get crippled and I can't give it access to personal data out of principle.

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

This should be the final release of AQUA Flutter. Our next release will be a completely rebuilt version of AQUA, code-named AQUA NEO, which our CTO @BraginRights has been leading development on. 🔥

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

Bitcoin's next leg up will be the most hated rally of all time. Everyone had the opportunity to buy the dip but didn't because they were waiting for $40k in October.

[Echos @A1Echos]

Stop trading easy notes for your privacy! 🔐

Echos transcribes 50+ languages, is free, open source, and private by design.

Access the power of global AI, securely on your device. 🦾📱

[Echos @A1Echos]

@tobiaswup @yoitsmanan 👀🔥

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

Some people will say this isn’t real.

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

Correcting some inaccuracies in this Bloomberg article.

➡️ Exacore did not raise $2 billion through the sale of notes. $2 billion was the upper limit for issuance of notes.
➡️ Natinfosec is a blog spun up by BIP110 crazies that were angry Adam didn't support it. You can guess who's behind it.

Blockstream and Liquid will be just fine.

[Alex Bragin @BraginRights]

That’s how I walk away from the bears.

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

I'm seeing a lot of freshly made accounts or BIP110 accounts complaining about having their funds stuck in Liquid. While it is possible that some Liquid users (like traders) have large amounts of L-BTC they cannot peg out yet, real AQUA users should not be "stuck," since Liquid-to-Lightning swaps via Indra are operational.

Moreover, we have disabled reverse swaps (Lightning to Liquid), so no AQUA users will receive L-BTC from Lightning. This is to make sure they do not accumulate L-BTC until peg operations are fully restored.

AQUA clearly labels the L2 Bitcoin account as a spending wallet, which should hold whatever you intend to spend in the near term (small amounts, like what you would keep in ecash or WoS), not your life savings.

Restoring full Liquid functionality is squarely on Blockstream's shoulders, as they are the technical service provider for the network. I believe another update should be coming soon. JAN3/AQUA can only support our users while the work is being done.

[JAN3 @JAN3com]

Another big meeting for economic freedom in the region!

JAN3 investor @RicardoBSalinas met with President @DanielNoboaOk to discuss security, investment, and economic opportunities for Ecuador and Latin America. 🇲🇽 🇪🇨

[Echos @A1Echos]

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[Echos @A1Echos]

Most voice-to-text apps check one of these boxes. Echos checks all three. 

✓ Fully offline
✓ Free
✓ Open-source

Built by @A1Laboratory to show that AI can be useful without being extractive.

Download Echos now and see for yourself. 👇

[JAN3 @JAN3com]

Plan accordingly. 😎📈

Video by @MaxisClub.

[Tobias Wupperfeld @tobiaswup]

Jev vs locally running Laya-MLX and Kev-4B

I built my own snake benchmark. Jev @typesafeai is running via API.
The other models are small alternatives running on very little RAM on my Macbook!

Jev seems to deliver the best quality no doubt! After running it for a while 0 deaths.
Laya died pretty early on and then ran in a loop without catching any food.
Kev died twice in the same time but runs much faster at ~175ms latency while Jev needs ~395ms.
Laya is crazy fast at ~33ms but I guess you need to train it to increase output quality.

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

Things have been challenging lately and I couldn’t imagine getting through it all without the incredible @JAN3com team.

Everyone is mission-focused and fully committed to Bitcoin. 🙏🏻

[JAN3 @JAN3com]

JAN3 CTO @BraginRights shares his take on agentic payments at @btcprague. That future is near, and we’re actively laying the groundwork with @A1Laboratory. ⚡️🤖

[JAN3 @JAN3com]

Hyperbitcoinization won't happen quietly. 🌎🚀

JAN3 CEO @Excellion is returning to Switzerland for @LuganoPlanB 2026 to deliver his keynote: The Battle for the Future.

📅 Oct 23–24, 2026

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

We are aware of reports that @AquaBitcoin users are seeing failed payments occasionally when using Indra for @Liquid_BTC to Lightning swaps. This is because our @Core_LN node is still quite new and connectivity needs to be improved. The team is actively working on this. 🙏🏻🐬