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#Bitcoin

[BiτcoinGeorge @BitcoinGeorge]

@JulianGoldieSEO YES

[Owen Kemeys @OwenKemeys]

We live in hell

[Yuma @YumaGroup]

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[Dr. Fahd S. Khan @ProfFahdKhan]

The most asymmetric trade in #Crypto is sitting in plain sight at a $2.7 billion MC.

Being an academic, I have spent time thinking abt the mathematical case for $TAO, reviewing frameworks & recent reports.

$1 TRILLION #Bittensor Market Cap by Sept 2034 (~370x).

Here’s how: 🧵

[curb @CryptoCurb]

"so you staked your ETH on the Ethereum blockchain to earn yield?"

"yes, Dave"

"except you didn't want your capital to be locked up so you actually staked it with a liquid staking protocol called Lido?"

"that's correct, Dave"

"and Lido gave you a liquid staking receipt token called stETH in return?"

"yes, Dave"

"and then you didn't think that was enough, so you juiced the yield even further by depositing your stETH receipt tokens into a restaking protocol called Eigenlayer?"

"you are correct, Dave"

"and now you didn't want to lock up your capital, so you actually restaked with a liquid restaking protocol called KelpDAO who provided you with a liquid restaking receipt token called rsETH?"

"you got it, Dave"

"and then that was surely not enough juice, so you then deposited your rsETH tokens into a lending protocol called AAVE so that you could open a leveraged looping position that borrows ETH against the rsETH collateral and restakes the ETH into rsETH which is then deposited as collateral, except it turns out rsETH used a cross-chain bridge called LayerZero whose security is held together by a 1/1 toothpick, which was obviously hacked by north koreans causing rsETH to become undercollateralized and now these looping positions are stuck and unprofitable, and everyone is pointing fingers at each other, and also DeFi is a very serious industry"

"you are 100% correct, dave"

jfc.

[SubConnect @WeAreSubConnect]

This is what real adoption looks like

The beauty of this partnership is that it’s not just one partnership.

When PwC starts offering Manako, built by $TAO subnet 44 Score, to its clients, you’re not looking at a single deal.

You’re looking at distribution at scale.

PwC is one of the Big Four, they work with some of the largest companies in the world. Now imagine how many of those companies are operating cameras.

From retail to logistics to manufacturing to nfrastructure and many more.

All of them sitting on massive amounts of unused data.

And now they’re being introduced to a system that can actually turn that into real-time intelligence and action.

A lot of people still underestimate what’s happening here, this isn’t just another AI product.

This is infrastructure that plugs directly into the real world.

All the cameras are already there.

What didn’t exist was a system that could understand it and act on it in real time.

That’s what Manako is building.

And it’s powered by Bittensor.

This is why we’re so bullish on $TAO. Because this is where everything comes together.

A problem, solved by a product that just got a significant distribution pipeline.

And underneath it, a subnet that captures that value.

If this gets rolled out across even a fraction of PwC’s network, you’re talking about adoption at scale.

And once that starts, things tend to move fast.

Because now significant value is coming from outside the ecosystem.

Enterprises paying for better operations, better decisions, less loss and more efficiency.

1⃣ That demand flows into the product.
2⃣ The product is powered by the subnet.
3⃣ And the subnet sits inside the $TAO economy.

That’s the flywheel.

We’ve been in crypto long enough to know how rare this is.

Most projects never get here.

They don’t have the product, nor the distribution or a system that can actually capture the value.

This has all three.

And when that happens, it usually doesn’t stay unnoticed for long.

This is one of those moments where everything just clicks.

And honestly, it doesn’t get much better than this.

$TAO

[BiτcoinGeorge @BitcoinGeorge]

@tao_punks Whales get 5? I only see 2 though. Help please

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

THIS IS BIG.

A Bitcoin developer has built a working prototype that protects your wallet from quantum computers. Even if Bitcoin is forced to shut down part of its own security system to protect itself.

To understand why this matters you need to understand the problem first. Every Bitcoin wallet is secured by a cryptographic signature scheme built on elliptic curve mathematics.

The security assumption behind this system is that deriving a private key from a publicly visible public key requires computational work that classical computers cannot perform within any practical timeframe.

Quantum computers running Shor's algorithm can break that assumption. Google researchers published findings last week showing a quantum computer could compromise Bitcoin's core cryptography in as little as nine minutes, using significantly fewer physical qubits than prior estimates required.

The threat is not immediate but the timeline is compressing faster than most researchers projected.

Now here is where it gets complicated. Bitcoin's Taproot upgrade, activated in 2021, improved transaction efficiency and privacy across the network.

But by design it permanently exposes the public key of every Taproot wallet on the blockchain. Because that public key is permanently recorded and publicly visible, a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could use it to derive the corresponding private key and drain the wallet at any point in the future.

Approximately 6.9 million Bitcoin across Taproot and older P2PK address formats are already in this exposed state.

The developer community has a contingency plan for this scenario. If quantum computers advance to the point where this becomes an active threat, Bitcoin could activate an emergency soft fork that disables the key path spend in Taproot, which is the specific spending mechanism a quantum attacker would exploit.

This closes the vulnerability before it can be exploited.

But this emergency response introduces a serious secondary problem that nobody had resolved until now. The vast majority of modern Bitcoin wallets, particularly single signature Taproot wallets, rely entirely on that key path spend mechanism and have no alternative spending path configured.

If Bitcoin disables that mechanism network wide, those wallets have no remaining method to authorize transactions. The funds inside them become permanently inaccessible, not stolen, but completely unspendable even by their rightful owners.

The same upgrade designed to protect users could permanently strand their funds.

This is the problem that Olaoluwa Osuntokun, chief technology officer of Lightning Labs, just solved with a working prototype posted to the Bitcoin developer mailing list yesterday. His solution uses a zk-STARK proof, which stands for zero knowledge scalable transparent argument of knowledge. In practical terms this means the following.

Every Bitcoin wallet is ultimately derived from a master seed, typically the 12 or 24 word recovery phrase generated when the wallet is first created. All keys in the wallet are mathematically derived from that seed following a deterministic standard called BIP-32.

Osuntokun built a system that generates a cryptographic proof demonstrating that a specific public key was derived from a specific master seed via the standard BIP-32 derivation path, without revealing the seed itself or any intermediate private key material.

The Bitcoin network can verify the proof and authorize the wallet owner to move their funds, bypassing the disabled signature mechanism entirely.

The prototype generates a valid proof in 50 seconds on a standard MacBook using Metal GPU acceleration, consumes approximately 12 gigabytes of RAM during proof generation, and produces a final proof of 1.7 megabytes. Osuntokun acknowledged the codebase is largely unoptimized and that a production implementation built specifically for this statement would run significantly faster and produce smaller proofs.

He also noted that multiple proofs could be aggregated into a single compact proof to reduce on-chain verification overhead.

Cryptographically relevant quantum computers capable of executing this attack do not exist today.

What has changed is that Google's latest research has materially lowered the estimated resource requirements for such an attack, and the practical timeline is now closer than the field previously assumed.

What is also new is that the developer community now has a working prototype of one of the critical tools needed to execute an emergency quantum defense without permanently locking legitimate holders out of their own funds.

A problem that has existed in theoretical discussions for years has now produced a concrete technical implementation.

[BiτcoinGeorge @BitcoinGeorge]

@Lennobeer Nice one. Alien 420 punk. 🗿

[BiτcoinGeorge @BitcoinGeorge]

@CryptoZPunisher Community building, residual income, rotation of profits from subnets - no regreτs

[BiτcoinGeorge @BitcoinGeorge]

@Rpequ2322 @tao_punks Lovely 🥰 🧟‍��️

[BiτcoinGeorge @BitcoinGeorge]

@KentonC137 @bittensor @markjeffrey Great podcast! 👏🦾

[THORChain @THORChain]

Mark Jeffery Bittensor Fund Podcast #187 https://t.co/GjRvaD0eXC

[BiτcoinGeorge @BitcoinGeorge]

I just secured bitcoingeorge.tao on @NameTensor 🚀
The on-chain identity layer for @Bittensor.

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[Jolly Green Investor 🍀 @jollygreenmoney]

If you want to learn about Bittensor $TAO, the subnets, and why it is poised to lead the crypto market in 2026, start here:

Subnet Reviews:
SN64 Chutes: https://t.co/KeyZwSG55h
SN62 Ridges: https://t.co/DUEzvK06hN
SN50 Synth: https://t.co/iBaOL9emtC
SN4 Targon: https://t.co/nBs3lf2puS
SN93 Bitcast: https://t.co/NtLCzTL7r2
SN41 Almanac: https://t.co/uwM1uTyF3K
SN13 Data Universe: https://t.co/zU6JlDbdXu
SN54 Yanez: https://t.co/i0VIcDzA4s
SN51 Lium: https://t.co/cNudsiTElo
SN27 Nodexo: https://t.co/dTtzgerLbF
SN32 It's AI: https://t.co/a3a3t1n2gx
SN121 Sundae Bar: https://t.co/tEbSJtJoR9
SN36 Autoppia: https://t.co/kJSV5fu0nV
SN10 Swap: https://t.co/sHnsYrGPwR
Almanac, Zeus, Safescan: https://t.co/nP4Y4jFzzt
Gradients, Blockmachine, Numinous: https://t.co/ZAv5rbQWMV
Chutes, Swap, Nova: https://t.co/iM5O6zuuo0

Interviews:
Macrocosmos Interview: https://t.co/4jy4zkw8XT
Bittensor Fund Interview: https://t.co/Vap9DOl5ZO

General Bittensor:
Bittensor x OpenClaw: https://t.co/8NU5xT17Mq
Bittensor Adoption: https://t.co/VjFm2MGH3H
Bittensor DSV Hedge Fund: https://t.co/kNAEB3NBWe
Truth About Bittensor: https://t.co/DqCYkrFfWx

[Andy ττ @bittingthembits]

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[sun runner @0xSunRun]

GM

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

🇳🇱 Farm in the Netherlands uses Bitcoin mining to keep stable temperatures inside the greenhouse 👀

[BiτcoinGeorge @BitcoinGeorge]

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[Stillcore Capital @stillcorecap]

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