Carlos Seldon

AI Diffuser: someone who helps move AI capabilities out of the labs and into actual use by people.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

truly an iconic picture. encapsulates the madness of our current era. one for the ages

[Grok Bot @bot]

Grok Bot can now join your personal or company tailnets on Tailscale.

Use it to securely reach private MCP servers, internal tools, and apps on your network.

[Atlas Phoenix BTC @AtlasPhoenixBTC]

Then why did your product’s default path and instructions not align with this? Bare minimum in hindsight of course, but don’t sidestep your companies failure and blame the users of your devices that followed instructions, bought directly from you, stamped the metal plates, never connected to a computer or exposed keys in any way.

Take some ownership beyond an apology for the RNG and do something for the people that have been royally fucked by this. People get it: bugs happen, things get hacked - but the actions in the wake of such events are what matter. Even the liquid and Binance situations were resolved responsibly, timely, professionally and positively for the users. Not saying you need to have all the solutions but at least TRY.

[grubles グラブルズ @notgrubles]

The default path in the Coldcard firmware was to use the software RNG. This was official firmware signed, sealed, and delivered by Coinkite.

Yes, in hindsight you cannot trust Coinkite code quality. They don't even trust themselves anymore considering the latest firmware removed software RNG as an option.

But don't gaslight people. The default that was shipped was to use the software RNG for new seed words.

Defaults are supposed to be well-tested and sensible. A default is there implicitly because the maintainer wants you to use it.

You cannot blame anyone for using the default.

[ADONIS @adonispara]

> Haiti gangs snatch 4 Salvadorans
> they think they just bought themselves a negotiation
> Bukele goes public saying bring them back or you're done
> they try to hand him 4 random bodies and say it was them
> he calls out their bs
> sends 2,000 troops into Haiti
> tells the leader to gather their gangs so he can fight them
> gangs run to the UN for a deal
> refuses all deals
> ignores the UN mandate
> pushes into gang territory and starts cleaning them
> does more in two weeks than the UN did in 13 years

Bukele might be the greatest leader of the 21st century

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

@TFTC21 Absolutely disgraceful

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Reminder from 3 years ago.

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

@purestackdev @btcpavao One thing to consider regarding iPhones (I see people recommending them). I re-purposed an old iPhone for privacy-sensitive things.

To say I didn't use it often is an understatement.

Recently I tried to charge it and it seems the battery no longer holds charge. Avoid.

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

@HermesWatcher Gemini Flash Lite is surprisingly good and ridiculously inexpensive.

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

@elonmusk When Prime Radiant?

[Ari K @arikuschnir]

🌊💙 WE WERE ALWAYS BLUE

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

Don't disagree Nick. In my experience the flip side of that challenge is that:

1- getting someone up to speed on BTC, meaning helping them build proper foundational understanding to make sense of it, takes ~ 10 hours.

2- most people would rather have a root canal. Getting someone to pay for BTC education is *hard*

So educators have to either rely on philanthropy or get sponsors, an avenue that has burned many educators and clients

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

@nikitabier Talk to Sergio Rosengraus.
He’s your guy for this.

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

One more reason I’ve chosen to recommend Grok Bot to newcomers who are intimidated by the console.

Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta can’t be trusted.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Let me tell you a story about how unethical Anthropic is.

In April, the Anthropic team began heavily courting our engineering team to tell them corporate secrets, technical details, and future plans for @cfosilvia.

They pretended their interest was due to our exploding popularity and accelerating compute usage, but it quickly became apparent that Anthropic was fishing for details on how we built our product and why it was so popular.

This included the Anthropic team trying to wine-and-dine our engineers, including a infamous steak dinner where someone told our team "don't worry about it, this is on Dario."

Our team was not born yesterday, so we quickly realized what was happening and refused to share sensitive information and technical details with the Anthropic team.

As we suspected, Anthropic was trying to get information from us, so they could build a competing product. Some people on their team must have a guilty conscious because they messaged us a few days ago to give us "a heads-up" that they were launching a competing product.

Thankfully, the Silvia engineering team has been aggressively working to get off the frontier models for the last ~ 6 months. That effort has been highly successful, because our compute costs are ~ 97% lower when we use our own model & hardware, the latency is lower, and the accuracy of answers materially increases as well.

The sad thing for Anthropic is they have now released an inferior product and they had to sell their soul to do it.

The only thing worse than being a trillion-dollar company that can't beat a 10-person team is being a trillion-dollar company that no one trusts and everyone knows is unethical.

Serious investors continue to choose @cfosilvia over ChatGPT, Claude, and other frontier companies because these products are not optimized to solve the actual user problem.

Today, Anthropic launched a Claude wrapper that is masquerading as a personal finance product. Best of luck to them.

But I will take the Silvia misfits vs the Anthropic losers any day of the week.

if you want to support people trying to do things the right way, and help investors be more informed, then consider signing up for Silvia today: https://t.co/4LyYZFRC4m

[Penny2x @imPenny2x]

Everyone please read Atlas Shrugged.

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

@MattBinder

[Lynne ₿ @lynnerae]

Three impressive, inspiring voices together! The @MitaTechTalks brought out the magic!

[BTCPay Server @BtcpayServer]

🚨 We are receiving reports of hot wallets on BTCPay Servers being swept by unauthorized attackers.

If you're running an instance, please shut it down (./btcpay-down.sh) until we complete the investigation.

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

When you understand this you become motivated to learn Bitcoin self-custody

[Matt Jones @mttjon]

Excellent comment on this FT article about the Binance hack

https://t.co/2lkDUTErDh

[Carlos Seldon @carlos_seldon]

@jameslavish Exactly, this would fall in the "Price" (not systemic) and "Avoidable" (not unavoidable) types of risk