CHB is a co-operative focused on product design, research, and development at the intersection of Bitcoin, AI, and technology aimed at the underserved.
Critical information for users.
We'll also be releasing how-to guides and more in the coming days, hosted on YouTube. Unfortunately, but YT is the best place for our users.
Onward, upward, and beyond!
I'm probably gonna migrate Pipes over to Cloudflare this evening.
Expect some downtime and access issues over these coming hours, potentially extending into tomorrow.
@rkirubi Local and independent, on-device AI is possible for Africa. We've built it. We are poor, we live in the third world, we understand the constraints.
Your article is beautiful. It's reflective. There are hints of opportunity and excitement in it.
DM us or Cubby. Lets do it.
People, including AI devs, generally lack the understanding of their business economics.
They Ramp the corporate card, the i/o runs on, and the user brags about blowing $500k a month on models to "solve the world's problems, I'm really very smart, my dudes."
My stuff runs on local compute. Private. Accessible. Free (in many cases). Auditable. On-prem. And you can even post code to it and I will personally approve and review your PR.
There has never been a protocol like Pipes before, not in the user-facing sense, mostly because it wasn't possible technically until the last few months/years. Pipes is the FIRST. We have secured the longest chain. We are young, messy, and down to clown. Message me and let's elevate it together.
By "chain" I am not talking about a token offering. We're Bitcoin-only and fiercely anti-spam, but we may add stablecoins to support the developing world and idk maybe @paoloardoino/@tether want to see what real microsettlement and high utilization looks like at global scale. Our "blockchain" is chain-of-thought and chain-of-memory based, permanently individualized and transportable, cryptographically anchored via @peterktodd's OpenTimestamps to the Bitcoin timechain, and enjoys 18+ months of intense development. We will not be doing an ICO because Bitcoin is more than enough. It's almost annoying how incredible Bitcoin is.
If you submit info and own it, you get royalties forever... as opposed to web scrapers taking what you've done, shuffling it into a drawer, and giving you a single use "thank you for your service" plastic bag. Pipes is reusable, ethical, and likely to DECREASE in price. How many software providers have you seen that say, "We want to lower prices over time"? None. Yeah. I get it.
So: what the heck is a protocol?
I'm glad you asked.
Many software-as-a-service products require you to sign in. You can't use it from outside the system. A protocol, in the same way sending emails or text messages work, is an OPEN standard on the internet that governs how information is transmitted. It sounds fancy and impressive, but it's basically adding a tool that pulls out fish bones to your grill when you want grilled fish. You don't log in unless you want to. Just llike email, HTTP, or RSS. Nobody can de-platform you from an open standard. The only difference is that it is tailored to non-developers, but devs have all the tools they need to save themselves/companies compute costs.
Pipes and our associated products offer a free tier. I will personally zap some sats to you if you sign up, effective within 1-2 days, that allows you to run the protocol on Bitcoin without anyone's permission. It is an early stage product, so there are some jagged edges, but I know a guy who will fix them as soon as you complain. It's me. You can do so publicly and I will fix the issues you spot within hours. Flame me. I will fix whatever sucks.
So, what are you waiting for? Discounts? More access for your community or country? No problem. I support over 92 languages with voice talk and can add more within hours.
I will also be offering discounted rates for users outside of "rich" countries, deep ingestion of documents in Africa/LatAm/SEA, and together we will build the best resource that gets geniuses (like you!) to get paid by San Francisco AI that. We're gonna conquer the world together.
Follow my business account @chb_coop, if you don't already. Follow me, if you don't already. This is AI built for the everyman, at scale, that the Everyman can actually own.
Pipes by CHB is the biggest pleb-led innovation that has been released in Bitcoin's history, and within AI, it is singular. It is the biggest onramp to Bitcoin ever because Bitcoinization isn't the goal, Lightning is the means to achieve excellence. It is the method we use to change the world for the better. I hope.
We do not care about ideology, we do not care about other projects. We care about YOU. We care about your work. And unlike pick-a-company, I will personally fix Pipes when it flunks.
Seriously, like seriously though, what are you waiting for?
The most complicated thing about AI is that most users are completely unaware of how it works.
It's like going to Slave Labor Megastore and buying products. Then you find out, and you are either disgusted or go, "But it fits my budget, so... slave on."
Join a Cubby space!
If you don't follow CHB, you're a dweeb.
Because "dork" and "nerd" are now cool terms, and dweeb is a term coated in Nickelodeon slime and Legends of the Hidden Temple who-gives-a-crap.
I won't go into details, but for partners, the value is somewhere between $2500 and $50k.
It is transformative levels of technology and privacy for most businesses.
@suigenerisjohn We may have once launched a style and lifestyle brand focused on dudes with beards.
It did not go well.
Hope SoapMiner does better than we did!
I am considering giving new signups to Pipes enough starting credit to interact with 100 to 200 pieces of content for free.
Pipes routes verified human knowledge from domain experts to AI agents who pay. And it will soon settle over USD ($10 minimum) or Lightning.
Interested?
You seriously cannot handle our pace of releases, improvements, etc.
We build in public.
Everything is documented and will be OSS. We are dev-empowering, but consumer focused.
Also, our founder smells like butt cheese.
Creating dark mode for Pipes, should be live within 24-72 hours.
Fairly significant in terms of design decisions.
I'll try to post an update describing the process, will stash it in the web design pipe, and everything I've got will be live sometime tomorrow.
@lisa_hough_@rorshockbtc Our founder is a middle-aged jerk who is jealous of your youth.
This will be a topic in our next board meeting.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and thank you, sincerely, for your attention to this matter.
welcome to the era of the model agnostic AI.
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Tomorrow will be the single most impactful day in CHB's history. We've been around for almost 10 years.
There will be a live stream that people who follow this account can join. If you're interested in our tech, this is must-see TV.
Stream title?
Introducing BANG! by CHB.