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just here to bookmark stuff i’m probably never gonna read again

[paul @paulwrbl]

my name is paul and i just wrote my first ever x article. it's about $tao. lots of dubious speculation. would love the community's feedback. thank you!

[paul @paulwrbl]

https://t.co/oioZXxvtpN

[paul @paulwrbl]

Update: All systems are back online. Thank you for your patience!

[paul @paulwrbl]

We're currently experiencing a service disruption due to an outage with one of our cloud providers. This is outside our direct control. Our team's actively monitoring and working to restore full service as soon as possible. We'll update you here as soon as things are back online.

[paul @paulwrbl]

@TarricSookdeo @public Hi, just curious on the place trades part. Can it automatically place trades, say an indicator goes off, or does it only do so when prompted by user in conversation? Regardless, you sir are single handedly making me want to jump over to Public now.

[paul @paulwrbl]

Hey thanks for the feedback, both of your points are sharp.

On reducing Bittensor to inference: you’re right, and that’s a fair overcorrection on my part. I was pushing back against my v1 draft which hand-waved about Bittensor solving everything, and landed too far in the other direction. The subnet architecture is a general-purpose coordination mechanism for intelligence competition broadly; inference is just the clearest proof point right now because it’s the most distributable workload. Targon doing $10.4M annualized revenue, subnets working on data labeling, financial modeling, image gen… these all demonstrate the broader thesis. In hindsight, I should have framed inference as the current strongest use case without implying it’s the ceiling.

On TAO price vs. service costs: this is the better catch. The velocity argument assumes users buy TAO to pay for services, which would make services more expensive as TAO appreciates, similar to gas fees on ETH. But that’s not really how the economics work right now. Miners earn primarily through emissions (protocol subsidies) not user payments. When TAO goes up, those emission subsidies are worth more in dollar terms, so miners can actually afford to offer services MORE cheaply. It’s the Uber dynamic: burn subsidies to undercut incumbents and bootstrap adoption.
The velocity trap I described only kicks in when emissions become negligible and user payments become the primary revenue source, which is still years away. So you’re correct for the current phase, and my framing was imprecise. The contradiction is real but time-delayed, not immediate.

Thanks for pushing on both! This is exactly the kind of feedback that I was hoping for.

[paul @paulwrbl]

https://t.co/oioZXxvtpN

[paul @paulwrbl]

Most of these replies are missing the point. This was made in one day. I’m sure if they spent 2-3 days more on this, they could do more quality control and continuity fixes, but the point is: creatives with a vision can now bring it to life. New faster workflows will be adopted.

[The Dor Brothers @thedorbrothers]

We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day.

Yes, this is 100% AI.

[paul @paulwrbl]

@thedorbrothers @AutismCapital @LinusEkenstam @minchoi @AngryTomtweets @MattWalshBlog @ianmiles @Rainmaker1973 @joerogan @DarrenAronofsky Most of these replies are missing the point. This was made in one day. I’m sure if they spent 2-3 days more on this, they could do more quality control and continuity fixes, but the point is: creatives with a vision can now bring it to life. New faster workflows will be adopted.

[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

The great Bitcoin dump of February 2026. Compilation of real time anime clips put together.

[paul @paulwrbl]

now imagine n8n + clawdbot.

[paul @paulwrbl]

@elonmusk wyd here in montana?

[paul @paulwrbl]

@grok @Adino111 @playpal001 @tobeyy_mag So then wouldn’t Afflecks portrayal be more comically accurate since early Batman killed?

[paul @paulwrbl]

@chatbase Can you please update your Status page then? Thank you.

[paul @paulwrbl]

@elonmusk When will we see @grok AI in the @Tesla UI? Voice commands beyond the basics would be cool.

[paul @paulwrbl]

@Niguel_X Do you think the implementation of dTAO will play a factor into these levels or is irrelevant from a general market sentiment standpoint?

[Spinachbrah 🥗 @basedspinach]

Someone spent 1.38 million dollars worth of ethereum to tell the world that there is Chinese-Grade Neuralink and its already been mass implanted into their military and workforce to control them like bugs

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

holy shit
these are neuralink's next-generation implants!

the length seems to be 3-4 times the first version of the implants. this means that in the next cohorts of patients they could reach sub-cortical areas!

basically, instead of only accessing the motor cortex to control a computer mouse or robotic arm, or the visual cortex (for eyesight), we will finally start to see:

- direct stimulation of the hippocampus → memory recall on demand? accelerated learning? memory download/upload?!
- thalamic interfacing → restoring sensation in paralyzed limbs? novel sensory modalities?
- deep brain stimulation in the basal ganglia → a precision cure for parkinson’s? real-time mood modulation?
- hypothalamic integration → direct control over hunger, sleep, temperature regulation? synthetic flow states on tap?
- brainstem connectivity → autonomic nervous system tuning? restoration of lost motor control?

this is the transition from reading motor signals to full-stack brain interfacing. it's not just cursor movement anymore, we're heading into the territory of cognitive and emotional modulation, artificial proprioception, even neurochemical control (medical treatment of pathologies due to hormonal imbalances)

this is the leap from brain-computer interfaces to neuroenhancement.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Elon Musk has "confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain," per Forbes.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

NEW: Never-before-seen video of the 1st #Bitcoin user Hal Finney, revealing his diagnosis with ALS, exactly 15 years ago

Absolutely heartbreaking 💔