Frontier Models Eating All, SF's AI Dominance, Bitcoin Vegas Announcements
Show Notes
0:00 May Day, hitting the road for College Basketball, and WE'RE BACK on schedule
2:20 Let's start with Vegas and Block's new Bitkey. Can it help against wrench attacks?
13:44 Tap to pay & NFC payments on Square to trigger a CashApp bitcoin transaction
16:14 CashApp now offering 5% bitcoin back and enabling P2P Payments over bitcoin
18:16 River pioneered proof-of-reserves and liabilities; Block just followed suit
26:40 A new product from a traditional SF fintech, Aven, launched bitcoin-backed liquidity and cards. Similar to Surge, who's building at PB using a signer network and MPC.
29:50 Revisiting strategies and approaches to Bitcoin-based loans and liquidity
38:02 Strike being explored by Tether & XXI? What's the strategy here?
46:01 Saylor explaining STRC Stretch at Vegas. Steve's reveal next week!
47:53 Latest Hackathon at PB last weekend with Hack Nation AI. Over 5,000 applicants!
1:04:04 DK's favorite ₿uilder Event last week! Mesh LLM and Goose Perception
1:13:03 The age of caring about machine specs and capabilities is BACK!
1:14:59 Takeaways from AI conversations in SF: everyone switching to Open Source for economics & privacy
1:20:13 Frontier models taking over the world, being shut down by governments, or leaving for open source?
1:26:05 Max puts Steve on the spot: X Money using CashTags?
1:29:02 SF is so BACK!
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