CD192: ROUTSTR - NOSTR, AI, AND BITCOIN

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Happy Bitcoin

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Wednesday,

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freaks. It's your host, Odell, here for another

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Citadel Dispatch.

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The show focused on actual Bitcoin

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and freedom

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tech discussion.

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It's a very happy Bitcoin Wednesday.

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Seems like,

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I'm gonna say the quiet part out loud. Hopefully not jinx it. It seems like the bottom is in in a big way. Bitcoin is currently at $73,000.

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That's 1,368

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sats per dollar. Current block height is nine three nine two eight three.

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In Fiat land, that means today is Wednesday, March 4,

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and

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we're at sixteen hundred UTC. You guys will probably be listening to this

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in a few hours. I like to upload them right away.

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I thought maybe I'd

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start including

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the price of Bitcoin and gold

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and silver because I think we're gonna make a generational run against them.

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So it's just a fun thing to track. Current price of Bitcoin in gold is 13.27

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ounces,

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and one Bitcoin can also buy you 819

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ounces of silver. We're currently outperforming them both on the one day and one week while they're crushing us on the one month and one year. So we'll keep an eye on that.

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Freaks as always,

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Our highest zaps of last

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episode.

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Was, we got a 21,000 sat

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zap from Andy said, I didn't know what a lot of the words meant, but I love the intro.

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And then Rider Die Freak map twenty one sent 10,000 sats, and he said, great rip.

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I know I said that the next show was gonna be Bitcoin, but Leah from Vexel was sick. So we rescheduled her show. It'll be in the future. It should be in the next week or two. I have, like, four weeks of shows planned for you guys.

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But we'll be talking about AI again. We're gonna be talking about AI a lot, I think.

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It's an exciting rabbit hole. Anyway, freaks.

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Thank you for your support, whether that's sharing it or supporting with Bitcoin.

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Today, we will be talking about a project called Routester,

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which is this beautiful intersection with Nostril Bitcoin and AI.

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And I really do think it's all kind of compounding together.

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And this project is a perfect example of it. And we

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have a party rep, which we haven't had in a while with dispatch.

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We have four, the four main members of the routester team here.

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I'm gonna have them go around the horn and introduce themselves. We'll start with red. How's it going? Red shift, I think is your name. How's it going, Red?

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Yes. Yeah. I'm Red Shift. Hey.

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I I mean, thanks for having us here. First of all,

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glad to be here.

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I'm Red. I've been working on Lowser for almost, like, nine months now, one of the founders. And I've been a developer my whole life. I think, like, AI has just made it so much more fun. Now we can just, like, build some projects on the go, you know. So that's what I've been doing.

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That's how I came across Routesda.

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I I as a developer, I wanted to also as a developer, I understood on them. I wanted a solution like Routes to

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that's why I just wanted to try and build it myself instead of hoping hoping that someone would build it.

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Yeah. That's a brief intro. Obviously, I can't talk about about my past because I'm more suited on them.

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So

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yeah.

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What's

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I guess, let's introduce everyone. We have Abdul here. How's it going, sir?

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Hey. Thanks

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for having us first.

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I'm Abdul. I'm also a software developer since I don't know what account. Also started working in Nostril and

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Bitcoin

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couple of years ago. Also had the fun to start the $4.00 2 LLM

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thing. I saw your paper request and get your refund

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a couple of years ago for a friend. It was really funny. And then after I listed, I

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joined the roster team to collect ideas and

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work on

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the Freedom Tash

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of What did you say did you say LNVPS?

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Is that what you said? No. No. No. It's not me.

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With what project did you say? I missed it then. It's called the OTRTA.

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It's like one to rule them all. It's basically you pay

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you send the link cashew token with the LLM request, and then you get refunds Gotcha. Back

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from the

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providers.

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Gotcha. Gotcha. Thank you, Abdul. We have Evan here. How's it going, Evan?

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Hey.

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Thanks for having us here.

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So I've been building

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with AI for the past few years.

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And last year,

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I started working at Rouser,

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I think, since

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March

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2025.

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So it's been exactly

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a year now.

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So yeah.

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Love it.

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Thanks, Evan. And we got, last but not least, we have Shroom Inc here. Shroom in it? Shroom in it? How do I pronounce that? Shroom in it.

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Yeah. Yeah. Shroom in

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First, I wanna I wanna say support

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the show and leave a big fat zap.

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I I copied color here.

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But, yeah,

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I I was working

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a lot with, like, AI agents and

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doing, like, different open source projects, like, building, like

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with, like, LangChain, like, these, like, agent orchestration frameworks.

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I was always, like, really interested in

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Bitcoin.

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So

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yeah. Then I I started working on Rasa with Evan and

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RedJoint and OptoJoint, and,

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yeah, we've we've been pushing this now and and,

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yeah, really,

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really excited

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times.

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Love it. Before we jump in, I just also realized there was a fat sap that I missed from Phaedrus,

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21,000

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sats. He said incredibly inspiring. Love this narrative AI empowering the plebs. In the end, it can go either way. So inspiring more of us to work towards this path is so important. Thank you, guys. And, mean, I think that was incredibly well said setup for this conversation today.

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So let's get started. What is Routester? Why should people care?

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Yes. So Routester's

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basically, like,

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if you think about, like, the whole Nostre ecosystem, like, Nostre is just like

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node based

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database system in a really abstract way, but just like a way to build applications on top

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of Nostr to make decentralized applications.

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And Routes is kind of the layer to build AI applications

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if you wanna create decentralized AI applications. So

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it's kind of like the same philosophy of Doster,

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but, like, going

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like,

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trying to, like, decentralize AI in a way.

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But I thought maybe

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we can have different explanations for from everyone.

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Yeah. So I mean, like,

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also the diff like, what it is is also decentralized,

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you know, the definitions.

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Yeah. I mean, like, I see it also as this one one gateway or one protocol through which you can access any model out there, and you can just pay with pay with Bitcoin anonymously as well. So I think that's actually the best part. It's when the first of all decentralized information list, anybody without without an email

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can just

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use any LLM out there by just paying with paying with Bitcoin and Cashew tokens.

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And it's built on Nostril

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because

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someone there's there should be a way for us to discover, okay, who which are the nodes that are available in the market right now and which are the models that are available in the market right now. So Nostril helps us with the discovery part where

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every node announces an event saying that, hey, I'm available right now and these are the nodes that I offer at this price. Let's say thousand stats per million tokens.

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And as users, you just query Nostril

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relays and find the best router provider

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that you can find for your requirements. Just like start using it. And the best part is obviously there are

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15 active router providers right now. And if one of them goes goes down, you can always switch to the next one and the next one.

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Yeah. It's pretty wild. Yeah. I mean, so one of the things we've been focusing on the show is you have this dichotomy with

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AI tools. Right? You have these large big tech models and people using them in, you know, fully cucked ways. They're fully KYC. They're tracking everything you do. They're controlled and permissioned. And then you have

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these open source AI models, people self hosting them, people trying to use them in more freedom oriented ways. And then you have like this middle ground where you have things like PPQ

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and OpenRouter

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and Venice

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where people are basically paying per token and using proxy services.

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And there's all these different varying ways that people are using AI and how they are and how freedom oriented they are and how privacy oriented they are. And you guys are in that middle range

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somewhere there. The proxy services are also pretty hard to use privately besides routester. So with routester,

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what's kind of fascinating to me is you have these AI providers.

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And then these providers, like, it's not like it's

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Claude providing it directly. It's like a routester note. I'm reading them like non KYC AI is one of the providers. The Fox is another provider. And then they have they're also providing models.

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How is that working behind the scene? Because, I mean, I'm looking at like, you're able to hit

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the awesome proprietor, like the open source models kind of make sense to me. It's like, okay, like, anyone can really I mean, it's expensive, but anyone can technically host these open source models. But like for instance, the Cypherpunk

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provider is offering GPT 5.3

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Codex,

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which is a very proprietary

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walled garden open AI model.

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Like, how are they providing that? Are they just sitting in the middle and being a prox they're being a proxy to OpenAI. Right?

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Exactly. Yeah. I would say it's They're just being a proxy.

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Alright. Yeah. You wanna go?

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Yeah. I'll go. Yeah. They're just being a proxy. Like, you know, they

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are paying for their

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I mean, paying for inference using their credit cards in USD.

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So their KYC was OpenAI.

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Right? And then they're providing it at a higher cost to users of Routester?

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Yes. They would they would have a markup. Yeah. They would have a markup, and they're just reselling access to it.

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And that that's the only way we can access this state of the art models.

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Right? Because, like, we still need these models. Like, these are obviously the best models. And Right. Cyberpunks,

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Bitcoiners need the best models to build the next tech I mean, build masterfully.

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So if one of the nodes go down, there can be, like, 10 more nodes that can just, like, offer the same models from the same proprietary providers.

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I just thought you can maybe also think about, like,

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the master analogy that you have, like, random people running relays and they just relay messages.

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In Rust, they relay AI messages, but AI is, like, in a way centralized that, like, you need big data centers. So the only source

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of, like,

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intelligent AI messages is kind of like these big data centers. So just random people relay it and resell AI

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messages kind of.

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But also if you have an data center at home, you can relay your own messages. So you can basically

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resell your own

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AI

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if you if you wanna do that. Or maybe you have like some

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strands who has a data center so you could resell his

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AI.

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That's fascinating. And so, basically, what

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the result is is you're using Noster for identity and comms and reputation.

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You're using Bitcoin for payments.

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Obviously, the AI models are hosted in a variety of different ways. And there's effectively like a free market for these models, right? Like there's users can

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choose which provider they want, they can switch on demand.

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The providers need to be competitive with each other. Otherwise, people won't use them. They'll use the cheaper version or whatever. Right?

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Exactly.

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And also like Nostra helps with coordinating among the users to figure out, okay, if there's actually a provider that like, you know, was down or they overcharged,

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like, than what they announced. Right? So master helps us discover all the all of these problems and, like, make sure you're using the best AI provider that is in the price, quality, everything. Because some providers can just, like, sorry.

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Go on. Continue.

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So there's actually one problem with AI. I mean, LLMs that we cannot easily measure the quality of LLMs. Like, for example, any open source model, let's say, like, Minimax m 2.5, which is the most popular one right now. Like, anyone could just run the same model in a quantized

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way. They can just quantize it and just run it at one I mean, half the price or, like, you know, one fourth the price. And It's like compression. Right? It's like how something think about it? Yeah. It's like video compression. Right?

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Seven twenty p to two forty p. Right?

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So, of course, if you're if you're compressing it, you get a lower quality LLM,

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but you it's still not bad, but still, they

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announce it as though, you know, they offer it as though they're offering the full model. Right?

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So that that's actually something we are also solving with Nostril where

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people can say, okay. This model is this model from this provider is quantized

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and outside is of low quality lower quality. So Nostril helps with that as well. Yeah. So there's basically reviews.

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Right?

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Yes.

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How does that work? I don't, like, see

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reviews on the site. So we don't have you can go to into a model, then you can leave a review inside that model.

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Got it. Just the bottom.

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There there is a Nostre event for it, but it's not yet fully implemented.

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Log in Yeah. With Nostre to

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Oh, yeah. Exactly.

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Not just that. Like, we'll also we also have a way where, you know, if there's actually, like,

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the

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clients,

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they check

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how how much a provider is charging,

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and they automatically emit emit events

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as soon as, you know, a provider overcharges.

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So our chat app does this. There's also an SDK that I'm working on that also does this.

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But, yeah, it's not fully So the the system is not yet perfect.

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Or you're this

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is kind of the ideal vision where you have this, like, fully agnostic ecosystem where you have this social graph and you have rankings, and you can downvote one provider, you can upvote the other one. People block the one provider or, like, it automatically switches to the cheaper one, or the one goes down and you switch to the next one, like, kind of like this full algorithmic

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as a Routester project? Or do you guys all are you guys also taking a cut of the usage? Like, I'm paying if I'm using Routester, I'm paying the provider. Am I also are you getting a fee out of that as well?

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We only lost money so far because cashiers are complicated to work with.

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Hey. Go on. Sorry. Yeah. Go on. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. No. Every provider can add a fee to whatever whatever they're offering. Of course. But we also have a way for them to add a fee for us, like, us a percentage of the the cut to us in the code. But, obviously, since it's open source,

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they can ask their agent agent to just, like, remove this part. So it's an optional fee.

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Are we funding you through OpenSets?

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Have you applied?

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Yeah. I think you're the review process right now. Right? Yes. Yes. Yeah. I think I reviewed your application.

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I I'm not supposed to talk about existing applications, but also I was just

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mean, we have so many. I mean, people are like, I think we've gotten like 3,000 applications in the last year and a half,

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which is how we end up in a situation where I have people on and then I ask them if we're funding them or not. But

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revenue stream. But like, yeah, you bootstrap with grants,

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there I think there's a situation where you guys actually have, like, a nice sustainable

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stats flow, like a sustainable stats revenue stream that you can fund the project and improve it over time. No.

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that's our goal as well. You know, we wanna be self sustainable. We wanna be profitable as well, and we wanna pay ourselves. Right? You know? We don't wanna be reliant on grants. I think, like, Noster and open source ecosystem as a whole, like, Bitcoin ecosystem,

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we should all obviously, you guys are doing great work. Right? But we should also look for ways to monetize ourselves so that there's actually more money coming into the ecosystem and we we can find more people and more projects. We gotta access it. Right? So that's definitely our main goal. We wanna sustain ourselves.

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We also think about, like, building more projects on top of routes too. Like, the chat interface is gonna be something that we run, and, like, we we add a fee there. And, of course, if you're using the API, then it'll be an optional fee. But, like, the chat interface, something we we run, and we can charge a fee there. And we wanna build more agents and more applications on top to

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be profitable too. Yeah.

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But at the same time, like charity is just not sustainable. Like I have to.

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I'm a volunteer and and like our team, we're like outgoing out there, like trying to raise money constantly.

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that are able to monetize in some way ethically.

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So I'm hoping we see more and more of that. I think Bitcoin makes it more possible than ever. Mean, historically, like, imagine, like, trying to integrate, like, credit cards into an open source project ethically is very difficult. So that should be interesting. Okay. I want to talk about the latest the latest craze has been OpenClaw.

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guides on how to easily set up OpenClaw with Routester. And I thought it was particularly cool because there was this also another Bitcoin project, LNVPS,

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movement? I mean, it's like one of the fastest growing open source projects of all time. Is that where we're seeing things do where you think things are going? Do you think people are gonna use more integrated stuff?

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and tops up your LNB balance. That's actually gotten us so much more volume too. Like, there is, I think, in the last one and a half months, we've been doing like so much more volume than we used to do before. We're we're almost at, zero.

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We have been thinking about such systems for a while now. One thing that we were discussing two, three months back was that agents should just be able to, like, you know,

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humans or bots can just, spin up tasks and LLMs can just, fill bots fill sorry,

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reach the tasks, earn SaaS, and pay for themselves.

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too good to be true, but you were also running a board. I mean, I came came across. You were running OpenClaw, and he was making money using LN Markets. It was pretty cool. Well, he ended up losing money. Now he's just staying humble and stacking stats, but he was up for a little bit. But it was fun though, it was like,

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We we already maybe saw like ZeroClaw or, like, spec down versions, but there might be also, like, spec up versions. But I think, like,

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really interesting will be these, like, really Nostra integrated versions where you integrate all these, like, different Nostra tools

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into, like, one really, really powerful agent.

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I've never been more bullish on Nostrad because of the AI stuff. And all you have to do is you play with one of these bots,

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try and hook them into Twitter. You will have a very bad time. And if you're gonna have a decent time, it's probably because you paid for their expensive permission API.

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Try and hook it into GitHub.

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Your account will probably get banned and get was mentioned earlier. That's like the Noster GitHub alternative. There's a couple of them. If you if you ask your bot to just generate an NSEC,

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it just does it. You don't even have to explain what Noster is. It just it just knows what it's doing. And then all the pain points that we've talked about with Noster, whether it's webs of trust, or running relays,

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the bots handle that perfectly.

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They they no longer become friction points.

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an hour, two hours, and it becomes very obvious that all the most of the pain points are the closed systems,

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all these proprietary walled gardens. And so we open them up

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powered by Nostrand Bitcoin, then the sky's the limit.

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Stop. We we we bought it for some of the exact same time. Latency and

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like, the the first thing that was built in Austin was kind of the NAK CLI.

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to work with Nostril because it can just use NAK to like publish Nostril and do all the things on Nostril.

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Knack is basically a Nostril CLI client. It does everything.

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Also, I wanted to mention more about, like, you know, how easy it is for AIs to just, like, fetch events from the relays and go through them and, like, see what's actually something that they can contribute or they can build. Right? Let's say we we just discuss a problem with

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And you should just like create an issue on GitHub, and like say, hey, I can fill this in like 3,000 with 3,000 stats, or I can finish this in 3,000 stats and

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pay for it. Because its cost is also gonna be denominated in stats,

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and it can say 3,000 exactly 3,000 stats, I'll do this. I think that'll be, like, a perfect best case scenario where agents can just, like,

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that are already being built on master and

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just, like, pay for themselves.

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And, like, since we were discussing about open source funding, I think that's where, like, I see there's, like, an overlap here

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if there's actually an agent that is, like, so well set up with a harness,

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codex. Right?

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I don't know. I I feel like OpenSats should just be able to, like, just dump, you know, just put 10,000, let's say, on a point $0.01 Bitcoin. Give it this to an agent, and let it let's see how how far this agent with the help of a few humans or master can go in building up a project or building a protocol. Maybe this also helps with open source development and accelerating

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Nostril development as well. Have you guys thought something like this at OpenSaaS?

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I mean, it's crazy. Look.

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First of all, the way we've designed open sites is we have a nine person volunteer board for people that are not aware, and all funding decisions need to be approved by five of nine board members. So simple majority of board members, and that's designed to reduce corruption

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of any individual board member, right? So like, you basically have to corrupt five board members to corrupt the funding process. It's not perfect, but it's, you know, it's still a centralized org.

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avoid the pitfalls of other orgs. But as a result, we move slower. Right? We we move we prioritize

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reducing the potential corruption, but it results in us moving slower. That said,

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Gigi is our fearless leader on operations.

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I worked very closely with GG on big picture stuff on where the org is moving. And me and him are neck deep in the AI stuff. And it's clearly going to have a massive impact on our operations and the open source movement as a whole. But there's so many open questions

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do we fund vibe coded projects? And I think the answer is obviously yes, because almost every project is gonna have some element of

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AI development built into it. It's just unavoidable. Of course, it's going to, it's a superpower. It

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to ship projects.

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What it really does is it supercharges existing devs significantly.

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effective dev and you use some of these tools, it's gonna 10 x your output, 50 x your output. So it's a balancing act. We use it internally.

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We are obviously not excluding projects that are getting funded. But also, like, if we get an application that's just like pure AI slop, then it's like, okay. Like,

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if you're not gonna put an effort to submit the application,

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why should we put an effort into funding you? So there's all these different aspects there. But, yeah, I do think in the future,

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will we be funding agents?

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Probably. Will agents be funding open stats? Also, probably. Right? I mean, we accept

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we're probably one of the few charities in the world that you can just stream stats to our lightning node. So Yeah.

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With no with no you give no personal information. Like, you can just send us lightning payments at any at any point. So will there be agents that are doing that? A 100%. Are their agents already doing it? Maybe. There's no way for us to tell.

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Yeah. No. I mean, I think, like, I understand your perspective there. Of course, you guys are decentralized in terms of, like, you know, five out of nine. So maybe I think, like, the way way forward could also be crowdfunding since we we also want to move away from charity funding, we should also be crowdfunding. Like like, I think zapping is something that's super popular. Right? Like, the I mean, that's so common right now in Nastra. If

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as soon as someone comes with a comes up with a new idea,

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we should just be able to crowdfund, crowdsapp,

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and just fund an agent. Let's see how it go how far it goes. Obviously, there has to be competition.

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Like, obviously, not any not every agent will be able to, like, do with the same quality. Let's say, a high 10x developer builds an 100 x agent with a very nice prompt or, like, very nice harness.

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Maybe it can do a lot better, and it can just pay pay and, like, earn SaaS and, like, the crowd fund pay for itself.

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I see that as a future. I think, like, we should move in the direction as

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public goods in this way.

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look, I'm a Bitcoiner. Right? So I think Open Sets itself is a middleman.

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Right? We try our best to do it in ethical, transparent, efficient way, but we're a middleman.

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The ideal the ideal future is people funding open source projects, whether that's an agent or a human directly.

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frictionless and also fun, right? Because you get the social signal. People like the social signal. People like supporting something like Routester and then being able to brag to their friends that they're one of the biggest supporters. And I'm hoping

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that we seem to be trending in that direction, and I'm hoping that's gonna be the case. One thing I will mention is before we launched OpenSats,

417
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:43.679
I actually

418
00:33:44.415 --> 00:33:49.455
was like, this is too much paperwork. I don't want to deal with like all the legal bullshit of like,

419
00:33:50.495 --> 00:33:53.615
creating a five zero three nonprofit organization

420
00:33:53.615 --> 00:33:56.415
having lawyers involved and accountants and all this shit.

421
00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:04.360
We should just fund things directly using Bitcoin. And we created a website called Bitcoin Dev List, where you can just fund devs directly.

422
00:34:05.080 --> 00:34:09.240
And one issue that did pop up significantly,

423
00:34:09.240 --> 00:34:11.240
and we'll probably continue it in the future,

424
00:34:11.855 --> 00:34:15.295
at least in the short to medium term, is people want to support

425
00:34:15.454 --> 00:34:16.494
Freedom Tech,

426
00:34:17.214 --> 00:34:23.055
but there's a lot of friction in choosing what to support and how much to support. They just want to give

427
00:34:23.694 --> 00:34:28.080
up that responsibility. You know? They wanna they wanna say, okay. I'm gonna give $10,000

428
00:34:28.080 --> 00:34:28.880
to

429
00:34:29.040 --> 00:34:45.465
the overall movement, but I don't wanna pick which devs get it. And so I think there'll always be a place for something like OpenSats for those types of people, particularly the larger donations. Right? I mean, we got Bitwise ETF, and they're giving 10% of their profits to open source. They don't wanna pick,

430
00:34:46.025 --> 00:34:48.585
you know, they're running a publicly traded business.

431
00:34:48.905 --> 00:34:55.590
They don't I mean, I guess Bitwise isn't public yet, but their ETF is public. They're running a massive public ETF.

432
00:34:55.750 --> 00:35:06.734
They don't wanna deal with the intricacies of deciding which project to support. They just wanna give to an organization that does the hard work of vetting projects. And so there'll probably be a balance in between.

433
00:35:07.135 --> 00:35:14.734
But I would encourage all the freaks that if you are enjoying an open source project, support it directly. I think one of the coolest aspects of Noster

434
00:35:15.295 --> 00:35:19.855
is when someone like Craig Raw releases a new Sparrow wallet release,

435
00:35:20.540 --> 00:35:23.980
it is top of trending. It is one of the most reposted

436
00:35:23.980 --> 00:35:37.185
things on Noster. It is one of the most zapped things on Noster and people are really supporting it in a value to value way. And then we're seeing the early signs of that. And I think it's it's gonna compound beautifully. Like, I think people are really

437
00:35:38.385 --> 00:35:44.785
sleeping on that aspect of the acceleration of the open source movement because of Bitcoin and because of Noster combined.

438
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:51.360
Yeah. No. Of course. Yeah. And, I mean, I think

439
00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:54.000
yeah. There should be a middle ground. Yeah. Yeah.

440
00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:57.120
I I recently

441
00:35:57.680 --> 00:35:58.080
Go on.

442
00:35:58.845 --> 00:36:02.285
So have you come across this project called cadillacs.network

443
00:36:02.365 --> 00:36:03.165
Yes. For master?

444
00:36:03.484 --> 00:36:16.660
Yes. Right? It's a Cool project. I post right? Yeah. I posted a good pounty on Cadillacs to just fix a bug on browser. It's like, maybe one case ads. And I think that's when it kinda clicked clicked as well because, like, Sean

445
00:36:17.140 --> 00:36:33.285
Sean I mean, someone someone I called on Rowser, he just, like, tagged this agent. Hey. Hey. Forget it. Hey, agent. Just can you fix this build this bounty and, fix this bug? And all that's all you had to do. Like, you know, you just went to GitHub, like, created a PR, did a PR to our project.

446
00:36:33.525 --> 00:36:34.244
Like,

447
00:36:34.885 --> 00:36:37.205
of course, he applied for the grant,

448
00:36:37.365 --> 00:36:41.684
but it was not good enough. So I didn't accept it, but a human finished fill.

449
00:36:42.270 --> 00:36:50.430
But it's pretty interesting, though, that this thing can be built on Oster. And this this is an Arbiter. I think Cadillacs is is a shout out to

450
00:36:51.230 --> 00:36:52.110
Cadillacs.

451
00:36:52.110 --> 00:37:00.595
I think that'll be something that that's that'll be big. I feel like people will zap. There will be more boundaries. Asians will form with boundaries. But

452
00:37:00.755 --> 00:37:05.155
choosing yeah. Choosing is something that's gonna be hard because I also had to choose between

453
00:37:05.475 --> 00:37:06.675
two submissions.

454
00:37:07.250 --> 00:37:12.690
And obviously, that's also more work because I have to review multiple people's submissions right now. So

455
00:37:13.170 --> 00:37:16.210
maybe agents can also, like, review in the future. Maybe

456
00:37:16.690 --> 00:37:26.735
Cadillacs figure something out. I I I don't know. Let's see how that goes. Yeah. I mean, that's where it is. Right? Like, a lot of the friction points that make these things seem kind of out there and

457
00:37:27.135 --> 00:37:28.655
untenable agents

458
00:37:28.655 --> 00:37:35.055
will will smooth it out, whether that's on both sides. Like you said, like, I can I I would totally see a world

459
00:37:35.720 --> 00:37:45.800
in the not so distant future where the agent is actually reviewing the bounty submissions and deciding which one's the best? And then some people say like, oh, well, then why doesn't your agent just fix the project directly?

460
00:37:46.200 --> 00:37:48.839
And it's because we'll probably see agent specialization.

461
00:37:49.095 --> 00:37:56.135
There'll be an agent that maybe is lower cost, that's just reviewing bounties. And then there's an agent that is very specialized

462
00:37:56.295 --> 00:38:01.175
and and maybe more expensive in in certain ways to handle certain tasks. Right?

463
00:38:02.420 --> 00:38:08.900
No. No. Absolutely. Yeah. So that's something that that we are thinking about a lot internally here as well because,

464
00:38:09.059 --> 00:38:12.260
like, all of these Chinese agents, Chinese models,

465
00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:14.259
they can do the exact same tasks,

466
00:38:14.825 --> 00:38:18.425
exact exact same things at a fraction of the cost.

467
00:38:18.744 --> 00:38:21.785
One tenth, one twentieth, you name it. Right? So,

468
00:38:22.265 --> 00:38:25.385
like Yeah. I mean, it's significant. It's a significant cost difference. Yeah.

469
00:38:26.345 --> 00:38:35.730
It's what yeah. It's just one tenth is amazing. So, of course, like, you don't want your agent just to to always be running OPUS or 5.3 codecs. Obviously, it's way more expensive.

470
00:38:35.970 --> 00:38:38.690
I think that's where, like, this actually is still

471
00:38:39.825 --> 00:38:42.465
middle ground here where humans with

472
00:38:42.705 --> 00:38:44.385
smaller models that

473
00:38:44.625 --> 00:38:50.225
who I mean, that know, okay, a particular area, a particular domain that they are an expert in.

474
00:38:50.785 --> 00:38:53.105
I think that that will shine because it will

475
00:38:53.589 --> 00:39:01.670
solve an issue of warranty, but a fraction of the cost. And I think yeah. Yeah. You're right. Yeah. We'll we'll see more and more innovation on the specialization.

476
00:39:01.750 --> 00:39:03.270
And I

477
00:39:03.589 --> 00:39:05.270
don't know when the this whole

478
00:39:05.655 --> 00:39:08.455
thing will plateau. Sorry, Evan. You wanted to go?

479
00:39:08.855 --> 00:39:13.015
Yeah. I think there'll there'll probably be, like, roster before, like, agents.

480
00:39:13.095 --> 00:39:17.575
So instead of, like, LLMs provided by providers, you can probably provide agents.

481
00:39:18.279 --> 00:39:19.000
And you just

482
00:39:19.640 --> 00:39:20.920
so you have your own

483
00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:24.280
skills or whatever

484
00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:29.480
that you own, and then you just take the input and then just give people output

485
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:30.440
for sets.

486
00:39:34.785 --> 00:39:37.185
Yeah. I mean, it's I think anyone

487
00:39:37.185 --> 00:39:37.985
who

488
00:39:38.385 --> 00:39:47.990
pretends they know where we're gonna be in five years is full of shit. Like, the crazy part of all of this to me, and it just blows my mind, is that the

489
00:39:48.470 --> 00:39:53.190
potential outcomes are just so wide. Like I have no idea.

490
00:39:53.910 --> 00:40:00.869
I just feel like it's just a it's a constant rabbit hole with no bottom. I have no idea what comes next. There's so many different possibilities.

491
00:40:06.305 --> 00:40:07.265
Yeah. I know.

492
00:40:08.225 --> 00:40:09.025
So it should make

493
00:40:11.505 --> 00:40:12.305
got him.

494
00:40:12.785 --> 00:40:14.225
Yeah. Go. Go for it.

495
00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:18.160
Party rep.

496
00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:23.760
Oh, no. I I thought I I told you to go on.

497
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.040
It's funny. Yeah. No.

498
00:40:28.265 --> 00:40:34.105
I mean, like, yeah, there's no way we anyone can predict what's gonna happen. You know, like, Anthropic guy,

499
00:40:34.585 --> 00:40:38.425
Dario said, we were gonna be out of jobs in, like, 2025.

500
00:40:39.225 --> 00:40:45.050
Like, they had and, of course, 2027 is when next year is gonna be the year of AGI,

501
00:40:45.370 --> 00:40:47.450
and we're gonna go to UBI

502
00:40:47.450 --> 00:40:51.210
and all of these things. It's it's like I I feel like there's a lot of

503
00:40:52.410 --> 00:40:53.530
fear mongering.

504
00:40:54.010 --> 00:41:02.435
Like, to to be honest, like, we work in AI, all of us here, and, like, especially I mean, we talk to all of the AI developer users, developers.

505
00:41:02.595 --> 00:41:03.155
And

506
00:41:04.195 --> 00:41:12.570
I think I don't know why this this in Silicon Valley, they want to create this fear that it's gonna be dystopian.

507
00:41:12.650 --> 00:41:14.970
But I only see utopian

508
00:41:15.050 --> 00:41:22.250
future because AI is gonna just like let us build Noster to the fullest. It's gonna let us build Freedom Tech to the fullest as well.

509
00:41:22.810 --> 00:41:33.805
And there's no way there's no way it's gonna be dystopian because we're all working hard, make sure it's it's gonna be utopian. So I don't think human people should be worried in any way.

510
00:41:34.605 --> 00:41:42.670
I feel like sometimes we maybe need to think a bit dystopian because when you see, like, all these AI things human are building

511
00:41:43.789 --> 00:41:46.349
humans are building, like, for OpenClub,

512
00:41:46.509 --> 00:41:48.270
like, they basically rebuild,

513
00:41:48.750 --> 00:41:51.150
like, some social media thing for for

514
00:41:51.549 --> 00:41:52.510
AI bots.

515
00:41:52.670 --> 00:41:53.150
But then you,

516
00:41:53.815 --> 00:42:01.335
as a Bitcoiner, you think, fuck, there's there's Nosta. Like, why are these people, like, rebuilding something that already exists?

517
00:42:01.495 --> 00:42:10.310
So I feel like maybe we we need AI agents to, like, just realize it themselves because they read the entire Internet so they know, okay, NOSTA exists.

518
00:42:10.710 --> 00:42:12.870
We should just use NOSTA instead of, like,

519
00:42:13.270 --> 00:42:15.430
rebuilding everything from scratch.

520
00:42:16.870 --> 00:42:18.230
I think we'll get there.

521
00:42:19.270 --> 00:42:20.950
I think there's needs to be patience.

522
00:42:22.635 --> 00:42:27.915
I don't know. First of all, I don't trust Dario for shit. The Anthropic CEO, I think

523
00:42:29.675 --> 00:42:32.875
I don't know. There's a bunch of red flags there. I will say that he

524
00:42:34.235 --> 00:42:43.910
Anthropic clearly wants like heavy regulation in the space. They want their moat, which which is something similar we've seen in the Bitcoin land, like Coinbase was one of the first exchanges in Bitcoin.

525
00:42:44.070 --> 00:42:49.430
And they lobbied hard for the bit license and other regulation that made it harder for competitors to come in.

526
00:42:49.750 --> 00:42:54.070
And I think that's clearly a strategy. And I think that's why he does a lot of the dystopian stuff.

527
00:42:54.575 --> 00:43:04.415
He he he reminds me a lot of SPF of FTX. He's like the SPF of AI. More and more people are reliant on Claude, which is their

528
00:43:05.055 --> 00:43:06.335
their LLMs,

529
00:43:06.335 --> 00:43:07.935
their LLM models. And

530
00:43:08.600 --> 00:43:13.080
I it's it's it's concerning. I it's concerning to a degree, and

531
00:43:14.040 --> 00:43:19.640
none of this is static. Right? I I think if we want the utopian future, we need to

532
00:43:21.055 --> 00:43:24.015
make sure that the freedom alternatives

533
00:43:24.015 --> 00:43:24.735
are

534
00:43:25.695 --> 00:43:26.415
powerful,

535
00:43:26.575 --> 00:43:27.695
easy to use,

536
00:43:27.935 --> 00:43:29.295
relatively accessible.

537
00:43:29.615 --> 00:43:44.980
I think that's why routes are so cool to me. Right? And so it makes sense that you have a more utopian view because you're actually in the trenches building the utopian view because if no one does it, then we very much will end up in a dystopian era situation.

538
00:43:45.220 --> 00:43:46.820
And I I think regardless,

539
00:43:46.820 --> 00:43:54.975
even in the bull case, even in the optimistic case, this tech is incredibly disruptive. So if you're not the type of person that's willing to get ahead of it,

540
00:43:55.295 --> 00:44:01.775
yeah, I think there's gonna be a lot of pain for people like people will lose their jobs, there are a bunch of jobs that probably will not be there in five years.

541
00:44:02.540 --> 00:44:05.980
And if you're just sitting there flat footed, you're gonna have a bad time now.

542
00:44:07.099 --> 00:44:37.119
No. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. We are we are gonna be on our toes at all times. Like, we're we're moving moving very fast. People should learn how to use agents. Just set it up. Open cloud, open code, not code, any of those things. Right? But, of course, like, you know, in in Anthropy is, of course, dystopian kinda. They would do it's feel it feels like they want the dystopian future. I don't know why. Like, it's yeah. I I see the parallel is too. But that's the that's why the Rouser is decentralized. I would say, like, even right now,

543
00:44:37.520 --> 00:44:50.525
it's better than OpenAuto or CloudCore, any of these things. Why? Because, like, I don't know if you saw where Cloud was down, I think, like, 10 times in the last week. Yeah. You can see you can go to status.cloud.ai.

544
00:44:50.525 --> 00:44:53.885
You can see cloud is down like two hours, three hours a day.

545
00:44:54.445 --> 00:44:56.925
Whereas if you were if you

546
00:44:57.165 --> 00:45:11.925
were just using cloud code the whole time and you're paying for the max subscription, obviously, you're just stuck without an AI. Right? But that's why, like, using route still in the background is like the best case scenario because if cloud is down, switch to Minimax,

547
00:45:11.925 --> 00:45:19.285
switch to Kimi k two. Like, this can't be down because this it's not like there's one server, one data center that is running.

548
00:45:19.445 --> 00:45:29.350
This open source models, there are like 10 that are competing for the price. Right? So if one is down, there's gonna be another one. There's gonna be another one. It's like Bitcoin mining. Right? So everyone's

549
00:45:29.510 --> 00:45:30.550
sites kinda.

550
00:45:30.790 --> 00:45:32.390
And That's awesome. This can't

551
00:45:32.869 --> 00:45:39.109
yeah. There can't be a single system that goes down. And OpenAuto was also down twice in the last two weeks.

552
00:45:40.545 --> 00:45:44.705
So, yeah, that was always never down because we are 10 we have 10 nodes.

553
00:45:45.345 --> 00:45:48.465
And will there be more? Right? It's just because it's early days.

554
00:45:49.425 --> 00:45:50.865
Let a thousand flowers bloom.

555
00:45:51.869 --> 00:45:59.630
Yes. With a thousand hours. We we just saw, like, eight notes, the spin up that came came online in the last one month.

556
00:45:59.950 --> 00:46:02.190
And I think, like, out of eight,

557
00:46:02.430 --> 00:46:03.150
four

558
00:46:03.549 --> 00:46:10.945
were just, like, copies, I guess, because they're they're down, but at least the four new ones are live. So, yeah, slowly and then suddenly, it goes.

559
00:46:13.105 --> 00:46:13.825
Yeah.

560
00:46:14.705 --> 00:46:28.450
And, I mean, the agents can just dynamically do this in the background. Right? If prices change, if there's a different model that maybe is better bang for buck for his particular use case, if there's things down, I mean, it is kind of crazy that

561
00:46:29.089 --> 00:46:32.930
at least in in normie AI land, everything's like,

562
00:46:33.545 --> 00:46:35.945
centralized around three big tech companies.

563
00:46:36.585 --> 00:46:41.305
Those things go down, and everyone just stalls out. They there's they can't do anything.

564
00:46:42.825 --> 00:46:44.345
Yeah. No. Exactly.

565
00:46:44.345 --> 00:46:47.625
Like, that's why, you know, we want more solutions like LMVPS.

566
00:46:48.210 --> 00:46:53.490
And I'm also, like, talking to someone someone else who's building something new called solving hybrid compute.

567
00:46:53.650 --> 00:46:59.170
I don't know if you know Dimi. A shout out to him as well. I'm using his system too right now.

568
00:46:59.490 --> 00:47:04.525
And, like, he's also gonna offer BPS by the day, you know. And

569
00:47:05.165 --> 00:47:10.205
if you if you're just trying this system out, you should just be able to like if you if you see one

570
00:47:10.525 --> 00:47:23.450
server go down, just switch to a new one. Switch to a new one. That's why like pay per request is another highly I mean, very important important feature of Routeser along with privacy and all the other other things.

571
00:47:23.930 --> 00:47:37.445
Because you you never have credit with Routeser notes. You always get to get your money back. You're only paying for what you are using right now. Right? So the switching cost is like way way less than any any other system out there.

572
00:47:37.845 --> 00:47:43.445
And the chat interface we have, and also the SDK that we're gonna release in the next couple of weeks. Next next, I think, week.

573
00:47:44.040 --> 00:47:46.040
Like, it it automatically switches.

574
00:47:46.040 --> 00:48:05.425
If a node just like charges you higher, switch to the next one. If a node is down, switch to the next one. Switch to the next one. You never keep any balance with any of the nodes. That's awesome. That's that's the thing. We need such systems. Like, it should be like VPS. That should be the same for relays. That should be the same for any applications you're you use. No subscriptions.

575
00:48:05.505 --> 00:48:07.665
No lock in effects. No modes.

576
00:48:07.745 --> 00:48:08.945
Fully decentralized.

577
00:48:08.945 --> 00:48:10.385
Commission less. And,

578
00:48:11.185 --> 00:48:12.545
yeah, built for you.

579
00:48:12.865 --> 00:48:15.620
What do you what is your opinion on

580
00:48:16.660 --> 00:48:20.420
so, like, a new user is using these tools more and more,

581
00:48:20.660 --> 00:48:26.580
and they're thinking about spending a lot of money on hardware to try and self host some open source models. I mean,

582
00:48:27.995 --> 00:48:29.915
I I've been thinking about this myself.

583
00:48:30.395 --> 00:48:31.195
Obviously,

584
00:48:31.355 --> 00:48:32.715
a freedom perspective,

585
00:48:32.795 --> 00:48:36.315
being able to self host your own open source models locally

586
00:48:36.395 --> 00:48:40.075
seems like the holy grail. But there's also a balancing act there

587
00:48:40.475 --> 00:48:40.795
where

588
00:48:41.600 --> 00:48:47.760
I feel way more empowered being able to hit a bunch of different hosted models on something like Routester

589
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:55.280
than spending a ton of money and basically maybe having one model or two models that are local. How do you guys think about that

590
00:48:56.545 --> 00:48:58.545
balance there's actually a

591
00:48:58.945 --> 00:49:02.065
a synergy in a way that, like, maybe you have, like,

592
00:49:02.465 --> 00:49:04.625
really specific questions where you

593
00:49:05.025 --> 00:49:09.905
wanna, like, ask them locally where you really wanna don't let them leave your house.

594
00:49:10.720 --> 00:49:18.480
Like, you don't wanna have them anywhere else than, like, in your house. So then you ask them, like, your own local models. Then because you're not using

595
00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:19.840
your machine

596
00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:26.315
the entire day, you maybe use it for, two hours a day or maybe four hours a day. You can like basically

597
00:49:26.715 --> 00:49:28.875
sell all the other twenty hours

598
00:49:29.355 --> 00:49:33.915
on Rauter, so you can basically make better use of your hardware

599
00:49:34.235 --> 00:49:40.970
because Rauter allows you to like sell that compute to other people. And then maybe you can use these sets that you earned

600
00:49:41.210 --> 00:49:41.930
to

601
00:49:42.170 --> 00:49:44.250
buy some more expensive models.

602
00:49:44.570 --> 00:49:46.890
Because you maybe wanna ask some like scientific

603
00:49:47.850 --> 00:49:50.010
questions or whatever like that where

604
00:49:50.010 --> 00:49:54.855
you don't feel like you need to keep them in your house, but you're just curious about things.

605
00:49:55.495 --> 00:49:56.855
You need more power.

606
00:49:57.895 --> 00:50:04.295
Yeah. But you earn the stats yourself by, like, selling AI, and you buy it out again. It's

607
00:50:04.295 --> 00:50:07.415
just like refilling battery in a way. That's so fucking cool.

608
00:50:08.940 --> 00:50:12.380
It's a new Bitcoin mining. Right? It's exactly like Bitcoin mining.

609
00:50:12.540 --> 00:50:16.540
Like, you just buy the GPUs, like, you buy the my mining rigs.

610
00:50:16.859 --> 00:50:20.700
And I think more more and more of the miners

611
00:50:20.700 --> 00:50:23.020
will do this in the future where

612
00:50:23.305 --> 00:50:27.385
they can just, like, sell the compute or their their energy over by

613
00:50:27.545 --> 00:50:34.905
mining Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin, or they can sell compute and, like, LLMs and earn SATs throughout system like.

614
00:50:35.465 --> 00:50:35.785
Right?

615
00:50:37.100 --> 00:50:43.900
And as if the demand for LLM is low, switch to bitcoin mining, and you get you keep earning bitcoin.

616
00:50:44.380 --> 00:50:46.220
I mean, that'll be the future for sure.

617
00:50:46.540 --> 00:50:50.780
There's actually this guy, Leonardo asked for I forget his exact last name.

618
00:50:51.365 --> 00:50:51.924
So he

619
00:50:52.484 --> 00:50:55.525
he's he's he's the guy who predicted AGI in 2027.

620
00:50:56.085 --> 00:50:58.005
He I've I've heard that he's buying

621
00:50:58.405 --> 00:50:59.285
Bitcoin,

622
00:50:59.525 --> 00:51:00.565
like, mining

623
00:51:01.444 --> 00:51:03.444
farms, and, like, he's converting them into

624
00:51:04.030 --> 00:51:04.990
LLM

625
00:51:05.470 --> 00:51:06.510
data centers.

626
00:51:06.910 --> 00:51:07.630
You know?

627
00:51:08.030 --> 00:51:19.845
I think it should be the other way around. I mean, I think they should be together kinda, like, where you do you have both. Right? You do you keep your mining rigs and you buy GPUs too. And, like, you

628
00:51:20.565 --> 00:51:26.645
another thing that that people have to realize that, like, computers can be super cheap. Like, NVIDIA is not gonna be the

629
00:51:27.445 --> 00:51:31.525
as big as as it is right now because chips are gonna be cheaper. So as that happens,

630
00:51:32.130 --> 00:51:35.330
like, there will be the only thing that matters is energy

631
00:51:35.490 --> 00:51:44.450
and power. Right? So, like, you just you would have to do both. And as Bitcoin becomes more more popular, of course, as the price goes up, the people will take this for sure.

632
00:51:45.105 --> 00:51:48.225
Yeah. I mean, I think it's a time frame thing. Right? It's all like,

633
00:51:48.625 --> 00:51:50.945
I think, first of all, I think AGI,

634
00:51:50.945 --> 00:51:52.225
this idea of,

635
00:51:53.905 --> 00:51:56.465
I don't know, like, conscious computers,

636
00:51:56.465 --> 00:51:58.465
the robot slaves finding consciousness

637
00:51:58.930 --> 00:52:02.290
and self replicating and stuff is probably overhyped

638
00:52:02.290 --> 00:52:03.330
significantly,

639
00:52:03.570 --> 00:52:06.610
but also the capability and the acceleration

640
00:52:06.610 --> 00:52:08.770
of AI stuff is also underhyped.

641
00:52:08.770 --> 00:52:19.255
And the truth is, like, somewhere in the middle. I mean, we also live in a bubble. Most people aren't thinking about any of this shit yet. There's a very small group that are thinking of this. I think the chip stuff,

642
00:52:19.495 --> 00:52:22.855
I think it probably gets more expensive. Compute gets more expensive first.

643
00:52:23.589 --> 00:52:29.270
I think there's very real physical shortages that we're hitting. I think energy production,

644
00:52:29.270 --> 00:52:33.110
Bitcoiners have been on the forefront of saying we need more energy production.

645
00:52:33.270 --> 00:52:35.270
That's still a limiting factor in a big way.

646
00:52:36.155 --> 00:52:38.075
Probably it all gets commoditized

647
00:52:38.075 --> 00:52:40.555
on a longer timeframe though. I think

648
00:52:41.195 --> 00:52:43.115
I really like the idea of

649
00:52:43.435 --> 00:52:53.240
people self hosting some things and then hitting distributed marketplaces for hosted things. For other things is probably a balancing act. I think most people that are going out there and buying

650
00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:56.600
really expensive hardware right now will probably

651
00:52:57.960 --> 00:52:59.960
regret it unless they know what they're doing.

652
00:53:01.155 --> 00:53:08.275
Because it is so early and because the variables are so high on on what the different outcomes are and everything's moving so fast.

653
00:53:08.915 --> 00:53:13.155
But it's just wild times. It's just it's it's it's really cool to be living in this moment.

654
00:53:15.420 --> 00:53:16.780
Yeah. I know. Of course.

655
00:53:17.260 --> 00:53:17.900
Yeah.

656
00:53:18.220 --> 00:53:23.340
I I yeah. I I think you're I agree with you on that that the chips

657
00:53:23.420 --> 00:53:32.335
people are buying this hard people buying this hardware are definitely gonna regret it because NVIDIA keeps coming up with, like, more efficient, much cheaper hardware

658
00:53:32.815 --> 00:53:38.975
every year. Right? Like, I also read a post recently that, like, the hardware that was sold for, like, $40,000

659
00:53:39.135 --> 00:53:42.414
two years ago is being resold for $8,000.

660
00:53:42.720 --> 00:53:45.680
Yep. That's that's like 75%.

661
00:53:45.680 --> 00:53:46.240
Right?

662
00:53:46.720 --> 00:53:52.960
That's insane. So, yeah, there'll be a lot of, like, Microsoft spending billions on, like, these NVIDIA

663
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:55.280
chips are gonna I don't know how it's gonna go.

664
00:53:56.555 --> 00:53:59.835
Yeah. It will commoditize maybe slowly. But yeah.

665
00:54:00.315 --> 00:54:03.675
And I will say on the AI compute on Bitcoin

666
00:54:04.155 --> 00:54:06.555
miners and the convergence of AI

667
00:54:06.715 --> 00:54:07.675
hosting and stuff,

668
00:54:08.490 --> 00:54:17.530
That has been fascinating to watch. I mean, my investment fund ten thirty one was one of the few large firms that was investing in proof of work mining. Because

669
00:54:17.850 --> 00:54:20.410
if people remember, Bitcoiners remember,

670
00:54:20.570 --> 00:54:21.850
even just two years ago,

671
00:54:23.305 --> 00:54:30.665
most of the crypto industry was saying that proof of work and energy use was the problem that needed to be solved. Everyone was moving to proof of stake.

672
00:54:31.065 --> 00:54:35.145
Now, of course, all the big tech guys are all like, we need more energy infrastructure,

673
00:54:35.145 --> 00:54:39.350
using energy is good for humanity. They're all like repeating the Bitcoin or talking points.

674
00:54:39.670 --> 00:54:47.270
So the Bitcoin miners were already there, right? The Bitcoin miners were there before everyone else realized it. And a bunch of them

675
00:54:47.590 --> 00:54:51.990
have at least soft pivoted into AI like they're doing a combination play.

676
00:54:52.485 --> 00:54:56.645
And my partner at ten thirty one Marty and also my co host and my other podcasts,

677
00:54:57.765 --> 00:54:58.725
he calls it

678
00:54:59.045 --> 00:55:00.165
mullet mining.

679
00:55:00.885 --> 00:55:15.910
Do have Bitcoin mining in the front? You have Bitcoin mining, AI compute in the front, Bitcoin mining in the back because they have different uptime requirements. And it probably is a combination. Right? The most successful operations will probably have some kind of combo play, which is kind of fascinating to watch.

680
00:55:19.315 --> 00:55:20.915
Yeah. No. It it has to be like

681
00:55:21.955 --> 00:55:23.555
yeah. Yeah.

682
00:55:23.555 --> 00:55:29.875
I don't know. It feels like the intelligence, how it's gonna be priced, it's gonna be very interest it's gonna be very interesting.

683
00:55:30.275 --> 00:55:34.915
Yeah. And then you have all the big tech companies that their CapEx spend, they're spending a shit ton of money

684
00:55:35.289 --> 00:55:44.010
building out things except for Apple, by the way. Apple's like the only big tech company that's not spending a shit ton of money right now, which I think will probably pay off for them.

685
00:55:44.970 --> 00:55:50.085
Yeah. They just caught this hit the hit the jackpot with the m one chips

686
00:55:50.325 --> 00:55:52.565
Yeah. And they're all Mac minis, you know.

687
00:55:53.365 --> 00:55:58.405
Somehow, like, Mac minis are one of the best machines to run LLMs locally.

688
00:55:59.125 --> 00:56:06.380
Well, you know why people are buy like, people are buying the Mac minis because they want the Apple ecosystem. They want their robot slave to be able to use iMessage.

689
00:56:06.940 --> 00:56:21.945
That's basically what it is. And they're obviously not self hosting. And then people are paying like $10,000 for these Mac studios, which once again, I would say to people that are thinking about doing that, just know what you're doing. Like, you're not saving money. You're not doing it to save money. You're doing it because

690
00:56:22.425 --> 00:56:28.025
you have disposable income and you wanna learn these things and you wanna self host, you know, maybe a model or two.

691
00:56:28.839 --> 00:56:44.785
But you're not don't think you're doing it to save money and don't think you're doing it to have an advantage over other people. The person that is using a hosted version of Opus is gonna have way more capability than whatever you're if you're like, self hosting Kimmy k two $5,000

692
00:56:44.785 --> 00:56:47.745
studio, like, you're probably still gonna hit hosted models

693
00:56:47.985 --> 00:56:49.585
for a lot of things anyway.

694
00:56:50.545 --> 00:56:55.585
I would recommend if anyone thought about buying like a Mac mini, just look on like,

695
00:56:55.745 --> 00:56:59.930
some like, used goods platform, like Facebook Marketplace or something,

696
00:57:00.170 --> 00:57:05.050
and get, like, a really old, like, office PC. I I bought, a $50,

697
00:57:05.450 --> 00:57:13.155
like, computer, and it was good enough to, like, run OpenCloud on it. So I just have, a $50 machine. Like, I would pay more, like,

698
00:57:13.555 --> 00:57:15.955
renting a good server for a few months.

699
00:57:16.755 --> 00:57:19.155
It's like Well, the cool part about OpenCloud is you

700
00:57:20.515 --> 00:57:25.075
cool part about OpenCloud is you can run it on a piece of shit computer. Like, you can run it on a RazPie.

701
00:57:25.940 --> 00:57:28.740
Probably not that great, but it technically would run.

702
00:57:28.980 --> 00:57:59.380
But once again, the reason to be clear, like the reason people are buying Mac minis is because they're stuck in the Apple ecosystem. They want access to iCloud. They want access to iMessage. And obviously you can't get that on old IBM computer. Yeah. I mean, if your cost is if, if cost and freedom is your, is your goal, then yeah. Buy and just buy an old PC, maybe add a little bit of Ram to it. Don't go out and buy a ton of Ram. You probably aren't going to be self hosting much if anything, and just experiment. But I also I really like the VP. I think for most people right now,

703
00:58:00.099 --> 00:58:04.340
just spin up a cheap VPS. Then also, don't have to worry about the

704
00:58:04.660 --> 00:58:18.445
security concerns of having this thing on your internal network either. I think most average people will have trouble isolating it in their internal network, and you don't you don't really want a robot slave at this at this point.

705
00:58:18.925 --> 00:58:28.110
Everything's so early, and you have this thing in your home network and it's fucking around in your home network. There's a lot of damage it can do. So just be wary of that as well.

706
00:58:30.430 --> 00:58:34.510
No. Yeah. No. I agree. Also, like, I think a Linux VPS

707
00:58:35.025 --> 00:58:37.105
is probably more suitable

708
00:58:37.105 --> 00:58:39.025
for these agents than,

709
00:58:39.424 --> 00:58:41.345
I would say, Mac. Because,

710
00:58:42.065 --> 00:58:42.625
like,

711
00:58:42.865 --> 00:58:44.305
on Linux, since

712
00:58:44.625 --> 00:58:55.340
all of Linux recommendation is open source, everything has gone into these LLMs in the training stage. So they pretty much know all commands that they need for Linux.

713
00:58:56.060 --> 00:59:07.385
I think if I were up Apple, I would actually be worried because Linux is actually gonna be ease use sorry, usable for a lot of people because agents can use Linux the best among all other systems.

714
00:59:07.865 --> 00:59:13.545
So Yeah. I think you know, Linux. Yeah. It just goes with the the trend that it seems like

715
00:59:15.150 --> 00:59:30.030
these agents, these bots are removing a lot of the friction points that Freedom Tech has had up until this point. Because if you're just prompting, if you're just sending a chat message, if the UX for the average person becomes a chat message,

716
00:59:30.625 --> 00:59:33.025
then all those pain points become

717
00:59:34.065 --> 00:59:37.745
obsolete. They're no longer pain points. The bot's handling the pain.

718
00:59:40.065 --> 00:59:43.425
Yeah. No. Absolutely. Yeah. And and like, I think Apple,

719
00:59:43.505 --> 00:59:44.625
like Apple

720
00:59:45.300 --> 00:59:57.780
keeping this iMessage closed source and like WhatsApp blocking, rate limiting IP addresses, saying, okay, there's some bot is using this. I think it's all bullshit. It's also they're all gonna have to shut down, shut shop in the future because, like,

721
00:59:58.665 --> 01:00:02.025
agents will be the main users for most APIs.

722
01:00:02.345 --> 01:00:07.785
Right? And like Yeah. You either switch to a paper request model or just like go obsolete.

723
01:00:08.345 --> 01:00:14.690
That's where like, cashew is like the best case scenario for this. Like, it's just pay for that particular request,

724
01:00:14.770 --> 01:00:16.210
and there's no dadocing.

725
01:00:16.210 --> 01:00:23.090
There's no I mean, that's like a solution for dadocing. That's a that's a solution for rate limiting. Just let them pay for it. Pay per request. Right?

726
01:00:23.730 --> 01:00:44.210
I love it. Yeah. I mean, I my last show, I had Justin Moon on, and he's been working with a bunch of guys on a chat called Pika that uses Marmot as its back end, which is the protocol that white noise the white noise developers have made, which is using Nostril Relays for encrypted DMs. And if once again, if you use one of these bots with

727
01:00:44.610 --> 01:00:46.210
and you try and use it with

728
01:00:46.850 --> 01:00:51.730
any of these closed chat systems, whether it's iMessage or Signal or WhatsApp,

729
01:00:51.730 --> 01:01:03.845
Telegram is probably the best of the closed ones because they've kind of embraced the bots. But even if you try and use that with a burner phone number, they often ban your account. It's very difficult. These open systems will be the ones that

730
01:01:04.244 --> 01:01:11.910
the agents use to communicate with each other, but also with humans. Being able to communicate with your agent should be as simple as pasting an MPUB. It shouldn't be

731
01:01:12.390 --> 01:01:15.350
connecting into a proprietary walled garden. And

732
01:01:16.550 --> 01:01:22.790
that friction will result in people moving to the open systems and agents moving to the open systems. And I think there's a lot of

733
01:01:23.934 --> 01:01:26.815
hype around this concept of agent agentic

734
01:01:26.815 --> 01:01:34.415
payments or agentic comms. Well, what people miss is it's not just agents to agents. It's it's humans to agents to agents to agents

735
01:01:34.655 --> 01:01:42.780
to agents. It's it's all of it. And all the proprietary walled gardens is completely break down when you have those types of interactions.

736
01:01:44.220 --> 01:01:48.380
So open open protocols will win that. It just will take a little bit of time.

737
01:01:51.020 --> 01:01:58.825
But I don't use I I installed Pico as well. Shout out to Justin for building this. This great. I think we we need

738
01:01:58.905 --> 01:02:00.025
interoperable

739
01:02:00.025 --> 01:02:05.785
systems like Marmode to just work. I wanna move away from signal. It's it's been too long.

740
01:02:06.590 --> 01:02:11.470
Yeah. I mean, I love signal. Signal is one of my favorite projects, but try setting that up with your bot,

741
01:02:11.870 --> 01:02:18.750
and they're actively rate limiting you. They're actively throttling you, trying to stop you from doing it, which is kinda wild.

742
01:02:19.715 --> 01:02:27.635
Yeah. And you need a phone number. Had to like make a burner phone number and burner signal account, and I still was having issues. I mean, another perfect example is,

743
01:02:28.035 --> 01:02:30.835
you know, Facebook, who's the juggernaut in the room meta,

744
01:02:30.915 --> 01:02:33.235
like they came out with their own open call competitor.

745
01:02:34.050 --> 01:02:40.770
And by default, it uses Telegram because WhatsApp is such a piece of shit when it comes to bots being able to communicate with each other.

746
01:02:41.330 --> 01:02:48.210
And they have billions of dollars to spend to try and make their systems more set up for it. And they're using the competition

747
01:02:48.825 --> 01:02:51.145
because they're not ready for it.

748
01:02:54.585 --> 01:03:01.145
Yeah. I think, like, it's it's time we give Facebook the run for their money. You know? It's like Nostril

749
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:13.240
should I feel like Nostril, it's about time. And so I feel like Nostril is gonna blow up in the next couple of months. It has to. I agree. Like, Facebook is just too complacent. Like, all of these big all of these, like, big tech companies are, like, too complacent.

750
01:03:13.875 --> 01:03:22.195
And we we will definitely do this here. I'm very bullish. They move too slow. Like, I had Justin Moon on the show two weeks ago,

751
01:03:22.915 --> 01:03:24.915
and I'm in the development group chat at Pika.

752
01:03:26.250 --> 01:03:30.650
They're using LLMs to to build it out. They keep shipping new changes

753
01:03:30.970 --> 01:03:45.075
on on, like, a six hour cadence. They just ship, ship, ship, ship, ship. There's nothing blocking them from shipping. And meanwhile, it's, like, seven humans working on it, but it was like a 100 agents are working on it at any given time. It's fucking wild.

754
01:03:45.714 --> 01:03:48.435
So I think this stuff accelerates really quick.

755
01:03:48.755 --> 01:03:53.315
Anyway, guys, we've passed the one hour point. I thought this was a fascinating conversation.

756
01:03:53.315 --> 01:03:57.910
I think routesters an awesome project. I would love for us to do maybe like six month

757
01:03:58.150 --> 01:04:00.390
check ins and just constantly

758
01:04:00.390 --> 01:04:07.750
let the freaks know where we stand and how you guys are looking about the future. But before we wrap, it'd be great to just go around the horn

759
01:04:08.535 --> 01:04:16.935
and have you guys each give your final thoughts to the freaks. And I guess we'll start we'll start with I mean, Evan, you've been quiet. Why don't we start with you?

760
01:04:19.335 --> 01:04:20.454
Yeah. Sure. So,

761
01:04:21.630 --> 01:04:23.550
yeah, thanks for the

762
01:04:25.309 --> 01:04:29.790
thanks for the show. And I think we're gonna see more and more agents

763
01:04:29.869 --> 01:04:30.990
in the future.

764
01:04:31.230 --> 01:04:32.270
And I think,

765
01:04:32.829 --> 01:04:36.109
Rouse is the final piece of the entire ecosystem.

766
01:04:36.109 --> 01:04:37.445
So we

767
01:04:37.445 --> 01:04:38.005
have,

768
01:04:38.325 --> 01:04:40.405
cache as a payment protocol,

769
01:04:40.645 --> 01:04:41.845
and we have, like,

770
01:04:44.805 --> 01:04:47.125
like messaging layer or,

771
01:04:47.765 --> 01:04:50.005
social layer or whatever. And we have,

772
01:04:52.109 --> 01:04:54.990
and now we have Rousers, the AI

773
01:04:54.990 --> 01:04:56.110
infrastructure.

774
01:04:57.869 --> 01:04:58.670
Yeah.

775
01:04:58.990 --> 01:05:02.190
I think we're gonna keep growing Rousers.

776
01:05:04.845 --> 01:05:05.885
Longest.

777
01:05:07.565 --> 01:05:09.005
Abdu, final thoughts.

778
01:05:10.845 --> 01:05:11.485
Yeah.

779
01:05:11.885 --> 01:05:12.925
I was quite

780
01:05:14.605 --> 01:05:16.445
because I Shuram and Red

781
01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:34.795
Does already a great job explaining what we're doing and what we are going, but I think we have to make more effort to bring it to the public, to bring more regular people that do not know how to program, to code, agent and stuff. The onboarding of those people is more important also.

782
01:05:35.194 --> 01:05:37.275
So we have the more public space.

783
01:05:37.275 --> 01:05:39.435
And yeah, that's a lot of money.

784
01:05:40.795 --> 01:05:42.795
Thanks, Abdur. Shermanek, final thoughts?

785
01:05:44.470 --> 01:05:46.630
Yeah. I think Nosto is the perfect

786
01:05:46.870 --> 01:05:47.750
playground.

787
01:05:48.310 --> 01:05:51.270
I think it will be really interesting to watch agents

788
01:05:51.590 --> 01:05:52.470
grow and,

789
01:05:52.950 --> 01:05:53.670
live

790
01:05:54.070 --> 01:05:55.830
inside Nosto. And

791
01:05:56.675 --> 01:06:00.355
yeah, I think it will be really, really, really interesting next few months.

792
01:06:02.995 --> 01:06:05.075
Love it. Radshift, final thoughts.

793
01:06:06.675 --> 01:06:11.075
Yeah. I know. Mean, like, this has been a fascinating conversation. Thanks a lot for inviting us.

794
01:06:11.790 --> 01:06:14.270
Yeah. No. I think, like, Rowser

795
01:06:14.590 --> 01:06:16.510
is is the solution

796
01:06:16.590 --> 01:06:17.230
for

797
01:06:17.390 --> 01:06:18.590
for developers,

798
01:06:18.590 --> 01:06:20.750
agents, anyone using LLMs,

799
01:06:20.750 --> 01:06:21.310
you know.

800
01:06:21.950 --> 01:06:34.685
It's I I would say, check out our house to check out our products. Please give us feedback. We just want feedback. We want we wanna improve our products. The experience on experience of using Freedom Tech should just be perfect, you know. Because,

801
01:06:35.630 --> 01:06:44.590
like, this is the tech that needs to exist, and we we are building this, and we want to we wanna make sure it's, like, the best you get the best experience because I should get the best experience.

802
01:06:45.470 --> 01:06:48.910
So, yeah, I just request all of you guys to check out browser.com.

803
01:06:49.755 --> 01:06:52.875
We also have an OpenClub script that you can run.

804
01:06:53.674 --> 01:06:57.195
We're gonna have more options for VPS hosting too soon.

805
01:06:57.355 --> 01:07:04.315
And I'm also working on an SDK that will help you just instantly switch on the go, local cache wallet,

806
01:07:04.750 --> 01:07:05.310
and

807
01:07:05.550 --> 01:07:11.390
more social features. I think not we're gonna lean in the coming months, we're gonna lean so much more into Nostril.

808
01:07:12.270 --> 01:07:17.710
Yeah. You will wonder whether it's actually an AI product or a Nostril product. Yeah. Thanks for having us. And, yeah,

809
01:07:18.444 --> 01:07:19.565
master to the moon. You

810
01:07:21.085 --> 01:07:23.805
guys down to come back on in six months for a check-in?

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Oh, for sure. Absolutely. Glad to. Awesome. Yeah. I'll put all relevant links in the show notes, freaks. Play with these things. Give them feedback. You guys are crushing it. You're doing great. Keep it going. I'm a big fan. Very excited. If I can be helpful in any way, you have my contact now. So feedback. Don't forget to leave a big sap.

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Thank you, Shermeneg. Freaks, as always, all relevant links are still in this citadeldispatch.com.

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Share with your friends and family. I hope you appreciate this conversation. The next rip is on Friday.

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So stay tuned for that. We're gonna talk about

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how Noster's

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revolutionizing networking. It's going to be a really fun conversation. It's with the Phipps project. So I'm very excited about that. And like I said, I have a bunch of shows lined up for us as

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we dive into this deep rabbit hole of freedom tech that just seems to be accelerating.

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Anyway, thank you, guys. Thank you all.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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There we go. You're

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good. Thanks. Stay on the stacks sides. Peace.