Adventurer exploring the world with Bitcoin. ✈ Pilot, scuba diver, BJJ blue belt, and AI-driven builder. CEO of @chainbytes running on caffeine and code
Pennsylvania, USA
Joined June 2009
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Buzz and Linear Became My Whole Workflow ericgrill.com/blog/buzz-line… #buzz
America just lost the AI war.
It didn't happen in a lab in California. It happened Thursday, in Beijing, and almost nobody noticed.
Here's what it means for you:
ericgrill.com/blog/kimi-k3-e…
Hey @x I don’t need more content creators.
I want to meet people who build things.
The kind of people who see a broken process and think:
“Well, now I have to rewrite the entire thing.”
That’s how I ended up building Bitcoin ATMs, BJJ software(bjjchat.com), and most recently an animal rescue platform when all I was trying to do was adopt a dog.(tryadoption.com )
If that sounds familiar, let’s connect.
What are you building? 🚀
Just released the first public version of BJJChat🥋
apps.apple.com/us/app/bjjcha…
Built by a BJJ practitioner for BJJ practitioners.
Tracks training, logs techniques, automatic gym check-ins, AI coaching, and more.
It’s FREE right now.
If you train, biggest favor you can do:
Download it
Use it after class
Leave a review
RT this 🙏
Trying to build the ultimate app for the Jiu Jitsu community.
#BJJ #JiuJitsu #BJJLife #JiuJitsuLifestyle #Grappling
#PicoClaw cuts 95% of the code. So what do you actually lose?
No browser automation. No plugin ecosystem. No session recovery across restarts. But you get 18 MB RAM, instant startup, and zero dependency headaches.
The practical tradeoffs breakdown: ericgrill.com/blog/picoclaw-…
You don't have to choose between OpenClaw and PicoClaw.
Use OpenClaw as the brain on your Mac Mini. Deploy PicoClaw to any SSH host as a disposable worker. Dispatch tasks in parallel. Tear them down when done.
Fleet it: ericgrill.com/blog/picoclaw-…
Can a $10 board run a useful AI agent?
Yes, but only if you define "useful" carefully. Messaging relay and simple automation work fine. Browser control and multi-tool pipelines do not.
The honest answer plus a hybrid architecture that actually makes sense: ericgrill.com/blog/ai-agent-…
I read both codebases top to bottom. #PicoClaw vs #OpenClaw at the code level:
25K LOC Go vs 717K LOC TypeScript
18 MB RAM vs 57 MB RAM idle
25 MB binary vs 500 MB installed
10 channels compiled in vs 20+ via plugin registry
Neither is wrong. One optimizes for deployability floor, the other for capability ceiling.
Full deep dive with architecture diagrams: ericgrill.com/blog/picoclaw-…
I’m building a justice system that doesn’t need the state. Just voluntary contracts, competitive arbitration, restitution, and private enforcement.
Repo here: github.com/EricGrill/volunta…
Read the article: ericgrill.com/blog/voluntary…
Justice is a service, not a monopoly.
#VoluntaryJustice #Ancaps #DecentralizeEverything #PrivateLaw #Bitcoin #DAO #Reputation
I’m building a justice system that doesn’t need the state voluntary contracts, competitive arbitration, restitution, and private enforcement.
Repo here: github.com/EricGrill/volunta…
Read the article: ericgrill.com/blog/voluntary…
Justice is a service, not a monopoly.
#VoluntaryJustice #Ancaps #DecentralizeEverything #PrivateLaw #Bitcoin #DAO #Reputation
Eric Grill retweeted
If you recognize all 6 of these, congratulations! You are truly a gamer from the early days...
I didn’t drift into jiu jitsu. I engineered my way into it.
Systems. Reps. Travel. Competition. Recovery.
What started as survival turned into a framework for mastery.
ericgrill.com/blog/engineere…
#BJJ #JiuJitsu #Discipline #Systems
What’s the difference between vibe coding and agentic?
Vibe coding is intuition without accountability.
Agentic development is intuition with receipts.
#AgenticAI #SoftwareEngineering #DevTwitter #AIEngineering #StartupTwitter #BuildInPublic
I designed an AI protocol in one afternoon.
Then I realized it could be used to hire a hitman.
I shut it down and wrote this instead 👇
ericgrill.com/blog/aegis-ai-… #ai #claudecode #badagents
Eric Grill retweeted
Chess has 20 opening moves. BJJ has... pull guard, shoot, or grip fight.
Both explode into infinite complexity. Both reward the patient strategist over the reckless attacker.
We're all playing human chess out here.
bjjchat.com/blog/chess-and-j…
#BJJ #Chess
Helped @NWOsnack decentralize Zoltaran Speaks, a fortune-telling game on Proton Chain.
It already had wallet auth, on-chain transfers, and provably fair randomness. But credits were tracked in PHP.
15 minutes later: fully decentralized. The blockchain was already the database. I just deleted the redundant code.
ericgrill.com/blog/zoltaran-… #decentralize #provable #nft
// real_world_applications
>Medical data: Prove you don't carry a genetic mutation without revealing your genome
>Age verification: Prove you're over 21 without revealing your birthdate
>Credential checks: Prove you have a valid license without exposing your identity
>Voting systems: Prove you voted validly without revealing your vote ericgrill.com/zkp #zkp #zeroknowledge #privacy