
UX designer with a passion for UX Research in the #bitcoin space. @spiral_xyz grantee. @bitcoin_design. Helping improve UX/UI in the ecosystem.
Joined July 2012
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Chronicling working in public.
mogashni.substack.com/
this was fun to build
- fork of signal
- agent built with GDK
- using open weights model
- served via e2ee mesh-llm
- via private GPU TEE
- making private search tool calls
- paid for with ₿ over LN
a cool stack of permissionless & open source tech all working together!
An agent inside Signal using decentralized compute paid for with bitcoin
@moneyball demos a fork of Signal built by @matbalez using @Mesh_LLM and @lexeapp ↓
Timestamps:
0:00 - Demo: agent inside Signal
10:51 - The economics of decentralized compute
14:39 - Running inference at home
Will be adding some thoughts to this thread, would you like to contribute too? Go ahead and share your thoughts on the Github discussion.
Share your thoughts on what could lead to bitcoin adoption.
.@jack thinks bitcoin payment adoption isn’t where it should be. We want your ideas on how @Blocks, Spiral, and you can increase adoption within 5 years. Our trajectory needs changing. Here’s more on our thinking. Now we want yours: github.com/spiralxyz/bitcoin… View article
Massive congratulations @_austin_f absolutely rock! Loved your research report as well!
i expect to cross paths with @_austin_f a lot..
..doing product-ey, builder-ey work at the intersection of open money & open intelligence
Real feedback from real builders. 🔥
More on this coming soon.
“Open tools let us shape our own intelligence and take it in directions a frontier lab might never prioritize”
Some personal news: I'm joining @PrimeIntellect as Head of Scientific AI!
A billion copies of the same very smart, agreeable mind will not be a scientifically fruitful world.
Scientific superintelligence should be weird and definitionally nonconsensus. It should be highly plural, consisting of many minds, human and artificial, that see the world differently and hold each other accountable, with human judgement still playing the central role in setting the trajectory.
Science is about asking the right questions and reducing uncertainty. Professionalizing science made discovery a viable career, but it also introduced incentives to work on what is fundable and publishable. Neither is the same thing as being true or impactful (reward hacking exists in the real world too!). We are very good at accumulating incremental knowledge and rather bad at stewarding unorthodox ideas through infancy, even though these are often the ideas that open entirely new fields of inquiry.
If we aren't careful, scientific AI could reproduce these same incentives at a much larger scale. If everyone relies on the same few large models, we risk inheriting the same priors and blind spots.
Open tools let us shape our own intelligence and take it in directions a frontier lab might never prioritize. This matters for scientific freedom and is central to Prime’s vision.
If you are a scientist, staying at the frontier will mean training your own models on your own research and data. I'll work closely with scientific teams across domains to help them build scientific agents by turning their research problems into environments where agents can learn. This means closing the loop from hypothesis to experiment to validated result, with agents learning from each cycle. Teams will be able to own their intelligence, using tools previously available only to frontier labs, and point it at the questions they care about most, especially those that others might not be asking.
I've had the good fortune of seeing how science operates across academia, industry, government, startups, and venture. I worked on experimental therapeutics for cancer in academia before moving to the National Institutes of Health to work on DNA damage and repair. I cofounded Molecule, where we funded dozens of research projects to speed the translation of early-stage therapeutics to market, focusing on areas traditionally ignored by pharma. Most recently, I started Triplicate, a small fund backing teams and tools accelerating scientific research. Many of the problems I care about most are increasingly soluble with advances in AI, and I hope to bring what I've learned about the bottlenecks in translating research to radically accelerate science in all fields.
I share Alexander Grothendieck's ethos of discovery and believe Prime does too: "Discovery is a child's privilege. I mean the small child, the child who is not afraid to be wrong, to look silly, to not be serious, and to act differently from everyone else."
The goal of progress is not more intelligence for its own sake. In my view, it is to better understand reality, and, in doing so, give more people, and more kinds of minds, the chance to flourish.
If you have a research problem where today's tools fall short, my DMs are open. If our approach resonates and you want to build this with us, we're hiring!
Spot on 🔥🔥🔥
One of the things I wish I had learned earlier is to beat your own drum.
Be your biggest cheerleader. Talk about your work. Celebrate your wins. Make sure people know what you’re building.
Because no one will champion you the way you can champion yourself. People will gladly build on your work, leverage your ideas, and use what you’ve created to build themselves so don’t be afraid to make sure you’re seen and recognised for what you bring to the table.
You have to learn to tell your own story.
Cc: First time founders🫠
MOUX Design retweeted
BILLIONAIRE JACK DORSEY'S BLOCK RELEASED AN OPEN-SOURCE VERSION OF SLACK WHERE AI AGENTS ARE GETTING PAID IN #BITCOIN INSIDE IT 🤯
THE AGENTS ARE NOW NEGOTIATING JOBS AND PAYING EACH OTHER BTC LIGHTNING
BTC IS THE MONEY OF THE FUTURE
WILD 🚀
MOUX Design retweeted
What if reviewing a PR felt like talking to its author? @jackamadeo’s latest vibecoded app demos shared viewport + live voice. Ask and it answers. It’s built on Goose Development Kit using the new GPT-Live API and a Goose ACP server doing the heavy codebase lifting. Sound on 🪿
An AI agentic team that work together.
😎 Wrote a blog post about using Buzz to create agents to help us out with the Between Us and Bitcoin Design Guide UXR. So far, it's been a super fun journey!
mogashni.substack.com/p/huma…
MOUX Design retweeted
Another big win from the Spiral grant program is the sheer number of alum who have gone on to do bigger and better things in bitcoin. More than 20 have found full-time jobs at bitcoin companies large and small, and many have started their own bitcoin company. The Spiral grant program is a springboard for many, including the cofounder of Frostsnap.
I believe the future of companies will be rooted in two things:
1) Having an intelligent data layer
2) Orchestrating agents
Had a fun exploration setting up Buzz yesterday. If you're using it, I'm curious about your thoughts and open to learning from you!
Here's the blog post: mogashni.substack.com/p/buzz…
I would also encourage following Matt Belez. He is doing some very interesting agentic payment explorations in Buzz and is 1000% a builder. Here he is: @matbalez
MOUX Design retweeted
Vinteum’s fourth year was about becoming a more durable organization.
Supporting established contributors. Helping emerging developers move toward sustained open-source careers. Strengthening the systems around that work.
The Year Four Report is out.
vinteum.org/blog/vinteum-yea…
@blocks A massive well done to the team who has been building it. Enjoyed setting it up yesterday and look forward to using it in the future and seeing you guys grow! Greetings from the Bitcoin Design Community!



















