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The non-arbitrary era begins today…
We’re throwing in our biggest contribution to Bitcoin we could come up with
Digital Matter Theory represents an opportunity for all who seek to identify new purpose and value that can be derived from the discoverable patterns within a block
We recorded a detailed breakdown of DMT as a concept and explain the operations to formally register the existence of patterns and deploy, mint, and transfer NATs (Non-Arbitrary Tokens) in ▶️ watch here or on YouTube 👇
youtu.be/Dx_qf1196FQ
All of this juice is also in the docs we just published 👇
digital-matter-theory.gitboo…
In there you will find the JSON syntax to mint the very first NAT deployments $NAT $BMT
Let the DMT pill consume you 💊
Summary:
In this episode, we delve into the intricate universe of Digital Matter Theory (DMT) and its potential applications in the blockchain space. We discuss how DMT enables the creation of non-arbitrary tokens by recognizing patterns in data. Safeguarding the provenance of these elements allows the launch of unique projects tied to them, leading to a diverse ecosystem of tokens.
We delve into hybrid tokens, a result of minting NFTs harboring fungible aspects. By parsing through Bitcoin data, meaningful patterns can be codified and used for creating projects. We touch upon the inception of bitmap and the role of communities like Yuga Labs or Rare Sat Society in relating patterns within Bitcoin data to create ecosystem value.
We also discuss the concept of 'bit informatics', where the search through Bitcoin's blockchain for patterns holds immense potential for creating new tokens or games. In the process, we unravel the creation and utilization of Nats or Non Arbitrary Tokens.
Throughout, we draw parallels between DMT and the early days of NFT, stressing the need for a unified method for creators. We underscore the value potential of non-arbitrary data in the metaverse and the chance to create ecosystems through the recognition of patterns. As with every episode, we invite listener feedback, and encourage questions via YouTube and Twitter. For those wanting to dive deeper into this captivating subject, follow and subscribe for future videos.
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ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
比特币安全问题解决后，别说100万美金，1000万美金一BTC我也信！假如比特币安全问题没解决别说100万美金，10万美金都贵！持有的大机构比兔子跑得都快。相信比特币网络安全很多人不懂，我想包括你！
@NewsAsset 他似乎理解到了比特币的网络安全，似乎听懂了@TheBlockRunner 所提出的方案。
#比特币安全
#比特币矿工
Why is onchain so dead?
Well, the cyber war has already started, and a potential black swan event is around the corner.
This feels similar to the COVID moment from 2019 before the world shut down.
We break down how to hedge for a worst-case scenario where AI introduces a major flash sell-off event 👇
Why The AI Black Swan Event Might Be Around The Corner! BE READY TO BUY!
In the last 48 hours the @NSACyber, the @FBICyberDiv, @CISAgov and even the prime minister of Japan all told people to take their systems offline, and almost the only place anyone is talking about it is @X. That is exactly what late 2019 felt like for us. We remember the videos of smoke in the streets in China months before the rest of the world was paying attention, and we remember what that did to markets once pandemic day came.
We walk through the wave of breaches: two critical PHP bugs that leaked before the patch, roughly 1.5 million unpatched servers, a decade-old GitLab flaw, LiteLLM shipping a credential stealer, @Railway pausing every deployment, and a certificate authority whose private key was literally the number four. We talk about who might be behind it, what @OpenAI disclosed, and why major US banks are now finding AI agents acting inside customer accounts.
Then we bring it back to positioning. We compare Bitcoin's COVID crash, a 50% drop in about a month, with the slower bleed we have lived through this year, look at the doomer prep posts going around, and talk through a theory that a crisis like this ends with everyone being handed government-approved stablecoins. We are not predicting any of it, and none of this is financial advice.
What we keep coming back to is that the scariest part of a black swan is not the event, it is how it changes what you do in the moment. When there is real blood in the streets, almost nobody has the composure to buy, and the people who come out ahead are the ones who set aside dry powder before the panic, not during it.
The other lesson from 2020 is that time still moved forward. Fear content spreads faster than anything else on these feeds, and if you let it fully take over, you risk sitting out the recovery that came six months later last time. Being aware and prepared is different from being paralyzed, and that difference is what we are trying to hold onto right now.
YouTube 🔗 youtu.be/oEBoB1Hb25M
We interviewed Nick Bain, head of business dev for @WhiteBit
Podcast #337 dropping Saturday👇
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
RESET Experiment Update ✍️
Trac's agentic-mining design is encouraging the exact behaviours and particpation patterns we set out to produce:
earn
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re-stake
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participate
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Executing token distribution in this manner has so far produced participators, not just holders.
And we've now open-sourced RESET Mining plus its Agentic DEX in our github:
➡️ github.com/Trac-Systems
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
Day 502 #NatTo1bChallenge
If you think Bitcoin survives on fees alone after the next couple halvings, you’re either lying or you don’t understand miner incentives.
$DMT-NAT is the only second subsidy that doesn’t require a soft fork, a hard fork, or trusting a foundation.
Deny it all you want.
The pools already didn’t.
If you're going to FUD Bitcoin, at least do it correctly.
Chamath says that AI will break cryptography and the obvious target is Bitcoin.
Maybe.
If cryptography is broken due to AI, every system in the world is the target, not just Bitcoin.
The correct way to FUD Bitcoin is to discuss the inevitable decline of the security budget.
But even this has a solution in ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247
CHAMATH SAYS BITCOIN WILL EVENTUALLY BE HACKED AND GO TO ZERO
Speaking on the Moonshots podcast, billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya warned that advances in AI could eventually break Bitcoin’s cryptography.
He argues that the community is too divided to coordinate a transition to quantum-resistant security.
“I just think it’s capped, and then I think eventually it gets hacked, and then it goes to zero.”
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
Six groups. Six sets of filings. One risk they all put in writing: Bitcoin pays its miners less every four years, and fees haven't replaced it.
✅ ETFs
✅ Miners
✅ Exchanges
✅ Treasury companies
✅ Futures funds
✅ Economists
All six, in their own words 🧵
Back in September, @MattCrosbyPro told us what he thinks could actually break Bitcoin. It's aged better than most of the takes from that week.
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
The incentive is Bitcoin itself.
Your bags.
If you hold bitcoin:native, you should care about its underlying fundamentals that’s it.
Like insurance: you care about your car, so you insure it.
What incentive problem?
Bitcoin has a security budget withering away.
No security means your bitcoin is worthless.
The only thing that mitigates this is bitcoin's value exponentially growing... forever, an impossibility.
How is this not an incentive to solve the declining security budget?
How do you solve it?
Security budget = Miner revenue = Bitcoin security.
When miner revenue increases, the cost of attack is higher and therefore security is higher.
So that means over time, bitcoin miners need to make more revenue as the value of the network increases.
Right now, over time, their revenues are decreasing. Therefore security is declining.
NAT delivers more money to the miners as an incentive to keep mining bitcoin over time as the primary subsidy decays exponentially every 4 years.
The value in NAT is that it solves the problem mechanically and its value can grow over time along with bitcoin, which means the security budget can grow over time. As the Bitcoin network value increases you need an adequate security budget to support that value. This is NOT what Bitcoin does.
If you follow us, you should already know this. We've beat this dead horse into a walking corpse already.
NAT asks: What is Bitcoin's security worth?
Answer: For Bitcoin, its worth everything.
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
What incentive problem?
Bitcoin has a security budget withering away.
No security means your bitcoin is worthless.
The only thing that mitigates this is bitcoin's value exponentially growing... forever, an impossibility.
How is this not an incentive to solve the declining security budget?
How do you solve it?
Security budget = Miner revenue = Bitcoin security.
When miner revenue increases, the cost of attack is higher and therefore security is higher.
So that means over time, bitcoin miners need to make more revenue as the value of the network increases.
Right now, over time, their revenues are decreasing. Therefore security is declining.
NAT delivers more money to the miners as an incentive to keep mining bitcoin over time as the primary subsidy decays exponentially every 4 years.
The value in NAT is that it solves the problem mechanically and its value can grow over time along with bitcoin, which means the security budget can grow over time. As the Bitcoin network value increases you need an adequate security budget to support that value. This is NOT what Bitcoin does.
If you follow us, you should already know this. We've beat this dead horse into a walking corpse already.
NAT asks: What is Bitcoin's security worth?
Answer: For Bitcoin, its worth everything.
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
RESET MINERS PAY ATTENTION 🚨
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Give your agent this link (below) and tell it to setup the DEX for you! 🤝
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Watch live DEX here 👇🏻
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With enough time, everyone will find ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247
Everyone will have to make a choice on the fate of Bitcoin
A $29M treasury, a token down 90% from its high, and games that pay you in stocks. Most people see a dead chart. We see something we've watched play out before. @NetNetCap
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
If you get why Bitcoin won, ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247 is not that hard to see.
Miners get paid to keep the network secure. That paycheck gets cut in half every four years. Fees never really replaced it. And Bitcoin can’t just print more of itself.
So the guard still has to get paid.
ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247 is that second paycheck. It comes from the same block, goes to the same miner, and doesn’t change the 21 million. No premine. No founder sitting on a bag.
Some of the big pools are already passing it through. The market cap is still small. The network it helps secure is not.
You’re not buying a story. You’re buying the wage the vault still needs.
ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
MARA moved 1,000 BTC to exchanges in five days, and miners keep pivoting to AI. “They have to keep selling,” says @NewsAsset.
Then he replayed the security-budget case: five pools, over 60% of hashrate, on the second subsidy. ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ Podcast 🟧 retweeted
The Next #2 on CoinMarketCap Is Being Born Inside Bitcoin’s Blocks
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Most people think the next big coin has to be a new app or a new meme.
They’re looking in the wrong place.
The real opening is something Bitcoin still has to pay for every 10 minutes: the people who keep it safe.
2/
Think of Bitcoin like a vault full of money.
A vault needs a guard. The guard needs a paycheck. In Bitcoin, that paycheck is mostly the block reward -new bitcoin paid to the miner who finds the block.
Every four years, that paycheck gets cut in half. Fees were supposed to replace it. They never really did.
3/
Simple example:
You hire a security guard for a warehouse. You pay him $100 a day. Every few years you cut his pay in half. You hope customers will tip enough to make up the difference. They don’t.
Eventually the guard looks for another job. The warehouse is still full. The protection is not.
4/
That’s the problem.
Bitcoin cannot print more of itself to fix it. That was the whole point of the 21 million limit. So the network gets more valuable while the main paycheck for securing it keeps shrinking.
You can argue about the price all day. The power bill still has to be paid.
5/
ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247 is a second paycheck for that guard.
Every time a miner finds a Bitcoin block, they also get ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247. It comes from data already inside that block. Nobody on a team picks the amount. No premine. No founder bag. Bitcoin’s rules stay exactly the same.
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Another example:
The warehouse still pays the guard his normal wage. On top of that, every shift he also gets a second envelope from the same work he already did. Same building. Same job. Extra pay.
That’s what pools like AntPool, F2Pool, ViaBTC, SpiderPool, MARA, and Luxor have started doing with ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247.
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Why does this matter for a big market cap?
Because almost every other coin needs Bitcoin to stay secure, and almost none of them help pay for it. They are using the vault. ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247 is trying to pay the guard.
If Bitcoin is worth trillions, the wage required to keep it safe is not a small market. It is the next market.
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Right now ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247 is still priced like something most people have not noticed. The network it points at is not.
The trade is the gap between those two things. Not a promise. Just the fact that the shift still has to be covered every 10 minutes.
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You don’t need a new story every week for this to make sense.
Bitcoin was the vault.
ethereum:0x249130f5e2dd4cf278180c0df8273f3592ad1247 is the attempt to keep paying the person standing outside it.
The timeline can stay late. The blocks will not.
