Björn Schmidtke
@pA1nD
Co-Founder of @penguinstribe and CEO of @somospenguin. Into teaching and (deep) learning. 💍 @deeliapatricia
Brrrrrr… sadly money printing didn’t debase salaries.
How is this even possible?
More important than the bigmac index.
⏳ How many hours of labor to earn 1 ₿itcoin? In 2015: 13 hours In 2020: 380 hours (~16 days) In 2025: 3,800 hours (~5 months) At this rate, by 2030 it might take a lifetime. Your time is getting debased. Stack bitcoin to save time.
The US needs to print but can't spark obvious inflation. What absorbs the liquidity? Stablecoins. Backed by T-Bills, but driven by #Bitcoin. A higher #Bitcoin (and Gold) price is becoming a matter of fiscal stability for the US. #Bitcoin is the new monetary pressure valve.
Bitcoin does not care about demand/supply. Bitcoin cares about utility. Utility is growing.
What’s the time? Oh look, it’s no-one-has-been-arrested-o’clock again …
Turn any LLM into a real-time voice AI agent. Unmute wraps a LLM into speech-to-text and text-to-speech models, while preserving the reasoning and tool calling capabilities. 100% Opensource.
A lot of money is wasted by GPT finetuning. Just because LLMs pass the bar to be somewhat useful. But much more value would be created by investing these amounts in GPT alternatives.
WHAT IS EXPENSIVE? I was late into Bitcoin. I waited too long….which may have been a good thing. I waited because I did not understand today’s modern money. So I bought my first Bitcoin at $6000 a coin. It was expensive. Today I wish I had bought more at $6000. Today…
with @deeliapatricia
I was able to travel to see the 100MW Penguin bitcoin mine in Paraguay last year. They didn’t start by wanting to mine. They had a software academy (@PenguinsTribe) that they needed money to support. So they took advantage of stranded power, and have used this to fund…
I don't wanna say 'I told you so', but I told you so.
Why can AIs code for 1h but not 10h? A simple explanation: if there's a 10% chance of error per 10min step (say), the success rate is: 1h: 53% 4h: 8% 10h: 0.002% @tobyordoxford has tested this 'constant error rate' theory and shown it's a good fit for the data chance of…
A horrible @airindia crash today being the first 787 Dreamliner ever to have a fatal incident Both the 787 and the 737 Max are part of the new "problem generation" of Boeing aircraft starting around the mid-2000s Like the 737 Max, the Dreamliner had lots of manufacturing/safety…
The horrible Jeju Air crash shows how random air crashes can be: before this crash Jeju Air had an almost flawless safety record I flew with them lots of times, from and to Jeju Island, which is what it's named after, which is like the Hawaii of South Korea But also from/to…
I think this might be true… He is a patriot after all.
Elon doesn’t load up on Bitcoin because he knows the higher BTC goes, the lower US bonds go - and rates higher - threatening the US (and global) economy’s viability & existence. He is sentimental about America and the world and doesn’t want to hasten their fall. Saylor, on…
FIPS 205: SLH-DSA. best PQ secure signature candidate for the moment IMO. signature size a bit big, but if we want to stop premature quantum FUD, make a new address format with a Schnorr taproot, and a SLH-DSA tapleaf. QED. future work: signature aggregate SLH_DSA using STARKs.
Penguin CEO @pA1nD and Penguin Academy CEO @deeliapatricia explore how Bitcoin mining is turning Paraguay’s excess energy into opportunity — creating jobs for youth and connecting locals to the global economy — while decentralizing the Bitcoin network.
“Inflation is the most destructive disease known to modern societies.” — Milton Friedman
Giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants isn’t compassion, it’s suicidal empathy. A woman running for Congress just said everyone should get it, even those here illegally. This is what happens when feelings override structure and virtue signaling outweighs logic. It…
🔓 I am VERY excited to introduce LOCK: a Bitcoin-based access protocol for encrypted secrets, that turns Bitcoin transactions into cryptographic access keys. No accounts. No passwords. No servers. This is Proof-of-Access⚡️ github.com/bramkanstein/l… Video and thread 🧵👇
Sitting in silence grows new brain cells In this study, silence almost DOUBLED the amount of new neurons in the hippocampus. Spend time in silence daily, doing absolutely nothing