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Frontier Models Eating All, SF's AI Dominance, Bitcoin Vegas Announcements

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0:00 May Day, hitting the road for College Basketball, and WE'RE BACK on schedule

2:20 Let's start with Vegas and Block's new Bitkey. Can it help against wrench attacks?

13:44 Tap to pay & NFC payments on Square to trigger a CashApp bitcoin transaction

16:14 CashApp now offering 5% bitcoin back and enabling P2P Payments over bitcoin

18:16 River pioneered proof-of-reserves and liabilities; Block just followed suit

26:40 A new product from a traditional SF fintech, Aven, launched bitcoin-backed liquidity and cards. Similar to Surge, who's building at PB using a signer network and MPC.

29:50 Revisiting strategies and approaches to Bitcoin-based loans and liquidity

38:02 Strike being explored by Tether & XXI? What's the strategy here?

46:01 Saylor explaining STRC Stretch at Vegas. Steve's reveal next week!

47:53 Latest Hackathon at PB last weekend with Hack Nation AI. Over 5,000 applicants!

1:04:04 DK's favorite ₿uilder Event last week! Mesh LLM and Goose Perception

1:13:03 The age of caring about machine specs and capabilities is BACK!

1:14:59 Takeaways from AI conversations in SF: everyone switching to Open Source for economics & privacy

1:20:13 Frontier models taking over the world, being shut down by governments, or leaving for open source?

1:26:05 Max puts Steve on the spot: X Money using CashTags?

1:29:02 SF is so BACK!

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SHOW NOTES:

https://bitkey.world/

https://surge.build/

https://hack-nation.ai/

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