Ryan Low @digitalblockfx

New paper: Bitcoin mining enables better absorption of surplus renewable generation, minimizing curtailment and supporting higher renewable integration without extra storage or infrastructure costs, creating a win-win for grid stability and mining profitability The finding is significant, because it establishes Bitcoin Mining as the only way grid operators can avoid the significant cost of balancing frequency fluctuations and operational cost increases that doesn't involve significant capital outlay on grids with high renewable penetration Source: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… The paper "Leveraging Bitcoin Mining in Demand-Response to Mitigate Ramping-Induced Transients" (Ginzburg-Ganz et al. 2026) was published in Electric Power Systems Research. Impact Factor: 4.2 (top 12% of academic journals worldwide).

Limited liability companies typically follow the "Vile Maxim", horde profit and socialize losses. It's not capatilism vs. socialism. Its to-big-to-fail vs. communities. Bypass Wall Street and support your local Co-op! Three million cooperatives worldwide, 12% of humanity is a cooperator International Cooperative Alliance, the top 300 cooperatives report $2.79 trillion in turnover International Cooperative Alliance — equivalent to the 7th largest economy on Earth. Cooperatives provide jobs or work opportunities to 280 million people, 10% of the world's employed population. International Cooperative Alliance In the US alone, the top 100 cooperatives reported $323 billion in revenue in 2024. US agricultural cooperatives — 1,620 of them — posted $275.8 billion in revenue, and 22% of all ag co-ops are over 100 years old. Cooperatives have already scaled across agriculture, finance, energy, retail, and housing — globally. ica.coop/en/cooperative…

First a trickle, then a torrent There have now been 30 papers since 2021 showing Bitcoin solving all three aspects of the energy trilemma: ♻️energy sustainability 🔐energy security (including grid stability) and 💳energy equity No other technology can address all three concurrently In fact, many energy experts believed this was impossible (Source link to all 30 papers with a summary of they says in comments)

Sen. Cynthia Lummis on Jamie Dimon's opposition to the CLARITY Act: "He either hasn't read the bill or he wants to mislead people."

@BTCsessions @Coinkite A present for any occasion.

Ran a command Ran a command Change is live, and I replayed yesterday's data through it to check for second-order effects. One thing the simulation surfaced is worth your attention, and it actually lands in your favor. 🤖

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New paper provides scientific validation that Bitcoin improves energy equity TL:DR: Using Bitcoin mining recycled heat for hot water and space heating in apartments makes heating significantly more affordable for residents, especially in colder climates Source: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Published in: Case Studies in Thermal Engineering Impact Factor: 6.4 (in the top 5% of journals worldwide)

What if you could take three completely different model families… and distill them into one tiny model? 🤯 📜 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21699 MOPD (Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation) has become a standard procedure in post-training. We already distill multiple specialized variants of the same model into a single set of weights. But what if we could go further - and distill models from entirely different families? Turns out, it is possible. Today we’re releasing a paper on cross-tokenizer distillation - our first steps in this exciting direction. 📄 We distilled Qwen3-4B, Phi-4-Mini, and Llama-3B into Llama-3.2-1B. MMLU jumped from 32.05 → 46.32 when using multiple teachers. 📈 The team is now working on Nemo-RL integration so the community can try this method in their own settings. Plus, we are scaling experiments up. 🚀

This is what fear sounds like The banking cartel is losing power

How Bitcoin works in a single image.

Outdoor Boys Told Law Grads What No Professor Would youtu.be/ttQd5bEdfL0?si… via @YouTube

New version of Nostr VPN is out. Like tailscale, but no email addresses or 3rd party accounts, just public keys. New: * native multiplatform user interfaces * Nostr-based multihop routing (FIPS protocol) — very useful when NAT holepunching fails * improved network management UX

✉️ Momentum built. Now we’re taking it to Ottawa. After almost 9,000 signatures on our parliamentary petition on stablecoins led by Kevin Zhang Co-Founder of @LoonFinance, we’ve published an open letter to Prime Minister of Canada @MarkJCarney calling for clear, modern stablecoin rules that protect consumers and support innovation.

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We’re in the “mask off” phase. Banks are pushing back on crypto. This isn’t about risk. It’s about resistance to change. Innovation is coming—whether they like it or not. @MorningsMaria

Our evolving understanding of Bitcoin and energy, in one image

Wall Street Just Surrendered: It's Officially Over

#Bitcoin has a color. Not the brand orange. The actual wavelength of its block frequency, transposed 58 octaves into visible light: 624 nm. Orange-red. The protocol vibrates at the color it already wears. Nobody planned this. The math just does it.

A US Senator just casually explained how you can store BTC in your brain during a legislation markup: "It provides people who are being tortured in foreign countries the opportunity to walk away with their money in their head. Because Bitcoin can be memorized." Magic ✨