The BLAKE2b fork nearly got taken over by 46% AlphaPool - but then they agreed to a 30% cap for decentralization. Mechanic responded by coding a blacklist to make AlphaPool’s coins unspendable. The code is so bad that Luke adds “DO NOT RUN THIS CODE" to GitHub. Who tries to freeze their competition's coins?

There are people out there right now, who are selling BTC to buy Blake2b ASIC rigs...so they can mine an absolute failed shitcoin fork of Bitcoin... ...right as BTC rallies off its bear market low. Chefs kiss.

The Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with NYT, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works generally constitutes fair use (@blakebrittain / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)