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45 Days, Not a Year: Why XBT Should Keep a Rolling Coinbase Maturity
DATUM pools went from 28% to 91% of XBT blocks under the 45-day lock. Knots PR #467 keeps it rolling until RDTS expiry instead of a one-year freeze.
Read post →Mine to AlphaPool DATUM in One Copy-Paste
Run your own Bitcoin Knots node and DATUM gateway on the BLAKE2b chain, paid directly in the block — an AI agent does the entire setup. Windows, Ubuntu, or Mac.
Read guide →AlphaSwap is Live: Swap BTX and USDC (Base) in Minutes
A community OTC desk for BTX ⇄ USDC on Base — peer-matched, escrowed per trade, settled on-chain. Step-by-step for both sides of the trade.
Read guide →Get Paid to Use Your Mining GPU as an AI Chatbot: Run a 27B LLM + Mine Pearl on One RTX 5090
A single Docker container turns an RTX 5090 into a chat-LLM server and a Pearl miner — same int7 GEMMs for both. Full copy-paste setup guide.
Read guide →Mining Pearl (PRL): Proof-of-Useful-Work on Consumer GPUs
A new L1 where mining is matrix multiplication — the same math AI models run. We launched AlphaPool's Pearl pool with the fastest community miner on the network.
Read post →Introducing agent-os: Cross-Agent Continuity for AI Development
Open-source memory system that lets AI agents share context across sessions, models, and providers. Never re-explain your project again.
Read post →AlphaStrike: CS2 Meets Crypto Rewards
How we built a CS2 server where your kills earn real Quai cryptocurrency. No middleman.
Read post →Run a Free Local AI on Windows in Under 10 Minutes
Stop paying for ChatGPT. Run 100% free, private AI on your own hardware using Ollama + Open WebUI.
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