Derrick Hammer
@pcfreak30.bsky.social
Founder, lumeweb.com | 🌐 Cypherpunk, 🛡️ Freedom, 🕵️ Privacy, 🕸️ Open Web, ✊ Digital Civil Rights. Involved in 💰 Crypto, 🔄 P2P, 🧠 AI. 🗽Classical Liberal-leaning, but 🔍 Independent.
Not sure what your thinking regarding payments but look at github.com/ApeWorX/ApePay.
Overall cool experiment. The various ecos are slowly becoming more intertwined.
Overall cool experiment. The various ecos are slowly becoming more intertwined.
GitHub - ApeWorX/ApePay: A smart contract payment system built for automated service management
A smart contract payment system built for automated service management - ApeWorX/ApePay
github.com
June 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Not sure what your thinking regarding payments but look at github.com/ApeWorX/ApePay.
Overall cool experiment. The various ecos are slowly becoming more intertwined.
Overall cool experiment. The various ecos are slowly becoming more intertwined.
AI actually can operate free when crypto economies are funding it. chat.akash.network is a live free, anon, AI/LLM service that runs the full deepseek and uses funding from a blockchain governance.
Other then that, it just needs to be FOSS. Keep it FOSS, you keep control.
Other then that, it just needs to be FOSS. Keep it FOSS, you keep control.
AkashChat
This application is running on NVIDIA GPUs leased from the Akash Supercloud
chat.akash.network
March 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
AI actually can operate free when crypto economies are funding it. chat.akash.network is a live free, anon, AI/LLM service that runs the full deepseek and uses funding from a blockchain governance.
Other then that, it just needs to be FOSS. Keep it FOSS, you keep control.
Other then that, it just needs to be FOSS. Keep it FOSS, you keep control.
It gets very low level and im not able to really communicate it properly.
But what matters is all the memory has direct integrated access to each other for computing a response with the weights and kv cache.
Thats why u see hype around macs. Systems that are more SoC have 0 overhead and just work.
But what matters is all the memory has direct integrated access to each other for computing a response with the weights and kv cache.
Thats why u see hype around macs. Systems that are more SoC have 0 overhead and just work.
March 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It gets very low level and im not able to really communicate it properly.
But what matters is all the memory has direct integrated access to each other for computing a response with the weights and kv cache.
Thats why u see hype around macs. Systems that are more SoC have 0 overhead and just work.
But what matters is all the memory has direct integrated access to each other for computing a response with the weights and kv cache.
Thats why u see hype around macs. Systems that are more SoC have 0 overhead and just work.
Aldo realistically if atproto wanted to shove a blockchain in, they would just become farcaster. That's the only real difference between them: how the identity systems operate.
Everything else uses IPFS/IPLD related tech.
Everything else uses IPFS/IPLD related tech.
March 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Aldo realistically if atproto wanted to shove a blockchain in, they would just become farcaster. That's the only real difference between them: how the identity systems operate.
Everything else uses IPFS/IPLD related tech.
Everything else uses IPFS/IPLD related tech.
Biggest difference is Mastodon has a server owner vs bluesky which are more like matrix home servers.. You can be locked out of Mastodon still and don't own your data, but atproto has PDS's where you do.
That's a technical design difference between them, and a very important one...
That's a technical design difference between them, and a very important one...
March 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Biggest difference is Mastodon has a server owner vs bluesky which are more like matrix home servers.. You can be locked out of Mastodon still and don't own your data, but atproto has PDS's where you do.
That's a technical design difference between them, and a very important one...
That's a technical design difference between them, and a very important one...
Already went down this path. LLAMQ has a RPC built ontop it. Also found github.com/b4rtaz/distr....
However, the bottleneck is likely bandwidth where you prob need a min 5-10 gb port to each node or even outright fiber. Think of it at the level of high speed trading.
The TPS is garbage without.
However, the bottleneck is likely bandwidth where you prob need a min 5-10 gb port to each node or even outright fiber. Think of it at the level of high speed trading.
The TPS is garbage without.
GitHub - b4rtaz/distributed-llama: Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference.
Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference. - b4rtaz/distributed-llama
github.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Already went down this path. LLAMQ has a RPC built ontop it. Also found github.com/b4rtaz/distr....
However, the bottleneck is likely bandwidth where you prob need a min 5-10 gb port to each node or even outright fiber. Think of it at the level of high speed trading.
The TPS is garbage without.
However, the bottleneck is likely bandwidth where you prob need a min 5-10 gb port to each node or even outright fiber. Think of it at the level of high speed trading.
The TPS is garbage without.
From experience the big reason for browser vs plugins is frankly gate-keeping. Firefox has network middleman API's that enabled several things but with Google MW3, that in chrome is destroyed.
You need to be able to, at-minimum do network hijacking to do any direct P2P web browsing.
You need to be able to, at-minimum do network hijacking to do any direct P2P web browsing.
January 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
From experience the big reason for browser vs plugins is frankly gate-keeping. Firefox has network middleman API's that enabled several things but with Google MW3, that in chrome is destroyed.
You need to be able to, at-minimum do network hijacking to do any direct P2P web browsing.
You need to be able to, at-minimum do network hijacking to do any direct P2P web browsing.
Keep in mind a lot of cypto haters do have a point. PPL create a ton of trash as an excuse to gamble.
Real projects exist that want to solve problems but a ton of people just want a casino.
Need to understand the tech fairly deeply and not just what your told to sift thorough the bullshit.
Real projects exist that want to solve problems but a ton of people just want a casino.
Need to understand the tech fairly deeply and not just what your told to sift thorough the bullshit.
December 26, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Keep in mind a lot of cypto haters do have a point. PPL create a ton of trash as an excuse to gamble.
Real projects exist that want to solve problems but a ton of people just want a casino.
Need to understand the tech fairly deeply and not just what your told to sift thorough the bullshit.
Real projects exist that want to solve problems but a ton of people just want a casino.
Need to understand the tech fairly deeply and not just what your told to sift thorough the bullshit.
sigh, this really sounds highly disingenuous.
December 25, 2024 at 5:44 PM
sigh, this really sounds highly disingenuous.
Nah, the people who care are still around. Just a lot more care about nihilism and getting rich, then their privacy and rights.
It basically exposed two extremes of human nature. Those who would sell out their family for a buck, and those who want anarchy (ancap/ancon).
We can hate it, but ... 🤷♂️
It basically exposed two extremes of human nature. Those who would sell out their family for a buck, and those who want anarchy (ancap/ancon).
We can hate it, but ... 🤷♂️
December 18, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Nah, the people who care are still around. Just a lot more care about nihilism and getting rich, then their privacy and rights.
It basically exposed two extremes of human nature. Those who would sell out their family for a buck, and those who want anarchy (ancap/ancon).
We can hate it, but ... 🤷♂️
It basically exposed two extremes of human nature. Those who would sell out their family for a buck, and those who want anarchy (ancap/ancon).
We can hate it, but ... 🤷♂️
Don't understand the technology... or the point? In abstract the original intention was complete autonomy of your money, before you were required to store in a bank, which, without means more responsibility, but also more privacy. At the core, it has been intended to be anon money, like cash.
December 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Don't understand the technology... or the point? In abstract the original intention was complete autonomy of your money, before you were required to store in a bank, which, without means more responsibility, but also more privacy. At the core, it has been intended to be anon money, like cash.
right... that's completely not a radical take /s.
So just by having an LLC you become evil trying to run a business over say being a 1099 doing the same thing? 🙃
So just by having an LLC you become evil trying to run a business over say being a 1099 doing the same thing? 🙃
December 17, 2024 at 5:16 PM
right... that's completely not a radical take /s.
So just by having an LLC you become evil trying to run a business over say being a 1099 doing the same thing? 🙃
So just by having an LLC you become evil trying to run a business over say being a 1099 doing the same thing? 🙃
We have the same exact debates around encryption and online safety tbh. Its an eternal values debate, with many countries trying to outlaw E2E on the same ideological arguments.
The 1990's PGP/GnuPG wars is the start of it all, macro, and it was never fully decided in court.
The 1990's PGP/GnuPG wars is the start of it all, macro, and it was never fully decided in court.
December 4, 2024 at 1:19 AM
We have the same exact debates around encryption and online safety tbh. Its an eternal values debate, with many countries trying to outlaw E2E on the same ideological arguments.
The 1990's PGP/GnuPG wars is the start of it all, macro, and it was never fully decided in court.
The 1990's PGP/GnuPG wars is the start of it all, macro, and it was never fully decided in court.
Fundamentally, the best way to know if something succeeds for financial privacy as a civil right, is if criminals on tor are using it.
If they aren't... then its not going to get the same adoption cash would, which congress would not approve as a bill today.
You cannot have privacy and no evil.
If they aren't... then its not going to get the same adoption cash would, which congress would not approve as a bill today.
You cannot have privacy and no evil.
December 4, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Fundamentally, the best way to know if something succeeds for financial privacy as a civil right, is if criminals on tor are using it.
If they aren't... then its not going to get the same adoption cash would, which congress would not approve as a bill today.
You cannot have privacy and no evil.
If they aren't... then its not going to get the same adoption cash would, which congress would not approve as a bill today.
You cannot have privacy and no evil.
This argument is funny and it gets old and its based on a fundamental values difference between progressives and conservatives/class libs.
We used to have financial privacy, we do not now. Most blockchains aren't private.
And the irony is: whats good for criminals is good for your privacy.
We used to have financial privacy, we do not now. Most blockchains aren't private.
And the irony is: whats good for criminals is good for your privacy.
December 4, 2024 at 1:13 AM
This argument is funny and it gets old and its based on a fundamental values difference between progressives and conservatives/class libs.
We used to have financial privacy, we do not now. Most blockchains aren't private.
And the irony is: whats good for criminals is good for your privacy.
We used to have financial privacy, we do not now. Most blockchains aren't private.
And the irony is: whats good for criminals is good for your privacy.
However the grift in crypto and esp with "CeFi" is really that you just replace penny stocks with records on a blockchain, let a unregulated centralized entity manage it for you, then hope you get rich.
Thats both bad for the user and against the entire point of the reason BTC was created.
Thats both bad for the user and against the entire point of the reason BTC was created.
December 4, 2024 at 1:10 AM
However the grift in crypto and esp with "CeFi" is really that you just replace penny stocks with records on a blockchain, let a unregulated centralized entity manage it for you, then hope you get rich.
Thats both bad for the user and against the entire point of the reason BTC was created.
Thats both bad for the user and against the entire point of the reason BTC was created.
Tbh, everything really just boils down to the concept that you can do what you want with your money, but you take responsibility as a result. It started out as a rebel against banks and separating money and state (read bretton woods).
It isn't that hard, and asshats still should have accountability
It isn't that hard, and asshats still should have accountability
December 4, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Tbh, everything really just boils down to the concept that you can do what you want with your money, but you take responsibility as a result. It started out as a rebel against banks and separating money and state (read bretton woods).
It isn't that hard, and asshats still should have accountability
It isn't that hard, and asshats still should have accountability
tbh i hope it does. We need a political re-balance here. The other end of the spectrum is already trying to mass block list us though like how twitter blue checks were.
November 22, 2024 at 7:04 PM
tbh i hope it does. We need a political re-balance here. The other end of the spectrum is already trying to mass block list us though like how twitter blue checks were.
But.. it also misses the bigger point that blockchain have a single big picture use case, even if it is niche which ties the other legos together.
The crypto hype bubble just wants to instead shove everything into that DB vs use it where it makes sense: for metadata only.
The crypto hype bubble just wants to instead shove everything into that DB vs use it where it makes sense: for metadata only.
November 21, 2024 at 10:27 AM
But.. it also misses the bigger point that blockchain have a single big picture use case, even if it is niche which ties the other legos together.
The crypto hype bubble just wants to instead shove everything into that DB vs use it where it makes sense: for metadata only.
The crypto hype bubble just wants to instead shove everything into that DB vs use it where it makes sense: for metadata only.
"Programmers learned that blockchain costs outweigh the benefits, and investors eventually followed suit."
TBH im not sure who you think is saying that. I WILL easily agree that a blockchain is a slow, shitty database and a bunch of computer scientists saying that in an open letter would be right.
TBH im not sure who you think is saying that. I WILL easily agree that a blockchain is a slow, shitty database and a bunch of computer scientists saying that in an open letter would be right.
November 21, 2024 at 10:25 AM
"Programmers learned that blockchain costs outweigh the benefits, and investors eventually followed suit."
TBH im not sure who you think is saying that. I WILL easily agree that a blockchain is a slow, shitty database and a bunch of computer scientists saying that in an open letter would be right.
TBH im not sure who you think is saying that. I WILL easily agree that a blockchain is a slow, shitty database and a bunch of computer scientists saying that in an open letter would be right.
"The masses shouldn't need to understand web tech."
I think your missing the point on what I was trying to say. "web3" is more like alchemy of a bunch of technologies but its much easier to just say NgU with crypto, esp with BTC nearing 100k.
And web3 does not exist. Its more of an ideal atm.
I think your missing the point on what I was trying to say. "web3" is more like alchemy of a bunch of technologies but its much easier to just say NgU with crypto, esp with BTC nearing 100k.
And web3 does not exist. Its more of an ideal atm.
November 21, 2024 at 10:23 AM
"The masses shouldn't need to understand web tech."
I think your missing the point on what I was trying to say. "web3" is more like alchemy of a bunch of technologies but its much easier to just say NgU with crypto, esp with BTC nearing 100k.
And web3 does not exist. Its more of an ideal atm.
I think your missing the point on what I was trying to say. "web3" is more like alchemy of a bunch of technologies but its much easier to just say NgU with crypto, esp with BTC nearing 100k.
And web3 does not exist. Its more of an ideal atm.
LOL, and this is why I have a pet peeve on anyone asking to "have a quick chat" or "jump on a call".
So much can just be done async.
So much can just be done async.
November 21, 2024 at 5:54 AM
LOL, and this is why I have a pet peeve on anyone asking to "have a quick chat" or "jump on a call".
So much can just be done async.
So much can just be done async.
Sounds like you met a Bitcoin maxi.
Even I have a tolerance level for their dogma at times (and yes, I work in crypto).
Even I have a tolerance level for their dogma at times (and yes, I work in crypto).
November 21, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Sounds like you met a Bitcoin maxi.
Even I have a tolerance level for their dogma at times (and yes, I work in crypto).
Even I have a tolerance level for their dogma at times (and yes, I work in crypto).