Charles Hoskinson just dropped some serious tea on how the crypto scene is about to flip artificial intelligence upside down the same way it once wrecked cryptography fr.
He’s calling out that wild spending on AI data centers rn cuz electricity just ain’t gonna keep up with that insane pace and those big companies need to turn profitable fast or it’s gonna bust hard 🌑.
Blockchain’s Secret Sauce For AI 💀
In that Deeptech Insights episode the Cardano founder explained blockchains will hand AI the payment rails data ownership provenance and distributed computing it desperately needs before the infrastructure boom hits economic walls 🕸️.
Spending ten times more on data centers yearly can’t last and firms like OpenAI plus Anthropic gotta scale profits while pre-training eats all the cash.
Crypto Eats AI The Same Way It Did Cryptography ✨
Hoskinson compared today’s AI vibe to when he first jumped into crypto and cryptographers hated the association until the money started flowing to hire the best ones.
He thinks AI will follow suit in five to ten years lol.
“Cryptocurrencies are going to eat AI because we solve all the hard problems that AI can’t solve” he straight up said 🦇.
Those problems are payments alignment and data provenance.
Blockchains bring shared rules instead of letting single companies decide free speech stuff and they can track who made the data plus handle royalties automatically when AI touches someone else’s work 👀.
Pooling Phones And Gpus Like A Goth Hacker 🖤
The Input Output CEO even suggested throwing regular phones and gpus together for training instead of dropping billions on new data centers.
It’s giving that late nineties fiber optic overbuild where ninety percent of the cables sat dark for a decade till demand caught up.
Next wave is smaller local models on personal hardware like Apple’s M5 Mac Studio 🌙.
If frontier AI shifts to networks of tiny machines then crypto is literally the only tech that can coordinate it all.
Clarity Act Stuck Till Twenty Twenty Nine Tho 🕷️
On the regulatory side Hoskinson predicts the Clarity Act won’t pass Congress until twenty twenty nine thanks to three Trump admin mistakes like tying crypto’s image to Trump tokens and handing an inexperienced crypto czar the job.
Democrats got zero reason to rush when waiting for majority power might score them a stronger bill later.
Senate already failed advancing the bill on September fifteen missing those sixty votes needed.
Just another echo from the void by iconofsin.eth 💖
