there is no moat

We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa

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government of India officially removes bitchat from the App Store

this is really excellent, @dhh. youtu.be/vDjW_dRyKXY

shifting to buzz to accelerate engineering.block.xyz/blog/shifting-a-proj...

incredible how programmed we all are, and how sharp the turns have become.

very impressive bigscreenvr.com

great one: ugmonk.com/en-it/products/discbound-heirlo...

local, local, local venturebeat.com/orchestration/blocks-new-a...

what's the word, berd.xyz

am i doing this right?

buzz projects (aka a self-sovereign GitHub alt) engineering.block.xyz/blog/projects-in-buzz

"artificial intelligence" is the worst descriptor

CodeCrucible: A blueprint for LLM-driven SAST engineering.block.xyz/blog/codecrucible-a-...

This week’s Square releases are all about making the day-to-day a little easier for sellers. New this week: → Expanded card surcharging support for bar tabs, so surcharges apply more consistently when tabs stay open → Modifier sets assignable by sales channel, making it easier

Square just announced ManagerBot this week. What does it actually feel like to manage restaurants with an AI agent? I wrote about it. The morning routine. The out of stocks. The espresso machine. Talking to your data instead of hunting for it. tableandledger.com/blog/managerbot-from-th...Mostrar mais

🎉☕️ It’s Finally Official ☕️🎉 my little family coffee roastery / business is now set up on @Square & accepting Bitcoin payments I am so absolutely stoked! I have been waiting years for this payments feature! 🎉 ☕️ 🎉 We can even process credit cards & convert…Mostrar mais

Thank you @jack and the team over at @Square ! Today was the first sale from my very very very small business that I had a percentage converted to $BTC ! Very seamless process, customer doesn’t see any of it and it just works. Great way to stack sats!!!

the only source source of truth is the live product.

i wonder if claude thinks about me

Iran demanding $BTC for Hormuz tolls proves it: censorship-resistance IS the intrinsic value. - USD? Frozen by SWIFT. - Yuan? Beijing's control. - Stables? Issuer blacklists. - Gold? Try emailing it. Bitcoin is the only truly unstoppable, neutral money on earth.

The enduring genius of Bitcoin is that the Satoshi mystery does not need an answer. A monetary network secured by cryptography and game theory, rather than on trust in any individual or institution, does not depend on who Satoshi is or on whether Satoshi is ever found. Every

WE ARE ALL SATOSHI

bitcoin day

bitchat pulled from the china app store

Happy Birthday Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin started with a simple idea: open access to money for anyone. Tomorrow at 9am ET, we’re dropping our modern take on the Bitcoin Faucet; rewarding real BTC usage, whether buying, spending, or self-custodying. Earn sats for participating

This is Farzapedia. I had an LLM take 2,500 entries from my diary, Apple Notes, and some iMessage convos to create a personal Wikipedia for me. It made 400 detailed articles for my friends, my startups, research areas, and even my favorite animes and their impact on me complete

@jack @matt_pulsipher “Aaron Swartz deserves a tremendous amount of credit for his feedback on the design of Markdown’s formatting syntax. Markdown is much better thanks to Aaron’s ideas, feedback, and testing.” 🥺

legendary run daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

great idea file

🦞Ollama's cloud is one of the best places to run OpenClaw. $20 plan is enough for most day to day OpenClaw usage with open models! To make the switch, all you need is to open the terminal and type: ollama launch openclaw Choose a model: kimi-k2.5:cloud glm-5:cloud

Open source models are the way. I'm so excited about local AI.

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.” — Søren Kierkegaard

This drip is different

Now launching: Cash App is now the first major U.S. payments app to let you pay over time on money you've already sent. Convert P2P sends into installments — transparent fee, no compounding interest, six-week term. Eligible for sends of $25+ made in the last 30 days.

Block has an incredible world class hardware team. You can tell by the passion that goes into the design of all our physical products. The Square Handheld was one of my favorite products I had the pleasure of working on last year. Here’s a snippet of one of my favorite sequences.

There is no line to pass. No AI box to check. Your creativity is no longer gated by technical expertise. If that doesn’t excite you, you’ll get beat as an IC.

This is fire and something all artists should do

Block is bringing back the bitcoin faucet. The original, launched by Gavin Andresen in 2010, gave away 5 BTC to anyone who solved a CAPTCHA. That's $500,000 per person at today's prices. The new version goes live April 6 at btc.day.

Little one, but helpful You can now add money with Apple Pay on @CashApp

people are sleeping on how excellent goose has become under the hood (interface needs some work but team is pushing). it's a superpower. github.com/block/goose

"In practice, Spectre is the beginning of a company world model: a live picture of what is happening inside Harvey and what needs to happen next." www.harvey.ai/blog/autonomous-agents-legal...

Block just open-sourced mesh-llm, a peer-to-peer system that lets anyone pool spare GPU compute to run large open-source AI models without relying on any cloud provider. If a model fits on your machine, it runs locally at full speed. If it doesn't, the system automatically

tuitter - voante for your terminal

In 2005 I built Fon on a simple idea: millions of WiFi routers sit idle most of the day. Share that spare capacity and you build a global network without laying a single cable. Millions of homes joined. Telcos partnered. No infrastructure needed. Now Jack Dorsey’s Block just