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Presidio Bitcoin Jam changed its tagline to "open money, open intelligence" to reflect its coverage of AI and Bitcoin. This aligns with Spiral's tagline and a broader industry trend of merging open source AI with cryptocurrency.
The X402 payment protocol specification officially merged support for Bitcoin and Lightning, driven by a pull request from Spiral developer Ben Carmen. Block subsequently announced it was joining the standard alongside Coinbase.
Spiral developers are integrating Bitcoin Lightning payments into Mesh LLM, an open source peer-to-peer AI inference project. This enables node hosts to monetize their spare compute on a decentralized network.
Steve and DK explain Spiral's Mesh LLM project, which creates a peer-to-peer network allowing users to monetize spare compute cycles on local machines. Developers can buy model inference directly from the mesh using permissionless Bitcoin payments.
DK reveals Spiral's plans to produce a puppet-based film advocating for open-source AI and open-weight models. The project builds on the team's prior niche software release, Puppet Jack, to target a much broader technology audience.