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A long-time Bitcoin developer named Paul Sztorc is proposing a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain scheduled for two thousand twenty six. The plan, called eCash, would give existing holders equivalent tokens while adding a feature called Drivechains. The catch — and it's a significant one — is that it would reassign coins long believed to belong to Bitcoin's anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Much of the community is calling that outright theft, and the debate is already getting heated.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, the New York Times is taking a close look at podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, whose long-form conversations with the architects of modern AI have quietly made him one of the most consequential interviewers in tech. His show offers something rare — unscripted, unhurried access to the people actually building these systems, at a moment when those conversations carry enormous public stakes.
And on the tools front, a developer has published a practical walkthrough for running Google's Gemma four, a thirty-one billion parameter language model, locally on an Apple Silicon Mac using Ollama. It's a small but telling sign of how quickly serious AI horsepower is migrating from the cloud onto personal hardware.
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