For some reason, I've turned myself inside out and all my guts have spilled onto my blog. Truth and vulnerability or the currency of content. NM in chess.

NYC
Joined August 2007
Round 4 of the Marshall Chess Club senior championship. I had 2/3 going into round 4 but lost. I missed a winning move in the below position. Black just blundered with f6. I did Bh4, returning the favor. But White to move and Win here. It's really very clever.
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Round 2 of the Marshall Club Senior Championship in NYC. I had a draw against a strong 2260. So now I am 1.5/2 having beaten GM Michael Rohde in round 1. But once again, I got lucky. In the attached position I am White. Black could win with Qh4, protecting the knight and threatening Ng4+ and I'm lost. Instead, he did Ng4+ and he missed that after RxN PxN Rf8+ it's perpetual check so a draw.
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I just won my first classical tournament chess game against a grandmaster. Playing in the Marshall Club Senior Championship in NYC. Played Michael Rohde first round on board one. I won but I was lucky. He lost on time in a drawn game: lichess.org/broadcast/2025-m…
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James Altucher retweeted
🚀 $TAOX is the ultimate Trojan horse for $TAO's AI revolution! While $TAO halvings slash supply & subnets explode (shoutout @jaltucher), this NASDAQ gem stacks $TAO like a boss—giving normies easy exposure to decentralized AI without the wallet hassle. Elon vibes on AI obsolescence? This is it. 100x loading... Who's aping in before the herd? 🤖💎 #TAOX #TAO #Bittensor #AICrypto
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James Altucher retweeted
Amazing work @TAOSynergies @jaltucher 👏 Opening up subnet exposure to all types of investors - exactly what we need 🔥
$TAOX taking first steps into the subnets if $TAO. I feel like investing this way is like Sequoia investing in $AAPL in 1977. Decentralized AI is in inning one.
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$TAOX taking first steps into the subnets if $TAO. I feel like investing this way is like Sequoia investing in $AAPL in 1977. Decentralized AI is in inning one.
Deepening the #Bittensor ecosystem play: ✅ 60,000+ TAO staked ✅ $750K in @YumaGroup subnet funds ✅ Staking TAO for base rewards, then layering on subnet alpha to supercharge growth $TAOX shareholders now have exposure to 100+ active subnets. Details: prn.to/3JDB3Kv
James Altucher retweeted
Huge news this morning in the Bittensor Ecosystem Tao Synergies (NASDAQ: $TAOX) has just announced an initial $750,000 allocation into Yuma asset managements Bittensor subnet fund Is this the first instance of a public company gaining subnet exposure? Check out the full article below 👇 yumaai.com/updates/tao-syner… Credit: @YumaGroup @TAOSynergies @jaltucher
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I should mention this is just one subnet of 128. There are many examples I can give of subnets I am excited about.
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Finally I can start talking about how much I love the $TAO Subnets. This is a game changer for AI. With $TAOX we are going full force into the TAO subnets. What is a subnet you might ask? Imagine being a venture capitalist where now you can invest in the best AI startups on the planet at significant discounts. Example: Ridges (subnet 62) is about to launch a commercial product that competes with Cursor (an AI coding company). Cursor is valued at $30 BILLION. And yet... On the SWE benchmark tests, Ridges AI models destroys Cursor's AI models. Ridges has spent, in total, probably less than $200,000 because of the way the $TAO mechanism works for AI mining (see episodes of @TheTaoPod for explanations). So no dilutive VC funding. Ridges market cap: about $100M vs Cursor at $30B. And now $TAOX is buying subnet tokens and offering exposure to our research in the subnet space and to @Yuma 's institutional subnet funds. So now you no longer have to imagine being a VC. You're better than the VCs. This changes the game.
TAO Synergies announces initial $750,000 investment in Yuma Asset Management's Bittensor Subnet Funds, enhancing the company’s exposure to subnets in the #Bittensor ecosystem. Read the press release: prn.to/3JDB3Kv $TAOX #Crypto #AI @yumagroup
James Altucher retweeted
Folks! TAO Pod just hit EP10! A milestone for us! If you like our content and episodes! Make sure to subscribe to us on YouTube so you get the latest news and episodes when we drop them! @JosephJacks_ @jaltucher piped.video/channel/UCopT5-K…
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James Altucher retweeted
At one point we will look back to what @JosephJacks_ & @jaltucher did with The Tao Pod and think how revolutionary their idea on what Bittensor really could mean was. How they (same as bitcoin) changed peoples perspective from it. But they did it on the shark that is gonna eat all workforce in the world. Bittensor. Truly mind blowing latest episode as well. One of their best episodes in my opinion (although I like it better when its 2h+ long) //Waτaτa
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James Altucher retweeted
New TaoPod just dropped with JJ and Altucher ... The recent $TAO breakout and subnets discussed. Lots of great alpha here.
People! Drop all things! EP10 is here! Premiering in an hour! piped.video/NpBrd7fgtRs "  There are exactly two technologies in the totality and history of cryptocurrencies since Bitcoin's origination 17 years ago that have done this successfully at scale. Bitcoin and Bittensor. Absolutely nothing else." - @JosephJacks_ @jaltucher
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James Altucher retweeted
People! Drop all things! EP10 is here! Premiering in an hour! piped.video/NpBrd7fgtRs "  There are exactly two technologies in the totality and history of cryptocurrencies since Bitcoin's origination 17 years ago that have done this successfully at scale. Bitcoin and Bittensor. Absolutely nothing else." - @JosephJacks_ @jaltucher
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The Bitcoin white paper, by Satoshi, turns 17
Bitcoin White Paper Turns 17: From Digital Money to a Worldwide Sensation 🟢 Live on The TAO Daily Featuring: @bittensor taodaily.io/bitcoin-white-pa…
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James Altucher retweeted
$TAOX is probably the best asymmetrical bet you can do right now. Let's break it down : With 54 000 TAO tokens valued at 490$ (as of today) and with an additionnal 11M$ in funding waiting to be deployed, TAOX is sitting at a NAV of 37.46M$ With a market cap of 40.22M as of today. This represent a mNAV of 1.07... When $TAO goes to 1000$+ and gets a lot more attention, TAOX could potentially reach a mNAV of 3+. Now at 1000$ per coin, TAOX would have a NAV of : 54M$ in TAO + 11M$ in funding = 65M With an mNAV of 3, the market cap of TAOX would be : 195M (around a 5x from here) NFA/DYOR $TAO $TAOX @jaltucher
TAO Synergies is accumulating $TAO tokens, expanding its holdings to over 54,000. 🚀 via @CryptoAmb: bit.ly/4hm1LE9 #Crypto #Bittensor
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A new player in the Quantum space. $QCLS has a legit technology that won't take a decade to work like most quantum players.
$QCLS Quantum PR on 3mil float "LightSolver, the inventor and owner of the LPU, has demonstrated speeds up to 100x faster than GPUs in solving partial differential equations (PDEs), bridging the gap between today's GPUs and not-yet-developed quantum computers," said Q/C Senior Quantum Adviser, Steven Frankel.
The number one advice I would give to differentiate content from AI: - be sincerely vulnerable. And sincerity is hard. But the audience is an X-Ray machine. - reality is a spectrum. Its possible to state truths without knowing why something is true. For AI, reality is fixed.
Replying to @jaltucher
What is the #1 advice you’d have to differentiate one’s content from AI while also keeping it difficult for AI to learn from?
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James Altucher retweeted
When I was 25, I quit my job to be a writer - and went broke. Reading @jaltucher's blog kept me going. Because it was raw, real, & honest about failure - & how failure births success. He inspired me to start a business. And now...he's advising @bitstarterAI. Dream come true🌈
Subnets are start-ups. But in 5D. And the number of true entrepreneurs who understand business and #Bittensor is vanishingly small. But one of them is @jaltucher 💫 Advisor, innovator, & one-man alternate universe: & at hand to boost Bitstarter's new teams to breakthrough 🚀
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