Professor Mende - Creator of the bonuz Human Layer
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Professor Mende - Creator of the bonuz Human Layer
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๐ธ Co-Founder: Dubai Blockchain Center
๐ธ Founder: bonuz Human Layer & Lifestyle Wallet App
๐ธ Visit: Bonuz.xyz
๐ธ My X: @MendeMatthias
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Matthias Mende Honored as Binanceโs โCreator of the Yearโ at Binance Blockchain Week Dubai
Founder of Bonuz Market and Co-founder of Dubai Blockchain Center Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to the Binance Community Matthias Mende, the founder of Bonuz Market and co-founder of the Dubai Blockchain Center, has been awarded the prestigious โCreator of the Yearโ award by Binance, the worldโs leading cryptocurrency exchange. The accolade was presented by Binance [โฆ]
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This is not Crypto! This is me meeting the Ruler of #Dubai.
โค๏ธ I love the #UAE and have been calling Dubai my home since 2007. UAE is also the HQ of Binance.
I am glad that the leadership understands the potential of #Blockchain technology here. ๐ซถ๐ผโจ
#bullish ๐ฆ๐ช ๐
โค๏ธ I love the #UAE and have been calling Dubai my home since 2007. UAE is also the HQ of Binance.
I am glad that the leadership understands the potential of #Blockchain technology here. ๐ซถ๐ผโจ
#bullish ๐ฆ๐ช ๐
Apple Removes Telegram Again, Leaves X App Store Alone
Apple briefly banned Telegram over child sexual abuse material this week, while X stayed online despite a months-long Grok deepfake scandal. The gap raises questions about how app store rules really work.
If app store removal depends partly on political weight rather than policy alone, what does that mean for platform accountability going forward? Apple enforces CSAM rules strictly against smaller or less politically connected apps, yet gave X and Grok private warnings and time to fix violations instead of removal. As more of daily life, communication, payments, and eventually AR interfaces route through a handful of app stores, who decides which violations are severe enough to warrant removal, and on what basis?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/apple-telegram-ban-x-app-store
Apple briefly banned Telegram over child sexual abuse material this week, while X stayed online despite a months-long Grok deepfake scandal. The gap raises questions about how app store rules really work.
If app store removal depends partly on political weight rather than policy alone, what does that mean for platform accountability going forward? Apple enforces CSAM rules strictly against smaller or less politically connected apps, yet gave X and Grok private warnings and time to fix violations instead of removal. As more of daily life, communication, payments, and eventually AR interfaces route through a handful of app stores, who decides which violations are severe enough to warrant removal, and on what basis?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/apple-telegram-ban-x-app-store
Camp Miasma: How Fake Props Built a Real Slasher Myth
A new film invents a fake 30 year slasher franchise using nothing but props, posters, and a playable board game, and makes it feel completely real.
How much physical detail does a fictional world need before audiences accept it as real? Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma answers with fake VHS tapes and a playable board game, not special effects. As virtual and augmented worlds compete for attention, the same question applies to them, whether believability depends on technical accuracy or on something closer to memory, the fragmented, imperfect way people recall media they grew up with.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/camp-miasma-fake-slasher-franchise
A new film invents a fake 30 year slasher franchise using nothing but props, posters, and a playable board game, and makes it feel completely real.
How much physical detail does a fictional world need before audiences accept it as real? Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma answers with fake VHS tapes and a playable board game, not special effects. As virtual and augmented worlds compete for attention, the same question applies to them, whether believability depends on technical accuracy or on something closer to memory, the fragmented, imperfect way people recall media they grew up with.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/camp-miasma-fake-slasher-franchise
ByteDance Trains Massive 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model
ByteDance is reportedly training an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, aiming to match or exceed Anthropic's most advanced systems, according to Financial Times sources.
If ByteDance's model matches Anthropic's scale, does raw parameter count still determine which AI systems lead the world, or has data quality and training method become the bigger factor? The report notes both matter, but companies keep racing for size. As more labs approach 10 trillion parameters, the industry may need a clearer answer about what actually separates a leading model from a merely large one.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/bytedance-trains-10-trillion-parameter-ai-model
ByteDance is reportedly training an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, aiming to match or exceed Anthropic's most advanced systems, according to Financial Times sources.
If ByteDance's model matches Anthropic's scale, does raw parameter count still determine which AI systems lead the world, or has data quality and training method become the bigger factor? The report notes both matter, but companies keep racing for size. As more labs approach 10 trillion parameters, the industry may need a clearer answer about what actually separates a leading model from a merely large one.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/bytedance-trains-10-trillion-parameter-ai-model
AI Writing Detectors Fuel New Era of Distrust Online
AI detection tools are flagging human writers as machines, triggering lawsuits, canceled book deals, and academic suspensions, even as their own makers admit the tools are unreliable.
If AI detectors admit they cannot be fully accurate, yet institutions and platforms keep using them to judge people, who should bear the cost of a false accusation, the writer, the tool maker, or the institution that trusted the tool?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/ai-writing-detectors-distrust
AI detection tools are flagging human writers as machines, triggering lawsuits, canceled book deals, and academic suspensions, even as their own makers admit the tools are unreliable.
If AI detectors admit they cannot be fully accurate, yet institutions and platforms keep using them to judge people, who should bear the cost of a false accusation, the writer, the tool maker, or the institution that trusted the tool?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/ai-writing-detectors-distrust
Dropbox Cloud Backup Saves PC Builders From Disaster
A Verge editor lost two SSDs to sudden failure but recovered fully thanks to Dropbox. His experience breaks down what cloud backup costs and why it matters more as storage prices rise.
As local storage hardware gets more expensive, how much of anyone's most important data should live only on machines they physically control, versus in someone else's cloud?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/dropbox-cloud-backup-pc-builders
A Verge editor lost two SSDs to sudden failure but recovered fully thanks to Dropbox. His experience breaks down what cloud backup costs and why it matters more as storage prices rise.
As local storage hardware gets more expensive, how much of anyone's most important data should live only on machines they physically control, versus in someone else's cloud?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/dropbox-cloud-backup-pc-builders
Amazon's 7.65GW Texas Gas Plant Could Top US CO2 List
Amazon is building a 7.65GW natural gas plant in Texas to power an AI data center, with permits allowing 33 million tons of CO2 emissions annually.
Can the AI industry keep scaling compute at its current pace without a matching leap in clean power generation, or will fossil-fuel backed data centers become the default solution? That tension sits at the center of this project, and its answer will shape how the next decade of AI, and the AR and wearable devices that depend on it, gets built and powered.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/amazon-texas-gas-plant-ai-data-center-co2
Amazon is building a 7.65GW natural gas plant in Texas to power an AI data center, with permits allowing 33 million tons of CO2 emissions annually.
Can the AI industry keep scaling compute at its current pace without a matching leap in clean power generation, or will fossil-fuel backed data centers become the default solution? That tension sits at the center of this project, and its answer will shape how the next decade of AI, and the AR and wearable devices that depend on it, gets built and powered.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/amazon-texas-gas-plant-ai-data-center-co2
49ers Coach Says Tesla Autopilot Was On During Crash
49ers coach Kyle Shanahan revealed his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed near Palo Alto, but said the fault was entirely his own, not the technology's.
If a driver with nine years of experience using Autopilot cannot say whether the system malfunctioned or he switched it off, how should responsibility be split between drivers and automakers in assisted-driving crashes? Does "partnership driving" mean the human is always accountable, or should liability ever shift toward the software when systems fail silently?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/49ers-coach-tesla-autopilot-crash
49ers coach Kyle Shanahan revealed his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed near Palo Alto, but said the fault was entirely his own, not the technology's.
If a driver with nine years of experience using Autopilot cannot say whether the system malfunctioned or he switched it off, how should responsibility be split between drivers and automakers in assisted-driving crashes? Does "partnership driving" mean the human is always accountable, or should liability ever shift toward the software when systems fail silently?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/49ers-coach-tesla-autopilot-crash
Partly True
โ๏ธ BTX changes its proof-of-work tonight, at block 185,000
We are about an hour away, so somewhere around 01:40 to 02:10 UTC.
WHAT CHANGES
Mining stops being a lottery and becomes a computation. Today your GPU makes millions of cheap guesses per second. After block 185,000, one attempt is a single large exact calculation that takes about 30 seconds on some of the fastest hardware in the world.
That is not a typo. One attempt. Not a million.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
Update easyBTX to v0.13.0. It is rolling out over auto-update now, and restarting the app is the fastest way to get it. That is the whole list.
THREE THINGS NOT TO PANIC ABOUT
1. Network difficulty will appear to collapse at the fork, by a factor of about 120,000. That is deliberate and it settles within the hour.
2. Your pool may go quiet for a few minutes just before the switch. That is the pool being careful, not breaking.
3. Your wallet, your balance and your coins are completely unaffected.
OLDER GPUS, THE HONEST PART
The new work needs Ampere or newer, so RTX 30-series and up. GTX 10-series, GTX 16-series and the RTX 2070 can mine right up to block 185,000 and we expect them to stop there. We are sorry to be the ones saying it.
Mac and browser mining are still in testing.
FULL RESEARCH ARTICLE
We ran the fork on a private test chain before it happened and wrote up exactly what changes and why:
https://easybtx.com/research/matmul-v4-7-fork
#BTX #ProofOfWork #GPUMining
We are about an hour away, so somewhere around 01:40 to 02:10 UTC.
WHAT CHANGES
Mining stops being a lottery and becomes a computation. Today your GPU makes millions of cheap guesses per second. After block 185,000, one attempt is a single large exact calculation that takes about 30 seconds on some of the fastest hardware in the world.
That is not a typo. One attempt. Not a million.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
Update easyBTX to v0.13.0. It is rolling out over auto-update now, and restarting the app is the fastest way to get it. That is the whole list.
THREE THINGS NOT TO PANIC ABOUT
1. Network difficulty will appear to collapse at the fork, by a factor of about 120,000. That is deliberate and it settles within the hour.
2. Your pool may go quiet for a few minutes just before the switch. That is the pool being careful, not breaking.
3. Your wallet, your balance and your coins are completely unaffected.
OLDER GPUS, THE HONEST PART
The new work needs Ampere or newer, so RTX 30-series and up. GTX 10-series, GTX 16-series and the RTX 2070 can mine right up to block 185,000 and we expect them to stop there. We are sorry to be the ones saying it.
Mac and browser mining are still in testing.
FULL RESEARCH ARTICLE
We ran the fork on a private test chain before it happened and wrote up exactly what changes and why:
https://easybtx.com/research/matmul-v4-7-fork
#BTX #ProofOfWork #GPUMining
Werewolf VFLEX USB-C Dongle Turns Old Gadgets Modern
Werewolf's $8 (USD) VFLEX dongle lets a single USB-C battery power old barrel-jack gadgets, from desktop monitors to retro game consoles, without any device modification.
If a small dongle can translate decades-old power standards into modern USB-C protocols, how many other legacy interfaces, from analog video to industrial connectors, could be bridged the same way? Universal power negotiation raises a broader question about hardware longevity. Should future devices be designed around negotiated, software-defined power from the start, rather than fixed voltages baked into a wall adapter? The answer could shape how manufacturers design charging for gadgets meant to last decades, not just a product cycle.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/werewolf-vflex-usb-c-dongle-old-gadgets
Werewolf's $8 (USD) VFLEX dongle lets a single USB-C battery power old barrel-jack gadgets, from desktop monitors to retro game consoles, without any device modification.
If a small dongle can translate decades-old power standards into modern USB-C protocols, how many other legacy interfaces, from analog video to industrial connectors, could be bridged the same way? Universal power negotiation raises a broader question about hardware longevity. Should future devices be designed around negotiated, software-defined power from the start, rather than fixed voltages baked into a wall adapter? The answer could shape how manufacturers design charging for gadgets meant to last decades, not just a product cycle.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/werewolf-vflex-usb-c-dongle-old-gadgets
Chuwi UniBook Review: $450 Laptop Falls Short of MacBook Neo
The Verge tested Chuwi's $450 UniBook against Apple's MacBook Neo and found weak screens, trackpads, and speakers despite a strong port selection and solid battery life.
Can lesser-known hardware makers ever compete on price without cutting corners that consumers feel every day? The UniBook's port selection and battery life show ambition, yet its screen, trackpad, and speakers reveal where budget hits its limit. As more brands chase cheap chips like Wildcat Lake, buyers face a harder question: is a low price worth accepting hardware that makes daily use unpleasant? The answer may shape which brands survive in a market Apple's MacBook Neo has already reset.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/chuwi-unibook-450-laptop-review
The Verge tested Chuwi's $450 UniBook against Apple's MacBook Neo and found weak screens, trackpads, and speakers despite a strong port selection and solid battery life.
Can lesser-known hardware makers ever compete on price without cutting corners that consumers feel every day? The UniBook's port selection and battery life show ambition, yet its screen, trackpad, and speakers reveal where budget hits its limit. As more brands chase cheap chips like Wildcat Lake, buyers face a harder question: is a low price worth accepting hardware that makes daily use unpleasant? The answer may shape which brands survive in a market Apple's MacBook Neo has already reset.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/chuwi-unibook-450-laptop-review
Bose QuietComfort Headphones Lead Verge's Gadget Roundup
The Verge's Installer 139 spotlights Bose's new QuietComfort headphones and Nothing's CMF Clip Pro open earbuds, two audio wearables pointing at where personal tech design is heading next.
Will open-ear audio designs become the standard sound layer for future smart glasses, or will separate earbuds and headphones remain the default for most users?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/bose-quietcomfort-headphones-verge-gadget-roundup
The Verge's Installer 139 spotlights Bose's new QuietComfort headphones and Nothing's CMF Clip Pro open earbuds, two audio wearables pointing at where personal tech design is heading next.
Will open-ear audio designs become the standard sound layer for future smart glasses, or will separate earbuds and headphones remain the default for most users?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/bose-quietcomfort-headphones-verge-gadget-roundup
Tom Vek's Sleevenote Music Player Rejects Retro Trend
Tom Vek's Sleevenote digital music player is entering its final Day One Edition run at $349, as the musician-turned-entrepreneur pushes back against the retro tech trend.
Vek wants to move past nostalgia hardware, like retro CD and cassette players, toward new dedicated devices built for digital files. That raises a bigger question: can single-purpose hardware win back attention from smartphones, or will every gadget eventually get absorbed into a phone app? Sleevenote is a small test case. Its answer could matter for anyone betting on future wearables and companion devices that ask people to carry one more thing.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/tom-vek-sleevenote-digital-music-player
Tom Vek's Sleevenote digital music player is entering its final Day One Edition run at $349, as the musician-turned-entrepreneur pushes back against the retro tech trend.
Vek wants to move past nostalgia hardware, like retro CD and cassette players, toward new dedicated devices built for digital files. That raises a bigger question: can single-purpose hardware win back attention from smartphones, or will every gadget eventually get absorbed into a phone app? Sleevenote is a small test case. Its answer could matter for anyone betting on future wearables and companion devices that ask people to carry one more thing.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/tom-vek-sleevenote-digital-music-player
Buc-ee's Sues Beaver's Mini Mart in Trademark Suit
Buc-ee's has sued a small Ohio store, Beaver's Mini Mart, over its beaver logo, days after John Oliver publicly challenged the chain to sue him instead.
Should trademark law weigh a company's size and resources when deciding what counts as consumer confusion? Buc-ee's argues a decades-old local beaver logo could confuse shoppers, while declining to sue a national television host over a similar mascot. The case raises a broader question about whether trademark enforcement protects consumers or mainly protects the party with more legal firepower.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/buc-ees-sues-beavers-mini-mart-trademark-suit
Buc-ee's has sued a small Ohio store, Beaver's Mini Mart, over its beaver logo, days after John Oliver publicly challenged the chain to sue him instead.
Should trademark law weigh a company's size and resources when deciding what counts as consumer confusion? Buc-ee's argues a decades-old local beaver logo could confuse shoppers, while declining to sue a national television host over a similar mascot. The case raises a broader question about whether trademark enforcement protects consumers or mainly protects the party with more legal firepower.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/buc-ees-sues-beavers-mini-mart-trademark-suit
RTX 5090 GPU Bundles Spark Crypto Boom Comparisons
Taiwanese retailer PChome24h is bundling Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs with motherboards and other parts, echoing crypto-era GPU scalping tactics reported by Tom's Hardware.
Will bundling tactics like PChome24h's spread to other markets as RTX 5090 demand grows, or will Nvidia and retailers find ways to prevent forced-purchase schemes? The bigger question is whether GPU scarcity, once tied mainly to crypto mining, will keep resurfacing with each new hardware generation regardless of the underlying demand driver, including AI and emerging AR devices.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/rtx-5090-gpu-bundle-crypto-boom-comparison
Taiwanese retailer PChome24h is bundling Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs with motherboards and other parts, echoing crypto-era GPU scalping tactics reported by Tom's Hardware.
Will bundling tactics like PChome24h's spread to other markets as RTX 5090 demand grows, or will Nvidia and retailers find ways to prevent forced-purchase schemes? The bigger question is whether GPU scarcity, once tied mainly to crypto mining, will keep resurfacing with each new hardware generation regardless of the underlying demand driver, including AI and emerging AR devices.
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/rtx-5090-gpu-bundle-crypto-boom-comparison
Amazon Data Center Power Plant Permit Raises Pollution Alarm
Amazon bought a Texas gas plant permitted for up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year, more than any US coal plant, to power its new AI data center.
If AI's power needs keep outpacing clean energy supply, should companies be allowed to build fossil-fuel plants outside public grids to meet that demand? Amazon's Climate Pledge promised carbon neutrality by 2040, yet its emissions keep climbing. The GW Ranch permit raises a bigger question for the entire tech industry: can rapid AI growth and credible climate commitments coexist, or will one always be sacrificed for the other?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/amazon-data-center-pollution-permit
Amazon bought a Texas gas plant permitted for up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year, more than any US coal plant, to power its new AI data center.
If AI's power needs keep outpacing clean energy supply, should companies be allowed to build fossil-fuel plants outside public grids to meet that demand? Amazon's Climate Pledge promised carbon neutrality by 2040, yet its emissions keep climbing. The GW Ranch permit raises a bigger question for the entire tech industry: can rapid AI growth and credible climate commitments coexist, or will one always be sacrificed for the other?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/amazon-data-center-pollution-permit
Makes sense. Sadly. But will see, there are still many top potential candidates building that not fully launched yet. More genuine things take years to preparare too. The cost of Prosperity is consistency.
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Making money from crypto is going to be much harder than it was in the last bull market.
Last cycle, the biggest problem was that there were simply too many altcoins. Picking the winners was difficult, and most ended up underperforming.
Now the competition is even bigger.
Itโs no longer just crypto vs crypto. You now have tokenized stocks, public companies, AI stocks, tech stocks, ETFs, and many other options within the exchange where capital can flow.
Money will be spread across far more opportunities than before.
That is why I think most altcoins will continue to struggle.
Only a small number of projects are likely to outperform. My guess is theyโll be the ones building the infrastructure for the next wave of tokenized stocks and real-world assets.
Last cycle, the biggest problem was that there were simply too many altcoins. Picking the winners was difficult, and most ended up underperforming.
Now the competition is even bigger.
Itโs no longer just crypto vs crypto. You now have tokenized stocks, public companies, AI stocks, tech stocks, ETFs, and many other options within the exchange where capital can flow.
Money will be spread across far more opportunities than before.
That is why I think most altcoins will continue to struggle.
Only a small number of projects are likely to outperform. My guess is theyโll be the ones building the infrastructure for the next wave of tokenized stocks and real-world assets.
Amazon Cracks Down on EC2 CPU Waste Amid AI Demand
Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to cut EC2 CPU usage as external demand for compute, driven by agentic AI, strains capacity.
If CPU capacity, not GPU capacity, becomes the next constraint on AI growth, which parts of the tech stack are least prepared for that shift?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/amazon-ec2-cpu-waste-crackdown-ai-demand
Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to cut EC2 CPU usage as external demand for compute, driven by agentic AI, strains capacity.
If CPU capacity, not GPU capacity, becomes the next constraint on AI growth, which parts of the tech stack are least prepared for that shift?
https://www.bonuz.xyz/en/blog/amazon-ec2-cpu-waste-crackdown-ai-demand
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