Tillman Holloway says Larry Fink's core focus in bitcoin is a sustainable user adoption rate that has barely been scratched.
Tillman Holloway argues AI compute should be decentralized like the power grid, with households contributing, as clustered data centers bring political backlash.
Tillman Holloway says the stock market has outgrown America's $40tn national debt, growing $6.5bn daily and costing $1.36tn in annual interest.
Why the next decade gets built on decentralized networks
Bitcoin and the power grid are the models for how the next decade of infrastructure should be built, distributed rather than concentrated. Holloway argues that AI compute belongs in homes, that proof of work plus oracles secures real-world data, and that AI makes the data people already generate easy to monetize. He applies the same logic to finance, where tokenization and new market rails are how the economy grows out of a $40tn national debt.
Takeaways
Bitcoin is the blueprint for decentralized compute. Holloway calls bitcoin the most resilient, largest and fastest-growing natural law network ever built and says the AI industry is wrong to centralize. Compute should work like the power grid, with households contributing capacity the way they contribute solar .
Oracles plus proof of work secure real-world data. Holloway says combining oracle technology with proof of work produces a blockchain that is very hard to breach by brute force and can onboard real-world data securely in real time . He would tie digital claims to scarce real-world resources.
Data capture is a new industry. Pompliano calls data capture and brokering a new industry with explosive revenue growth, and says cleaning, structuring and securing that data will become a large business on its own . His Eight Sleep mattress already reports how much he slept and how much was deep sleep .
AI will not take jobs, but its users will. Holloway endorses the line that AI will not take your job but people who know how to use AI will . He says any 15-year-old with a chatbot like Grok can now sift, harvest and analyze data that used to be the most burdensome part of collection .
The grid's problem is storage, not generation. Holloway says the grid's problems are management and storage rather than generation , and that a network of home batteries resists failure better than a power plant . Base Power builds its batteries in Austin and its CEO came from Blackstone .
Volatility becomes an asset with the right tools. Holloway says buying prudently along the cost curve while trading the swings turns volatility into an asset , and that liquidity plus volatility is a market maker's dream . Arch Public's free, non-custodial tools let a novice outperform professionals at work they used to do manually .
BlackRock is betting on adoption, not price. Holloway says Larry Fink is not betting on bitcoin reaching $1m, and that Fink's focus is a sustainable adoption rate that has barely been scratched . Fink was one of the first in traditional finance to talk about tokenizing assets, and BlackRock backs a tokenized exchange in Texas .
New rails are outgrowing the national debt. Pompliano reads out $40tn of national debt growing $6.5bn a day. Holloway says the stock market has outgrown the debt, that America should print money to invest in growth rather than raise venture capital , and that smart contracts manage collateral across 10,000 keys where a bank would struggle .
What comes next
Holloway expects exceptional innovation in data collection, usage and aggregation over the next ten years .
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