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Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326

2026-08-17 · 85 min · episode 2326 · 46 entities

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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://tao.media/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-dynamic-tao-dtao
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://engy.ai/
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://lium.io/
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://targon.com/
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://hippius.com/
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  • mentioned twistartups.substack.com website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://twistartups.substack.com/
  • mentioned @Calacanis website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://substack.com/@calacanis
  • references twistartups.substack.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://twistartups.substack.com/
  • references @Calacanis website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://substack.com/@calacanis
  • mentioned ThisWeekIn website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://youtube.com/thisweekin
  • mentioned Twist website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist
  • mentioned @Thisweekinstartups website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups
  • mentioned Whitepaper website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://bittensor.com/whitepaper
  • mentioned Docs website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://bittensor.com/docs
  • mentioned stillcorecapital.com website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://stillcorecapital.com/
  • mentioned bittensor.com website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://bittensor.com/
  • mentioned tplr.ai website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://tplr.ai/
  • mentioned affine.io website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://affine.io/
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://tao.media/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-dynamic-tao-dtao
  • mentioned Toploc website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://primeintellect.ai/blog/toploc
  • mentioned engy.ai website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://engy.ai/
  • mentioned lium.io website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://lium.io/
  • mentioned targon.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://targon.com/
  • mentioned hippius.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://hippius.com/
  • mentioned makerdao.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://makerdao.com/
  • references ThisWeekIn website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://youtube.com/thisweekin
  • references Twist website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://do.co/twist
  • references @Thisweekinstartups website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups
  • references Whitepaper website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://bittensor.com/whitepaper
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://bittensor.com/docs
  • references stillcorecapital.com website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://stillcorecapital.com/
  • references bittensor.com website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://bittensor.com/
  • references tplr.ai website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://tplr.ai/
  • references affine.io website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://affine.io/
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://tao.media/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-dynamic-tao-dtao
  • references Toploc website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://primeintellect.ai/blog/toploc
  • references engy.ai website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://engy.ai/
  • references lium.io website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://lium.io/
  • references targon.com website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://targon.com/
  • references hippius.com website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://hippius.com/
  • references makerdao.com website
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://makerdao.com/

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  • mentioned Const Reborn person
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://x.com/const_reborn
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://x.com/const_reborn
  • mentioned Jason Calacanis person
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    Feed author/publisher: Jason Calacanis
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    Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326
  • hosted by Jason Calacanis person
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    Feed author/publisher: Jason Calacanis

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  • mentioned Technology company
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  • mentioned partners.launch.co company
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://partners.launch.co/
  • discusses Technology company
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  • references partners.launch.co company
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    Link in episode "Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326": https://partners.launch.co/

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  • appeared on This Week in Startups podcast
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    Bittensor creator Const on Affine, dTAO, "mining reasoning," and more | E2326
Episode description as stored
This Week In Startups is made possible by: Northwest Registered Agent https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist DigitalOcean https://do.co/twist Odoo https://Odoo.com/twist Today's show: We've been going deep on Bittensor and how it works all year on TWiST, meeting with the creators of some of our favorite subnets, and exploring how the system decentralizes inference, compute, and storage. Now, on this very special episode, Jason and Lon welcome Bittensor co-founder Jason Steeves (aka "Const") to the show. He gives us a quick tour of the project's first principles, before diving into how subnets incentivize miners to contribute, how dTAO turned the creation of subnets into its own competition, how Const says he employs "the internal machinery of capitalism" to rank subnects, and his latest project, Subnet 120 (aka Affine). Find out what the OpenTensor Foundation actually does, go inside the Templar controversy, and learn why Const is trying to make himself increasingly irrelevant. Guest Jacob Steeves on X: https://x.com/const_reborn Bittensor: https://www.bittensor.com/ Affine: https://affine.io/ Relevant Links Original Bittensor whitepaper: https://bittensor.com/whitepaper Bittensor governance and documentation: https://www.bittensor.com/docs Beginner's Guide to Dynamic TAO: https://www.tao.media/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-dynamic-tao-dtao/ Prime Intellect: TOPLOC: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/toploc Engy (SN53): https://engy.ai/ Lium (SN51): https://www.lium.io Targon (SN4): https://targon.com/ Templar (SN3): https://www.tplr.ai/ Hippius (SN75): https://hippius.com/ MakerDAO: https://makerdao.com/ Stillcore Capital: https://stillcorecapital.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 The origin of Bittensor (and the name Const) 10:48 Northwest Registered Agent - Get more when you start your business with Northwest. In 10 clicks and 10 minutes, you can form your company and walk away with a real business identity — Learn more at https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist 13:55 From Bitcoin mining to mining intelligence 19:33 DigitalOcean - Head to https://do.co/twist to start building on DigitalOcean's AI-Native Cloud today — and cut your AI workload costs by up to 50%. 30:17 Odoo - The all-in-one business platform. Get started for free at https://Odoo.com/twist 32:37 What is a subnet? 33:35 Forcing honest inference from bad actors 37:14 Building a subnet is harder than it looks 40:42 Understanding dTAO 51:57 Where the registration TAO actually goes 1:02:57 All about the Conviction "rug pull" 1:15:19 How Const is making himself irrelevant 1:17:33 The "Buy One TAO" philosophy Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis Check out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/ Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland Check out Jason's suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis Follow TWiST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com