Episode 405
📍 Sol Strategies, a Canadian investment company, has bolstered its Solana holdings to nearly 190,000 SOL, worth over $40 million, after purchasing 40,300 SOL for approximately $9.9 million.
📍 Berachain, a rival to Solana and Ethereum, is launching its mainnet on February 6th, 2025, with an accompanying BERA airdrop, marking a significant milestone in the blockchain's development.
📍 The release of DeepSeek-R1, an open-source reasoning model, has implications for Web3-AI, offering opportunities for decentralized networks to fine-tune models using reinforcement learning and generate synthetic reasoning datasets.
📍 Bitcoin's adoption can be viewed through the lens of game theory, where its fixed supply and decentralized nature create a pressure mechanism that influences financial institutions, central banks, and corporations to adjust their strategies in response.
📍 Game theory also plays a role in nation-state adoption of Bitcoin, with countries like El Salvador taking a first-mover advantage by embracing Bitcoin as legal tender, and the US considering the creation of a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
