Surviving the AI Moatpocalypse: Decentralized Compute as the Ultimate Barrier
markjeffrey · x · 2026-08-08
Addressing the concern that frontier AI models erase traditional software moats, the author argues that in a moatless world, the true barrier lies in a never-ending competition among miner-suppliers. Using Bittensor as an example, the article suggests that hash-rate-like compute competition forms the ultimate moat for decentralized AI networks.
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