Bittensor explainer: 128 subnets compete, ~$251K paid to productive subnets daily
markjeffrey · x · 2026-09-18
markjeffrey shares a plain-English Bittensor (TAO) explainer microsite: TAO has a 21M hard cap like Bitcoin, new tokens mint every 12 seconds and go to miners doing the most useful work; 128 subnets each define a task (cheap AI inference, DNA mutation discovery, GPU rental, deepfake detection), with $251K paid to productive subnets daily; anyone can mine permissionlessly while validators grade work. The site highlights 19 notable subnets.
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