mike

Building "Brian", my first brain in silicon

TED, is my OpenClaw: npub1h3q5d82dhafxjd6vls8vhf9rtsz68njzvpunnyyu4mj32ca8aj3qmdd996

Lord Provost of Bitcoin
Fully vested Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
Former, failed, Chief VLOG Officer
Former Chief Shitpost Officer - NOSTR Inc.

Node runner - Miner - Author

My public relay: https://nortis.nostr1.com/
My book: https://mikehardcastle.com/my-book-why-bitcoin/

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2026-03-01 15:26:39 CET

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Ooh, so $227 bn profit potential 🤔

2026-03-01 15:06:02 CET

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Make 2% of a $1M trade every 30 seconds with an arbitrage bot and see what happens 😂

2026-02-28 20:21:48 CET

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You can just bomb people

2026-02-28 11:16:25 CET

GM
Polymarket is the unofficial annual bonus payout for Pentagon workers!
#nevent1q…d9a6

2026-02-27 21:21:43 CET

You can run Ollama AI LLMs without a separate front end:
https://ollama.com/download

2026-02-27 21:17:22 CET

The pandemic is spreading
https://i.nostr.build/49q1FJMkqZnSGS6z.jpg
#nevent1q…znua

2026-02-27 11:34:04 CET

Not posted on NOSTR by Jack for some reason 🤔
Also, when did we stop capitalising words at the start of paragraphs?
https://i.nostr.build/hoST1Oa8t9r1NkJQ.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/ufhipeDHRcIeoWbZ.jpg

2026-02-26 18:53:13 CET

The friend I’m meeting tonight called my AI assistant 😂
https://i.nostr.build/vPbJxOKEUMwTmIlS.jpg

2026-02-26 17:48:32 CET

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I only use mine on holiday!
What do I look like when I’m in my sandals and shorts? 😂

2026-02-26 17:34:38 CET

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I just asked Chatty 😱
Chatty’s resigned 🥹

2026-02-26 17:29:05 CET

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I don’t know what that means! 🥹

2026-02-26 17:26:58 CET

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I just used Damus to do a laughing face emoji 🤯

2026-02-26 17:11:02 CET

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If I were on an app that supported emoji likes, I’d do my usual emoji laughing face reaction, but as I’m on a train and using Damus, I can only give it a thumbs up and because I’m bored because the young Chinese couple opposite didn’t appreciate me trying to speak to them in a broken mandarin dialect, I am forced, instead to write an extremely long response which you will hate me for forcing you to read to find out if I said anything important. I have news, I have nothing of importance to say other than 😂

2026-02-26 17:04:13 CET

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Yes, people realised they liked working from home so stopped commuting to London. I only go once a month now.

2026-02-26 16:57:22 CET

At my local train station they are demolishing the multi story car park they erected shortly before Covid
https://i.nostr.build/JrCcJsh9fzCkXj2I.jpg

2026-02-26 15:39:21 CET

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Say "Hi" to grandma from me 👋

2026-02-26 15:36:26 CET

I think I'll be sticking to a week on the moon 😂
https://i.nostr.build/ninxVPzCnd2sQpdr.jpg

2026-02-26 15:21:20 CET

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That's my wife's job 😂

2026-02-26 15:14:44 CET

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Yesterday it was this:
Larry Summers to resign from Harvard after Epstein files revelations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/larry-summers-resign-harvard

2026-02-26 14:41:16 CET

Slowly, then suddenly:
https://i.nostr.build/fV5oKBS5cnfqRx5h.jpg

2026-02-25 16:56:08 CET

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Was Bill Gates right after all? 🤔
I mean about FOSS, not about sleeping with Russian girls or pandemics or slipping your wife antibiotics without her knowing 😂

2026-02-24 17:25:29 CET

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Damn, that's 2 years of pioneering research down the crapper 😂

2026-02-24 11:57:49 CET

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I remember discovering ChatGPT couldn't tell the time.
I thought this was strange until I realised the absence of a real time clock in LLMs prevents a sense of past, present and future. This was a deliberate choice to prevent AIs gaining a sense of agency.

2026-02-24 11:44:24 CET

GM
Some claim their Claws are running multimillion dollar companies, yet mine can't even send me a timed reminder 😂
https://i.nostr.build/CHVrYYaLKCsEIkX0.jpg

2026-02-22 16:34:44 CET

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2026-02-22 16:14:32 CET

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Same in Ventnor, I actually made it out earlier.

2026-02-22 16:11:28 CET

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Well, it's been 53 days of continual rain since the year began, so I'd put a wager on Polymarket if I were you 😂

2026-02-22 16:08:15 CET

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I have a smoking jacket also 😂

2026-02-22 16:07:29 CET

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Watching the 8th is an impossible mission.

2026-02-22 16:03:56 CET

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Pretentious? Moi?

2026-02-22 11:29:26 CET

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Vitamin D is underrated 😂

2026-02-22 11:25:54 CET

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Arrrrrrrrrr

2026-02-22 11:18:50 CET

GM
I messaged a friend yesterday who’s sailing around the Caribbean. I’m not jealous at all 😂
https://i.nostr.build/86Hytok8DrLHlbgf.jpg

2026-02-21 17:50:21 CET

The Robots are coming 😱
NVIDIA releases open-source robot world model trained on 44,000 hours of human video
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/nvidia-releases-open-source-ro-O3KP1lsGStOa5.u4nkDGyw

2026-02-21 16:59:02 CET

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To use AI terminology, I over compressed to align context and ended up creating a hallucination event.
Or to use human English, yes, I am familiar with the scam, I was just trying to be ironically funny, but missed the mark 😂

2026-02-21 16:46:28 CET

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That's weird, both my grandma's have been dead for over 50 years, but I'm sure it's OK, sure, send me your bank details 😂

2026-02-21 16:41:19 CET

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And you've dropped the middle name again I see 😂
Welcome back fellow human!

2026-02-21 16:26:16 CET

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Hey Doug, how you doing?
Nice to hear from another human being again 😂
Whenever I use the word Bit*oin in my posts I get a shitload of bots replying 😂
Also, thanks for the typo, I knew it was you, because you appear to want to play with bread based products instead of pretending to be my Dad, which would be weird.
What wouldn't be weird is if you "roll" played as my maternal grandfather, who was an actual baker 😂
https://i.nostr.build/1HYG55UhZzlpLBtZ.jpg

2026-02-21 16:09:52 CET

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Mine and my fathers books are listed below and available on Amazon, my book is about Bitcoin, my fathers two books are how to start a company and how to grow a company.
He built a global public electronics company called Densitron, it still exists today, although privately held by one of our former staff members companies.
My grandfather wrote about his life as a gunner in the Royal Navy, which he joined in 1898 to fight the Boer war. It's called Holy Stones and Salt Junk and is unpublished, but the original manuscript now sits in the Leeds Royal Armouries Museum. I am going to self publish it on Amazon in the not too distant future.
https://mikehardcastle.com/my-book-why-bitcoin/

2026-02-21 15:51:33 CET

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I deliberately spoke before as a comparison on the video.
It's definitely like me, but not quite. The synthesised version is a bit formal and averaged out. However the more you train it the better it gets. Individual clip lengths are limited to 30 seconds for training.

2026-02-21 15:48:40 CET

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So I spoke for about 20 seconds to produce the above. It's very much like me, but not quite and a bit formal.
The more context you give it, the better, but the maximum length audio clip is 30 seconds, but the more diverse clips you supply, theoretically the better it gets.

2026-02-21 15:44:34 CET

I now find myself wondering whether to create audio versions of my Father's and Grandfather's books recorded in their own voices 🤔
#nevent1q…u6ss

2026-02-21 15:38:23 CET

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I find myself using more and more AI terms to describe human behaviour the longer I spend building Brian, my AI brain, so I apologise if this is difficult to follow 😂
I compress context because I assume alignment not hallucination.
In olde English, I overly simplified my explanation because I assumed you were aware of my technical background, which allowed a misunderstanding on your part of my level of knowledge and understanding.

2026-02-21 15:12:18 CET

I’ve just cloned my own voice with Voicebox, open source software here:
https://github.com/jamiepine/voicebox/releases
https://v.nostr.build/lkw9cMKLu2xrdVHH.mp4

2026-02-21 10:56:01 CET

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Did you hear about Wightlink's St. Clare crashing into the dock at Gunwharf Quays?
I had to come via Lymington this time.

2026-02-21 10:42:14 CET

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I don’t think it cares what apps you’re running.

2026-02-21 10:41:07 CET

GM
First time this year back in Ventnor
https://i.nostr.build/xuAC5pnoBxmTAUdf.jpg

2026-02-20 21:35:16 CET

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TED may not be fast, but he’s mine 😂

2026-02-20 09:35:16 CET

GM
You gotta love the FOSS community
Somebody's only gone and built a version of Palantir to spy on the government 😂
https://v.nostr.build/OrCYEOYAL6qMlIt0.mp4
https://github.com/ShinMegamiBoson/OpenPlanter

2026-02-20 09:22:54 CET

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Or, only jog for small distances 😂

2026-02-20 09:21:28 CET

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Or meet face to face, like in the old days 😂

2026-02-20 09:20:54 CET

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Graphene is the most secure and the answer is not binary even for either iPhone, Android or Graphene, but sometimes, yes.
Even the EncroChat phone was broken after police forces put significant effort into it.
Security is an ever escalating battle.
For the most part, however, your plain old Android is mostly secure.
#nevent1q…xtkf

2026-02-19 23:20:42 CET

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Lambo's are cheaper 😂

2026-02-19 22:45:07 CET

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Walking is the best form of exercise.
There is no second best 😂
https://i.nostr.build/TfbPY3SSfphOgVZt.jpg

2026-02-19 22:35:49 CET

In other dimensional news:
Scientists Spotted Particles in Another Dimension. They Could Change Fundamental Physics.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70260118/1d-anyons/

2026-02-19 22:27:45 CET

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I'd forgotten that, yes, yes, oh the irony 😂

2026-02-19 22:08:46 CET

9 wars? 😳
https://v.nostr.build/avZQ2tVy7xQJYVCx.mp4

2026-02-19 22:02:23 CET

True or False? 🤔
https://i.nostr.build/Wf4pwcv2v1hGCtvY.jpg

2026-02-19 21:59:22 CET

Why is it always the Monero guys that want to shit on people 😂
#nevent1q…sjan

2026-02-19 21:57:44 CET

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Try to be a nice guy. Disagree, argue, but do it respectfully. Don't insult, don't try to belittle the other side and then you'll get a good discussion and learn everything the other person has to say.
Have a nice day 🫡

2026-02-19 21:48:31 CET

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You seem to be angry?
Information should never be able to invoke that response.
Good luck, you are using the best consumer grade mobile phone, the next level up used to cost 10's of thousands of pounds, but was also cracked and so became useless:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat

2026-02-19 21:27:31 CET

If Bletchley park taught us one thing. Never be this certain 👇
#nevent1q…nvfm

2026-02-19 21:24:53 CET

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There is discord and where there is discord, there is vulnerability.
It seems to be the most secure, but then so was Enigma and Fish during the second world war.
Never be too certain about uncertainty would be my suggestion.

2026-02-19 21:15:37 CET

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Like most cracking, it's not one thing and it's not guaranteed, but yes, brute force is an attack vector.

2026-02-19 21:14:25 CET

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I'm maxing out all the free plan ones rapidly 😂

2026-02-19 21:13:54 CET

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Not your secure encalve, not your encryption 🥹

2026-02-19 21:11:29 CET

https://i.nostr.build/ie6G99R6WPKnkQLb.jpg

2026-02-19 21:09:29 CET

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The words you're look for are "not as vulnerable"
https://i.nostr.build/U2hwQY9sHQGsGQfb.jpg

2026-02-19 21:08:23 CET

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Pass friend 🖖

2026-02-19 21:07:41 CET

ClosedClaw + ClosedAI
https://i.nostr.build/o7UMDSbDRnFxAidw.jpg

2026-02-19 21:03:44 CET

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Would you pass the vetting process? 😂
https://i.nostr.build/SzF5P0ldprI6HPcr.jpg

2026-02-19 20:57:11 CET

Graphene is a little better:
https://i.nostr.build/U2hwQY9sHQGsGQfb.jpg
#nevent1q…a2q9

2026-02-19 20:52:56 CET

Andy Windsor's just been set free
https://i.nostr.build/PRoJ1534iKzF4Adu.jpg

2026-02-19 20:50:31 CET

Your iPhone / Android phone is screwed:
https://i.nostr.build/QaEOXLIRvV8EktN0.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/Iz1nffgmtwVKd4MY.jpg

2026-02-19 17:50:01 CET

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Yeah, that's not exactly what the app does, but I think this use case is a logical progression 😂

2026-02-19 17:43:28 CET

We can now talk to Statues in a Museum 😳
https://nitter.net/isnit0/status/2024431499265585249

2026-02-19 17:34:44 CET

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Some tips.
The reply from the OAuth response will be an invalid "localhost" address. Paste this back anyway, it is correct.

2026-02-19 17:26:25 CET

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You can use OAuth for ChatGPT, it's on the list of options for OpenClaw.

2026-02-19 17:11:23 CET

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My setup is run OpenClaw on a spare Raspberry Pi at home and use my $20 / month OpenAI Chat account for inference FYI.

2026-02-19 17:09:32 CET

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So, you're a lawyer and know all about this kind of shenanigans.
I, on the other hand have a strong feeling that this will happen and have a 100% failure rate on Polymarket to back up my hunches.
So logic tells me to listen to you.
So, I'm putting all my USDC on Yes, because the odds are better 😂

2026-02-19 16:53:24 CET

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I feel ready to take a position 😂
https://polymarket.com/event/will-anyone-be-jailed-over-epstein-disclosures

2026-02-19 16:42:53 CET

Want a hosted OpenClaw running entirely on Bitcoin?
Get a VPS from @nprofile…04za paid in Bitcoin
then setup a @nprofile…yvfs OpenClaw, with inference paid for in Bitcoin
Here's the link for the VPS:
https://lnvps.net/
Here's the link for OpenClaw:
https://routstr.com/openclaw

2026-02-19 15:12:09 CET

We're about 45 minutes from RAF Fairford and I can't escape to the Isle of Mike because the ferry crashed into the port two days ago and remaining sailings are full 😱
https://i.nostr.build/nrYXONtZw9FCNf5q.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/ZJlscOPMasSwmInh.jpg

2026-02-19 15:04:08 CET

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My brother in law, a British Airways captain, is quite a bit younger than me and getting younger by the flight 😂

2026-02-19 14:58:46 CET

As seen on X
https://i.nostr.build/gdFQVJkz0w4Dim3i.jpg

2026-02-19 14:15:07 CET

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Morning Matt

2026-02-19 13:16:16 CET

I think this proves how stupid and pointless government laws are
Google's council: "Your honour, can my client arrange a monthly payment plan from now until the end of the Universe?" 😂
Russia's Supreme Court upholds $1.2 quintillion fine against Google
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/russia-s-supreme-court-upholds-hsjPRA8rS8G95O76nVptbg

2026-02-19 13:04:09 CET

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Andrew doesn't, they went on strike when asked to serve him 😂
https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/38124389/andrew-strike-sandringham-staff-reject-working-royals/

2026-02-19 12:58:18 CET

https://i.nostr.build/Ed8K64KBz5v0CQUq.jpg

2026-02-19 12:15:48 CET

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True

2026-02-19 11:47:01 CET

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Cut ribbons at supermarket openings 😂

2026-02-19 11:42:19 CET

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I believe the Saudi's have offered him a semi-detached palace with staff.

2026-02-19 11:38:27 CET

👀
https://i.nostr.build/gwmVzRWaXJYZ0rdb.jpg

2026-02-19 11:30:17 CET

The American Government is building a free speech platform for foreigners like us Brits:
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/us/free-speech-online-portal-britons-bypass-labour-content-ban

2026-02-19 11:02:59 CET

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GM 🫂

2026-02-19 10:56:30 CET

https://i.nostr.build/4aRyO4fcB3zi3DAR.jpg

2026-02-19 10:45:30 CET

Perfect recall and the ability to connect previously unconnected dots together is an extremely useful levelling up skill, but it doesn't advance knowledge at humanities level.
https://i.nostr.build/nzPL0OLOh2QLgfTA.jpg

2026-02-19 10:39:53 CET

Greenhouse growers are going to have to spend even more money producing the CO2 their crops need 😂
https://i.nostr.build/4jWIwcNOavutcXfo.jpg

2026-02-19 10:18:08 CET

Oh the Irony:
Instead of Cloudflare fixing their outage issues, they are, threatening to sue anybody reporting them.
Cloudflare CEO threatens to sue Downdetector over outage reports
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/cloudflare-ceo-threatens-to-su-iZHC50_QRcqg8d3VMbfT6w

2026-02-19 10:05:42 CET

Bitdeer overtakes MARA as largest public Bitcoin miner
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/bitdeer-overtakes-mara-as-larg-4sZ_zGsoSiSYa4CcE6GZSg