Your incredulity is understandable, but wrong: Uber, Airbnb, Bitcoin etc, all of them are showcases of low or unpermissioned incentive designs which took the world by storm. Uber is an incentivized protocol Airbnb is an incentivized protocol Bitcoin mining is an incentivized protocol Their global, unpermissioned, incentivized, nature **is** their killer app. Why? because it allows them to efficiently procure, allocate, and organize resources. Allocate, procure, and organize resources in a way that greatly exceeded their competitors classical organizational designs ("MSFT, OpenAI, APPL, NVDA") -- in their domain. That was no coincidence. The biggest problem facing an organization is how to organize its people and its capital. Cryptocurrency goes even further, as it excels at the creation of organizational protocols for human, digital, or other resource, using the most expressive language-of-value the world has ever seen. Abstractly, Bittensor is just a toolkit for creating such systems: "a protocol for the creation of incentivized protocols" -- we use it for AI. Referring back to your quote tweet re ASICs: Bittensor subnets are micro-directed-incentive designs, each 'specific' to a certain digital commodity: hashes, inference speed, storage, training etc. This makes them similar to ASICs since ASICs are circuits designed for the production of 'specific' computational challenges. Hope that helps.