{"product_id":"tao-ryan-bethencourt-9798242924598","title":"Tao: The Bittensor Story and the Rise of Decentralized Intelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo engineers walked away from Google and academia with a dangerous idea: what if artificial intelligence didn't have to be controlled by anyone? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2021, Jacob Steeves and Ala Shaabana launched Bittensor - a decentralized network where anyone can contribute, evaluate, and earn from machine intelligence. No ICO. No venture capital tokens. No insider allocation. Just a fair launch, a whitepaper published under a pseudonym, and a bet that open markets could produce better AI than closed corporations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey were almost right. They were also almost destroyed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTAO tells the untold story of Bittensor - from its three failed mainnets to the cartel that tried to game its consensus, from the $8 million supply-chain heist that froze the blockchain to the moment a decentralized network trained a 72-billion-parameter language model that no single company owned. It's a story about cryptography, game theory, and the people who believe that the most powerful technology in history shouldn't be locked behind corporate walls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the definitive narrative history of the project that Nvidia's CEO mentioned on a podcast, that Grayscale filed an ETF for, and that a growing community of over 100,000 participants is building into something that looks less like a cryptocurrency and more like a planetary brain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBook Two of The Decentralized Revolution Series, from the author of ZERO: The Zcash Revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor builders, holders, researchers, and anyone who believes intelligence should belong to everyone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ryan Bethencourt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798242924598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Ryan Bethencourt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172351942911,"sku":"9798242924598","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tao-ryan-bethencourt-9798242924598","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}