[N_Lens]

Forgive me for underestimating but I'd never heard of 'Block' before, and the title "Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation" reads a bit funny to me. Plus the bitcoin blurb on their site is also worth a chuckle -

"Bitcoin is about access, not speculation. It’s designed to be open, fast, low-cost, and free from centralized control. It’s meant to empower people"

[lrkerhn2]

Same here. Never heard of them before. But the more you look around on their site, feels more and more like some parody company. They seem to be into everything - bitcoin, blockchain, decentralized this, decentralized that, something called TBD, then Web5 (what even is that?)

https://blog.identity.foundation/block-contributes-to-dif/

https://tbd.website/

This company seems to be mocking itself.

[pests]

Square renamed themselves to Block. You might have heard of CashApp for example. Their CEO is Jack Dorsey. They have POS terminals and credit card readers.

[nticompass]

Even the domain https://block.xyz seemed questionable when I first saw this post.

[bdangubic]

> “Bitcoin is about access, not speculation. It’s designed to be open, fast, low-cost, and free from centralized control. It’s meant to empower people"

This is the most amazing paragraph I think I have ever read, pure gold!

[lkbm]

Block is the new name for Square, also of CashApp.

[daveguy]

Yeah... Still gonna use my credit card or debit card.

[jazzyjackson]

Square is likely the POS terminal you've been using your card on. They pioneered those neat headphone jack adaptors that let small businesses use their iPhone to take payment years before tapping phones together was a thing. Not a bad business, made jack Dorsey rich, now he gets to play around with crypto junk

[bigmadshoe]

Square is primarily a payment platform so you probably have used your credit or debit card thousands of times with them already.

[daveguy]

Yup. Credit. Or Debit. They can play with crypto behind the scenes all they want. That doesn't make it worth anyone's time.