Paolo Ardoino（Tether 執行長）：用科幻打造 Tether 的韌性堆疊

0:00阿西莫夫的預言與黑暗

0:00公元 10,231 年，人類征服了距離，掌控了物質，建立了橫跨千個世界的文明。帝國不僅強大，還被認為是永恆不滅的——至少大家都這麼相信，除了數學家 Hari Seldon。他一生致力於「心理史學」，用數學預測文明的命運，卻得出沒人想聽的結論：帝國即將崩潰。這種崩潰不會一夕發生，先是動盪，接著互相指責，然後暴力爆發。三個派系都以為只有自己能拯救這個已經分崩離析的世界，最後只剩下沉默。曾經燦爛的世界，瞬間歸於黑暗，不是毀滅，而是被遺忘。帝國會倒下，不會是今天，也不會突然發生。Year 10,231. Humanity had conquered distance, bent matter to its will, built a civilization across a thousand worlds. And the Empire wasn't just powerful, it was permanent. Or at least, that's what everyone believed. Everyone except one man. Mathematician Hari Seldon had spent his life on psychohistory, predicting the fate of civilizations through math, and it told him something no one wanted to hear. He calculated the imminent collapse of the Empire. It never happens all at once. First the unrest, then the blame, then the violence. Three factions, each convinced they alone could save what was already breaking apart. And then, silence. A world that once blazed with the light of a billion lives gone dark. Not destroyed, just forgotten. The empire will fall. Not today. Not suddenly.

1:13Hari Seldon 站在帝國面前，預告即將到來的命運：「我們建立的一切都會崩潰，社會將陷入黑暗，長達一萬年，除非我們現在就行動。」大家說他叛國，但 Hari 早已預見這一切。即使在最黑暗的時刻，他的方程式也顯示出第二個可能：微小的光點，不是帝國或軍隊，而是人們不願放棄。知識成為橋樑，橋樑成為網絡，網絡成為基石。他提出一個激進的想法：在銀河邊緣建立一個「基地」，在黑暗中種下希望的種子，讓它成長為光明。He stood before the empire and told them what was coming. Everything we built will collapse. Society will descend into darkness. Ten thousand years of it, unless we act now. They called it treason. But Hari had seen this too. Even in the deepest darkness, his equations showed a second term: small points of light. Not empires or armies, just people refusing to let go. Knowledge becoming a bridge, a bridge becoming a network, a network becoming a foundation. So he proposed something radical: a foundation at the galaxy's edge. Seed planted in the dark, meant to grow into light.

2:09Tether 的科幻啟發

2:09很高興今年又能來到這裡。為什麼要放這段影片？我想用最好的方式，解釋我們怎麼看待 Tether。大家都知道 Tether 是穩定幣公司，發行 USDT，也是比特幣的買家。我們持有超過 13 萬、14 萬顆比特幣，還在持續買入。今天我們剛推出比特幣水龍頭，只要上 Twitter，Tether 擁有 @BTC 帳號，你只要用 @BTC 加上你下載 Tether 錢包時獲得的 Tether.me 信箱，就能直接免費領到 10 美分的比特幣。Good to be here again this year. Why this video? I wanted to try to explain, in the best way possible, how we think about Tether. So, Tether is very well known as a stablecoin company, issues USDT, is a buyer of Bitcoin. We have more than 130,000, 140,000 Bitcoin. We keep buying. Just today, we released a Bitcoin faucet. If you go on Twitter, Tether owns the @BTC account. You can do @BTC and your Tether.me email address that you get when you download the Tether wallet. And you will get 10 cents in Bitcoin directly for free through your wallet, right?

3:10我們做了這麼多事，但我想解釋 Tether 不只是這樣而已。最好的方式，就是從我的偶像 Isaac Asimov（阿西莫夫）得到靈感。如果你讀過阿西莫夫的《基地》系列，裡面有個數學家 Hari Seldon，創造了「心理史學」理論。這理論結合數學、統計、物理、社會學、政治，是一門完整的科學，用來理解人類和社會如何隨著數百、數千、甚至數百萬年而變化。So we do all these things, but I'd like to explain to you why Tether goes much beyond that. And the best way I could think about was taking inspiration from. Isaac Asimov is my preferred author in history. And if you have read The Cycle of the Foundation from Isaac Asimov, there is this person, this mathematician called Hari Seldon that created this theory called psychohistory. And the psychohistory is a theory is a combination between mathematics, statistics, physics, sociology, politics. All together is a complete science to understand how humanity and society will shift shape and change over the course of hundreds, of years, thousands of years and millions of years.

4:26所以，你知道，這是書中的一個摘錄。我們用這個來表達，就像Asimov在書中非常清楚地表達的一樣，你可以利用科學來預測。去分析宇宙中正在發生的事情，並預測結果。而且在你預測結果的同時，試著思考你如何能夠利用同樣的科學來調整它，讓事情朝不同的方向發展，改變也許是社會衰敗的進程，改變可能降臨在我們所有人身上的黑暗命運。就像你知道的，在書中，Asimov描述了Hari Seldon預測帝國經過一萬年之後的情景。And so, you know, this is an excerpt from the books. And we use that to express, as he, as Asimov was very well expressing in the books, that you can use science to predict. To analyze what is going on in the universe and to predict the outcome. And try, while you predict the outcome, try to think how you can use the very same science to adjust it, to move things in a different direction, to change the course of maybe the decay of society, change the course of potential darkness that could arrive among all of us. Like, you know, in the books, Asimov was describing this Hari Seldon predicting that after 10,000 years of the Empire.

5:25銀河中最強大的帝國，某些事情會發生，一場動亂會發生，然後將會有一萬年的黑暗隨之而來。而且也預測透過心理史學的運用，這段黑暗可以被縮短到僅僅數百年。The strongest empire of the galaxy, something would happen, a turmoil would happen, and 10,000 years of darkness would follow. And was also predicting that through the usage of psychohistory, that darkness could be reduced to just hundreds of years.

5:47比特幣與新社會秩序

5:47為什麼我要告訴你這些？我是不是瘋了？為什麼要在一場 Bitcoin 會議上說這些？為什麼要提出這種末日和悲觀的討論？但我認為，在這裡，我對 Bitcoin 的看法是，它是一種技術的開端，也是正在創造的一種新社會結構。這是一個新的火花，能夠在任何黑暗中生存並抵抗，因為它是為點對點而設計的。它是由人們創造的。它是由人們使用而形成的。它是由人們在世界每一個角落接受而誕生的。所以，如果我們相信這一點。如果這確實是事實，而且，你知道，如果 Bitcoin 真的是對抗即將到來黑暗的第一個潛在武器，那我們可以從中學到什麼。Why I'm telling you this? Am I crazy? Why saying this at a Bitcoin conference? Why bringing up this doom and gloom discussion? But I think that here, the way I think about Bitcoin is the insipid of a technology and a new social construct that is creating. A new Sparkle that will survive and resist to any darkness, because it's made to be peer-to-peer. It's made by people. It's made by people using it. It's made by people accepting it in every single part of the world. And so, if we believe that. This is actually the case, and, you know, if Bitcoin is truly the first element of a potential fight against an upcoming darkness, what we can learn from that.

6:49首先，當我們思考Asimov試圖用他的心理史學傳達什麼時，我想到，這只是科幻嗎？這只是發生在書本裡的事嗎？然後我又想，書中Asimov所描述的那種黑暗，其實也可以簡化並帶回現實世界，因為……書中所描述的黑暗，不過就是社會中的混亂，是社會的不穩定。而你們去年可能有聽我解釋過，對我們在Tether工作的人來說，我們稱Tether是穩定的公司。這是一家致力於為社會帶來穩定的公司。And first, so when we thought about what Asimo was trying to communicate with his psychohistory. Science. Then I thought, is it just science fiction? Is it just happening in the books? And then I thought, well, that darkness described in the books of Asimov is simply something that could be boiled down also and brought back to Earth, because... Darkness, as was described in those books, is nothing more than chaos in society, is instability in society. And you might have heard me last year explaining that Tether is for us that we work in the company. We call it the stable company. It's a company that aims to bring stability in society.

7:55當哈利·謝頓在艾薩克的小說中這麼做的時候，他正試圖透過心理史學這門科學，將黑暗從一萬年縮短到幾百年。我們在Tether相信，所謂的黑暗，也就是我們即將在社會中看到的黑暗，因為它確實存在，對吧？And while Harry Seldon, in the Isaac books, was doing that, was trying to solve and reduce darkness from 10,000 years or a few hundred years through the usage of psychohistory, of this science. We believe at Tether that the darkness, quote unquote darkness, that we are seeing upcoming in society, because it's out there, right?

8:22所以我們看到戰爭，我們看到通膨，我們看到國家貨幣被摧毀，我們看到不穩定，我們看到所有可能的跡象，這些都在告訴我們所謂的黑暗正在來臨，已經存在了。而且，這個世界並不一定正朝著更好的方向前進。混亂越來越多，不穩定也越來越多。所以我想利用這段影片來解釋，從宇宙和科幻的角度出發，其實我們可以把這些現象歸結到地球上正在發生的事情。那麼讓我進入下一個部分。So we see wars, we see inflation, we see national currency being destroyed, we see instability, we see all the possible signals that what we call darkness is coming, is there. Like, and the world is not necessarily going towards a better place. There is more and more chaos. There is more and more instability. And so I wanted to use this video to explain how, starting from the universe and sci-fi, actually we can boil. This down to what is happening on Earth. So let me move on to the next part.

9:02現實世界的黑暗與金融排除

9:02這不只是預測未來，更是認清現在。現在有七億人生活在間歇性停電中，他們早已身處黑暗。世代務農的家庭，一夜之間被系統拋棄，只因經濟上不再被需要。在世界最古老的民主國家，有人不是因為暴力，而是因為一句話、一張迷因圖被逮捕。有些政府的訊息很明確：他們不需要讓你閉嘴，只要讓你繳不出房租就好。在最強大的國家，企業打造的機器不是為了服務人，而是為了剝削人。黑暗不是爆炸式到來，而是慢慢變暗。This is a story that doesn't just predict the future; it recognizes the present. Right now, 700 million people live with intermittent power. They are already in the dark. Families who have fed communities for generations discarded overnight because the system decided they were no longer economically viable. And in one of the oldest democracies on Earth, people arrested not for violence, but for words, for a meme. The lesson from some governments has been clear: they don't need to silence us, they just need to make sure we can't pay our rent. And in the most powerful nations, corporations are building machines not to serve people, but to exploit them. The darkness doesn't arrive with an explosion. It arrives with a slow dimming.

10:04再次，從宇宙、科幻，到地球。所以，所謂宇宙中數千年的黑暗時期，最後落實到地球上，其實就是社會變得更加不穩定、不可預測。你有數億，實際上是數十億的人口，他們無法取得基本的金融服務。他們無法取得電力。他們無法取得穩定的電信服務。更重要的是，他們無法取得，也將無法取得，基本的資訊服務。所以，想像一下，全球有四十億人無法取得基本的金融服務。他們被傳統金融體系所遺棄。Again, starting from the universe, sci-fi, to the Earth. So what was described as a period of thousands of years of darkness in the universe and boiled down to Earth is simply society becomes more unstable, unpredictable. You have hundreds. Of millions of people, and actually billions of people, they don't have access to basic financial services. They don't have access to electricity. They don't have access to stable telecommunications. And more importantly, they don't have access to, and will not have access to, basic intelligence services. So. Think about four billion people in the world that don't have access to basic financial services. They are left behind by the traditional financial system.

10:59我們怎麼能認為，讓世界上一半的人口被排除在外，會為社會帶來更多的穩定？這正是——我們試圖用心理史學啟示來做的比喻。如果我們什麼都不做，如果我們不採取行動，如果我們不嘗試運用科學或科技以及我們的能力去建造一些不同的東西，一些能夠超越黑暗、減少黑暗、在各國、各城市、各個人之間創造穩定、創造光亮點的東西。一些能夠連結人們，無論他們身在何處，讓他們對世界的變化更具韌性的東西。否則，那將會是我們在地球上的黑暗。How we can think that half of the population of the world being left out will bring more stability to society? That will, that is the— Analogy that we are trying to make with the psychohistory revelation. If we don't do anything about it, if we don't do something, if we don't try to use science or technology and our abilities to build something different, something that outlasts darkness, that can reduce the The darkness, creating stability, creating spots of light across countries, across cities, people. Something that will connect people independently from where they are and make them resilient to the change in the world. That is going to be our darkness on Earth.

12:10Tether 的 Resilience Stack

12:10Hari Seldon 明白一件多數人忽略的事：你不是靠打一場仗就能擊退黑暗，而是要打造能超越黑暗的系統。這就是我們在做的事——建立一個真正的基礎建設，我們稱之為 Resilience Stack（韌性堆疊）。這是一套開源技術堆疊，就像心理史學一樣，用科學方法分析我們在全球各國遇到的各種問題。Tether 在 160 個國家有團隊，和當地人直接互動。我們的 USDT、Tether Gold 等服務用戶已達 5.73 億，每季新增 3,400 萬個錢包，規模前所未見。Hari Seldon understood something most people miss. You don't fight the darkness by winning a single battle. You fight it by building systems that outlast it. That's what we're doing. A foundation, real infrastructure, and we call it the Resilience Stack. So this is our answer. A resilient stack is an open-source technological stack that, as in the psychohistory case, is a scientific approach that analyzes the different issues that we see in all the countries we operate. Remember, Tether operates in hundreds of countries. In 160 different countries, we have boots on the ground. We talk to people. We have a network of 573 million users of USDT and Tether Gold and all the other services that we provide. And our network is growing by 34 million new wallets per quarter. So this is unprecedented.

13:15這是一個證明我們正在建構的技術正以社群網路的速度成長的規模，這已經不再只是一家金融科技公司，也不僅僅是一個穩定幣，而是真正正在成為一場運動，正在成為一個技術堆疊，逐漸融入這個世界的結構之中，成為這個世界的一部分。在這個世界裡，許多家庭的父母被傳統金融體系所遺棄，他們被安全與孩子溝通的能力所遺棄，他們甚至可能家裡連電都沒有。This is a scale that proves that the technology that we are building is growing at the pace of a social network, is not anymore a fintech company, is not a stablecoin, but actually is becoming a movement, is becoming a technology stack that is becoming part of the fabric of that world, a part of the world where fathers and mothers of families are left behind by the traditional financial system. They are left behind by the ability to communicate safely with their children. They might not have even electricity at home.

13:55想像一下這個世界，有一半的人口無法取得基本的金融服務，並且無法參與這一百倍的成長。這種成長是因為人工智慧帶來的智慧能力提升。如果社會兩端之間的差距本來就因為金融包容性而這麼大，那麼想像一下，當人工智慧真正成為每個人生活的一部分時，會發生什麼事。你會看到這個差距，現在正把世界人口精確地分成兩半，這個差距將因為人工智慧而變得一百倍寬。所以，Resilience Stack 就是我們對此的回應。And think about a world where you have half of the population of the world that does not have access to basic financial services and will not participate to the 100x. Improvement in intelligence capabilities because of AI. So if the gap between the two sides of society was already that big because of financial inclusion, imagine what happens when AI will become truly part of everyone's life. You are going to have that gap that is now splitting the two parts of exactly the two halves. Of the population of the world, that gap will become 100 times wider because of AI. And so the Resilience Stack is our response to that.

14:46什麼是實際的東西？什麼是實際的技術，就像心理史學一樣，我們可以用來建構並應用，以縮短黑暗時期？從數百年或數十年縮短到只有幾年，並在社會各處創造這些光芒閃爍，讓無論發生什麼事，無論是什麼反烏托邦未來、什麼災難、什麼疫情、無論未來會發生什麼，我們都還能彼此連結，我們都還能用Bitcoin進行交易。我們可以使用那些為我們服務、而不是只為少數大型企業服務的AI服務。所以這一切都在同一個故事、同一個技術堆疊中匯聚。你應該去看看Tether的GitHub開源程式庫。What are the practical things? What is the practical technology that, as in the case of psychohistory, we could use and build and apply to reduce the period of darkness? From hundreds of years or decades to just few years, and create these sparkles of light across society so that whatever happens, whatever dystopian future, whatever catastrophe, whatever pandemic, whatever will happen, we can still connect together, we can transact together with Bitcoin. We can use the AI services that work for us and not for a few big corporations. So all this is convergence in a single story, in a single stack. You should look at Tether GitHub open source repositories.

15:36我們在 GitHub 上有大約一千個開源專案。我認為這非常獨特。這顯示出我們真的非常在意打造一些即使超越我們公司本身也能持續存在的東西，因為軟體技術必須要有韌性，即使面對自己的創造者也能存續。這也是我喜歡 Bitcoin 的原因之一。它已經超越了自己的創造者，將會永遠存在下去。We have, I think, across 1,000 open source projects on GitHub. That is very unique. That shows how. Really deeply, we do care about building something that will outlast even us as a company, because software technology needs to be resilient even to its own creator. That's also what I like about Bitcoin. It's outlasting even its own creator, will last forever.

16:31點對點協議與 Keet 通訊

16:31一個不需要伺服器、不需要中心來維持的點對點協定。我們打造了 Holepunch，這是一個完全點對點的電信協定，可以擴展到數十億的使用者、數十億台機器，以及數兆個 AI 代理人。對於你們當中比較懂技術的人來說，這就像是將將近三十年前誕生的 BitTorrent 協定，從頭開始重寫、改進，加入了加密層，讓它不僅僅適用於檔案分享，更能極度擴展與適應於任何即時資料串流，像是視訊通話、訊息傳遞、地圖服務，還有你能想到的各種應用。所以這個專案是完全開源的。A peer-to-peer protocol that needs no servers, no center to hold. That we build Holepunch, that is completely peer-to-peer telecommunication protocol that can scale to billions of users, billions of machines, and trillions of AI agents. It's, for the more techy of you guys, it's the BitTorrent protocol that was built almost 30 years ago, rewritten from scratch, improved, added the cryptographic layer, made it extremely scalable and adaptable not just for file sharing, but for any real-time data stream, for video calls, messaging, mapping, and you name it. So this is fully open source.

17:29每個人都應該來看看，因為這是第一次，整個Punch協議讓任何開發者都能夠打造可以擴展到數十億人和數十萬家公司的應用程式，而且完全不需要任何單一的中央伺服器。在這之上，我們已經展示過，我們等一下也會看到，我們自己就有能力提供真正能夠擴展到全人類、沒有任何單點故障的服務。而且你可以在這個基礎上打造任何應用程式。再說一次，你可以打造一個點對點的Uber，你可以打造一個點對點的地圖系統，你想做什麼都可以。Everyone should take a look at it because for the first time, the whole Punch protocol allows any developer to build applications that can scale to billions of people and hundreds of thousands of companies without any single central server. On top of that, we have demonstrated, we are going to see in a little bit, that we are ourselves capable to offer services. That truly scale to the entire humanity without any point of failure. And you can build any application on top of it. Again, you can build a peer-to-peer Uber, you can build a peer-to-peer mapping system, you can build anything you want.

18:14它就在那裡，而且是免費的，它是其中一個最先進但同時又容易使用的軟體和網路堆疊，可以以令人難以置信的方式賦能你為公司、為自己、為家人、為朋友所打造的任何東西。It's out there, it's for free, it's one of the most sophisticated but at the same time easy to use. Software and networking stacks that could be empowering anything you are building for your company or for yourself, for your families, for your friends, in an incredible way.

18:43在這之上，是無法被消音或關閉的通訊。基於整個協議和技術堆疊之上，我們打造了 Keet。我不確定在場有多少人用過 Keet。它是目前第一個即時通訊軟體範例，現在在桌面和行動裝置上擁有超過五百萬名使用者，而且很可能更多。實際數字很難統計，因為沒有中央伺服器。有數百萬的使用者，以及成千上萬的聊天室，每個聊天室有上萬名使用者，大家分享著數千萬則訊息、影片、照片和各種內容，完全不需要任何中央伺服器。Above that, communication that can't be silenced or switched off. On top of the whole protocol and stack, we built Keet. I'm not sure if many of you guys have used Keet. It's the first example of a messaging app that, in this moment, has more than 5 million users across desktop and mobile, and probably much more. It's hard to count because there are no central servers. There are millions and millions of users and chat rooms with tens of thousands of users that are sharing tens of millions of messages with videos, photos, and everything without any central server.

19:40Keet 是第一個可以擴展到八十億人，甚至未來可以擴展到機器的即時通訊應用程式，而且完全沒有任何成本。因為它沒有任何資料中心。它無法被阻止。它在任何地方都能運作，即使你處於網路受到最嚴格、最困難控制的地方。我們是為了人民而打造這個產品。我們是為了那些想要有一個可靠且安全方式與孩子溝通的父親們而打造。但同時也是為了那些在你知道的，可能是反烏托邦或威權政權地區工作和生活的人們而設計。這才是真正第一個無法被阻止的通訊應用程式。我還想再說一件事。Keet is the first messaging application that can scale to 8 billion people and eventually to machines that does not have any cost. Because it does not have any data center. It cannot be stopped. It works in any place, even when you have the hardest type of and strictest type of control of the internet. We build this for the people. We build this for fathers that want to have a reliable and secure way to talk to their children. But also for people that work in and live in areas where, you know, there might be a dystopian or authoritarian regime. And this is the true first unstoppable communication app. And I want to say something.

20:27對於 Keet 這個應用程式，主要的批評之一一直是，為什麼它不是開源的？我可以向你們保證，你們有我讓它開源的承諾。我們正在處理所有的文件。我們正在處理各個模組，這樣等到它開源之後，每個人都可以拿去改進、在其基礎上開發、修改，甚至只需簡單幾個步驟就能重新打造它。One of the main critiques to Keet as an application has always been, why is not open source? I can guarantee you have my commitment to make it open source. We are working on all the documentation. We are working on the modules so that everyone can take it once it's open source and improve it, build on top of it, change it, and recreate it in just a simple step.

21:11這就是一個例子。這是——Tether 團隊所做的大量工作，並且這些成果將會開放原始碼。再說一次，我們是懷著喜悅的心情來做這件事，因為我們相信，如果人們無法彼此交流，如果人們無法互相傳訊息，如果我們阻止了點對點溝通的能力，那麼……就像我們在社會中曾經擁有的那樣。社會的誕生就是從點對點的溝通開始的。我們曾經在街上相遇，在城市的廣場上相聚。我們彼此交談，沒有任何中介者。在過去五十年裡，中介者已經接管了金融世界和通訊世界。So this is an example. This is—Enormous amount of work that Tether team did and will be open sourced. And again, we do it with joy in our hearts because we believe if people cannot talk to each other, if people that cannot message each other, and if we stop the ability to have peer-to-peer communication, so... As we had in society. Society was born with peer-to-peer communications. We were meeting in the streets, we were meeting in the squares of the cities. We were talking to one another without any intermediaries. Intermediaries have taken over both the financial world and the communication world in the last 50 years.

21:42這就是為什麼社會正處於最黑暗的時刻，因為我們本來應該利用科技來打造更加開放的社會。然而，我們卻劫持了科技，讓社會變得由少數幾間公司所控制。因此，開放原始碼對我們來說是關鍵，這將會是我們對這個使命投入的最大時刻之一，也是最重要的見證之一。That's why society is having its darkest moment, because You get, we should have been using technology to create societies where more open. Instead, we hijacked technology to make society much controlled by few, few companies. So, and the open source is key for us, will be one of the biggest moments, will be one of the biggest testaments of our dedication. to this mission.

22:13自我託管錢包與 WDK

22:13接下來是 WDK。WDK 是我們最成功的產品之一，完全開源，任何開發者、個人、電腦、AI agent 都能用它打造自我託管錢包。我們相信未來數十億人、數十億機器、數兆 AI agent 都需要自我託管錢包。人們必須掌控自己的財富，能自由交易。我們想做一個大家都能用、支援所有資產，尤其是比特幣的錢包。Then, financial tools powered by WDK for humans, machines, and the agents between them to integrate unstoppable Bitcoin payments. So WDK is one of our most successful products. It's out there. It's an open source library that allows any developer, any person, any computer, any AI agent to have a self-custodial wallet. So we believe in a future where billions of people. Billions of machines and trillions of AI agents will need a self-custodial wallet. People need to be in charge of their own wealth. People need to be able to transact with whomever they want. And so, we wanted to create something that everyone could use, that would support any asset, but most importantly would support Bitcoin.

23:23即使從純粹物理學的角度來看，我的意思是，科技就是物理學。從純粹技術物理學的角度來看，我們知道，當未來支付的需求擴大，AI代理人將無所不在，每天將需要進行數兆次支付時，現有的金融傳輸層將無法應付這樣的需求。像 Lightning Network 這樣的技術才是正確的方向，因為 Lightning Network 是 Bitcoin 的點對點交易層，而我很高興看到 WDK 從一開始就支持這項技術。There is Even from the pure physics point of view, I mean technology is physics. From the pure technological physics point of view, we know that the best way to scale the future need of payments, when AI agents will be everywhere, there will be the need of trillions of payments per day, and The current financial transport layers are not going to be able to cope with that. Things like Lightning Network are the right way because Lightning Network is peer-to-peer transaction layer for Bitcoin, and I'm very happy to see WDK supporting that from the get-go.

24:06我們希望確保你的智慧冰箱、智慧汽車、智慧型手機都能夠用Bitcoin進行交易，同時也要保護你的Bitcoin，確保它永遠屬於你。And we want to make sure that Your smart fridge, your smart car, your smartphone will be able to transact in Bitcoin, but also protecting your Bitcoin and making sure that it will always remain yours.

24:22去中心化 AI 與 QVAC SDK

24:22在最上層，是去中心化的 AI。因為如果那不是你的 AI，那就不是你的智慧。最後一部分是 QVAC。我們剛剛發布了 QVAC SDK，這是一個開源的軟體開發套件，讓任何人都可以打造在你智慧型手機、本地裝置上運行的 AI 工具，也可以在你的筆電上運行。這樣你的隱私就能獲得保障。它支援所有最優秀的開源大型語言模型。它可以從你擁有的最小 GPU 擴展到你的筆電，甚至你的智慧型手機，到大型主機。它內建了整個 Bunch 協議。它也內建了 WDK。And at the top, decentralized AI. Because if it's not your AI, it's not your intelligence. Well, and the last part is QVAC. So we just released QVAC SDK that is an open source software development kit that allows any person to build AI tools that run locally on your smartphone, on your device, that run on your laptop. So that your privacy is guaranteed. It supports all the best open source large language models. It can scale from the tiniest GPU that you have to your laptop, again, your smartphone, to mainframes. It can, it has embedded the whole Bunch protocol. It has embedded WDK.

25:34它已經內嵌了我們以前所見過的一切，因為，你知道，我們從「不是你的私鑰，就不是你的幣」這個概念獲得了靈感，這是我們在談論Bitcoin時大家都非常熟悉的。我們複製了相同的概念，並且我們明白，如果不是你的AI，那就不是你的智慧。It has embedded everything that we have seen before, because, you know, we took inspiration from the not your keys, not your coins, you know, that we all well know about when it comes to Bitcoin. We replicated the same concept, and we understood that it's not your intelligence if it's not your AI.

25:57所以我們受到驅使，而我們現在、這幾週、這幾年都在談論AI。我們知道這是對未來社會、人類最根本改變的科技之一。但同樣地，如果我們不打造能夠滿足那一群人口、那一半沒有獲得基本金融服務的人們需求的AI工具，如果我們假裝那些無法取得基本金融服務的人，就是那些無法取得、無法負擔OpenAI或Anthropic訂閱的人，這些人就會被拋在後面，這是我們不能允許的。So we are driven, and we are all talking about AI in these days, in these weeks and years. We know that it's one of the most fundamentally changing technology for the future of society, humanity. But again, if We don't build the AI tools that cover the needs of the people that are belonging to that segment of the population, that half of the humanity that does not have access to basic financial services. If we pretend that the same people that don't have access to basic financial services, they are the same people that don't have access to They will not be able to afford an OpenAI or Anthropic subscription. These people cannot be left behind.

26:42他們需要能在智慧型手機上運作的工具，能在非洲、或中南美洲、或東南亞最偏遠、最小的森林村莊裡運作的工具。我們想要一個 tether。我們想要建立一個連貫的故事，從電信到訊息傳遞，再到錢包與自我託管錢包，最後到人工智慧，打造一整套獨特的技術堆疊，完全開源，能夠賦能給人們，而不是賦能給公司，不是賦能給企業，而是單純賦能給人們。因為最終，回到科幻故事的本質，是人們會重建宇宙。人們會重建社會，或者會拯救地球上的社會。將會是人們——人們才是讓地球上的社會更加穩定的人，而不是去遙望太陽系外的光年之外。They need tools that can work on their smartphones, that work in the smallest and, you know, forest villages in Africa or in Central South America or in Southeast Asia. We wanted a tether. To build a cohesive story that moves from telecommunication to messaging to wallets and self-custodial wallets and to artificial intelligence and create an entire unique stack, fully open source, that would empower people, not the companies, not the corporations, but just people. Because that is, at the end. Of going back to the sci-fi story, people will rebuild the universe. People are going to rebuild the society, or are going to save the society here on Earth. They are going to—people are the ones that are going to make society more stable here on Earth without looking light years outside of our solar system.

27:42開放貢獻與未來展望

27:42所以，我建議並且推薦在座各位都來看看我們正在打造的東西。Contribute 再次強調，是完全開源的。我們很快會在 Tether 官方網站上公布補助金，讓每個人都能貢獻這項技術，並在此基礎上持續發展。我們會舉辦黑客松。我們會盡我們所能，協助大家能夠擁有我們所打造的成果。大家要以參與貢獻這項技術為榮，並確保這項技術即使面對天災人禍也能夠堅韌不拔。所以，非常感謝大家。我將以這段影片的最後一部分作為結尾。And so. I suggest and I recommend everyone of you guys to look at what we are building. Contribute is, again, is fully open source. On the Tether website, we are going to publish soon grants for everyone to contribute to this technology, to build upon it. We are going to do hackathons. We are going to do everything we can so to help people to take ownership of what we build. Take—Pride of contributing to it and making sure that this technology will be resilient to even the wrath of God. So thank you very much. I will conclude with this last part of the video.

28:32結語：比特幣社群的未來

28:32「爸爸，怎麼逆轉熵增？」謝謝大家，祝大會順利。每年這個社群都聚在一起慶祝、辯論、打造未來。每年這個舞台都更大——Sound Money，站上主舞台。那麼，想慶祝比特幣歷史新篇章，要去哪裡？回家——2027 年 7 月，Nashville 見！Dad, how may entropy be reversed? Thank you. Have a good conference. Every year, this community comes together to celebrate, to debate, to build what comes next. And every year, the stage... It's bigger. Sound money. Center stage. So, where do you go to celebrate the next chapter in Bitcoin history? You come home. Nashville, July 2027.