Monopolies mean slow progress and high prices. Fortunately, they don't last forever. We've got plenty of historical examples: telecoms, OSs and web browsers, to name just a few, were all once sluggish sectors dominated by a handful of key players. Innovation and consumer choice

A lot of being a founder is holding “I’m so proud that we’ve reached this milestone” and “the work is only just beginning” in your mind at the same time.

"The grid demand isn't that high" "A lot of datacenters are actually investing in onsite generation" "Ignore your skyrocketing electricity bills" "Who cares if you can't drink the water in rural Georgia"

Bless is already pretty big. But who doesn't want to get bigger? Blessing your profile pic helps us grow the network. And it helps you look slick ↓↓↓↓

Big cloud providers need to build datacenters -- endlessly. It's their only real option. Bless takes a different tack. We're connecting the huge amount of consumer tech that's already out there.

Everybody uses their devices for different purposes. Maybe you're a diligent student, a coder, a compulsive online shopper, a lurker on defunct forums, a reply guy, a Wikipedia deep-diver or a novelist. Maybe you're even a YouTube Shorts watcher -- no judgement. Running your

Decentralization needs a lot of ingredients to work. The most important one is community. At Bless, we're truly blessed to have such an awesome community building together.

It's hard to build massive, power-hungry datacenters in cities. Huge resource demands, cooling challenges and plenty of community resistance are making developing large-scale compute infrastructure an uphill battle. Bless says: don't bulldoze the neighborhood. The

It's time for $TIME. Excited to share what we've been working on.

We don’t think twice about ordering a pizza, streaming an album or getting next-day delivery. These tech-enabled conveniences are all completely normalized. Bless is working to make getting the raw compute you need on demand just as easy. One click, no fuss.

Our imminent airdrop is an emphatic "thank you" to all of Bless's early supporters. Without your efforts, Bless wouldn't be where it is today. But Bless isn't just for the first movers. Bless is for everybody. Whether you're taking part in the airdrop or not, we can't

Whether you like the chart or not, there's no denying that consumer-facing and enterprise-grade AI tools alike are becoming ever more powerful and more ingrained in our lives. Your continued access to these tools should be simple, lightning fast and trustless -- and, perhaps

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You might be shipping slop with AI coding aids, or you might be using them to ship gold. I'm agnostic on the quality of your shipping, but I believe very strongly in your right to vibecode -- and the resources you need to do it

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ft.com/content/80bc0d… "The choice facing world leaders is not between US or Chinese AI dominance but between technological sovereignty and digital colonialism." Timely piece from Marietje Schaake elucidating some of the dangers of the overcentralization of compute capacity.

A lot can happen in a month

Quick update on our validation and troubleshooting efforts ↓ The finish line is in sight, and we've got plenty in store for the most devoted Blessheads.

Is AI a bubble or not? Market commentators are likely going to be arguing over this question for some time yet. My take is a firm "No, definitely not a bubble." But whatever happens in practice, one thing is for certain: flexible, transparent and fast compute will always be