The Scoreboard Is the Product: What Reading Bittensor Validator Code Taught Me
Most coverage of Bittensor starts with the TAO chart. I think that is the least useful place to start. The interesting part of the network is not the token; it is a few hundred lines of Python in each subnet that decide who gets paid.
I spent the last few weeks reading that Python. What follows is less a pitch than a field report from someone who went looking for the catch.
A network of small, strict employers
Bittensor, the network the Opentensor Foundation started, is split into subnets. A subnet is closer to a job posting than to a blockchain feature. Someone writes down what "good work" means, validators run that definition against whatever miners submit, and the chain turns the validators' opinions into a payout split.
That last step is the part people skip. Validators do not hand out tokens directly. They publish weights, a ranking of which...
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