Private AI routing on Bittensor SN28 // Conviction Live on Bittensor Mainnet
Bittensor is Decentralizing. In this episode, Consτ talks about the latest changes to Bittensor, including TaoFlow v2, Conviction , Governance updates The conversation moves from protocol design to the history of Mogmachine, a long time Bittensor community member and creator of www.taostats.io covering his journey from Corcel, Chutes, Hippius, BlockMachine and the launch of SN28 Good Morning. Mog explains how GM builds on earlier inference and routing work on Bittensor, why OpenRouter became such an important tool for AI builders, and how Bittensor can use a router in its network product suite. www. saygm.com 0:08 - Intro: Bittensor’s current upgrade cycle 4:02 - Governance, decentralization and protocol control 6:00 - TaoFlow V2 and changing how emissions respond to flow 8:01 - Net flow, subnet emissions and Goodhart’s Law 10:01 - Moving protocol decisions from humans into mechanisms 12:01 - Deregistration, emission shutoff and protecting TAO value accrual 13:10 - Conviction, locked alpha and stronger subnet alignment 15:02 - Root yield, trusted stake and dTAO market structure 17:08 - The history of Mog on Bittensor 20:00 - Early subnet incentives and proving real user demand 22:01 - From Corcel to Chutes: open-source inference infrastructure 24:02 - OpenRouter, agents and model routing on Bittensor 28:00 - GM, TEEs and confidential routing 30:01 - Miner payments, routing costs and competitive pricing 32:00 - How miner competition sets the price floor 36:02 - Liquid infrastructure, GPUs and useful Bittensor services 38:01 - Targon, Hippius and Bittensor-native infrastructure 40:03 - GM rollout, testnet, miners and next steps