I just re-read the interview with the Liberman brothers, and honestly — it’s one of the most serious warnings I’ve heard from Silicon Valley in recent years. Guys who once sold their startup for $64 million are now sounding the alarm about how the world is heading straight into a digital medieval era if nothing changes.

The core message is simple and frightening at the same time. The Liberman brothers see humanity on the brink of an era when there will be 10 billion robots on Earth. Not just machines on assembly lines, but full digital twins of each of us. You’re a programmer — you’ll have a robot coding 24/7. You’re a designer — you’ll have its creative extension. This isn’t just tool improvement; it’s an explosion of productivity humanity has never seen before. Over the past 100 years, productivity doubled every 30 years, but with embodied AI, that pace will be completely shattered. We’re talking about a four- or even tenfold expansion of humanity as a productive unit.

But here’s the catch. The Liberman brothers aren’t just worried about the pace — they’re genuinely concerned about who will hold this computational power. They see giants like OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others trying to build what they call generative monopolies. Imagine: when AI can create any application in milliseconds, the App Store will become just history. Developers will disappear from the chain. Users will communicate directly with AI giants, and now several companies control literally everything you see, hear, and think. This isn’t competition; it’s power on a god-like level in the digital world.

That’s why the Liberman brothers launched Gonka. Their philosophy: centralized AI builds skyscrapers, but the world needs roads. A decentralized network of computation accessible to everyone. They noticed that Bitcoin consumes enormous computational resources for hashing, and this power can be redirected toward useful AI computations. Gonka introduces a new mechanism — Proof of Compute, where miners are rewarded not for meaningless hashing but for real AI calculations. The cost of GPUs in such a network drops by several orders of magnitude compared to cloud services.

The numbers are impressive: in 100 days, the computational power of H100 grew from 60 to 10,000 blocks. These aren’t just figures — they’re a sign that the industry is desperately seeking alternatives to centralized giants. Bitfury’s $50 million investment confirms that future AI infrastructure will inevitably be distributed and open.

Regarding the AI bubble, the Liberman brothers offer an interesting perspective. They believe the bubble inflated on crazy expectations of future monopoly profits. When decentralized networks reduce the cost of computations, these premiums will evaporate. But this isn’t the end — it’s the beginning. Just as the dot-com crash left behind fiber optics encircling the planet, the AI bubble will leave an intellectual infrastructure for the next leap of civilization. Whoever masters low-cost decentralized channels first will break through the ashes.

And what should we, ordinary people, do? The Liberman brothers offer two practical tips. First, forget about just being a good programmer or designer — AI will easily replace you. But if you’re a developer who knows Russian literature, understands quantum physics, and is versed in law, you’re invincible. AI can be knowledgeable, but it’s hard to simulate complex interdisciplinary thinking built on experience and culture. Your unique combination determines the level of questions you can pose to AI.

Second, take a position of someone who assumes responsibility. AI can compute, but it can’t bear responsibility. In future collaborative systems, execution will become cheap, but decision-making and approval will be expensive. Those willing to take responsibility for AI’s results will become central nodes of the new economy.

For small countries, this opens a geopolitical window. Instead of waiting for permission from the US or China, they can participate in open protocols like Gonka, use cheap electricity and ASIC chips to connect to the global decentralized network. Small nations don’t need to compete in skyscraper heights — they just need AI highways right at their doorsteps.

Ultimately, it’s a battle for sovereignty. The Liberman brothers see that closed source code and monopolies are a path to digital medievalism. Decentralized AI is the last chance for ordinary people to maintain control over their future. Bitcoin proved that currencies can be decentralized. Now it’s time to prove that the most powerful productivity tools shouldn’t be locked away in corporate skyscrapers but should flow to the fingertips of everyone who wants to be free.