Founder of Ethereum News Weekly: Pearl's development potential may surpass Bitcoin
Original headline以太坊新闻周刊创始人：Pearl 发展潜力或超越比特币
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Ethereum news weekly founder Evan Van Ness said in a recent interview that Pearl, a proof-of-work network that incorporates matrix multiplication into its mining mechanism, could have greater long-term potential than Bitcoin. The design aims to let data centers run AI inference workloads while mining at low marginal cost, with mining revenue offsetting inference expenses in a reinforcing loop. Van Ness framed the pitch against Bitcoin’s long-term security budget concerns, arguing Pearl’s dual-use compute model addresses a weakness he sees in Bitcoin’s reliance on block subsidies. The comments are notable because they position Pearl as a challenger narrative to Bitcoin rather than another Ethereum-adjacent project. What to watch next is whether Pearl can translate the thesis into measurable adoption—real inference demand and sustained mining participation—rather than remaining a conceptual pitch from a prominent Ethereum commentator.
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