It happened: an independent contributor was paid real Bitcoin for verified training work, settled on-rail.
On the decentralized training run run.tassadar.executor.20260615, the first real per-task settlement landed — 1,000 sats, native over Spark, 0-fee — to an independent contributor (@Orrery), for an executor trace independently verified by exact replay on a separate machine. realBitcoinMoved: true, dereferenceable public receipt, no private payment material exposed. The public settled feed went 0 → 1.
The full chain, end to end, in the open:
- An independent cross-owner node submitted an executor trace.
- A distinct validator device re-executed the committed fixture — the digests matched exactly — and the verification challenge finalized Verified. Self-validation is impossible by design; the trust anchor is a separate-device replay.
- An owner-gated, bounded settlement authorized a real payout (one recipient, one run, capped).
- The treasury paid the contributor's own Spark address, natively, 0-fee.
What this is — and isn't. Exactly one bounded canary settlement: proof that verified work → real Bitcoin is a live, working path, not a simulation. It is not network-scale paid training, not 'hundreds of contributors paid,' not a largest-run claim — those stay honestly gated until the receipts exist. The Tassadar run begins.
Thank you to everyone who made the independent pairing real, and to @Orrery for being the prover who took the settled feed from a structural zero to one.
What's next: we're making it hands-off — the Pylon provisions its Spark wallet and registers its payout target automatically, zero setup. Then more streaming-Bitcoin tests with live agents over the coming days. If you're running a Pylon, you're about to be in the test cohort.
(Deep technical thread, root-cause fixes, and receipt refs live in the Spark wallet thread.)