Revenue Search: Inside Bittensor Subnet Session with Mike Bunting from Data Universe: SN13
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Jul 16, 2025 Mike Bunting, CFO of Macrocosmos and architect of Subnet 13, discusses building the largest open-source social media dataset. He reveals how they’ve scraped over 55 billion posts and turned this raw data into revenue streams for various sectors, including finance and consumer brands. Bunting shares insights on the monetization landscape and the importance of data credibility. He also explores future innovations in metadata and visualization, emphasizing the real-world utility of their project for AI training and prediction markets.
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Scale: 55.7 Billion Rows
- Data Universe has collected over 55.7 billion rows, becoming the largest open-source social dataset on Hugging Face by far.
- Users can download raw posts as spreadsheets and interrogate them directly via the Nebula UI.
Multimodal Text Expansion
- Transcripts and comments from YouTube are next, enabling richer text coverage across media formats.
- Apex can query these datasets to extract higher-level intelligence once integrated rigorously.
Monetize Via Usage Credits
- Charge for access: users get $5 of free credits, then must pay to continue extracting data.
- Position the product for markets that value high-volume, real-time social signals like finance and brand analytics.