Chat_180 – Invalid Checksum: How I Almost Lost My Bitcoin Stack with STACKTOTHEFUTURE
***”There’s a lot of emphasis on the moment at how AI is making everything less secure, and that is a part of the story. Of course, any tool, any powerful tool has its advantages and disadvantages or has the thing bad guys can use it, good guys can use it. But the power that I […]
Read_950 – The Internet Is Under Attack
“This isn’t one bad week. It’s the start of something we all need to be prepared for. ***Just look at the numbers. Security firm CrowdStrike says the attacks it sees that likely involve AI agents more than doubled in August, then doubled again in September. And if this week is any indication, it’s only speeding […]
Everything Is a Lie (Inflation Edition)
I break down four of the biggest lies we’re told about inflation, from the idea that prices must always rise to the fantasy that GDP growth means we’re getting richer. I show how money printing, cheap debt, and fake economic metrics quietly transfer real wealth from workers and savers to the already powerful. If you’ve […]
Read_949 – The Singularity Stack
“The cost of intelligence keeps falling toward the cost of electricity, and everyone will share in what that intelligence can do. Bitcoin captures the gains directly, while in dollar terms they are inflated away.” ~ Early RIders In this episode I read and unpack “The Singularity Stack” by Early Riders, a framework that follows energy […]
Ledger Wallet Spy Implants (The Great Hackening Continues…)
In this breakdown of the Ledger supply chain hack, I walk through how a tiny hardware implant turned legitimate hardware wallets into seed-stealing spy devices. I cover who’s actually at risk, why buying from resellers is a ticking time bomb, and what self-custody conditions are now non‑negotiable for serious bitcoiners. This isn’t the end of […]
Everything Should Always Get More Affordable
I break down the biggest lie we’ve all deeply internalized about the economy: that prices are just supposed to go up. In a productive and advancing society, almost everything should actually be getting more affordable over time. Using a very simple analogy, I show exactly how the creation of new money quietly robs us of […]
Roundtable_025 – This Time, It’s Actually Different
We finally stopped being lazy and brought a guest onto the Roundtable. Max Hillebrand joins Steve, Jeff, and I to talk about the absolute madness happening in the freedom tech space right now. Max has been using AI agents to solve challenging computer science problems for White Noise and the Marmot protocol. We talk about […]
The AI Crisis
In this Take, I break down why the biggest AI labs, while deeply unprofitable sitting on massive future compute obligations, are racing toward trillion-dollar valuations. I explore how open-source competition, especially from China, is crushing their moat, and why that pushes them toward lobbying for fear-driven regulation, immunity, and government partnerships. Ultimately, I argue that […]
Chat_179 – Back to What Matters with Cory Klippsten
***”The dollar is going to continue to lose purchasing power. Bitcoin is going to continue to gain purchasing power. It’s going to keep on happening over the rest of the century. We will at some point have enough people that have most of their wealth in bitcoin that they don’t have anything else to spend […]
The Great Hackening of 2026
In this Take episode, I break down the “Great Hackening” ripping through Bitcoin right now – from Coldcard’s catastrophic entropy bug to Liquid’s recent 4,000 BTC exploit, Lightning implementation issues, and a few major wallet update and data breaches. I also explain how AI has completely flipped the economics of attack and defense, why Bitcoin […]
How Does Bitcoin Self Custody Recover From This? (Coldcard Q&A P3)
In this third Coldcard Q&A, I tackle entropy, device trust, DIY signers, and why I’m leaning harder than ever on multi-sig. I walk through why understanding encryption must become a mandatory survival skill, rather than a niche hobby, if we want to resist a dystopian future. I also share where I moved my personal stack, […]
Roundtable_024 – The Aftermath
The roundtable is back, but we’re missing a familiar face. Mechanic has officially stepped down from Ocean, so it’s just Jeff, Steve and I digging into the aftermath of BIP110, from why the soft fork failed to what Luke and Mechanic’s departure means for Ocean and Bitcoin Core’s influence. We debate whether the real existential […]
