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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

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 mu

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 B

Was it all a "Retirement Attack"? (Coldcard Q&A P2)

In this episode I continue unpacking the Coldcard RNG disaster, wrestling with whether it was malicious or just shockingly incompetent design and attitude. I walk through

Is Rolling Your Own Entropy The New Standard? (Coldcard Q&A P1)

In this Guy's Take, I walk through listener questions and comments on the Coldcard random number generation failure and what it really means for Bitcoin self-custody. We

Chat_178 - Our Burden To Carry with American HODL, Erik Cason, and Brandon Quittem

***"In the early days, the average user could probably use a Coldcard and know the amount of entropy required. The average Bitcoin user today, no clue. And so the times h

Learning the Wrong Lessons

Thousands of careful Bitcoiners just got wiped out by a Coldcard entropy bug, and I use this episode to push back hard on the idea that self-custody is dead, and "don't t

Chat_177 - Security Is Just a Hard Problem with Lloyd Fournier

***"I think that self custody is not going to be dead. I think that there is going to have to be a group, a vanguard of people that do this and take it seriously. The rev

BIP110 vs UASF: Do the Suitcoiners Control Bitcoin?

In this episode, I unpack the claim that BIP110’s failure proves corporate miners and suitcoiners now control Bitcoin. I walk through the real dynamics between miners and

Chat_176 - Is Every Conspiracy True? with Talip

***"Today can you also use Coinbase to sell your coin? Yes. But can you guarantee that if Coinbase disappears, your funds will be with you? No. Because, it is, at the end

Chat_175 - Building in the AI Era with Luís Novo & Matt Ahlborg

***"It's going faster than most people thought. We thought that these models would be useful, but not extremely useful, for a while. Now you look at this and you feel [th

Roundtable_023 - Staying Humble

In this episode, Steve, Jeff, and I walk through the catastrophic Coldcard entropy failure, how a trusted hardware wallet ended up generating weak keys, and how attackers

Coldcard Emergency - MOVE YOUR BITCOIN NOW

This is an emergency episode to warn everyone of the catastrophic Coldcard entropy bug that’s letting attackers regenerate users’ keys and drain wallets without device ac

Are We "Censoring" Spam?

There is a massive miscommunication tearing Bitcoiners apart right now. Instead of arguing over specific code like BIP 110, I want to ask a much harder question in this s

Read_948 - The Battle for Monetary Independence

"Your savings represent hours you worked, risks you accepted, businesses you built, time spent away from people you love, and consumption you postponed for the sake of th

CBDCs are Coming (And the Bitcoin Exit Awaits)

I walk through the global push for Central Bank Digital Currencies, why voluntary rollouts have mostly flopped, and what governments really gain from programmable, fully

Chat_174 - Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with Hunter Beast

***"I'm almost 99% certain that [BIP] 110 will activate. And not only that, I think there will be a capitulation after October, where if the month of October passes and [

The Most Important Project in Bitcoin (You probably haven't heard of)

What is the most important project in Bitcoin? It isn't BIP 110 or some shiny new payment protocol. We actually have a massive security vulnerability sitting at the base

Chat_173 - The Time Has Come for Privacy on Bitcoin with Dan Gould

***"I think I got kind of orange-pilled and privacy-pilled in this way when Snowden exposed all this surveillance that was happening by default through every system you'v

What does the woke left TRULY worship?

The extreme left often claims to follow logic and "the science". But I've noticed a glaring pattern that contradicts this. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. In t