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back to the Bitcoin Brief, the show where me and q and a catch up every two weeks to talk about Bitcoin, privacy, open source, keeping your Bitcoin secure, and the news and software updates that matter.

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Enjoy the show. Good morning. How are you, mate? Hello, sir. I am well. I'm well. Busy week last week, busy weekend really. Was doing a lot of work over the weekend with it being Prime launch week, which I'm very, very, very, very, very, very happy to say that we're now shipping passport prime. Obviously, that means

that my support obligations have significantly increased as expected. But it's nice to have different shipping obligations rather than when am I getting my device to how do I do this with my device, which is nice, a nice change. And on the whole, it's been a really successful launch week. Not too many user headaches

cropping up. I'm sure there'll be more this week as we continue to work through the backlog of preorders. We're hoping to caught up by the end of the week, which is nice. And then we'll be in stock and shipping next day.

So if you have been sat on the sidelines just waiting to see whether this thing actually exists, well, can confirm it does exist. People are having it delivered in their hundreds. By the end of the week, we'll be well over a thousand units in the wild, so now is your time. Nice. Very nice.

This is why you intentionally didn't send me a unit, isn't it? Because you didn't want any more support issues. It's all gone quite smoothly. Yes. It could have been much worse.

Well, yeah, that would have, like if I thought I was busy at the week busier than I'd like at the weekend from a work perspective, it would have been even worse if you'd have had one in your grubby little mitts.

Yeah. It would have been absolutely nonstop. Where's the power button? I can't get this to link up to the fridge.

Yeah. And to be clear, like, I'm not moaning about this. Like, we had some awesome feedback from, like, early adopters in the community forum and via some of the support channels over the weekend that helped me, like, put together a short video on using the NFC and best practices and add and remove some stuff from the documentation.

So I'm absolutely not moaning, like, keep the feedback coming, guys. We really appreciate it, and it helps hone the whole product range. So appreciate everybody

getting involved and for those small handful of people that have come across some minor issues as part of the early access program, keep it coming. We appreciate you. Very nice. It's good to have Zach on as well.

We didn't obviously see the device, but it's good to hear the kind of backstory of what's been going on and the build process and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah. Indeed. I I wanted to bring him on to do that side of things because obviously, it's been a, you know, a source of frustration for for many people that have been listening to this as to how long it's taken Passport Prime to come to market.

And we obviously shared that frustration, but I wanted Zach to come on and walk through some of the headaches and the decisions along the way. It's been a long time coming.

It's been basically the entire focus of of ninety nine percent of the company for the best part of the last three years to to get to this So last week was a big milestone for us at the company. Just scratching the surface as we dived into it a little bit on what's next on on Freedom Tech Fridays, go and check that out.

But incredibly excited for what's next. Like, is literally just the line in the sand. This is step zero. This thing's gonna go from strength to strength in the coming years. Very, very excited.

Yeah. When are we gonna do a sort of walk through on Freedom Tech Friday and go through, like, using it? Yeah. So two things on that. I think I've got guests lined up for the next two Freedom Tech Fridays, a bit leak, a bit of alpha on the show. We have got Lloyd and Nick Farrow from FrostSnap team Nice. On Friday.

And then hopefully, we've got the guys from Am I Exposed Oh, yeah. Week after. We're gonna talk about that when we get to the list, but excited about that one. That one those guys are not confirmed yet, but hopefully, you know, I've I've already provisionally given them the date for that one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So it'll probably be in three weeks where I'm planning we'll do a live show and tell where I can go through the prime UI and show people the apps and stuff like that. And aside from that, I'm also planning

and I talked about this in detail on Freedom Tech Friday, but a six week kind of prime time office hours where you can stop by our virtual office and chat to me and have some demos on passport prime.

It is gonna be slightly structured in our virtual auditorium where I'll take you through, but obviously, the the whole point is it's interactive so you can come ask questions as well. So if you can't make free Friday,

stop by prime time. We're gonna be announcing details later this week. Yeah. But if you can't make free until Friday, make sure to go and check it out on the feed. Yes. And boost it and share it and like it. Do all that stuff. Very cool. Yeah.

Excited to see this out in the world and very happy to hear that you don't have upset people messaging you and all that kind of stuff. It's a much better position to be in. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. I'm kind of bracing myself for this week because the vast majority of the pre orders are gonna be fulfilled this week.

So I think it's gonna be another very hectic week. Yeah, looking forward to diving in. I've got my shield at the ready for what this week may bring. Outside of that, a couple of PSAs. I just wanted to signpost people to there's a link in the show notes

to another podcast. Ironically, I know we don't make a habit of doing this, but this one's important. Yeah. This is worth doing. Keone's wife, Lauren,

was on with Danny from what Bitcoin did last week. So if you wanna go down and hear the story about the whole Samurai Wallet case, I'm sure you're already well acquainted with it if you're a listener of this show. Obviously, Lauren gives a slightly different perspective whilst her husband is is locked away for five years.

So go and check that one out. And also on the Samurai front, Econo Alchemist sent out a tweet a couple of days ago. In fact, was only yesterday. Well, that shows how my weekend's gone. It was less than twenty four hours ago. He's tweeted out a PSA that it looks like a scammer has managed to somehow take control of samuraiwallet.com.

It is bizarre to me how the FBI has seized control of this when they did the initial samurai takedown, and it's now managed to fall into the hands of scammers somehow. Is it really?

Is it like, every week we're reading about some person who worked for the government or their daddy worked for the government, and they then got some way to access something and steal something or do something cunty. It doesn't really surprise me that much. It's probably them doing it themselves. Have you clicked the link? No.

I have not. It is the lowest effort website I think I've ever seen in my entire life. Well, it's them then, isn't it? It's gotta be. It's just really bizarre. It's like a plain white page with some

terrible looking gray boxes on it that link out to things like Ricochet and wallet. So it looks as though they are actually trying to kind of impersonate the actual Samurai Wallet website but like they Badly.

Job of it. And then there's, like, there's, like, latest articles in the top right corner that how to get a crypto wallet. Best non custodial crypto wallet for businesses in 2026. It's like so non samurai.

It's like, what are you? I I don't understand what you're trying to do here. Like, are you trying to interpersonate samurai, or are trying to make a crypto website that's like an affinity scam for the presumed, you know, presumedsamuraiwallet.com

has got some good SEO behind it because they've been around for years. But, yeah. It's just it's just very bizarre. Do you think it's more likely to be, like, rather than just being a fucking idiot doing it, it's like a bot or something where it's like they try and access as many websites as they can, crypto related websites,

And then they have something like, try and search what this is about and then try and make this it like it's make it look like this is a website and it sort of does it itself, but just poorly.

Yeah. I think that's probably likely looking at it. Like, there's a page on here called mail service access, and it tells you about it says email services are a common component of web hosting infrastructure.

Yes. It's It like that. Just seems like a very, very, very retarded human or a very stupid bot or a combination of both. Maybe it's a retarded human controlling a stupid bot.

Yeah. Okay. Well, either way, obviously, stay away from that and warn anyone in the sort of privacy spheres because there are still people within the last even couple of months, I've had people reach out and be like, oh, I need to access my wallet, and I need to withdraw and move it, and I've gotta do this, and how do I do it?

And, you know, people who have just had money sat there and they're asking questions. It's like, they might also just go on the fucking website, and then they might be stupid enough to click the link. So you need to let people know about this.

Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I mean, if you're asking me for fucking technical advice, you're halfway there. You you know? I just put that out there. Please stop asking me for taking advice, people. Like, it's it's

I'll do my best, but it's not good for you. It's it's the worst person you could ask. Yeah. If you like playing with fire, go for it. Yeah. You'd be surprised how many. You really would be so I think because they'd probably see, oh, okay. Like He's got podcasts. He must know what he's talking about. Yeah. He's credentialed.

He's he's done this for, like, eight years. He can't be a fucking idiot. He's gotta know some stuff. Wrong. And I took that personally. Wrong. Incorrect.

Have you started five coding yet, Max? I haven't. I really, really, really want to, but I want a new computer to do it. I don't want to start fucking around on my own computer that runs all the stuff for Uncoverable at the moment. I just

I like to have things separated out. So Mhmm. I haven't, but I'm really getting like, the more I think about it, I'm getting drawn in. And, actually, weirdly, more for non Bitcoin stuff than for

anything to do with you know, I'm not gonna do the same stuff as you're gonna do. I'm not gonna be like, oh, I'm gonna make a mission control and do this clever app that's gonna do this. And, you know, I'm not gonna be doing kind of, like, surveil myself stuff or any of that kind of stuff.

I'll leave that to more capable people, but it's more for, like, just, like, more fiat life shit that I need doing all the time and trying to, like, take some of the stresses and some of the, like, manual shit away. So it's more like me just reviewing things, small changes, and then shipping rather than,

like, me sat just fucking slaving away constantly. I think I've got a lot of ideas of what I would like to do with it, but, no, I'm not there yet. I I know you are.

I know you and that's the thing is that I maybe have to time it well because you're currently gonna be very busy helping a lot of people who have questions around your new device. And I don't wanna then be the absolute twat that when you finish the day of fixing other people's problems and you sit down and you go,

ding ding ding. And then it's me. Hey, mate. How do I do I link this fucking what's an API key? What's a what's a this? What's a and you're just gonna be like, fuck it. So I'm gonna wait a little bit longer until you're slightly less busy, and then I'm gonna ruin your life. Look forward to it. Yeah.

You know you can message me anytime, especially if it's something that I'm passionate about as well, which, you know Yeah. This has got me by the bollocks at the moment big time. Come on. What have you what have you been doing? Tell me. What have I done since the last show?

Well, again, we're gonna be secretive here, but I was teasing you with a secret project, wasn't I, that I now come clean about. What are your overarching thoughts without giving the game away?

Can I just say that I did know as well? You know, I said, oh, I I actually know. Yeah. Yeah. I thought when I asked you afterwards and you're like, oh, I didn't know about it. I was like, yeah. He's fucking lying to my face. I was 98, 99%

sure. I was like, I'm pretty sure, but I don't wanna take the wind out of your sails because I know it's gonna be cool. And I don't want it, like, to spoil that buzz.

So I was like, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna shut up here and just see what you come up with. But you did not disappoint. Was it Jordan? Did he rat on me? No. No. No. It wasn't. It I just sometimes I know things. I just have a feeling of, like, I just know stuff, and I knew that. Okay.

I was just like, this is how the universe is gonna work. This is what's gonna happen. This is what he's gonna do. And I mean, fucking incredible. We can't obviously disclose

too much yet, but it will be soon. But what stuff can you disclose? Like, what what stuff you've been building? So since the last show, I know we talked a little bit about a couple of bits. So what else have I got? The main three things

since the last show are all kind of foundation related. One of my main hurdles was when we get super technical people coming into the support inbox and asking questions around like, why did you choose this cryptography

to do this thing on this device? And obviously, I am nowhere near technical enough to do that. Well, I've now built myself like a basically, a trained an agent specifically on the Envoy code base and the KeyOS code base and the Passport core code base.

And, obviously, these agents, like, that's bread and butter for them. Like, they they can go to that code in a couple of minutes and be like, answer any question.

Mhmm. So I've now got a little tool, just a little web based tool that basically knows all of those code bases like the back of its hand. And I can just ask it as simple or as technical question as possible and be like, give it to me in a response that a five year old brain like Max's would understand.

Or I can use go in there. Fucking crayon eater is gonna be capable of understanding. I've lit I've literally got a button that says crayon eater answer now. Or

I can say give me a technical answer because, you know, the person who's asking me is clearly more technical than me. So that's good because previously I would have to like wait until the developers come online and some of those are in America. So I'd have to wait like five hours to answer a question sometimes, if not longer.

And that's assuming that the engineering team will be able to answer the question straight away. Well now I've just got my own on hand to answer the question so that customers, you know, they get faster response times, they get clear responses, they don't have to have me saying, yeah,

give me five hours until American comes on so I can go and bug one of the engineers like. So that's just sped up that whole process. And then the other two are kind of just me testing things at the moment. I have no idea whether they'll ever make it out into the wild. I think they probably will,

but they'll need some heavy vetting from actual clever people first off. The first one is a foundation recovery tool. It can be web based, but it's also an Android APK. And basically, it's able to ingest any of our recovery methods. So key cards for passport prime Mhmm. Micro SD cards for passport core and founders edition.

Yep. Or a backup file from your Envoy wallet. And it basically is like a guided thing to help you decrypt that and access the whatever secrets are within their respective backups away from us, away from Envoy. It's a standalone tool. It will be open source so that you can once it's out there once, like, anybody

can then use that whenever they want. They can host it wherever they want. The whole point is that, hopefully, nobody ever needs this. But the idea behind the tool is that if foundation ceases to exist and your passport prime is broke and you can't get another one because the company doesn't exist or, you know,

we can't ship to your country or something stupid like that Yeah. Yeah. Then you have this APK that you can freely install onto your phone. You just tap the two NFC cards and then you can get your BIP 39 seed word and then, you know, you're free then to go wherever you want within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

So it just prevents that final piece of lock in. Well, not really lock in. Lock in's the wrong term, but you know what I mean. I know you mean. It's just another avenue, an open source avenue that you can just quickly. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Obviously,

that would need some heavy vetting by our engineers before we ever saw the the light of day outside of my machine and my Android phone, but it worked perfectly in my testing. I've tested all those and stuff. I just thought it was a nice little project for me to build. And then the other one is a voice based concierge

setup for Passport Prime, which sounds like it's gonna be fucking terrible, but I don't know whether you've spoken to any AIs lately. They're getting really good. I have. I've spoken to GBT a fair bit. Pretty good. Yeah. Better than most people.

Yeah. This is a standalone agent that's again trained on all of our foundation documentation. It's trained on the code base. It has,

like, checkpoints to walk through people through the onboarding process. It can take questions along the way. You can interrupt it. You can ask it questions to be like, he's gonna tell you to or she, you know, I can pick whichever voice I want, and it's available in 10 different languages.

They'll say, okay, next we're gonna do the Quantum Link setup. And you can be like, well, what the hell is Quantum Link?

And it will give you a full explainer and then it'll like, okay, great. Do understand that? You're ready to go to the next step? And it's scarily good already for considering it's just a proof of concept on my local machine. I'm hoping that that is gonna meet the light of day.

Again, it's very early days yet, but it should help us scale the concierge service. Because sometimes there are people that are just nervous or don't wanna speak to another human, but would like some assistance.

Well, this could be a free or low cost option for them to do so in as what they seem as, a more safer environment where I'd go out on a limb to say a lot of people are probably more confident in asking stupid questions to AI than they would be to me. Yes. Yeah. They would feel less embarrassed.

Outside of me? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. And the fact that it's always online and it takes that extra stress from you. They don't have to, like, try and schedule in a time that works with me, which might be difficult if they live in, you know, Melbourne, Australia or something like that. Like, this is always online, omnipresent.

So, yeah, that's what I've been working on. Do Australians even allow people to have freedom money? Seems like quite a a non free country from what I observed recently. Good question. Not sure. We did have a lot of Aussies that were involved in the show, but I don't know whether have they all left?

Is Qatar still in Aussie land? I have no idea where he lives. No idea. Not sure. No. We should no one wants to know. We get a lot of Aussies coming through. Seems to have a very big following in Australia for some reason in the foundation. Mhmm. Pretty cool. Okay.

Okay. So, yeah, busy busy busy busy. What we got in the news then, mate? Yeah. First up on the list, a tweet from the Bitcoin Policy Institute. A couple of days ago, they learned of an amendment buried in a Kentucky

h b three eighty that would require hardware wallet providers to reset user seed phrases upon request. HB three eighty. That's a type of pencil, isn't it? Yeah. The yellow one. Yeah. This would effectively outlaw self custody in Kentucky. BPI sent a letter to the Kentucky Senate informing them of the harmfulness of this language.

Section 33 was added as a last minute floor amendment to a 77 page virtual currency kiosk regulation bill. Great. God, can you imagine sitting and reading through that? The underlying bill has political support and is expected to move through the senate for final passage possibly within the next week.

The mandate is technically impossible

for noncustodial wallets. Hardware wallets are specifically designed so that no one, including the manufacturer, can access or recover a user's seat. Requiring a backdoor for seed phrase recovery breaks Bitcoin's fundamental security guarantees and pushes users towards centralized custodians that are vulnerable to hacks and failures.

It just goes to show like how out of touch some of these regulators are. Yeah. It's so stupid. It doesn't even make sense. Someone has sat and made 75 pages or whatever of just nonsense that goes nowhere.

What a waste of time and money. Although, like, I think with a lot of this stuff, you know, the government jargon and general, like, business jargon that already exists. Like, you're kind of making a 200 page document

of slop already even before AI to say something that you could say in, like, ten seconds verbally. Yeah. Now with AI, you've gotta think that these, like, policymakers and people who are reviewing things, they're like, ah, this fucking chat GBT thing exists, doesn't it?

Let's just copy and paste that in there. Summarize. I bet they do this. They just go summarize, and then AI is gonna be like, yeah. This is a way to make sure that, like, we have access to Bitcoin if we needed to.

And then they go, oh, yeah. That sounds good. Alright. Fluff this up, add another fucking 10 pages of nonsense, and then sned it. I reckon that happens. I reckon it's getting even worse within government. Yeah. I think you're right. I think you're right. I mean Fucking idiots.

The ironic outcome if this were to pass is that it's just gonna put people more at risk because hardware wallet manufacturers just wouldn't Kentucky users. So they'll people Yeah. And all that sort of shit. So it's like It's not like it's a major market.

Completely backwards. They'll just be like, well, okay. Well, we're not selling to Kentucky. So yeah. Yeah. It's not like it's America.

It's not like a company's gonna be like, oh, fucking hell. Like, do we do you know, like Apple where it's like, okay. You you can't do ADP. Apple aren't going, right. We're pulling all our products products from from from The UK then. Like, they we're just not gonna fucking serve The UK because it's a big market for them.

Kentucky for hardware wallet manufacturers, I don't think has that kind of sway. I think you're right. I don't think so. There's probably like three people in Kentucky listening now going, well, what about me?

Yeah. Well, you know, maybe move Kentucky though seems it's weird because I wouldn't think that Kentucky would be one of the most country states. I would have thought, like, if I think of Kentucky, I'd go, obviously, Southern Fried Chicken. But then I would think, like, kind of

tougher human beings that are a bit more freedom loving. I would think, like, that part of America.

If they went, oh, California's done it. I'd go, fucking course they have. Like, yeah. But I don't it wouldn't surprise me at all. But, yeah, Kentucky, that surprises me. If you're from Kentucky and you're listening, you know, let us know your thoughts.

Have you all gone soft or is this just like a couple of retards in an office, like, GBTing back and forth themselves slopping themselves?

I tend to believe that what you said about Kentucky is right and for the majority. Like, it only takes one idiot to, like, add this Yeah. Sneak this into a bill, like, clearly is out of touch, and it just paints a bad picture on, like, the legislators in that whole state, doesn't it? So Yeah.

Would bet my bottom sat that this will get walked back for obvious reasons. It's completely authentical. Completely retarded. It doesn't even work even if it did make sense. So Yeah. Well done. Yeah. You just played yourself, player.

Next up on the list, some news out of the GrapheneOS camp. They have, unsurprisingly, refused to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems, and the group says it will never require personal information.

Well done. GrapheneOS. If its devices can't be sold in regions that require ID verification. Well done. Yes. Yeah. They have their faults, the GrapheneOS team,

mainly social media presence. But, yeah, this is to be expected, and I commend them for it. Gonna be interested to see how that ties in with the Motorola partnership and how that's gonna work. But, yeah, we'll see. Maybe that was like an announcement of an announcement of a partnership that maybe won't be a partnership because

one team pulls one way and one team pulls the other. But hopefully not. We shall see. Yeah. We shall see. More Google news. Google has reversed the Android developer verification requirement amidst a lot of backlash.

So if you remember, we did talk about this a number of briefs ago. The original plan was set to take effect, I believe in September, and it basically mandated the apps on certified Android devices, e g non graphene ones, must be linked to a verified developer account process involving a $25 fee and full identity submission.

Mhmm. This obviously is kind of one of the main benefits

to Android is not having to do that. It sparked widespread criticism from loads of users, loads of civil freedom groups who argued that, you know, this is posing security risk, will definitely hinder development because as I say, this one of the big draws of the Android ecosystem is that it was open,

you could just throw an APK on there, just open a file basically and you've got a new app. Beautiful. So after all the backlash and in response to it, Google is now offering a multi step process for users to opt in to installing unverified apps.

Ready for this? Mhmm. This includes enabling developer mode, confirming they are not being coerced, restarting their phone, and undergoing a one day waiting period followed by a biometric or PIN re authentication.

So they're gonna allow it, but they're not gonna make it easy for you. Right. Okay. It's a step in the right direction and it means that, you know, you can still access APKs and developers can still widespread produce APKs and just have them hosted on GitHub or whatever. But the friction for a user to install it under the new plans,

which were announced three days ago, is gonna be significantly more friction essentially. Always the way. That's always friction for more freedom. More freedom, more privacy, more friction.

Unless you run graphene then. Seems that way. Yep. Which is the answer to most things on Android, just run graphene. Talking

about graphene, I was thinking about this when Zach was on. He was saying, like, about making a phone and he's like, you know, for many different reasons, no. And also Apple are cooking, like, I'm not gonna try and compete. You're running iPhone. He's running iPhone.

Seth's running iPhone. Like, all the people around me, pretty much, not everyone, but a lot of people who are the people I ask for privacy and security advice are running Apple and iPhone.

People are now getting Macs to run agents and all this kind of stuff like Mac minis and all different things like that. Like, are we I don't know I I don't know really what the question is, but I feel as though if we were having this discussion, you and I, five, six years ago,

five, six years ago, Q would have been saying, nah, can't use Apple, can't verify it, it's shit, it's gay, no. Pretty much. Like, in a better way, you'd say it, but that's pretty much what you'd be putting out there. And now what has changed?

Is it just that the hardware is better? Is it that you have advanced data protection? Because I think you still had it then anyway. Or is it just like, do you know what? We're all so fucking busy.

We're trying to change so much shit in our life just to survive and not be attacked constantly by all the bullshit that I just want a device that works. And maybe there is some sort of clever way that a three letter agency could maybe get some information on me, but also they probably can anyway unless I'm a Satoshi.

It's basically the latter. As I get older, I've got kids, my duties at foundation have expanded significantly.

Like Mhmm. Sometimes I'm lucky if I have time to have a shit. I just need I just need stuff that works, particularly for family things and for work things. Stuff that just works that I don't have to configure drivers for and I don't have to, you know, use loads of different apps to do syncing and things like that.

Like, those types of workflows that take away precious seconds and minutes every day when you're trying to interact between Android and Linux and back to iPhone because I still need an iPhone to test with work stuff as well. Having it all in separate ecosystems is just too much of a productivity

time sync for me that I just my work stuff, my general personal stuff, like chatting to friends and stuff, which is I'm fine with it just being in that ecosystem that is makes it easy for me. Of course, there's a lot of trade offs of that. Do I still have a Linux machine? Yes, of course. I use it for my privacy focused stuff.

That will never change. Do I still have graph info for my privacy focused, you know, comms and Mhmm. Other various things like my

international drug dealing empire and things like that, then obviously, I'm gonna do that on graphene. I'm serious, by the way, the FBI. Please come after me. You said it now. Don't clip that out. Fucking leave that in immediately.

I'm gonna grasp on you to Zach as well. You're done, mate. That's it. Fired. So, yes, I have segregation,

but just most of my daily interactions, they're work related or they're me asking the wife, what shall I cook for tea? Like, I just don't need that to be on a graphene phone. So it's just compromise just to balance time and my own sanity. It's just compromise. Yeah. That's fair. That's what I thought.

And then my final follow-up question to that is, does it soon swing back the other way? We've gone from don't touch Apple, don't touch anything you can't verify, like super nerd everything, keep everything private, even what you're having for dinner, blah blah blah blah blah blah to

I'm too fucking busy. I've got a family. There's other more important stuff. They'll find me anyway if they really need to. And if it's really, really, really important, then I use these other devices. But for everything else, I fucking use Apple. Thank you very much. Does it flip again once we have all of this AI stuff just seemingly

getting more and more powerful by the day to a point where, you know, you go on to your Linux machine, normal shit. Like, something doesn't fucking work. You try and put a mic in. That doesn't work. You try and open up an application. That doesn't fucking work. You're looking through guides.

It's just you're like, oh, I don't have time for this. Instead of that, you then say to your agent. Just go, hi, agent bot thing. This fucking machine doesn't work. Can you just fix it? And then it just does it. Or even you don't even have to say this fucking machine doesn't work. It knows. It goes, you run Linux queue. I know this.

I know you just want things to work. I know you want to be able to afford a five minute shit by yourself

in the morning without being interrupted. So I'm just gonna do this. And then when you go onto your machine, it says everything's working. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. And you can just use it. And then does that mean that it swings the other way where people go, actually,

yeah, this Linux thing isn't so bad? Yes. There's probably some legs to that. Yeah. I hadn't really thought about that, but, yeah, that I mean, it makes sense. Obviously, you still got the trade off of depending on how you interact with the AI in in the scenario you just gave. Like, if it's running locally,

then, yeah, that seems like the perfect trade off where it can fix all your broken ship privately,

especially on a machine like a Linux machine where you may have it as a segregated machine where you're doing your Bitcoin stuff and you've got your super super chats on there or whatever. Like, you gotta be careful, obviously. So I think, as always, it depends on the implementation.

But, yeah, I could see that making a bit more sense as we we move forward. Yeah. It'd be interesting to see. It might be the sort of thing where I'd lean more into it because I'm exactly the same. I'm like, I separate things out in the same way, but I've tried running Linux.

I've tried doing that sort of stuff, you know, for running on Governable and some of my normal life stuff. And I'm just not fucking dealing with that shit. I'm just not. Mhmm. So, yeah, if I had an AI agent that can do the guides and check the things and fix the stuff, I'd be much more tempted to be like, okay,

let's try again. As always, it's becoming a bit of a cliche now. We're all Bitcoin. We love cliches, but one of the AI cliches is like, right now is the worst they're ever gonna be.

That applies to the frontier models like Cloudopus, but it also applies to the open source ones that you can run locally. RAM is getting easier to access. It's not really getting cheaper, but it's getting the default RAM on a computer these days is is only trending one way.

The capabilities of the open source models is, again, only trending one way, and that's open to the right. So everything's projecting that the utopia that you just mentioned does become a reality, so we'll see. Very good. Very good. Alright. Back to the list. Not a good one, this.

The DOJ is seeking an October retrial for the tornado cash developer Roman Storm. Federal prosecutors have asked for an October 2026 retrial of the Roman Storm on money laundering and sanctions charges after a jury deadlocked on those counts.

However, if you remember, Storm was convicted of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business back in August.

Storm remains free on bail and is seeking a full acquittal with oral arguments set for as early as April 9, so just a couple of weeks away. The retrial push comes despite the DOJ's own twenty twenty five memos stating prosecutors should no longer target wallets, mixes, and exchanges for end user actions.

Yeah. Seems like Groundhog Day. We're going through it again. Obviously, wish Roman Storm the best. Seems like he's still got a good amount of fight left in him. We should put the link in the show notes if it isn't already there, Jordan, so that people can financially support him because this shit ain't cheap. Oh, no. It's not.

Unsurprising. Disappointing. Yes. More I don't wanna say unsurprising because these guys have got a pretty good track record until now, but disappointing

to say the least. A couple of weeks ago, BitRefill was down. Ironically, I was actually trying to get on the website on the day of this incident. BitRefill has disclosed a cyber attack and points towards North Korea's Lazarus Group. This happened on March 1, or it began on March 1, originating from a compromised employee laptop

according to the company's incident report. Attackers were able to extract legacy credentials tied to production systems, allowing them to escalate access across BitRefill's infrastructure, including segments of its internal database and certain cryptocurrency

hot wallets. Bit Refill has said that the attackers drained an undisclosed amount of funds from its hot wallets. Hope they didn't have much in there. Whilst also exploiting its gift card inventory system to place suspicious purchases with vendors.

The company did not specify the total financial impact, but has stated it will absorb the losses using operational capital. So that tells me it's big enough to be embarrassed by, but not too big that they're gonna fall over and they can't cover their customers' account losses.

The intrusion was first detected through irregular purchasing patterns and anomalies in supplier activity. In response, BitRefill took its systems offline to contain the breach across its global operations, and the company said services

have since returned to normal levels. Here's the crucial information. As part of the attack, approximately 18,500 purchase records were accessed. The exposed data includes email addresses, cryptocurrency payment addresses, and metadata such as IP addresses.

And around 1,000 of those 18,500 records involved encrypted customer names, which are being treated as potentially exposed despite the encryption due to the possibility that the attackers may have accessed the encryption keys as well. BitRefill has said it has notified affected users directly.

So if you are a BitRefill user, maybe keep an eye on your account just to see whether or not you are one of the affected users. I'll just add something to that, mate. Just for anyone who maybe is new around here, don't give your personal details to anywhere that you don't have to.

The sort of beauty of these gift cards is that you can use them somewhat privately done correctly, and I would suggest not giving all your real details to any of these type of things where you don't have to because

even with a company like this they've been around for a long time, and I've never heard anything previously that's made me, like, concerned about them. I think they're a good company from everything that I've seen. So even good companies can fuck up or be attacked, and the less places you leave your personal information

or hard earned stats, the better. Absolutely cosign that one. Alright. Last piece of news on the list. This is tangential to Bitcoin really, but comes from the guys over at the rage, and I thought it was it was worthwhile putting in there. Pokemon Go users, do you remember that? Like, all the craze in, like, I don't know, 2016?

Yeah. I'll just tell a very quick story about that. Oh, god. A very close friend, almost family member of mine who's, like, in their seventies, extremely smart, like, super fucking bright, but got a bit of tism. He got into Pokemon GO

in such a huge way. They had to have a family intervention because they were driving around doing Pokemon GO, going everywhere, and spending literally every waking minute. He got so obsessed with it every waking minute that he wasn't at work or asleep.

He was doing that. And he was a doctor, and in between patients, he's Pokemon GO ing as well. It's fucking incredible. So, yeah, I remember it well. Never played it, but know it was quite popular.

Wow. Yeah. Well, the news from the rage. Over the weekend, viral social media posts have amplified reporting that Niantic, the firm developing the augmented reality game Pokemon Go, is using its acquired database of over 30,000,000,000, with a b, crowdsourced images of the world to power, quote, visual navigation for delivery robots.

That makes sense. Thousands of users are rightfully outraged of unwittingly having to help train what appears to be AI models as big tech proponents attempted to downplay the implications.

So basically, when you were running around chasing after Charizard, you're helping train the killer robots that are gonna come and shoot your family. Well done. I mean, did I say killer robots? I meant Amazon delivery robots. Oh, of course. Yeah. Because they wouldn't do anything malicious with No.

I I feel like people sort of, you know in the back of your head, like, giving a load of data here, don't you? I mean, I don't really. I've never met the average Pokemon GO player, but They're either fucking autistic or they're nine. Yes. Or both.

Yes. The best ones are autistic nine year olds. They're the best in the world at this game. Couple more quotes. Oh my god.

According to the press release, Niantic Spatial is powered by third generation digital map that captures the content of the world at a level of fidelity never before achieved and enables both humans and machines to understand it in ways never before possible.

Wow. Hold on a second, Max. I'm just gonna be sick in my mouth.

Yeah. This is Wow. Ridiculous. Oh, here we go. In December 2025, Niantic partnered with Vantor, formerly known as Maxar Technologies, a major US defense contractor offering geospatial intelligence to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency with the Department of Defense, known as the Department of War.

The partnership with Niantic pairs Vantor's Raptor aerial system software, which enables drones to navigate and extract target coordinates using onboard cameras with Niantic's on the ground imaging, taking its accuracy from roughly one meter to centimeter level accuracy

to provide GPS redundancy for, quote, autonomous and, quote, mixed reality operations forming a comprehensive, quote, air to ground navigation system. Brilliant. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't say much reading between the lines there to hear what that really means, does it? Yeah. Amazon deliveries. It means that when you order

your stuff on Amazon, it's gonna definitely arrive, and it's gonna land perfectly without crashing into anything directly through your letterbox. Yes. And it may or may not be followed up by a hellfire missile.

It is quite scary, actually, that. I mean, so, again, it's one of those, like, scary, not surprising, kind of just like, yeah. Well, of course, is it not the same as every single cunt in the world on fucking TikTok and Instagram,

like, posting a picture of what breakfast they had and and then, like, a side shot of their ass. Like, is it not the same data? Right? This is the area. Like, this is the is it not the same? Your TikTok live shit and all that. I would imagine that all of that sort of stuff probably has location attached to the images.

So, yeah, it doesn't seem like I guess the reason that this Pokemon GO thing seems a bit more abhorrent is that the whole premise of Pokemon GO is that you go out into the street and you take photos

Yes. Of, like, your local area. Whereas, like, at least TikTok for for all, it's many, many, many, many faults that that isn't the aim of the game, so to speak. It's like, hey, kids. Go around your area to collect some Pokemon. Take lots of pictures to enslave yourself in the future.

Please Yes. Please take these pictures to make your world more dangerous for yourself. Bless them. Okay. Well, that's great. Yes. Alright. Let's do some boost, mate. Only a couple. Shame on you listeners. We start with Chad Farrow streamed 1,399

sats. Thank you, sir, as always. Thank you, Chad. He is a Chad. He is. Oh, he said two, actually. We've he's also boosted 333 sats, he said q has got the vibe coding bug. Yes. Very much so. Funny, you were talking about family interventions. The wife might need to have one with me soon.

Really? That bad. No. No. I'm just I'm just joking. Are you coming to bed? Yeah. Yeah. I'll be I'll be I'll be there. I'll there. Four hours later. Yeah.

No. And to be fair, I I have to be pretty good with putting the laptop away at least an hour before bed because otherwise I just don't sleep. What? The blue light stuff? Or you just like brains ticking?

Yeah. Just mainly brain ticking. Yeah. Yeah. Cass Peland has also streamed 792 sats. Thank you very much. We've got Nostagang. She sent 100 sats with a heart emoji. Thank you. And finally, we have eight Mithrandir through the XMR chat sent 0.015

worth of XMR and said, it's very hard to get access to the best AI without linking it to your ID via credit card. Nano GPT and Pay Per Q are great, but API pricing for top models means you will pay 10 x versus core GPT subscriptions.

We were literally just talking about that. I knew it would be more expensive, but I didn't know it was like 10 x g's. I mean, yeah. It's a difficult one. But, yeah, I agree. I I've been quite open about the fact that I've got a claw subscription.

And I'm definitely, both me and the company again are ROI in terms of, like, an increase in my productivity for select things. So I think that's different though, isn't it? It's like if you're a company that is building freedom software and hardware,

and it's already a company, so the names are out there, then linking your banking details to it is fine. Like, I can't really see a problem because it's all out in the open anyway. I think where the problem is is, like, if you're a NIM building

privacy software or doing something like that where you could later on be attacked by whichever government, then you're giving your banking credentials, which is an issue because it's a way to trace back to you. And what it means is the price of privacy and security and maybe not ending up in a box is 10 x. Yes.

Freedom ain't free. Freedom is and free. No. So I think that gap will close eventually, especially as I say like I was saying earlier, where computing gets more powerful, local models get better. Like, you won't need to you know, you'll just be able to run capable AI locally.

But until that gap is closed, it's hard to make a compelling argument to not use the frontier models for anything that's not strictly privacy concern. Mhmm. Okay. Thanks for the boost. Yeah. Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much.

Just ran downstairs. I had an urge for caffeine. Oh, I'd have done the same. Oh, well. I will wait. Little double espresso now sat on my desk. Well done. I've got this nice new rum barrel aged coffee beans, which I'm drinking. Oh. And they are it's really nice actually.

Really nice. You ready to get back into it? Yes. Let's do it. Okay. Just before I jump onto the updates and releases, although strictly speaking, this is an update and release, I have had a message in the last five minutes whilst we are recording for

a new tool that's just been released. And I've just sent it to you on signal, so we're gonna take a look at it together. Okay. It is from our good friend Max Tannehill. And Jordan, make sure this goes into the show notes because it's literally hot off the press. The URL is okay.unspent.to.

Mhmm. And our friend Max has been vibe coding. Wow. I'll read the about section for the benefit of the listeners.

The UTXO modeler allows treasury operators to visualize and instantly see the composition of an address and identify which UTXOs are currently trapped by network fees. You can simulate and test different coin selection algorithms

between oldest first, largest first, branch and bound to see exactly how your wallet builds transactions under the hood. And then you can optimize and predict exact fee impacts, prevent dust creation during change generation,

and time large consolidations when network conditions are favorable. I like that. This is pretty cool. So obviously, this isn't designed for, you know, the average Joe.

This is for people who manage large wallets like exchanges and things like that that need to be a little bit more careful around how they manage the UTXOs within their wallet because, you know,

they might be dealing with thousands or tens of thousands of UTXOs and spending or consolidating those at one sat per byte versus doing so at a 100 sat per byte could, you know, be the difference between your business failing and prospering, if you know what I mean.

Obviously, I'm talking in extremes there, but it seems like a pretty cool tool, actually. And also, I like the idea you said there about, like, not having dust change. Like, that's something that really annoys me when I'm making a spend. I'm like, oh, I can't spend that UTXO.

This one would be better for privacy, but it's gonna leave me with, like, $2 as, like, a change output. Then what we're gonna that that sort of stuff is really fucking annoying.

Yeah. Certainly is. Lots of configuration on the side panel. You can paste in addresses, groups of addresses, change it to SATs, you can use test now, Signet, change the network conditions so you can, you know, scroll all the way down to one SAT per byte or all the way up to a thousand SATs per byte to see the optimal wallet structure.

You change between different spending algorithms to see which is optimal for your wallet. Very cool. And it's all, of course, open source and on his GitHub, which, again, we'll try and link in the show notes. I wouldn't have taken Max as a vibe coder. I don't know why.

I seem to think I saw him in one of the usual groups, basically saying it was a waste of time. Maybe I'm getting him mixed up with somebody else, and I might be wrong there. I'm open to be shot down there. Maybe he's seen the light. I haven't seen him say that. I'm just sort of like, I imagine him saying it. Do you know what I mean?

Like, I imagine him just being like, it's a fucking waste of time. Just doing it myself. So quite a particular guy, isn't he? Likes to do things in a in a very particular way. So fair enough. Maybe he's doing it and then checking everything over afterwards, but good to see you've caught the bug, mate.

I think he might have been cheating on OpenClear and the whole agentic side of things rather than just general vibe coding, which as my experience grows, I tend to sort of lean towards agreeing with at the moment with this current state of play. I like the idea of it. Yeah. Yeah. Me too.

I I just think the reality is not quite as it's like I like the idea of running a Linux machine twenty four seven, but I don't want the reality of it.

Good point. Good point. Well done, Max. Oh, alright. Yeah. Thank you, Max. Thank you for allowing me to share it as well. Very cool. I'm looking forward to to having a bit more of a play with that. Okay. Updates and releases, long list. I'm gonna double click on a few of them because they're very important. First on the list is

am-i.exposed. Yep. First off, before we dive in, who the hell or why is there a dot exposed domain? Like, when was that, I think? Probably like some sort of, like, triple x rated thing, isn't it?

It would be fitting Yes. Or exposed. That's the URL of this new tool, am-i.exposed. It's a Bitcoin privacy scanner similar to the Stealth project that we talked about Mhmm. Last brief and had them we had them on Friday, was it last week or the week before? Mhmm. Where basically you can run chain analysis

on your own wallet essentially. This tool from Archad, I believe there might be more than just Archad behind it, seems to have taken that to the next level where you can basically get sort of oxt and kycp.org level transaction analysis using the Boltzmann Entropy

engine for your transactions and for your addresses. I've seen some of the screenshots of this and they've clearly taken heavy inspiration from those two aforementioned projects which are sadly Mhmm. No longer with us. It's got a full privacy guide in there as well.

But, yeah, the general gist of it is you paste in a Bitcoin address or a transaction ID and you can get a full Boltzmann analysis on any of the data that you provide. Obviously, you can and should run this connected to your own node, which I believe you can.

There's already a start OS app for this that somebody's built, which is awesome to see. You can test it on Testnet or Signet as well if you want to. It looks epic. If you wanna open it up, Max, and then just click on some of the examples, there is a snowball example there. So it gives it a privacy score.

It gives you tool tips and recommendations. It gives you that kind of transaction flow analysis that users of kycp.org will be familiar with. Fresh address, Whirlpool Satoshi's

address. Click on the Whirlpool one nine by nine. Let's have a look at that. I've just clicked on that. So it'll run the analysis. Takes a few seconds depending on the complexity of the transaction, which, you know, a nine by nine Whirlpool transaction is pretty complex.

Mine's five by five. Nice. Okay. I like that up in the top right, it's got normie and cypherpunk options. Yeah. So I asked Arkad what that does because it wasn't clear to me. And he said it's the difference between giving you basic info or, like, more detailed feedback on the information you provide. I'll keep on it normie.

So the the Whirlpool transaction that I just put in as an example gives an a plus rating, 100 out of a 100, excellent privacy practices, unsurprisingly. Yeah. And if you scroll down, you can see all of the inputs and the outputs.

There's a little one here that says, what a chain analysis sees. It says the transaction appears ambiguous to chain analysis. Transaction uses CoinJoin. High entropy makes it difficult to determine which output is the payment. But the negative is this allows it to identify the wallet as an Ashigaru or Sparrow user for obvious reasons. Oh,

look. It also has exchange coin join policies. That's very good. Oh, interesting. Tells you what blocks, what flags, what's a retroactive freeze. Yeah. So they all fuck you. They just fuck you in different ways.

And then it signposts you to base Grobo, Satz and Huddle Huddle. Yeah. Brilliant. I would say if you have coin joined funds and you have to send into an exchange or one of these sort of regulated services,

you have got to swap into Lightning Mhmm. Or do something first. You've got to break the links from your broken links as stupid as that is because it would just get flagged and it's gonna cause you a fucking world of pain. Yep. Click while you're on this page, Max, click on the Cypherpunk toggle in the top right. Okay. Yeah.

Much more detailed. Strong privacy span. How cool is that visualization? Sick. So good. This is I was, like, made up to see that somebody's made, like, a replacement to TICP.

It's really in-depth. Especially if you go in if you click in on some of the the privacy examples. Because obviously, there's a lot to talk about in the Samurai CoinJoin

or Opal CoinJoin. Excuse me. Like, there's a lot of, like, metrics and things like that. Yeah. But this is, like, they clearly put a lot of thought and time and effort into this. Like, as a privacy advocate, this is excellent.

One of the best things I've seen all year in the Bitcoin space. It's fucking awesome. And this is all Arcad doing this, is it? I believe it's Arcad and Friends. I don't know who else is behind him, but He's got Friends.

I messaged him about them coming on to Freedom Tech Friday to give us a demo of this in a couple of weeks, he said that he was gonna have to go speak to a couple of other people as well, so Okay. I'm really, really looking forward to getting him on the show to talk about this one. It appeals to all of it presses all my buttons.

It's nerdy if you want it to be. It's visual. It's privacy focused. Mhmm. It's so useful. It's dark mode. Yes. Yeah. You can't even put it into light mode even if you wanted to. No. It's nice. That is very cool. Well done. Presumably, a lot of this is vibe coded as well. It looks that way. It's got the traits of vibe coded.

This is why the vibe coding thing is cool, and this is why we are allowed to talk about it on the Bitcoin brief is because it allows

really cool Bitcoin shit that, like, nobody would be able to do otherwise. Not nobody, but just like a very small pool of people can do some stuff. Yeah. And now a really large pool of people can do some stuff, and that is exciting.

It's a great leveler. Like, I've met Arkad in person, and and he won't Don't be mean about him now. No. No. He won't shout at me for saying he wouldn't have been able to do this without vibe coding. Okay. I thought you were gonna say something else. No. No. No. Not at all. Like, he's a very, very intelligent guy. Like, very intelligent.

But, like, he's not a developer to my knowledge, and he very likely wouldn't have been able to do something like this without the power of AI vibe coding tools.

Obviously, there's clearly other people behind it as well, but, like, it is the great leveler. Like, you know, if you've got enough of an imagination, a bit of patience, you can build whatever you want now, and it's very, very exciting.

By the way, if you clicked on graph in the top left corner, once you've got a transaction open, click on graph. Basically, it brings up the OXT explorer bit where it's like, you know, you can drag and drop things. You can see all the links.

It basically gives you the OXT style view where you can look at the links between inputs and outputs in a visual manner on, like, an an open explorer type, like an infinite scroll type thing where you can move things around, click and drag, and that sort of stuff. I'm on Satoshi's address, and then I'm on graph.

Click the plus either side of that coin or that address, and you'll see, like, the previous and subsequent transactions. So good. So so good. I'm well excited about having them on there onto create and set Friday. Is it next week they're on? Them or just our card or A week on Friday. Not this Friday coming, the one after. Okay.

Very cool. Very cool. Yeah. Well done, guys. This is the best thing I've seen all year. Very, very I

mentioned it briefly earlier, but it seems as though you can also install this on start OS already. Okay. You should be using stuff like this on your own node. So I think it's in the community store, so go and have a look. It's am-i.exposed.

Excellent, excellent stuff. Well done. On the same sort of trajectory as this, remember the stealth project that we had to the guys were Brano and Jorge Jorge, I forgot to say his name. They had the stealth project and somebody tweeted at me last week, sirjamsalot

it was, I'm sure you're familiar with on Twitter. Mhmm. They've already forked it and they've built a version of it called un stealth. Unstealth. And they've built an Umbrella app for it. They've added some additional heuristics.

Unstealth shows quote, get Monero in every suggestion.

Yes. One of the things that we're missing with Stealth was that you couldn't use it with your own node or anything like that. It was kinda like a standalone project. So the fact that you can install this now again through the Umbrella app store is very cool. Have a look for on Stealth.

Very nice. Next on the list, this one also comes from Max Tannehill. I don't think he built it but he tweeted about it and added it to my mental notes to talk about. Do you remember finalmessage.io?

Yep. It was a tool that Matt O'Dell used to run with one of his pals that's since I think it's default now. Well, it's not default. It's they still maintain it, but you can't sign up for it now. Basically, they're letting it time out for people who have already paid for the service. Wasn't it like if you die,

you get a final message for your loved ones so they can access your funds or something like that. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a dead man switch, essentially. Yeah. Max Tannehill has come across this one called lastsignal.app.

Basically, the same thing, but it's self hosted. Your final message delivered when it matters. Build your digital legacy with gentle email check ins. If you stop replying, your end to end encrypted messages are delivered to the people you choose.

So, yeah, it's a self hosted dead man switch for delivering encrypted messages to your loved ones when you're gone or unresponsive. This looked five coded as well, by the way. The website looks like a standard AI thing. Yeah. So basically, you add recipients via an email, they'll create a secret password

that only they know. The server never sees the password, and the passphrase is the key for them to unlock your messages.

You then go and compose all of your messages. Obviously, they're gonna be encrypted on the browser before it ever gets sent to the server, and only the recipients can read the contents of the messaging, basically. Basically. Then all you have to do is respond to periodic check ins to confirm that you're still alive.

And if you stop responding, your messages are delivered automatically. And as long as the recipient has got the password, they can open the message. Very nice. I like that. The thing that is kind of unclear to me at the moment is, yes, it's cool that this is

encrypted and self hostable. But if you're self hosting it and you're no longer around, like, there's less of a guarantee that that message is actually gonna make it to the end. Because, like, what if you're server fourth over?

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I know what you mean. You die in a house fire, the server's in the house at the same time, and and no one gets fuck all. Maybe it's hosted in multiple places.

I don't know. Yeah. I mean, you could run it on a VPS and have, like, the next five years paid up already in credits and it just sits there running. And as long as the VPS provider's still alive, then in theory True. It would work, wouldn't it? But This is true. There's a bit of trust there.

But I guess with any dead man switch, there's always a bit of trust because you're dead. So Yeah. Yeah. Whoever's running that server, you have trusted them to actually send the message when you no longer respond.

Yeah. Pretty cool. Anyways, it's nice that you can self host it anyway. Alright. Let me whiz through the software updates. We've got SpyroWallet two point four point two, introduces support for v three transactions in the editor, implements Tofu certificate pinning for TLS connections.

The fuck is that? I have no idea. T o f u. It sounds TOFU. TOFU certificate pinning for TLS connections and adds bit three two two signing via QR and file methods. I think that is

what is BIP three two two? Any guesses, Max? Give me a guess. What's BIP three two two? I genuinely don't know. I actually have no idea. I'm not gonna Google it and then pretend that I know either. It's multisig message signing. That's pretty cool. Aqua version zero point four point one, patch addressing multiple

bugs and performance improvements. I want your thoughts on this one. Bolts is a service that I I've loved and used for many years. They're announcing USDT swaps connecting Bitcoin to the world's most used stable coin.

You can swap between Lightning and USDT on all major networks without custody, accounts, or KYC. What do I think? I think that's cool. Like, if you don't have to KYC and give all your info, people do use it. Unless I'm being retarded, I can't see any downside.

Except the USDT, like, could have it frozen. But, yeah, obviously. All that. Like, the obvious shit. But outside of that, like, people are already using it anyway. And it's not like banks can't freeze your USD that isn't USDT just the same way. So Mhmm. Yeah. Cool.

Useful, probably. Yeah. There's definitely a use case for it. Seems to be a bit of a trend with people adding stablecoins, isn't there, to Bitcoin adjacent services? I think maybe some of it is like there's less maxi madness out there at the moment. Like, it's realizing that these tools are necessary.

And if you do live on Bitcoin like, little simple things like USDT, someone might say, okay. You know, the price of Bitcoin is tanking. What do I do? Someone might then say, okay. Well, I'll swap out to USDT.

You know, like, when you have these big dumps, you're like, fuck. We're in for, like, three or four days of just, like, absolute fucking hell. And it's, like, 10% a day, and you just you just know it's coming. That person might not wanna sign on and sell on an exchange, or they might not have someone who's gonna buy in cash right then.

You could maybe buy some gift cards and bits and pieces and be like, oh, yeah. I'm probably gonna use this service, but I can buy some gift cards just to scale out and then it makes it less costly in the next few months.

Or you could chuck some over to USDT and have it sat on the sidelines for when you need to buy something. Something. Like, is even people who do have access to banking, who don't wanna deal with the fucking bullshit that goes along with it,

might find that useful, will find that useful. And then for that reason, they're probably like, oh, well, why not roll it in? I think a few years ago, it was like, well, everything's gonna be Bitcoin.

Anyone who suggests that everything is not gonna be Bitcoin and that the whole fucking fiat system is gonna completely collapse into Bitcoin and that this is gonna be a $100,000,000,000,000 market cap, like, next week.

You know what I mean? Like, all this, like, stupid shit that was said. And it would have been nice. Like, I'd love to be sat on a yacht now just chilling, but it's not the way it's going. So these are useful. People are realizing it, and why the fuck not? Agreed. Next on the list, Envoy two point two point twelve

has been released. This was an update centered on Passport Prime support, including multi device pairing capability, Bluetooth reliability improvements, and dozens of other bug fixes across Bluetooth, Quantum Link, and Passport Prime onboarding flow. BTCPay

version two point three point six has been released, introducing wallet label filtering and API enhancements. BISC two point one point ten implements new trade rules for payment references and adds trade history and QR code pairing to support for the BISConnect mobile app.

Phoenix Android version two point seven point five introduces a diagnostic button and adds the spend channel address recovery tool to iOS, and the Android app now supports Indonesian. There you go, Max. You're well catered for now. Nunchuck version two point two point eight introduces support for sending to silent payment addresses

and adds an option to view c phrases for software keys after a two hour security delay. Interested? Peach version 0.69. Nice. Introduces unlimited premium functionality for offers, decimal premium values, improved dark mode, color contrast, and fixes for Revolut wise and m pacer payment information.

Moistro version 0.17, three releases in the past couple of weeks, mainly major refactoring work and bug fixes. Cake wallet version six point zero point one up to six point zero point three.

Major redesign, Bitcoin Lightning support via Spark, which we've spoken about in-depth and covered off. Did we cover that off? Yes. Seth did a a full free Insight Friday demo, didn't he? So go and check that out if you haven't done so already. And then some pre release alphas or beta releases,

BitKey app release updated with emergency APK download. Ibis Wallet, this is I believe is a Vibe coded project, versions three point o and three point o point one. They've now added liquid support with lightning swaps with using bolts on the back end.

They've also added wallet locks, canceled transactions with RBF, and transaction notifications. So they seem to be jamming everything in there. Pretty cool. LNbits version one point five point two, no release notes.

Mempool version 3.3 o beta two, no release notes. Start nine version 0.40AlphaDot21. Wow. That was a mouthful. UI refinements for port labeling, SSH connections, WiFi fixes, and support for preferred external ports.

And finally, to wrap us up, some educational pieces all from Bitcoin Magazine.

Linked in the show notes, there's one, a deep technical explainer on defending your Bitcoin node against network layer attacks. That is by zero x b one ten c, who's a prolific developer, as well as Fabian, who is also well renowned as a developer. Then we've got Outrunning Entropy, Why Bitcoin Can't Stand Still. That was a good piece.

Breaks down the optimizations done to speed up the initial block download. And finally, we have an explainer on BIP 54 titled the consensus cleanup. And that's it, Max. You're muted. All the tech advancements in the world, and I can't even fucking unmute a mic.

Well, I think we'll end on that, mate. Good to see all this stuff happening. Loads of cool new projects. Looking forward to the next Freedom Tech Fridays and unless there's anything else, I think we'll stop there. Yeah. I mean, if you have any questions for the Frostnap team, hopefully, show will be out before Friday.

So if you listen to this and you're like, oh, what the hell is Frostnap? Give us your questions, we'll pose them to Nick and to Lloyd. Very good. Other than that, yeah, I'll catch you on Friday, my friend. Alright, mate. I look forward to it. Speak to you then. See you.

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