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Enjoy the show. Good morning. How are we, mate? Bonjour. How are you doing? Very good.

Rodney.

That'll be lost on the Americans. It will be. Yeah. Are you well? Yeah. Pretty well. A little bit sniffly. Yeah. You didn't sound very convincing when you said yeah.

Yeah. Well, the kids are sniffling and snuffling and coughing. They're off school. I've had to pile everyone into a car and just go get the fuck out so I can record a cue so you're not screaming, shouting, and coughing, and sneezing, and whatever else you're doing. So they're just driving around,

not properly sick. Just, you you know, the just the general snuffles that they just come back with constantly, like sneezing in your face and that kind of stuff. That's where we're at. Yeah. My wife's got it at the moment. I'm trying to stay away from her. Lovely.

I assume your wife isn't actually sneezing in your face, though. Oh, no. No. No. Thankfully, That's more of a kid thing. Like, every day is like, can you cover your face with your hand when you're gonna sneeze or cough? And, like, every time they forget. Yeah. You can only tell them a few times before it gets a bit tiresome. Other

than that though, mate, very good. Is he doing woodwork? Some woodwork, fixing gates, fixing flooring,

just like fixing mode with everything at the moment, and then fixing Fiat life that just keeps coming at me. Fiat life is actually much like a toddler, just constantly coughing and sneezing in my face just with just, like, germs and shit that I've gotta try and deal with. So dealing with that. But what about you, mate? Yeah.

Still vibe coding very hard at the moment. Oh, here we go. I've well and truly been bitten by by the vibe coding bug. Every waking moment that's not spent at work or dealing with kids and wife is spent working on projects that I never thought would be possible for somebody like me.

Yeah. Just been building all sorts of shit. I said to Zach the other day, I feel like I've been given the infinity stone, which is a Marvel reference. I don't know whether you'll you'll get that but I get it. Yeah.

I feel like I've been given the infinity stone and I can just unleash the universe's powers and I can just do all this cool shit now that I've pondered over for years and it I thought, well Yeah. You know, I'd need somebody like a super fat arrow to go build it for me. Well, now I have my own super fat arrow and his name's Claude.

Yeah. How many times over the years have you said stuff and then you follow it up with, but I'm not a dev? Oh, very, very regularly. A billion is probably your most used or was your most used sentence.

It's like, well, you know, I would do this, but, you know, I I don't like this part, but I'm not a dev. And now it's like, well, actually, mate, kind of are. At least you control your own dev. Yes. It's sort of part of you. It's not quite you, but it actually really is you.

You're breathing into existence these ideas that you otherwise couldn't have just through your thoughts?

I feel like I'm a bit of a laggard to this sort of stuff. I was very skeptical about AI in the early days, and I've actually got some notes on Nostad that I retweeted from, like, two years ago, and I'm just like, yeah, I I just don't get the hype. Yeah. Now I get it. The speed at which you can go from idea to making it a reality Mhmm.

In literally minutes is, I'll be honest, addictive. Mhmm. You can literally just bring cool shit to life. Obviously, I'm talking about software here, like, you you know, cord is not yet capable enough to, like, build a passport prime in a week.

I wish it would. More on that too. If you're talking software, like, it's just a wild, wild new world. Mhmm. The amount of stuff that I've been able to produce in the last, like, two weeks where I've really been going down the rabbit hole would five years ago would have took like a team of developers.

It's it's wild. Yeah. It is pretty crazy. I've been watching from the sidelines even more than you. I obviously use AI, you know, the stuff I use it for, the stuff for the pod and, like, general life stuff, but not in the same way you're using it. I was listening to Peter Steinberger

on Lex Friedman the other day. It was like, this is, I think, the second part I've listened to in, like, the whole

year or something like that. But I was like, I actually really wanna listen to this because I wanna sort hear from the person creating this, like, what was his thoughts and, like, where does he see it going and stuff. Haven't quite finished the thing, but it is interesting. It does feel

without removing all the fluff. It just sort of feels like early days Bitcoin. When I say early days, like early days that you and me were involved, like seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, that kind of time. I definitely feel that excited about it as I did, like, about Bitcoin back in Mhmm. Twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen.

Yeah. And it's like, it's really fucking cool, and you can do amazing stuff, but it's not that simple to do it. I still think it's like, you've gotta have some understanding of how the technology you're trying to build works. You've gotta understand a little bit about networking. You've gotta understand

a little bit about what you're doing. Like, if you just throw any old boomer on this, they're not gonna produce what, like, the sort of stuff someone like you is gonna produce. But when you said, oh, two years ago, you're putting out tweets or, you know, not to post saying, oh, I don't see the hype.

It's very different to where it was two years ago. Oh, absolutely. I don't think you were necessarily wrong. Like, it's two years ago, even with the stuff I'm doing now, the artwork I can produce now compared to a year ago is way better. Not just way better, but it's, like, 10 times better,

and I'm doing it in a tenth of the time. It's crazy. And then the stuff that you're doing just wasn't on the table two years ago. It just wasn't even you couldn't even dream to do the stuff you're doing now.

All the stuff you've sent me, I don't know what you wanna share, but the stuff you're sending me that you're just, like, vibe coding is fucking mental. I shit you not. In two weeks, maybe two and a half weeks, I've built a full personal dashboard for all of my foundation related topics and tools. I've built a full kind of social media

content funnel for the podcast. People that follow me on Twitter and also might have noticed, but it automates all the clipping, it automates all the posting. I've built a fitness gym tracker app. I'll send you the test flight link soon, by the way, Max, when it's ready. You know you've actually gotta go to the gym for this to work.

You do know that part. Yeah. I've built a run tracker app, and I'm also working on a super secret project that even you don't know about, Max, that I'm gonna reveal to you. It's probably a couple of weeks away that you'll be very, very excited about.

I know exactly what it is. No. You don't. I do I actually do. Oh, really? I won't be shocked. Yeah. I won't be shocked when it happens, but well done. Okay. It's an AI foot pick only fans model that's gonna help you retire.

Yeah. That's not a bad idea, actually. You're gonna be just mincing around in front of a camera, and it's gonna be turning you into some sexy Russian girl. Yeah. You rumble. There will be people making so much money out of that. It's unreal.

Oh, yeah. Because I I delete Instagram generally for months at a time, and then I go back on occasionally to, like, just check-in with, like, an old friend or to, like, see, like, what messages I have. Like, oh, they've messaged me, and they're in this country now or whatever. And then I delete it again. And I went on,

and I shit you not. Like, I came across as, like, oh, this is an attractive girl. And they're, like, talking. And I was like, hang on a minute. There's something a bit weird here. And I look at a bit closer. I'm like, I think this is AI. And I click on the profile. I'm like, oh, it is AI, but it is so fucking good.

It's so ridiculously real that I thought this is just like one of those influencer girl things that have got 6,000,000 followers and make an absolute fortune for just, like, doing shit content. And behind that is a little Indian kid who's just like

Raking it. Yeah. Honestly, because I looked at it. I was like, okay. This is obviously AI. And it already had, like, a million followers. Jesus. I was like, this is AI. I can tell it is, but it's so good that it's it's hard to tell. Like, I think a lot of people either just don't care or

they don't quite notice yet, and that is probably what it is. It is probably someone in India making thousands every day because they've created this bot,

and they're just doing it from, like, nothing, Phil. It's it's ridiculous. Like, what is gonna happen in the next year? I have no idea. It's completely crazy. Like, it's kinda like a cliche saying now in and around the AIs, AI circles.

But, like, this is literally, as we speak right now, the worst it's ever gonna be, and it's already incredible. Yeah. So yeah. I mean, the fact that I've been able to do all that sort of stuff without knowing how to write a single line of code in two to three weeks is just completely bonkers. So, yeah, very excited about sort of stuff and

getting to the point now where I'm like, I know I should be going to bed, but I just I wanna stay up and do the next feature and the next feature and the next feature. It's like an addictive thing where you, like I literally just speak to the computer,

and then two minutes later, it'll come back and go, yep. It's done. Hit refresh. And you're like, oh my god. It's done. And you get a little dopamine hit, and then you wanna go back for more. You do it verbally, do you? Most of the time. Yeah. Especially if I've got it's not just a quick, you know, one sentence thing.

If I'm not, like, doing, like, a full spec thing, I'll just turn a mic on on my computer and just speak to it, and it just transcribes it live. Is it costing a fortune to do if you're not running locally using these models? I keep hearing about people. Okay.

A lot of people have been bitten by the OpenCLR hype, which I I have tested. OpenClaw, like, you still need a brain, like an AI LLM to power it. So most people are actually doing useful stuff with this. They're just using OpenAI or Anthropic

API keys. So you use, like, pay per use, and you can easily rip through a couple of thousand dollars a month doing it that way. Mhmm. Or you can do what I do and you just get the Claude Max plan.

I mean, you can start with a cheap $20 a month plan if you want to. You'll quickly run up to rate limits if you're building websites and stuff. But, yeah, I use the $100 a month Claude Max plan, and that is perfect for me. And I'm using it most days with the exception of like one or two days on the weekend pretty heavily these days.

And that's how much? And that's a $100 a month and I'm I'm not getting rate limited at the moment. And so it's it's enough for me to be doing a serious amount of vibe coding and I'm not hitting the limit. That's not bad. That's not bad at all.

I signed up not too long ago to Maple and I used it for probably, like, two and a half hours trying to sort out some fear world problems. And I went through, like, half of all my credits within, like, two hours. For the whole month? For the whole month. Yeah. Jesus. And that is just text. No images, no uploads, no nothing. That's just me

trying to work through a problem a couple of hours. Yeah. I think the problem is with Maple. I mean, it's great service, don't get me wrong, and I want stuff like that to proliferate.

Although you have a monthly subscription with Maple, all they're doing is then converting that into API credits for whichever service that you use, I think. Yeah. I might be wrong there.

Maybe. But, yeah, if you burn through, like, half of your month in two hours just doing tech stuff, like, that's gonna still be pretty expensive. Yeah. It is expensive. And I did obviously, like, paid it up front for the year and all that, and now I'm like, oh, fuck. Like, not to slag you off, Maple. Appreciate what you're doing.

And I this is not stuff that I would talk to, like, ChatGBT about. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. That, like, that's worth paying more for, isn't it? It's having that privacy for, like, personal stuff. I I agree. You know, I could have done it with ChatGPT,

and I could have taken out some of what I'm talking about and, like, taken out names and, like, you know, I could have changed things so it would have been a little bit better, but it would have taken me twice as long, and it wouldn't have been as good. But the other thing with it is the model that I'm using is not as smart as ChatGPT.

It's like a version of it's like an open source version of what is it actually using? All models. Let's have a look. Probably GPTOSS, is it? Yeah. GPTOSS. It's fine, but, like, it trips over itself quite a lot. Like, quite often in those couple of hours, I'm like, well, you said this, but, you've

contradicted yourself because the sentence before you said this. Ah, yeah. Yes. You're right. So so you're like constantly it's really useful. Like, it's still doing stuff where I'm like, okay. This would take me probably a full day to do it without this tool. But it does seem to trip over itself, like, quite often.

I guess it's just not quite as smart. But Well, this is where, like, having Claude code on your desktop, like, shines because not only is it, like, one of the frontier models that's incredibly powerful, you can also have, like,

skill files and things like that where it has some sort of memory so that even if you go past the context window and it needs to, like, compact the conversation, it will provide its own summary to itself

so that when it moves forward, it doesn't just suddenly get amnesia and be like, oh, wait. What are we talking about? Okay. It's obviously nowhere near as private, but for, like, what I'm using it for, everything's gonna be public eventually if it's not already with the exception of, like, a personal dashboard,

then it absolutely makes sense as long as it's not cost prohibitive to use the best model. Mhmm. But for, like, stuff like you're discussing, like taxes or, you know, anything income based or anything like that, then, yeah, absolutely. I'm not putting that into Claude.

No. Any legal shit is not something you should be doing ChatGPT with. Okay. So a $100 a month, and even for all the crazy shit that you've been doing, that's doing the job. So Claude does it in a way where you have a monthly limit, and that's broken down into, I think, it's four hour session limits.

So it basically, like, resets every four hours, and I've hit one of those session limits once. Other than that, I haven't hit any limits. Okay. That's pretty decent. If you think, like, $100 a month, like, what would you pay? You'd you'd pay a $100 an hour just to have the ear of a decent dev. Yeah. My wife spends that on coffee.

What? $100 an hour? No wonder you're working so hard, mate. Yeah. It's very much on my radar at the moment, and I'm just trying to find that balance between sleep, sanity, and producing all of the cool shit that I've always dreamt about. Very cool. This is a Bitcoin show, so we should probably pivot, but I am

very interested. I think we'll have to see where this all goes over the coming couple of episodes. I think it's moving crazy quick. It certainly is. Yeah. Excited to share my secret projects with you in the next couple of weeks that you think you know what you actually don't.

But I actually do. Damn. I hope you don't. Anyway, next elephant in the room. On the last show, if you listen to it, I was very tentatively

talking about the fact that maybe this week was gonna be the prime week. Clearly, I was wrong. We did hit a few more hurdles, still working through those. Appreciate everybody's patience. There's a few people getting a little bit pissed off on the community forum, which, you know, I understand, I get it. Yeah.

We're cranking as hard as we can. Like I said, there's a couple of thousand devices physically built up now in the factory, literally just waiting for software.

So as soon as we've fixed all of the breaking changes, mainly relating to updates and recovery, we're literally gonna give the factory the green light, send them the file, we're away. Not gonna try and make any more guesses because clearly my last one was wrong. We are close. We are close is is all I can say with some form of accuracy.

Yeah. Well, it's good to at least know what stage you're at. I've had a few messages over the last couple of months, people getting antsy, and I get it. Like, I get it from both sides because,

obviously, I hear the ins and outs from you. I know how hard everyone's working to make it happen. There's, like, nothing being left on the table in terms of effort to get it done. But then I also know from the other side, like, I remember waiting for my star book and being delayed and delayed and delayed and

being a customer, you're like, for fuck's sake. Like, because you're so desperate to have this cool thing that you've bought. Yeah. No. I get it completely. It's difficult. I understand it from both sides, but I would just say to anyone listening, if you are waiting,

trust me. I know that the team are working and doing everything that is possible. There is just, you know, the last few months have been crazy scramble. So hopefully, it'll be soon. And also, like, from

seeing the device, it's so long. It's a long time ago now. But from seeing the device and when we did the episodes talking about it, the promise that this thing has is pretty crazy, and it is a beautiful device. So it will land at some point, and that should make up for it. Yeah. Absolutely.

And, obviously, it's not great business practice for me to, like, push people towards getting a refund, but I just in the interest of honesty and fairness, once again, throughout the whole thing, we've always maintained that if at any point the weight becomes prohibitive for you, reach out and we'll happily give you a refund,

and you can wait until it didn't stock and ship it next day if you choose to do that. And that will be in full at the using the currency that you sent us. Yeah. You can't say fairer than that. Well, fingers crossed it'd be soon. Yep.

Last bit of AOB, I like to include these at the top of the show just to keep it, you know, top of everybody's mind, really. Letter number five from Q and A in prison has been released last week.

This one is called the skin walker.

I'll give a high level because I know you Max, you'll be doing a read and releasing it on the podcast feed. Yes. This was an interesting one, bit of a rollercoaster of emotions really. Keone was talking about a guy he's dubbed the skin walker who basically has disruptive nighttime behavior and he's in his bunk area

where he's like running showers at 3AM and shuffling around and basically just keeping Keone awake in the middle of the night, which is obviously

not great when you're in confined spaces. Anyway, it turns out that Keone's been able to get a move to acquire a wing after some good behavior and basically doing, you know, a prison job. I believe he's been cleaning toilets, unfortunately.

Yeah. Yeah. But he'd done that, obviously, to give himself a better reputation within the the prison itself. And it's clearly worked because now he moved over to a wing, which he says is much quieter.

And he's now this is very much sounds like him. He carefully scouted his new cell beforehand, selecting one with an east facing window overlooking the stream and mountains.

Very nice. Which sounds like something that we take for granted every single day, but it's, I guess, a a small victory for him given the the situation. And hopefully, we'll at least have given him a little bit of solace if only for a short time for what he's going through, unfortunately. So

Yeah. Yeah. A bit of a rollercoaster this one, but I'm I'm happy that he's he's no longer bunking with the skin walker and he's, you know, got a nice view from his his cell at least. Skin Walker Ranch.

Yeah. Yeah. I was listening through John has actually read the fourth letter, which is yet to be released. But Nice. Okay. Yeah. Not John McCaffey, other John. Our John. Dad John. Our John. He's read the last one. It's really, really nice listening through with that incredible voice. But

I was having a bit of a chuckle to myself when he was talking through, like, the routine for cleaning the bathrooms. There was part of me where I was like, this is the most retarded shit ever. You've got someone who is infinitely capable and smart cleaning toilets.

You fucking cunts. Like, you could use him in such a better way than having him clean toilets. But I also was laughing because I was like, it was so him. The system that was made to be the most efficient and best way to get a job done and also to take pride in your work even though it's a very menial task.

I thought that was really cool to listen through because he's not sitting and bitching and moaning. He's still saying, I'm gonna do things the absolute best way that I can do them and the most efficient way that I can do them and taking some pride in what he's doing.

And I imagine that that's, like, the only way you can really survive mentally is to have some pride in what you do and and just be the best you can be in a shitty situation you're in. So it was kind of, like, bittersweet that part to listen through. Yeah. Agreed.

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This one is, again, not strictly Bitcoin, but it's very tangential to Bitcoin, specifically in the the privacy circles that you and I both mix in, Max. Good choice of words.

Graphene OS has been hinting that they've been in talks with a a major phone manufacturer for, I'd say, at least a year now. Anyway, the news just finally came out and they are partnering with Motorola.

So Motorola is introducing a new era of smartphone security through a long term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation,

the leading nonprofit in advanced mobile security, yada yada yada. I don't think there's any talk yet around specific models or when they're gonna release, but they've now gone public as to say, yep, we're working together. We want it to be a long term relationship. That's cool. Yeah. This is exciting. Two fold, really.

Number one, it seems like Google are slowly gonna move to locking down the Pixel line of devices as good as they are. And number two, it means that this is obviously gonna mean some funding from an actual, hopefully, for profit company like Motorola so that the GrapheneOS team can continue to do their good work. So hopefully,

it should be a very reciprocal relationship. Motorola can sell more devices and GrapheneOS can get some good funding to continue with their excellent work. So, yeah, I'm excited about this one. Yeah. Thinking it through, how would this change for the actual user compared to running this on a degoogled

Google device. Like, you can still obviously, with Google, you can unlock the boot loader, read locker. You're running the different software

other than having that screen that comes up when you first turn it on, be like a warning thing or, like, you're loading different operating system or something like that. Other than that, is it any more secure, or is it just the fact that this is cool because they get some funding?

There's a company like Motorola who actually, obviously, cares about privacy, not just says it with what they're doing, and then that someone can just go and buy the phone presumably with that operating system on. Is that the cool bit, or is it actually more private or more secure on top of that? Yeah.

So they haven't actually said any specifics. But yeah. I mean, the obvious one is that, hopefully, you'll be able to buy a device pre flashed with GrapheneOS off the shelf, hopefully Yeah. That's cool. On some decent hardware.

Whether or not it's gonna be as good as Pixel devices, which let's face it, our flagship devices, their iPhone competitors,

that remains to be seen. I haven't tested them at all for quite some time. Well, I don't think this will ever take away from the fact that you'll be able to manually flash GrapheneOS on Pixel or anything like that. Because obviously, once the hardware is out, they Google can't kind of change the ability to to lock those bootloaders.

So I think you'll still have two pronged approach. Obviously, this will be the first time that you can ever buy one off the shelf preinstalled,

which hopefully might help with some adoption levels. Excellent. That's some good news. It's normally bad news, but that's good news. Yeah. Yeah. We've got a good mix, actually. Next on the list, Trump's 2026 cyber strategy puts crypto on the national security map. Trump The administration's 2026 cybersecurity

is the first US national cybersecurity document to explicitly name cryptocurrency and blockchain as protected national technologies. Seems really bullish. Right? The the strategy shifts from regulatory enforcement to technological superiority, cutting the policy document from 39 pages down to seven.

Experts warn the strategy sends mixed signals, offering crypto legitimacy whilst also expanding law enforcement tools against and privacy coins. Yeah. So it seems like a lot of word soup at the moment that isn't really saying or doing a great deal. My guess is it seems to be a bit of, you know, sending some platitudes

to the wider industry. But, you know, we've just been talking about a privacy developer that's been locked up for five years for making an open source app. So all of this sort of stuff for me remains as

Words. More than words on a screen. Yeah. Yeah. It's so weird because when Keanu had originally gone in, there was some talks or he was just about to go in or had just gone in.

There was that little interaction where a reporter had said something like, oh, what do you think about this? And he was like, oh, what do you think about this? You obviously think you shouldn't be in there. I'll look into it. Is there any way to see behind the scenes what's happening? Is it being discussed any further?

How hard is it to actually be done? Because obviously, it's not the first time it's been done. We saw this with Ross. Like, he can't do it. Is it just like a he could look at the case and just go, yeah. This is retarded and let him out, and then it's done? I I'm not sure, honestly. I I don't I'd love to know. Out of this. Yeah.

I'd love to extend you to it's only twenty seconds, even with someone who's not heavily involved in Bitcoin, to sit and explain, well, this is why this is retarded.

This is why he should be free. Let him out. And, like, anyone with half a brain, like, Trump isn't a complete idiot. Like, he could listen to that and go, yeah. Obviously, he shouldn't be in there. This is fucking stupid.

Out. Yeah. I guess we just keep pushing the socials. Absolutely. It's all we can do. Yeah. Keep beating the drum. There's another quote down this article. The philosophical shift goes deeper than just terminology.

Where the Biden strategy sought to impose liability on software companies for security failures, the Trump strategy pivots towards what it calls, quote, common sense regulation, reducing compliance burdens on the private sector and giving industry room to move faster.

But critics of the approach argued that it creates bureaucratic drag, and supporters said it created accountability. Yeah. We'll see. For now, it remains words on a page. Okay. Next on the list, son of US government contractor accused of stealing millions in seized crypto has been arrested in France. Oh. John Lick Dagita

was arrested in a joint FBI and France operation after allegations he siphoned tens of millions of dollars in crypto from the government seizure wallets managed by his father's company. Ouch.

French and US authorities have arrested John Lick DeGeeter, great name, on the island of Saint Martin. Where is that? In The Caribbean? Mhmm. On Wednesday, alleging he stole tens of millions dollars in from from the US government. The probe began after blockchain investigator, Zac XBT,

who does great work, by the way, great follow on Twitter. He's absolute class, that bloke. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's been consistent for years as well. So he alleged that DeGita controlled a wallet holding roughly 12,540 ETH,

and US officials are now expected to seek his extradition as the case moves forward. Just having a quick scan now to see if they worked out how he got it. Wasn't it something like he was taunting

Zach in, like, some sort of comments or something like that? And he said, like, oh, I've got the last laugh. There was some, like, exchange between them. It's the same type of, like, arrogant little fucking what do they call them? Gen z? Or is he even younger? Old he is, but, yeah, if he's, like, 20 or below, then he's Gen z.

He's like a little piss stain and the typical flashy little mouthy cunt. So well done, prick. Yeah. The law enforcement investigation began after blockchain sleuth Zac XBT publicly alleged that DeGeeter, the son of CMDSS president Dean DeGeeter, had siphoned tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency hours.

Yeah. So they did have a public exchange and clearly zapped on some sleuthing and that has resulted in his arrest. Don't steal stuff. It was a dispute in a public telegram group. Yeah. You can imagine how that would have gone. Oh, yes.

Very good. Well, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Yep. Jordan dropped this one on us twenty minutes before we went live. Thank you, Jordan. Treasury tells congress that mixers have valid privacy uses

and recommends a, quote, hold law for suspicious crypto. The US Treasury Department has said in a new report to congress that crypto mixers can serve valid financial privacy purposes. A notable shift from the agency that sanctioned TornadoCash in 2002.

Interesting. The 32 page report includes original treasury data on stablecoin laundering flows, recommends congress create a safe harbor, quote, hold law for freezing suspicious digital assets, and urges lawmakers to define which DeFi actors should face AMLCFT obligations.

The treasury disclosed that since May 2020, more than 1,600,000,000.0 in deposits from mixing services flowed into crypto bridges with over 900,000,000 going to a single bridge linked to North Korean money laundering.

Interesting. Didn't have this one on my bingo card for 2026, did you? No. No. I did not. No, I didn't. Again, words on a page, it's literally just an address from the treasury department in a report to congress.

So, like, it remains words on a page. So take it with a very, very, very large pinch of salt, but Mhmm. Seems like a little bit of common sense from a three letter agency at least. Maybe.

Or maybe they just wanna use them for their own purposes. Well, here we go. The report draws a distinction between custodial and noncustodial mixing services. Custodial mixes are already required to register with FinCEN as money services businesses, and when compliant, could provide unique information such as customer identities,

off chain data, blah blah blah. The report stopped short of recommending new restrictions on noncustodial mixes. It also does not finalize or endorse FinCEN's 2023 proposed rule making on mixer related record keeping, instead referencing the July 2025 presidential working group report that recommended treasury, quote, consider next steps

whilst balancing illicit finance risk with privacy concerns. It's also tiresome. It really, really, really is. Next on the list, Strike has managed to secure a New York bit license, which means that they now operate across the whole of The UK. UK?

The whole of The US in all 50 states. Is The UK harder to operate in than New York? Cause New York is like the hardest. Well, I'm gonna say probably not because

Strike has been in The UK for like over a year now, I believe, and they've only just got into New York. So you would say that New York and the bit license is clearly a bigger hurdle than getting it into The UK, which is strange.

But, I mean, the BitLicense has been revered as completely abhorrent for quite a number of years now, wasn't it? Mhmm. Yes. Yeah. It's always sounded like it is the hardest place to operate.

So if you are a New York based KYC enjoyer, then you can now enjoy your KYC three strike. Very nice. Solo Satoshi have announced the launch of Bitaxe Touch. Don't know whether you've seen this one, Max. It's as the name suggests, a Bitaxe with a touch screen.

Excellent. Just exactly what you needed. Comes in a little rectangular box with a touch screen on the front. It displays all of the usual metrics that your Bitaxe does, but on a nice big screen. Oh, and it also does Mempool stuff as well. Pretty expensive though. It's $325

in The US. Mhmm. Not sure I warrant getting a big enough screen to display my block on my mind directly. Yeah. It's with all this stuff though, it's like you're not looking at is this good value for money because it's not.

Oh, no. No. No. You're not looking at any of that. It's someone who wants a gadget to play with that might then dip their toe into mining and might then decide that they wanna try and find a way to do mining profitably or not at a loss and then might then actually be in for a fucking world of pain. Because let me tell you, mining is

incredibly difficult to do profitably or even just not to fucking wipe out these days. It is really, really, really brutal. Like, everyone who's in our pleb miner group, the tough ones who have been around forever that know their shit, work really hard,

very smart guys, very capable guys are fucking suffering. So don't go and buy one of these things and put it on your desk and have it there looking pretty with your little touch screen and think, oh, I'm gonna be a miner. Like, you gotta toughen the fuck up, mate. Agreed. Yeah. This one ships with eight different display methods, 2.15

terahash, and around 17 joules per terahash of efficiency. Efficiency. So it's very much a lottery miner, expensive one, but it might look good on your desk. Okay. Alright. Last one on the news, ending with a good one. Bitwise is to donate $233,000 to Bitcoin open source developers.

Okay. So Bitwise Asset Management, which is one of the ETFs, announced its second annual donation to Bitcoin open source developers, contributing nearly a quarter of million dollars to support programmers who maintain and secure the Bitcoin network. So this comes as part of their pledge when they launched

to basically allocate 10% of their gross profits from the ETF every year to support the ecosystem. So it's really good to see them following through on that for another year, and I'm sure that quarter of $1,000,000

will go a long way to support in open source devs. So, yeah, hats off. Very good. Obviously, I know we we thrown a lot of shade at ETFs over the the course of the past year or so, but, you know, it's good to see that at least one of them has its heart in the right place. Okay, mate. Should we hit some boosts? I will kick us off.

Let's do it. Late stage HODL with 6,006 sats. And they just posted with a salute emoji, an emoji that's pointing right in my face. Shadowy super badger streamed 1,175. Thank you, shadowy super badger.

Now he says prick. Lincoln Park rules, mister Jordan, our Canadian overlord sent 1,022 sats. I look forward to seeing how citizens react to this unrealized capital gains tax legislation. Surely, there's some fight left in the duchies. Well, I think there is because I saw a note on Noster

this week that said that they've walked it back or at least paused it Mhmm. To which I, to be honest, didn't click the link, so I haven't got the full details. But I did respond with, well, same old playbook.

They'll announce something completely ridiculous. Yeah. Hear all the outrage, pause it, walk it back 50% of the way so that they're still 50%

further forward towards their own egregious goal, but the people feel like they've had a win. So I don't think it's over yet, but my last interaction was that they've at least paused it or walked some of it back. So I'll try and get a proper updates for the next show.

I was thinking about this, you know, because again, it's one of these things like you saying, well, I'm not a dev. It's one of these things that has just been said a billion times

on this show and every other Bitcoin show is like, they do that. They walk it back so that it's normalized. But there's also an element of, like they talk about this with, like, whoever it is that's controlling the world with their satanic baby killing fucking disgusting shit that's going on.

They show you what they're gonna do and tell you what they're gonna do. And I feel like sometimes that's part of it. It's like you put it out there. You're telling people, I'm gonna steal from you on top of all the other theft

for anything that you can squirrel away from the theft, and then we're gonna steal on top of that even the unrealized part of what you've managed to say from the theft. Like, it's so fucking gross and ridiculous,

and it's, like, in your face. This is what we're gonna do. It's on the news. Everyone sees it, and there's a part of that of, like, normalization

as well. It's like I feel like that's part of it. It's not just do it, roll it back to make it look slightly more reasonable. It's we're telling you we're gonna do this, and it's in your face now. It's almost like a taunting thing, and then they roll it back, and then they bring it in. There's, like, multiple layers to this sick,

twisted cunts who are doing what they're doing. Just thought I'd Yep. Nope. Go sign up. Fuck you all. Fuck you all. Lou Folu streamed 570 sats, so thank you to you. Rivian Stokes boosted 500 sets and said, can confirm that the one terabyte struggle is real. Sadly, NVMe prices are at super mega bull cycle at the moment.

Yeah. Absolutely right. And this is one of the main reasons why I went with pruning rather than upgrading to a a new two or four terabyte drive is that they are ridiculously expensive. They are not cheap.

Is it Ryvan Stokes or whatever you just said, Rio? I've always thought it's Ryvan. It's definitely not what I just said. Yeah. Because I've just read it again now, and it's r e I v a n. So, yeah, definitely not Reivian. Yeah. I think you're right. Okay. Well, thank you, Rob. Please correct it in the comments. Rivean, Rivean. Yeah.

Thank you. And thank you for your support. Always there, always commenting and and sending sats. Appreciate you. User one two nine three one our screen's too far away. One two nine three one eight two five. I sent a 100 sats.

Unrealized capital gains tax is an excellent retard test. Yes. It is. It is. Indeed. It is the most retarded thing that I've heard in

probably since all the COVID stuff. There was some seriously retarded stuff, like stuff that just you couldn't understand that anyone could listen to and make sense of around that sort of time. But I think since then, this is probably the most retarded thing I've heard. What about you? Anything more retarded?

Bit one ten sounds quite retarded, to be fair. No. I think unrealized cap gains proposal is is probably top of the list at the moment for sure. Good. Good. I don't actually see much of the Nazis at the moment. I don't know whether I'm blocked by them all or whether that it's died down.

I think I've been blocked probably by quite a few and so are you, but I just see the odds thing. Normally, what I do is I see something and then I click on, like, who the person is, you know, like, go through to their profile.

And, again, like, I think that that Indian man who's doing Instagram model stuff is also doing some bit one ten work on the side because it's normally like there's no other actual Bitcoin related or Freedom related or anything finance related even stuff. It's normally just like that crew specific to that change

kind of stuff, which to me, it might just be that the person's, like, just a super artist and their only interest is that one particular subject, or it could be that it's a bot. I don't know. I don't know.

Well, it's never been easier to spin up a bot with something like OpenClore and just give it an a quick identity of you are a retard and you like bit one ten. Yeah. Go out and post on Twitter. So yeah. It's true. The barrier to botting is is never been lower.

Anyway, now we finished triggering everyone. The final boost is from block seven, and they streamed 45 sats. Thank you to everybody as always, especially the usual suspects for showing your support. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. So we move on to the updates and releases, mate? Let's do it.

First on the list, new one on me called Tail Relay from a guy called sudo carlos. Tail Relay is a docker container that exposes local services to your tail scale network. So it combines Tailscale VPN, Kadir reverse proxy, SOCAT TCP relays, and web UI for browser based management, which all sounds very technical.

Mhmm. But basically, he's wrapped it in a start nine wrapper, which basically means now that finally, you can remotely access your services on your start nine node without having to only use the Tor browser.

Nice. Which has been commonplace on shit like my node and Umbrella for quite a long time. It's exactly how my BTC pay server works and stuff like that. And it's been something that the start nine team were reluctant to do because they don't like the centralized

aspect of Tailscale, which I can kinda get on board with, but, you know, let users have the choice. Anyway, somebody's gone out and built it themselves and basically packaged it up for Start Nine.

Very happy to see this as a Start Nine user and it should be a nice little stop gap between now and whenever they release their version four, which is, I believe, promised to have some form of like network magic that allows you to do something similar. But yeah, hats off whoever you are, so you do Carlos. Good to see. Yeah, nice.

The next one on the list, very excited about and I'm gonna try and get these guys on to Freedom Tech Friday to discuss. There's a project called literally just called Stealth, and it's a privacy audit tool for Bitcoin wallets.

Stealth analyzes the transaction history of a wallet descriptor or XBub and surfaces the privacy findings from real on chain heuristics. So basically, you run this locally, paste your descriptor or XPUB, basically just press analyze.

It will derive all the addresses from the descriptor or the XPUB, scans for all of the related on chain history, and then returns with a report with structured findings and warnings so that basically you have a I wish I had a copy of the report here. They This is exactly what we asked for. You know that.

Yeah. Well, do you know what? When it came out, was like, I'm pretty sure I asked people to vibe code something like this months and months and months ago. It was probably a year ago we specifically talked about this and how useful it would be. And then I think I'm sure there was something made, but it wasn't running locally

that we talked about not too long ago. But if this is running locally and it does what you're saying, it's fucking amazing. Like, that's such a useful because a lot of especially if you've made a lot of transactions and you've used Bitcoin quite a lot,

it's hard to really get a full picture of, like, have I slipped up somewhere? Have I fucked something up? Like, what what could be done better? And something like this is very valuable. Yeah. Absolutely. I I think you have to run it locally. I don't even think there is an option to kind of query third party

services. I I might be wrong, though. I haven't actually run the service yet. The GitHub is pretty sparse, if I'm being honest. Like, it's only for devs at the moment. The project hasn't been kind of productized, so I don't know what the outputs look like.

So, you know, this isn't something where you can just load it in your browser and it's just gonna work. Like, you need to to do a bit of legwork. But if you're savvy enough to be able to speak to Claude, then I'm sure Claude or ChatGPT will be able to help you with that. Just don't post your expub into Claude. Yes.

I just want to say that. Yeah.

Have them help with the installation, but not with the actual running of the software. Yeah. I think Claude will definitely grass you up. Yes. Certainly will. I've been going back and forth in DMs with Brenno or Brino, who's one of the guys behind this. I believe there's a number of people that help produce this.

It was part of a hackathon. It's very new. Like I say, it hasn't been fully kind of productized.

Yeah. I wanna get them onto Freedom Tech Friday to to give us a bit of a of a demo because this could be a very promising project. Yeah. That'd be cool. Next on the list, not gonna go too deep into this one because we literally did a full Freedom Tech Friday on it, but Cake Wallet version six point zero point one has been released.

Massive UI overhaul. The app looks even more beautiful than it used to. All of the card designs have changed. The whole UI is at a massive overhaul, and it's honestly one of the best looking mobile wallets that I've ever had the pleasure of interacting with. And I'm not just saying that because Seth's a friend.

I do genuinely think it looks great. And the other big one is that they've added Lightning via the Spark network. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go back and listen to Freedom Tech Friday. But again, hats off to the k quality team. They did a wonderful job with this redesign and this implementation.

It's on the ungovernable feed now. I'm not sure if we have the video on there as well. We did last.

It is on there. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Well, worth having a look at that and, you know, for use yourself, but also if you wanna onboard friends and family and actually finally have them use something that is simple and just works and looks clean Yeah. I really think this is is the best I've seen so far. Certainly is.

Next on the list, Zeus version zero point twelve point five has been released. Mainly just bug fixes to do with databases and app crashes, so nothing huge to talk about. Then we've got BlueWallet version seven point two point six.

They have added dates to the transaction list, simplified the settings, and added support for BBQR standard. Then we've got FrostSnap release version zero point two point one, which is a prerelease, so tread carefully with this one. They have added QR camera scanning on all platforms and a number of bug fixes.

Next on the list is why is it included that one? My AI has failed me. It's included Phoenix version two point seven point five. Do you beat it when it does something wrong? I need to, like, pull up power and tell it's been a bad boy.

No. I think what's happened is that they may have deleted it or something. So ignore that. Phoenix hasn't got a release. Apologies.

LN bits version one point five point zero has been released with zero show notes. You know who you are, who I'm talking to. You need to fix that. Okay. Peach version zero point six nine point zero. Nice. Has been released.

New features, new accounts will generate PGP key pairs based on their seed phrase, presumably for trade communications. Payment details are encrypted and backed up to the Peach server, nice, and transaction IDs are now copyable.

And the final one is buyers are informed they will enter a trade with m pacer, which is for Revolut and Wise sellers. Nice. Okay. BitKey have got a new release with zero release notes. Oh, they do link to them. Bug fixes and improvements. Why did I even bother?

And then pull version my AI is having an aneurysm here. It's saying that there's a version 3.3 o beta, but when you go to GitHub, there is a three point two point one which was released a year ago. Do you while we're on this like it's making mistakes, you you might beat it, you might have a serious word with it. How do you

speak to your AI? Like, when I'm speaking, I feel like I'm might be like a British thing, but I'm, like, overly nice and courteous speak to like, I often say, like, thank you. That's great. Like, whatever.

Do you find that you treat it like a person, or do you think that you treat it like a tool and you don't do places and thank yous and stuff? I used to do the whole please and thank you thing, but now it's very much more transactional just to the point.

Mhmm. Because, again, mainly, I'm verbally speaking to it rather than typing. So, yeah, I just get straight down to the point. And Okay. Yeah. Okay. And just to walk back, it's not hallucinating.

What it's pulling is pulling the latest tags if there's a tag that's later than a release,

which are two separate things on GitHub. So Phoenix does have a version two point seven point five tag, but it's not been posted as an actual release with release notes. So, Claude, I take it back. You're not hallucinating. Please don't send the robots to kill me.

And the same goes for for Mempool. They did a a version 3.3 o beta tag a couple of weeks ago. Again, there's no release notes on it, so I can't tell you what's good about it. Okay. Last two, we've got StartOS version zero point four point zero alpha 20.

Again, it's a pre release. More bug fixes for the upcoming version 0.4 software release, which feels like it's been coming for quite some time, but it's gonna be a big one, that one. So I'm looking forward to that one. Mainly just bug fixes. Oh, they added documentation for AI agents as well. Nice. Okay.

And then last on the list, we've got the Blitz Wallet app. Has it introduced a new release and it's got payment pools where you can collect money together on Bitcoin. I'm reading this off their Twitter here, but every group payment has the same problem. Someone has to chase payment down. Someone always forgets to pay.

Well, payment pools fixes the coordination problem. Here's how it works. You start by creating a pool inside Blitz.

You give it a name, you set a goal amount, and you're done. It takes about thirty seconds. That then gives you a share your pool link, and you can share that with anyone. And the best part, contributors don't even need to be Blitz users. Just share the link and watch the contributions roll in.

Every contribution shows up in real time. Users can see who's paid and how close you are to the goal and what's still outstanding all in one place.

So it sounds a bit multifunctional where you can do it for, you know, your friends to pay you back for lunch. Also, you can do it as, like, fundraising for, you know, a product launch or something like that. So

haven't tried it. Again, they haven't released with a blog post or with any images whatsoever, which is a shame because it seems like a really cool feature. But, yeah, seems like a promising thing to check out. And that brings me to the end of the software updates.

Education, just some quick mentions. Two very good articles. One from our friend Seth that's called Hater to Builder, which is basically just showcasing the new Lightning implementation in Cakewallet

and his journey from Lightning hater to Lightning builder. And also on the Lightning theme, another great article from Roy who is from Breeze that's called Lightning is dead, long live Lightning.

Roy is a great writer, one of my favorite writers in the whole space. And he's also talking about the the cake wallet launch here amongst other things and just giving it a showcase. So I always like to showcase his reading because he's very thoughtful and very kind of eloquent,

especially when it comes to Lightning. So check that one out. Link will be in the show notes. Very nice. Anything else to cover or if we're just on a tight hour? Just a tight hour, I think. Back to prime whipping and vibe coding.

Yeah. Okay, mate. Well, I'll let you get on with that, and we will catch you all Friday. What are we gonna do, Freedom Tech Friday? We haven't got anything specifically sorted yet.

I'm hoping that the stealth guy gets back to me, Bruno. Okay. I messaged him this morning, see if he's available on Friday. If he doesn't message me back in the next twenty four hours, then we have to come up with another topic.

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