Was it all a "Retirement Attack"? (Coldcard Q&A P2)
In this episode I continue unpacking the Coldcard RNG disaster, wrestling with whether it was malicious or just shockingly incompetent design and attitude. I walk through how arrogance, licensing chan...
6 Sep 19min
Is Rolling Your Own Entropy The New Standard? (Coldcard Q&A P1)
In this Guy's Take, I walk through listener questions and comments on the Coldcard random number generation failure and what it really means for Bitcoin self-custody. We dig into why the RNG bug went ...
3 Sep 22min
Chat_178 - Our Burden To Carry with American HODL, Erik Cason, and Brandon Quittem
***"In the early days, the average user could probably use a Coldcard and know the amount of entropy required. The average Bitcoin user today, no clue. And so the times have changed, our message shoul...
1 Sep 2h 16min
Learning the Wrong Lessons
Thousands of careful Bitcoiners just got wiped out by a Coldcard entropy bug, and I use this episode to push back hard on the idea that self-custody is dead, and "don't trust, verify" failed us. I ...
28 Aug 16min
Chat_177 - Security Is Just a Hard Problem with Lloyd Fournier
***"I think that self custody is not going to be dead. I think that there is going to have to be a group, a vanguard of people that do this and take it seriously. The revolution won't work without tha...
25 Aug 2h 3min
BIP110 vs UASF: Do the Suitcoiners Control Bitcoin?
In this episode, I unpack the claim that BIP110’s failure proves corporate miners and suitcoiners now control Bitcoin. I walk through the real dynamics between miners and validating nodes, compare BIP...
20 Aug 11min
Chat_176 - Is Every Conspiracy True? with Talip
***"Today can you also use Coinbase to sell your coin? Yes. But can you guarantee that if Coinbase disappears, your funds will be with you? No. Because, it is, at the end of the day, their custody. Wh...
18 Aug 1h 40min
Chat_175 - Building in the AI Era with Luís Novo & Matt Ahlborg
***"It's going faster than most people thought. We thought that these models would be useful, but not extremely useful, for a while. Now you look at this and you feel [that] if I'm not using this the ...
12 Aug 1h 23min
