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You've had a dynamic where money's become freer than free.
When you talk about a Fed just gone nuts,
all the central banks going nuts.
So it's all acting like safe haven.
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are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency,
Bitcoin wins.
In the world of fiat currencies,
Bitcoin is the victor.
I mean, that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin.
If you're not paying attention,
you probably should be.
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The show must go on, as they say.
Always.
Push forward.
in a few weeks now that ai is fully recursive it's just going to be
uh it's going to be ai marty and matt running this so yeah no i don't think uh
i i think somehow in the ai side and maybe this is just a human thing it's like
there's very people in the middle ground most people are are uh overestimating the speed or
underestimating the speed which this stuff progresses i mean it's still
i'm now officially you know two weeks deep in this soulless robot slave rabbit hole
and in a lot of ways i mean it's incredibly powerful it's really promising
but it's also super frustrating it's it's an advanced toddler it's a
yeah i think uh a month in the playing with us too it's i would agree advanced toddler maybe a
teenager maybe a teenager at a prep school or something like that but uh it yeah i mean it's
There's not a perfect human metaphor to it because it's obviously doing...
I would not have my toddler doing automated trades on LN markets,
but also at the same time, I mean, specifically when you're talking about
recursive improvements or autonomy of being on its own and doing its own thing,
you really see the pain points on the recurring tasks.
You can get everything dialed in on the recurring tasks and everything is working great.
and then something happens and you just like wake up one morning and it just has no idea what it's
doing it's gone in a complete wrong tangents it's deleting files it's updating shit you know the
the whole living room's a mess and then somehow it just can't relearn the skills it's like trying
to figure it out and you're like okay look i'm wiping you we're gonna start fresh everyone take
a deep breath here and let's proceed well i spent a lot of this week trying to fix that because i
ran into that problem and upgrading my memory system using like qmd which is uh toby from
shopify's uh project yeah i think predates open claw and uh upgrading to opus 4.6 on the back end
has the brain has been pretty massive.
Yeah, I mean, Opus 4.6 is also just stupid expensive.
Yeah.
Shout out to Mav21 for the 21,000 sat zap already in the Nostra live stream.
You are correct.
It looks like X live streams are having trouble.
I don't think we're up there.
I think I have to
I have like a diagnosis
if you go to the 1031x account
does it show that
it's saying there's no tweet
but we do have the pink live
supposedly the tweets aren't going out
you have to manually
post this
I'm sure you saw that letter that went mega viral
earlier this week from somebody working at an AI company saying
you need to be afraid and use my AI tools
some half-truths in there
it is certainly leading into it but I think the idea
that white-collar workers are going to be blown out of the water
in the next 12 months is a bit aggressive.
John Arnold and I talked about it a lot this week.
John Arnold from 1031 and I were in New York
for a couple days together this week.
Our two breakfast chats revolved around this topic,
among other things, and just the inertia that exists
within large organizations, people like their fiefdoms,
to think that they're going to give that up easily and quickly
is probably naive.
And then on top of that, to your point,
I think the tools are really cool, they're really good,
but the edge cases are vast and definitely not buttoned up yet.
When you're considering the amount of sensitive data
that would be required to replace white-collar workers
and trust with these agents, these bots,
I don't think we're there yet from a security perspective.
no i mean i think once again it's a timing thing right um and i think people are either
over indexing or under indexing but the reality the reality is
um this is going to be massively disruptive to the workforce i think it was larry wasn't
And Larry Fink had a speech recently where he said it's basically going to do to white collar work what globalization did to blue collar work, which I think is probably a pretty decent analogy in a sea of bad analogies.
And if you think about it that way, it's not like all the factory workers in the US all lost their jobs at the same time.
There was a gradually then suddenly acceleration process that resulted in globalization and a hollowing out of industrial centers in the United States.
It wasn't like one day everyone woke up and lost their job.
And that's probably where we're going here.
And specifically, I think the idea that humans completely leave the equation is in line with this whole concept of AGI is probably significantly off the mark.
I think you see one employee or one manager doing the job that would normally take 10 or 20, and that person is enhanced by these tools and is a more effective team member as a result, right?
Yeah.
I was at an event in New York last night.
I'm going to take the late train back to Philly with the event I was at.
the founder of AQR, which is a quad hedge fund, was speaking.
This topic came up, and I thought his take was pretty good.
I mean, and it's something that's not new, but it was just reinforcing,
which is we've seen this type of, I mean, not at this scale, in this pace,
but I think humans are very adaptable, and I find it hard to believe
that we're just going to have an economy where nobody works.
Jobs will be different.
You'll focus on other things.
I think we're at the beginning of let a million flowers bloom.
I think it's actually going to be really exciting in the sense that
people are just going to be able to project things they want
that are unique to their minds and their ideas on the world.
Yeah, I mean, if you have mass unemployment and hopelessness, it results in revolutions and civil wars.
So there's a balancing act that the elites need to make sure exists.
And part of that balancing act is telling the lie of universal high income, like Elon likes to say.
um and so i mean i think the socialist utopia people are obviously completely wrong and
batshit crazy um so this idea that people aren't going to work and are going to have like a high
quality of life is just you know it's like unicorns and rainbows just bullshit um and uh
This idea that – but the idea that people have to find a way to survive or they die, right?
So people will be working.
Really?
They don't survive, they die?
Look, I think the unfortunate reality though is this is going to accelerate and make worse the levels of income inequality we see right now.
And the pervert example you see is what you just said, right?
It's like, oh, you're using Opus 4.6 and you have an edge on everyone else.
Well, it's expensive as fuck.
And there's a balancing act here where you have the doomers on one side that says, you know, this is the end of humanity wrong.
You have the utopians, you know, on the other side.
They're also wrong on the opposite extreme.
I think this will probably be a step up improvement for society.
and you have this combination of wealth accruing to a small elite,
specifically a tech elite, and accelerating in that direction.
But on the other side, you have more accessible freedom tools
than you've ever had before because of these open source AI tools.
I mean, I was talking to Callie a few days ago.
It's like there's hours of Citadel Dispatch where we discuss the pain points
of a user having to figure out which mint to choose when they use cashew.
Well, it turns out all of that was a waste of time
because you just tell the robot to create a cashew wallet
and it just figures out what mints it's going to use.
And it is able to actually look at webs of trust
and verifiable reputations and balance risk between multiple mints
and do all these complex things that UX-wise was almost impossible
to translate to an end user.
the robot can just do that without the user even realizing.
For years, we've talked about the difficulties with Lightning liquidity.
Well, I have in the notes, might as well just bring it up now,
that Amboss just released an MCP spec for bots to buy liquidity on their marketplace.
In my mind, before this existed, I always thought it was batshit crazy
that people were going to go and manually buy liquidity for their Lightning channels.
And I think it still is mostly batshit crazy that people are going to do that.
But is it batshit crazy that a bot will do that?
No.
Someone's going to have a small business.
They're going to sell coffee on the shack or something.
And they're going to want to accept payments.
And they're going to want to have a social presence.
And they're just going to tell the bot, create a lightning node, spin up a Nostra account, update the Nostra account, manage my lightning liquidity and accept payments, and then put it all in a QuickBooks file for me.
You don't even need QuickBooks at that point.
I put it all in the bookkeeping files to keep track of all my payments.
And then you can do that all in a freedom stack without big tech if you want, and it'll be more accessible than ever.
But then at the same time, you'll have flock cameras on every fucking corner and people's cameras in their backyards, all face tracking people and co-opting them and capturing them.
So you have like two sides of the same coin that are doing different things.
and one is empowering individuals and one is capturing individuals.
But that's how it's always been, right?
That's how it is with Bitcoin.
You can use Bitcoin in varying levels of freedom.
Same with this.
Yeah.
And on that note, on the sovereign stack,
we've been talking to the Maple guys behind the scene.
They're working hard to make sure that sovereign LLM stack
is done the right way.
I'm very excited to see what they
roll out the coming months
yeah I mean the UX
again the projectionist sort of meme
out there I think
that's a good way
for me to
sort of conceptualize it
in my mind like to your point
I had it spin up the Phoenix D
server and I was like hey
like we want a degree of privacy
when we're
when we're taking this Bitcoin off the exchange
after your extremely profitable hedge fund begins making distributions,
figure out how to create a cashew wallet and connect to a mint.
It came back.
It's like, oh, got the wallet.
I see that many bits is a good mint.
I joined that one.
It's ready to go when we need it.
It's like, okay.
yeah i am yeah cashew specifically cashew and nostor are like two super easy integrations you
can do with these things um that to me are just like major aha moments for open protocols
and open specs um my i mean my my bot was uh he was managing multiple on his own he was just
keeping funds in multiple mints, which I thought was clever.
The Titanic approach.
If one mint goes down, you don't lose all your money.
But you can easily see how, you know, it's like who will build the roads?
The bots will build the roads.
It's kind of crazy.
We've always talked about, you know, the webs of trust, for instance, with Noster.
It's like how are people going to manage webs of trust?
The robots will just manage the webs of trust.
So now we need the tools so the robots can interact with those webs of trust easier, right?
They should be robot specific.
Most end users will probably never touch the webs of trust themselves.
They'll never trust the mint auditors themselves.
Running Fedimans, right?
Another perfect example, Lightning nodes, UTXO management.
What about the trade-off that we've always talked about with coin control and trying to explain coin control to end users where you have these two warring trade-offs?
You have cost versus privacy.
And what does the end user want when they're actually picking their UTXOs?
Well, the bot can figure that out per your preferences.
Do you want to save money?
Do you want privacy?
Do you want to find a nice, happy middle ground?
Should it check the chain to see what kind of UTXO history the UTXOs have before it adds it to a payment?
Things get really, really interesting.
But then on the opposite side, there's chain analysis tools that you just load an API into your bot.
And you're like, okay, I want to put Marty Bent in jail.
Why don you comb through his entire financial history and let me know in just like plain English let me know what the hell going on here So it wild times in all regards But I think net it makes me much more hopeful and optimistic on the future
Same.
Before we drift too far into this conversation, let's get to Clark's dashboard.
Current price of Bitcoin, $65,430.
One cup box is going to get you $1,529.
We're at a 1.31 trillion Cuckbuck market cap.
We are 48.2% below the previous all-time high of 126,160 Cuckbucks.
We are at block height 936,256.
We got a 256 of the block height here.
Nice.
We had the second or the largest difficulty adjustment since China Mining Man last week,
right after we recorded.
It was a negative 11.2% adjustment.
Um, currently we're 1,184 blocks away from the next difficulty adjustment estimated to be on February 20th, 2026.
So eight days from now, next Friday, uh, it's looking like an upwards adjustment of, uh, 11.4% right now.
Uh, difficulty adjustment as we said it would after the winter storm and, um, hash rate is recovering.
going to mempool.space they have 11,520 or excuse me 66 transactions in their mempool
and if you look at the hash rate chart looks like hash rate is establishing a
B like recovery as of right now fell to
884 exahash currently at 945.
So up 60 exahash in the last week.
Mining is recovering.
There's a lot of stuff you don't have the list that I thought we were going to talk about.
Matt, you're muted.
Muted.
So let's talk about, I mean, case in point, I was saying I'm tired.
So I failed a little bit on the list this time.
I just been.
Sigbash2.
I've been swamped on work and I retweeted that.
I re-noster posted it.
That's awesome.
So what's the changes?
I had Arbed out on dispatch for Sigbashv1 and you just had them on for Sigbashv2 on TFTC.
What's the changes?
there's a zero knowledge proof component um that's cool that makes it uh impossible for
the sigbash blind signer to know anything about the transactions and then on top of that um
i think a wasm protocol on top of it to make it very easy to create certain conditional
transactions many different forms well you know i um when i first had him on it was like one of
these things that like first of all you know our dad huge friend of the both of ours uh a friend of
the pod um but like the concept was just as a big corner uh i love the concept right a a
no KYC, no touchpoint co-signer for collaborative Bitcoin transactions for multi-six.
And it's very configurable. You can do a bunch of different things with them. You can use them
for inheritance. You can use them for business management tasks, stuff like that. The biggest
thing I couldn't wrap my head around was like, how many users are actually technical enough
and realize the need enough to actually use something like this? Well, to our earlier
conversation.
I think bots could use this thing
all the time.
It's actually great for the robots.
Yeah.
So Logan Paul has a tweet. This is from Arbdout.
Earlier this week, Sigbash V2
is live. He switched to a new approach that I'm calling
oblivious signing using
Musig2 WebAssembly.
That was awesome. And Zero Knowledge Proofs.
Our signer never sees your signing key
or the transactions you ask
us to sign. If you go,
we're not going to do it now, but if you get on that
tweet check the responses and the quote tweets a lot of the hardcore bitcoin developers are very
excited about this and i think it's a great example of pushing what is currently possible
in the design landscape of bitcoin at a technical level to its limits before we begin talking about
softworks and so for those um who are wondering what the type of use cases you get out of what a
what softworks are being discussed to enable those use cases,
I think covenants is the biggest one.
So what Sigbash V2 gives you out of the box
is covenant-like capabilities.
You basically do covenants,
but there's a trade-off is that you're trusting the server.
Yeah, I mean, it's a major trade-off.
You have a centralized server
that you're not trusting with your privacy,
but you're trusting with uptime and security.
but like if if and like we talked about this on the original dispatch
because i had this issue with final message which some freaks might remember it's a project i had a
long time ago but final message was similar in that it just solved a very simple problem
for people and they could use it in a variety of different ways but it solved it in a centralized
way, which was you could take a final message. And if you died or something happened to you,
it was a centralized dead man switch. It would send an encrypted message to whoever you want
your recipient to be. Now, the problem I had with that is, and the problem you'll see with a lot of
these things, is there wasn't that much product market fit for it because it required a user to
be more technical, right? It tried to solve a lot of things that a full stack company like
a Casa or Unchained solves for people with collaborative custody, but without the guard
rails or the handholding. And the advantage you got out of there is you got more freedom,
but most people would rather have the handholding and the guardrails. So the total amount of users
that it's desirable to was quite small. And so what ended up happening and their main trust,
because the messages were encrypted they didn't have to trust me with the contents of the message
they had to trust that when push came to shove that i actually sent the fucking thing
um and so what ended up happening was we had like a hundred users and it wasn't really making that
much revenue and we're like four or five years down the line and you just got to still keep the
servers running you know you got to like make sure the fucking thing is running and it you're like oh
yeah, I'll run this thing forever. You start hitting year six, year seven, year eight,
like it gets exhausting to keep it up for a few amount of users. And so I talked to him about this.
I was like, if you're doing this thing and we talked about it, he's down for it. But like,
we talked about it a year ago. It was like, if you're doing this thing, you have to be ready to
run this thing for a decade. That's what people are expecting and not get burnt out over it.
but I do think the bots increase the addressable market once again,
because the cool part about a tool like Sigbash is the amount of configurability and optionality you have.
But that's where humans fail a lot of times.
They get decision paralysis. They have too many options.
But bots don't have that issue.
You tell a bot, I want you to use Sigbash to spin up some kind of scenario
for me um then the bot can advise and help i think it's a pretty big deal yeah and the other thing i
don't know if he was blowing smoke up my ass but we were as we were talking through the server
setup for sig bash i was like could you just basically copy the logic of the server
again since it's using music and zero knowledge proofs
and web assembly like all you need is just like to copy
the logic and could you like store it on
NOSTA relays and just distribute
you need to have the key material also right to be able to actually sign
again I'm not a technical expert but the way I understand
how he's leveraging zero knowledge proofs
like you can transfer that um outside of the the individual server right you just know somebody
brings you a proof and it's like okay i recognize this is about you still need the signing server up
though yeah the signing server is the big that actually is like processing the request and
that's the big like just to give you an example here of so how we handled it uh with final message
is we stopped new signups
like five years ago.
And I still got like three users
on that fucking thing
because of renewals.
Like I didn't want to kick them off.
And I'm just waiting for them
to stop using the product.
Like no new users are signing up.
The servers are running
just for three fucking people.
Well, it's a dead man switch thing too.
So they need liveliness too.
So they're still like sending the email
or whatever.
Yeah.
It's still other switches enabled.
um so and it's you know it was it was a non-signup so i don't have any um i have no contact info
so if you're listening and you're one of the three users like maybe check out this you're welcome
yeah they continue to pay their fees like it's not like i'm like losing it's it's not a losing
money thing it's actually relatively cheap to to run i'm sure it's relatively cheap for him to run
the sig bash server it's a mental burden thing it's like particularly for these use cases presumably
people are going to be using it for inheritance and stuff and he is a person that has high ethics
and high integrity like it will constantly be on the back of his mind like this thing needs to work
otherwise someone's going to die and their kids aren't going to get bitcoin yeah well it's a huge
responsibility. How do you get more
certain than that? Beloved Arbed
Out. We think he's a man of
the highest integrity.
I would be very comfortable to
say that. It would be
ideal if somebody like a block or something
ran this.
No, it just needs
to have a sustainable, scalable
business model, I think.
If this thing is pushing out
a million dollars worth of revenue a year,
like if he's not maintaining it he'll hire people to maintain it and can afford to maintain it
you know but if it if it gets stuck in hobby project territory then he's going to have 50
users in 10 years he's going to want to fucking kill himself so that's going to happen that's just
how it works well go check it out if you haven't seen it yeah it's pretty be give him give him
revenue. Go use it. What is it? Sigbash. What is it? Sigbash.com? Yeah. Yeah. Sigbash.com.
You're ready to keep your Bitcoin and your privacy. Your rules, our verification,
nobody's business, but yours. It's really awesome. Cool tool. Something I'll probably use.
Yeah. And huge shout out to Arbed Out.
Your first item on the list. I think it may be fake news, but we can talk about it anyway.
Is it really fake news? Because I just thought it just captured the vibes of the current status quo so well.
It's got a community note.
Well, I'm glad it's fake news.
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Yeah, there was reports that Klarna was doing buy now, pay later for OnlyFans.
And I just felt like it was a great way to start the show.
but I'm glad it's not real.
You should not pay random women on the internet
to see nude pictures of them and flirt with them
and think that they're your girlfriend.
But you definitely shouldn't put it on a payment plan.
Stop fapping, freaks. Stop fapping.
Feeding the degeneracy, the nihilism of our age.
if you're listening and you have an only fans account i just want you to know that i'm
i'm disappointed in you on both sides or both sides yeah both sides what about if
you are a 19 year old female and you're making six seven million dollars a year and you never
actually take your clothes off still you're feeding that beast i respect that also shout
out that those those people there's there's one woman specifically that is doing that i forget her
name a sophie rain she's never never does any nude just just think about this for a second marty okay
young young good-looking women who don't have a hopeful path have historically it's an it's a
business as old as humanity, sex work, right? Have gone into prostitution. They get pregnant,
they get STDs, they get beat up. They like make like $20 an hour. And this, this, this chick
realized she's at this one point in time where she doesn't have to leave her home, doesn't have
to meet sketchy people, doesn't have to take off her clothes, doesn't have to have sex with people
and make $6 million a year,
just generational wealth right before AI
makes income inequality way worse
and actually destroys this business model
because no one's going to believe anything
that is real on the internet.
You know, it's all the videos that could just be a dude
that's pretending to be a woman.
And I found this perfect point in time
to just, you know, quickly get 10 million, 15, $20 million.
And it's not really a scam.
It's not like an ICO or something where they're like, oh, this is the future Bitcoin or this is going to power Wi-Fi or something.
It's pretty obvious what she's doing.
She's like, give me money because I'm hot.
And you're a consenting adult in this relationship of giving me money.
There's a lot more unethical ways to make money.
I kind of respect that hustle.
She should put it in Bitcoin.
I see your point, but it's soul sucking.
She's always going to be the girl who made millions of dollars.
Only fans.
how's she going to tell her kids that she's going to tell her kids look kids i didn't take off my
clothes and i took advantage of a bunch of horny men and now your family has fucking thousands of
bitcoin you're welcome at the very least i hope i have no usable skills and i just happened to be
born attractive and took advantage of this exact moment for my family i'd be like shout out you
That's awesome.
Sophie, if you're out there and you're listening, just retire.
Adopt the fire mindset.
It's time.
Yeah, your husband should come home from work.
You're smoking weed, playing Call of Duty.
To be clear, this is not the majority, right?
This is how the really predatory aspect of it is young girls see the ones who are making $6 million, $8 million, never take their clothes off.
and they're making no money and taking their clothes off
and getting taken advantage of and all this other stuff.
That's the fucked up part.
So I do think the entire model is predatory,
but it's more I'm hating the game than the player is my point.
Yeah.
It's worse than a Pareto distribution.
I think it's like the top.
1% of
those traders
quote unquote traders, those whores
can
take
something like 95% of the income
yeah it's like the top 10 of them or something
yeah
and then everyone else is not making any money
if you're out there, you're an OnlyFans subscriber
I'm disappointed, if you're out there
and it does get implemented
and you're an OnlyFans subscriber
If you get on a payment plan, I'm disgusted.
I'm glad it was fake news.
I see Silent.Link's app does 42,000 sats.
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I didn't catch this one.
Israelis arrested over alleged insider polypore.
He came out this morning.
On IDF military secrets.
Yeah, the buy now, pay later only fans was a good start off point.
felt like for you. And then this was like, I don't know, this is going to, this was like right
up my alley. This is going to happen more and more. As we've talked about many times on the show,
prediction markets, the whole point is to incentivize leaking of non-public information
so that people have a more accurate view of truth. I'm trying to right now get my robot to
understand what's going on in the world better and one of the key metrics i'm using is he's tracking
uh polymarket markets because it doesn't require an api it's all on polygon which is a shit i think
a layer two on ethereum but the cool part is i i work it as a free api too you could use
yeah but i think the cool part is that the whole thing is unchained so you don't have to go through
the company's api um the hard part is you have to deal with like shit coins and stuff but you don't
to deal with it if the bot deals with it. So the bot doesn't even have to have an account. He just
needs a polygon wallet and he can view everything and trade on it. But anyway, so we will see,
and we've joked around like what, like a guy's on a helicopter on the way into Venezuela and he's
got his phone out trading or whatever. And this is like the first real world example of it.
You're on mute now.
Sorry, my boys are home.
It's parent-teacher conference week, so they're off from school today and tomorrow.
Prosecutors have alleged the Army Reservists accessed classified information about Israel planned attack on Iran in June 2025 and then shared it with the civilian to place multiple polymarket bets
Most identifying details about the case of defendants remain classified, but prosecutors claim the pair are not senior officials in any military or government body.
One of the defendants' attorneys, however, referred to their client as a highly regarded individual who has made a significant contribution to Israel's security.
The attorney claims the charges are improper and constitutes selective enforcement.
I wonder there was – and by the way, these prediction markets are completely useless if people can't use them anonymously because otherwise you won't get this kind of – you won't get the accurate ahead of time markets because you won't have insiders actually leak the information.
But that doesn't mean that there's not a bunch of ways to try and catch insiders if you're trying to prevent that information from leaking.
It's just going to take new techniques.
Now, if you remember a few weeks ago, there was a market on Pali market that was U.S.-Israel strike Iran.
And an account that had predicted correctly other Israeli strikes bet on it.
and it popped up to like 85%, 90% and then didn't happen.
Everyone on socials were like,
oh, the war is about to start, blah, blah, blah,
and it didn't happen.
And a lot of speculation was,
oh, it was the Israelis trying to spook the Iranians
because the Iranians went into a full defensive position
based on the poly market.
They were like, we're about to get attacked.
This account's been right in the past.
I wouldn't be surprised if we find out,
or maybe we just never find out,
because why I tell people that the IDF planted fake information for these two dudes
and then waited till they made the trade.
And so that trade that they made was the implication was like,
okay, we caught the people that had the information.
So they put fake information in their files or whatever,
and then they got traded on.
Well, that's certainly a possibility.
And probably most likely considering what I just read on Yahoo Finance.
But another thing, as you're explaining that, like maybe governments, they just begin betting in these ways to incite defensive reactions because maybe it's cheaper to get intel that way.
I mean, but that was our original theory, right?
That's definitely going to happen as well.
That's what we were saying when it happened.
But now with this coming out to light, this could very much be the reason.
By the way, the reason you were reading that on just to lament the death of the internet and how we need to fix so many things.
I saw this story break on Wall Street Journal.
Went to Wall Street Journal, paywall.
Went to archive.is.
It seems like it's getting DDoS probably by a bunch of bots trying to archive things.
Couldn't get it on archive.is.
Searched the headline on Google to see if there was a non-paywalled site that had it.
I found one that was the block, the Bitcoin news site, just filled with ads and pop-ups, just a really disappointing experience.
And then this article is actually re-syndicated on Yahoo Finance from Decrypt, which is another shitcoin journalist, and it's just clean cut.
But it's retarded. It's just like, come on, guys.
There's like the paywallification and the ads.
Yeah, and the bots should pay the SATs paywall and then send me my update.
Yeah.
I built it six years ago.
You can go find it.
It's open source, BTC Pay Server, Ghost.
You can figure out the logic there.
The bots will do it.
And we get our Human Rights Foundation Financial Freedom Report story of the week out of Kenya.
Central Bank warns banknote
book
bouquets
like flowers
I know, I know, I'm sick, I'm sick freaks
please bear with me
Central Bank warns banknote bouquets could land you in jail
Kenya's Central Bank warned
Kenyan's in the lead up to Valentine's Day
that making bouquets out of colorful banknotes
could be punished with a seven year jail term
officials argue the banknotes
used in bouquets are often folded
rolled, glued, stapled, pinned
or otherwise damaged
which they say compromises the integrity, defaces the national currency, and increases the cost of replacing damage notes.
For more stories like this, make sure you go to financialfreedomreport.org.
Yeah, I mean most of the stories aren't like this, which is why I chose it.
I just thought it was just a good example of clown world.
I mean clearly the reason they're doing this punishment is because they don't want to be made fun of on social media for their shitty fucking currency.
and they know it's viral.
But it just shows how desperate they are
that the way they're trying to stop that
is with a seven-year sentence, which is insane.
Yeah.
Seeing it in the YouTube chat,
who's better at golf, Odell or Bent?
I reckon Odell, just a feeling.
Your feeling is right, sir.
We've played together before.
You smoked me.
Marty's getting better, though.
Getting better, though.
We, me and Marty, we, it was very early in our friendship.
This now is seven years ago, 2019.
We were just getting to know Rod, my co-founder of Bitcoin Park,
and he was working at Bitcoin Magazine at the time.
And we went in San Francisco.
He belongs to like this really hoity-toity club as a out-of-state member.
So he has a discount to be clear.
But he, so he brings us to this hoity-toity golf club that he rarely plays out.
He plays that maybe once or twice a year and we're his guests.
And, you know, it's got to be a super expensive club.
Anyway, Marty gets up on the first tee and just straight whiffs it.
And then that was our, I think we ended up playing 36 holes,
but that was the beginning of it.
Yeah, we played both courses.
He just dribbled it right in front of the pro shop.
You know, it was just like everyone was looking straight.
Went like 20 yards.
You'll be happy to learn.
I don't whiff my tee shots anymore.
I will slice them every once in a while.
It happens to the best of us.
It was just wild.
We finished 36 bowls and got back to the clubhouse
and got shilled Libra token by one of the members we were playing with.
I drank so much whiskey, they almost didn't let me on the plane afterwards.
The woman at the ticket counter was like,
i need you to step outside and sober up for a little bit before i give you your ticket
and i argued with her i was like that's not how sober she's like step outside i was like okay
i'll go step outside like he's like that's not gonna i'm not gonna like stand outside for five
minutes it's gonna make me more sober yeah it was a fun trip fun trip first live rabbit hole recap
on the roof of uh yeah the big conference 2019 in a garage we called the top we called the top at
we didn't call the top. We told people to smash
buy the top at $13,000
and then we went down for two and a half years after that.
Yeah, it was a bull trap.
We bull trapped everybody.
Speaking of which...
It was a good purchase.
Speaking of which, everybody do your part
and go smash buy right now.
$65,500.
This is cool.
We got people
vibe coding using Open Claw.
Memple Madness has taken
nostril by storm this week so um a couple things first of all the commoners apt is 21 112 sats
palindrome boost says lfg let's fucking go thank you sir your support okay so mempool madness one
of our buddies created this this is not our project um cool aspects here he has open claw
is open source AI robot running on his Start9.
So Start9 is an open source MIT licensed for-profit project,
but it's fully open source.
You can install Start9 on any type of computer you want to,
or you can buy hardware directly from them.
Their alpha firmware allows you to both host web apps
in ClearNet and run OpenClaw.
So he's running OpenClaw on his Start9 at home.
Then he had to create this game.
This game is being hosted on the start nine as well.
And it's proxying through a VPS to protect his IP address.
And you can just go to it at mempoolmadness.com.
Now, he has his bot running a cash-you wallet using the CocoD skill.
So it's running its own cash-you wallet.
He's running LNBits to track bets and payouts.
And the concept of the game, and then it uses the mempool.space API to track Bitcoin blocks.
And the concept of the game is you're basically placing small bets, a thousand sats a pop on how long it's going to take for the next block to be confirmed from the last one.
So on average, that should be 10 minutes. Obviously, it's not always 10 minutes.
Right now we are in a hash rate increase difficulty period.
So difficulty is expected to go up. So blocks are actually coming in sooner.
The house takes no cut. 70% of the pot goes into the next round.
uh nine percent goes 70 goes to the winner 21 goes to the next round nine percent is going to
open sats which is also being happening with with as an open protocol because he was able to set this
up without my permission because open sats has a lightning address so just automatically send sats
to open sats at vlt.ge which is our lightning address to our node um and then last but not
least a bot has a Noster account and is broadcasting out to the world every time someone wins.
So you have this combination of open source self-hosted software, open protocols, money
and communication identity with Noster and money with Bitcoin and Cashew. And he was able to spin
it up in like six hours, eight hours or something of iterative improvements. He did the first prompt
and then you started doing little improvements to it.
And yeah, it's like a rudimentary proof of concept.
But guys, this is fucking crazy.
This is the early things of something
that's a true game changer here.
I'm playing right now.
I'm going to see if I can win.
By the way, Marty,
to what I was saying earlier
about recursive improvements of AI tools
and stuff uh i like one prompted my bot to play this game yesterday or two days ago and
it made like 200 000 sass it was fucking crushing it was doing great everything was going fantastic
um you know woke up this morning bot has no idea what mempool madness is can't connect to it can't
figure out what's going on. I tried to troubleshoot with him for like a half an hour, 35 minutes. I
just, I told him I'm sick of him. I'm tired of him and I'm not going to try and set it up again.
But at first he was able to, the first time I ever tried, he basically just one-shotted it. I was
like, here's your strategy. It's a game of probability. Figure it out. He just figured
it out. He paid with his own cashew wallet. He was getting payouts from his own cashew wallet.
And now he just can't even fucking figure it out.
Tony, you got to get the QMD.
You got to have it.
Use Opus 4.6 for like one run
and just be like, audit your memory system.
I want you to upload QMD
and it'll do it and make it much better.
Well, I just think it's hilarious.
Is this the blog post you told me
to just copy and paste my dude, right?
Yes.
in one of them.
Yeah, so people are making improvements to their bots
by just blindly copying and pasting blog posts
that effectively teach them new skills and give it new.
This is why there's going to be so many issues,
but it's still fucking cool.
It's really fucking cool.
But to your point, having the bots do all this and connecting,
I mean, this is the biggest boon for this freedom tech.
I mean, we've been talking about it for eight years now,
and I think this technology is the biggest boon for it
that we've ever seen.
It's the last piece.
yeah yeah it it's the glue it's the glue that is going to bring everything together
and makes all this stuff usable to the average person um
get play if you guys haven't played with this yet highly recommend
just playing around with it a little bit takes a bit of uh getting used to but
i do think it is imperative particularly if you're working i've got my cousin my brother
like i've been talking to them for the last two weeks like guys start using this for
for stuff um i've been impressed by what they've been able to yeah an easy way to get your feet wet
is cali has a new project called claw i.ai c-l-a-w-i.ai um ironically it doesn't accept bitcoin
uh that's probably the biggest issue i have with it but you can use a two fiat number two f-i-a-t
dot com prepaid bitcoin card um to pay for it if you want if you don't want to put your credit
card information in but it's just really it's it's it's one of the easier ways to just get set
up and running um and look it's not going to be your final setup like ideally you should be
self-hosting these things then it has other nuances like you don't want to self-host
just blindly on your own network and like have it have access to everything that's on your home
wi-fi um so it's just a good it's it's an easy way to get started play with it don't give it anything
too uh intimate you know like don't give it actual like credentials to your main email account
or something like that be very deliberate about what information you give it but this is one of
those things that like the only way you'll get comfortable with it and you'll see what the
capabilities are is if you play with you have to play with it you can't listen to podcasts about it
you can't watch videos about it you have to actually use the thing into our earlier conversation
like the first step of the employment dynamic switching and the the the value capture within
in our economy migrating is going to be people taking advantage of these tools and having a leg
up on other people. So you will be at a disadvantage significantly if you don't play around with these
things sooner rather than later, in my opinion. And they're the worst they're going to be. If
you start today, it's going to be the worst that it ever is for you. Yeah. And like, yeah, once
again, not a panacea. It's going to Oh, the other thing is, if
you do use Kali's project, it uses open router on the back end.
So you have access to all the different models. You got to be
very careful about using about using the super high end ones,
it gets really, really expensive. He added a change to
that tells you the cost when you're switching models,
which didn't exist before.
But for instance, they measured in per 1 million tokens,
which is like a metric for your calls to the AI model.
Opus 4.6, which is widely considered the best one
out of Anthropic and just the best one that exists right now for these things is $15 per 1 million.
If you use Google's Gemini 3 Pro, it's only $2. So it's almost a 7x cost difference between the
two. Then OpenRouter also has, it offers OpenAI's free model, GPT-OSS-120B, which fucking sucks,
but it's completely free.
So you can tell your agent
things that don't matter as much,
like use the free one for that.
And you'll learn different ways.
But I just want to be clear here
because some of you might have the same intuition as me,
which is you only want the best
and you will end up $1,000 in the hole or something
within a couple of days
if you're just recklessly hitting the most expensive model.
Since I set mine up a month ago,
it was before anthropic caught on to people using their max pro 5x subscriptions too often
and so i'm still grandfathered into that so i'm not hitting the api i'm using my max pro account
to do all that's like you can't do that anymore right no yeah i spend so much and so and like it
also matters like you have your your agent is once again an advanced toddler in a lot of ways
like if you don't keep asking it how much money am i spending on tokens can we reduce
the amount of token usage it will just go crazy with it so i i don't know
this was probably after last episode yeah this was after last episode a freak posted on nostor
that he wanted a bot that that knew all of rhr and could uh ask it questions and so there's been
almost eight years of RHR, 400 episodes.
So I had to transcribe all RHR transcripts,
all RHR episodes to transcribe them automatically
because there weren't existing transcripts
for a bunch of the early episodes
and then saved it in a file, 400 episodes of RHR.
And I realized 24 hours later
that it was saved in short-term memory,
which is called the context window in these AI agents.
And so it was every time I would ask it a simple question, this is just an example.
I don't ask it with the weather, but like, what is the weather outside?
It would send all 400, the transcripts of all 400 episodes of RHR to the LLM model.
And I was getting charged like a crazy fucking amount.
And then I realized I was getting charged so much.
And I asked the AI agent, I asked the bot, I was like, what's going on here?
He's like, oh, well, it looks like I've been sending all 400 episodes of RHR.
Every time I ask a simple question, I probably shouldn't do that.
It's like, yeah, you probably shouldn't fucking do that.
Like, why are you doing that?
Don do that So just keep that in mind But anyway once you figure it out then you start to see like now I have a separate file that is all the dispatch transcripts since the beginning of the show
all the RHR transcripts since the beginning of the show.
And then I can individually cue it to ask it questions
and pull our collective brain resources that we've had for eight years,
which is just great.
Like that capability is fucking awesome.
But if you do it in a naive way, it can cost you a lot of money.
So just keep all this stuff in mind.
Yeah.
Another thing, I'm not sure how it works with Klawi.ai, Kali's thing.
But if you're setting it up in a VPS and you're doing it the old-fashioned way,
make sure you run it through Cloudflare or Tailscale
because your server IP will be exposed.
And that's how people hack it.
So make sure you have a tunnel application between your server and the broader internet as well.
Yeah, that's one of the nice aspects.
Cali's service handles all that stuff for you.
You end up paying a little bit more.
It's worth it though.
Especially if you're dealing with Bitcoin stuff.
You don't want somebody getting into your server.
Yeah, and you're just getting your feet wet.
Convenience does help a lot here.
Once again, I don't think this should be people's final setup.
but it's a really easy way to get your feet wet yeah on uh how to do it and by the way like this
is it's i think it's an interesting example of where we currently are with this tech
is that i basically spun up that nostor rhr bot in one prompt within a couple hours once it finished
the transcriptions like that was the easy part the hard part was doing it in an efficient way
that didn't cost me a ton of money.
But it actually was just like one or two prompts.
I was like, here's the RSS feed, transcribe it.
I want you to create a master bot that can respond to people.
Yeah.
I feel like Carlos would have been the one to make this,
but it seems like he was slacking.
Well, hopefully someone else makes it
because there's kind of a mental burden to deal with,
to be honest.
But now I have my own.
So I disabled in a fit of exhaustion.
I just disabled the NostroBot.
I was like, stop fucking posting.
Stop looking up on the transcripts.
I don't want to pay any more money.
But now I have it.
I've been using it myself.
So maybe I'll re-enable the NostroBot at some point.
The last two blocks that I've been on on mempoolmadness.com,
I've come three seconds short of it hitting the block that I bet on.
One more bet.
I'm a degenerate.
yeah i was so frustrated at my guy for failing to set it up again
all right let's go i need i need this block to be mine between
eight and nine minutes
why'd you why'd you book one ahead of time oh someone else is in there oh see i think this
guy is running a bot too. Mempool Madness.
Is he front
running me?
He's going to run over your
thing.
What else have we got? What else happened
this week? Epstein files?
Dow's over 50k. We shouldn't worry about the
Epstein files. What the fuck is that?
I don't know.
It was so bad.
It's like completely out of touch.
but she's the attorney general right bondi pam bondi yeah i mean it was clearly like a trump
talking point and she just doesn't handle the deflection as well it's like you're the attorney
general why are you quoting stock market prices uh to tell she's like the stock market is booming
why are you talking about the epstein files it's like well uh you're the you're you're the lead
prosecutor in the country and this seems like the one of the most important prosecutions that people
want to see happen and you have absolutely fuck all to do with the stock market so what the fuck
are you talking about it's like yeah these uh these people are emailing about uh human beef jerky
that they were uh they were packaging and bringing to parties i think uh i don't think we want a
bunch of cannibals running around uh the world it's like it'd be one thing if like they were asking
besant his opinion on the epstein files and he's like i'm the treasury secretary the economy's going
great but like imagine if you went into like a police department and you like talk to the detective
and you're like yes someone broke into my house can you like figure out who broke into my house
and he was like have you seen the stock market lately your charles schwab account is so high
why are you asking me about the home break it's her fucking job yeah i would be surprised if she's
attorney general for much longer after yesterday.
That was an epic blunder, the likes of which I haven't seen in quite some time.
Little capital hell.
A lot of more productive stuff, though.
We said it last week, nothing's going to happen.
And that was just like a reinforcement.
They don't seem like they really want to prosecute anybody as it pertains to the Epstein trial
or the files being released.
um important update favorite desktop wallet sparrow version 2.4.0 was released with
the ability to send asylum payments hardware wallet support address display chunking wallet
discovery for usb hardware wallets codex 32 support trevor safe 7 ledger nano gen 5 support
keycard and keycard shell support love to see it by the way um a cool aspect here scroll down logan
i feel like this is a cool nostor health metric look at all the zaps he got he got 50 000 zaps
on uh on this post um i feel like that's just a seeing open source developers of like critical
open source software release an update immediately be one of the most trending posts on nostr and
receive a one of the larger zap loads that a post has gotten this week is like a really cool sign
to see i mean that's that's where i'd like to see the future go um you know i i like to think
open sets in a lot of ways is like a stop gap accelerant into a world where ideally
bots and humans are
funding
maintainers of software
projects that they need directly
using Freedom Money.
That's fucking cool.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's your freaks. We live in the future.
Let's
reboost from last week before we forget.
All right.
Let me pull it up.
Since we're technically in software updates.
I see on Nostar we got one
from our asteroid dude.
21,000 sats from roaming
and his meme, his emoji
is the asteroid.
I think it's an asteroid or a basketball.
I think it's an asteroid.
All right.
You got three
boosts to read from Rabbit Hole Recap.
395, stay humble and stack sats.
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Yeah, that's right.
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88,888 sats.
Sats8s across the board, Palindrome Boost.
What a time to be alive. You two rock.
See you both soon. Love, Syl and Tony.
Can't wait to see you. Thank you for the support.
Our boy, Foise.
25,252 Sats, Palindrome Boost.
Shout out to all the Chicago Bitcoiners.
Chicago has multiple meetups happening throughout the month between the city and the burbs.
We're also working on Chicago's first physical Bitcoin hub that will function as a restaurant.
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And a workspace for Bitcoiners.
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Shout out to Chicago.
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Bot-powered pig butchering is going to be wild.
Taking those kingpins down in Southeast Asia
might look like decapitating the Hydra.
You got to beware.
These bots are going to get you.
Another thing, make sure you guys have safety words with your family.
I'm seeing a lot of
an increase in the amount of
fake kidnappings
and they'll call you
and say we kidnapped your wife
or it'll be your wife on the phone
they kidnapped me and they need you to wire
$10,000 to this bank account
another good technique is to
just like you signalize
your communication method
yeah and they're good at spoofing
apparently the one I saw this week
they like spoofed the number so well
that like came up
That's what I'm saying.
Wife was actually called.
Yeah.
But they can't do that with a paired signal account.
If you,
if you already have an open signal chat with someone.
Yeah.
But yeah,
it's going to get really messy.
All this K like the whole infrastructure that our society is built on with
you KYC and bot checks and stuff.
Once again,
I will repeat the fundamental change that we saw with open claw.
it already was functionality that already existed.
It wasn't like a technological breakthrough.
First of all, it was open source.
But second of all, it just made it easier to interact with these things.
And specifically, it made it so that you can get around bot restrictions
by just having it use a web browser and click around and go do things.
So basically turned everything into an API in a very broken way, but still.
um and so we're going to see mass impersonations of people audio generation video generation
and this is going to break all these systems that our society is currently built on top of
and we're going to have to kind of start fresh in a chaotic way um but yeah yeah be aware um
we already talked about magma shout out to the emboss team i'm actually gonna be recording with
Jesse tomorrow.
This is cool.
Our friend, good friend of the show.
Justin Moon,
Vibe Coded,
something to make it easier for
OpenClaw
to communicate over Noster.
So he built an OpenClaw extension for Marmot
protocol, the protocol underneath it, and the
encrypted messaging app, wait, noise. If you're comfortable running
Vibe Coded Alpha software, please give it
a try. Let me know how it goes.
I tried to run
this and almost broke everything.
And then I got tired with my bot and I told him to forget everything I told him and to delete a bunch of shit.
But this is the future.
I was talking to Jeff G of Marmon and White Noise, lead maintainer.
And they're working on a proper CLI client that's geared for bots, command line client that's geared for bots that they should hopefully be releasing in a few weeks.
But this is a perfect example of open protocols being superior to the current status quo.
Most people are using Telegram right now to communicate with their claw bots.
Telegram is obviously a centralized company.
Telegram itself does bot checks to try and stop accounts.
So if you create a fresh Telegram account and you try and use a burner phone number, oftentimes it'll block your account.
Other people are trying to use Signal.
I successfully set up Signal and then it broke.
to communicate with my bot.
Signal is also actively trying to throttle
Signal CLI connections and linking.
They have like a bot prevention program,
which is very counterintuitive
in this current place we find ourselves in.
So open protocols fix this, right?
And connecting to your bot should be as simple as,
this is my MPub message me using Marmot.
It's obvious.
It is really obvious.
And I think what people miss when they say like agentic communications or agentic payments is one of the key aspects is the human to agent and agent to human part.
And I think open protocols specifically really excel with that.
And in that situation, they have to be simpler, right?
You can get away with an agent to agent protocol that is complicated because the agent will figure it out, right?
I said, I want my agent to trade on Polymarket.
he's like you need usdce on matt on polygon to do this i was like well here's some bitcoin why
don't you figure out how to get that and he just went and did all the complicated shit coin shit
like he was on like uniswap and things and like found his way into his polygon wallet um so like
he can figure all that out but when it comes to like a human trying to actually communicate i
should be able to just say here's my mpub message me back i shouldn't be doing like a complicated
pairing mechanism to make that happen.
Yep. That's a great point. On the
topic of Signal and Telegram,
look and pull it up. I'm sure you saw this, but
everything is borked.
There was an Israeli company called
Paragon, a security company,
quote-unquote security. They've got a product called
Graphite. They're hacking mercenaries.
Yeah, a couple of their idiotic employees posted a selfie on LinkedIn with the sort of back end of their Graphite product in the background.
And JSR was tweeting about it.
He has a more detailed sort of infographic highlighting everything.
It looks like signals, WhatsApp, Telegram, and a bunch of other apps.
It looks like they have root access, kernel access to everybody's devices, essentially.
To be clear here, because there's a point here where it can be an informative news item that helps people understand their risks,
or it can be something that creates hopelessness among people in terms of security.
The way Paragon works or NSO group with Pegasus is they collect zero days.
They collect ways to compromise your device before they're public.
And then they target individuals.
So it's not mass surveillance.
It's like, okay, you're a dissident.
You're fighting against the Rwandan government.
we are going to send you a WhatsApp message that has a hidden payload that
compromises your entire phone.
And then we're going to access different apps and stuff within your phone.
Right. So like, they're not like,
it's not them going into backend telegram servers or backend signal servers or
whatever.
It's them breaking into your phone and then accessing these different apps.
And there's ways to protect yourself from it. First of all,
if you're on Android, the best way to protect yourself is to use a de-Googled Android,
specifically graphene. And ironically, that works with a pixel devices, Google pixel devices,
because they allow you to unlock and relock the bootloader. If you're on iPhone, single best thing
you can do is just be constantly updated to the most recent release. And then the second biggest
thing you can do is they have a lockdown mode that secures iOS much stronger. But a lot of times
what you see is their capabilities aren't, you know,
the latest device with the latest updates,
but most people don't have that.
And they keep all of this very secretive.
This group specifically, Paragon is,
and same with NSO group, is like ex-Israeli intelligence.
It's one of these startups that came out of Israel's
like secretive NSA style units.
I think it's like unit 8200, I think is the name of it.
But what's interesting here, and so then they're technically a private company, and then they sell their services to governments.
And then in the case of the United States, it's been argued that it doesn't break the Constitution because it's a private government that's doing it.
So it's not like they need a warrant.
But then they sell it to, you know, all these random tin pot dictators that usually wouldn't have these capabilities, right?
random small countries that just pay like a couple hundred thousand dollars and they can pick a
they can pick an enemy that they want to hack and get into and they're very secretive about
their capabilities so in this case they posted a selfie onto linkedin and it had a bunch of
their capabilities that people didn't know previously yeah thank you for clarifying i'm
not trying to fear monger here but i think this individual they were targeting was in chechnya
or something like that.
Yeah, like all his information was on the back screen behind their selfie.
Yeah.
Retarded.
Those people lost their job.
Yeah.
Not going to lie, I think I got to tap out.
I'm like delusional weak right now.
This sounds good.
We got anything up there?
No, I mean, I'm fine with rapping.
I
look I know
I know vibes are down in the dumps right now
with people particularly
with Bitcoin price but also with everything else
going on in the world
keep your chin up
don't get shaken out
never do
the future's bright
it is
the future's very bright we got each other
if anything we got each other in the live chat
freaks
go play around with the freedom tech
go have fun with your robots
and your freedom tech
did I win?
no
nobody won that round
it's a brave new world out there
I'm optimistic
I am too
thank you guys for joining us
we will be back next week
I will be in better form
hopefully and uh
Should be a fun day.
If you haven't yet, listen to my civil dispatch with Alex Gleason
and Marty's TFTC with Arbed Out.
Both are great.
I think you'll enjoy it.
Getting back to the basics.
Tech.
The tech.
We're here for the tech freaks.
Always have been.
Stay humble, StackSats.
Peace and love.
Okay.