Episode notes
- Brady breaks down the Bitcoin community's open letter to Anthropic: red team researchers report over a thousand serious vulnerabilities found across Bitcoin's open source ecosystem, and by their account not one was surfaced by an American frontier model
- Rob Hamilton's line lands hardest: getting locked out of a US cyber program mid-investigation "guts him as a patriotic American," but he uses the models that work, and so do the attackers
- Isaiah reaches for the crossbow: medieval bans on easy-to-use weapons never held, and hobbling defenders while attackers ignore the rules is the same losing proposition
- A viral Sam Altman clip about AI watching your screen and hearing your calls prompts the show's sharpest frame: take the Bitcoin ethos to intelligence itself, and control your own model like you control your own money
- The debt reality check: Trump told Bob Woodward in 2016 the $19 trillion debt could be erased in eight years through trade; a decade later the US approaches $40 trillion and interest payments have passed defense spending
- Groceries tell the story the CPI smooths over: food prices up roughly a third since 2019 by the AP's chart, quality quietly falling, and full-time employment down millions from its early-2025 peak
- Japan shrank its debt-to-GDP from 229 to 204 without repaying a dime through financial repression, a roundabout tax nobody voted on, and the gap savers should have earned is exactly what the government kept
- The catch: Japan owes itself, with the Bank of Japan holding 48% of its own debt, while foreigners hold 31% of America's, so when Washington tried the same trick, foreign holders sold and yields broke five percent
- Bear market check-in: Brady's third, Isaiah's second, and the shared lesson that conviction is earned in the first winter, while the 200-week moving average and cost-of-production zone mark where Bitcoin sits now
- The week's rare good news: FinCEN permanently ends beneficial ownership reporting for US companies and deletes the collected data, days after Liechtenstein's equivalent register leaked 31,000 entities
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