PBJ

0:00 What happened in Vegas, and our favorite takeaways

3:07 Thoughts on seedless private keys

9:02 Record breaking payments volume on bitcoin!

12:36 Apple stopping bitcoin NFC payments?

15:57 Bitcoin symbol on a keyboard?

20:53 Getting bitcoin advocates into big-tech with product focused meetups?

24:32 The importance of the SaveOurWallets.org initiative

35:31 How Block is getting 10% yield off ~100 BTC on Lightning

45:02 What's the best strategy to generate bitcoin returns and who can do it?

58:12 The value creators in the Lightning network

1:15:19 Could messaging apps could make a killing by integrating bitcoin?

1:19:42 Circle IPO, the stablecoin market, and transactions coming back to bitcoin

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0:55 Overview of the Presidio Bitcoin Hackathon and project highlights

14:22 Nostr has exceeded 5 million unique payments and is expanding developer possibilities. With vibe coding, anyone can build with bitcoin, as demonstrated by Mat Balez, a non-developer who created https://highfives.fun using Replit

20:50 Shoutouts to key hackathon contributors: Austin (lead organizer), Lightspark, Block, Fewsats, HRF, and Hivemind Ventures. There was significant usage of Goose, Alby, and Spark

25:36 A special 30-minute PBJ show at the Bitcoin 2025 news desk next week at 11:45am PT; no Friday show.

28:15 Google I/O Conference: Steve's testing Flow Veo 3

32:48 Discussion on OpenAI, Worldcoin, and AI pins

35:26 Steve shares his experience with Google Glass

40:40 Overview of Worldcoin's launch and ethical concerns about pre-mined tokens

44:23 Discussion on free markets, open protocols, and stateless socialism, highlighting Allen Farrington's book, "Bitcoin is Venice"

48:24 Privacy concern: Worldcoin requires eye scans

49:24 OpenAI is aiming to address human verification, but can we do that without leading to centralization or biometric compromises?

1:02:47 Kraken’s xStocks give global access to tokenized stocks

1:17:00 Where should tokens, NFTs, and stablecoins reside? Discussing risks of integrating these assets on bitcoin

1:24:47 Quick intro to hyperbitcoinization and its impact on the credit market and debt types in a new monetary system

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0:00 The Presidio Bitcoin Hackathon is TODAY!

2:08 Should we rename sats?

5:00 Steak and Shake takes bitcoin!

10:30 What we're looking forward to at the Hackathon: games, AI & micro payments, piracy?

17:50: Unpacking the Coinbase hack: how, why, and if regulations create these issues.

28:42 Are all exchanges at risk?

32:54 Revisiting bitcoin loan products.

39:05 The drama continues, could this be a good thing for bitcoin?

41:45 What will the mempool look like in 2050, can the future of bitcoin be modeled?

46:00 How much security budget do we need?

48:10 What is considered spam, and does it hurt or help bitcoin? 1:01:48 Are fees the filter?

1:09:32 Is filtering a Malthusian perspective? 1:11:02 The future of namespace.

1:17:48 What bitcoin treasury companies mean to bitcoin.

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0:00 Swimming in the bay, Sharks, and blood in the water

1:48 What is Knots, its growing market share, and other similar implementations

11:28 Is there a risk of an unintentional hard fork?

17:03 The point of running a full node and who should and shouldn't run one

31:33 Running bitcoin core vs Knots, LDK, etc.

37:41 Steak and Shake accepting bitcoin payments?

42:11 This was the most exciting week in Nostr; blossoms, mirroring, cashu

1:00:46 Revisiting bitcoin backed lending

1:08:43 Comparing the various newly launched lending products from Coinbase and Strike

1:20:58 How do you evaluate the risks, rates, and counterparties?

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0:00 X vs. Stacker News in the latest bitcoin debates

3:40 Updates about the Presidio Bitcoin Hackathon

10:00 What's the drama happening in bitcoin right now? Money vs. Data

16:08 Discussing the debate around bitcoin core node relay policies. Consensus vs. Policy

20:42 What is OP_Return and why it's being discussed

30:20 One reason this is important is there is growing interest in expanding the packet size

38:30 Audience Engagement: Data in the witness is cheaper, so its a preferential storage location

46:40 How this relates to mining centralization and censorship concerns

59:40 When and where should discussions like this take place?

1:09:00 Epic Games vs. Apple. Opens the door for bitcoin as an alternative payment mechanism?

1:20:50 The Quantum Bitcoin Summit happening this June at Presidio Bitcoin

1:24:29 Spark is live! Exploring what it is and evaluating its tradeoffs

1:35:40 De minimis rules coming? That's what we heard at Presidio Bitcoin

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From the archives: recorded on 03/07/2025 from Presidio Bitcoin.

0:00: Presidio Bitcoin Jam officially Launches

4:40: What we mean and the dynamics of bringing bitcoin to Silicon Valley

14:29: Why build on bitcoin as a foundational layer

22:23: Nostr becoming the messaging network next to bitcoin?

28:38: Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and the Policy Makers approach

37:45: Why Big Tech tends to end up in crypto and not bitcoin

42:01 Risks or downsides of the SBR

49:54: Energy backed money is inevitable

54:14: El Salvadors new IMF loan and its bitcoin policies

59:44: Importance of bitcoin being a digital commodity with no issuer

1:05:25: Differences in Saylor and Jack's perspectives on bitcoin

1:11:07: US State adoption and revisiting the sovereign individual

1:17:30: The next wave of energy-use criticism in the mainstream and how to educate

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0:00 Ross Ulbricht's 2021 take on the IP debate

13:12 Exploring Nostr, its drawbacks, and potential adoption by big tech

19:20 Unpacking social medias continued evolution

28:47 Exploring the future of scarcity

34:01 Replit bounties, vibe coding coaches, and the future of software development

46:43 How to get more people building with bitcoin or lightning? The PB Hackathon!

54:26 Bringing the venture capital incubation process and connectivity back to bitcoin

1:00:50 Presidio Bitcoin Entrepreneur in Residence program

1:09:14 How were attracting more open source developers to Presidio Bitcoin

1:16:01 What to make of the Jack Mallers leading the new company XXI

1:37:05 Discussing the companies that have made money in bitcoin now and in the future

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From the archives: recorded on 02/27/2025 from Presidio Bitcoin during the Presidio Bitcoin Launch event.

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From the archives: recorded on 02/21/2025 from Presidio Bitcoin.

TOPICS:

0:00 - 2025 and another exchange hack? What happened at ByBit and why

5:12 - Risks of address replacement attacks and how to mitigate

8:52 - HSM security features are only as strong as the policy around it

17:05 - Importance of verifying your send address

21:20 - Server as a Screen as a potential solution to hardware displays?

26:17 - Apple pulls its highest level data security (ADP) after government mandate

33:31 - Growing numbers of data honeypots leading to increasing attacks for bitcoiners

36:05 - Not enough pain today to drive action around privacy. Can LLMs and AI help?

43:18 - End to end encryption and private data should be fundamental to individuals

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From the archives: recorded on 02/14/2025 from Presidio Bitcoin.

TOPICS:

0:00 - Sovereign Wealth Fund Adoption Gaining Momentum

7:57 - Nation State Custody and the Transition of Power

12:12 - The Need to Write Guidelines for Institutional BTC Management

18:43 - Stablecoins, Chain Consensus Risk, and Brining to Bitcoin

35:04 - UTXOracle: What it is, How it Works, and Value for Smart Contracts

51:32 - Oracles to Support Building Decentralized Order Books

54:25 - Responses From Our Custody Report: ETFs, Exchanges, & Self Custody

59:34 - We Need to Create More Ways To Use Bitcoin

1:03:10 - New Ways to Use Bitcoin in AI, Payments, and Monetization

1:05:40 - Complexities of Simply Holding ETH

1:08:14 - Bitcoin Confirmation Risk Calculator, and Why It Matters

1:22:35 - Tesla Bought More BTC, and Now GameStop?

1:25:59 - Obscura's New VPN Service

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