About this episode
0:00 The Presidio Bitcoin Index
04:35 Haley’s raffle tool and the promise of vibe coding
09:00 OpenClaw Builder meetup attracting a huge non-Bitcoin audience
11:40 Jesse Posner’s presentation and the expanding AI vision behind Vora
16:17 Demand for personal agent hardware and secure local AI systems
22:20 Authentication, custody, and the unresolved security model for personal agents
26:41 Builder meetup takeaways & Bitcoin as background/hidden infrastructure
29:00 River’s adoption report, miner migration, and hash rate resilience amid AI demand
33:45 Lightning scaling tensions
43:00 Lightning usage metrics and the rise in settlement volume
50:34 Agentic payments, open-source agents, and the importance for neutral monetary rails
01:02:26 Unhuman domains and the growth of agent-first digital services
01:09:28 Chat as the dominant interface & the decline of traditional apps
01:13:02 Shoutout to Alby & their agent push
01:14:05 Stablecoin news: Stripe to acquire Paypal, Meta's return to stablecoins and Lightspark’s push to win stablecoin payments
01:20:29 Block layoffs and the broader trend of AI-driven restructuring
01:29:00 Corporate layoffs & entrepreneurial adaptation in an AI world
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SHOW NOTES:
River's adoption report: https://river.com/learn/files/river-bitcoin-adoption-report-2026.pdf
Unhuman domains: https://www.unhuman.domains/
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