Episode Details

0:00 Schedule changes and personal updates

1:50 Hack-Nation AI Global Hackathon @ PB and Spiral’s bitcoin payments challenge

5:40 Lowering the barrier & reducing friction for builders new to bitcoin

8:55 Student outreach and Presidio Bitcoin as a bridge into bitcoin

11:25 Iran, Strait of Hormuz tolls, and bitcoin’s geopolitical use case

17:46 Settlement, unit of account, and bitcoin between adversaries

24:35 Bitcoin as neutral protocol and the analogy to internet rails

26:45 Anthropic and whether the sovereign individual thesis survives AI concentration/centralization

38:55 Corporate dependence on frontier models and the risk of model lock-in

55:54 The future of scarcity, defensibility, and startups as AI power concentrates

1:06:46 Presidio Bitcoin’s Quantum Readiness Report overview & what makes it special

1:15:48 Quantum response scenarios: orderly & emergency migration + break-glass planning

1:25:49 New quantum developments: Google AI, Lalu's recovery proof, QSB, and other interim mitigations

1:34:40 BIP-360, Taproot, and possible upgrade paths under accelerated quantum timelines

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SHOW NOTES:

Presidio Bitcoin's Quantum Readiness Report: https://github.com/presidiobtc/bitcoin-quantum/tree/main

Report v1.0 PDF: https://github.com/presidiobtc/bitcoin-quantum/blob/main/presidio-bitcoin-quantum-readiness-v1-apr-2026.pdf

Hack-Nation Global AI Hackathon: https://hack-nation.ai/

Strait of Hormuz bitcoin toll: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/politics/why-iran-wants-bitcoin-for-safe-passage-though-the-strait-of-hormuz

Google Quantum AI Paper: https://quantumfrontiers.com/2026/04/09/unleashing-the-advantage-of-quantum-ai/

Lalu's Seed Phrase ZKP: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/Q06piCEJhkI?pli=1

Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB): https://github.com/avihu28/Quantum-Safe-Bitcoin-Transactions/

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