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With David King, Max Webster, and Steve Lee
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    Bitcoin Security Consortium, Buzz Launches, Wavelength Brings Bitcoin to Any App

    2026/07/24 | 1h 44 mins.
    0:00 - Opening banter, Nostr momentum & voice-first computing

    7:21 - Presidio Bitcoin’s visiting member program

    10:30 - Bitcoin Security Consortium: quantum preparedness, tradeoffs & independent funding

    26:07 - Buzz launches to strong early adoption

    35:53 - Buzz’s Nostr architecture and user-owned identity

    48:28 - Can Anthropic or OpenAI copy Buzz?

    53:24 - Buzz onboarding, local agents & security tradeoffs

    1:03:37 - Learning through shared agents and 15-minute hackathons

    1:07:54 - Mesh LLM and bitcoin-powered agent onboarding

    1:18:52 - Wavelength and the growing Ark ecosystem

    1:27:08 - Foundry’s BIP 110 vote and Stratum V2

    1:37:20 - Nostr web of trust for humans and agents

    1:41:10 - DK's treasure hunt progress and AI-assisted mysteries
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    Kimi K3 and the Open-Weight Race, AI Treasure Hunting, Bitcoin Falls Further Behind Gold

    2026/07/17 | 1h 26 mins.
    0:00 Making music with AI and the limits of today’s models

    3:21 - Latent spaces & the future of creativity

    8:04 - Will AI surpass human curiosity?

    12:54 - Using AI to rediscover the ancient past

    18:23 - How AI is transforming real-world treasure hunting

    33:09 - Using Buzz and agents to solve unsolved mysteries

    42:32 - Project Loupe’s early success and who should it scan next?

    48:07 - Which projects deserve Loupe's audits?

    1:08:20 - What Stripe could gain by acquiring PayPal

    1:09:56 - Bitcoin’s worsening performance against gold

    1:15:51 - Kimi K3, the open-weight AI race, and what it means for frontier AI labs
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    Goose Development Kit, Spiral Expands Into AI, Can Bitcoin Names Scale?

    2026/07/10 | 1h 37 mins.
    0:00 - World Cup fallout and opening banter

    5:23 - Goose Development Kit (GDK) week at Presidio Bitcoin

    9:29 - Why Spiral is expanding into AI & how it helps bitcoin

    19:01 - GDK’s near-term roadmap and Mesh LLM

    25:52 - Combining open and frontier AI models

    33:20 - Preventing data leaks between AI models

    38:02 - Anthropic's possible window into how AI models think

    42:24 - How Goose connects apps, agents, and models

    47:36 - Subscription pricing versus open agent ecosystems

    54:37 - Can bitcoin support a global naming system? (the data-availability challenge)

    1:03:10 - Who decides which bitcoin name is valid?

    1:11:48 - Merkle batching and the hidden-name problem

    1:21:00 - Can auctions work if the data stays hidden?

    1:29:00 - Applying bitcoin’s peer-to-peer model to names

    1:32:53 - Should bitcoin names use its own blockchain?

    SHOW NOTES:

    Goose: https://goose-docs.ai/

    Spiral: https://spiral.xyz/

    Spiral x AI announcement substack: https://spiralxyz.substack.com/p/spiral-x-goose-the-best-is-yet-to

    Presidio Bitcoin GDK event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7NGzb8m0nk
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    Open Source AI with Goose & Buzz, New OUSD Stablecoin, Fable 5 is Back

    2026/07/03 | 1h 37 mins.
    0:00 Summer camp. Teaching DK what the World Cup is. Steve visits the PBJ Remote studio.

    13:52 What is Goose & the alpha of what's to come with open source AI

    20:40 The kinds of things Goose Development Kit enables

    33:10 Come and meet the Goose team at PB next Wednesday!

    39:26 DK's experience using Buzz as a great example of the ACP standard and using Nostr

    54:22 Steve's take on how Buzz changes open source software development

    1:04:46 Max's Claude pilling moment, and it becoming more paternalistic over time

    1:10:05 Compute constraints causing strange market dynamics

    1:13:03 OUSD Stablecoin and its effects on Circle, Tether, and the broader market

    1:27:58 Quick comment on Strategy, MSTR & STRC, and its long-term outlook

    SHOW NOTES

    Join us on Jamchat.fun
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    Announcing PB's Open Source AI Summit, Bitcoin Forks, Running Local AI Recap

    2026/06/19 | 1h 34 mins.
    0:00 World Cup chatter, DK searching for sports on Google, Good times on Jamchat.Fun

    6:05 Recap of the Local AI Builder last night here at Presidio Bitcoin. Tom's local AI setup and how he's using it.

    15:05 A watershed moment when Fable received export control from the US government

    20:12 Is this like the Satoshi moment for banking in 2008 for AI in 2026?

    28:23 Presidio Bitcoin's Open Source AI Summit this September!

    36:25 Do you still have a business if everything is built on an AI platform? What's the moat?

    40:25 Takes on SpaceX as an AI company post-Cursor buy. Launch is still unique.

    47:12 Elon says regulation is the hurdle to getting more solar on Earth, which is why he's going to space

    50:56 Bitcoin Forks, working on Bitcoin Core, and how updates happen

    1:06:22 What is the timeline for these activities?

    1:12:20 Touching on Drive Chain, Quantum, BIP 110, & BIP 361

    1:18:42 What is the Paul Sztorc eCash hard fork? First one in 9 years?

    1:23:53 Illinois signed into law a transfer tax for digital asset moves like Bitcoin

    1:28:15 US Sovereign Wealth Fund buying, or taking, AI company equity as they did with Intel?

    SHOW NOTES:

    https://opensourceaisummit.org/

    https://tomtunguz.com/
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About PBJ
PBJ is a weekly live show recorded at Presidio Bitcoin where 3 friends gather to make sense of bitcoin’s latest topics, from distilling technical concepts to discussing new ways to use bitcoin to determining its impact on the financial system. Join David King, Steve Lee, and Max Webster, longtime bitcoiners with deep roots in Silicon Valley, as they swap knowledge, challenge assumptions, and joust about the big questions of the day, bridging the gap between big tech and bitcoin. presidiobitcoin.substack.com
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