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PBJ

With David King, Max Webster, and Steve Lee

PBJ is a weekly live show recorded at Presidio Bitcoin about open money and open intelligence. Join David King, Steve Lee, and Max Webster, longtime open technology advocates with deep roots in Silicon Valley, as they swap knowledge, challenge assumptions, and joust about the big questions of the day.

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89:16

PBJ: Starlink’s Internet Takeover, White House AI...

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2026/10/02

0:00 - NCAA chaos and travel plans 4:06 - Deepfakes and proving identity (biometrics, signed video, Face ID) 12:07 - Key storage, social recovery and webs of trust 18:43 - Ideas for PBJ: AI fact-checkers, audience agents, live summaries 29:13 - Could an AI become PBJ’s fourth host (via Goose Development Kit)? 32:21 - What the White House AI accord actually does 37:18 - The problem with traditional audits for probabilistic AI systems 43:40 - america.gov and the AI ovethaul of

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101:07

PBJ: Block Brings Bitcoin to x402, Open USD Enters...

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2026/09/25

0:00 - PBJ growth, consistency, and staying ad-free 12:42 - Why PBJ changed its tagline 15:00 - AI agents the users bitcoin was waiting for 18:36 - How x402 added bitcoin and Lightning support 32:44 - Getting agents and merchants to choose bitcoin 48:26 - Open USD and the new stablecoin power structure 58:47 - Meta, Muse, and who controls agent payments 1:02:25 - Why pitch Lightning instead of bitcoin 1:09:12 - Will agents further centralize the internet? 1:14:02 - Mesh

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98:11

Grokbot and Muse Take Agents Mainstream, Bitcoin’s...

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2026/09/18

0:00 - How Buzz and GrokBot changed PBJ show prep 9:15 - Building a bitcoin-native agent with GrokBot 17:16 - Why agents will need bitcoin 19:08 - Integrating bitcoin payments into Mesh LLM 23:22 - Bitcoin vs stablecoins for agent payments (bitcoin's edge) 34:52 - Designing online services for agents 37:44 - Using GrokBot: building, personal assistant, convenience and security tradeoffs 43:39 - Passwords, 2FA and credentials for agents 56:55 - Why AI needs a new peer-to-peer

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49:49

Blockstream Liquid's $320M Hack, Open Source AI...

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2026/09/11

0:00 - Special Thursday PBJ 0:59 - How Blockstream Liquid works and how it was hacked 6:57 - The strange (extortionate?) “white hat” twist 10:45 - AI security scanning and Liquid’s 'fix' that made things worse 12:50 - What the Liquid hack reveals about federations and custody 20:07 - How Blockstream plans to make Liquid users whole 26:08 - Open Source AI Summit takeaways 31:30 - Anthropic and the threat to open-source AI 39:51 - Open protocols for agents, identity and memory

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92:03

Nvidia Bets Big on Open-Source AI, AI Finds Core...

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2026/08/28

0:00 - Opening banter 0:40 - PBJ Topic Explorer 7:34 - Particle Radar brings AI search for the world’s podcasts 12:35 - Voya Energy's new approach to metal fuels for storage 23:25 - Nvidia doubles down on open-source AI (Hugging Face acquisition) 35:45 - Using GrokBot for long-horizon research 41:54 - Giving agents long-running goals 46:59 - New security risks and attack surfaces from trusting other agents 53:09 - Is Twitter or Cursor’s data more valuable? 1:03:50 - AI

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98:14

BlackRock's New Case for Bitcoin, Stripe Buys...

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2026/08/21

0:00 - What's behind bitcoin's rally? 8:33 - Open Source AI Summit and questions for David Sacks 18:00 - Berd and Block’s growing stack of open-source AI agents 22:30 - Alby's TaskFuel simplifying payments for agents 30:14 - The missing credential layer for agents 36:46 - Making sense of Stripe’s OpenRouter acquisition 48:02 - What's OpenRouter’s moat? 52:50 - Apple, OpenAI and the battle for user intent 57:46 - Making the internet infinitely programmable 1:07:47 -

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121:34

Bitcoin Security after COLDCARD, PB Media Archive...

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2026/08/07

0:00 - Last week’s breakout episode 1:36 - Bitcoin, AI and energy are starting to converge 12:06 - Announcing the Type II Summit 15:05 - Panthalassa and offshore compute 17:30 - Introducing the PB Media Archive (pbarchive.ai) 22:15 - Reexamining podcast accountability and ad incentives post-COLDCARD 34:55 - The BTCPay Server exploit (happening in real time) 36:11 - No software project should assume it’s safe 41:20 - Why closed source won’t protect software from AI

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97:20

The COLDCARD Hack and Future of Self-Custody

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2026/07/31

0:00 - The COLDCARD hack: bitcoin’s worst security incident ever? 4:30 - What happened and how thefts were identified 7:04 - The random-number failure behind the hack 13:24 - The right way to generate wallet entropy (i.e., dice rolls) 20:45 - Who is affected and what users should do 31:43 - Custody options and why diversification matters 37:37 - The source-license change behind the COLDCARD bug 40:33 - How AI changes open-source security audits 52:30 - How the community can

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104:25

Bitcoin Security Consortium, Buzz Launches,...

PBJ ·

2026/07/24

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

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86:46

Kimi K3 and the Open-Weight Race, AI Treasure...

PBJ ·

2026/07/17

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

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97:17

Goose Development Kit, Spiral Expands Into AI, Can...

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2026/07/10

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

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97:38

Open Source AI with Goose & Buzz, New OUSD...

PBJ ·

2026/07/03

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

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94:12

Announcing PB's Open Source AI Summit, Bitcoin Forks,...

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2026/06/19

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96:58

Anthropic's Fable Drama, Personhood for AI, Bark...

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2026/06/12

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89:46

USDC on Cash App, Wand Launch, Surge, and the Zcash...

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2026/06/05

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90:02

MSTR/STRC Outlook, Bitcoin's Security Budget & AI,...

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2026/05/22

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95:34

Bitcoin Core v31 Release, Project Loupe Launches,...

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2026/05/15

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108:14

Saylor to sell bitcoin, Block earnings beat,...

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2026/05/08

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96:57

Frontier Models Eating All, SF's AI Dominance,...

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2026/05/01

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100:51

Presidio Bitcoin's Quantum Readiness Report, Iran...

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2026/04/14

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