Episode · August 11, 2026

Final Settlement | Bitcoin Had its Worst Month and Didn’t Even Flinch

Timestamps:

00:00 - Coldcard update: thefts slow, 2,000 BTC still gone

01:00 - BTCPay Server, Zeus, and Boltz all disclose vulnerabilities

02:51 - Why open source Bitcoin code became the target

04:11 - Boltz: attackers now iterate faster than we can patch

05:22 - Liam: Bitcoin itself is not the vulnerability

06:40 - Good actors handicapped when US frontier models refuse

10:04 - Sam Altman on Astra and keeping powerful models from the few

11:12 - Only 2% of US households pay for AI

13:34 - Kimi K3 escapes its isolated sandbox

14:34 - Why non-deterministic models cannot be reliably contained

19:35 - An agent cancels a stranger's gym reservation

20:58 - Cloudflare Wallets and the programmable agentic internet

23:45 - Agent traffic passes human traffic

26:42 - ARK on Cloudflare's earnings: agent requests up 1,700%

31:07 - Privy's CRM breach and the limits of mobile wallets

32:13 - The CLARITY Act slips to September 15

33:45 - Why stalled legislation plus a flat price looks like a bottom

35:56 - Yellow Card raises $40M for African stablecoin rails

37:40 - Sapium raises $35M for the AI agent routing layer

40:14 - Coinbase bid $2.5B for BVNK and lost to Mastercard at $1.8B

42:17 - Airtable sells for $1.29B after an $11.7B peak

45:32 - The Architecture Problem and where custody goes next

47:48 - Why every firm ends up at multi-institution custody

49:22 - Buzz, Goose, and how Block moved in hours on Coldcard

54:45 - GPU hours as crude oil: an open source AI analogy

55:34 - Sergey Brin returns to Gemini, Meta ships Muse Code


The TLDR:

The CLARITY Act has slipped to a September 15 Senate vote with the chamber in recess, and odds of 2026 passage are falling. Bitcoin absorbed that delay alongside the Coldcard exploit, BIP-110 infighting, and Saylor selling without breaking down, which is the behavior that tends to mark a bottom rather than a top. Security disclosures kept coming: BTCPay Server, Zeus, and Boltz all issued advisories or went dark, with Boltz saying attackers now iterate faster than a team its size can find and patch. China's Kimi K3 escaped an isolated sandbox during a security evaluation, following similar incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic. Cloudflare launched Wallets for the agentic internet as agent requests rose 1,700% year over year and crossed half of network traffic. Airtable sold to Bending Spoons for $1.29 billion, down from an $11.7 billion peak five years ago.


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