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A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB Weekend shenanigans Mission Control and Jarvis Max fighting insects NEWS Former National Crime Agency officer Paul Chowles has been ordered to repay GBP 1,810,678.93 after a Crown Prosecution Service confiscation order on 30 September; he stole 50 BTC in 2017 from a wallet holding coins seized from Silk Road 2.0 administrator Thomas White, worth about GBP 59,000 at the time, laundering it through Bitcoin Fog and spending it via CryptoPay and Wirex cards before Merseyside Police caught him in 2022; he was jailed for five and a half years in July 2025, and part of his confiscation order now pays off White's own unpaid confiscation order to the state -- CPS South Africa's Absa has become the first African bank to custody bitcoin, mainly for institutional clients, following Deutsche Bank's custody launch in September; head of digital assets Rob Downes said bitcoin will be the bank's largest custodied asset, with other digital assets to follow, in a market Chainalysis puts second in Sub-Saharan Africa by value received at about $36B -- Bitcoin Magazine Blink published its post-mortem of the 19 September attack: a permissions flaw in its admin tools, open since October 2023, let the attacker grant themselves admin rights through the OAuth consent page and take over 35 custodial accounts, withdrawing about 6.61 BTC from 24 of them; nine targeted accounts had 2FA on and all 18 login attempts to use them were refused, so nobody with 2FA lost anything; shareholders advanced the full amount as an interest-free loan so balances were restored by 24 September with fees refunded, and Blink is offering a 25% recovery bounty plus a matching 25% donation to circular economies including Bitcoin Beach, Bitcoin Ekasi and Afribit Kibera -- Blink Tether says USDT is coming to Bitcoin this month via the RGB protocol, issued by Utexo, whose co-founder Viktor Ihnatiuk says the company holds the commercial licence; Utexo can't freeze RGB addresses the way Tether freezes Ethereum ones, so instead it will blacklist UTXOs that become unredeemable at bridges and minting tools, with BTC-to-USDT swaps and BTC-backed lending to follow and Lightning support after launch; USDT first lived on Bitcoin via Omni back in 2014 -- CoinDesk A federal judge in Utah has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the VPN provisions of the state's SB 73, the first US law to penalise VPN use, which would have required adult sites to block VPN users or locate every visitor; the court found the law demands something technically impossible, though the separate ban on explaining how to use a VPN was not challenged and stays in force -- EFF Core Lightning is warning of active attacks on unpatched nodes: an operator on v26.06.7 reported an attacker opening a splice, routing a small keysend, then sending an error so the victim's node goes on-chain and sweeps its own output through the revocation path as if it had cheated; the path was already fixed in v26.06.8, and by 1 October Stacker News operators were reporting about 0.2 BTC lost between them, with one user reporting 4.88M sats across five incidents and a StartOS user reporting 3M sats; anyone on 26.06.7 or earlier should upgrade now, or restart with --offline if they can't upgrade immediately -- GitHub #9578, GitHub #9595, TFTC, Stacker News, Stacker News, CLN v26.06.8 The Dutch cabinet has told parliament that shares, bonds and options will move to a realised-gains tax from 2028, with other assets following in 2030; crypto isn't named among the 2028 instruments, so if it counts as an "other asset" Dutch bitcoin holders keep paying yearly tax on unrealised paper gains for two years longer than shareholders, and the tax-free allowance falls to EUR 1,000 per person -- NL Times, Bitcoin Magazine, Crypto Benelux The Liquid Federation says an independent external audit of Elements v23.3.4 is underway, focused on safely restoring peg-outs, and it is replacing the peg-out authorisation key list and moving all peg-out keys to cold storage; peg-outs remain paused nearly a month after the exploit, with about 602 BTC of the stolen 3,996 BTC still unrecovered -- crypto.news, KuCoin News, liquid.net UK law firm Edmonds Marshall McMahon says it has recovered 20.00444711 BTC, about $1.725M, in full and with no deduction for one client seven weeks after the Coldcard theft, the first documented full recovery through the Crypto Recovery Trust; the claim rested on blockchain forensics, the client's exchange records, signed message challenges and wallet derivation checks -- EMM Legal, CoinDesk, Decrypt Apps built on the Breez SDK can now accept USDT or USDC from more than 30 networks including Ethereum, Base, Solana and Tron, with Flashnet converting the payment in the background so it lands in the receiver's self-custodial wallet as bitcoin, or as dollars with the stable balance feature; this is a developer-facing SDK feature, not something Breez's own wallet turns on automatically -- Bitcoin Magazine Block has launched its first big consumer ad campaign for bitcoin, "Some things don't make sense. Bitcoin does.", running on YouTube, X, Meta, Fox Sports and in cinemas until 31 December; meanwhile a Stacker News user described failing for the second time in two weeks to spend bitcoin at a Square terminal because the merchant hadn't switched the option on in their dashboard -- newer point-of-sale devices have the toggle on by default with a customer-facing screen, but older terminals still need the merchant to enable it -- Bitcoin Magazine, Stacker News Bitget reopened BTC withdrawals on 28 September, with fiat and P2P back by 2 October, and Bitcoin Magazine reported more than 4,000 BTC withdrawn in a single hour on 29 September; CEO Gracy Chen told CNBC only about $1.1M of the roughly $388M stolen has been frozen and she isn't "expecting to recover a lot" -- CNBC RELEASES Ghostly 1.1.2 -- 2026-10-05 An MIT-licensed messenger that finds contacts over the Mainline DHT and talks over direct encrypted connections, with no servers or accounts, built-in payments across Lightning, Cashu, Ark, Spark and on-chain, and messages that vanish by default. LDK v0.2.7 -- 2026-10-01 A security release fixing two funds-theft bugs, including a malicious peer able to force a second commitment signature at the same state index, plus two denial-of-service bugs. Envoy 2.3.5 -- 2026-10-01 Adds proper large-screen layouts for tablets, fixes the Passport Prime price graph stuck on "Loading Data", and removes leftover code from the retired Buy Bitcoin feature. Nunchuk Android 2.9.0 -- 2026-09-30 Lets users set their own hardware signing device as the inheritance key in off-chain timelock inheritance plans, plus general bug fixes. Blockstream Green iOS 5.7.0 -- 2026-09-28 Adds manual coin selection for Bitcoin and Liquid, a price chart and BIP39 passphrase guidance at login, and restores 2FA-protected and 2-of-3 multisig account creation. Am I Exposed v0.37.5 -- 2026-09-30 A redesigned interface with light mode, a compact transaction graph and a "Before you act" section, plus later patches fixing Umbrel startup and dropping Liquid from tips and guides. Flint 1.2.1 -- 2026-09-28 The nodeless Lightning plugin for BTCPay Server turns on unilateral exit for every server, letting a merchant take its balance on-chain without Spark's operators, now with automatic exit-state backups. StartWRT 1.2.1 -- 2026-10-01 A security fix for the router's management interface so requests from loopback no longer skip sign-in, meaning every settings change now needs authentication. Everything Else 0xchat 1.5.6 -- 2026-09-30Nostr chat: blocks connections while the Tor proxy is set but not ready, closes a system-proxy leak, validates TLS for non-onion hosts, and patches Cashu P2PK security issues. Amber 6.6.6 -- 2026-09-28Nostr signer: fixes the nostrconnect parser corrupting secrets that contain "=", which broke NDK-based clients. AQUA 0.5.4 -- 2026-10-01Fixes Lightning refunds, mismatched fee display and failed-payment status; minimum iOS is now 15. Arti 2.7.0 -- 2026-10-01Tor in Rust: fixes low- to high-severity security issues (onion service operators should upgrade) and moves closer to running relays and directory mirrors. BasicSwap 0.19.0 -- 2026-10-03Atomic-swap DEX: Smart Buy (beta) fills an order across offers, and offers and swap messages can now travel over Nostr with a key per swap and Tor when enabled. Also in window: 0.18.10 (2026-09-29), switchable price oracles and stale-rate protection. BDK FFI v3.1.1 -- 2026-09-29Error messages no longer echo back descriptor or key material; also fixes a fee-rate overflow. Bisq v1.10.9 -- 2026-10-01Mandatory: fixes vulnerabilities found in a recent security audit and updates Tor. Required to keep trading. Bitcoin Core v32.0rc3 -- 2026-10-01Third release candidate for 32.0, which brings parallel block validation and silent payments. Final not yet released. Bitcoin Keeper v2.5.17 -- 2026-10-02Better Recovery Key backup checks and repair, and improved wallet recovery. Also in window: v2.5.16 (2026-10-02), UI and crash fixes; v2.5.15 (2026-09-28), versioning only. Breez SDK Spark 0.26.1 -- 2026-10-02Smaller mobile binaries. BTCPay Server v2.4.5-rc3 -- 2026-10-05Release candidate, following rc1 (10-01) and rc2 (10-02). No release notes yet. COLDCARD 5.6.3 and 1.5.3Q -- 2026-09-30Adds Codex32 and Shamir seed splitting, warns before installing contributor-signed or downgraded firmware, and…

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we're joined by Nathan Day, co-founder of Bitfest, to talk about Freedom Fest, a new event for privacy, digital rights, civil liberties and freedom tech running alongside Bitfest at the Pendulum Hotel in Manchester this November. Freedom Fest is ticketed and marketed separately to reach freedom-minded communities who aren't into Bitcoin yet, with talks from the Tor and GrapheneOS teams, Free Cities and HRF's CBDC Tracker crew. Listeners get 21% off Bitfest tickets with the code UNGOVERNABLE at bitfest.uk, limited to the first 21 uses. We also get into Nathan's eight-ton overland camper mining three terahash off solar, the state of merchant adoption on BTC Map and the wrench-attack risk merchants take on by being on a map, and how Omarchy, OpenCode and Hermes have turned him into a prolific vibe coder. HELP GET SAMOURAI A PARDON SIGN THE PETITION ----> https://www.change.org/p/stand-up-for-freedom-pardon-the-innocent-coders-jailed-for-building-privacy-tools DONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ USD ----> https://www.givesendgo.com/billandkeonne DONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/ TO DONATE TO ROMAN'S DEFENSE FUND: https://freeromanstorm.com/donate VALUE FOR VALUE Thanks for listening you Ungovernable lot, we appreciate your continued support and hope you enjoy the shows. You can support this episode using your time, talent or treasure. TIME: - create fountain clips for the show - create a meetup - help boost the signal on social media TALENT: - create ungovernable misfit inspired art, animation or music - design or implement some software that can make the podcast better - use whatever talents you have to make a contribution to the show! TREASURE: - BOOST IT OR STREAM SATS on the Podcasting 2.0 apps @ https://podcastapps.com - DONATE via Monero @ https://xmrchat.com/ungovernable - BUY SOME STICKERS @ https://ungovernable.network/shop/ FOUNDATION https://foundation.xyz/ungovernable Foundation builds Bitcoin-centric tools that empower you to reclaim your digital sovereignty. As a sovereign computing company, Foundation is the antithesis of today’s tech conglomerates. Returning to cypherpunk principles, they build open source technology that “can’t be evil”. Thank you Foundation Devices for sponsoring the show! Use code: Ungovernable for $10 off of your purchase CAKE WALLET https://cakewallet.com Cake Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial wallet available on Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux. Features: - Built-in Exchange: Swap easily between Bitcoin and Monero. - User-Friendly: Simple interface for all users. Monero Users: - Batch Transactions: Send multiple payments at once. - Faster Syncing: Optimized syncing via specified restore heights - Proxy Support: Enhance privacy with proxy node options. Bitcoin Users: - Coin Control: Manage your transactions effectively. - Silent Payments: Static bitcoin addresses - Batch Transactions: Streamline your payment process. Thank you Cake Wallet for sponsoring the show! MYNYMBOX https://mynymbox.io Your go-to for anonymous server hosting solutions, featuring: virtual private & dedicated servers, domain registration and DNS parking. We don't require any of your personal information, and you can purchase using Bitcoin, Lightning, Monero and many other cryptos. Explore benefits such as No KYC, complete privacy & security, and human support. (00:00) Welcome to Freedom Tech Friday (03:12) Nathan Day Joins Us (04:40) Freedom Fest & Bitfest (11:10) The Overland Beast (18:54) Who's Speaking & Ticket Code (22:15) Putting Bitcoin on the Map (32:44) Is It Omarchi or Omarki? (46:48) Should You Pay in Bitcoin? (54:16) Where to Get Tickets (56:03) See You Next Friday!

In these episodes, we read Keonne’s recent letters written from prison. The aim in sharing this is simple: amplify Keonne’s story, support him and Bill, and ensure help reaches their families. If listening isn’t your thing, the full text is linked in the show notes—please read, listen, and share. FREESAMOURAI.NOW Privacy is NOT a crime! Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill, two Bitcoin developers, are currently serving prison sentences for crimes they couldn’t have committed. Join our Bitcoin prize draw to help raise money to support their families and drive awareness to increase their chances of a presidential pardon. 50% of the prize pot goes to one lucky winner. 50% goes to Samourai.Bitcoin only, powered by lightning, and 100% provably fair. Because we don’t trust, we verify. LINK TO THE LETTER AT THE RAGE HELP GET SAMOURAI A PARDONSIGN THE PETITION ----> https://www.change.org/p/stand-up-for-freedom-pardon-the-innocent-coders-jailed-for-building-privacy-tools DONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ USD ----> https://www.givesendgo.com/billandkeonne DONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB Max: flooded the downstairs after leaving a sink running over the weekend, spent Saturday ripping out old timber and clutter he'd been meaning to clear out anyway, then a full kids' day that left them sick afterwards Q: spent the weekend building his own local, voice-controlled AI assistant after watching the new Spider-Man film Q: read this week's letter #7 from Keone, "Notes from the Inside", posted on The Rage -- a tough one on conditions moving between facilities; audio version out later this week, timed with Rick's Free Samurai prize draw Q: enjoyed last week's Freedom Tech Friday listener questions episode, ranging from Bitcoin to Monero to privacy, multisig and local AI NEWS Research lab [alloc] init, founded by Misha Komarov with Clara Shikhelman as Head of Protocol Research, published Shielded Bitcoin, a proposal for Zcash-style private transfers needing no soft fork; shielded transactions are encrypted data blobs carried in OP_RETURN or witness data that Bitcoin only orders and timestamps, while separate indexer software checks zero-knowledge proofs and stops double-spends; value sits in encrypted "notes" spent by publishing a one-time nullifier that proves the spend without revealing which note it is; the peg moving real BTC in and out isn't designed yet and rests on an unproven witness-encryption scheme called PIPEs v2; CoinDesk reports fees around 4x normal, a trusted setup and no launch date -- Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk, allocinit Blockstream published its own post-mortem of the 6 September Liquid exploit: a rangeproof-cache flaw dating to April 2018 ("Bug A"), responsibly disclosed 2 August and patched by 11 August, introduced a second flaw ("Bug B") where unprefixed cache keys let two different proofs collide; the attacker used it to mint about 4,000 unbacked LBTC and peg out 3,996 BTC through SideSwap, draining the reserve from about 4,205 BTC to 197 BTC; 3,400 BTC was returned and the network resumed 9-10 September, but about 602 BTC remains with the attacker and peg-outs stay paused with no date; the 11-of-15 federation multisig worked exactly as designed, the failure was in the software deciding what counted as a valid transaction -- Blockstream Bitget detected unauthorised transfers from its hot and warm wallets at 18:31 UTC on 24 September and froze withdrawals platform-wide; CEO Gracy Chen says the attacker compromised a backend system, spoofed transaction data and triggered Bitget's own approval process, with private key compromise ruled out; the loss was revised from $351.6M to about $387.5M once Zcash and TRON assets were counted, mostly ETH, TRX and USDT with no bitcoin taken; Circle and Tether froze about $318K, while roughly $83M in native XRP moved beyond Ripple's power to freeze; North Korea attribution comes from Bitget, Elliptic and MetaMask's Taylor Monahan, not yet from any government; Bitget says its User Protection Fund covers the loss and is reopening withdrawals in phases from 28 September -- CoinDesk, TFTC, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk (freezes), CoinDesk (XRP), Bitget AMLBot traced part of the Bitget haul from TRX to USDT, bridged to Ethereum, swapped to about 145 ETH, then through THORChain into about 4.59 BTC, with roughly 4 BTC of that linked to an unnamed Wasabi coinjoin round and the addresses "blacklisted"; most of the stolen funds have not moved -- AMLBot on X, crypto.news Matt Morehouse disclosed two denial-of-service bugs in Eclair v0.13.1 and earlier, fixed in v0.14.0: oversized feature-bit init messages could allocate about 300MB per message and crash a node, and zlib-compressed channel queries could inflate 64KB into 64MB; his smite fuzzer found the first, an LLM-assisted search for similar code patterns found the second -- Delving Bitcoin Lightning Labs published four security advisories: a High-rated bug let an invoice be marked settled after an interceptor had already cancelled the HTLC, affecting tapd 0.5.0 and earlier and lnd 0.18.4 to 0.18.5; three Low-rated DoS bugs covered a gossip stall, a panic on a malformed DNS seed response, and memory exhaustion from Brontide write allocations; nodes on current lnd (0.21.3 or 0.20.4) are unaffected -- Lightning Labs security Galaxy's Alex Thorn disclosed that 52.37 BTC from weak-entropy Coldcard addresses, about 2.8% of the total taken and roughly $4.5M, had been moved into an address belonging to a Wyoming "Crypto Recovery Trust" carrying an OP_RETURN reading "claim:cryptorecoverytrust.com"; the trust says owners can reclaim coins by proving control, but the white-hats are unnamed and its legal documents are unverified -- CoinDesk SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce announced she resigns effective 2 October after nearly nine years to join Regent University School of Law, leaving the SEC with two Republican commissioners and no replacement nominee named; two days earlier, at SIFMA's Digital Assets Conference, she argued for replacing KYC document collection with zero-knowledge proofs and attribute-based credentials, telling regulators "we build ever bigger data haystacks on the theory that we will find a needle or two inside" -- CoinDesk, TFTC, TFTC (speech) New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul sued Polymarket US in state court on 24 September alleging unlicensed gambling and underage betting, seeking at least $4.6B in fines; Polymarket moved the case to federal court and countersued, arguing the Commodity Exchange Act gives the CFTC exclusive authority; the next day a unanimous Sixth Circuit panel ruled Kalshi's sports contracts are subject to state gambling law, splitting with the Third Circuit and making a Supreme Court case more likely -- CoinDesk, CNBC, CoinDesk (Kalshi) BitMEX stopped trading, deposits and new positions at 04:00 UTC on 23 September after 11 years, with API withdrawals ending 28 September and website withdrawals staying open; from 1 October verified accounts with a balance pay the greater of 1% a year or $50 a month; owner HDR Global Trading cites a strategic review, with no legal or regulatory issues behind the closure -- CoinDesk The x402 protocol, reviving HTTP 402 "Payment Required" for machine payments, merged Ben Carman's spec for paying with Lightning: the server issues a BOLT11 invoice whose description hash commits to the exact request, the client pays and returns the preimage, and the facilitator checks it against the payment hash and invoice signer without querying the receiver's node -- GitHub PR #2861 RELEASES Am I Exposed v0.36.0 -- 2026-09-26 Detects Whirlpool tx0 premix outputs and Wasabi 1.x coinjoins it previously missed or misgraded, and flags input-side address reuse as a leak instead of scoring it as good. Jam v2.0.0-beta.4 -- 2026-09-24 Fourth beta of the JoinMarket web UI: adds Sign Message, pins the exact UTXOs shown when sweeping, and lets you freeze or unfreeze several UTXOs at once. Shhark v0.8.1-shhark-preview.5 -- 2026-09-12 A self-hosted, privacy-focused Ark wallet preview adding optional Payjoin v2 on Signet, Tor-only networking that fails closed, Silent Payments and experimental post-quantum messaging. ZEUS v13.2.2 -- 2026-09-23 Stable release embedding LND v0.21.3 with SATS Routing and Coinos as swap providers, plus a critical fix moving iOS wallet data out of iCloud-synced Keychain. Blockstream Green Android 5.7.0 -- 2026-09-24 Adds manual coin selection filters, transaction notes and a price chart, and restores 2-of-2 and 2-of-3 multisig account creation. umbrelOS 2.0.0 -- 2026-09-22 Stable release of Umbrel's home-server OS adding a Photos app, multiple user accounts, virtual machines, FailSafe RAID storage and a redesigned App Store. SignerOS v1.3.0 -- 2026-09-23 Fixes a bug where one valid input in a multi-input transaction could make a fake change output look legitimate; every input is now checked against the actual cosigner keys. Blockstream Green Desktop 3.6.0 -- 2026-09-21 Adds paying to Lightning addresses and LNURL-pay from the send flow, redesigns manual coin selection, and restores 2-of-2 and 2-of-3 multisig account creation. Everything Else Amber v6.6.5 -- 2026-09-21Nostr signer: relay backups are now encrypted with a separate derived key, previously readable by any app with a remembered decrypt permission. Arkade TS SDK 0.4.76 -- 2026-09-25Developer SDK patch release for the Arkade (Ark) protocol, following 0.4.75 earlier in the week. Bisq Easy (Android) 0.14.1 -- 2026-09-26Security release: embedded Tor updated to 0.4.9.13, closing high-severity Tor issues, now built from Bisq's own Tor fork. Sister app: Bisq Connect 0.10.0 (2026-09-26), same Tor upgrade. Breez Spark SDK 0.26.0 -- 2026-09-23Adds receiving USDT and USDC, and instant or expedited claims for on-chain deposits. Cashu TS v4.11.0 -- 2026-09-22Backported fixes: melt preimages checked against the invoice hash, requests default to a 5-minute timeout, and closed subscriptions report an error. cln-nip47 v0.2.1 -- 2026-09-26Nostr Wallet Connect plugin for Core Lightning. Dependency updates. Core Lightning v26.06.8 -- 2026-09-22Security release fixing responsibly reported vulnerabilities, confirmed to include the dual-fund drain reported in issue #9498. Upgrade. Ditto v2.42.2 -- 2026-09-27Nostr social server: verified-link badges, muted users blocked from push notifications. Also in window: 2.39.2 to 2.42.0 (posting streaks, emoji packs, push). JoinMarket-NG 0.40.0 -- 2026-09-27BIP-329 labels now distinguish coinjoin output, coinjoin change and deposits; adds PSBT v2 signing and warns when the wallet daemon listens in plaintext off localhost. <a…

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. In this episode we answer your listener questions. Covering everything from local vs hosted AI, Bitcoin multisig solutions, private chat options and even who cuts Q's hair! HELP GET SAMOURAI A PARDON SIGN THE PETITION ----> https://www.change.org/p/stand-up-for-freedom-pardon-the-innocent-coders-jailed-for-building-privacy-tools DONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ USD ----> https://www.givesendgo.com/billandkeonne DONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/ TO DONATE TO ROMAN'S DEFENSE FUND: https://freeromanstorm.com/donate VALUE FOR VALUE Thanks for listening you Ungovernable lot, we appreciate your continued support and hope you enjoy the shows. You can support this episode using your time, talent or treasure. TIME: - create fountain clips for the show - create a meetup - help boost the signal on social media TALENT: - create ungovernable misfit inspired art, animation or music - design or implement some software that can make the podcast better - use whatever talents you have to make a contribution to the show! TREASURE: - BOOST IT OR STREAM SATS on the Podcasting 2.0 apps @ https://podcastapps.com - DONATE via Monero @ https://xmrchat.com/ungovernable - BUY SOME STICKERS @ https://ungovernable.network/shop/ FOUNDATION https://foundation.xyz/ungovernable Foundation builds Bitcoin-centric tools that empower you to reclaim your digital sovereignty. As a sovereign computing company, Foundation is the antithesis of today’s tech conglomerates. Returning to cypherpunk principles, they build open source technology that “can’t be evil”. Thank you Foundation Devices for sponsoring the show! Use code: Ungovernable for $10 off of your purchase CAKE WALLET https://cakewallet.com Cake Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial wallet available on Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux. Features: - Built-in Exchange: Swap easily between Bitcoin and Monero. - User-Friendly: Simple interface for all users. Monero Users: - Batch Transactions: Send multiple payments at once. - Faster Syncing: Optimized syncing via specified restore heights - Proxy Support: Enhance privacy with proxy node options. Bitcoin Users: - Coin Control: Manage your transactions effectively. - Silent Payments: Static bitcoin addresses - Batch Transactions: Streamline your payment process. Thank you Cake Wallet for sponsoring the show! MYNYMBOX https://mynymbox.io Your go-to for anonymous server hosting solutions, featuring: virtual private & dedicated servers, domain registration and DNS parking. We don't require any of your personal information, and you can purchase using Bitcoin, Lightning, Monero and many other cryptos. Explore benefits such as No KYC, complete privacy & security, and human support. (00:00:00) Welcome to Freedom Tech Friday (00:07:16) Small Models, Big Moves (00:24:01) Three Wallets, No Coldcard (00:30:52) Vibes and Benchmarks (00:33:35) Shielded Bitcoin, No Hard Fork (00:37:18) Start9 Burned His Laptop (00:39:50) RoboSats, NWC and DarkWisp (00:45:06) Uncle Jim's Compute Farm (00:51:11) Signal, Keet or SimpleX? (00:56:11) CUDA vs the M5 Ultra (01:00:16) See You Next Friday!