Escape the Technocracy

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Daniel Sempere Pico (formerly BTCGandalf) about how he uses AI for his own productivity.

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
1:20 – Daniel Sempere Pico origin story (BTCGandalf)
6:40 – Rebuilding a Twitter audience
8:00 – World travel
11:15 – User experience of AI changing
14:10 – Daniel's setup
20:55 – What to look for in a text AI model
23:40 – Cost of AI (for agentic use)
27:30 – How invasive is your AI use?
30:30 – AI Big Tech ruling our lives
34:35 – Death of self-hosting AI?
37:50 – Art AI
40:40 – Voice consistency while using AI
44:50 – Final thoughts on AI
 
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Alejandra Guajardo Sada, "Miss Bitcoin," about her journey from a winner of Miss Universe El Salvador to a Bitcoin advocate and natural skincare entrepreneur.

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
1:48 – Alejandra's origins
11:52 – Post-Miss Universe
14:22 – El Salvador during rise of Bitcoin adoption
16:00 – Travel stories
22:08 – Bitcoin Bookshelf 
24:17 – Sada Organics
27:50 – Why beef tallow?
31:10 – Detox tea
34:20 – Final thoughts
 
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

A Torchlight Chat about one of the scariest hacks ever: the Coldcard Bitcoin wallet hack of late July 2026 that has evaporated hundreds of millions of dollars and counting. The carnage will not stop. We discuss what happened, what you should do, and what the conspiracies are….

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→ https://x.com/MissBitcoin_/status/2083355299587756188  (Simpler explanation of the problem)
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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
2:35 – The details of the Coldcard exploit
10:30 – Steps to take 
18:30 – Creating a new wallet
24:45 – Don't update your Coldcard (before sending your funds out)
26:25 – More detail about the random generation flaw
29:00 – Who is draining the Coldcard wallets?
31:55 – Coinbase the solution?!?
34:30 – Is Coldcard anti-FOSS positioning what caused the problem?
39:50 – Should we condemn the Coldcard shills?
44:40 – Is this problem only for Coldcard – is AI a problem?
52:05 – Coldcard retweeted Urban? (Destroying their current devices)
55:30 – Was the commit that changed the seed phrase generation a conspiracy?
1:03:15 – Coldcard hack will wreck the history of Bitcoin privacy
1:07:20 – Final thoughts
 
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Beneath a crimson sky, a specter approaches.
 
The Privacy Postmaster rides...

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