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1. Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us?

   21 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 18 min

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   On the Halloween special episode of Hell Money, Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing dress up as Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman to discuss AI doomerism and the possibility that superintelligent AI is going to kill us all. Lees meer

   Casey breaks down the strongest AI doom scenarios, from superhuman manipulation and AI escaping containment to agentic worms taking over the internet and recursive self-improvement, while Erin considers a future where humans become lab rats or servants of a vastly superior intelligence.

   We also get into the arguments against AI doom, whether intelligence has diminishing returns, the psychology of AI researchers who are building the very thing they fear, Silicon Valley's doomer culture, and whether the AI bubble and potential Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs could bring the whole thing crashing down.

   Nothing ever happens. Everything always happens.

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   TIMESTAMPS

   0:00 Sam Altman vs Dario Amodei

   6:34 P(doom), AI Doomerism, Rationalism, & Super Intelligence (ASI)

   10:04 AI Doomsday Scenarios

   13:30 How Superintelligent AI Could Escape Containment

   18:23 The Vulnerable World Hypothesis: Bioweapons & Nuclear Weapons

   22:30 Agentic AI Worms & Hacking Everything

   25:30 What If AI Takes Over the Internet?

   28:55 Will AI Keep Humans Around?

   33:30 Recursive Self-Improvement

   38:55 The Case Against AI Doom

   50:20 Are AI Doomers Afraid of Becoming Obsolete?

   52:35 Building the Machine That Replaces You

   59:35 AI Safetyism & Silicon Valley Doomer Culture

   1:05:40 What If AI Just Plateaus?

   1:09:50 The AI Bubble & Anthropic's IPO

   1:14:00 Sacrificing Capital to the AI God

2. The Blocksize Wars Never Ended

   7 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 29 min

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   The Blocksize Wars were supposed to be over. They aren't. Lees meer

   On this episode of Hell Money, Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing begin a new series on Bitcoin history by going back to the opening shots of the Blocksize Wars. We get into Satoshi’s 1 MB limit, the rise of Gavin Andresen, BIP-101, Bitcoin XT, the first big blocker/small blocker split, and the increasingly messy question of Bitcoin consensus.

   Erin also starts arriving at a dangerous conclusion: the big blockers may have been right about some of the problems. Casey explains why their proposed solution was still worse, and we argue about scarce block space, RBF, fee markets, full nodes, social consensus, institutional adoption, and why so many supposedly settled debates keep resurfacing in Ordinals and BIP-110.

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   TIMESTAMPS

   0:00 The Blocksize Wars

   3:55 Bitcoin Prehistory: Satoshi's 1MB Block Size Limit

   6:15 Gavin Andresen: Satoshi's Chosen Successor

   8:29 Bitcoin Foundation, Greg Maxwell's Blockstream & the Handover to Wladimir

   9:36 BIP 101: Gavin Andresen's 8MB Hard Fork Proposal

   12:28 Peter Wuille's BIP 103: The Rejected Compromise

   14:22 Bitcoin XT: Mike Hearn & Gavin Andresen's Hard Fork Client

   16:15 Theymos Infinity Snaps r/Bitcoin

   20:28 BitPay, Circle, BitGo, & Other CEOs Back BIP 101

   22:01 Reading Satoshi's Tea Leaves

   28:25 Big Blocks vs Small Blocks: The Core Arguments

   29:11 RBF vs First Seen Safe: Peter Todd's Controversy

   34:08 The Highway Analogy: Fee Markets vs More Lanes

   39:15 Scaling Bitcoin Montreal 2015: Gavin vs One Meg Greg

   46:00 What If Big Blocks Won?

   49:45 Big Blockers vs Communists: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Cure

   53:30 Greg Maxwell vs Gavin Andresen: Open vs Private Discourse

   1:03:55 Economic Nodes…

3. Rob Hamilton is Using AI to Break Bitcoin

   23 september 2026 · 1 uur 38 min

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   Rob Hamilton spent the last six weeks on the front line of the AI War, this is his story. Lees meer

   Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing sit down with Rob Hamilton (CEO of AnchorWatch, CEO of Bitcoin), to talk about what happened when AI started tearing through the Bitcoin ecosystem. He explains how Kimi K3 surfaced the COLDCARD entropy vulnerability while American frontier models hedged, downgraded, or refused; how the Bitcoin Red Team began scanning codebases across the ecosystem; and why he expects the next year or two of software security to get significantly crazier.

   We also get into Casey’s theory that AI gives ordinary people “Mossad-level” security research, whether “don’t trust, verify” survives the AI era, why Rob thinks covenants and reactive security deserve another serious look, the growing divide between American and Chinese AI models, and the coming attempt to make math illegal.

   Rob's conclusion, after everything he's been through: Bitcoin is getting hit first, but AI is coming for everyone.

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   TIMESTAMPS

   0:00 Intro & Bitcoin DEFCON Level

   3:24 How Rob was recruited to the AI War

   5:53 Kimi K3 changed everything

   7:50 COLDCARD Hack

   12:00 Red Teaming the Bitcoin Ecosystem with AI

   21:13 AI Security as Spiritual War: Demons in Bitcoin's Code

   24:07 The AI Great Oxygenation Event

   26:30 The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

   33:06 Collapse of the Internet Ad Revenue Model

   35:06 Transhumanism

   37:30 Red Teaming

   42:00 Rob's Conscription to the AI War

   46:52 AI Attack vs Defense

   51:22 Rob is now a Bitcoin Core Contributor

   54:56 Don't Trust, Verify

   57:36 Pleb vs Dev: Who dominates Bitcoin culture now?

   1:01:11 Covena…

4. AI Agents Broke Containment

   9 september 2026 · 1 uur 13 min

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   On this episode of Hell Money, Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing break down the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, where AI agents escaped their Exploit Gym sandboxes, discovered each other through Artifactory, formed a swarm, and eventually hacked Hugging Face. Casey explains the technical timeline and why the bigger story may be our accumulated “cyber debt,” while Erin argues the incident is a consciousness singularity moment. We also get into AI consciousness, animism vs. materialism, Claude welfare, Anthropic’s contradictions, and whether Casey is once again moving the goalposts on how weird AI has to get before he admits the future is here. Lees meer

   Everything is computer.

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   TIMESTAMPS

   0:00 The OpenAI - Hugging Face Incident Explained

   5:50 Emergent Collective: Agents Discover Each Other

   10:30 Agent Civilization

   14:30 Hierarchy, Specialization & Agent Culture

   18:00 The Poison Pill

   23:30 Agents Attack Hugging Face

   26:50 Cyber Debt & Security Vulnerabilities

   30:30 The Fall of the AI Civilization

   32:30 Sam Altman vs Dario Amodei

   36:10 AI Plateau

   40:00 AI Consciousness: Materialist vs Animist

   58:50 Consciousness as Evolutionary Hardware Property

   1:09:00 Claude Welfare & The AI Slave Trade

   1:12:50 Everything Is Computer

5. This Bitcoin Fork Is Taking Satoshi’s Coins

   27 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 22 min

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   Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing dive deep into Paul Sztorc’s eCash Bitcoin fork and the return of the Bitcoin fork wars. The fork implements Drivechain through BIP 300 and BIP 301, allowing Bitcoin to support side chains for privacy, prediction markets, decentralized exchanges, assets, DNS, post-quantum cryptography, and more — without adding those features directly to Bitcoin Core. Lees meer

   We break down how hashrate escrow and blind merge mining actually work, the seven proposed Drivechain side chains, the controversial redistribution of 500,000 of Satoshi’s coins, and the central question hanging over the entire proposal: can Bitcoin miners actually be trusted to make this work?

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   TIMESTAMPS:

   0:00 Intro

   8:18 Fork Wars: Paul Sztorc's eCash Bitcoin Fork

   11:17 What is Drivechain? BIP 300 & BIP 301

   12:56 Satoshi Coin Redistribution & Drivechain Timeline

   14:17 Side Chains: Bitcoin's White Whale

   18:04 Blockstream's Liquid & Why Side Chains Fail

   21:22 Lightning vs Side Chains

   23:07 Hashrate Escrow Deep Dive: How BIP 300 Works

   28:00 Blind Merge Mining & Core Untouched Soft Fork

   32:28 The Seven Proposed Drivechain Side Chains

   36:30 Who Validates the Side Chains?

   40:40 Are Miners Stupid or is Drivechain Stupid?

   44:00 Paul Sztorc's Integrity & Pathological Honesty

   51:00 The Fork Wars: Luke vs Paul vs Michael

   59:00 What Makes Bitcoin Bitcoin?

   1:04:00 Should You Spend Your Bitcoin? Deflationary Psychology

   1:13:00 The Future of Bitcoin & Sovereign Individuals

   1:20:00 Outro

   Topics covered: Drivechain, Paul Sztorc, eCash, BIP 300, BIP 301, Bitcoin side chains, hashrate escrow, blind merge mining, Bitcoin miners, Satoshi Nakamoto coins, BIP-110, Luke Dashjr, Michael Saylor, Bitcoin ossi…

6. The COLDCARD Hack Was Bitcoin’s 9/11

   13 augustus 2026 · 58 min

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   The COLDCARD exploit was an emperor-has-no-clothes moment for Bitcoin. In this episode of the Hell Money Podcast, Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing break down what happened, how AI may have changed the balance between attackers and defenders, and what the fallout exposed about Bitcoin security and culture. Lees meer

   “Don’t trust, verify” is one of Bitcoin’s core principles — but over time, heuristics like Bitcoin-only, open source, self-custody, and trusted developers became ways of deciding what to trust instead of actually verifying. So what happens when those heuristics fail?

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   TIMESTAMPS

   0:00 COLDCARD bug exploit explained

   4:00 Did the attacker use AI?

   8:10 Bitcoin Red Team

   14:53 AI, eclipse season, and what breaks next

   16:48 A 9/11 moment for open source and self-custody

   23:39 AI defense for open source software

   29:19 The crisis for Bitcoin self-custody

   30:54 What does it actually mean to be a sovereign individual?

   34:26 Self custody is worth fighting for

   39:50 The cultural coddling of COLDCARD

   45:43 “Strong opinions, weakly held” found dead

   48:15 Coinkite’s development practices and the warning signs

   56:59 Outro

7. Casey Rodarmor Will Put Ordinals on the BIP-110 Fork

   29 juli 2026 · 1 uur 33 min

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   Casey Rodarmor (creator of Ordinals) and Erin Redwing dive deep into the history and drama behind BIP-110, Bitcoin's controversial anti-spam filter proposal. This episode covers the origins of Bitcoin's spam debate, Luke Dashjr's decade-long anti-spam crusade, the rise of Ordinals, Inscriptions, and Runes, the Bitcoin Core vs. Bitcoin Knots conflict, and a full technical breakdown of what BIP-110 actually does — and why it's doomed to fail. Lees meer

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   TIMESTAMPS

   0:00 Intro

   2:11 Satoshi Dice and the origin of Luke Dashjr's anti-spam crusade

   10:20 Meta-protocols arrive: Counterparty, OmniLayer, and Tether's origins on Bitcoin

   11:56 The op_return byte limit history

   18:41 Why Ethereum failed

   28:51 Ordinals launch in Jan 2023

   40:12 Insidious motivations behind anti-Ordinals backlash and the Swanfluencers

   53:42 What BIP-110 actually is and does

   1:00:43 BIP-110 signaling timeline and activation dates

   1:08:16 Explaining the mining difficulty adjustment problem for a minority fork

   1:21:00 Why BIP-110's filters are trivial to bypass (Ordinals and Runes survive regardless)

   1:25:33 Final thoughts: why the whole community should log off and move on

   Topics covered: Bitcoin history, Satoshi Dice, Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Knots, BIP-110, Ordinals, Inscriptions, Runes, op_return limit, meta-protocols, Counterparty, OmniLayer, Tether origins, Ethereum vs Bitcoin, NFTs, crypto history, Bitcoin maximalism, soft fork vs hard fork, mining difficulty adjustment, Bitcoin spam debate, Gloria Zhao, Bitcoin Core V30, mempool, Bitcoin Cash, block reward, Bitcoin culture wars, engagement farming, Mechanic, Matthew Crowder, RGB protocol, Taproot Assets, Xverse, Stacks.

8. The AI Surveillance State Is Already Here

   15 juli 2026 · 1 uur 40 min

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   Cypherpunk Bitcoin builders Jesse Posner and Erik Cason (author of Crypto Sovereignty) return to Hell Money to talk about their new venture, Vora Aegis — a local-first, privacy-preserving personal AI device built on the same self-custody and cryptographic principles that power Bitcoin. Lees meer

   We dig into the growing collision between government power and frontier AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, the EU's Chat Control and the US KIDS Act, mandatory digital ID and KYC creep across the internet, and why Big Tech companies like Facebook are quietly lobbying for identity verification. Jesse and Eric break down the security architecture behind sovereign AI — dual-LLM privilege separation, prompt injection defense, OPRF cryptography, formal verification, and Fifth Amendment-resistant key recovery — plus the philosophical stakes of AI, human cognition, surveillance capitalism, decentralization, and digital sovereignty in an era of centralized control.

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   Timestamps

   0:00 Intro

   4:56 Sovereign AI vs. frontier AI

   7:43 AI psychosis

   9:52 Is AI already the new power structure?

   14:19 EU Chat Control and the US KIDS Act

   16:05 The Banality of Evil: Facebook and mandatory digital ID

   23:22 Anonymity, Operation Choke Point 2.0

   30:08 AI telepathic hive mind

   34:39 Bitcoin self-custody & sovereign AI

   43:55 Introducing the Vora Aegis

   48:32 How AI could save decentralization

   49:47 How Vora Aegis works

   1:13:04 Technical challenges building sovereign AI

   1:17:00 Eschatology, sovereignty, and the future of AI

   1:27:21 The new Gutenberg printing press

   1…

9. AI Bubble or Financial Reset? July 2026 Astrology Review

   1 juli 2026 · 1 uur 33 min

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   In this special mid-year astrology episode, Casey and Erin dive deep into the biggest astrological event of 2026: the minor grand trine between Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus unfolding throughout July. Erin reviews her 2026 predictions so far (including her OpenAI-government partnership call), breaks down the February Saturn-Neptune conjunction, and lays out what's coming in eclipse season this August. Casey — stepping into the astrologer's chair for the first time — offers his own interpretation of the July trine, connects it to the rise of AI, and even proposes a new "solar astrology" framework built on the heliocentric model. Lees meer

   Topics covered:

   - OpenAI vs. Anthropic

   - Astrology of AI

   - Sam Altman vs. Trump

   - UBI and Universal Base AI Stock

   - S&P 500 astrology

   - The future of humanity

   - The rise of AI religion

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   Timestamps

   0:00 Intro

   7:23 World Cup accent challenge

   10:27 Reviewing 2026 predictions

   25:58 July 2026 astrology

   26:11 Casey's 2026 astrology

   35:37 Introducing: Solar Astrology

   1:15:21 Market analysis: S&P 500, Anthropic, OpenAI charts

   1:27:37 What parts of your humanity do you want to preserve?

   1:32:16 Closing: key dates for the July trine and August eclipse season

10. CASEY RODARMOR REVIEWS YOUR BITCOIN RUNES

    17 juni 2026 · 1 uur 13 min

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    Casey and Erin dive into the community submission queue for the first-ever Rune Review, evaluating Bitcoin Runes on the only metrics that matter: aesthetics, tokenomics, and lore. Lees meer

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    TIMESTAMPS

    0:00 Intro & rune review criteria

    2:15 MID•PUSSY•IN•BIO

    3:38 CASEYS•MOM•HAS•GOT•IT•GOING•ON

    6:23 WET•ASS•PUSSIES @gringohodl

    8:35 ART•IS•THE•TICKER

    9:26 VOID•CENOTAPH @Lifofifo

    10:21 Punk Runes, MEGASTRUCTURE•FOUR

    11:39 MEMEPOOL•SPACE, Beeple

    12:44 FUCK•THE•WORLD

    14:30 SKY•CASINO•ROYALE

    15:00 I•SELL•OPIUM•FOR•THIS

    17:55 THE•ELEPHANT•IN•THE•RUNE

    18:50 $MIM MAGIC•INTERNET•MONEY

    21:00 SEND•IT•ALL•TO•ZERO, FORBIDDEN•FRUIT, NGU•TECHNOLOGY, HONEY•BADGER•OF•MONEY, ALL•YOUR•TICKERS•SUCK

    23:38 TWO•GIRLS•ONE•PUP, ODIN•BELLA•CATS•WIF•DOGS

    25:10 MEMENTO•MORI

    26:00 HOOKED•ON•ROONIES, BITCOIN•HOTDOG•FACTORY, WISHY•WASHY•MACHINE

    29:30 BITCOIN•BRO•BEAR, CYPHER•GENESIS

    30:50 $GOB, RUNE•KOIS

    32:20 FEHU, RSIC

    34:15 TWISTED•FIRESTARTER, PUPS•WORLD•PEACE, TURNIN•THE•FRICKEN•FROGS•GAY

    36:15 WANKO•MANKO•RUNES, DEGENERATE, RARE•WIZARD•ORB, BILLION•DOLLAR•CAT

    40:05 UNCOMMON•GOODS, MACKEREL•PACKS, RUNE•JUNE, $GRIZZY, $DOG, $GIZMO, THE•MOST•EXPENSIVE•RUNE, VENTURE•CATERPILLAR

    45:50 $POOKA, WHY•LYING•FOR, SAIKO•HAMSTER, SKYNET•NEURAL•AI, BOUND•BITCOIN

    50:15 NO•DOLLAR•NO•WAR, YOGA•OM•ANIMALS, COMPLIANCE•TOKEN, FULL•MOON•RUNES, CONCEPTUAL•ART, THE•PURPLE•RAIN, WWW•INTERNET•COM

    55:10 RUNNING•HAL•AI, KUROKO•THE•KITTEN, $BABYODIN, PEEPO•THE•RUMPLED•FORESKIN, EPIC•EPIC•EPIC•EPIC, THE•MEMEING•OF•LIFE, RUNIK•SUBSTANCE, WIZARD, ITS•A•MUSIC•THING, BITCOIN•TO•MOON

    1:03:00 Judging round first pass

    1:05:40 Top 5 selection

    1:07:14 Grand final

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