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[[LINKS]] VALUE FOR VALUE Thanks for listening you Ungovernable Misfits, 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/

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Swaps, Signers and Sandbox Escapes | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 65

Nov 13, 2026 57 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. No guest this week, so it's Q, Max, Seth and our favourite Canadian, Jordan, picking through the week's freedom tech news. Before the list proper, a quick detour into the chaos engulfing Nvidia: CEO Jensen Huang's resignation this week off the back of a leaked, unsubstantiated US intelligence memo linking him to a Chinese businesswoman and alleged attempts to get around chip export controls, and what a Jensen-less Nvidia might mean for open weight AI now that it owns Hugging Face. On phones: GrapheneOS is no longer Pixel exclusive, with the Motorola Signature 27 arriving at $1,599.99, and the gang can't work out who a $1,600 hardened phone is actually for. Then the iOS sandbox escape doing the rounds, where Binance warned on X it could expose wallet seed phrases (more from Bitcoin Magazine): Seth breaks down BadQuery and WorseQuery, confirms it's still unpatched, and explains why Cake Wallet's own key storage means the bug alone can't drain funds. Jordan (laptop full of spilled coffee and all) walks through the new BTC to XMR atomic swaps he's building into Ashigaru Desktop on the xmr-swap branch, using the eigenwallet engine to swap Badbank change over Tor with no custodian, a callback to the old Samourai Swaps idea. Q talks through the Universal Ethereum Signer landing first on Passport Prime (Foundation's blog, source on GitHub), built independently by Ledger cofounder Nicolas Bacca with an Ethereum Foundation grant, and why third party apps shipping for Prime without Foundation's permission is the real story. They close out on Maple Work (product page), Maple AI's new desktop agent that runs open models inside a verifiable secure enclave, and where it sits against buying your own hardware. 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...

Don’t Let Them Be Forgotten | The Confab 32: Lauren Rodriguez

Nov 11, 2026 1 hr 3 min

PSA: THE NEW LOTTERY DRAW FOR FREE SAMOURAI OPENS ON NOVEMBER 21ST, 2026. FOLLOW @RMessitt ON X FOR MORE DETAILS In this episode, Max finally sits down with Lauren Rodriguez for a long-overdue conversation about the human cost of the Samourai Wallet case. Rather than rehashing every court filing, we focus on the people at the centre of it all: how Lauren and Keonne met, the life they built before Bitcoin took over, and what it has been like for her to carry the burden of advocacy while her husband is behind bars. Max and Lauren talk about why Samourai mattered, why privacy tools are not some abstract luxury, and why so many ordinary people still struggle to grasp the danger of a world where every financial move can be watched, profiled and weaponised. Lauren also opens up about the pressure of the prosecution, the reality of prison visits, the financial destruction that follows even after sentencing, and what supporters can do now to help Keonne and Bill. We get into the growing threat posed by KYC leaks, physical attacks and surveillance creep, why the Samourai prosecution should concern far more than just Bitcoiners, and why keeping these names in the public eye still matters. If you care about privacy, open-source software, or simply the principle that good people should not be crushed for building tools that protect others, this one will stay with you. 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/billandkeonneDONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/ 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 cyp...

The Hits Keep Coming | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 96

Nov 9, 2026 1 hr 17 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBFoundation suffered a data breach: attackers chained two bugs in its self-hosted cal.com booking software to reach internal credentials and sent more than 23,000 phishing emails, spoofing a Passport recall, to 21,500 email addresses. No Passport or Envoy funds or software are affected, but names, order details and, for some customers, postal addresses, phone numbers and partial card details were exposed. Q posted a full incident report to the community forum and is offering help to anyone affected at hello@foundation.xyz.Max recaps BTC Amsterdam at the Sugar Factory, where he gave a talk on human authority hardware and joined a panel with Derek Ross and Seth.Max is heading to Manchester this week for Freedom Fest, where Freedom Tech Friday will go live from the show with Derek Ross talking through the mobile Linux distro he's been vibe-coding. NEWSLNbits, the open-source Lightning wallet software that sits behind a huge number of tipping bots, paywalls, point-of-sale setups and community wallets most people have never heard of, told every operator to shut down after a wave of attacks drained one of those tipping bots. At around 12:33 UTC on 8 November LNbits flagged a possible vulnerability in its Paywall extension and told operators to disable it; about 80 minutes later it escalated to telling every LNbits service to stop immediately, taking its own hosted my.lnbits.com offline too. The one confirmed victim so far is BitTipBot, whose operator Kevin Ravensberg says new accounts using the exploit withdrew around 2.2 million sats between 09:22 and 14:00 UTC before the shutdown warning went out; he has pledged to repay users himself. A fix titled "centralize SSRF protection and block self-targeted requests" was merged into the dev branch around midday on 9 November, but there is still no patched release, no security advisory and the cause has...

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Swaps, Signers and Sandbox Escapes | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 65

Nov 13, 2026 57 min

Don’t Let Them Be Forgotten | The Confab 32: Lauren Rodriguez

Nov 11, 2026 1 hr 3 min

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Ghostly Messenger with Miguel | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 63

Oct 30, 2026 1 hr 2 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we're joined by Miguel Medeiros, last on the show in February with his phoenixd dashboard. Since then he's shipped Ghostly, a peer to peer encrypted messenger with a wallet built in and no server at all, over 4,000 commits in eight months with version 1.6.0 out this week. He talks us through how it grew out of an earlier project with Nuvi building a decentralised DNS on the Mainline DHT (the same network BitTorrent runs on), how he stumbled into turning that into a chat system, and how he bridges peers from the DHT into WebRTC, Iroh or HyperDHT so two people can talk with no server in the middle and nothing left behind once they do. Most of the demo is practical: wallets for Cashu, Lightning, Ark, Spark, Fedimint, on-chain and USDT sit inside the chat itself, so you can send sats to a contact the same way you'd send a message. He shows off proving identities (Nostr, PGP, SSH, a domain via a TXT record) without any server checking the proof for you, sharing a localhost web app with a contact, and the built in app store: chess, a Quake deathmatch, a shared Minecraft-style world and a cinema for watching films together. He also shows how he runs his own AI agents as contacts inside Ghostly itself, coordinating a "war room" of coding agents that patch and bug-hunt the project while he's away from his desk, and compares the project to Keet and White Noise. Max presses him on why anyone would move their group chats over from Signal or Telegram, and the main sticking point is syncing the same profile across devices, which Miguel's still working on. We also get a tour of his other project, miguelmedeiros.dev, a drivable 3D island built with three.js that doubles as his portfolio: driving, flying or sailing between Mempool Plaza (live blocks from mempool.space), his GitHub Castle, Elektron Mining and a Lightning-powered boat ride, with 47 achievements and multiplayer built in. Links: Ghost...

Flag Theory with Pavol Lupták | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 62

Oct 23, 2026 1 hr 1 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we're joined by Pavol Lupták, a Slovak cryptoanarchist, voluntaryist and perpetual traveller currently moving between Nicaragua, Honduras and (soon) Bolivia and Argentina. He co-founded Paralelní Polis in Prague and the IT security firm Nethemba, and now runs Liberation.Travel, helping people set up residencies, bank accounts and companies abroad. Pavol explains flag theory as decentralising your life the way Bitcoin decentralises money: spreading residency, tax base, banking and companies across several countries so no single government holds a monopoly over you. He talks us through his own journey from penetration tester in Bratislava to giving up his Slovak residency (while keeping his citizenship) and building a life with no fixed tax home. Most of the conversation is practical. For EU and UK citizens, Pavol's advice is to give up permanent residency rather than relocate, then live off crypto loans rather than a salary: he borrows euro stablecoins against Bitcoin on Aave and Morpho at under 1% interest, which counts as a loan rather than income and carries no tax or reporting obligation. He sets out why Paraguay is uniquely useful here: it has territorial taxation and, unlike almost anywhere else, grants tax residency without requiring you to actually live there, just a short visit roughly every three years. He covers the cost and process of getting Paraguayan residency, why it works for families who want a backup plan without pulling kids out of school (international school networks let children switch countries without changing school), why it falls apart for US citizens taxed on worldwide income regardless of residency, and why he's now also testing Bolivia, which offers similarly crypto-friendly non-CRS banking on nothing more than a passport. We also get into his travel and privacy setup: a 7kg bag, a GrapheneOS Pixel, a Flipper Zero, the rugged Tank 5 Pro phone and Even...

A Lottery to Free Samourai | The Confab 31: Rick Messitt

Oct 21, 2026 2 hr 2 min

In this Confab, Max sat down with Rick (@rmessitt on Twitter) to talk about the fight for financial privacy, why the Samourai case matters, and how he helped raise over 10,000,000 sats through a provably fair lottery to support the Samourai developers. They got into the cypherpunk roots of Bitcoin, the dangers of KYC, paper Bitcoin, and the creeping surveillance state, as well as why privacy tools are essential if Bitcoin is ever going to be genuinely useful as freedom money. Rick also shared his perspective on why so many people in Bitcoin have lost sight of the bigger picture, and why supporting people like Keonne and Bill matters far beyond just one legal case. Rick opened up about his own painful experience of losing around 25 BTC in a hack, how that changed the way he thinks about self-custody, and what others can learn from it. They talked through the emotional reality of being hacked, the importance of continuing to learn rather than becoming complacent, and the trade-offs between different custody setups. It was an honest conversation about sovereignty, security, time, family, and how to keep fighting without letting any of this consume your life. LINKS MENTIONED: - Fiesta Lottery: https://x.com/RMessitt/status/1993055214203478261 - Samourai Lottery: https://freesamourai.now - Free Samourai Presentation: https://x.com/RMessitt/status/2105342444594225195 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/billandkeonneDONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/ 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...

More Compromised Hardware!? | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 95

Oct 19, 2026 1 hr 12 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBbitcoiner.guide down due to hosting headachesCorrection to last week's chat about Bitkey NEWSHardware hacker Joe Grand examined a Trezor Model T bought on Facebook Marketplace in Canada in 2025 and a Trezor One from a TikTok shop in August 2026, both from unauthorized sellers on models Trezor discontinued in January 2026; in both, the main microcontroller had been replaced so the device produced one of about a dozen phrases the attacker already knew instead of a random recovery phrase, with a microSD card soldered inside the Model T holding genuine firmware to pass the integrity check and the Trezor One's swapped chip carrying both the malicious and official firmware, costing its owner about $50. Trezor told Zero Day on 15 October this is a known counterfeit method it has warned about since fake Model Ts turned up on Russian marketplaces in 2022, that it hasn't examined these specific units, that its Suite check is designed to catch devices producing predetermined phrases and it knows of no way to pull this off on its current Safe range, and that its 13 October comment about no evidence of compromise referred to new devices bought from its website or authorized resellers. Both hosts stressed this is not a Trezor supply chain issue, unlike the Ledger case, since both devices were counterfeits sold by unauthorized sellers, and urged listeners to buy hardware directly from the manufacturer and be wary of any reseller -- Zero Day (Kim Zetter), CryptoastTrezor said on 13 October it has cut the number of resellers it works with and is reviewing vendor relationships as a preventive step following the CryptoBilis implants, with dropped resellers able to sell existing stock until 1 January 2027; this isn't a flaw unique to Trezor, the hosts noted, but something that could affect any hardware manufacturer -- Bitcoin Magazine, CointelegraphRecapping...

Pirate Radio with SF | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 61

Oct 16, 2026 1 hr 7 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we're joined by SF, aka Pleb Royale, a designer and Noderunner from the Netherlands behind a pile of free Bitcoin art and Noderunners Radio, a listener-funded internet radio station where song requests are paid for in sats. SF talks us through his design background (BTCPay Server skins, the Bitcoin Focus magazine, logo work for Alex Gladstein and Andreas Antonopoulos, and the Noderunners logo that's spread right across the community) and how a group of friends running nodes in the Netherlands turned into one of Bitcoin's most dedicated grassroots scenes, including this year's Noderunners Conference held in Arnhem's old prison. We get into how the station's jukebox evolved: built first by HeroVK as a Telegram bot controlling SF's Spotify, then rebuilt from the ground up with AI once he picked up a Claude subscription, and now running on self-hosted LNbits with its own seven-and-a-half-terabyte music library. Library tracks cost 21 sats as an anti-spam measure, Wavlake tracks run through a value-for-value lane where most of the 210 sats goes straight to the artist, and live DJ and band sets (streamed over RTMP) pool donations that only get split out once the set ends. Everything moved to self-custodial wallets to stay clear of EU rules around holding value, which is also why the old bot's leftover user balances are only now being unwound for withdrawal. SF also sets out the station's manifesto, a push toward a real FM/AM broadcast that could carry the state of the Bitcoin network over the airwaves if the internet ever goes down, and the idea of musicians timestamping their work to the chain as proof of creation. He clears up a tweet aimed at Breez after Misty Breez broke in September (his post, Roy's reply): it wasn't the radio's backend failing, just bad timing trying out Liquid swaps right as the hack hit. Links: Noderunners Radio manifesto, Noderunners Conference, Pleb Royale, Pl...

$93M Drained From Tampered Ledger Devices | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 94

Oct 12, 2026 1 hr 20 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBKeyOS v1.4.1 releasedPassport Core v2.4 internal beta testingPrepping for Freedom Fest UK and AmsterdamMax renovating the house NEWSHundreds of self-custody wallets belonging to Southeast Asian Ledger customers who bought their devices from CryptoBilis, Ledger's authorised reseller for Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, were emptied in a coordinated sweep across six chains on 9 October, with on-chain tallies putting losses at $86M to $93M; Tether froze about $10M of the stolen USDT, and on 10 October Ledger confirmed an "unauthorized hardware implant" in one affected user's device. Mark Karpelès's Tibane Labs teardown found a hidden board inside a Nano X tapping the screen's data lines to read the 24 words during setup and send them out over its own cellular modem, never touching the secure element, so the device still passes Ledger's genuine check; CryptoBilis changed hands in March, with unverified registry screenshots showing a new owner based in China, though nobody has shown a link between the new owner and the theft. Anyone who bought from a non-direct seller should not set the device up, and anyone who already did should move funds to a new seed generated on a device bought direct -- Ledger Support (implant), Ledger Support (halt), Ledger (72-hour update), Bitquery investigation, Tibane Labs teardown, Mark Karpelès, Specter, CoinDesk, The Block, Crypto Briefing (Tether), Cointelegraph (EU report)On 11 October Coldcard said a post carrying a phishing link went out from its official X account and was deleted, telling users not to visit it and that coldcard.com is its only official site; it found no matching login or session record, says its credentials and offline 2FA remain secure, and has asked X Support to escalate, with no losses reported and no confirmation yet of how the post was published -- COLDCARD, COLDCARD follow-up,...

Bitcoin in Every App | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 60

Oct 9, 2026 1 hr 2 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. This week we're joined by Roy from Breez to talk about how the nodeless SDK has evolved, moving from Liquid to Spark after Boltz suspended swaps in August citing AI-assisted attacks, and why Breez picked Spark over Ark: Roy says payments need a near-perfect Lightning operator and that liquidity, not the ledger design, is the real bottleneck. We get into what Breez takes on as a Spark operator, the closed-source nature of Lightspark's SSP versus the open-source SSP Breez has now released, and why Spark's confidential transactions and oblivious send are still on the roadmap rather than shipped. Roy is blunt that Lightning was never a privacy tool, that around nine nodes handle 80-90% of network volume, and that Spark's privacy model is comparable to an LSP rather than something better. We also cover the stablecoin features (Stable Balance, instant on-chain deposits via zero-conf), the Glow reference wallet, and how AI coding tools have cut SDK integration times from weeks to days, including partners going from API key to production in under 24 hours. Links: Breez SDK (Spark) docs, Spark FAQ, Cake case study, Radar case study. 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 a...

The Cop Who Robbed Silk Road | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 93

Oct 5, 2026 1 hr 3 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBWeekend shenanigansMission Control and JarvisMax fighting insects NEWSFormer 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 -- CPSSouth 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 MagazineBlink 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 -- BlinkTether says USDT is coming to Bitcoin this month via the RGB protocol, issued by Utexo, whose co-founder Viktor Ihnatiuk sa...

Freedom Fest UK with Nathan Day | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 59

Oct 2, 2026 58 min

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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 ST...

Letter #7: Notes From The Inside

Sep 30, 2026 24 min

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/billandkeonneDONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/

Did Bitcoin Just Go Dark? | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 92

Sep 28, 2026 1 hr 15 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBMax: 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 afterwardsQ: spent the weekend building his own local, voice-controlled AI assistant after watching the new Spider-Man filmQ: 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 drawQ: enjoyed last week's Freedom Tech Friday listener questions episode, ranging from Bitcoin to Monero to privacy, multisig and local AINEWSResearch 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, allocinitBlockstream 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...

Answering Your Questions | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 58

Sep 26, 2026 1 hr 0 min

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/billandkeonneDONATE 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: S...

MK Ungovernable | What Do You Reckon?

Sep 23, 2026 2 hr 47 min

For years Max would call and ask, “Hey mate, what do you reckon about ___?” This is that conversation, turned into a show. First episode: mind control and influence operations, with a hard look at MKUltra. We walk through history from the priest classes and their drug and sex rituals, war as the original mass psychological operation, Operation Paperclip and the Cold War labs, Sidney Gottlieb, Operation Midnight Climax in New York and San Francisco, Ewan Cameron, Jolly West in the Haight, the moment LSD left the building, Manson and the communes, then the quieter tools that followed: pharmaceuticals, screens, surveillance, COVID-era mass formation. We flag what is documented and what is speculation. We close on how you push back: escape dialectics, Occam’s Razor, question with boldness like Jefferson, and John Lisle’s eleven questions. MK Ultra, answered with MK Ungovernable. What they cover Ancient roots: Plato’s Cave, priests, cults, ritual drugs, warModern U.S. programs: Bluebird, Artichoke, MKUltra, Gottlieb, Church CommitteeSan Francisco: Midnight Climax, Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, West’s crash pad, MansonFrom the 1980s to now: corporate influence, pharma, social media, mass formationHow to stay ungovernable Books they read for this one Stephen Kinzer - Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind ControlJohn Lisle - Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRATom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties Music The Exploited – Sex and ViolenceSlim Galliard Trio – Cement Mixer Pu-ti-put-tiJack Kerouac – October in the Railroad Earth (with Steve Allen)Kraftwerk – Computer WorldMarilyn Manson – Rock is DeadThe Beach Boys – Never Learn Not to Love Got a stone you want turned over? History, intrigue, health, collapse, spirituality, the weird and the unexplained — send topic ideas. X: [@UngovernableMax] and [@prevhashnonce]. Nostr: ungovernablemisfits@...

Breach Season Continues | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 91

Sep 21, 2026 1 hr 15 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB Q: short weekend trip to Lisbon Q: Envoy v2.3.4 out -- stability and maintenance release; faster Bluetooth firmware updates for Passport Prime, bug fixes and further Tor connectivity improvements Q: Legacy Mode beta for Passport Prime -- optional app porting Ledger's open-source device applications to KeyOS so users can manage alt coin holdings on open-source hardware; not installed by default, device stays Bitcoin-only if ignored Max: bought a Stanley flask and a robot vacuum and mop combo NEWS CLARITY Act dies in the US Senate 49-50, eleven votes short of the 60 needed for cloture; every Democrat who voted said no, joined by Republicans Collins, Hawley and Moran; the final text dropped the explicit criminal protection for non-custodial developers against 18 USC 1960 charges -- the same law used against the Samourai and Tornado Cash developers -- keeping only civil protections; Senator Lummis warned failure leaves no realistic chance this decade; the SEC and CFTC immediately signalled unilateral rulemaking -- CoinDesk, Newsweek, TFTC, The Rage, TFTC, Coin Center Two days after the CLARITY Act failed, the CFTC sent a pre-rule rulemaking titled "Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets" to the White House for review; contents are not public but expected to create a path for crypto spot exchanges to operate under CFTC oversight; prepared in advance and filed immediately once Congress failed to act -- PYMNTS, CoinDesk, The Defiant CFTC Staff Letter 26-25 extends to all qualifying developers the no-action relief Phantom received in March; software that passes user orders to CFTC-registered futures firms without holding assets, generating signals or controlling routing does not need to register as an introducing broker; not law, can be withdrawn at any time, and does not protect wallet developers from DOJ...

Is AI Freedom Tech? Part II | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 57

Sep 19, 2026 1 hr 4 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. In this episode, Max chats with Seth for a wide-ranging catch-up on the state of open source and local AI following his visit to the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco. They talked about why AI feels so energising compared with the slower pace of Bitcoin development, how local and open models are rapidly improving, and why more people in the freedom tech world need to pay attention. Seth shared his view that we are already close to a point where self-hosted AI is practical for everyday use, with the right hardware, and explained the trade-offs between speed, intelligence and cost when choosing a setup. Max and Seth also dug into what it means to treat AI like “self-custody for intelligence", keeping your data private, running tools locally, and avoiding dependence on closed platforms that can limit, monitor or shape your usage. Along the way, they covered how AI can help with everything from infrastructure and creative work to family life and productivity, as well as the risks around surveillance, security and misuse. Max and Seth closed by looking at the idea of “resonant computing”, a vision for technology that is private, adaptable and built to serve people rather than exploit them. 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 s...

KYC: KILL YOUR CUSTOMER | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 90

Sep 14, 2026 1 hr 16 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB Max: spent a full day and roughly $100 in API credits on a marketing project using lower-end models rather than his normal Claude subscription -- couldn't use it due to privacy concerns around Ungovernable content; a warning that frontier model quality costs real money per token Q: quiet weekend -- kids party Saturday, christening Sunday; off to Portugal on Friday NEWS Revolut hands passports and Bitcoin histories to a spoofed government request: attackers used a real government agency's email domain to extract passport scans, verification selfies, home addresses, and full transaction histories including Bitcoin activity; Revolut refuses to confirm the number of affected customers, the market, or the agency involved; attacker is now leaking customer files daily on Telegram and demanding 10,000 BTC -- CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Decrypt Liquid exploit recovery: 3,400 BTC returned to block 965950 on September 7 via on-chain OP_RETURN negotiation; ~598.5 BTC (~$47M) remains with the exploiters; Blockstream refused the demanded 10% bounty, called it theft, and says it will work with law enforcement; block production resumed September 10 but peg operations remain suspended -- Bitcoin Magazine, news.bitcoin.com, CoinDesk, The Bitcoin Manual Final CLARITY Act text drops: ethics deal done, developer protections narrowed; the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act now covers civil enforcement only with criminal protections removed -- including the charge brought against the Samourai developers; cloture vote is September 15 at 2:15pm ET, needs 60 votes; prediction markets put passage at ~25% -- The Crypto Times, The Block, The Hill, CoinDesk Chinese quantum benchmark drops secp256k1 attack to 835 logical qubits, down 60% from the 2020 estimate of 2,124; current best hardware reaches 94 logical qubits; addresses with exposed public keys face the greate...

Ashigaru Desktop with Jordan | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 56

Sep 11, 2026 1 hr 2 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. Thanks to Jordan for joining us to walk through Ashigaru Desktop live on air. Jordan built a full graphical desktop wallet on top of Ashigaru Terminal, bringing Whirlpool mixing to a wider audience with a guided tour for newcomers, a dice-based EFF passphrase generator, in-app software verification against his BIP47 payment code, and the ability to mix straight to cold storage using an output descriptor. We watched a full mix go through in real time, explored the Mix To feature for sending post-mix funds directly to a Passport Prime wallet, and talked through bad bank, pool fees, and keeping KYC and privacy stacks separate. Download Ashigaru Desktop and follow the project on GitHub: https://github.com/linkinparkrulz/ashigaru-desktop/releases Learn more about Ashigaru Terminal and get the download: https://ashigaru.rs/download/ Check pool activity at https://whirlpoolstats.xyz/ and connect Passport to software wallets: https://docs.foundation.xyz/passport/connect/ 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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!...

4000 BITCOIN HACKED | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 89

Sep 8, 2026 1 hr 9 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB First live show! Ungovernable.network updates KeyOS 1.4 is out NEWS Liquid exploit: roughly 4,000 BTC withdrawn; return discussions ongoing-- TFTC, CoinDesk, Stacker News | Updates: OrangeSurf, Samson Mow Orionx Exchange Collapses in Chile: $7M Missing, 100K Users Affected -- TFTC Coinbase/Better Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages Can Reuse Borrowers' Collateral -- CoinDesk House Cancels Late-September Votes, Squeezing CLARITY Act Window -- Roll Call, CoinDesk Trezor Breach Worse Than Reported: 67,000 More US Customers Exposed -- Bitcoin Magazine Pocket Bitcoin Breach Links 291 Users' Identities to Bitcoin Addresses -- Pocket Bitcoin Blog Coldcard Wave 3 Attacker Moves Stolen BTC Through THORChain -- TFTC Tether Froze $42.4M USDT on a Verbal Homeland Security Request, No Warrant -- CoinDesk RELEASES Highlights KeyOS v1.4.0 -- 2026-09-04 Major release for Passport Prime with a redesigned launcher, app sideloading with granular permissions, multisig exports for Unchained and Casa, new wallet connections (Bitcoin Safe, Coconut Wallet), authenticator imports from Aegis and Proton, and PIN-before-seed-reveal. Includes security fixes: P2WSH/P2SH-P2WSH change output validation, enhanced ATECC608 entropy, and a PSBT trust_witness_utxo toggle addressing CVE-2020-14199.Cake Wallet 6.4.4 -- 2026-09-04 Adds native Trezor hardware wallet support for Bitcoin cold storage and offline signing. Fixes a security vulnerability (GHSA-695v-fhpj-fv8x) where a malicious deep-link could cause EVM assets to be sent on an incorrect network. Also includes improved Monero sync visibility.Nunchuk Android 2.8.5 -- 2026-09-03 Adds BitBox02 connectivity over Bluetooth and USB, integrates Krux hardware wallet support, and introduces emergency push notifications with home-screen alerts.RoboSats v0.8.7-alpha -- 2026-08-31 Major update adding three new coordinators (Eleu...

The Dojo Bay with Max Tannahill | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 55

Sep 5, 2026 1 hr 8 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. Thanks to xTx for coming up with DojoBay! Follow him here: https://x.com/91xTx93x3 Go and check out https://dojobay.org for more information and be sure to follow Max on twitter at https://x.com/maxtannahill Get the tor browser and visit the reference client: http://dojobayeryasshgghz537de5ckgd5hhi4z5sdeil3roeh65fwhdnu2yd.onion/ 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 CAK...

The AI-Pocalypse Continues | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 88

Sep 1, 2026 1 hr 5 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBWe are now a weekly showTopicsFull screen videoAdmin toolsEnvoy 2.3.3KeyOS 1.4.0 beta3 (public release this week) NEWSCore Lightning: A Critical Vulnerability, a Binary-Only Patch, and a Docker Pipeline That Broke Because of It -- Stacker News / Blockstream Blog / GitHub Release Bitcoin's First Quantum-Safe Mainnet Transaction (No Fork Required) -- Bitcoin Magazine Stacker News Ships Embedded Spark Wallet and Receive Proxy Toggle -- Stacker News SeedSigner Fork Adds Miniscript Support with Liana Bridge -- X/@UnruggableGG Roman Storm Retrial Pushed to April 2027 -- X/@rstormsf Coinbase and Better Mortgage Launch Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages -- Bitcoin Magazine HRF Awards 500 Million Sats to 16 Freedom Tech Projects Worldwide -- Bitcoin Magazine Kraken Users Locked Out After 12,000 Dust Transfers From Sanctioned HTX Wallets -- Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Knots BLAKE2b Hardfork Goes Live as a "Mainnet Trial" -- CryptoSlate / GitHub PR #359 / The Bitcoin Manual explainer Peach Bitcoin Pauses Escrow Model After Swiss Regulator Reversal -- Peach Blog RELEASES Flint v1.0.3 -- 2026-08-28 Security audit follow-up for Seth's BTCPay Server plugin. Strips macOS payloads from the build, pins the release path, and restores file permissions after dylib stripping. All artifacts are Sigstore-attested with no maintainer key required.Also in window: Flint v1.0.2 (2026-08-27) -- 23% smaller package, shared reconciliation scans reducing SDK calls for idle stores, cached Spark network status reads. Follows the v1.0.0 milestone which fixed a payment-hash association security issue.Envoy 2.3.3 -- 2026-08-27Point release improving Passport Prime pairing reliability with automatic retry and clock-drift tolerance. Also fixes a visual bug where seed verification puzzle words could overflow at high zoom, and removes a hardcoded Stripe test key.Sparrow Wallet 2.5.4 -...

Obscura VPN with Carl Dong | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 54

Aug 29, 2026 56 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. Go and check out https://https://obscura.com/ for more information and be sure to follow Carl on twitter at https://x.com/carl_dong 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 Moner...

The Brief Goes Weekly | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 87

Aug 26, 2026 1 hr 11 min

A weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech, hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB (Any Other Business) - KeyOS v1.4.0 now available to test - Envoy 2.3.2 - New website is live: https://ungovernable.network - Great AI chat with Seth on FTF - Talk about the brief going weekly?? NEWS 9/11 Families File Claim Over US Government's 127,271 Seized Bitcoin Published: 2026-08-23 | Source: The Rage Trezor Shipping Provider Breach Leaks Data on ~14,000 Customers Published: 2026-08-13 | Source: Bitcoin Magazine Chainalysis Sues US Gov Over $95M ICE Blockchain Surveillance Contract Published: 2026-08-18 | Source: The Rage LND Reorg Vulnerability Disclosed: Channel Funds Drainable Before v0.20.0 Published: 2026-08-21 | Source: Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #419 Iceberg Paper: Threshold Custody on Lightning Without Protocol Changes Published: 2026-08-22 | Source: ePrint 2026/1757 RELEASES Bisq 2 v2.1.12 — 2026-08-22: Mandatory security update addressing vulnerabilities from a recent audit. Adds reputation privacy via nullifiers and day buckets, strengthens bonded-role registrations with oracle validation, and improves bridge reliability. Updating is required to continue trading. Bisq 1.10.6 — 2026-08-21 Hotfix for critical trade failures introduced in v1.10.5. Mandatory update for anyone who took the security patch. Zeus 13.2.0 — 2026-08-22 Stable release adds LDK support for 24-word seed phrases, upgrades embedded LND to v0.21.2-beta, upgrades Cashu CDK for Minibits compatibility, and lets users set custom Mempool instances for improved privacy. Security hardening and bug fixes included. Frostsnap v0.4.0 — 2026-08-23 Major update with 142 commits. Adds firmware downgrade protection, secure-boot signer verification at build time, descriptor checksum generation, 1-of-N threshold warnings, and unique device name enforcement during keygen. Flint v0.1.5.2 — 2026-08-23 Seth for Privacy's BTCPay Server plugin for nodeless Lightnin...

Seth for AI | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 53

Aug 25, 2026 1 hr 0 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 Sy...

MONERO MONTHLY ...ISH 15

Aug 20, 2026 1 hr 16 min

Max and Seth host Monero Monthly ...Ish. A show that focuses on educational topics, news and updates within the Monero ecosystem. 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/billandkeonneDONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/ VALUE FOR VALUE Thanks for listening you Ungovernable Misfits, 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/ 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! FOUNDATION https://foundation.xyz/ungovernable Foundation builds Bitcoin-centric tools that empower you to reclaim your dig...

Introducing Ungovernable.Network | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 52

Aug 15, 2026 1 hr 3 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. Check out https://ungovernable.network 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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...

What a Week | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 86

Aug 12, 2026 1 hr 1 min

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. THIS IS THE TWEET Q WANTS YOU TO SEE: https://x.com/justh0dl/status/2086202393998291138 AOBWhat a f*****g weekKeyOS v1.3.1 now publicly availableSomething exciting to share on Friday's FTF (delayed by 2 weeks)NEWS The Coldcard entropy catastrophe Sources: Coinkite technical backgrounder / The Rage, L0la L33tz / TRM Labs / coldcard.rip / cktripwire.com / Bitcoin Magazine victim survey EXPLAINER The largest self-custody theft on record, and it traces back to a single wrong conditional. In March 2021 a build guard checked whether Coldcard's hardware random number generator was defined rather than whether it was enabled, so seed generation silently fell back to a deterministic software PRNG. Every seed made on an affected device from that point carried roughly 40 bits of entropy on Mk2 and Mk3, and about 72 on Mk4, Mk5 and Q, instead of the intended 128. That is guessable. Someone did the maths offline, derived the addresses, checked them against the public chain, and swept everything with a balance. Somewhere between 1,400 and 1,800 bitcoin gone, depending on whose forensics you trust, with a median victim loss of one BTC. The part people keep missing: updating the firmware does not fix an existing seed. A weak seed is weak forever. ACTION FOR LISTENERS Move funds to a brand new seed BEFORE upgrading firmware (Lopp's guidance, on reports of update problems).Use high fees. If you see your own coins in the mempool, the attacker opted into RBF and you can outbid them. Window is minutes.Multisig users: consider a private mempool like Marathon's Slipstream.Keep the device; the UID may prove ownership in any recovery process.Updating does NOT fix an existing seed. A weak seed is weak forever.You are exempt only if you added 50+ fair independent private dice rolls, or used a strong unique BIP39 passphrase stored separately. BTCPay Server: unau...

Tracking the Coldcard Exploit with Orange Surf | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 51

Aug 8, 2026 1 hr 4 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. Catch up with Orange Surf: https://x.com/OrangeSurfBTC Check out https://mempool.space 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 u...

Unpacking the Coldcard Exploit | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 50

Aug 1, 2026 1 hr 6 min

Repent, The Fork is Nigh | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 85

Jul 29, 2026 56 min

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBFreedom.Tech launch reminderKeyOS v1.3 now publicly available NEWSIndia orders GitHub to take down BitChat's source code; Internet Freedom Foundation calls it unconstitutional - TFTC: India BitChat GitHub takedown, I4C, IFF / CoinDesk Fourth Circuit says border agents can hand-search your phone with zero suspicion, as a man is prosecuted for a duress-wipe - EFF: Fourth Circuit says border agents can search your phone by hand, no suspicion required / TechCrunch: US accuses American of wiping his phone with a duress password at the border Senate Democrats kill the CLARITY Act before recess; the developer safe harbor (Section 604) stalls with it - TFTC: CLARITY Act rejected, Bitcoin ownership surpasses gold State Department launches a "Freedom Tech" program with BPI, Palantir, and Anduril as founding partners - Bitcoin Magazine: State Department tech program with Bitcoin Block open-sources Buzz: a Nostr-native, keypair-identity workspace for humans and AI agents - LINK BIP-110 approaches its mandatory signaling window with support under 1%, and enforcing nodes staring at a minority fork - TFTC: BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling window below 1% hashrate RELEASES Bitcoin core / protocol btcd v0.26.2 - 2026-07-25Security-hardening for the Go full node: stricter PSBT/input parsing, Schnorr and WIF validation, rejection of malformed bech32, tighter inbound admission.Hardware / signing Keystone 3 v3.0.0 - 2026-07-21Major firmware across all variants of the airgapped open-source signer: reworked passcode/recovery flow, stronger validation, upgraded security policies. Reproducible with published checksums.Trezor Suite v26.7.2 - 2026-07-22Firmware security updates plus a lower 0.2 sat/vB minimum fee and cancel-pending-transaction support.Nunchuk 2.7.1 - 2026-07-16Collaborative-custody multisig wallet. 2.7.0 (07-15) added self-custodial USDT...

Home Mining Mafia with Jon | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 49

Jul 28, 2026 1 hr 5 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. FOLLOW JON ON TWITTER: https://x.com/prevhashnonce 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 Transact...

FREEDOM.TECH IS BACK! | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 48

Jul 18, 2026 1 hr 4 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. GO TO https://freedom.tech/ for more information FOLLOW THE ACCOUNT ON TWITTER: https://x.com/freedomtech 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 i...

Apps Against the Machine | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 84

Jul 16, 2026 1 hr 10 min

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOBEnvoy 2.3.0Full 2.3.0 out of beta: redesigned Send flow with inter-account transfers, message signing, Address Explorer, sub-satoshi fee rates, QR-density adjustment for Passport signing.Passport Prime 1.3.0-betaVault imports, BIP85 passwords, mass 2FA imports, universal QR scanner and loads of bug fixesVisual improvements to the docs siteApp showcase is now liveNEWSEU "Chat Control" — scanning derogation survives Parliament, permanent client-side-scanning law stalls again - TFTC: EU Chat Control, private message scanning, and Bitcoin's open protocols / Patrick Breyer: Chat Control Radar Chat launches: a Signal fork with self-custodial Lightning payments built in - Decrypt: Radar Chat wants to make sending Bitcoin as easy as firing off a text / Atlas21 Bull Bitcoin sues the French Finance Ministry over DAC8/CARF crypto surveillance reporting - The Rage: French Finance Ministry sued over global surveillance database MiCA deadline forces a self-custody exodus: ~70% of departing Binance EU users chose self-custody over a licensed exchange - Blockonomi: Binance reveals 70% of EU users chose self-custody after MiCA / CoinDesk: Binance to stop EU services after failing to secure MiCA licence CLARITY Act developer safe-harbor (BRCA / Section 604) goes to the wire as Wyden fights to keep it intact - TFTC: Wyden, CLARITY Act, Section 604 developer safe harbor / Coin Center: The BRCA survived CLARITY's markup, do not give it up now BIP-110 data-filtering soft fork heads for its deadline with miner signaling near zero - CoinDesk: Bitcoin's BIP-110 fork deadline nears with miner support at zero / Bitcoin Optech #412 RELEASES Bitcoin core / protocol Bitcoin Core 30.3 - 2026-07-10Point release on the current 30.x line. Grab binaries from bitcoincore.org (deterministic + signed), not GitHub attachments.Bitcoin Core 29.4 - 2026-07-10Maintenance releas...

Are You On Radar? | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 47

Jul 11, 2026 1 hr 7 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. GO TO https://radar.chat/ for more information 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 Transaction...

Archipelago with Shadrach | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 46

Jul 6, 2026 1 hr 2 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. Archipelago Foundation: https://www.archipelago-foundation.org/ Archipelago OS Demo: https://demo.archipelago-foundation.org/ 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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. - Us...

The Little Canadian That Could | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 83

Jul 1, 2026 1 hr 31 min

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB • Holiday season is over • UK no longer melting • Samourai updates NEWS • GitHub permanently bans Rust Lightning (LDK); Corallo moves Bitcoin dev infra to self-hosted Forgejo - Bitcoin Magazine: Corallo urges Bitcoin projects to exit GitHub after Rust Lightning ban • Sparrow Wallet Apple developer-account scare resolved - Bitcoin Magazine / Craig Raw / Sparrow Wallet • FISA Section 702 lapses for the first time since 2008 - EFF: Victory, 702 Has Expired • Canada's surveillance-and-speech week: Lawful Access bill (C-22) rammed to a June 19 deadline, "Combatting Hate" Act (C-9) gets royal assent June 18 - EFF: Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous Surveillance Bill / Canada.ca: stronger hate crime protections become law • US CBDC ban through 2030 heads to the President’s desk - House Financial Services Committee • Developer-protection carve-out (BRCA) being sanded down as CLARITY Act stalls; passage odds cut to 50-50 - Bitcoin Magazine: Galaxy Research cuts CLARITY Act passage odds • Bull Bitcoin secures MiCA license in France while keeping self-custody/privacy model - Bitcoin Magazine / Bull Bitcoin • ESMA tells unlicensed crypto providers to wind down as MiCA deadline arrives - ESMA public statement PDF • LND zero-timestamp DoS vulnerability publicly disclosed - Bitcoin Optech #411 RELEASES Wallets • Envoy v2.3.0-beta - 2026-06-22 Redesigned Send flow with inter-account transfers, message signing, Address Explorer, sub-sat fee rates, and custom block-explorer support, plus Passport Prime pairing/Bluetooth reliability fixes. Disclose it is ours. • Zeus v13.1.0 - 2026-06-17 Feature release: Cashu multi-mint sends, queue-less Nostr Wallet Connect payments on iOS, CLINK noffer support, and Cashu-token detection in URLs. Strong ecash plus Nostr-native payments stack for a self-custodial Lightning wallet. • Zeus v13.1.1...

Nostr Evangelism with Derek Ross | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 45

Jun 27, 2026 1 hr 6 min

Two Years In | Letter #6: Notes From The Inside

Jun 18, 2026 12 min

In these episodes, we read Keonne’s recent letters written from FPC Morgantown. The aim in sharing this is simple: amplify Keonne’s story, support him and Bill, and ensure help reaches their families. If his voice isn’t your thing, the full text is linked in the show notes—please read, listen, and share. Thank you to Silas Thornbrook for reading this instalment. 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/billandkeonneDONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/

RESILIENCE IS A VERB | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 44

Jun 15, 2026 1 hr 30 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. [[BILLLKEONNE]] TO DONATE TO ROMAN'S DEFENSE FUND: https://freeromanstorm.com/donate VALUE FOR VALUE Thanks for listening you Ungovernable Misfits, 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://my...

Locked & Loaded with Fenix Ammunition | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 43

Jun 7, 2026 1 hr 6 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. GO TO https://nano-gpt.com for more information [[BILLLKEONNE]] TO DONATE TO ROMAN'S DEFENSE FUND: https://freeromanstorm.com/donate VALUE FOR VALUE Thanks for listening you Ungovernable Misfits, 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 Wal...

The Big Freeze | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 82

Jun 4, 2026 1 hr 4 min

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB FTF with ZachQ eurotripNew Foundation websiteNEWS U.S. Treasury seizes nearly 1B in Iran-linked crypto, Tether freezes 344M USDT on Tron https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/u-s-treasury-the-united-states-iran The Mined in America Act would put the Bitcoin network at risk https://www.therage.co/mined-in-america-act-bitcoin-at-risk/ CVE in Core Lightning: Optech #407 disclosure https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/05/29/ Introducing Cube: Burak unveils a trustless Bitcoin smart contract L2 https://medium.com/cube-bitcoin/introducing-cube-8b3702e470a5 Published: May 2026 Anonymous plaintiff sues for title to $293 billion in dormant Bitcoin https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/anonymous-plaintiff-seeks-legal-bitcoin Published: 2026-05-28 The U.S. Constitution inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain via expanded OP_RETURN https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/someone-inscribed-the-constitution-bitcoin Published: 2026-05-29 RELEASES Bitcoin Protocol, Core, Knots, Security Core Lightning v26.06rc2 — 2026-05-22Release candidate 2 for CLN 26.06. Documentation and gRPC interface refinements on top of rc1's graceful command, sendamount RPC, and BOLT12 payer-proof support. Routing-node operators should test on a non-production node before adopting.Eclair 0.14.0 — 2026-05-21Significant Lightning release from ACINQ. Final versions of channel splicing, simple taproot channels, and zero-fee commitments all ship in this version. This is the Eclair side of the same protocol work showing up in CLN and LDK. If you run an Eclair routing node, this is the upgrade to track.Hardware Signers and Hardware-Wallet Apps Coldcard MK5 launch — 2026-05-29New flagship hardware. Larger Gorilla Glass screen, redesigned buttons, improved NFC, dual secure element architecture retained. Already supported in Bitcoin Safe 2.0.0rc0 from earlier this fortnight.Frostsnap 0.3.0 —...

NO HEALTH = NO FREEDOM | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 42

May 31, 2026 1 hr 34 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. In this week’s Freedom Tech Friday, Max welcomed back Zach Herbert, CEO of Foundation, for a deep dive into practical health sovereignty, starting at home. We moved beyond Bitcoin, seed phrases, and secure elements to the everyday systems thinking Zach has applied to his own biology. We tackled the big three of home optimisation; water, air, and light. Max and Zach explored how to choose and install reverse osmosis with remineralisation (and why it matters), whole‑home and countertop options for renters, UV sterilisation, shower filters, and the very real issues of PFAS, fluoride, and microplastics. On air, we explored CO₂ monitoring, ERV/HRV ventilation, humidification/dehumidification strategies, realistic budgets for owners and renters, and why indoor CO₂ quietly wrecks performance and sleep. When it came to light, they contrasted high‑CRI, no‑flicker LEDs with incandescents, circadian effects, dim‑to‑warm setups, and why harsh, blue‑heavy flicker can spike stress and fatigue, especially for kids. Max and Zach then dug into targeted personal health: why genetic insights should precede bloods, balancing privacy with utility, and how DNA variants (MTHFR, vitamin D conversion, dopamine response, drug metabolism) can explain lab results and guide smarter supplementation (methylated B vitamins, vitamin D) and protocols (sauna, blood donation trade‑offs). They also hit practicals on electrolyte quality and salt (ditch stevia/citric acid, choose clean salts), everyday toxin minimisation (tallow skincare, hydroxyapatite toothpaste, cleaner hair care), and a level‑headed take on parasites and ivermectin. The theme throughout: use tech to restore a more natural environment and reclaim health autonomy without going “100‑step protocol” make quick wins for renters and owners alike that compound over years for you and your family. HELP GET SAMOURAI A PARDONSIGN THE PETITION ----> https://www.change...

AI Sub Slave VS NanoGPT with Milan | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 41

May 26, 2026 1 hr 1 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. GO TO https://nano-gpt.com for more information 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 Transactio...

It's All So Tiresome | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 81

May 20, 2026 1 hr 22 min

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB All aboard the vibe trainFTF with Max TQ got some holidays coming upKeonne appealNEWS Bisq v1 trade protocol exploit: 11.59 BTC drained, fully reimbursed, hardening shipped in 1.10.0 (bisq.community PSA, Bisq on X, reimbursement plan on GitHub)Disclosed: 2026-05-01Bisq's v1 trade protocol had a missing validation check on taker-side input. Because maker and taker were supposed to use the same miner fee, a malicious taker could push a bad fee value through the transaction math and shrink the multisig output to 0.001 BTC while sweeping the rest into the taker's change. Attacker drained 11.59 BTC from 10 users, all on altcoin trades. Maintainer Henrik Jannsen filed a reimbursement plan on GitHub on May 3, payouts in BTC (with BSQ as optional), DAO vote scheduled around May 25. The hotfix landed as Bisq 1.10.0 on 2026-05-16 with broader hardening: trade protocol checks, network message validation, release verification, supply-chain hardening. The Bisq team explicitly flagged the incident as a likely AI-assisted exploit, though they did not detail how AI was used.Sterlingov Appeal: The Criminalization of Privacy (therage.co)Published: 2026-05-12The appellate court reviewing Roman Sterlingov's Bitcoin Fog conviction openly suggested that mixers remain "legal in theory but not practice" once criminals use them. Judges questioned whether running an internationally accessible service forces compliance with every jurisdiction's licensing regime.Pro-law-enforcement CLARITY Act advances out of Senate Banking (therage.co)Published: 2026-05-15The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed committee with expanded surveillance provisions: Bank Secrecy Act integration sixteen times over, new PATRIOT Act special measures. Privacy advocates flagged the breadth of data collection on Americans who haven't done anything.CVE-2024-52911 disclosed in Bitcoin Opte...

Max Tannahill Reveals BIP47DB.ORG | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 40

May 18, 2026 1 hr 1 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. GO TO https://BIP47DB.ORG for more information 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 Transaction...

3D Printing with Gabriel and Urban | FREEDOM TECH FRIDAY 39

May 9, 2026 59 min

A weekly live show covering all things Freedom Tech with Max, Q and Seth. GO TO https://watchmanprivacy.com for more information 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/billandkeonneDONATE 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 Misfits, 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 Tra...

Verdicts From Vegas | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 80

May 6, 2026 1 hr 12 min

A bi-weekly news show informing you on the latest in Bitcoin, privacy and open source tech hosted by Ungovernables, Max and Q. AOB Prime Time reminderVibe codingVegas recapZach PanelQ panel (video not up yet)NEWS Vegas Product Announcements Block launched a new Bitkey hardware wallet with a secure touchscreen and 2-of-3 multisig that removes the need for seed phrases, tying transaction verification directly to the device screen (Bitcoin Magazine).Blockstream released Jade Core, an entry-level open-source hardware wallet with Bluetooth pairing, offline signing, and Blind Oracle PIN protection (Bitcoin Magazine).Lightspark became a Visa principal member and unveiled Grid Global Accounts, connecting Bitcoin-based payments to 175M Visa merchants across 33 countries with plans to reach 100 by year-end (news.bitcoin.com).Block demoed Square NFC tap-to-pay for Bitcoin settled over the Lightning Network with 0% processing fees through 2026, with 800,000+ Square merchants already auto-enrolled (block.xyz).Aven unveiled a Bitcoin-backed Visa credit card with revolving credit lines from $1K to $1M starting at 7.99% APR, 2% cash back, and BitGo custody (GreekReporter).Cash App rolled out auto-conversion of P2P payments into Bitcoin, a 5% Bitcoin Back rewards program at Square merchants, and 5x higher withdrawal limits ($10K/day, $25K/week) (block.xyz).Tether Investments proposed a three-way merger of Twenty One Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy to combine treasury, mining, lending, and capital markets, with Elektron contributing roughly 5% of global hashrate (BM).Sztorc eCash Fork Topic: Paul Sztorc announced a Bitcoin hard fork called "eCash" set for August 2026 (block 964,000). Copies Bitcoin's ledger but reassigns ~500,000 of Satoshi's forked coins to early investors. 80-85% negative community reaction.Posted: April 24-28, 2026LinkDOJ "Developer Exemptions" Announced at Bitcoin 2026 - But Are They Real? Published: April 27-28, 2026Sources: The Rage | Crypto.newsSummary...

No More Martyrs | THE UNBOUNDED SERIES: Colonial

May 2, 2026 1 hr 11 min

In this special episode, I explain why we’re re-hosting the Unbounded archive at Ungovernable Misfits and end the series with a forward-looking conversation with Colonial, author of Sovereignty Requires Privacy: Lessons from the Fall of Samourai Wallet. Tbd and Colonial explore sovereignty as territorial control—physical and digital—and why exposure is the enemy in a world where information is the battlefield. Colonial unpacks how privacy tools challenge the geopolitical order, why martyrs lose, and why the next era belongs to disciplined, anonymous builders who move with intention. They walk through practical lessons from the Samourai saga, from the limits of playing by “their” rules to a new code for anon warfare, and close with actionable steps listeners can take now, including adopting Ashigaru’s Whirlpool implementation and strengthening operational discretion. This one is about clarity over nostalgia: either you control your territory, or someone else will. Resources mentioned: Colonial’s writings at sovereigncolony.com; Ashigaru Wallet and Terminal (ashigaru.rs) for Whirlpool; reading on territoriality (Robert Ardrey’s The Territorial Imperative) and philosophical frames (Nietzsche, Evola). TWITTER: https://x.com/TheUNBOUNDEDPod YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@TheUnboundedPodcast 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/billandkeonneDONATE TO THE FAMILIES w/ BTC ----> https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_JpxtkLv95T SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA ---> https://billandkeonne.org/ (00:00:00) Thank You TBD (00:01:41) INTRO (00:03:28) Welcome Colonial (00:06:25) Defining Sovereignty: Territory, Power and the Digital World (00:11:46) Samourai Wallet and the Declaration of War (00:20:22) The Five Lessons (00:41:31) Without Privacy There Is No Freedom (00:57:05) The New Model (01:08:12) One Rule for...

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Created by: UNGOVERNABLE
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Latest episode: Nov 13, 2026
Episodes: 510
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Language: English

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