Rabbit Hole Recap

Marty Bent and Thomas Pacchia go live to break down the week's biggest stories in bitcoin, tech and freedom.

Tonight:

🔓 The Ledger reseller attack: an estimated $86M+ reportedly drained from wallets bought through CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. What we know, what we don't, and how to verify your own setup.

🧠 Justin Drake says head to the "bunker": could AI find a way to break ECDSA before quantum computers do? We dig into the claim and what it means for bitcoin holders.

🎮 AI-modded Halo and how AI is changing gaming.

https://x.com/MartyBent/status/2108380995258855451?s=20

https://x.com/Ledger_Support/status/2108551100613714002

https://x.com/notgrubles/status/2108549968210354591?s=20

https://x.com/MagicalTux/status/2108095743525625998?s=20

https://x.com/LindellYehuda/status/2107999859219587309?s=20

https://www.tftc.io/ecdsa-ai-bunker-mode-bitcoin-address-reuse

https://x.com/ProjectLoupe/status/2108241511607591223?s=20

https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2108586520924012571?s=20

https://x.com/DarkHorseDRK/status/2107446689762267570?s=20

https://x.com/Yodertoter40/status/2107828091691122790?s=20

https://x.com/PubKey/status/2107240022437249075?s=20

https://x.com/CoinDesk/status/2108600970066186301?s=20

https://x.com/BitcoinatBlock/status/2108284480243044407?s=20

https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2108485767739621660?s=20

0:00 - Dashboard

2:56 - Ledger Reseller Supply Chain Attack

10:10 - AI Quantum FUD and ECDSA

20:33 - Project Loupe Hardens Bitcoin Core

24:05 - AI Hacks South Korean Banks

31:57 - Dark Horse Grid Expansion Deal

43:26 - Pub Key Events and BitLicense

49:37 - New York Fines the Amish

52:39 - Russian Plague Conspiracy

57:32 - US Government Bitcoin Movements

1:00:43 - Block's Bitcoin Ad Campaign

1:04:15 - AI Modded Halo Servers

1:10:24 - S&P 500 Concentration

1:15:21 - Pope Leo and Conscious AI

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https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/predictable-rng-fallback-and-32-bit-reseed-in-coldcard-firmware

https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/when-randombytes-runs-but-doesnt

https://x.com/Rob1Ham/status/2083936334511538368

Farside Correction

Strike Launches Beneficiary Planning for Bitcoin Inheritance https://x.com/strike/status/2082560745498157548

CLARITY Act Protects Self-Custody Bitcoin from Abandoned Property Laws https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/2081055716282953999

Vinteum Announces New Bitcoin Fellowship Cycle and Fellows https://x.com/vinteum_org/status/2080376273893728602

Jensen Huang's First X Post: NVIDIA Supports Open AI Models https://x.com/jensenhuang/status/2080643682408321103

Nigeria | Tinubu Establishes Virtual Asset Council

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu signed an executive order establishing a coordinated framework for the regulation of digital assets. The new “Virtual Asset Council” will be chaired by the Central Bank of Nigeria, with the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria Revenue Service, and other financial and national security officials also involved. The Nigerian SEC will oversee virtual assets classified as securities, while the central bank will register payment, custody, settlement, and other non-security assets. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Sparrow Wallet 2.5.3: ERA Hardware Wallet Support, XDG Directories, and PSBT Verification https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/2.5.3

Vexl v1.45.1: Performance Improvements and VCF Contact Backup https://github.com/vexl-it/vexl/releases/tag/v1.45.1_883

Amethyst v1.13.0: Napplet/nSite Browser Host, Cashu CLI Support, NIP-22 Comments, and Tor Onion-Location https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/tag/v1.13.0

Blitz Wallet Android v0.7.14: Faster Payments, Transaction Filtering by Description, and Simplified UI https://github.com/BlitzWallet/BlitzWallet/releases/tag/Android-v0.7.14

India Forces GitHub to Remove Bitchat App https://x.com/callebtc/status/2080576044168339662

Bitchat Enables Offline Self-Transfer to Other Android Phones https://x.com/callebtc/status/2082106744788955310

Bitchat Coming to Smartwatches as Decentralized Mesh Walkie-Talkie https://x.com/callebtc/status/2082427446154997910

Bitle: Open-Source ESP32 Mesh Relay for Off-Grid Bitchat https://x.com/Alacritic_Super/status/2082055423109247402

Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov with Facilitating Terrorism https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-fsb-charges-telegram-founder-durov-with-facilitating-terrorism-ifax-says-2026-07-29/

Colorado's New Restrictive Process for Buying Semi-Auto Firearms https://x.com/avaflanell_/status/2080706895787249842

3:33 - Blaze it

8:33 - Dashboard

9:48 - Corrections

14:03 - Strike inheritance

15:38 - CLARITY protects from Noah Doe

25:18 - Vinteum

28:13 - Jensen tweets

35:13 - Boosts

36:28 - HRF Story of the Week

38:43 - Software updates

55:43 - Durov flips off Moscow

57:48 - Colorado has fallen

1:01:33 - Geo time

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No Agenda Show Announces Passing of Beloved Host John C. Dvorak at Age 74 https://x.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302

Tether’s Three-Way Crypto Deal Falls Apart as Jack Mallers Steps Down from Twenty One Capital https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/tether-s-three-way-crypto-deal-falls-apart-mallers-steps-down

BitMEX Announces Shutdown of Exchange Operations Effective September 23, 2026 https://x.com/bitmex/status/2080201602456301580

Coinkite Opens Reservations for arca Personal Data Haven Hardware https://blog.coinkite.com/arca-reservations-are-open/

Strive Announces Bitcoin Stewardship Commitment Supporting Brink & Open-Source Development https://x.com/colemacro/status/2079907362979410395

Mike Schmidt Volunteers to Coordinate Bitcoin Security Consortium Backed by Strategy, BlackRock, Fidelity & Others https://x.com/bitschmidty/status/2080263159152091455

Galaxy Pledges Up to $5M in Grants for Bitcoin Post-Quantum Cryptography Development https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/2079541359996719512

Startup Founders Urge Trump Not to Block Chinese Open-Weight AI Models https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992

India | Central Bank Pushes Digital Asset Prohibition

India’s central bank is again pursuing a digital asset policy “leaning toward prohibition,” according to new government documents examined by Reuters. The Reserve Bank of India wants banks and regulated financial institutions barred from holding, trading, or offering exposure to digital assets and stablecoins. Officials also warn that offshore exchanges and peer-to-peer platforms are difficult to track. The documents estimate that India has nearly 39 million digital asset investors holding roughly $2.1 billion in digital assets. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Lightning Labs Launches Wavelength: Self-Custodial Bitcoin Payments Toolkit for Apps and AI Agents https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-07-21-wavelength-launch/

Noah Wallet Update Integrates Bark 0.4.0 with Live Backups, Native UI & Easier Ark Features https://x.com/nitesh_btc/status/2080026943035187537

Bark Pay Launches: Self-Hosted Bitcoin Payments Solution Ready in Under 5 Minutes https://x.com/2ndpsy/status/2079932489921941716

BTCPay Server v2.4.1: BIP-329 Label Import, Editable Invoice Comments, and RTL Language Support https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v2.4.1

Tails 7.10: New GNOME Shutdown Procedure and Celluloid Video Player https://tails.net/news/version_7.10/

Wisp v1.2.0: Multi-Account Switcher, Transaction History Sheets, and Improved Zaps https://github.com/barrydeen/wisp/releases/tag/v1.2.0

Hermes Agent v2026.7.20 “Quicksilver”: Major Speedups, Smart Approvals, and Password Manager Integration https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v2026.7.20

JoinMarket-NG 0.34.2: Fidelity Bond Fixes and Tumbler Improvements https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/releases/tag/0.34.2

Wasabi Wallet v2.8.1: Taproot Receive by Default, New Loading Screen, and AppImage Support https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v2.8.1

Dana v0.8.1: Faster Startup, Sat/BTC Display Toggle, and Stability Fixes https://github.com/cygnet3/dana/releases/tag/v0.8.1

Block Buzz: Open-Source Hive Mind Communication Platform https://github.com/block/buzz

US Prosecutes Cop City Protester for Using GrapheneOS to Wipe Phone https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone

Court Rules CBP Can Manually Search Phones at Border With No Suspicion Required https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321338/20260723/cbp-can-rifle-through-your-phone-hand-border-no-suspicion-required.htm

Trump Targets Brazil’s Pix Payments System While Dollar Stablecoins Dominate Local Crypto Volume https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/18/trump-targets-brazil-s-payments-system-while-dollar-stablecoins-quietly-dominate-country-s-payments

France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-internet-service-providers-told-block-access-polymarket-2026-07-17/

3:33 - Opening riff

5:53 - Dashboard

14:03 RIP John C. Dvorak

16:43 - Tether deal fails

23:38 - BitMEX shutdown

30:13 - ARCA

32:33 - Stewardship & Security Consortium

44:53 - Galaxy inb4 quantum

46:48 - Trump and Chinese AI

1:12:48 - HRF Story of the Week

1:14:33 - Boosts

1:19:03 - Software updates

1:39:43 - Graphene user prosecution

1:42:18 - Border patrol owns your phone

1:43:33 - Brazil payments

1:45:18 - France blocks Polymarket

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