Rabbit Hole Recap

Bank of America admitted it willfully broke the Bank Secrecy Act for seven years, paid $1.2 billion and nobody is going to jail. The Samourai Wallet devs wrote software that never touched a dime of anyone's money and they're sitting in federal prison.

Marty Bent and Thomas Pacchia are live in New York to break down the two-tier justice system, the central bankers' bank admitting money runs on bailouts, and the rest of the week in bitcoin, AI and freedom tech.

On today's show:

⚖️ Bank of America's $1.2B fine vs. Samourai and Roman Storm: FinCEN told SDNY Samourai wasn't a money transmitter. They charged them anyway.

🏦 The OCC's debanking report: banks cut off bitcoin businesses and used SAR secrecy to explain nothing

📜 The BIS says money needs "backstops that socialise the inherent fragility." Translation: bailouts. They also admit bitcoin removes trust in an issuer.

🔓 Ledger drain update: a confirmed hardware implant, $100M+ taken from 300+ wallets, and how to buy and verify a hardware wallet

🤖 If copying is free, what's left to own? AI clones of Word, Xbox embracing decompiles and a dead QuickBooks license

⚡️ DOE puts PJM's backup generators on standby in October, and why miners are the best load on the grid

📉 Measured in gold, the average Brit is poorer than in 1975

Drop your questions in the chat. We'll get to as many as we can.

📰 Read the newsletters behind this episode:

Bank of America & Samourai: https://www.tftc.io/bank-of-america-fine-samourai-two-tier-justice

The OCC debanking report: https://www.tftc.io/occ-debanking-report-megabanks-politics-digital-assets

The BIS paper: https://www.tftc.io/bis-money-architecture-of-trust-bitcoin

Ledger implant: https://www.tftc.io/ledger-cryptobilis-hardware-wallet-implant-authorized-reseller

AI & intellectual property: https://www.tftc.io/intellectual-property-ai-copying-gunpowder-colt-bitcoin

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bitcoin #BankofAmerica #Samourai

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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bitcoin #Ledger #selfcustody #AI #quantum

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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