0:00 March Madness and opening banter

06:30 Square’s latest Bitcoin payments rollout and the remaining merchant adoption hurdles

16:13 Bitcoin branding problems and the challenge of negative first impressions

21:30 Reframing the Bitcoin merchant pitch around Lightning, fee savings, and cleaner UX

26:00 Branding for Presidio Bitcoin, PBJ, and the tension between mission clarity and broader appeal

28:50 "Crypto" stigma in tech circles and potential counter-narratives for Bitcoin

36:31 Privacy coins, stablecoins, and open-source framing as rival narratives

43:10 Student visits, "yuppie-elite" skepticism, and the university awareness gap

49:03 What would make institutions and students pay more attention to Bitcoin?

56:51 Education, entrepreneurship, and AI-native alternatives to traditional schooling

01:03:40 Spending Bitcoin, monetary transition, and the long-run logic of better money

01:08:20 Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) announcement, Lightning interoperability (via Lightspark), and cautious optimism around AI payments

01:12:30 Builder branding, Flint, and whether Bitcoin should lead or recede in the pitch

01:15:26 AI’s impact on FOSS, licensing, transparency, and software value

01:26:58 Spiral’s AI playbook, auditability, and the shift from FOSS to sovereignty

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