0:00 Schedule changes and personal updates

1:50 Hack-Nation AI Global Hackathon @ PB and Spiral’s bitcoin payments challenge

5:40 Lowering the barrier & reducing friction for builders new to bitcoin

8:55 Student outreach and Presidio Bitcoin as a bridge into bitcoin

11:25 Iran, Strait of Hormuz tolls, and bitcoin’s geopolitical use case

17:46 Settlement, unit of account, and bitcoin between adversaries

24:35 Bitcoin as neutral protocol and the analogy to internet rails

26:45 Anthropic and whether the sovereign individual thesis survives AI concentration/centralization

38:55 Corporate dependence on frontier models and the risk of model lock-in

55:54 The future of scarcity, defensibility, and startups as AI power concentrates

1:06:46 Presidio Bitcoin’s Quantum Readiness Report overview & what makes it special

1:15:48 Quantum response scenarios: orderly & emergency migration + break-glass planning

1:25:49 New quantum developments: Google AI, Lalu's recovery proof, QSB, and other interim mitigations

1:34:40 BIP-360, Taproot, and possible upgrade paths under accelerated quantum timelines

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