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Hell Money · September 23 · 1 hr 37 min

Rob Hamilton is Using AI to Break Bitcoin

Rob Hamilton spent the last six weeks on the front line of the AI War, this is his story. Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing sit down with Rob Hamilton (CEO of AnchorWatch, CEO of Bitcoin), to talk about what happened when AI started tearing through the Bitcoin ecosystem. He explains how Kimi K3 surfaced the COLDCARD entropy vulnerability while American frontier models hedged, downgraded, or refused; how the Bitcoin Red Team began scanning codebases across the ecosystem; and why he expects the next year or two of software security to get significantly crazier. We also get into Casey’s theory that AI gives ordinary people “Mossad-level” security research, whether “don’t trust, verify” survives the AI era, why Rob thinks covenants and reactive security deserve another serious look, the growing divide between American and Chinese AI models, and the coming attempt to make math illegal. Rob's conclusion, after everything he's been through: Bitcoin is getting hit first, but AI is coming for everyone. Get bonus content by subscribing to @hellmoneypod on X:https://x.com/hellmoneypod/creator-subscriptions/subscribe Or support the podcast by sending a BTC donation:bc1qztncp7lmcxdgude4px2vzh72p2yu2aud0eyzys ORDINALS SHIRT:https://shop.inscribing.com/products/ordinals-protocol-shirt Rob Hamilton: https://x.com/Rob1HamAnchorWatch: https://www.anchorwatch.com/ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro & Bitcoin DEFCON Level 3:24 How Rob was recruited to the AI War 5:53 Kimi K3 changed everything 7:50 COLDCARD Hack 12:00 Red Teaming the Bitcoin Ecosystem with AI 21:13 AI Security as Spiritual War: Demons in Bitcoin's Code 24:07 The AI Great Oxygenation Event 26:30 The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect 33:06 Collapse of the Internet Ad Revenue Model 35:06 Transhumanism 37:30 Red Teaming 42:00 Rob's Conscription to the AI War 46:52 AI Attack vs Defense 51:22 Rob is now a Bitcoin Core Contributor 54:56 Don't Trust, Verify 57:36 Pleb vs Dev: Who dominates Bitcoin culture now? 1:01:11 Covenants & Reactive Security 1:19:47 US vs China AI Models 1:27:35 Open Weight Models vs Frontier Labs 1:30:29 Math is Illegal 1:32:25 Raising Kids in the AI Era & Outro

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Rob Hamilton spent the last six weeks on the front line of the AI War, this is his story.


Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing sit down with Rob Hamilton (CEO of AnchorWatch, CEO of Bitcoin), to talk about what happened when AI started tearing through the Bitcoin ecosystem. He explains how Kimi K3 surfaced the COLDCARD entropy vulnerability while American frontier models hedged, downgraded, or refused; how the Bitcoin Red Team began scanning codebases across the ecosystem; and why he expects the next year or two of software security to get significantly crazier.


We also get into Casey’s theory that AI gives ordinary people “Mossad-level” security research, whether “don’t trust, verify” survives the AI era, why Rob thinks covenants and reactive security deserve another serious look, the growing divide between American and Chinese AI models, and the coming attempt to make math illegal.


Rob's conclusion, after everything he's been through: Bitcoin is getting hit first, but AI is coming for everyone.


Get bonus content by subscribing to @hellmoneypod on X:https://x.com/hellmoneypod/creator-subscriptions/subscribe


Or support the podcast by sending a BTC donation:bc1qztncp7lmcxdgude4px2vzh72p2yu2aud0eyzys


ORDINALS SHIRT:https://shop.inscribing.com/products/ordinals-protocol-shirt


Rob Hamilton: https://x.com/Rob1HamAnchorWatch: https://www.anchorwatch.com/


TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro & Bitcoin DEFCON Level

3:24 How Rob was recruited to the AI War

5:53 Kimi K3 changed everything

7:50 COLDCARD Hack

12:00 Red Teaming the Bitcoin Ecosystem with AI

21:13 AI Security as Spiritual War: Demons in Bitcoin's Code

24:07 The AI Great Oxygenation Event

26:30 The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

33:06 Collapse of the Internet Ad Revenue Model

35:06 Transhumanism

37:30 Red Teaming

42:00 Rob's Conscription to the AI War

46:52 AI Attack vs Defense

51:22 Rob is now a Bitcoin Core Contributor

54:56 Don't Trust, Verify

57:36 Pleb vs Dev: Who dominates Bitcoin culture now?

1:01:11 Covenants & Reactive Security

1:19:47 US vs China AI Models

1:27:35 Open Weight Models vs Frontier Labs

1:30:29 Math is Illegal

1:32:25 Raising Kids in the AI Era & Outro

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