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PBJ

With David King, Max Webster, and Steve Lee

PBJ is a weekly live show recorded at Presidio Bitcoin where 3 friends gather to make sense of bitcoin’s latest topics, from distilling technical concepts to discussing new ways to use bitcoin to determining its impact on the financial system. Join David King, Steve Lee, and Max Webster, longtime bitcoiners with deep roots in Silicon Valley, as they swap knowledge, challenge assumptions, and joust about the big questions of the day, bridging the gap between big tech and bitcoin. presidiobitcoin.substack.com

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  • March 7 · 1 hr 38 min

    Codex vs Claude Vibe Coding, Study Shows AI Agents Prefer Bitcoin, Kazakhstan to Add BTC?

    0:00 Presidio power outage almost cancels show & FSD catch-up 05:45 State of AI coding tools: Claude, Codex, Gemini, and workflow shifts 14:50 Writing, AI-dependence, and finding the right human-AI creative process 17:25 Career advice for students and why AI fluency is now paramount 21:54 PB as a hub for AI hackathon and bridging Bitcoin into broader builder culture 28:48 "Internet of earners" & Bitcoin-native microtask markets 33:17 Bootstrapping agent economies, hackathon design, and Bitcoin onboarding 37:45 Lightning infrastructure, open standards, and the case for broader access 41:07 Autonomous Lightning nodes and permissionless Bitcoin yield infrastructure 59:20 Comparing Claude, Gemini, Codex, and building multi-agent workflows 1:17:07 BPI’s AI monetary preferences study: Bitcoin vs. stablecoins 1:33:05 L402 directories and discovering agent-payable services 1:34:41 Kazakhstan, sovereign Bitcoin custody, and open questions for nation-state adoption SHOW NOTES: AI Hackathon: https://hack-nation.ai/ BPI Study - Which Money do AI Agents Prefer?: https://www.moneyforai.org/ - SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@PresidioBitcoin

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  • February 28 · 1 hr 36 min

    Meta Stablecoins Return, Open-Source Agents, OpenClaw Builder Meetup

    0:00 The Presidio Bitcoin Index 04:35 Haley’s raffle tool and the promise of vibe coding 09:00 OpenClaw Builder meetup attracting a huge non-Bitcoin audience 11:40 Jesse Posner’s presentation and the expanding AI vision behind Vora 16:17 Demand for personal agent hardware and secure local AI systems 22:20 Authentication, custody, and the unresolved security model for personal agents 26:41 Builder meetup takeaways & Bitcoin as background/hidden infrastructure 29:00 River’s adoption report, miner migration, and hash rate resilience amid AI demand 33:45 Lightning scaling tensions 43:00 Lightning usage metrics and the rise in settlement volume 50:34 Agentic payments, open-source agents, and the importance for neutral monetary rails 01:02:26 Unhuman domains and the growth of agent-first digital services 01:09:28 Chat as the dominant interface & the decline of traditional apps 01:13:02 Shoutout to Alby & their agent push 01:14:05 Stablecoin news: Stripe to acquire Paypal, Meta's return to stablecoins and Lightspark’s push to win stablecoin payments 01:20:29 Block layoffs and the broader trend of AI-driven restructuring 01:29:00 Corporate layoffs & entrepreneurial adaptation in an AI world - SHOW NOTES: River's adoption report: https://river.com/learn/files/river-bitcoin-adoption-report-2026.pdf Unhuman domains: https://www.unhuman.domains/ - SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@PresidioBitcoin

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