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The rebrand is official, The Good Stuff is now Intelligence Snacks.
The episode opens with the ColdCard hack that swept ~1,300+ Bitcoin over the weekend. A 2021 firmware bug disabled the hardware RNG and used a pseudo-random one instead. The prevailing theory - Kimi K3, released without guardrails, found the exploit. US models refused to help with offense or defense, they treated code auditing as a cyber attack. So the Bitcoin community turned to open models for red teaming. Crisis response agents, knowledge management, Pliny the eldar and more!
**Key Moments:**
- [03:50] The hack: "Private keys that were not random. Orders of magnitude easier to crack."
- [06:24] "The conjecture is Kimi K3 found the exploit."
- [07:11] "Opus, Fable, GPT 5.6 — Claude models just refused to do anything."
- [11:45] "Rick was pulling Twitter every 10 minutes... validated proof within 10 minutes of where each exploit was in the code."
- [14:20] "Having your agent go, 'Let me handle the noise' — here's step one, two, three."
- [19:30] Pliny: "Part news capture, part educational briefing. If I've never encountered that content, it does an ELI5."
- [24:03] "The thing an X feed gives you is randomness. I couldn't recreate that deterministically."
- [26:15] "You need a subject area graph — what are the obvious nodes missing?"
- [30:22] "The consulting joke — just be two pages ahead of the client."
**Friends of the Pod:** Kevin Loaec, Lloyd, Rod, Shoshow.live
**Concepts Introduced:** Intelligence Snacks (high-leverage AI insertion points), AI situation room (crisis response with agents), retirement attack (vendor-controlled "random" seeds), the serendipity problem (preserving randomness in filtered feeds)
