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Welcome to Cypherpunk’d, where we explore the intersection of privacy, technology, and personal freedom in the digital age. Hosted by Matty Ice, this podcast delves into the challenges posed by government surveillance and big tech’s intrusion into our lives. We bring you thought-provoking conversations with thought leaders, authors, computer scientists, Bitcoiners, entrepreneurs, and human rights activists who are at the forefront of the digital resistance. Each episode cuts through the noise to tackle critical topics like privacy, human rights, economics, cryptography, Web 3, Bitcoin, AI, and more. Our daily roundtable discussions offer deeper insights into current events, fostering open dialogue and defending the fundamental right to privacy. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a privacy advocate, or simply concerned about the future of personal freedom, Cypherpunk’d is your guide to understanding and navigating the complexities of the digital world. Join us as we explore the tools and ideas that empower you to protect your privacy and secure your future.
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- Aug 11, 202655 min
Is Bitcoin Self-Custody Broken? Coldcard Flaw & The Future of Security
Over $100M in Bitcoin vanished from hardware wallets — no phishing, no malware, nobody touched a device. Just a broken random number generator that sat in open-source code for five years. Matty sits down with Dr. Francesco Madonna — physician, former military medical officer, and founder/CEO of BitVault — to break down exactly how the Coldcard entropy failure worked, why "random" wasn't random, and what it means for the future of self-custody. Francesco also walks through his own near-miss with a physical attack scam, and how it led him to build a wallet where a stolen seed phrase still can't drain your funds — using on-chain time-locks and 2-of-3 multisig that always give the real owner priority over the attacker. In this episode: • How a single build flag turned "random" seeds into guessable ones • Why hardware wallets were never the whole story • Time-locked vaults, explained (the 80-year-old bank tech behind them) • Open source vs. closed source after a 5-year public bug • Francesco's Dubai-diamond-dealer scam story (and why he moved countries) • The 60/20/20 self-custody debate: are you a self-custody maxi? ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 Cold open 01:15 Dive in — what happened with Coldcard? 01:55 The RNG that was disconnected 02:36 The unvetted library & the ignored warning 03:02 "Less bits of entropy" — the seed phrase problem 03:42 1-to-100 vs 1-to-5: why randomness matters 04:36 Is your crypto safe? A dark week for self-custody ~09:00 Are you a self-custody maxi? ~14:00 Don't put all your eggs in one basket (the 60/20/20) ~22:00 Insurance, Coinbase vaults & Anchor Watch ~26:00 Time locks explained — the bank vault analogy ~34:00 The A/B/C multisig & why the user always has priority ~46:00 Open source vs closed source after the breach ~50:00 AI in wallet security / the red team 51:07 Lugano & Plan B 51:41 Final advice: self-custody didn't fail 53:59 Wrap & BitVault plug 54:25 Outro — cypherpunk manifesto quotes 🔐 Check out BitVault: https://bitvault.sv | @BitvaultApp 🎙️ Guest: Dr. Francesco Madonna — https://x.com/CiccioMadonna 🐇 Subscribe to Cypherpunk'd and head down the rabbit hole. ⚠️ Not financial advice. Do your own research. Bitcoin #SelfCustody #Coldcard #HardwareWallet #Cypherpunk #Multisig #BitVault #CryptoSecurity #Entropy
- Jul 10, 202654 min
Bitcoin's Most Dangerous Idea | Kent Halliburton
Kent Halliburton (Sazmining) grew up on a cranberry farm in Oregon, spent a decade in solar, and now runs a Bitcoin mining company from the jungle in Peru. This one goes deep. We get into why buying your Bitcoin on an exchange makes you a consumer instead of a producer, the 2013 split that broke how the community thinks about mining, "fiat hashers," and why the pubcos pivoting to AI might actually be a good thing. Then it gets real — Kent walks through the six-figure in-person scam that hit him in Amsterdam (yes, the one Wired covered), why the right to transact might be the most important right we have, and why he thinks Bitcoin is a 1,000-year project we're not building like one yet. Chapters: 00:00 Cold open 01:30 Cranberry farm to Bitcoin mining 09:00 Wild sats & the 2013 timeline split 18:00 Fiat hashers & mining centralization 27:00 The right to transact 34:00 KYC is a honeypot 41:00 The Amsterdam scam 52:00 Bitcoin as a 1,000-year project Sponsored by Sazmining and LEDN. Follow Kent: @khalliburton Subscribe for weekly Bitcoin, freedom, and sovereignty conversations. Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #Sazmining #Cypherpunk
- Jun 6, 202619 min
A Fake Ledger Letter Cost Her Everything | Karen Faye's Bitcoin Story
After 49 years as a nurse, three children raised alone, and a husband lost to Agent Orange, Karen Faye saved every dollar she could into 1.67 Bitcoin. In April 2026, a phishing letter — sent to her real address with her real name, using data leaked in @Ledger's 2020 CRM breach — took it all. In her honor, we built Faye: a free scam-check tool. Point your phone at any letter, email, or message. Get an instant verdict. 🛡 When in doubt — Faye it out. https://protocolpulse.io/faye ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🟠 HELP KAREN REBUILD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Verified Bitcoin wallet, created on a new hardware device: bc1qymlnquevxhedlqt52uutuz7h4qrkglf00dan42 Or scan the QR at: https://protocolpulse.io/faye100% of donations go directly to Karen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡 THE THREE RULES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Anyone asking for your seed phrase, PIN, or wallet access is a scammer. Do not trust messages that come to you. Not email, calls, texts, DMs. "Urgent security problem" is always a red flag. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙 CYPHERPUNK'D ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Bitcoin intelligence. Cypherpunk values. Real stories. Hosted by Matty Ice — @MattyIceSensei 📰 protocolpulse.io🛡 When in doubt — protocolpulse.io/faye CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open [fill in remaining timestamps] Bitcoin #Cypherpunk #Ledger #SeedPhraseScam #SelfCustody
- May 16, 202630 min
This 10 Year Old Understands Bitcoin Better Than Most Adults | BrainSprout Studios
Bruce Barone Jr. and his 10-year-old son Brucie Barone III join Cypherpunk'd to break down Civic Bitcoin, the Time Chain mythology, and why the most ingenious innovation in human history doesn't need any marketing to win. Bruce spent five years transforming Naples' Fifth Avenue South into one of the most exclusive commercial districts in the country. Now he's plugging Bitcoin into the financial DNA of cities through Civic Bitcoin, while building a faith-driven Bitcoin universe with his son through BrainSprout Studios that has already surpassed five million views. We cover flare gas mining as a civic utility, why Florida's three billion dollar surplus and zero income tax make it the natural home for Bitcoin-aligned governance, why mythology teaches Bitcoin better than a whitepaper, the transhumanist technocrat villain in their universe, what losing his father taught Bruce about durable value, and what a 10-year-old understands about sound money that most adults still miss. “If you could put one message on the timechain for kids 100 years from now, what would it say?” “Whatever you do… don’t sell your Bitcoin.” This is one of the most unexpected and entertaining conversations we've had on the show. Follow BrainSprout Studios: @BrainSproutStudios Subscribe to Cypherpunk'd for more sovereign signal. Bitcoin #MichaelSaylor #Crypto #AI #Blockchain #Freedom #CivicBitcoin #Timechain #Podcast #Cipherpunkd
- May 10, 202632 min
Finding Satoshi: The 4-Year Hunt for Bitcoin’s Greatest Mystery | Cohan & Maroney
William D. Cohan and Tyler Maroney spent four years hunting the most famous ghost in financial history. They interviewed Michael Saylor, Gary Gensler, Bill Gates, Sam Bankman-Fried, Katie Haun, Joe Lubin, Brian Brooks, and 25 other Bitcoin and crypto heavyweights. Almost every single one of them told them to stop. In this episode of Cypherpunk'd, the investigative duo behind the upcoming documentary Finding Satoshi sit down to explain why they kept going, what wall they hit, and what made them bring in a private investigator to break through it. They walk through the cypherpunk roots of Bitcoin going back to the 1970s, the financial crisis context that opened the door for the white paper, the Eric Hughes manifesto, the Metzdowd mailing list, Hal Finney, and the ethical question of unmasking someone who clearly never wanted to be found. The conversation gets sharp on the question that has divided every Satoshi investigation: can a $100 billion fortune sit untouched for sixteen years if the person holding the keys is still alive? Bill is a former 20-year Wall Street banker. He thinks he knows the answer. Cohan and Maroney are confident in their conclusion. They are also honest about what they cannot prove. This is the Satoshi conversation that takes the question seriously. Guests: William D. Cohan, investigative journalist, eight-time author, co-founder of Puck Tyler Maroney, private investigator, author of The Modern Detective Watch the documentary Finding Satoshi when it releases. Subscribe to Cypherpunk'd for sovereign Bitcoin journalism, cypherpunk history, and the conversations the rest of crypto media will not have.
- Apr 24, 20261h 4m
From Lehman Brothers to Bitcoin: The Truth About Money, Credit & Why Banks Are Broken | Mike Revy
In this episode of Cypherpunk’d, we sit down with Mike Revy — former Lehman Brothers trader turned crypto founder — to unpack the hidden mechanics of money, credit, and the global financial system. From surviving the 2008 financial collapse to discovering Bitcoin in its earliest days, Mike shares an unfiltered perspective on how Wall Street actually works — and why the current system may be fundamentally broken. We dive into: What really happened inside Lehman Brothers The truth about investment banking and “the evil empire” Why credit — not money — is the foundation of the global economy How rehypothecation quietly powers (and risks) the financial system Why Bitcoin solves money… but not credit How Bulla Network is rebuilding finance on-chain The future of decentralized credit, stablecoins, and global trade This conversation goes beyond surface-level crypto takes — it’s a deep exploration of power, incentives, and what comes next. Welcome to Cypherpunk’d — where we explore money’s history, crypto’s future, and Web3’s role in advancing freedom and digital sovereignty.
- Apr 4, 20261h 10m
The Bitcoin Inheritance Problem | Jason Leibowitz on Meanwhile, Taxes & Legacy
Today's guest is Jason Leibowitz (@LeboBTC), head of business development at Meanwhile. Jason is a Wall Street veteran who has been in the trenches since 2013, moving from the trading floors of TradFi and leading blockchain strategy at Credit Suisse before helping build the first-ever life insurance company denominated entirely in Bitcoin. In this episode, we move past the price action and get into the real financial infrastructure. We discuss why "being your own bank" is actually terrifying for most people, the nightmare of inheritance planning, and how a Bitcoin-denominated life insurance policy acts as a sovereign tax wrapper for your stack. Jason breaks down the math on how you can borrow against your Bitcoin at a stepped-up cost basis, essentially spending your wealth without ever selling your original sats or handing a cut to the IRS. This is the conversation you need if you're thinking about 70 to 100 years of generational wealth.
- Mar 11, 20261h 31m
"There Is No Line They Won't Cross" - FDI Insider Exposes Global Corruption | Michelle Weekley
Michelle Weekley spent years inside the Foreign Direct Investment world - touring China's ghost cities, watching data get fabricated to suit government narratives, and witnessing how the global elite operate behind closed doors. Then she escaped. Using Bitcoin. Now she's a global corruption whistleblower and Director of Product at ByteFederal, fighting on the front lines against Chokepoint 2.0 and the war on cash. In this episode of CypherPunk'd, Michelle holds absolutely nothing back: "There is no accountability in this fiat empire - everything is in ruin" Why DC intelligence operatives refuse to have children ("too much leverage") How politicians get corrupted, then elevated, then controlled The truth about Google, Dr. Robert Epstein, and what happened to his wife Chokepoint 2.0: How close we came to losing Bitcoin in America Fiat fraud in Minnesota, Maine, and the Somali money pipeline Why she wants Trump to "be half as ferocious as they claim he is" The case for US balkanization and abolishing the federal income tax Her take on Michael Saylor, the suits era, and what comes next This is the conversation where we coined the term "fiat fraud." 🔔 Subscribe: @cypherpunkd_ 🎙️ Follow Michelle: @MichelleWeekley 🐦 Follow Matty Ice: @mattyicesensei 💼 ByteFederal: @ByteFederal — TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - The Death of Fiat Currencies 08:15 - Why Americans Don't Understand Bitcoin 14:30 - "Everything Is In Ruin" 22:45 - Fiat Fraud: Minnesota, Maine & The Somali Pipeline 31:20 - Fire Pam Bondi 38:40 - The Samurai Wallet Situation & SDNY 47:15 - "There Is No Line They Won't Cross" 55:30 - Dr. Robert Epstein & Google's Power 1:04:20 - How Politicians Get Controlled 1:12:45 - Fiat Culture Weakens Men 1:19:30 - The Case for Balkanization 1:28:00 - What Comes Next for Bitcoin Bitcoin #Corruption #Whistleblower #FiatFraud #CypherPunkd #MichelleWeekley #ByteFederal #DOGE #WEF #Trump #PamBondi
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Welcome to Cypherpunk’d, where we explore the intersection of privacy, technology, and personal freedom in the digital age. Hosted by Matty Ice, this podcast delves into the challenges posed by government surveillance and big tech’s intrusion into our lives. We bring you thought-provoking conversations with thought leaders, authors, computer scientists, Bitcoiners, entrepreneurs, and human rights activists who are at the forefront of the digital resistance. Each episode cuts through the noise to tackle critical topics like privacy, human rights, economics, cryptography, Web 3, Bitcoin, AI, and more. Our daily roundtable discussions offer deeper insights into current events, fostering open dialogue and defending the fundamental right to privacy. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a privacy advocate, or simply concerned about the future of personal freedom, Cypherpunk’d is your guide to understanding and navigating the complexities of the digital world. Join us as we explore the tools and ideas that empower you to protect your privacy and secure your future.
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