George Bodine woke up at 5am, saw the Coldcard news, and drove through the dark with shaking hands to move his Bitcoin before someone else could. He made it. Others lost everything.

In the August episode, Bob Burnett, Larry Lepard, and George Bodine break down what actually went wrong inside Coldcard — the "one in a quadrillion" collisions their own support line saw, why the seed phrases were hiding in a drop of water instead of the universe, and what a former fighter pilot's checklist discipline looks like when your stack is on the line.

Then: the BIP110 chain split is real. Bob explains why Barefoot Mining stopped signaling in June, what the four-block fork means, why the next upgrade will need exchanges, treasuries, and Wall Street to agree — and what to do if you get airdropped the fork coin.

Self-custody was the whole point. Is it still?

Not financial advice. Do your own research.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Cold open

01:39 Welcome: the August edition

02:36 Who got hit: George's 5am drive

05:19 A word from Swan

05:56 Is the ETF the better option?

07:02 Bob's view: what Coldcard actually did

08:23 One in a quadrillion

09:15 Hide and seek in a drop of water

11:05 Entropy 101

14:28 Proving randomness & Chaos Enterprises

17:24 The future of self-custody

19:06 Larry's answer: Fidelity

20:07 The air-gap mistake & Trezor

21:45 "One bad company": answering the normies

23:02 The 6102 threat

27:42 Why wallets are built wrong

30:18 A word from Sazmining

30:51 One job

32:11 How to vet a Bitcoin company

34:45 The chain split is real

36:52 George: you don't leave people behind

38:06 Larry's verdict on BIP110

41:10 Bob's call with Brink

43:38 What it takes to change Bitcoin

44:15 Airdrop advice & sign-off

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