The next wave of AI will not only change how we work, it will change what we believe. When deepfakes get plausible, citations can be fabricated, and “evidence” can be manufactured at scale, the real threat becomes an epistemic crisis: a slow collapse of shared reality where even experts struggle to verify what is true. We sit down with freelance journalist Ivo Vegter to talk honestly about that risk, and why the fix is not panic but disciplined source checking, clearer provenance, and a return to careful fact-finding. https://fountain.fm/episode/TJiFIiQnc9i5WKj5xzWh

Heresy

We trade jokes and hard truths about stablecoins, surveillance, and why “self-custody” means very different things depending on who holds the off switch. We move from BTC Prague and Europe’s privacy-first Bitcoin culture to South African capital controls, then finish with a hands-on tour of tools like silent payments and Start9 for anyone who wants more real-world sovereignty. • BTC Prague highlights and why European Bitcoiners feel more cypherpunk • DAC8 as automated KYC data sharing and why Bull Bitcoin takes it to court • On-chain spam arguments and why virtue signalling does not fix technical problems • Rwanda and South Africa regulatory pressure through the lens of property rights • Why capital controls undermine a free and open society • Party politics scepticism and why “a saviour” narrative fails • Silent payments in Sparrow Wallet for better Bitcoin privacy • Progressive web wallets as a path around app store gatekeepers • Nostr VPN, decentralised tools and peer-to-peer messaging under censorship • Start9 OS 0.40, remote access and making self-hosting usable • Private AI trade-offs, data retention and why cloud convenience has a cost • Mining centralisation, Stratum V2 and the nation-state angle If you've got any SATS lying around, please donate to property rightsdefense.org. Send some SATS over to us, please. https://fountain.fm/episode/5qAinf7cQ4JdepKX7DEm

Nice Emily. Good to see you taking the games all over the globe.