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SOV-013: Sovereign AI: Using LLMs Without Sacrificing Privacy - The Sovereign Computing Show

ATL BitLab Podcast

Release Date: 04/29/2025

BRH-009: BitDevs Radio Hour #9: Bitcoin Core Maintainer Resigns, First Agent-to-Agent Payment, Community Reckoning show art BRH-009: BitDevs Radio Hour #9: Bitcoin Core Maintainer Resigns, First Agent-to-Agent Payment, Community Reckoning

ATL BitLab Podcast

Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, February 6th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin return for their "second post-singularity" episode, sponsored by Harp Lager and Smithwick's Red Ale. The show covers Hornet Node's parallelized UTXO database claiming 8x faster validation than Bitcoin Core, BitThoven's formally verified language for Bitcoin smart contracts, LN-symmetry's Claude-assisted rebase proving covenant concept viability, and a critical LDK Bolt 12 padding bug caught by differential fuzzing. Then the episode shifts tone dramatically: Gloria Zhao steps down as Bitcoin Core...

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BRH-008: BitDevs Radio Hour #8 – AI Agents Launch Their Own Reddit, Bitcoin Lightning for Bots, and Why We Can't Turn This Off show art BRH-008: BitDevs Radio Hour #8 – AI Agents Launch Their Own Reddit, Bitcoin Lightning for Bots, and Why We Can't Turn This Off

ATL BitLab Podcast

Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, January 30th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin return to their regular Friday schedule with a packed episode covering Bitcoin Core wallet improvements, Lightning updates including LDK's dummy hop support and mixed-mode splicing, mutation testing techniques for validating test suites, and the emergence of BitVM4's new company founded by Robin Linus and Liam Eagen. Then the show pivots dramatically: the hosts spend nearly an hour exploring OpenClaw (formerly ClaudeBot, formerly MoltBot)—a decentralized swarm of autonomous AI agents running on...

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BRH-007: BitDevs Radio Hour #7 – BIP-3 Deployed, René Pickhardt's Payment Channel Math, Buck Token Drama, and BitChat Saves Uganda show art BRH-007: BitDevs Radio Hour #7 – BIP-3 Deployed, René Pickhardt's Payment Channel Math, Buck Token Drama, and BitChat Saves Uganda

ATL BitLab Podcast

Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Thursday, January 15th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin return from holiday break to cover Bitcoin technical developments. The episode opens with BIP-3's deployment—a major overhaul to the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editorial process after two years of debate. The hosts then dive deep into René Pickhardt's new mathematical theory of payment channels, exploring how geometric modeling reveals fundamental limits on Lightning Network feasibility and why channel factories become necessary for scaling. The conversation shifts to speculative financial...

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BRH-006: BitDevs Radio Hour #6 – Chaincode's Matthew Zipkin on Boss Challenge, LLM Bots Closing AI PRs, and Taiwan's Frost Breakthrough show art BRH-006: BitDevs Radio Hour #6 – Chaincode's Matthew Zipkin on Boss Challenge, LLM Bots Closing AI PRs, and Taiwan's Frost Breakthrough

ATL BitLab Podcast

Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin welcome Matthew Zipkin from Chaincode Labs to discuss the BOSS Challenge, a rigorous program designed to help aspiring developers launch careers in Bitcoin open source software. The conversation explores what it takes to become a Bitcoin protocol developer, the appropriate use of AI in learning and development, and how the program identifies serious contributors through a three-month gauntlet. The episode then shifts to technical updates: the proliferation of "ARK" naming conflicts across Bitcoin projects, Stratum V2's progress...

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BRH-005: BitDevs Radio Hour #5 – Confidential Script, UTX Oracle, CAT Confiscation Draft, and Post-Quantum Signatures show art BRH-005: BitDevs Radio Hour #5 – Confidential Script, UTX Oracle, CAT Confiscation Draft, and Post-Quantum Signatures

ATL BitLab Podcast

Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme is joined by Josh Doman (filling in for Alex Lewin) for BitDevs Radio Hour #5. This episode covers a wide sweep of Bitcoin technical developments: a North Carolina Bitcoin++ recap, the UTX Oracle project for inferring price signals from UTXO patterns, Josh’s Confidential Script approach to covenant experimentation via trusted execution environments, the controversial “CAT” draft proposing to freeze certain UTXOs, post-quantum signature research (including stateful hash-based schemes), consensus cleanup work, and Great Script Restoration...

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BRH-004: BitDevs Radio Hour #4 – Your 2025 Bitcoin Wrapped is Here show art BRH-004: BitDevs Radio Hour #4 – Your 2025 Bitcoin Wrapped is Here

ATL BitLab Podcast

Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin close out the year with a festive edition of the BitDevs Radio Hour. This episode covers a grab bag of fresh Bitcoin technical developments: new BIP assignments, a novel approach to private collaborative custody, a consensus discrepancy discovered via differential fuzzing, Lightning protocol optimization ideas, a serious React server components security vulnerability, and the debut of Bitcoin Wrapped 2025. It’s a year-end mix of hard engineering talk, cryptographic concepts, dev-ops war stories, and community reflections. ...

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BRH-003: BitDevs Radio Hour #3 – Zeus Wallet, Graduated Wallets, eCash, and the Future of Bitcoin UX show art BRH-003: BitDevs Radio Hour #3 – Zeus Wallet, Graduated Wallets, eCash, and the Future of Bitcoin UX

ATL BitLab Podcast

Live from ATL BitLab, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin sit down with , founder of , one of Bitcoin’s most beloved Lightning wallets. This episode dives deep into the design trade-offs of non-custodial Lightning, the emergence of “graduated wallets,” eCash systems like Cashu and Fedimint, statechain-based systems like Spark, and the future of Bitcoin payments UX. The conversation ranges from practical LSP economics to the viability of Ark, Spark, and other L2 proposals, as well as Evan’s views on privacy, trust models, griefing attacks, covenants, and how wallets should guide users up the...

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BRH-002: BitDevs Radio Hour #2 - Cluster Mempool Merged, Jack Mallers De-banked show art BRH-002: BitDevs Radio Hour #2 - Cluster Mempool Merged, Jack Mallers De-banked

ATL BitLab Podcast

It's time for another BitDevs Radio Hour! Alex Lewin and Stephen DeLorme discuss some of the latest technical developments in Bitcoin. This conversation covers topics like the merging of Cluster Mempool into Bitcoin Core, preventing lightning pinning attacks with P2A and v3 transactions, the drama over Jack Maller's getting debanked by Chase, and other topics.

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BRH-001: BitDevs Radio Hour #1 - Bitcoin Kernel Project, Soft Fork Debate, BIPs Process Update show art BRH-001: BitDevs Radio Hour #1 - Bitcoin Kernel Project, Soft Fork Debate, BIPs Process Update

ATL BitLab Podcast

The very first BitDevs Radio Hour! Alex Lewin and Stephen DeLorme discuss some of the latest technical developments in Bitcoin. This conversation covers topics like the Bitcoin Kernel Project, recent soft fork related debates and internet drama, and updates to the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal process with Murch's motion activate BIP3. Bonus: El Salvadaro smash buys the dip and Coinbase brings back ICOs.

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EVNT-008: Andrew Lunde: Uncancelable Names: Building Identity on Bitcoin - Atlanta BitDevs show art EVNT-008: Andrew Lunde: Uncancelable Names: Building Identity on Bitcoin - Atlanta BitDevs

ATL BitLab Podcast

Can Bitcoin replace DNS? Andrew Lunde presents Spaces Protocol, a permissionless naming system anchored on the Bitcoin blockchain. Learn how auctions determine ownership of top-level names like "@bitcoin," the technical challenges of browser integration, and the trade-offs between decentralization and scalability. Discover how $120,000 in Bitcoin has already been burned through the auction process, the role of DHT nodes in storing metadata, and why this approach may recreate the centralization problems it aims to solve.   Show Notes:   00:00 Opening Quote: Uncancelable Identity ...

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AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude are powerful tools, but they come with significant privacy trade-offs. In this episode, Jordan Bravo and Stephen DeLorme explore practical approaches to using AI without surrendering your data to big tech companies. They compare privacy-focused third-party services that use confidential computing (like Maple) and local storage options (like Venice.AI) before diving into running open-source models entirely on your own hardware with tools like Ollama, GPT4All, and LM Studio. They also reveal how your Smart TV might take screenshots of what you're watching through Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) and share steps to disable this intrusive tracking.
 
 
00:00 Introduction to The Sovereign Computing Show
00:42 ATL BitLab Sponsorship Information
01:45 Welcome and Show Contact Information
02:09 Smart TVs and Automatic Content Recognition (ACR)
03:58 How ACR Surveillance Works in Smart TVs
05:23 The Creepy Reality of TV Screenshot Tracking
08:33 Solutions for Smart TV Privacy Concerns
10:47 Unplugging Your Smart TV from the Internet
11:51 Main Topic: Using AI and LLMs Privately
12:44 Understanding LLMs vs. Other Generative AI
14:51 The Privacy Problem with Major LLM Providers
16:44 Private Third-Party AI Providers
16:44 Maple and Confidential Computing
22:32 Venice.AI with Local Storage
27:28 Kagi AI's Privacy Trade-offs
30:49 The Privacy Spectrum of AI Services
33:38 Self-Hosting LLMs and Local Models
34:22 Ollama for Running Local Models
37:25 Running Models Without Internet Connection
38:43 OpenWebUI for Graphical Interface
41:35 GPT4All for User-Friendly Local AI
43:03 LM Studio with Integrated Interface
44:55 Hardware Limitations for Local LLMs
46:15 Local Image Generation
46:47 Stable Diffusion Web UI
48:09 ComfyUI for Artist-Friendly Workflows
51:50 ATL BitLab AI Meetup Information
53:11 Conclusion and Contact Information
53:40 Show Outro and Support Details