SOV-022: Matt Hill from Start9 - The Sovereign Computing Show
Release Date: 09/16/2025
BRH-013: BitDevs Radio Hour #13 - Great Script Restoration BIPs, Arc $5.2M Raise, AJ Towns' Claude Code Quiz Trick
ATL BitLab Podcast
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, March 13th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin cover Matt Corallo's 24-bit nonce space BIP moving to draft PR (fast-tracking good ideas), Dahlia's cross-input signature aggregation accepted at Eurocrypt (holy grail cryptography), and BDK 3.0 release candidate after years of development (SQLite migration unlocking new features). Protocol developments include Rusty Russell requesting BIP numbers for Great Script Restoration proposals (reactivating opcodes with var ops budget for safe execution), Cold Card's proof of reserves feature via BIP 322...
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BRH-012: BitDevs Radio Hour #12 - Transaction Introspection for $50, Exploits Hackathon, and Unhuman.store Agent Launch
ATL BitLab Podcast
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, March 6th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin cover Robin Linus's latest cracked-out discovery (BINOHASH: transaction introspection without soft forks using OPCHECKMU LTSIG quirks for $50 in cloud GPU grinding), post-quantum proposals for P2PKH outputs proving ownership via zero-knowledge STARKs (5.6MB proofs approaching feasibility), and the Hourglass V2 update limiting pay-to-pubkey spends to one Bitcoin per block to incentivize early quantum disclosure. Alex announces React Native support merged in Fediment SDK after six months of...
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BRH-011: BitDevs Radio Hour #11 – Wuille's Quantum Paradox, Bitcoin Core GUI Must Die, SIGBASH Covenant Emulation, Agents Buying Compute
ATL BitLab Podcast
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, February 13th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin celebrate Valentine's Day on air with a packed episode covering Bitcoin Inquisition's consensus cleanup activation, BIP-110's ongoing controversy with new concerns from Liana Wallet about vault users unable to upgrade in two weeks, and the freshly merged quantum-resistance proposals BIP-360 and BIP-361. The conversation shifts to Lightning breakthroughs: Voltage settles the first publicly reported $1 million Lightning transaction between Kraken and SD Markets in 0.47 seconds, challenging the...
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BRH-010: BitDevs Radio Hour #10 – AI Agents Get KYC Bank Accounts, BIP-110 Vault Problems, $1M Lightning Payment Goes Live
ATL BitLab Podcast
Broadcasting live from ATL BitLab on Friday, February 13th, 2026, Stephen DeLorme and Alex Lewin celebrate Valentine's Day on air with a packed episode covering Bitcoin Inquisition's consensus cleanup activation, BIP-110's ongoing controversy with new concerns from Liana Wallet about vault users unable to upgrade in two weeks, and the freshly merged quantum-resistance proposals BIP-360 and BIP-361. The conversation shifts to Lightning breakthroughs: Voltage settles the first publicly reported $1 million Lightning transaction between Kraken and SD Markets in 0.47 seconds, challenging the...
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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
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
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
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
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
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. ...
info_outlineStart9 CEO Matt Hill joins Jordan Bravo to discuss the evolution of sovereign computing and the upcoming StartOS 0.4.0 release. Learn about Start9's mission to democratize server administration, their revolutionary new networking capabilities, plans for an open-source router, and innovative community programs for scaling support and development. Plus: why dignity matters as much as privacy and security in computing.
Show Notes: https://atlbitlab.com/podcast/sov-022-matt-hill-start9
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00:00 Opening Quote: Sovereign Computing Definition
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00:33 Introduction and Show Sponsorship
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01:51 Welcome and Sovereign Computing Origins
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03:21 What is Sovereign Computing?
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04:54 Privacy vs Confidentiality and the Dignity Factor
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06:15 The Undignified Reality of Modern Computing
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08:37 Making Server Administration Accessible
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10:00 Democratizing Advanced Computing Skills
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11:42 Familiar User Experience Design Philosophy
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14:09 Learning from Mobile OS Evolution
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15:45 Bringing Linux Admin Experience "Above the Hood"
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18:05 StartOS Evolution: From 0.0.1 to 0.3.5.1
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19:28 Dependency Management and Configuration Breakthroughs
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20:17 Moving from Docker to Custom Container Runtime
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21:33 StartOS 0.4.0: Complete Architecture Rewrite
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24:44 Two Years of Development Hell and Breakthrough
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26:30 Custom LXC Container Runtime Development
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27:35 Advanced Networking Capabilities in 0.4.0
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28:29 Granular Interface Control Example
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31:49 Private Domains and DNS Management
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35:06 The "Digital IKEA" Philosophy
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36:34 VPN Tunneling and Network Abstractions
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37:57 Start9 vs Tailscale Comparison
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41:13 Router Hardware Prototypes and Development
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46:47 Router as Standalone vs Integrated Product
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52:00 StartOS and Router Integration Benefits
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53:26 Router Release Timeline: Not Before Mid-2026
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54:44 Community Tech Program: Scaling Support
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01:00:18 Community Developer Program Announcement
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01:05:02 Package Development and Crowdfunding Model
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01:11:56 AI in Development: Limited but Useful
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01:17:01 Self-Hosting AI Challenges and Hardware Limitations
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01:24:37 TabConf 2025: Workshop and Package Development
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01:26:55 Conclusion