Cypherpunk’d
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.
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- Aug 11, 2026
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Is Bitcoin Self-Custody Broken? Coldcard Flaw & The Future of Security (opens the original)
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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
Bitcoin's Most Dangerous Idea | Kent Halliburton (opens the original)
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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
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