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Chat_174 - Preparing Bitcoin for an Unknown Future with Hunter Beast
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- Bitcoin Audible
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- Jul 19, 2026
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- 8265
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Summary
***"I'm almost 99% certain that [BIP] 110 will activate. And not only that, I think there will be a capitulation after October, where if the month of October passes and [BIP] 110 is still not merged by Core devs, it essentially reflects that they are no longer relevant because they failed to be good stewards of the protocol." ~ Hunter Beast*** In this episode I sit down with Hunter Beast for a sprawling, high-signal exploration of how to prepare Bitcoin for an unknowable future. We cover formal verification and Lean 4, AI-accelerated proofs, surveillance and BIP39 risks, faith and natural law, and why he thinks governance must shift toward provable safety over new features. We finish with his confident prediction that BIP 110 will activate, and what it would mean for Core’s relevance if it doesn’t. Chapters (00:00:00) - Intro and Hunter's prediction (00:06:33) - Researching critical vulnerabilities (00:19:40) - Hilbert's questions and the limits of mathematics (00:28:46) - Faith, personal struggles, and identity (00:37:32) - BIP39 and surveillance (00:43:28) - AI, false idols, and religious history (00:49:26) - Natural law and nation states (00:56:43) - Nodes, and decentralized storage markets (01:24:56) - BIP 110, crisis and shift (02:09:52) - Predictions around BIP 110 activation (02:12:10) - Defending Bitcoin against economic populism Guest Links Hunter on X (Link: https://twitter.com/cryptoquick ) Hunter's Website (Link: https://cryptoquick.com/ ) Hunter's GitHub (Link: https://github.com/cryptoquick ) Affiliate Links Become sovereign, hold your keys, be censorship resistant with the Bitbox hardware wallet. Get 5% off everything in the store with code GUY (Link: https://bitbox.swiss/ ) Get 10% off the best Bitcoin board game in the world, HODLUP! Or any of the othe…