{"podcast":{"title":"PBJ","slug":"presidio-bitcoin-jam-7268126","podcast_index_feed_id":7268126,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fountain.fm/UnefO3pkSLLDwIGz0Xq1","website_url":"https://presidiobitcoin.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://feeds.fountain.fm/UnefO3pkSLLDwIGz0Xq1/files/COVER_ART---DEFAULT---7cd943d4-0f14-450a-80a8-2f3e51634c27.jpg","author":"With David King, Max Webster, and Steve Lee","episode_count":76,"summary":"PBJ is a weekly live show recorded at Presidio Bitcoin where 3 friends gather to make sense of bitcoin’s latest topics, from distilling technical concepts to discussing new ways to use bitcoin to determining its impact on the financial system. Join David King, Steve Lee, and Max Webster, longtime bitcoiners with deep roots in Silicon Valley, as they swap knowledge, challenge assumptions, and joust about the big questions of the day, bridging the gap between big tech and bitcoin. presidiobitcoin.substack.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T22:17:40.733092+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/presidio-bitcoin-jam-7268126"},"episode":{"title":"Bitcoin's Branding Problem, AI's Impact on Open Source, Can Spiral's Playbook Work for AI?","slug":"bitcoin-s-branding-problem-ai-s-impact-on-open-source-can-spiral-s-playbook-work-for-ai","published_at":"2026-03-18T20:26:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/presidio-bitcoin-jam-7268126/bitcoin-s-branding-problem-ai-s-impact-on-open-source-can-spiral-s-playbook-work-for-ai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/presidio-bitcoin-jam-7268126","url":"https://fountain.fm/episode/Sff2mVmmK1wSPYZyvark","audio_url":"https://feeds.fountain.fm/UnefO3pkSLLDwIGz0Xq1/items/jpUpYzaBPKoftkpQwnka/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---00f8ab56-eced-46f4-a9ab-1d0a7ffc32f3.mp3","summary":"0:00 March Madness and opening banter 06:30 Square’s latest Bitcoin payments rollout and the remaining merchant adoption hurdles 16:13 Bitcoin branding problems and the challenge of negative first impressions 21:30 Reframing the Bitcoin merchant pitch around Lightning, fee savings, and cleaner UX 26:00 Branding for Presidio Bitcoin, PBJ, and the tension between mission clarity and broader appeal 28:50 \"Crypto\" stigma in tech circles and potential counter-narratives for Bitcoin 36:31 Privacy coins, stablecoins, and open-source framing as rival narratives 43:10 Student visits, \"yuppie-elite\" skepticism, and the university awareness gap 49:03 What would make institutions and students pay more attention to Bitcoin? 56:51 Education, entrepreneurship, and AI-native alternatives to traditional schooling 01:03:40 Spending Bitcoin, monetary transition, and the long-run logic of better money 01:08:20 Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) announcement, Lightning interoperability (via Lightspark), and cautious optimism around AI payments 01:12:30 Builder branding, Flint, and whether Bitcoin should lead or recede in the pitch 01:15:26 AI’s impact on FOSS, licensing, transparency, and software value 01:26:58 Spiral’s AI playbook, auditability, and the shift from FOSS to sovereignty - SHOW NOTES: Why The Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin: https://www.citadel21.com/why-the-yuppie-elite-dismiss-bitcoin Tempo's Machine Payments Protocol: https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol - SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/@PresidioBitcoin","meta_description":"0:00 March Madness and opening banter 06:30 Square’s latest Bitcoin payments rollout and the remaining merchant adoption hurdles 16:13 Bitcoin branding pr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5421,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/presidio-bitcoin-jam-7268126/episodes/bitcoin-s-branding-problem-ai-s-impact-on-open-source-can-spiral-s-playbook-work-for-ai/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/presidio-bitcoin-jam-7268126/bitcoin-s-branding-problem-ai-s-impact-on-open-source-can-spiral-s-playbook-work-for-ai.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}