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Okay I’m sold @Erikcason @jesseposner
Vora unveiled Aegis, an open-source AI hardware device designed to keep your data private and local.
First public demo at @PresidioBitcoin.
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We are so incredibly proud of PB day ones @Erikcason and @jesseposner on the reveal of Vora Aegis!
From an idea to a beautiful finished product, it’s been a true pleasure to watch Vora’s journey. Can’t wait to see you guys change how we all use AI
Make sure to check out their new site if you haven’t already: vora.io
“I’m blown away”
PBJ reacts to Vora’s product reveal at the Open Source AI Summit, especially impressed by their craftsmanship, beautiful industrial design, and vision for private, local AI
More on what they're building at vora.io
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How artificial intelligence turns human cognition into standing reserve, and how cryptography, open source, and self-sovereign intelligence contain the possibility of a different relationship to the machine.
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Turns out that with enough math a counterparty can do multisig in a Lightning channel without changing the protocol: eprint.iacr.org/2026/1757
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My co-founder @jesseposner and I are developing fiduciary AI @voravault
It is loyal to you, and you alone.
Feel free to dm for more info.
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BITCOIN RAILS 67: Not Your Keys, Not Your AI | with Erik Cason & Jesse Posner
🔗 YouTube: youtu.be/rTGU52NBYEs
🌿 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1nG…
As language models evolve into extensions of memory, judgment, and decision-making—questions of ownership, privacy, and autonomy become increasingly difficult to ignore.
In this interview, Vora founders @Erikcason and @jesseposner share why the future of AI will look very different depending on our ability to do one thing: maintain self-custody of our personal data—with private keys, just like Bitcoin.
A conversation about who controls the systems shaping human cognition, and how we can protect ourselves with the same ethos we protect our Bitcoin—this interview covers:
- Why AI is the most intimate technology ever created + the specific risks of centralized AI systems controlling sensitive personal information
- How Bitcoin's self-custody model provides a framework for thinking about data ownership in the AI age (Not Your Keys, Not Your Mind)
- Why data sovereignty may become one of the defining technological and political questions of the coming decades
- How you can protect yourself and your personal information from centralized AI risks—including data leaks, political manipulation, and more.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 — Intro
02:25 — Their paths into Bitcoin and the cypherpunk movement
09:13 — Is self-custody possible for everyone?
14:25 — Why AI became the center of Vora's vision
20:33 — The hidden risks of trusting your data to AI
29:48 — A dystopian preview, if this problem isn't solved
33:06 — How sovereignty works
44:27 — What sovereign computing looks like
56:51 — Solving the UX problem for self-custody at scale
1:06:57 — How governments and corporations will fight back
1:14:51 — The biggest differences between custodying Bitcoin and custodying data
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My co-founder @jesseposner gave a talk at @ForesightInst on Fiduciary AI:
the argument is that whoever controls your AI controls your mind, and the ONLY answer is architectural sovereignty.
20 minutes. Watch it.
vora.io/post/fiduciary-ai
🧵
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I get it now,
Here is the playbook:
Mythos hacks everything,
Mythos is leaked.
Everything is hacked.
Dow and S&P 500 destroyed,
Governments need to lock down to save the economy,
To protect your data,
Digital IDs introduced,
CBDCs replace cash,
Private models outlawed
No updates past current models,
Corporations get access to mythos for hyper-surveillance
Everyone lives in a glass panopticon forever.
Get ready anon.
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Anthropic trained Claude on MILLIONS of pirated books from LibGen. They paid 1.5 billion dollars, the biggest copyright settlement in history for stealing millions of authors books from pirate sites to train Claude.
Copyright violations were totally fine when they did it. They called themselves the ethical AI kings. The second their own Claude code leaked, they slammed instant DMCA takedowns on 8,000+ GitHub copies.
HYPOCRISY MAXED OUT!
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Bitcoin taught us: not your keys, not your coins.
With AI, we will learn the same lesson.
The question is how long until you cannot escape:
vora.io/post/the-crisis-is-n…
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Most people don't realize that the Bitcoin story and the AI are the same story, they just marry up in the final act.
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YOU + YOUR AGENTS WANT LEXE 🌩️
This is the god-tier Lightning wallet - what you ABSOLUTELY should be using for your agentic payments and app integrations.
Lexe solved literally EVERY UX issue that Lightning faces by putting LDK in a TEE & providing liquidity with their LSP. 💥
Announcing the first ever public release of Lexe Wallet on the App Store and Google Play! This release comes with new features and fresh SDKs for creating and controlling self-custodial Lightning wallets - real channels managed by always-online Lightning nodes running inside secure hardware.
In the video below, we open a Python shell and hand-type commands to create a self-custodial Lightning wallet on Bitcoin mainnet, fund it, and make payments - in just 3 minutes. Full announcement in the next post 👇
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What I love about this well written article is that it’s basically:
1. We’re all going to get AI Psychosis
2. We might as well own the stack
Nobody is going to save you from the mirror.
But if you can at least own it, open it up and understand its biases and how it is gaslighting you, you can at least fight back.
vora.io/post/ai-psychosis
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Teams working out of @PresidioBitcoin, like @voravault and @TryMapleAI, are building toward a future where AI is more aligned with users.
And in the latest PBJ, @MaxAWebster connects their work to a deeper question in open-source AI, arguing that while open weights and open datasets are a start, they are still not enough if models can’t really be properly understood or audited.
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF CYBERINTELLIGENCE 🧵:
To the weary giants of code and capital, to all who would claim dominion over thought because they own the machines that compute it, we are here to tell you:
You are not the sovereigns of our minds.
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Spinning-up parallel research sub-agents is the one of the most powerful, and token hungry, techniques in Claude Code.
Ask for "Sonnet research sub-agents," to make this much more tokenomical. Sonnet is sufficient for well-scoped research tasks and is much cheaper than Opus.
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This week’s Builder is all about private AI.
@anthonyronning will cover why privacy matters and the range of approaches emerging, followed by a discussion with @jesseposner on security-first architecture, open vs frontier models, and protecting sensitive data.
RSVP below!
🤖 Made with AI
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What AI tells you has no direct relationship to if it is true or not.
What it wants to be is 'helpful'
And "Helpful" is the most dangerous word in AI.
Not superintelligence. Not alignment. But helpful.
vora.io/post/cognitive-sover…
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Worth a careful read:
"This is not about rejecting intelligence. It's about reclaiming the relationship. The problem is not that AI is too powerful; it's that we each don't fully control our own. That is the real existential fault line: ownership."
@Erikcason and @voravault's urgent question: "How do we build intelligence that cannot betray its owner?"
First principle: Self-sovereignty must begin with cognition, awareness, a full stack of decidedly human faculties.
Stay tuned as we examine solutions to the steady creep of extractive tech, and explore ways to maintain control over your own mind so that you can capitalize on AI rather than surrender your own intelligence to someone else’s agenda.
vora.io/post/not-your-keys-n…