Starlink’s Internet Takeover, White House AI Accord, Bitcoin and Lightning for AI Agents

0:00 - NCAA chaos and travel plans

4:06 - Deepfakes and proving identity (biometrics, signed video, Face ID)

12:07 - Key storage, social recovery and webs of trust

18:43 - Ideas for PBJ: AI fact-checkers, audience agents, live summaries

29:13 - Could an AI become PBJ’s fourth host (via Goose Development Kit)?

32:21 - What the White House AI accord actually does

37:18 - The problem with traditional audits for probabilistic AI systems

43:40 - america.gov and the AI ovethaul of government services

47:56 - Starlink’s path to becoming the internet

51:39 - Starlink’s (surprising) share of global internet capacity

58:42 - Starlink's centralization risk

1:08:48 - The future of the nation state

1:15:55 - Building agent economies with bitcoin

1:24:28 - Bitcoin for agent coordination and streaming inference payments

Show Notes:

White House Super Intelligence executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence

AI-powered government services portal: https://america.gov/