How Open-Source Protects Your Bitcoin from AI (w/ HRF & Keith Mukai)

The Human Rights Foundation and PubKey are BACK to dive into how Freedom Tech and Bitcoin advance humanitarian goals. In this episode, we ask Keith Mukai (lead developer of SeedSigner): will open-source be enough to protect your bitcoin from AI?

TIMESTAMPS:0:00 INTRO: Welcome back to PubKey!

0:57 What is SeedSigner? How does it help protect your Bitcoin?

5:42 How an open-source project and its volunteers came together

13:56 What’s inside: $50 of off-the-shelf parts

16:33 How buying the parts yourself keeps you off a kidnapper’s list

22:24 The fight to escape a single point of failure

28:13 How a no-name wallet protects activists under dictatorships

31:16 Is there a backdoor in your parts? Why hiding in the crowd wins

35:58 Can AI audit the code and keep your Bitcoin safe? (and why Coldcard failed)

39:51 CONCLUSION: What’s really at stake for the people who need it most ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Welcome home. PubKey is a bar and cultural venue located in New York City and Washington D.C. (With more locations coming!) We host FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC events for the curious, the rebellious, and the orange-pilled. Visit PubKey: 🗽 PubKey NYC 🗽 85 Washington Pl 🗽 New York, NY 10011 🇺🇸 PubKey DC🇺🇸 410 7th St NW 🇺🇸 Washington, DC 20004 🧡 Register for FREE weekly meetups and events: https://luma.com/user/pubkey 🍔 Check out our food menu (yes, we discount 21% if you pay in BTC!): https://pubkey.bar/menu Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.