The Bitcoin Podcast

Most DAOs sound great… until it’s time to make decisions, pay contributors, and ship work consistently. In this episode, we’re designing the ideal DAO and confronting the hard parts: governance that doesn’t stall, incentives that don’t get gamed, treasury systems that protect the community, and a structure that can scale without losing its mission.

Zak Cole has shipped four successful exits in crypto—Whiteblock, Slingshot, Code Arena, and more—and he attributes much of that success to a rigorous specification-driven development process. In this episode, Zak joins us to discuss his journey from Marine Corps cryptographic asset manager to serial Ethereum builder, and introduces Adversarial Specs, an open-source tool that uses multiple AI models to pressure-test product specifications before a single line of code is written.

In this episode, Corey and Jessie talk with fubuloubu, founder of ApeWorX and Silverback. We discuss our history in the ecosystem, security, and what developer tooling and automation frameworks bring to the table. We also dive into what role AI plays in the future development of blockchains and automation tooling.

Crypto didn’t remove trust — it refactored it. Which means the real question isn’t whether blockchains work… it’s whether the people who build them bear any responsibility for what happens next. In this episode we extend the previous conversation on crypto literacy, privacy UX, and incentive design to tackle a hard question with no clean answers: Do builders have responsibility beyond tooling? We explore the “blacksmith problem,” the myth of neutral systems, and how zero-knowledge, chain analysis, and UX choices shape outcomes — intentionally or not. This is not a price talk episode. It’s about the ethics, incentives, and trade-offs embedded in decentralized infrastructure.