Welcome to the first episode of the BitLovin Podcast. Timot walks through how he got here — a 2014 article that went nowhere, accidentally buying Bitcoin Cash in 2018 thinking it was a cheap version of Bitcoin, and then watching Silicon Valley Bank fail from the inside. That last one is what made it click: a good company with happy clients went down purely over how it held its reserves, and the clients holding Bitcoin could still pay people that Friday. This show is for anyone who feels there's a veil between them and understanding Bitcoin. If a football coach can figure it out, so can you.

Then into the news: the ColdCard hack. We cover what a hardware wallet actually stores (your private keys, not your Bitcoin), why seed phrases have to be truly random, and how low-entropy seeds let attackers derive private keys straight from addresses. I ...