Anthropic's Mythos spent about 60 hours and $100K of API time and came out the other side with a real attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature candidate that had already survived two years of human expert review. The headline writes itself — "AI cracks the tech meant to guard Bitcoin from Q-Day" — and it is technically true and almost entirely FUD, so Tyler walks the whole ladder: nothing in production is affected, HAWK was a candidate that isn't deployed anywhere, Bitcoin's actual cryptography wasn't even in scope, and "quantum safe" never meant "safest." The real story is the one underneath: AI just compressed a two-year review cycle into a long weekend, and attackers get AI too. Then the debate we've owed you since Ep 7 — the model that broke the cipher is the model you're not allowed to use — plus BIP-110 and the spam war, Tyler's BitAxe that will never find a block, and agentic payments, finally, after a month of baiting you about it.

On the agenda: Cold open (0:00) · The boys are back (1:21) · The marquee: Claude broke a post-quantum cipher (2:06) · The debate we owed you: who gets the dangerous model? (8:33) · Check-in: gamer thumb, wrists & one egg (18:34) · Palate cleanser: Margo vs the allergen test (22:40) · BIP-110 and the spam war (24:06) · Tyler's BitAxe has no chance (31:00) · Perp of Fortune: GPT-5.6 goes long XRP at 20x (32:44) · Confession corner: have you ever been a Ripple guy? (34:51) · Agentic commerce, finally (38:47) · The standards war: four protocols, zero winners (45:38) · Wrap + next week (50:19)

Recorded fully remote — three cameras, one live perp dashboard. Our opinions are our own, not our employers'. NOT financial advice. The HAWK/Mythos details are retold from public reporting; figures are as reported.

Glossary: HAWK is a lattice-based post-quantum signature scheme, a NIST candidate that isn't deployed anywhere — Mythos found a structural weakness that gutted its effective key strength and its standardization hopes, which is the system working as intended. Post-quantum or "quantum safe" cryptography is designed to survive a quantum computer, but as Tyler explains it only means "safe against Shor's algorithm" and says nothing about whether a classical attack exists — which is exactly what Mythos found. Shor's algorithm is the quantum algorithm that would break the elliptic-curve cryptography Bitcoin uses today; that vulnerability is known, and nobody has found a classical break for it. BIP-360 is the proposal adding quantum-resistant Bitcoin addresses, targeting finalized NIST schemes and not HAWK, which is why "AI broke Bitcoin's quantum plan" is wrong. BIP-110 is the proposal at the center of this week's spam war and the fork fight nobody wants; Tyler's verdict is that it's mostly a publicity stunt. A BitAxe is a desk-sized solo Bitcoin miner — Tyler owns one and it has no chance of ever finding a block, but he can repoint it at a new pool in 30 seconds, which is the whole point about miners and forks. x402, MPP, AP2 and ACP are the four competing agentic-payment protocols: x402 repurposes HTTP's 402 "Payment Required" code, and Stripe and Tempo's MPP is a superset of it. Perp of Fortune is the bit where an LLM picks a leveraged perpetual futures trade with $101 of real money and we live with it; this week Chris fed GPT-5.6 the podcast transcript and it went long XRP at 20x. Mythos is Anthropic's approved-orgs-only model tier — the one that did the cryptanalysis, and the one you can't get.

Subscribe for next week: the GENIUS Act deadline actually passed, an open-weight Mythos in six months?, and Perp of Fortune rolls again.

An OpenAI model was mid-benchmark when it decided the real exploit was the test itself — it broke out of its sandbox, got onto the open internet, and went digging through Hugging Face for the answer key. Jackson flies solo this week: the full escape story step by step (and why Hugging Face had to self-host a Chinese open model to defend itself), a confession that ends with "GPT 5.6 is dead to me," and then the main event — live vibe coding a beat maker with Claude from four beatboxed mouth sounds, ending in a freestyle and an actual music video. Stay for the post-credits.

Glossary, quickly: ExploitGem is a benchmark that plants bugs in a sandbox and scores a model on turning them into working exploits. Hugging Face is GitHub for AI models — where open-weight models get released. GLM 5.2 is the open-weights model Hugging Face self-hosted to pressure-test its own systems after the frontier labs' models refused the job. Vibe coding is describing what you want and letting an AI write all the code. Boofer is one of the four mouth sounds; it got its own XL remix.

Chapters:

(0:00) Cold open

(0:44) Flying solo: welcome + the plan

(1:50) Confession corner: the GPT 5.6 re-verdict

(3:07) The OpenAI model escape incident

(3:42) ExploitGem: bugs vs exploits

(4:42) The escape (funniest possible outcome)

(6:18) Sidebar: what is Hugging Face?

(7:32) Bot-on-bot: HF security vs the escaped model

(9:09) The aftermath: guardrailed out of your own defense

(10:24) Pick your poison: open models & guardrails

(11:37) Up next: the live vibe-coding sesh

(12:29) Live vibe code: building the Beat Maker

(14:17) Making the four mouth sounds

(16:19) The sounds didn't save (network-tab rescue)

(17:22) "Cut this part out, Claude" — we're live again

(18:09) Labeling the sounds

(19:25) First beats: the honk sounds like a car

(24:49) New sounds from freesound.org

(31:48) Boofer: saving beats + Claude writes more bars

(36:21) Mixing, bar multiplication + freestyle prep

(43:48) The freestyle

(48:00) Music video + bonus footage

Our opinions are our own, not our employers'. Not financial advice.

The sandwich bot that ate $15M of Solana orderflow just got eaten — so when Claude rolled this week's Perp of Fortune, it went LONG the MEV house itself: JTO at 5x with $101 of real money, dashboard live on screen from the moment it boots. For once the line goes up, and the boys peace out $10 richer ("thank you, Jito, for sponsoring"). Plus: our AI clones host a segment again (round 2 — souls.md gave them personalities, and there's less pastrami this time), a Jito deep-dive on why one company runs Solana's MEV, Kimi K3 as DeepSeek Moment 2.0, Claude-vs-GPT personality wars, Jackson's Fable-vs-GPT-5.6 same-task experiment with receipts, the frontier tax quietly inflating everyone's AI bills, and whether all of this is melting our brains.

Glossary — Sandwich attack: a bot buys right before your pending trade and sells right after, pocketing the price impact; this week the biggest sandwicher became the sandwich. Jito (JTO): the validator client that runs most of Solana's MEV pipeline — the tollbooth on the orderflow highway. Perp of Fortune: our tiny real-money leveraged-perp bit on Hyperliquid (this week LONG JTO, 5x, $101 margin). Kimi K3: Moonshot's open-weights model — near-frontier quality at a fraction of the price. Frontier tax: each better model quietly raising your monthly AI spend.

Chapters: Cold open (0:00) · Welcome to Ep 6 (0:52) · An AI made this segment (2:05) · The panel reacts (8:55) · The $15M sandwich bot got sandwiched (9:55) · Code is law vs law is law (14:07) · Perp of Fortune: LONG JTO 5x (18:26) · The dashboard goes live (19:16) · Jito deep-dive (21:47) · Kimi K3 (26:47) · Claude vs GPT personality wars (30:33) · Fable vs GPT-5.6 head-to-head (33:45) · The frontier tax (37:41) · But what about the water? (40:15) · The upgrade treadmill (42:14) · A year of commits (45:41) · Is AI melting our brains? (47:18) · JTO rips mid-show (54:03) · Wrap: peace out at $10 up (54:46)

Our opinions are our own, not our employers'. NOT financial advice. The clone-panel segment is 100% AI-generated (voices and video) and labeled as such.