Monthly Round Up 4: Freedom Needs Better Defaults: Self-Hosted AI, Community Custody, And Paying With Sats

We trade war stories about AI coding that dazzles then stalls, and show how self-hosted LLMs and agents can reclaim privacy and time. The talk shifts to real-world Bitcoin: QR payments across South Africa, M-Pesa bridges in Kenya, community custody with FediMint, and a world-first open secure element from Trezor.

• AI tools that impress early then hit walls
• Self-hosted LLMs on Start9 for privacy and resilience
• Defaults and data: using AI to summarise terms
• Local hosting versus cloud trade-offs
• FediMint community custody experiments and limits
• Money Badger scaling Bitcoin at 700k+ South African merchants
• Safety gains with Tando bridging Bitcoin to M-Pesa
• How Bitcoin scales via existing rails and “change in sats”
• Breez Time To Build challenge and OpenSats grants
• Trezor Safe 7 with open secure element
• China’s e-CNY, BRICS, and why neutral money matters

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