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On August 5, 2026, The Bitcoin Nova featured Josh (Secure Sovereign) arguing that the Coldcard incident exposed a gap between Bitcoin’s self-custody ideals and its actual systems of verification.
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The April 13, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast features Josh arguing that Bitcoin Core governance concentrates repository power despite decentralized technical consensus.
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The June 15, 2026 episode of the Bitcoin Infinity Show features Josh of Secure Sovereign presenting Bitcoin Commons, a Rust implementation that formally specifies consensus separately from Core's monolithic codebase.
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The February 23, 2026 episode of The Bitcoin Nova Podcast features Josh ("Secure Sovereign") presenting a quantitative governance analysis identifying merge-access concentration among a handful of Bitcoin Core maintainers.
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