29: State of the Mint and Mind w/ Calle
Published: June 7, 2026
Duration: 1:05:39
"You cannot look at something without touching it."
Calle & Gigi take a walk.
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Calle and Gigi start with Cashu mint internals and end in embodied cognition. Along the way they unpack sparse Merkle trees, exclusion proofs, unilateral exit, trusted execution environments, recovery paths, the move to BLS signatures, agentic coding workflows, specialist versus generalist models, world models, and why Bitcoin, Nostr, and local AI still feel like reasons for optimism.
In this dialogue:
how mint state can be compressed into a sparse Merkle tree and why ...