Guest: Your Bitcoin IRA Is Not a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card | Adam O'Brien
Bitcoin Well Podcast
- Published
- October 5, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 1m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 5, 2026
Discusses society, culture.
Summary
Adam O'Brien has spent thirteen years trying to subtract counterparties from his life: the bank, the exchange, the custodian, anyone who could freeze, lend out, or lose his bitcoin. This summer proved that subtraction has a floor. The ColdCard entropy failure drained $116 million from people who did everything right, generating their own seed on a trusted…
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Show notes
Adam O'Brien has spent thirteen years trying to subtract counterparties from his life: the bank, the exchange, the custodian, anyone who could freeze, lend out, or lose his bitcoin. This summer proved that subtraction has a floor. The ColdCard entropy failure drained $116 million from people who did everything right, generating their own seed on a trusted device. The Liquid Network lost $320 million without a single key being stolen. Neither failure involved a custodian. In this episode, Adam wa
Themes
- society
- culture