Yan | swan.com @skwp
co-founder & CTO @swan. Author Inventing Bitcoin. Shadowy Super Coder. swan.com Chicago, IL Joined December 2006-
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What happens with our loved ones if we become incapacitated? Having recently experienced such an event in my family, it is clear that having a bunch of papers lying around for your loved ones to sort through is not the way. We built vigilprotocol.ai to track all of your assets and plans and create beautiful well organized runbooks for your family so that you can rest easy. It uses AI to understand your plans to make sure all your scenarios are well covered. If you're in your 30's and 40s, with significant assets and children, you should be thinking about this. If you have elderly parents, _they_ should be thinking about this.
There is a clear motion in play to cement corporate stablecoins with heavy government control and censorship as our new default money. We will cede full control of our sovereignty to bureaucrats and clankers. Cash will likely be eradicated. Machines will decide what you can spend money on, or whether you can take it out of the country when you try to leave. This is not doom and gloom, this is history repeating itself. Bitcoin is the only way.
New Speakeasy: Bitcoin Adoption Forecasts When will Bitcoin be the dominant global store of value? Will it ever be a widely used medium of exchange? Unit of account? Is the dollar going to hyperinflate, or will they kick the can down the road again? And what about gold? Bring your opinions, your favorite resources, and some data, and let’s chop it up! Maximum 10 people, cameras on, Chatham House rules. Request an invite here: speakeasy.swan.com/e/_5AeGW6j
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The night before a long trip, you run the list. Passports, the house, the dog. But one question you never answer: if something happened to you, would your partner know where things are, and what to do? For most couples, honestly, no. Here's why, and how to fix it:
The night before a long trip, you run the list. Passports, the house, the dog. But one question you never answer: if something happened to you, would your partner know where things are, and what to do? For most couples, honestly, no. Here's why, and how to fix it:
This is DeFi "The whole system was only ever as strong as the secrecy of one RSA key". This is basically the case with most smart contract based systems. In a world of agentic securty attacks and increasingly vibe coded smart contracts, the only winning move is not to play. With Bitcoin, you don't need to trust your funds to someone else.
🚨Taiko drained for ~$1.7M. Root cause: a private key committed to a public GitHub repo. enclave-key.pem, the RSA key used to sign all of Taiko's SGX enclaves, sat in the public taikoxyz/raiko repo. That key is the whole trust model. The attacker derived MrSigner from the
You bought an ETF so you'd never have to "deal with" Bitcoin. Now a fund manager holds your keys and charges you every year for the privilege - and all you have is price exposure. RBX is the off-ramp: from ETF exposure into real on-chain Bitcoin, structured as an exchange, not a sale. Owning it was always the point.
Introducing Swan Real Bitcoin Exchange (RBX). A structured path from Bitcoin ETFs to real, on-chain Bitcoin you own. swan.com/rbx
Hey @GovPritzker this is not ok.
🚨 ILLINOIS ENACTS MOST AGGRESSIVE BITCOIN TAX IN THE 🇺🇸 US Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed Illinois’ new Digital Asset Tax Act into law. Starting January 1, 2027, Illinois will impose a 0.20% tax on the gross value of digital assets exchanged, transferred, or stored for
SpaceX reveals it's sitting on a monster stash of 18,712 Bitcoin worth almost 2 billion. Remember Elon shilling doge and saying Bitcoin was bad for the environment? Watch what they do, not what they say.
Convert your Paper Bitcoin => Real Bitcoin. This is the way 👇
Introducing Swan Real Bitcoin Exchange (RBX). A structured path from Bitcoin ETFs to real, on-chain Bitcoin you own. swan.com/rbx
The BITCOIN SEASON trailer just dropped - a visionary film that enshrines - and ultimately forecasts - Bitcoin’s infiltration of America’s sports business. Directed by @MikeNicollMedia and featuring many prominent Bitcoiners. Swan is a proud partner.
The prior "bitcoin bubbles" are impossible to see on the normal Bitcoin chart because of how zoomed out you have to be. The log chart tells a better story - an adoption curve that keeps going up with lots of hype cycles in between.
One of my favorites as well
Finally listening to "Bitcoin Is Venice" Lovely to spend a Sunday with old friends @allenf32 and @TheGuySwann 🙏
All crypto is at risk from agentic bug discovery. *especially* any sort of DeFi with Turing complete languages that have infinite exploits. Bitcoin is the safest simplest well understood protocol out there. Evaluate this risk before investing into anything.
For 4 years Zcash's zcash:native Orchard pool had a bug that let anyone mint unlimited, undetectable counterfeit ZEC It was just found by a researcher using Claude Opus 4.8 and patched Because the pool is shielded, there's no cryptographic way to prove it was never exploited A
In the age of advanced exploits by LLMs, DeFi is *NOT SAFE* Stack Bitcoin, do not let your crypto sit inside smart contracts constructed from languages that are "Turing complete" like ETH and others. This was once a marketing point used by Vitalik to launch eth, but Bitcoin *wisely* chose a non-Turing complete language for its safety. Only Bitcoin is safe from this attack. Do your own research!
People ask why it’s a bad day for DeFi? Kelp DAO just lost $293M in the largest hack of 2026. But zoom out: $600M+ stolen in 2 weeks. 10+ protocols compromised. AI is lowering the barrier for attackers. Biggest hacks: Kelp (bridge exploit → Aave impact) Drift ($285M, AI
We're heading toward the plot of Snow Crash at an alarming rate.
Introducing Monako Glass 👓 The world's first wearable Linux computer in glasses form. Run Claude Code, Codex, and any coding agent — anywhere.
Do not install Specter from Apple app store. Specter does not have a mobile app. This is malicious software.
🚨 Im App Store ist eine manipulierte Specter-Wallet-App im Umlauf. Diese stammt NICHT von Specter. Sie versucht, Euer Bitcoin-Guthaben zu stehlen. Specter bietet KEINE mobile Version von Specter an! Installiert das auf keinen Fall!
What distinguishes great engineers from mediocre ones is the ability to make the right tradeoffs. An LLM may confidently convince you to make the wrong choices backed by lots of data and say "oops" if you question it. Use it to steelman both sides, but do the thinking yourself.
Agentic technology selection considered harmful. Once an LLM is trained on a popular library, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, juicing its stats and making it more popular. At Swan, we implement a Tech Radar maintained by senior humans, which steers both humans and agents to the best tech choices, despite what the clankers may want to recommend.
The Matrix was a prescient movie
right monitor is 20 codex instances. left monitor has situational awareness on autoscroll. center monitor is my word doc mainfesto. two keyboards, one for both hands. left airpod is dwarkesh x eric jang, 3x speed. right airpod tchaikovsky. meta quest 3 overlays my HUD: heart
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