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Presidio Bitcoin Jam changed its tagline to "open money, open intelligence" to reflect its coverage of AI and Bitcoin. This aligns with Spiral's tagline and a broader industry trend of merging open source AI with cryptocurrency.
The X402 payment protocol specification officially merged support for Bitcoin and Lightning, driven by a pull request from Spiral developer Ben Carmen. Block subsequently announced it was joining the standard alongside Coinbase.
Spiral developers are integrating Bitcoin Lightning payments into Mesh LLM, an open source peer-to-peer AI inference project. This enables node hosts to monetize their spare compute on a decentralized network.
Steve and DK explain Spiral's Mesh LLM project, which creates a peer-to-peer network allowing users to monetize spare compute cycles on local machines. Developers can buy model inference directly from the mesh using permissionless Bitcoin payments.
DK reveals Spiral's plans to produce a puppet-based film advocating for open-source AI and open-weight models. The project builds on the team's prior niche software release, Puppet Jack, to target a much broader technology audience.
Steve announced that the upcoming Open Source AI Summit on September tenth will feature a panel on software security scanning. The panel will synthesize security practices learned from Bitcoin projects like Spiral's Project Loop.
Steve notes that Project Loop, launched by Spiral in May, scanned seven initial open-source projects. Steve asserts every software project contains undiscovered vulnerabilities, and Bitcoin acts as a canary because exploits yield immediate financial value.
Steve Lee explains that Spiral launched Project Loop to run AI security scans for open-source software like Bitcoin Core. This initiative started after frontier model providers like Anthropic refused to grant developer access to their advanced cyber-security models.
Steve Lee points out that Block has developed Bitcoin mining chips and spent four years researching AI applications. The company recently expanded its open-source funding through Spiral to support both decentralized money and open intelligence projects.
Project Loupe, launched by Spiral, performs AI security scans on open-source Bitcoin repositories, but models produce noise and misclassify severity, necessitating human review and active remediation by project maintainers.
Project Loop, Spiral's AI security scanning tool, received a 5/5 usefulness rating from Bitcoin Core and positive feedback from eight initial projects.
Steve describes Goose Development Kit as an open-source agentic interface pivoting to become a development kit, with its core code donated to the Linux Foundation and its developers now part of Spiral.
Steve states Spiral has expanded into AI while maintaining its Bitcoin work, arguing the AI audience is orders of magnitude larger and will eventually be primed to adopt Bitcoin due to overlapping values around open-source and decentralization.
Steve notes the Spiral team now comprises 21 full-time engineers and one intern, and highlights the updated Spiral website with new project graphics and a team page featuring self-roasting descriptions.