DEFCON 33 - 2025

Paper Submission for DEFCON 33- Work In Progress

Title: "Hacking the Future of Money with Crypto, AI and Gold"

Intro

• Previous DEFCON presentations on data mining and UMI
• Unconventional Manipulation of Information (UMI)
  1. Theory - Unlock mental bandwidth, Capture bandwidth
  2. AKA Shock Doctrine, Overton Window, Disaster Capitalism
  3. Build context
  4. UMI design patterns - Venturi (diagram). Flea
• Pre-Bitcoin: Orlin Grabbe, Digital Money Trust and End of Ordinary Money
• 2015: The Texas Gold Depository
• 2023: Texas Digital Currency Bill

The Gold Token White Paper (7 iterations)

• Intro & Overview
• Impedance-Matched Token
• Dollar Danger
• GOLD DIGR Design
• Technical Working Group
• State X-change System

AI Augmentation

• ChatGPT created basic Gold Token paper
• Research for SDT platform design
• Generate interfaces and code
• Iterations revealed non-deterministic AI
• Vibe coding
• Enterprise scale
• Deduced alt-currency markets like Marijuana
• ChatGPT suggests "Open Spaces" website

UMI Specifics: It is by will alone I set my meme in motion

• Physical, colorful, low-text document instead of email
• Five mailings to targeted audiences (building a resonance effect)
• Researched red vs blue States, previous legislation and standing
• Feedback via Google Trends tool
• Refined paper from "How" to "Why" over seven versions
• One-year results

State Status

• Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
  1. State Pension risk
  2. Bitcoin considerations - energy, capacity, Blackrock
• Alt Currency bills
  1. Need hex map
• Surprise legislation 1 slide
  1. Texas - oil-based stablecoin
  2. West Virginia - State bank
  3. West Virginia - crypto as legal tender
  4. Wyoming - stable token
• Trump & D.O.G.E taught us that identity-bound money is dangerous

Recap

• Identify an impending problem
• Recognize a unique solution
• Use AI to circumvent roadblocks
• Develop a feedback mechanism

Incorporate these:

• Law of Demeter / Buddhist economics "satisfy needs from closest source"
• "Free trade" based on temporary differentials
• Tokenization vs Bitcoin intrinsic coin value
• non-fungible item wrapped in fungible layer
• settlement vs backing, pawn shop analogy