Your Money, Your Data, Your Mind | Jesse Posner
From Trust Revolution by Shawn Yeager
February 19, 2026 · 1h 22m · Season 3 · Episode 5
About this episode
Jesse Posner discusses the importance of self-custody in the age of personal AI and the security challenges it presents.
“If somebody gets control over your personal AI — all your health data, all your financial data, all your emails, everything you've thought about — they own you.” Jesse Posner built FROST threshold signatures and shipped BitKey at Block. Now he's building Vora because he realized individual self-custody is still a LARP — and the stakes are about to get much higher. Episode Summary Most people think a hardware wallet means they've solved self-custody. Jesse Posner spent years at Coinbase and Block learning exactly why that's wrong. Without a full node, your wallet leaks your balance and IP address to third-party servers. Without physical security integration, your keys are one wrench attack away from worthless. Without verifiable hardware, your entire setup might be compromised from the factory floor. Vora is building the integrated answer: a sovereign device combining a full Bitcoin node, air-gapped hardware wallet, tamper detection, and emergency response — all designed so that attacking a Bitcoiner becomes more expensive than it's worth. But Posner isn't stopping at money. He argues the next frontier of self-custody is your mind. As personal AI agents accumulate our most…
People in this episode
Host: Shawn Yeager
Guest: Jesse Posner
Topics covered
- self-custody
- personal AI
- data privacy
- cryptocurrency
- security
Keywords
- self-custody
- personal AI
- data security
- cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin
- Vora
- guardian AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: FROST, BitKey, Block, Coinbase
Products: Vora, Bitcoin, guardian AI
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