I Attract Miracles Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/i-attract-miracles I Attract Miracles — The Speculative Science Podcast We sit down with the architects of the next decade: scientists, founders, and inventors building the technology that sounds impossible until it isn't. Each episode follows one breakthrough through three movements. The Origin, where curiosity turned a researcher into a founder. The Mechanism, where we make the science visceral. And The Dispatch, where the guest steps five to fifteen years into the future and describes, from the inside out, a day in the world their work is creating. This is speculative non-fiction in the spirit of Verne and Gibson: nothing invented, only the present recombined into the plausible adjacent worlds it's already pointing toward. Technology arrives faster than we can imagine living inside it. We close that gap. Hosted by Ivo Betke. Executive Producer Nicolai Haas. Ivo Betke bf45cfd0-b457-55c2-90e1-ef56f139029c yes Ivo Betke Nicolai Haas en Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:00:03 +0200 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:02:08 +0200 https://www.iattractmiracles.com https://img.transistorcdn.com/UNAYmaxt_faZjPkInAmqwTGLLKtEUXVcoBg6S6S79-E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lM2Ri/ZWYzZDc0MmQ0ZGI3/MGFhNWI1Y2YzMTI2/ZDAxNi5wbmc.jpg I Attract Miracles https://www.iattractmiracles.com episodic Ivo Betke I Attract Miracles — The Speculative Science Podcast We sit down with the architects of the next decade: scientists, founders, and inventors building the technology that sounds impossible until it isn't. Each episode follows one breakthrough through three movements. The Origin, where curiosity turned a researcher into a founder. The Mechanism, where we make the science visceral. And The Dispatch, where the guest steps five to fifteen years into the future and describes, from the inside out, a day in the world their work is creating. This is speculative non-fiction in the spirit of Verne and Gibson: nothing invented, only the present recombined into the plausible adjacent worlds it's already pointing toward. Technology arrives faster than we can imagine living inside it. We close that gap. Hosted by Ivo Betke. Executive Producer Nicolai Haas. I Attract Miracles — The Speculative Science Podcast We sit down with the architects of the next decade: scientists, founders, and inventors building the technology that sounds impossible until it isn't. science, technology, speculative science Ivo Betke No No Dr. Filip Rezabek: The root of trust leaves the planet. 3 3 Dr. Filip Rezabek: The root of trust leaves the planet. full 6a5ba88e-9ba6-4ce4-b49d-e1022ba1f025 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3db128ae Co-founder and CTO of SpaceComputer. A satellite in low Earth orbit is a computer no one can reach to tamper with. SpaceComputer relocates the hardware security root to orbit — where physical inaccessibility becomes the security model.

Filip Rezabek carried one question from Prague to Seoul to a Cisco internship to TU Munich: how do you trust a networked system you cannot physically inspect? Securing cars led to securing blockchains, which led to a strange conclusion. The safest place to run a computer is orbit, where no one can reach the hardware. SpaceComputer's satellites generate their own private keys in space, never on the ground.

Asked about 2040, Rezabek pictures Alice, who never thinks about any of it. The photo she takes carries a hash proving where and when it was real. Her weather report is signed by the satellites that watched the clouds. The checkmarks are simply there, seamless, and she may not even care. And when a service fails, the whole web no longer falls with it, the way everything breaks today when Cloudflare goes down. Authenticity stops being something you verify by hand.

Episode 3 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> Co-founder and CTO of SpaceComputer. A satellite in low Earth orbit is a computer no one can reach to tamper with. SpaceComputer relocates the hardware security root to orbit — where physical inaccessibility becomes the security model.

Filip Rezabek carried one question from Prague to Seoul to a Cisco internship to TU Munich: how do you trust a networked system you cannot physically inspect? Securing cars led to securing blockchains, which led to a strange conclusion. The safest place to run a computer is orbit, where no one can reach the hardware. SpaceComputer's satellites generate their own private keys in space, never on the ground.

Asked about 2040, Rezabek pictures Alice, who never thinks about any of it. The photo she takes carries a hash proving where and when it was real. Her weather report is signed by the satellites that watched the clouds. The checkmarks are simply there, seamless, and she may not even care. And when a service fails, the whole web no longer falls with it, the way everything breaks today when Cloudflare goes down. Authenticity stops being something you verify by hand.

Episode 3 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0200 Ivo Betke Ivo Betke 3601 Co-founder and CTO of SpaceComputer. A satellite in low Earth orbit is a computer no one can reach to tamper with. SpaceComputer relocates the hardware security root to orbit — where physical inaccessibility becomes the security model.

Filip Rezabek carried one question from Prague to Seoul to a Cisco internship to TU Munich: how do you trust a networked system you cannot physically inspect? Securing cars led to securing blockchains, which led to a strange conclusion. The safest place to run a computer is orbit, where no one can reach the hardware. SpaceComputer's satellites generate their own private keys in space, never on the ground.

Asked about 2040, Rezabek pictures Alice, who never thinks about any of it. The photo she takes carries a hash proving where and when it was real. Her weather report is signed by the satellites that watched the clouds. The checkmarks are simply there, seamless, and she may not even care. And when a service fails, the whole web no longer falls with it, the way everything breaks today when Cloudflare goes down. Authenticity stops being something you verify by hand.

Episode 3 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> science, technology, speculative science No Ivo Betke Nicolai Haas Dr. Filip Rezabek Dr. Jason Morton: Proof that the AI ran honestly. 2 2 Dr. Jason Morton: Proof that the AI ran honestly. full e502642e-054f-4999-a2ba-c6fc4f3f0f0f https://share.transistor.fm/s/36e307a7 CEO of EZKL. Zero-knowledge machine learning that lets any third party verify an AI model ran correctly on specific data — without seeing the model's weights or the inputs. A 2035 where "the algorithm said so" comes with a cryptographic receipt.

Jason Morton came to verifiable AI through algebraic geometry, modeling neural networks as polynomial equations for fifteen years before that meant anything, then through science fiction and a failed attempt to buy Bitcoin on Mt. Gox.

The problem that fused both halves of him: how do you prove an AI ran the way it claims without revealing its secrets? His tool, EZKL, compiles a trained model into a single zero-knowledge proof, a cryptographic receipt that the computation happened honestly.

Asked about 2040, he starts with the boring part: accounting and financial statements you can finally trust. Then it gets stranger. You lose your passport at Burning Man and still get home, because your data exhaust proves you are you. You die without a will, and a model trained to judge as you did releases the funds, no lawyer, no escrow. Stage one, you are the wallet. Stage two, the wallet is you.

Episode 2 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> CEO of EZKL. Zero-knowledge machine learning that lets any third party verify an AI model ran correctly on specific data — without seeing the model's weights or the inputs. A 2035 where "the algorithm said so" comes with a cryptographic receipt.

Jason Morton came to verifiable AI through algebraic geometry, modeling neural networks as polynomial equations for fifteen years before that meant anything, then through science fiction and a failed attempt to buy Bitcoin on Mt. Gox.

The problem that fused both halves of him: how do you prove an AI ran the way it claims without revealing its secrets? His tool, EZKL, compiles a trained model into a single zero-knowledge proof, a cryptographic receipt that the computation happened honestly.

Asked about 2040, he starts with the boring part: accounting and financial statements you can finally trust. Then it gets stranger. You lose your passport at Burning Man and still get home, because your data exhaust proves you are you. You die without a will, and a model trained to judge as you did releases the funds, no lawyer, no escrow. Stage one, you are the wallet. Stage two, the wallet is you.

Episode 2 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0200 Ivo Betke Ivo Betke 3287 CEO of EZKL. Zero-knowledge machine learning that lets any third party verify an AI model ran correctly on specific data — without seeing the model's weights or the inputs. A 2035 where "the algorithm said so" comes with a cryptographic receipt.

Jason Morton came to verifiable AI through algebraic geometry, modeling neural networks as polynomial equations for fifteen years before that meant anything, then through science fiction and a failed attempt to buy Bitcoin on Mt. Gox.

The problem that fused both halves of him: how do you prove an AI ran the way it claims without revealing its secrets? His tool, EZKL, compiles a trained model into a single zero-knowledge proof, a cryptographic receipt that the computation happened honestly.

Asked about 2040, he starts with the boring part: accounting and financial statements you can finally trust. Then it gets stranger. You lose your passport at Burning Man and still get home, because your data exhaust proves you are you. You die without a will, and a model trained to judge as you did releases the funds, no lawyer, no escrow. Stage one, you are the wallet. Stage two, the wallet is you.

Episode 2 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> speculative science, science, Ai, Crypto No Ivo Betke Nicolai Haas Jason Morton Prof. Dr. Philipp Adelhelm: The Battery That Ends Scarcity. 1 1 Prof. Dr. Philipp Adelhelm: The Battery That Ends Scarcity. full 301013fe-3777-404c-bd6f-b8e175d85bc9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/c7f6d4e8 Professor of Physical Chemistry, Humboldt University Berlin. Sodium-ion batteries with Prussian blue electrodes — built from abundant, cheap materials, without lithium or cobalt. The energy storage breakthrough that makes the transition democratically available.

Philipp Adelhelm stayed with batteries when they were a dead topic. A Stuttgart kid who read Al Gore and watched his father throw sodium into water, he chose chemistry that might help with climate change, back when everyone else was betting on hydrogen.

Decades later the bet is paying off. Sodium-ion swaps lithium for an element vastly more abundant: no cobalt, no copper, no supply chain a single country can choke. Think of a battery as a parking lot for ions, and we have learned to build the cheap, durable kind.

Asked to picture a Tuesday in 2040, Adelhelm keeps it grounded: batteries so long-lived they go invisible, cheap enough for everyone, streets gone quiet and clean as combustion engines disappear, the car downstairs quietly storing the day's sun. Pushed on whether solved energy means utopia, he refuses to pretend he knows.

Episode 1 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> Professor of Physical Chemistry, Humboldt University Berlin. Sodium-ion batteries with Prussian blue electrodes — built from abundant, cheap materials, without lithium or cobalt. The energy storage breakthrough that makes the transition democratically available.

Philipp Adelhelm stayed with batteries when they were a dead topic. A Stuttgart kid who read Al Gore and watched his father throw sodium into water, he chose chemistry that might help with climate change, back when everyone else was betting on hydrogen.

Decades later the bet is paying off. Sodium-ion swaps lithium for an element vastly more abundant: no cobalt, no copper, no supply chain a single country can choke. Think of a battery as a parking lot for ions, and we have learned to build the cheap, durable kind.

Asked to picture a Tuesday in 2040, Adelhelm keeps it grounded: batteries so long-lived they go invisible, cheap enough for everyone, streets gone quiet and clean as combustion engines disappear, the car downstairs quietly storing the day's sun. Pushed on whether solved energy means utopia, he refuses to pretend he knows.

Episode 1 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0200 Ivo Betke Ivo Betke 2906 Professor of Physical Chemistry, Humboldt University Berlin. Sodium-ion batteries with Prussian blue electrodes — built from abundant, cheap materials, without lithium or cobalt. The energy storage breakthrough that makes the transition democratically available.

Philipp Adelhelm stayed with batteries when they were a dead topic. A Stuttgart kid who read Al Gore and watched his father throw sodium into water, he chose chemistry that might help with climate change, back when everyone else was betting on hydrogen.

Decades later the bet is paying off. Sodium-ion swaps lithium for an element vastly more abundant: no cobalt, no copper, no supply chain a single country can choke. Think of a battery as a parking lot for ions, and we have learned to build the cheap, durable kind.

Asked to picture a Tuesday in 2040, Adelhelm keeps it grounded: batteries so long-lived they go invisible, cheap enough for everyone, streets gone quiet and clean as combustion engines disappear, the car downstairs quietly storing the day's sun. Pushed on whether solved energy means utopia, he refuses to pretend he knows.

Episode 1 of The Sovereign Stack.

]]> science, technology, speculative science No Ivo Betke Prof. Dr. Adelhelm Nicolai Haas