Software Systems
Put Intelligence Where Judgement Matters
A hybrid monitoring workflow keeps sensitive data local, reserves frontier models for anomalies and turns repeatable answers into dependable software.
Episode 69 guest
Piers Cockram
Piers Cockram is the founder and director of mineracks, an Australian company based in Brisbane that focuses on Bitcoin infrastructure, self-custody tools, and sovereign technology like self-hosted cloud storage and private AI
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Piers Cockram is the founder and director of mineracks, an Australian company based in Brisbane that focuses on Bitcoin infrastructure, self-custody tools, and sovereign technology like self-hosted cloud storage and private AI.
Through his current venture, mineracks, Piers has expanded his work past traditional Bitcoin mining into what he calls “the next generation of sovereign technology”.
This philosophy focuses on data ownership, open-source tech, and decentralized infrastructure; including Creating self-hosted cloud storage setups and private AI solutions so individuals and businesses do not have to rely on centralized Big Tech servers, and setting up localized, hosted mining facilities in Brisbane while designing hands-on simulations to make the learning curve for Bitcoin self-custody easier.
Conversations
Ideas from the conversation
Business & Markets
Sell the AI outcome, not the stack
Businesses can adopt AI more easily when one provider translates a desired outcome into a complete working service.
Privacy & Security
The Agent Leaves but the Server Stays
Cheap machine payments create a dangerous asymmetry when an anonymous agent can use infrastructure whose operator remains identifiable and accountable.
AI Coding
Turning Experience into Software
AI can give one person the capacity to package years of expertise or solve a small personal problem, then distribute the result far beyond its original setting.
Agents
When an agent can pay
Giving an agent limited spending power lets it complete routine purchases without surrendering human control over consequential payments.
Agents
When an agent rents its own server
A wallet gives an AI agent the means to rent infrastructure, move its runtime and pay to keep itself online.
Privacy & Security
When Research Agents Cross the Line
An agent that gathers and analyses its own evidence can turn an ordinary research request into an unauthorised intrusion.