GM,

Meet-ups are fun. I’m glad I went to my first one in my home city of Oxford.

If you don’t know me in IRL, I can talk, quite loudly and very passionately and focused. I’m told that most people can hear me across the other side of the room. In fact one guy last night, said he could hear me in the toilets 😂

But it’s all good, I’m very enthused talking about Bitcoin and I don’t get to do it enough in real life.

A funny moment happened, I took a couple of copies of my book and one was sitting on the table as I’d just given it to a virgin Bitcoiner. One of the guys from nostr:npub1nqt6hg6k78la4uj0c0yc44s28t8nkgaaee7rdnrr0vszlul4wwdszsfpug was taking a look at it and asked,

“Whose book is this?”, so I replied "mine" and he asked me if it was any good.

I replied sarcastically, “No, it’s rubbish, the author is a scam artist.”.

The others looked at me, knowing I was the author, but the Bridge2Bitcoin guy thought it was just a book I’d read. He soon got the vibe and nostr:npub12fymz80ln9kdjvyxpwxd2ryuf0yg02957dzzjlawdxhqaylq0aas75mw5q eventually let the rabbit out of the bag.

We had a random newbie who had no experience of Bitcoin. I helped onboard her with Wallet of Satoshi and 1,000 Sats and the Bridge2Bitcoin guys kept the momentum up with another 5,000 Sats in various payments back and forth.

She had just sold her restaurant across the road and was looking to go on a Caribbean cruise, so of course I told her about my recent cruise to St. Kitts and Nevis and Barbados and told her of the cruise nostr:npub18rdmnvrajwrp6srzpttz63934r58sh0sn9lwk3z57ykjzuzge4wqu6dhce and I had planned 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I’ve been invited back, so I guess I wasn’t too loud and I’ve been asked to attend a couple of other events as well, so maybe my fellow coiners didn’t find me too obnoxious.

I've only just got up, because my brain was ticking over so much I couldn't get to sleep until 4am this morning.

We have guests coming this weekend, so I need to do some domestic stuff today. I gave their 2 children about $10 worth of Bitcoin each a year ago, it's going to be worth about $40 now. They might be asking some questions 😂