Thank you, A.Piriya who dedicated to providing knowledge about Bitcoin to the Thai community. Next year, the Thai community will definitely increase more than in 2023. Stay Humble, Stack Sats^^ #siamstr
My year in review.
I’m not one to write long posts, so I will keep this short.
2023 has been an interesting year for me. There were plenty of ups and downs but I’m mostly grateful for the ride we had together.
Heading in to 2023, I was preparing for the bear market lull, it’s time to rest, the past two years had been hectic, I’ve release three translations and was constantly giving talks, lectures, seminars, interview almost everyday, I’ve also co-founded Right Shift with the guys but ultimately, I plan to have a quiet, peaceful 2023 to myself.
And I did just that, I put *The Fiat Standard* translation on hold jsut for a bit and spent most of January just lazing about, playing games, hanging out with the kids. I managed to 100% Persona 5 Royale which was a great experience and I was feeling energized, but nothing would prepare me for what is to come.
Late 2022 I heard of this new decentralized social network called Nostr but haven’t had the time to dig into it. It’s only after seeing an acquaintance sharing his vanity pubkey on Facebook that I decided to give it a try, I played around with it for a bit then generated my own vanity pubkey, but even then I only check back in about once or week or every two weeks.
Soon after that, in February, I was invited to talk about Bitcoin, technology, money, and innovation at the Blockmountain conference in Chiangmai. I talked about many things, mostly how the IMF, World Bank, and WTO managed to drain all the wealth from ‘developing countries’ through their predatory credit schemes. But at the end of the talk, I mentioned Nostr and how I think this little thing could grow to become an integral puzzle piece of Bitcoin and freedom tech in general, how the ‘other stuff’ could lead to a slew of free market innovations, I showed people how easy it is to send and receive zaps and the beauty of V4V.
But even then, I still spend most of my time on Twitter.
In March, with the COVID restrictions lifted, I was able to go to my first Bitcoin conference outside of Thailand. At the VIetnam Lightning Con I got a chance to meet many of the people I look up to and that was an awesome experience to say the least. I met Elitzabeth Stark, nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk , Peter Todd, nostr:npub1h88z7vfm7mnaz94gn2p2a5psaduzkphrf2pndtxa4xvsd6zpzg8qajhqta , nostr:npub1kznjv5rsa5hkvpmhz3wrlwztd8kwa7aa00afwucux98dtpldzvrs487zc4 , Albert Bu, nostr:npub17n53d53ql9seuxap52r6uckkvvf9nk0pg2v6ecpj7z9nnh8fwh2sl3j6ds, and many other cool guys. I also took the opportunity to announce the Thailand Bitcoin Conference that we’ve been planning for the past few months and to let people know of the Thai Bitcoin community.
From then up until July, we focused on putting together Thailand’s first Bitcoin only conferences together with nostr:npub13pn45hvfxqy5vpyr03krapqvsjpj34n74u36qz9aynw4svg5ypqszxgctw and nostr:npub1nsxnfp5690uplzgkslthcvt6269htshqeymhghthenr9wnpt869q57q2hf . It was hard reaching out to speakers and sponsors as we are not well known anywhere outside of Thailand, but we managed to pull through with an amazing turnout, we also learned a lot along the way. Thankyou to all the speakers, sponsors, and all the attendees, you guys are amazing. This is when I met nostr:npub19x0h8jm3mnwzhv4tpq62zta05er0qlyge73m0pwsp7h666khkd9qev2ree who translated the Japanese version of The Bitcoin Standard and learned that she resides in Bangkok.
By the end of July, Twitter was killed off and changed to X, this made me switch to Nostr full time following nostr:npub1en9ma92rj4ksr64l0ed0fh9588g8mn0ht0v0m87ssx0slvgrnkasf5ws53 's advise to get away from social media platforms and their algorithms, this was an eye opening experience for me and I started talking about Nostr more and more each week, bringing Thai plebs onto the protocol and starting a nice little community of happy zappers.
After the event, we decided to start a new podcast/livestream called The Orange Pill Council, where the guys from Right Shift get together and just chill. It turned out to be a great success, People really enjoyed the show and the guys was able to find their voices. It was from this decision that Right Shift started blooming into what it is today, with diverse content, targeting a wider group of audiences, ready to be the next beacon of knowledge and information comes the next bull run. nostr:npub15l5mxmljftnnqur8gf2nkjj2yuemqy2kuly7yc29lx7x598svx5s447rgk nostr:npub1z7k4pffj7250eaydd3ya0v07mmzecylcq9cw5af68zu39q0k4u3qj6xre4 nostr:npub1qd6zcgzukmydscp3eyauf2dn6xzgfsevsetrls8zrzgs5t0e4fws7re0mj nostr:npub1mqcwu7muxz3kfvfyfdme47a579t8x0lm3jrjx5yxuf4sknnpe43q7rnz85 nostr:npub1a8wreeghu0j8g4zqgzex53sq38gjwjdp5czxnu3rfydnz8n8yu2spqkavy nostr:npub1ju8la595yg7h90qm8lm95hvqajgdgu2c6f9mf8uwwe7lurrxarcsycsv5w nostr:npub1eahsj3ngx39s3dvk78frad0dwsw09q8nqprudy8vld4sjqd8uafsu362ah nostr:npub16hpaqcm8zhc6n4d79tu2mtsf9464093r4v3r7l5hq5tpsng3txesw3tu5f
nostr:npub1wzlj8qxwzwfls9fez23ne90rjey6kxkaqz7nltfajqx5kmp7w2tqfkkad0 and we are still waiting for you nostr:npub1ysvk3na2kzmfy3yw9mj2947srkqpm7w3m4nmhey2sdet9xg9480qjn54x4
and all the amzing artworks from nostr:npub1jmgyx98jkel68qpnu9lfcgsahk5mghvxgavyvw48ljk6m64nv0rsk79z5s
nostr:npub1kd95gzpy65t7cndx43nlxxtahj0s8kpdwr77kl6tw7gfht8mjensyh5l62 Also started a health focused show on Nostr, with huge following and that is really cool.
In August I started my annual trading course for my father’s company. Being in Bitcoin for a few years, I’ve effectively left my trading background behind, so it was a bit rough trying to find a comfortable ground between trading professionally and just staying humble and stacking sats. The course prompted me to revisit a lot of my core beliefs and I believe I have found a ground to stand on, next year should be interesting.
This is also about the time I got back in the gym, I had been neglecting excercise and it’s taking a toll on my body, being back is great, and I found that I can build muscle much faster while being on an almost carnivore diet, so that’s cool.
August is when I also decided to ramp up my translation project for the Fiat Standard, with the goal of finishing the second drafts before year’s end, which I did, it will be available in stores in a few month, ready for the next wave of newcomers.
In September Dea asked me to go to a Libertarian Think Tank event in Malaysia, The Atlas Foundation conference, it was a very interesting experience, I went in blind and found a large group of libertarians who haven’t heard of, or seriously considered Bitcoin or that their problems could be the result of the Fiat monetary system. We had fun Orange Pilling people at the event and hope to at least sparked some interest to like minded people.
And in October, I went to the Indonesian Bitcoin conference, taking two guys from the Right Shift team with me. It was a blast, we learned a lot about what makes a great Bitcoin conference and hope to apply some of our learnings to Thailand’s Bitcoin Conference 2024. This was also the time the Thai Nostr community is growing really fast and becoming very active, to all the Thai plebs rocking on Nostr, you guys are legendary. It was also great meeting and getting the chance to talk to nostr:npub1v67clmf4jrezn8hsz28434nc0y5fu65e5esws04djnl2kasxl5tskjmjjk you are amazing man, I love you, nostr:npub1csuq0wzew7r6nynh97vjfamxrcqk70hgk8a3hvqz9ftzuu0sshtsm5xfjj nostr:npub1ltz38gwwmmg740r5qlqjn96gth5thv5wmhkwlgqks9lu3485q7jsy6k4fh nostr:npub13dsd38urm6c4v2d38gfh2d4l4yvwuw4p7zdcug47d80z3c68aztqapzmwf
nostr:npub1rhh9pkmf6l6z7298yg6fgp95rzkmx4j9uxpekn8j73p5k95ck7gsvce7vj nostr:npub1ejxswthae3nkljavznmv66p9ahp4wmj4adux525htmsrff4qym9sz2t3tv I also got nervous talking to nostr:npub1zu5tdnq7w63fgmsfz85te7e6zeg7y2lt8q8r9jp5zcg68jfy73jqraqtgz but as a long time Hodlhodl fan it was nice meeting you 😄 And many other people I don't have the npubs to or just forgot to mention, nostr:npub1h88z7vfm7mnaz94gn2p2a5psaduzkphrf2pndtxa4xvsd6zpzg8qajhqta you did an amazing job.
The last two months I spent dashing through the Fiat Standard, finishing out the second draft of the translation and sending it over for further editing with the publishers, I expect to get a copy to proof read very soon, it’s a great book and I hope Thai people could get to read it without the language barrier. We’ve also started on more translation projects, I’m editing / proofing two more books as I write and they are coming along very nicely.
Overall, 2023 was a pretty productive year. I got to read a lot of great books, some of the most notable are Fraud Coin by nostr:npub1sv4zk080fvt4f3982u5kffzdkex3nm0kylky29um2xws5h4wsxvswtsrw4 , nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a ’s Broken Money, Outlive by Peter Attia was also enlightening, Matthew Lysiak's Fiat Food and nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 's Fiat Ruin Everything are both masterpieces and a great read. I tried reading the Wealth of Nations to my kids like nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m did but ended up reading Harry Potter instead. We successfully organized Thailand’s first Bitcoin only conference with all the tickets sold out, I finished a book translation, I got my portfolio and trading bots up and running again in all markets. There wasn’t a lot of interviews and talks this year as the public’s interest in Bitcoin has died down but I feel, no, we feel better prepared and more ready than ever for what’s to come.
I am thankful for the Right Shift team, you guys are the dream team I could never have dreamt of working with, and also a big thankyou to all the Thai plebs who stuck around this year, you guys were my inspiration to keep doing what I do, we’ve been through a lot together and no matter what happens, you guys are fucking legendary.
nostr:npub1jalt2rsvr9nhd7e84yp8pmzytxmcptp8u20tp5wnx4dcr8xf8resze0yfp you are a legend
nostr:npub1y3y2vmmw00a9tftxh0mpvz5z5xd9ey28q93flwcj93zaaquzjmys4amlsw thank you for taking up the task of #north101
Thank you to all the guys working on Nostr to create this amazing protocol, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 nostr:npub1zfss807aer0j26mwp2la0ume0jqde3823rmu97ra6sgyyg956e0s6xw445 nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr nostr:npub1ejxswthae3nkljavznmv66p9ahp4wmj4adux525htmsrff4qym9sz2t3tv
and many who I forgot to name.
2023 was an interesting year, a shit ton happened, and I had a lot of fun.
Discussion
Thank you piriya, onward to more fun things in 2024