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Brad Mills
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Angel Investing into #Bitcoin & p2p web Companies, supporting bitcoin culture at Geyser.fund Grants.

How do I print thee? Let me count the ways…

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Hear me out

Canadian banks are brutal

Terrible experience, extensions of the state, monopoly creates lack of competition

Loophole: credit unions

Idea: A team of Bitcoiners buys a credit union in a small mountain town

Converts it to a ₿ Union

A ₿etter ₿anking experience

Education hub (in person and online)

Serves ₿itcoiners with collateralized lending products, credit cards and basic banking services to access the fiat system (until it dies)

Core mission is education

In person education consults to help people self custody their sats

Relationships with Bitcoin only Canadians exchanges so people can swap dirty fiat for clean sats

Services that help local businesses accept bitcoin as a payment method and establish a bitcoin treasury

Monthly workshops about using lightning, nostr, running a node and the basics of personal cybersecurity

Sell signing devices and host meetups

Anyone out there interested?

nostr:nprofile1qqs94rjcrut2qyhzf54xgq2j44tzqkxtqe0pmu5wjp7ph75zc9gv3wspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0uf4w5l nostr:nprofile1qqsfkmv4ka4qzxg6f3mcrptgrmtl808d9ll63eq4zmk8sfqtyyegtagpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezua3sdshxjmcpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7n9vfjkget99e3kcmm4vswxn8hd nostr:nprofile1qqspfrgnv6j7geetzvs6muqry9mclp4zxudyhklfjyel9r0sk0fjlggprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qngdep nostr:npub1phvflpwfkevj50jlvaw5lerl7avynpwt5tl9kpmt07kwmnsw04vqe9n97v nostr:nprofile1qqspgzz3qcml9esk5p5zzwyupqnk2rxcpv6pdueew35c9vnxwdsjwuqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmckxkg2n nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj94c82c3wwajkcmr0wfjx2u3wdejhgl0ln6a #bitcoin #nostr

Is it possible and / or will it not get targeted ?

Write me some reels I pay in sats and good boy points

Shitcoiners during tax season vs Bitcoiners during tax season (FULL RAW UNCUT VERSION)

https://m.primal.net/OxkP.mov

I have a massive beard and I’m getting the urge to shave it. What are some funny short ideas that I can film for a before & after?

Once concept I had was to film some dialogue with myself. Bearded me could be a grizzled hodler who’s seen the horrors of 4 90% drawdowns and clean shaven me could be an excited any bushy tailed first time bitcoin buyer.

Another concept was I could film myself “getting into bitcoin” and then 1 week later I’ve got a portfolio of 100 shitcoins my wife has left me and I’ve got a massive homeless man Beard, ranting about how the federal reserve is going to use XRP to settle bank to bank transfers.

Any other ideas send them my way!

It’s a play on a tik tok / instagram trend “touch me again and find out who I am”

I’m making some viral clips for Instagram, here’s one of them.

If you have ideas drop em here!

If you’re a comedy sketch writer please DM me on Instagram @bradmillscan because I’m looking to work with some writers to script up some good sketches that we can film.

https://m.primal.net/OXxJ.mov

I’m putting my mouth where my money is by starting a Media Company.

I’m hiring a Bitcoin Sherpa, base pay $60K CAD on target earnings $150K CAD!

POW Media aims to help 1 million people start saving in Bitcoin & create10K self-custody Wholecoiners.

We make content to hit multiple pillars:

1) Bitcoin education - viral reels for average people on Instagram

2) Shining the light - highlighting companies I’ve invested and telling their stories, as well as initiatives I’m backing or donating to.

3) Business & Investing - mostly podcast highlights with entrepreneurs and bitcoin founders / investors geared to educate HNWIs

4) Low Time Preference Lifestyle - aspirational content for Instagram designed to show entrepreneurs and HNWIs how using bitcoin as a Treasury Reserve asset can help them buy their time back and slow down.

(We will also still be doing the D&D podcast for funsies)

The other side of POW Media is consulting with entrepreneurs & HNWIs to hold their hand on their journey to self sovereignty.

We are doing Bitcoin coaching and I’m hiring Bitcoiners to help with that side of the business.

https://www.bradmills.ca/careers/client-success-manager

I’m hiring an important role now - a Client Success Manager.

You’ll work directly with me to guide entrepreneurs and their families in adopting Bitcoin self-custody.

In this role, you’ll design seamless onboarding processes, engage clients proactively, and develop systems & SOPs to ensure we set people on the right path, focusing on getting them early wins & becoming promoters of our product.

If you want to directly contribute to people’s financial empowerment, and you’re passionate about empathetically & effectively orange pilling - you can make a meaningful impact with me 💪

Is there an easy app for my grandmother to use to sell her socks for sats?

Looking for something simple to take orders, keep track of who ordered what and fulfill the orders as she makes the socks.

My crypto friends in the altcoin trenches are depressed.

They are considering buying bitcoin 😂

My grandmother is coming up on 90 and she’s been following Bitcoin for the last 5-10 years, texting me the price when it makes new all time highs, celebrating with me.

She has a token amount on an opendime but she was asking me all kinds of questions about how to buy bitcoin and how people spend it and how I fund my lifestyle with bitcoin.

I finally got her setup with a blink wallet, nanny@bitcoin.sv

Then we randomly came up with an idea to sell her socks for sats 😂

She makes sought after socks 🧦, the family always fights over them.

She makes them and donated them to the local library.

She’s taking orders!

https://m.primal.net/NqjM.mov

Here’s a heads-up you’ll thank me for later. nostr:npub1san22nhe59ct8pstcehav4dtkf94lkn46ltl7d30g3zzl00tg7ussgqjdd, a legendary Bitcoin OG and game designer (also a backer of TVP, a top Bitcoin venture fund), has launched Bitcoin CCG, a new Bitcoin collectible card game.

Druidian was among the first to mine Bitcoin alongside Satoshi and is passionate about digital art and collectibles. Right now, he’s crowdfunding Series 1 on nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9, and you can grab it at a great price.

I recommend snagging a Booster Pack Box for ~$160 (165k sats):

https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinccg?hero=bradmills&mtm_campaign=project-share&mtm_keyword=bitcoinccg&mtm_source=user&mtm_medium=geyser&mtm_content=success-screen

Similar Bitcoin collectibles that I’ve backed have been worth parting with the sats - either they go up in value or they promote bitcoin culture and support bitcoiner job creation.

Don’t sleep on this one =P

I'm scaling up a media company, POW Media.

I'm focused on making viral inspirational, educational & entertaining content about Bitcoin.

We have a media team and a revenue team.

I'm going to be hiring people who will be in the client success side, revenue/sales, media & leadership roles.

I'm bitcoin-only and focused on the mission of getting 1 million people to setup a bitcoin savings plan and getting 10,000 wholecoiners taking self custody of at least 1 BTC.

I'm not going to be able to recruit exclusively Bitcoin maximalists, so I wonder how founders of bitcoin-only companies deal with the topic of employees posting about crypto/non-bitcoin stuff.

I don't want to be "censoring" my employees but I also don't want entropy in the signal that I’m broadcasting (Bitcoin-only.)

For bitcoin founders … do you make it a non-negotiable that employees can't talk about crypto or any other topics publicly?

If so how do you enforce that?

If not, what’s the strategy?

Feel free to DM me if you don’t want to post publicly.

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I want to talk about something that some people may find offensive, and that I can’t talk about on Twitter to not get shadow banned as I have to rely on reach for my work.

The first time I attended Chaos Computer Congress was over 15 years ago. It had the best parties in town, and we would sneak in for the nightlife.

As I rekindled my interest in politics, computers and the internet, I became more aligned with the CCC’s mission: hacking the planet to hold power to account.

While I was already disappointed with some of the CCC’s policies – particularly on things like COVID and Bitcoin – this year was the first time that I seriously lost hope for and trust in the CCC as an institution – starting with its opening speech.

The CCC’s opening speech sets the theme for the event. This year, it was dedicated to the global rise of fascism. Speakers talked about Germany’s protests against the far-right AFD, about Donald Trump, LGBTQ and abortions, and pro-democracy protests in countries like Georgia.

But not a single word was lost to the genocide in Palestine.

Checking the CCC’s schedule, I merely found a single talk on Palestine, which explicitly made clear that it did not take a stance on whether Israel was right or wrong in its operations.

There were still a lot of great talks at the congress, and many assemblies showed their solidarity, but this complete lack of mention is what really stood out for me.

To understand what a hackers congress has to do with genocide, we need to take an uncomfortable look at Nazi Germany.

What enabled the Holocaust 80 years ago was not just a bunch of bloodthirsty eugenicist maniacs high on ungodly amounts of speed and their fascist ideologies. It was the streamlining of exploitation and murder to never before seen efficiency, with the help of new, more efficient technologies.

It is these same advancements in technology that are fueling the genocide in Palestine today. It’s surveillance on an unprecedented scale, evermore invasive spyware, AI enabled targeting and automated drone warfare.

You can think of Palestine what you want, but this technology is being exported from Palestine to the rest of the world today.

It’s facial recognition systems and license plate scanners that Israel uses to enforce apartheid that you’ll soon see scanning your biometrics for your next flight on holidays, or your car on your next trip to work.

It’s spyware companies that test their products to soon sell them to governments around the world targeting activists, journalists and opposition.

It’s psychological warfare utilizing dating sites like Grindr to social engineer Palestinians into spying on their peers and extort their sexual preferences.

Just last month, the a16z portfolio company Skydio, which is a major Israeli military contractor, was caught providing its surveillance drones to Yale University to monitor and track student protestors.

Some of you may find this topic uncomfortable as it may not align with your political views.

But the reality remains that the genocide in Palestine is a testing ground for never before seen surveillance tech that will soon be used on you. And the world’s most renowned hackers are silent.

Are the things coming out of Israel much different than the totalitarian tech the Chinese uses & exports?