Yoooo nostr:npub1h882a66p0zj5n69s2u8nfzev4f97lzfnlcej84z78p6uqxge5tpqlupz20 has been hitting the gym 👀 proof of work 💪

https://blossom.primal.net/16cdbc43b173b8547323dd0cf1cafc2212f86eaafda351593dea4cfae524a20d.mp4

I have a problem.

Is there ai here

I do!

What’s this

As a Bitcoin angel/seed investor I get a lot of investor updates from the startups in my portfolio.

There are so many great Bitcoiners getting traction, making progress, generating revenue and creating value.

Many of them are doing subsequent raises, some of them are on unicorn track.

I get to have convos with people doing bitcoin as money, bitcoin as freedom tech, bitcoin as store of value, bitcoin as public markets speculative attack, bitcoin as a platform, and more.

Grateful for being able to live a meaningful life and having followed the Orange path so early.

As an entrepreneur I had imposter syndrome, was always trying to keep up with the latest marketing hack or trend, and experienced a lot of burnout and pivoting. Always finding new partners, etc.

As a Bitcoiner I still suffer from activity bias, and pivot a lot, but bitcoin remains constant - and it’s my conviction in bitcoin alone that has made me succeed.

I have always been inspired to be helpful and back good people - even when I was poor.

I’s really easy to do that when we speak the common language of ₿.

₿itcoin gave me ₿reathing room.

Thankful for my small role in bitcoin, lucky to have such high signal friends and shocked to be the source of inspiration for people who tell me they follow me and I changed their lives 🧡

🫂

I offer my bear market beard as a sacrifice to the gods of green candles. I have deployed my life shavings so the ₿ull can start his run.

I love this, can’t wait to see more.

😎

Yesterday I had a call with an upstart Bitcoin Treasury Co. Very hot deal, lots of FOMO. Was hard to get a call scheduled. Potential 100X.

I've been going to the gym for over a year now consistently, partly to be a good example of health for my daughter.

Once in a while I'll casually ask her if she wants to come with me as I'm leaving. This time she said yes 🧡

I knew my gym session was going to run late now that she was coming, so now I had a problem - do I skip the call that I've been trying to get done all week and signal that I'm unreliable to the team, or do I try to make it work and do the call at the gym while I put my daughter on the treadmill for 20 mins and split my focus?

The words of my coach dan martell (Buy Back Your Time) came into my mind. He talks about how people often tell him their number 1 priority is their family, but when he asks to see their calendar, he sees either nothing planned with the family or too much work.

"Show me your calendar and I'll show you your priorities."

I decided to prioritize my daughter and our time together by not trying to fit the call in. I had my team reschedule the call and I spent the focused time with my daughter.

Tbh I might have missed the opportunity because it’s gonna be hard to get that call rescheduled, but I’m glad I made the right choice for what I’m trying to optimize my life for 🫂

🧡

Is real?

I was at a “blockchain” policy event in Ottawa last week and the most remarkable thing happened.

While everyone was schmoozing, nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe was sitting at a table talking with people.

I went over to introducing my friend to Jeff, but they appeared to be having a debate so we pulled up seats to listen.

As we were at a crypto event, I assumed it was a bitcoin v crypto debate, because it was the founder of a large Canadian digital asset hedge fund, a crypto law firm partner and a former Goldman Sachs partner, probably all in their 50s & 60s.

I shit you not, they were discussing the intricacies of running a bitcoin full node and they were in a knots vs core debate 🤣

The Goldman Sachs partner was running a node and her friend (the lawyer) wanted to run a node (her husband does).

All 3 of them had visited Bitcoin Beach on separate occasions.

Very heartening experience.

I think we’re winning!

Whoa nice

Behind blockchain lines in Ottawa repping ₿itcoin at a policy event with nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe and Saylor on drums.

Behind blockchain lines with nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe repping ₿ in Ottawa, with nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m on drums.

A bunch of Bitcoin startups I’ve invested in are on the Bitcoin standard where they’ve kept BTC in their treasury.

As of late, I’ve been getting actively involved in public Bitcoin Treasury companies.

I participated in the private placement of Matador, the largest Canadian Bitcoin Treasury Company, my friends Sunny Ray and Mark Moss are part of that company, and I’ve recently joined David Bailey as an advisor to the company.

My goal is to get Matador using multi institutional self custody and steer them towards bitcoin maximalism.

I’ve also invested along with Adam Back and UTXO into H100, the largest Bitcoin Treasury Company in Sweden.

There’s a few more treasury companies I’m getting involved with that I probably can’t disclose yet.

I think Bitcoin Maximalists should be taking advisory seats and board positions of these companies so we can impart our long term thinking, strong hands and risk management tendencies in the board rooms of these bitcoin vacuum corps.

If we get involved, we can help prevent the over-leveraging that so many are afraid of, and we can have a hand at ushering in a decade long bull market - the Orange Rush.

Check out this cool project - digital collectibles.

Seems like a cool idea, the founder reached out to me a while back and is building an MVP.

https://geyser.fund/project/plunda?hero=bradmills

I backed it for 50k sats.

Picked up my #scarce shirt at the nostr:npub1rujwkh9c3jnq70g3v62rrm6m7pxqsz25675narm74q9emcwqltjswe00fg booth.

The shirt has a BTC address but nothing can be withdrawn from it 🤔

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💪

Any other collectors of Bitcoin Trading Cards?

Some people are into coins, some people are into cardboard.

I’ve chosen cardboard.

If anyone is building cool physical bitcoin collectibles, board games, cards, etc - hit me up!

I’m a bitcoin culture hoarder.

Been trying to get my barber to accept Bitcoin for about a year. He was interested but he is not good with technology.

From the Azores but moved to canada in 2016 to work construction but his real passion is 💈

He’s a real artist and is very clearly meant to do hair and beards, he does it after work in his basement.

He was laid off from his full time construction job about a month ago because of the trade war.

Today, I finally got him setup to accept Bitcoin with a nostr:npub13ljnkd633c7maxatymv3y2fqq8vt3qk7j3tt0vytv90eztwgha9qmfcfhw !

His Lightning address is maniqas@blink.sv if anyone’s feeling generous to give him an onboarding zap!

I could get behind a Canadian Bitcoin Treasury Company and stake my reputation on it.

I have been in Bitcoin since 2011 and I doubt I’m ever going to NOT be in Bitcoin.

I have been a fomosapien for a few of those cycles, getting sucked into ICOs and other activity bias / fomo driven cycles.

I have some FOMO about the opportunity side of bitcoin treasury companies, but what’s different this time is that this is both a short term opportunity to make make in a bubble AND a long term fundamentally sound strategy built on a foundation of bitcoin.

So for this reason, I’m in.

₿ 🍴 🧟

Is there a course?

You tried to get me to do that and I blew out my clencher

Last year I told my niece if she went through nostr:npub1ahxjq4v0zlvexf7cg8j9stumqp3nrtzqzzqxa7szpmcdgqrcumdq0h5ech's Swan course I’d pay her $1000 in BTC.

She did it and it’s now worth $2000.

She just finished school for the year and she asked to do some more Bitcoin studying.

What should I have her do now?

She’s 20 years old.

I recently moved and found some OG packs of MTG Ice Age that I thought I lost!

I had been saving these and then one time years ago brought them to the local store and let the top 3 winners of Friday Night Magic open a pack and keep the cards.

Then I never found them again.

I guess I’d asked the manager for a box and he gave me a vista print box that his biz cards were in.

They got put in with our office supplies and I just randomly came across them today looking for business card stock to

Print some BTC tip cards on 🤣

Looking forward to this nostr:note1ugu8gppmq43d5cqxyp0xh67p0ack62nmqhs4wdkmjv9ksrxwqxfqt3ylz0

2 of my friends just released this bitcoin themed mystery podcast!

Check it out!

https://fountain.fm/show/RdBny3x8kiOcHY4GwEgD

I’m about to start listening to it myself

Humans are good pattern recognition machines.

Good guess is my assumption.