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Simon James⚡️
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Founder of https://bitcoinevents.uk | Co-founder of https://bridge2bitcoin.com Subscribe to my newsletter for weekly updates on UK meetups and new merchant adoption.

More customers.

They accept bitcoin and bitcoiners will come and spend bitcoin in their store. It’s simple and free.

They tap into a new customer base by accepting the customers chosen currency.

We then tell the Bitcoin community about them and the Bitcoin network grows a little bit larger.

Good morning freedom lovers.

Cleanse your fiat.

Feeling the post nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r blues this morning. 🙁

It was another truly inspirational experience. Massive thanks to nostr:npub1hghnjjpnvkz8t6gkszuf37d7puwc2qtxc65rnklqsngzv6kkug9qhhfyz2 and his wonderful family for being such great inspiration to mine.

The highlight for me was nostr:npub1lv7uy6gvygnsv394atap8m6ru0zwf3afr926jydjdg9ekmqstxfsgneyzz attending the Women of Bitcoin side events and coming back so inspired it brought me to tears.

Hoping to bring the whole family next year and add 3 more to the BTCPrague Bitcoin kids troop.

This art is amazing.

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I can ship this to the US. I’ll make a change to the listing to allow it.

DM me and we can sort out payment and shipping that way.

I met an OG bitcoiner a few weeks ago that used to sell copies of the book on Silk Road.

He recently realised he had some copies left that had been sitting in his loft for years.

He wanted to sell them to bitcoiners, so I’m listing them on my website for a bargain price of £60 (copies are going for £294 on Amazon right now)

https://thebitcoinshop.uk/product/a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men/

I’m currently reading ‘A Lodging of Wayfaring Men’. Why have I not heard about this book before and why do bitcoiners not mention it more often?

Copies of it used to sell like hotcakes on Silk Road.

It discusses themes of freedom, privacy, and decentralization. It’s a perfect fit for #Nostr and #Bitcoin.

I met an OG bitcoiner a couple of weeks ago that had a few copies in his attic.

Copies are going for £294 on Amazon but we agreed a deal to sell them for just £60.

These are mint condition, some are still shrink wrapped.

They are selling fast so be quick.

https://thebitcoinshop.uk/product/a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men/

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I was moved to tears several times at Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira.

The quality, sincerity, generosity, kindness, respect, and encouragement which characterize the interactions I had is on a level I’ve never before witnessed or experienced.

All those people, with a shared passion and dedication for the mission, humbled by all which it represents, interacting with each other as fundamentally equal, but experientially and intellectually unique, creates the best possible foundation for friendship, for mutual understanding, for helping and supporting each other, or for just hanging out and basking in the shared experience, and whatever forces are generating it.

It’s become such a consistent occurrence (though more pronounced each time) that it’s easy to forget just how special it is.

Bitcoin (only) conferences aren’t ‘industry events’, they are little wormholes to the future that flash open for a few days so people can feel what things are like when we orient and express our actions around such a form of truth - as represented in, accessed through, and propagated by, bitcoin.

‘Number go up’ is great and necessary, and none of this would happen without it, but it’s a ‘means’, not an ‘ends’.

What is experienced between people when they are so humbled by the truth, and so lifted and liberated by its presence, is the true nexus of creative inspiration, from which all that is good and beautiful may spring. That is the true ‘ends’, which we might simply understand to be alignment with the generative force we call ‘love’, and the products thereof.

Not the phony, wishy-washy, ‘everyone can be right’ kind of ‘love’, but the one which allows for argument and debate, honest feedback and opinion, while remaining grounded in a paramount aim that is movement toward Truth, which subordinates any divisive differences to this, ultimately uniting, shared objective.

Anyways, Bitcoin Atlantis just reminded me how incredible what’s happening here really is, and how much of a pleasure and honour it is to be sharing it with you (you know who you are).

Thank you.

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Very well put. ‘Little wormholes to the future’. I love that.