Whoa. Bitcoin books are for criminals!
Central Banks should not need new, creative and opaque tools in order to keep our economic system from imploding. But they do.
These new tools won’t last forever but in the meantime they will make a select few richer at the expense of the rest of us.
#Bitcoin
Please enjoy! 🧡
I think it’s interesting that people like to compliment this book before they even finish it. Tons of examples of this. Not something I would have predicted. 
nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h is the bomb. If you are a Bitcoiner and haven’t been, you need to make the trek. 🤩
Talking about A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin at PubKey last night. It was truly an honor to engage with some of the most genuine and incredible folks in the Bitcoin space! 🙏 
The first two, for sure. 🙂
This might be a stretch for me to attend in person. But if there was an interest in having me pop in on a video call let me know. 🧡✌️
Given the chance to go back in time and talk to myself for 60 seconds, the message would be to learn about #Bitcoin , not “buy Bitcoin”
This is how you build something, join the community and actually hold onto the Bitcoin you do get.
This is also the message I give to pre-coiners today. Learn!
Let me know how to get one of these! 🧡
Send me a dm and I can get a tracking number for you. All books have been put in the mail. International shipping has been a horrific headache.
Can’t lie. I’m jealous of this pic that I found on Twitter. Great scenery to read a book. 🤙🧡 
I’ve been waiting for this. Keep us posted!
So happy to be in Boston for tonight’s meet up and tomorrow’s freedom festival. Gonna be lit.
Lol. It works the other way too. People have told me me that they were on my podcast. And I don’t have a podcast.
Maybe folks think there aren’t many progressive Bitcoiners because they lump them all together. 🤷♂️
I have upcoming events to talk about my book in Washington DC, Boston, NYC. I’m definitely looking forward to meeting folks IRL.
All events (and links to buy the book) are on my website:
www.BitcoinProgressive.com
Mark your calendar. Thursday Aug. 3 I will be at PubKey in NYC to talk about my book and do a signing.
I'm giving you advanced warning, so pretty much you don't have any excuses not to show up.
Still need a copy? Buy in advance or on site!
BitcoinProgressive.com
Plenty of examples of this. Peloton has now gotten more money from me by selling monthly access to the beautiful people meant to train me than they ever did by selling me the actual bike.
So why was Kodak able to weather storms and massive tech innovation since 1888 to become the predominant company to sell cameras, but they weren’t able to adjust when digital cameras came along? Even though they were the first to have them?
The business model was threatened. If you get money from selling film, a film-less camera isn’t an opportunity, it is a threat. Kodak could see no path to adapt. Who knows if there was one?
Of course, now we have Apple that is threatening to shut down apps like Damus because it allows people to transfer value directly peer to peer. Not being able to position themselves in the middle of transactions is a threat to Apple’s business model.
Plenty of examples of this. Peloton has now gotten more money from me by selling monthly access to the beautiful people meant to train me than they ever did by selling me the actual bike.
So why was Kodak able to weather storms and massive tech innovation since 1888 to become the predominant company to sell cameras, but they weren’t able to adjust when digital cameras came along? Even though they were the first to have them?
The business model was threatened. If you get money from selling film, a film-less camera isn’t an opportunity, it is a threat. Kodak could see no path to adapt. Who knows if there was one?
Of course, now we have Apple that is threatening to shut down apps like Damus because it allows people to transfer value directly peer to peer. Not being able to position themselves in the middle of transactions is a threat to Apple’s business model.
This isn’t speculation, Apple has said that when value is transferred in the app, it must be as an in-app purchase. This is because they get a cut. They sold you a phone just so they can sell you the in-app purchases. This is like Kodak’s film.
So why do we care? Why are people all over nostr and Twitter all bent out of shape about this?
Because you still need Apple. Decentralized money and decentralized social media are not promises. They require work and a pathway for normal folks to adopt them.
This is true for both Bitcoin and Nostr and while both are promising and should make the world better, we can’t just assume they will be successes.
Regular folks are going to use Apple to get themselves onboarded to both of these technologies.
Who knows what will happen with Apple and Damus? There are a lot of possible outcomes, not all of them good.
But there is hope. There is good news coming out of all this.
Let it be known that Bitcoin and Nostr are seen as threats. Not just theoretical or metaphorical. Actual bottom line revenue threats. If you had any doubt before you can put it aside. They are fighting us, and that is good news.
The downfall of Apple seems unlikely. And just because the same was true for Kodak doesn’t make anything inevitable.
Frictionless, peer to peer transfer of value using open protocols is better, and should win in the end. But will it? 🤷♂️
1. They ignore you
2. They laugh at you
3. They fight you
4. ?????
5. You win.
#Bitcoin #nostr @damusapp
I’m sure the good folks at Apple remember how Kodak came up with the digital camera first and fought it because it didn’t fit their business model.
George Eastman was a pioneer in the camera industry and started Kodak in my home town of Rochester, NY.
As a kid in Rochester I learned about Kodak the same way one learns about Presidents and important history. The same is true for Danny Wegman who invented the world’s best grocery store, also in Rochester.
Even in my AP economics classes, most off the off the cuff examples were about Kodak. They employed thousands of people and had been a staple in Rochester since the late 1880s. The company’s fate was intertwined with the city’s.
The word Kodak was synonymous with taking pictures. Special moments were “Kodak Moments” and this wasn’t a flash in the pan either. Kodak adapted and flexed through the decades. Time and again they were on the front lines on technology and chose to lead.
But Kodak didn’t make their money from selling cameras. The company was profitable because they sold film so people could use their cameras. The only competition I’m aware of on this axis was Fuji.
But my memory here is skewed since using Fuji film where I lived was blasphemous.