Anyone want to guess where I am in this photo? (No cheating if you follow me on twitter or LinkedIn 😉)

A YouTuber friend of mine with 100k subs is about to quit his job and focus on making content full time.

He’s a closet bitcoiner and he just started accepting BTC sponsorships.

He wants to add something to his studio background that is related to Bitcoin.

Any ideas what he could add?

I used to believe in political incrementalism- the idea that you can change things gradually through better election outcomes.

But maybe it was also just youth, I don’t know.

After spending many years studying how the current monetary system works, studying how past debt and currency cycles ended, and based on practical realities from the past two election cycles, I dropped any notion of incrementalism, at least for the big economic things.

Incrementalism works for minority groups to gain social and political rights. Religious people to practice without interference, women to vote, gay people to marry, etc. Immigration policies. Things like that. But it doesn’t work for the financial system.

Instead, history and current affairs suggest that things generally point in the same structural financial direction, uncontested, until there is a massive fiscal crisis, geopolitical crisis, and trend change. And that is when politics becomes critical in all aspects- as chaos develops, the group that has enough power to set the next order *really* fucking matters. They either build a platform of virtue toward the next cycle, or they fall into the unfortunately common paths of communism or fascism.

And it is not just ideas that triumph, but technology too. Technology plays a big role in which ideas are even workable. Both ideas and technology are important.

So when I realized incrementalism wasn’t working, I sought out other methods.

The weaker method is just social- I try to put things out there with my platform to encourage reason, empathy, human rights, etc. Not partisan but also not necessarily moderate, but rather grounded in firm principles of virtue ethics.

The stronger method is to play some small part in building something better. Alternative money. Alternative communication methods. Either explaining and recommending them to people, or directly venture investing in companies that build on them and help improve the UX and solve new problems.

That’s my goal. I want to do whatever tiny part I can to bring about more peace, more fairness, more opportunity, more growth, and less destruction.

I have ties to a professional level sports team... How do I orange pill the organization by showcasing the benefits to their business (running a sports franchise for money) by adopting bitcoin?

A little of my background: I come from the structured financial products space. My whole career has been focused on educating people on the benefits of _________ technology that is underlying the product I am selling, most recently that technology was Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). I left my position earlier this year to focus on bitcoin full-time. I first found bitcoin about 10 years ago, I wasn't ready for it... I guess there is some truth to "everyone gets bitcoin at the price they deserve"... it took a bit of shit coining to find the 🍊 💊 in order to take it... here we are full circle. I attended #pacificbitcoin as my first bitcoin event and I found an industry enthralled in a bear market full of passion and purpose. After 6 months of deep diving into global economics and history of money, thank you bitcoin community for many great recommendations, I'm here to add value however I can. Swan's event has made it clear that we need more introductions to non bitcoiners where they are and through comfortable and digestable means.

The passion people feel for sports teams is a great avenue for orange pilling and I love the new form of player/fan engagement #RealBedford has created through directly tipping players. US professional sports have been able to make icons of individual athletes well before the internet and the network effect of social media has been able to spread a player's message far beyond traditional reach due to network effects. Assuming this translates to the introduction of bitcoin to larger fan bases we could see an explosion of awareness. The larger the fan base for specific players the more awareness, the more tips, the more news coverage which leads to more adoption by players increasing awareness, and so on.

So the question, 🍊 💊 sports teams, what's the best way to go about it? What are the metrics and details about what bitcoin offers that can both increase the teams bottom line while enabling them to act as an educational conduit direct to their fans?

What is holding up the US economy?

go buy some more BTC, MCBitcoin