Funny story I promised — the scholarship fund burger 🍔🎓⚡

Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. 🔒

Good thing bitcoiners are good, honest people. 🧡

Yesterday at Isla Burger, I ordered a burger patty with guacamole 🥑🍔. I helped the waitress create the invoice—the total came out to 242 MXN 💵🇲🇽.

We typed 2-4-2 into the Bitcoin terminal ⌨️⚡.

I scanned the QR code 📱.

The payment went through ✅.

I grabbed my food and left 🚶‍♀️.

The next morning 🌅, we went to Isla Bistro 🍽️. When we asked to pay in bitcoin ⚡, the owner came over to help us. He mentioned we should check out his other restaurant—Isla Burger—and we told him we’d been there the day before and loved it 😍.

Then something clicked. 💡

He pulled up a chair at our table 🪑 and asked me to double-check the payment I’d made the day before. My stomach dropped 😬—I thought maybe the transaction hadn’t gone through.

Instead, I realized the only transaction from the day prior was 243,000 satoshis 😳

That’s about $240 USD 💸—nearly 18× the cost of my burger.

I explained my confusion, and he smiled 😊.

“That’s right,” he said. “When you entered 242, it defaulted to dollars, not pesos.” 🇺🇸➡️🇲🇽

He immediately asked me to create an invoice for the difference so he could reimburse me 💛—and he did 🙏.

Even if he hadn’t been open to correcting it, I would have slept just fine that night 😌.

As we sorted out both the reimbursement and the payment for the meal I had just eaten, Gustavo shared why he accepts bitcoin ⚡.

He’s 45 and recently became a father 👶.

His son, Pablo, is seven months old 🍼.

Gustavo’s vision is to save every bitcoin payment from his two restaurants and condos as a long-term college fund for Pablito 🎓📚🟠.

I got to meet his wife, Diana, and their baby that day 🤍.

That moment really clicked for me.

This is why Bitcoin circular economies matter 🌍🔁.

Bitcoin isn’t just technology or an investment 💻📈.

It’s a means of exchange that creates real, visible hope—helping families build toward their children’s future ✨🧡.

In the process of onboarding Gustavo to nostr as well. Will keep this thread updated if he makes an account so we can welcome him!

#fixthemoney #fixtheworld

I remember during some riots which had looting in London back in 2011-12 that the best selling thing in the sports category in the UK were baseball bats.

This is a country that doesn't play baseball.

People will make creative use of all kinds of objects. Regulating all of them is killing mosquitos with bazookas.

The UK is insane… here you have Idris Elba calling for the removal of *points* from kitchen knives to stop knife attacks…

He also says they should BAN all “heritage knives” and you should need a license to own your grandad’s sword because current “loopholes” allow people to buy ninja swords.

This is the same logic that leftists in the USA use for guns, blaming the guns instead of blaming the people who use them for violent attacks.

Guns don’t kill people.

Knives don’t kill people.

PEOPLE kill people.

Owning a gun is illegal in the UK (with very narrow exceptions). If making guns illegal stopped murder, then the UK wouldn’t proposing blunting knives and making swords illegal. But let’s just say the UK managed to blunt all the kitchen knives and ban all the swords, then what? Will murders stop? Of course not.

What else will they need to ban?

Will automobiles become illegal? After all, you can drive a car into a crowd and cause a lot of carnage.

What about lashing a rock to a stick to make a club?

What about chipping away at that rock to sharpen it to turn it into a rudimentary axe?

What about just sharpening a stick?

What about rubbing a rock against the tip of your blunted kitchen knife until it becomes a sharp point?

What about glass windows? They should definitely be illegal because you can break a window, wrap a piece of cloth around a shard of glass, and voila, you have a knife.

A small minority of people will always use tools to do bad things. Banning those tools doesn’t stop bad people from doing bad things. It just stops good people from using the tools.

(It also leaves citizens completely disarmed and unable to resist the overreach of a fully-armed totalitarian state).

I used to harbor a deep, structural prejudice against Bitcoin.

It was a mix of arrogance and the subtle conditioning of the state apparatus. I thought I was financially literate—I even arrogantly cited JK Galbraith’s A Short History of Financial Euphoria to dismiss Bitcoin as nothing more than a digital tulip mania.

Fun fact about Mike Brock.

I know it’s becoming popular to hate on psychedelics, but personally, nothing has accelerated my journey towards freedom, purpose, & having a relationship with God more than experimentation with these substances.

We can do better. We have to do better. But it's a massive uphill battle, since Google and Apple control 99% of the mobile market. We need a viable third party player.