Too many developers want to build a spec before time.

MAY I SUGGEST YOU TRY TO BUILD SOMETHING THAT'S NOT FUCKING BROKEN FIRST?

Money is NOT a "made-up thing that we created".

In the last period I thought about how I can introduce friends, shopkeepers and small businesses to Bitcoin. Even when someone shows some curiosity, explaining Bitcoin can be a really difficult job; it has a lot of concepts and several facets, and since everyone has priorities and thoughts on certain topics, if you touch the wrong ones, you risk annoying and losing them quickly. In addition, spending time with someone that is not already sufficiently "hot" about the topic can be a waste of time and, worse, generate a repulsive effect.

So I designed a small brochure that is a really quick introduction to Bitcoin, with the goal to activate people and trigger some reaction and/or curiosity. The plan is simple: I ask if they know about Bitcoin, leave the brochure, and wait for an immediate reaction, or I have the option of following up next time and asking for feedback; so I can get some ideas on what topics to bring up to keep the conversation going.

As you can see, I chose to give the "debunking FUD" section a primary visibility (is the first thing you see when you open the foldable), since people often learn about Bitcoin via negative and alarming news, so they are good points to activate a first doubt. Then there is a synthetic explanation of Bitcoin's money nature, why it is radically different from fiat currencies, and what impact it may have at a social and business level.

On the back there is a section that points to a website where the user can learn more. Currently I'm using bitcoin.rocks, but I will evaluate other resources or I can also build something new, maybe with some specific information for businesses, that are critical for adoption.

The idea is to release it open source, so anyone can personalize it (e.g. the learn more target), and maybe produce versions in different languages.

The dimensions are 42x15cm open, 10.5x15cm closed, foldable in 3 points; so with a standard A3 print you can get two brochures.

Does that make sense? How can I improve it?

I'm absolutely thrilled to head to El Salvador 🇸🇻 for Adopting Bitcoin with nostr:nprofile1qqsp7fxsmxnahv3pkqsx4pn9pqm5739sp4cy5d8gkxelex5tc9qrspspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0jywras !

We're going to crush it at the Nostr workshop with the great nostr:nprofile1qqszp55czrt2t7ftq3dduqhthtwfqdkhg8xxs6cqg9wy9dprdlj26tcpzemhxue69uhks6tnwshxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7prn779!

The team is ready, let’s meet there!

"With Almost No Inflation"... Lol

"Scarcity is imposed. Abundance is natural."

This whole shift to AI and sound money is a bigger transition that I initially realized.

The old economy runs on scarcity economics. They system we use today - banking, pricing, debt, interest - were all built in a world where:

Energy was limited, production was slow, information was expensive, labour was the bottleneck.

This meant the economy evolved by managing "scarcity".

It's what most economists and CEOs still discuss today ... the "economics of scarcity".

(Aside: it really hit me when Eric Scmidt in a recent interview with Peter Diamandis, Moonshots podcast, assumed that AI will centralize power/control and he couldn't see outside of the old system)

In a scarcity based system, whoever controls the money supply, the credit system, the energy markets controls the distribution of wealth. This leads to centralization.

Energy is abundant and is headed to becoming abundantly available (yes, we are early here but the trend to abundance is becoming visible). Intelligence is becoming abundant. Scarcity is not the natural state of the world anymore.

(Aside: We already produce more energy than we use — we just waste it. Bitcoin mining makes wasted energy profitable, which increases usable supply and pushes the cost of energy down over time.)

This is blowing me away.

The sun hits earth with 10,000x more energy than humanity is currently using.

AI turns intelligence into a scalable resource.

Automation is turning labour from scarce to easily replicable.

Bitcoin turns value storage into something that's fixed and incorruptible.

So instead of economics being about who controls scarcity, it is now actively in the process of becoming about how efficiently we convert:

Energy -> intelligence -> output -> value.

We are now incentivized to think from physics instead of from finance and the assumptions I've used my whole life are changing very quickly.

Scarcity Economics:

Value is limited

Money is managed by centralized intitutions.

Wealth accumulates upward.

Savings doesn't work.

Physics of Abundance:

Value is producible at scale.

Money is secured by energy.

Wealth spreads outward through lower prices.

Saving IS the mechanism of prosperity.

If AI makes intelligence abundant, and Bitcoin makes money incorruptible, and energy increasingly comes from excess/stranded/renewable sources...

...then the limited factor in wealth creation is no longer "who controls the money".

The limiting factor becomes: How much energy and intelligence you can access and coordinate.

We are moving to a world where physics is more important than finances.

Wealth in the future will flow to the people, companies, and regions that can power things (energy) and figure out what to do with that power (intelligence) — and connect those pieces efficiently (coordination).

And with a new monetary layer (Bitcoin) is enabling global coordination between almost anyone.

Scarcity has been imposed on us. Abundance is natural.

And we're seeing this start to play out in a meaningful way right now.

Completely wild time to be alive.

I used to look at my favourite sunsets to admire the beauty (that's the Adriatic sea in the pic) ... and now I see much more.

All of us #bitcoin peoples need to be posting Bitcoin knowledge outside of Bitcoin twitter. Education is key.

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#BitcoinTwitter

Cafe in the Netherlands accepts #Bitcoin as payment 🇳🇱

Its happening for Europe 🔥

Let’s go Argentina 🇦🇷

If weren’t for giving up custody, borrowing against BTC in cases where you *could* pay in full makes clear financial sense.

1. If your ability to service the debt were to falter, you’d just pay off the loan.

2. If the interest on the loan is less than the rate of monetization of BTC, you’re going to come out ahead. (That is, you’ll have more Bitcoin remaining.)

It is the giving up of custody that makes it a non-starter for me.