My crypto friends in the altcoin trenches are depressed. They are considering buying bitcoin 😂

My grandmother is coming up on 90 and she’s been following Bitcoin for the last 5-10 years, texting me the price when it makes new all time highs, celebrating with me. She has a token amount on an opendime but she was asking me all kinds of questions about how to buy bitcoin and how people spend it and how I fund my lifestyle with bitcoin. I finally got her setup with a blink wallet, nanny@bitcoin.sv Then we randomly came up with an idea to sell her socks for sats 😂 She makes sought after socks 🧦, the family always fights over them. She makes them and donated them to the local library. She’s taking orders!

Here’s a heads-up you’ll thank me for later. @I)ruid, a legendary Bitcoin OG and game designer (also a backer of TVP, a top Bitcoin venture fund), has launched Bitcoin CCG, a new Bitcoin collectible card game. Druidian was among the first to mine Bitcoin alongside Satoshi and is passionate about digital art and collectibles. Right now, he’s crowdfunding Series 1 on @Geyser, and you can grab it at a great price. I recommend snagging a Booster Pack Box for ~$160 (165k sats):

Geyser | Bitcoin Crowdfunding Platform

A Bitcoin crowdfunding platform where creators raise funds for causes, sell products, manage campaigns, and engage with their community.

Similar Bitcoin collectibles that I’ve backed have been worth parting with the sats - either they go up in value or they promote bitcoin culture and support bitcoiner job creation. Don’t sleep on this one =P

I'm scaling up a media company, POW Media. I'm focused on making viral inspirational, educational & entertaining content about Bitcoin. We have a media team and a revenue team. I'm going to be hiring people who will be in the client success side, revenue/sales, media & leadership roles. I'm bitcoin-only and focused on the mission of getting 1 million people to setup a bitcoin savings plan and getting 10,000 wholecoiners taking self custody of at least 1 BTC. I'm not going to be able to recruit exclusively Bitcoin maximalists, so I wonder how founders of bitcoin-only companies deal with the topic of employees posting about crypto/non-bitcoin stuff. I don't want to be "censoring" my employees but I also don't want entropy in the signal that I’m broadcasting (Bitcoin-only.) For bitcoin founders … do you make it a non-negotiable that employees can't talk about crypto or any other topics publicly? If so how do you enforce that? If not, what’s the strategy? Feel free to DM me if you don’t want to post publicly.

If Bitcoin is digital property and Bitcoiners are becoming autonomous/sovereign individuals, the historical analogy of being paid in Bitcoin for services lines up with pledging allegiance to a nobleman / Lord or Baron & getting a land grant as a fief. Vassals would receive land grants as a reward for loyalty, but it wasn't that they owned the land, they could use it. The noble retained the rights to the property & could reclaim it on disloyalty or death. Eventually the descendants of vassals could inherit the land but they would still have to pay homage & fealty to the lord/nobleman to keep it. Vassals of a lord/baron were expected to do things such as accompany them on travel as an entourage, give them counsel on legal matters, fight with them in battle (or hire a mercenary) & let the lord & his servants use their accommodations when required. With bitcoin lending & miniscript maturing, this could actually come to fruition a lot sooner than we think. Imagine giving a fiefdom of 1 BTC to a vassal of your citadel where you are using a composable miniscript multisig setup that allows for your vassal to borrow against the BTC and "work his digital property" ... but the even of disloyalty (he doesn't pay back the loan) or death, the BTC comes back into your treasury. For viceroys, castellans or other direct reports declare allegiance to your digital citadel, a blockchain property grant of X BTC could be created as a reward to demonstrate your trust & support, or if you want it to be earned it could take the form of a decaying multisig that decays to just a single sig or multisig that is in their control after X time of proving loyalty.

1) Proof of Work is for Your personal life as well. Shoot for at least 45 mins of exercise every day & get your fitness & nutrition on point to be the lighthouse not the tugboat. 2) schedule date nights with your wife and do things she wants to do, help her dream. 3) schedule family meetings with your whole family once a week and focus on positivity & supporting them. 4) buy bitcoin and put at least 50% of your net worth into cold storage multisig that you won’t spend for at least 10 years. Unless you can beat 60% CAGR you don’t ever take from this bucket. 5) hire an executive assistant and house manager to help you manage your own life and requests from relatives and business endeavors. 6) no easy money lending to family or friends, bad precedent to set - maybe invest small amounts in their businesses if they have what it takes or small grants for them to do something productive in business, art, education or for their health. Invest in therapy for family members and match their BTC purchases to encourage them to save. 7) Read Dan Martell’s book Buy Back Your Time.

What are the must attend bitcoin events in 2025? Making plans to attend 2-3 events.

In 2025, I’m going Pro. I want to help 1 million people start saving bitcoin in self custody, and create 10,000 sovereign wholecoiners. I’ve started a media company and assembling a team. I’ve hired the key players and put the foundation in place in the last quarter. We’re ready to roll Q1 2025. I love what Saylor is doing for Bitcoin, but we need to work harder than ever to espouse the values of self-custody. I’ve put my money where my mouth is over the last epoch and deployed a lot of funds to bitcoiners building tools for self-custody Bitcoining. Now it’s time to put my mouth where my money is 💪

When I was young, we lived in poverty. I remember the joy of receiving donated toys & food from kind strangers around the holidays. One time a neighbor brought over a whole box of food for us to make turkey dinner. One time the dairy where my grandfather worked as a milk man let us take a whole crate of dairy products home (and a toy). I try to give as often as I can, especially around Christmas. What makes me even more happy than giving, is to let the kids in the family experience the joy of giving. This year I got the fam together and gave everyone a $500 budget. The rule was they had to buy 2 of each item for someone their age group, something they’d appreciate for Christmas. Then we took one of each item to the local women’s shelter, and I took the rest home to drop off at the “youth center.” What I actually did was wrap the 2nd item for them and they will each get it on Christmas morning. I hired an executive assistant this month and she’s been awesome. I have a lot of ideas and I’ve learned how to delegate to buy back my time & level up my influence & impact. She helped me execute on this by organizing the family. So glad I did this because the kids were really touched and enjoyed shopping for people who are less fortunate. If you have the means, you could try this with your family.

Are we at the point where it’s safe to setup a fedimint to onboard friends and family to Bitcoin? I love giving away sats but I really don’t like “wasting” sats. At least with a fedi instance you can recover people’s coins easily and when they’re ready they can withdraw them into their own custody without your help. The problem with uncle Jim mode is it doesn’t scale with the amount of time and energy you need to spend with everyone when they have questions. I want to be able to onboard thousands of people in a way that I know they are not going to lose their keys or their seed phrase. It seems like with a fedi instance you can give like Santa and save like Scrooge.

My daughter and I did a book swap. Yesterday I went and got a beard trim & a haircut for our daddy daughter date night. She chose Wings of Fire for me to read and I chose The Alchemist for her. She took this pic of me. What I can say is this is actually a very entertaining book, and the lesson I took from it is the following: Stack sats like a Scavenger so you can soar like a SkyWing.

It’s been a very good year for Bitcoiners. As the rich bitcoin uncle (or aunt) what are you doing for your nieces and nephews this Christmas? Looking for suggestions on how to make their Christmas special without setting a precedent of expectation or entitlement.