We need a Woodstock style Bitcoin gathering…enough of the closed door 1k per ticket elitist stuff with half the influencers talking about working with the states and global leaders…we need something where everyone is invited for free, bitcoin is a free permission-less and open protocol for all, and a gathering where people all around the world cane come and talk about it whether you have 10000 bitcoin or 10k sats needs to happen…
Dropping this here first!
"We are excited to launch FutureBit Grants, with our first recipient being Con Kolivas #[0] . Con has been instrumental in developing cgminer, ckpool, and propagating the stratum protocol, all of which have been the backbone of the Bitcoin mining infrastructure for the past decade. His open-source work has been co-opted into closed-source software used by large ASIC manufacturers and their pools, enabling them to make billions in profits with little credit to him and even less returned to the Bitcoin FOSS community to enable more decentralized mining solutions.
This changes today, and we are happy to contribute to work that will modernize the open-source ckpool. It will be deployed to all Apollo BTC units in the future, enabling every Apollo user to be their own stratum pool and solo mine to their own node. This will also be deployable to any small farm operator who wants to mine to their node and avoid centralized pools. We plan to continue investing in this space and enable R&D for additional decentralized pool protocols to ensure that Bitcoin's power remains squarely in the hands of the people."
It's time to get Bitcoin into more schools. Education is key to our future, and if you know any Bitcoin friendly schools that want to teach our next generation about the power of uncensorable and ungovernable monetary system using the hardware that runs it send them my way!
Don’t know about you guys, but this weekend was a pretty big tell on who the real bitcoiners are and those that were sitting on large piles of fiat / stablecoins masquerading around as bitcoiners 🤣