“Fix the money, fix the food, but fix the world..? I don’t know, I think my part of fixing the world is turning off my phone, going outside, planting some vegetables, and cooking a steak.” -Tony Tony. My man.

@nat brunell taking the stage with Fong and Adam. I wonder what the fourth seat at a dinner with these three would auction for on the open market. I can’t imagine there being a boring minute for me at that table.

Your talk at Bitcoin’26 was solid, @Jeff Booth ... more Whale Pass holders needed to absorb your message. I counted 11. I hope you gave this talk in The Deep too. Fantastic message clarity.

For those who are not at the Vegas Bitcoin Circus Block and Cash App have shown up in force: First to scan to their Cash App account gets the sats. One redeem per account. It’s about $21 worth. I’ll get more if I can. Will post to this post. Let the feed know if you redeem. Follow for more as I can gather them if you all find this useful for onboarding to Cash App for BTC daily usage at steak and shake and all the other Square PoS merchants.

The Bitkey by Block has a screen now. I didn’t know! Now adding it to my eval set for recommendations to clients and meetups. Nice shift, @jack.

For those who are not at the Vegas Bitcoin Circus: First to scan to their Cash App account gets the sats. One redeem per account. It’s about $21 worth. I’ll get more if I can. Will post to this post.

The Bitcoin Conference being back in Nashville will be a boon for all of Nashville, Bitcoin Park, and the Conference. Vegas wasn’t complimentary to it. This is a good switch.

Love enjoying some golf outside while reviewing a current book draft by audio with notes for edits. Makes a day brighter somehow.

Finally found a good breakfast plate in town. Going to get cravings for this one.

Can’t let the burgers get lonely. Must keep the burgers company. Burgers.

Let the fun begin.

Home again. Palm Springs was a weather winner this week. Fantastic.

‘Tis the season. I love it when it slaps them in both directions. Leverage is bondage.

Even if @UNCLE ROCKSTAR ends up packing this sheet home to paper his bathroom, never fear, they’ll print plenty more.

Look at the big brains on the wisdom panel: “Don’t be greedy, time is on your side, let time do its thing.” “In retiring you lose your sense of purpose. You have to retain your sense of purpose.” “Do what you have to do to attain financial independence. Then inspiration for your purpose will come to you.” Your purpose will find you, once you get off the hamster wheel. “We’re in a bear market. You’re in a pain endurance phase right now.” Get low time preference. Find ways to stack. Embrace the endurance pain. “You can’t print cattle. You must have things that can’t be printed like fiat and can’t be taken from you. Build your autonomy for you and your kids. Protect the people you love. Bitcoin is one of those things.” “There’s going to be an amazing opportunity for strong people to fix this shit. If we are in the cycle where the weak men have created the hard times, we need to be the strong men that will build the next good times.” Read “The Mandibles” if you lack the inspiration to read “The Big Print” “Your skillset needs to be developed so you can help change the world” “The network effects of various spaces are converging to exponentially compound exponents. This is a conversion of massive opportunities and expansion.” “Gold paper isn’t easy to verify. Bitcoin is verifiable so it’s harder to paper among educated investors. The paper Bitcoin has suppressed the price but that snap-back is fierce when people realize the game is visible and destructing and leaves the masses no choice but to demand direct ownership structures.” “The biggest thing you can do to protect yourself and the network is to run a node, use a hardware wallet, and empty your exchange accounts to self custody.”

My boots a feeling right at home in Texas with these longhorns running around.

Mau drops high level tradefi to Bitcoin bridge knowledge where bonds and bitcoin backed loans. “A mortgage is not a loan on your house. It’s a loan on your income. It’s just collateralized on your house.” This is dying. “The better the collateral asset, the bigger the securitization rate.” A bitcoin-backed loan bond is huge for propelling this mechanism for bitcoin holders to access liquidity without selling their Bitcoin. Congratulations Mauricio and Ledn! Delivering an S&P rating on a Bitcoin backed loan product. The first ever Bitcoin product to achieve an S&P rating... period.