@My First Bitcoin began 5 years ago And what a wild half decade it’s been So many of the details have changed but the north star has always been that if individuals have more control over their own life it leads to a better world and that bitcoin education is a means to that end It has been a journey, with literal blood sweat and tears throughout. We’ve managed to kick quite a few hornet’s nests along the way which has been exhausting, even scary But the objective is to disrupt the status quo, so while specific manifestations have been surprising that they happened was always expected. Though knowing the theory and living the reality are very different things I’ve learned so much about myself and about the world on this journey The path forward continues to be rocky. Change comes from discomfort and ambition, it always has But that path is also as clear as it’s ever been Five years on and the why remains the same. Five years on and the what and the how come into focus Independent, open-source bitcoin education will change the world Onward!

Education shapes how we think. Money shapes what we can build. Yet we've handed both to the centralized institutions we should be questioning. What if we separate education and money from the state? What if impartial educators worldwide taught the world's first decentralized monetary system? Welcome to @My First Bitcoin

Today is the day of the Educators Unconference (Prague edition)! An unconference means we will create the schedule together at the start of the day. Anyone can pitch a topic, the only theme is it's for bitcoin educators, and the pitches with the most interest receive a time and space. It's a beautiful, decentralized chaos that empowers everyone there to not just be an attendee but an organizer We will also premiere a short documentary (by @Kyle Huber) based around the unconference we co-hosted with @thecore21m in Kenya earlier this year. We'll be filming and pulling at the threads of all the stories of the educators who show up today for a documentary that will premire at the next unconference. We'll co-host unconfrences on four continents this year, after today Asia then South America are left for 2026. I'm so bullish on independent bitcoin educators. LFG!

Great panel at the Oslo Freedom Forum about Bitcoin education as a tool for change

At the Oslo Freedom Forum by @HRF This is the best, not bitcoin, bitcoin conference I've been to The activists here have faced down dictatorships around the world, many suffering severe hardship for doing so yet this is an incredibly hopeful & inspiring conference

Just a peek at one of MANY things we are working on at @My First Bitcoin A Peer-to-Peer Directory for Bitcoin Education My First Bitcoin — Internal Vision Document — The Idea : MFB has proven that bitcoin education works best when it is local, contextual, and human. Dozens of nodes worldwide now run their own courses—each with its own schedule, language, and pedagogy. The knowledge exists. The problem is discovery. A decentralized, open directory will surface every course across the MFB network, enabling any prospective student to find the learning experience that fits them. This serves MFB's core mission: to build a global movement through the Node Network. The Problem It Solves: Our decentralized strength is also a discoverability weakness: A student in Nairobi cannot easily find a Swahili course running in Lagos next month; Donors lack a single view of network output and scale; Excellent educators remain invisible beyond their immediate community. Without infrastructure like this, network growth will stagnate. For nodes, this brings more students. For students, it is access to the world's most diverse, battle-tested bitcoin curriculum. For MFB, it is a distribution network that turns fragmented nodes into a living, self-reinforcing global system. How It Works: Each node self-lists courses in standardized format. The directory aggregates these into a searchable, filterable marketplace. Students can filter by: • Course type (Intro, Bitcoin Diploma, etc.) • Language, location, price, schedule • Node reputation and student ratings • Educator credentials (certified teachers, ETP, etc.) Why This Matters: This is a proof of concept for how sovereign education scales without centralizing control. Success Metrics • Every active MFB node lists at least one course within six months of launch • New nodes required to list as part of onboarding • Directory becomes the default answer to "Where do I learn bitcoin?" (for students) • Directory becomes the default answer to “Where do I find students?” (for teachers) • Directory helps show, in a tangible way, how impactful and global MFB is.

Really looking forward to this one! Whose coming to @BTC Prague ?

I 🧡 NY And I really love how much my oldest son loves it Our first family trip to the city after moving to the US earlier this year 😁

Excited for what will be my 7th Educators Unconference What is an unconference? It's a decentralized conference (perfect for Bitcoin) where the lines are intentionally blurred between speaker & attendee; where the agenda is created at the start of the day by everyone there; where nothing is for sale but knowledge is given away It's also barefoot-friendly :) See you on June 10th!

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We cannot vote our way to a better future. We cannot create a better world by delegating our power to politicians We can educate ourselves. We can take agency in our own life The solution is not a box to tick on a ballot, it is what you do every day

Decentralize everything See you June 10th in Prague!

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Back in New York after a busy few days at @The Bitcoin Conference I'm not just aware of the critiques against the conference; i share many of them But I've come to see this conf as i see Bitcoin itself: there is an increasingly large segment I have issue with: for example, how much trust & faith to put into politicans (zero from me). However, this is part of mass adoption. As Bitcoin grows more and more people will join the community and they will look less and less like the monetary rebels & revolutionaries that were the main demographic in the early days I still haven't fully accepted that Bitcoin is my enemies money too, but it is and will increasingly be. This conf puts up a big tent, maybe the biggest in the space. Plenty gets included in that that i dont like, but im glad it exists See you in 2027

See you at 11:50 at the Genesis stage!

This week @My First Bitcoin quietly pushed an update which will fundamentally reimagine bitcoin education. Let me explain… We released 6 new programs, always open-source, but the bigger story is the redesign of our infrastructure that will massively accelerate local bitcoin education on a global scale. We converted everything to .md--now anyone can customize programs for their community using AI. I’m not just talking about languages (40+ now available) but the ability to easily transform graphics, analogies, etc. Anyone in the world can now learn Bitcoin easily AND anyone in the world can now teach Bitcoin easily. Among the new releases is an Educator’s Guide for the Bitcoin Diploma as well as an Educators Training Program (ETP) This also kicks off a new release schedule with a major release every two years with a point release every 6 months ( eg: 1.0 > 1.1 > 1.2 > 1.3 > 2.0 etc.). The next release will be in October and expect that to be even more impactful and wider ranging than this one. What we released this week is a proof of concept of our new direction of creating a global framework to massively accelerate the independent bitcoin education movement. And BEFORE October we will begin to roll out more frameworks and tools to build out that infrastructure. We have never accepted government funding for our work and we never will. Bitcoin shows us that we must separate money and state. Our aim is to also separate education and state. All of our funding comes from the community, so if you have some spare sats please consider donating Everything we do is open source and permissionless. You can start learning or teaching today. Period. However, we are also building a social layer for this emerging network, designed to be a space to find support, share best practices and create unstoppable community. Each month we have a virtual gathering (network-only) and we also host public educators unconfrences, such as the one held in Nairobi earlier this month. The next one will be June 10thin Prague Independent bitcoin education will change the world. Join us!

Next week I'll be going to NYC for the first time since moving back to the US last month😀 I'll be at @PUBKEY on the 14th and the BitDevs on the 15th. I'm excited to connect to the Bitcoin community here, esp those interested in education. Send me a DM if you wanna connect

we are all satoshi* *except Craig Wright

in 2018 I visited Iran As an American it was a difficult visa to get and one condition was that I had a govt minder/ translator with me at all times and I was not allowed to talk with anyone else I had many small interactions though, including one with a pilot in the air-force I had convinced the govt agent to let me sit alone on a bench in a park in Isfahan while he sat watching me from a nearby bench There was a family picnicking on the grass and the father brought me a small cup of tea. He said 'welcome,' and returned to sit with his family. After finishing the tea I got up, walked over and returned the cup. The govt agent moved quickly to intercept and spoke with the man in Farsi. This happened every time I interacted with anyone and in most cases that was the end of the interaction. This time, perhaps because he was military, the man having the picnic with his family seemed more allowed to interact with me and invited me to sit down and share some fruit with his family. The minder sat next to me. The man poured another cup of tea and asked my name. The man spoke basic English and we didn't talk to much, but we sat sharing fruit and looking at photos that the man had in his wallet of his family. As this war drags on, I think of all the people I met in Iran and how kind they were to me. How much they smiled. War doesn't just kill people, it kills our humanity. Every bomb ever made falls on all of us.

When I got into Bitcoin 13 years ago it was because I was fiercely anti-war, anti-state & anti-IMF Bitcoin is an antidote to all three, when properly applied I know a lot of people in the space now hold different values and that's okay But... f the state, f war & f the IMF

At @My First Bitcoin We are building an AI brain I'm working with an agent focused on macro & vision and asked him what our strengths are I'm so bullish on the org. We've been quietly working on so much (such as this AI integration), some which will begin to surface soon...

Any great bitcoin events in NYC in the next month or two? Recently moved to Long Island and looking to connect Bonus points for btc education events