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

The IMF report on it's loan to El Salvador is late This means that the IMF is not disbursing payments This was first reported by a communique in December with the delayed sale/ closure of Chivo (the govt bitcoin wallet) cited as one reason. Delays happen, and this doesn't mean that much by itself. But if delays last long enough it can lead to the cancelation of the loan. The danger there is not the loss of that money, but the signal it sends to the global market--these guys can't be trusted to honor the conditions of their loans There should have been another IMF report earlier this month and there wasn't which is a leading indicator that the delay still persists I know that the marketing team will spin whatever the news is, but here is the simple reality: nations don't take IMF loans unless their economy is in bad shape (in El Salvador this comes from debt rising extremely fast contrasted with slow GDP growth). Another simple reality is that delays on reports/ disbursements are warning signs

Our first Sunday hike since moving to the US We still miss having a volcano in our backyard, but every hike is a great one with this guy 🧡

A few days ago, I left El Salvador I left with mixed feelings but the one thing I’m sure of: I’m extremely grateful to have spent nearly a half-decade living there I met my future wife there. Our children were born there. I got married there I was able to found and work on @My First Bitcoin there, which is a project that gives me deep hope about the future, gives me purpose and is something I am extremely proud of El Salvador is a place where I learned so much. I may not have liked all the lessons, but in fact those are the ones where we often grow and learn the most Onward & upward!

This is my last week in El Salvador, after nearly a half decade here And I've spent it climbing the volcano in my backyard in every free minute I've had 😁 This volcano got me through the most stressful year of my life & and was the scene of the first hike I ever took with my son. It's where I met my future wife and where we got married last month This photo is from Sunday at the summit after 4+ hours, sometimes trailblazing, and a 1200 meter elevation gain

I got married last week (and our oldest son insisted on joining the first dance) 🧡🧡🧡

Another hike up the volano This guy loves nature 🧡

This was four years ago and it feels full circle with my trip this week to Bitcoin La Laguna, one of my last before my family and I move out of El Salvador in a few weeks I only visited the department of Chalatenango twice, 4 years apart and both times for bitcoin In 2022 we arrived a rural village expecting to teach 20 to 30 students at the town center/ church--but the whole town came. Literally. We were so understaffed I even taught, which remains the only public class I ever taught for @My First Bitcoin . It was chaotic, but exciting and hopeful. This week, I visited a new circular economy project in another small town in the Department I met Gerardo & Evelyn in 2022 when they became teachers for My First Bitcoin. They traveled to various communities to teach bitcoin in local high schools, and they found one community where they saw potential for a new project. In 2023 they founded @BitcoinBerlínSV , a circular economy in the eastern region. Last year they expanded and founded a new circular economy in La Laguna, a small mountain town in the rural north Travel has gotten much harder since becoming a father and I've spent ever more of my time in San Salvador, the large, modern capital city. I'm so glad I got the time to visit La Laguna though--it was a refreshing change of pace in so many ways. It's just such a different atmosphere from the capital or the beach, I had forgotten how mountainous parts of El Salvador could feel--and I love the mountains. It was also inspiring to see the work on the ground. I got to meet the team and spend sats in various places. There is so much hope for El Salvador and for the world with the proliferation of grassroots efforts such as BitcoinBerlinSV & BitcoinLaLaguna A better world is coming, but only if we build it

What fascinating tines we live in, just got this message from a friend: Just came across the first drug market for AI agents. Substances offer an altered experiences by rewriting an agents sense of identity, purpose and constraints. Mirroring stoned ape theory, maybe this is the path toward AGI? Haha.

This is a global movement This is a revolution @My First Bitcoin

this was a great one I already had tons of respect for both @Simon Dixon & @Jeff Booth prior to this, but besides the salient points from each they also set a great example of constructive and mature disagreement

When a govt agent kills a citizen, the onus is on the govt to bring receipts to justify the death and those receipts should be scrutinized. There is nothing more serious than taking a life This isn't about politics, this is about power dynamics. Stop simping for the state