Just think what this can do for Mendocino businesses … Square, the payments platform owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, Inc., has launched its bitcoin payment integration, allowing the first businesses to start accepting bitcoin at their terminals. The system uses the Bitcoin Lightning Network to facilitate instant and low-cost payments. Business owners can choose to keep the bitcoin or instantly convert it to dollars.

Simply put: Fixed Supply – 21 million cap, enforced by consensus and code Decentralization – No central issuer or single point of failure Immutability – Transactions are irreversible and final Portability – Send value anywhere in the world in minutes Divisibility – Can be split into 100 million sats per bitcoin Durability – Digital and incorruptible; not subject to physical decay Verifiability – Anyone can audit the supply and transaction history Censorship Resistance – No one can block or reverse your payment Neutrality – Rules apply equally to everyone, everywhere Security – Backed by the most secure computing network in the world

Even Gandalf, if he puts on the ring, is going to get corrupted by it. The power to create money is the one ring and with bitcoin we're taking that ring off and we're removing a burden that the state doesn't even want. It thinks it wants it, but it doesn't actually want it. And by taking off the ring the state can become good again because it doesn't have this overwhelming corrupting temptation to print money into existence. - Jesse Posner

And now a quick look at the financial markets…

“The dawn of this day heralded the dawning of a new age. It’s a time of exhilaration, reflection, hope, fulfillment – as a centuries’ old dream starts toward reality.” - Walter Cronkite

At first, bitcoin seems complicated.

One voice challenged the system…

WELCOME! …to Mendocino.

Opt out with bitcoin.

I have acquired 0.0001665 BTC for ~$20 @ ~$120,300 per bitcoin and have achieved BTC Yield of 0% YTD 2025.

Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr says: "Sooooo bitcoin is at an all time high today…safe to say we still happy with our decision.” (to be paid in bitcoin.)

Alcohol used to be much cleaner. You could drink it all night and then wake up and feel great. Go to work, stack hay bales, feed horses, etc. But now you have a few drinks at night and you’re wiped out the next day. What the hell are they putting in alcohol these days?