2025 was one of the most exciting and memorable years of my life. It was very cool to have met a number of you Nostriches in real life! Hope our paths cross more often in 2026. Happy New Year 🥂

Silver will one day be priced in bitcoin. That’s the main difference.

Watching City on Fire on Apple TV, and I’m into it. Read the book years ago and didn’t love it, but the on-screen adaptation is solid. The creators really brought storyline to life, and the portrayal of NYC’s music subculture in 2003, which I was deeply immersed in, is a bit overdone but still reminds me of a more exciting time in the city.

Next month, I’ll be sitting down with pro-Bitcoin New York attorney general candidate Khurram Dara for a fireside chat at @PUBKEY. Join us on Jan 22 as we discuss what needs to change for NY to become a more Bitcoin-friendly jurisdiction. RSVP link in replies.

Grateful to be staying buoyant within a fundamentally insolvent system with all of you.

The people in this space admire the wrong Mike.

What Bitcoin Is

And What It Should Never Be

I watched this video earlier this morning and broke down after reflecting on how the gentleman featured in it is using bitcoin to better his life. I’d imagine most of you here on Nostr will feel it just as deeply, so please give it a watch, a like, and maybe even a subscribe to help support the project ( @Bitcoin Kakuma ). Also, shout out to @Machankura 📞⚡ 8333.mobi for building the tech to help this man. You’re both legends, @kgothatso@8333.mobi and @Noelyne .

One of the things I love most about being in the Bitcoin space is how the diversity here is genuine, not manufactured. We’re just a group of people from around the world coming together to provide support to one another as we work to better our own lives and the lives of those around us via this technology and technologies like it (e.g., Nostr). It’s quite beautiful.

A moment of calm before we run it back for day two of Bitcoin MENA. We’re getting started at 9:00 AM GST. Be sure to tune in! ⚡️ (Link to livestream in comments.)

Very glad we have an alternative to this with Nostr.

Recondition yourself to let the light in.

Just want to take a moment to celebrate this guy, @tpacchia, co-founder of @PUBKEY, the embodiment of the “you can just do things” mantra, and an all-around incredible and good-hearted human being. All the best with PubKey DC, my friend. You and the team will crush it, no doubt.

Had a blast speaking with @jack mallers at @Bitcoin Amsterdam about why hard money is essential for human flourishing and why bitcoin is in fact money and not just another financial asset.

GM, Amsterdam

Samourai developer Keonne Rodriguez’s sentence includes 60 months in prison, three years of supervision, and a $250k fine. Here’s an overview of what else was said in the courtroom today.

Let us please stop referring to New York City as a hub for capitalism. It isn’t. Instead, it’s a center for crony capitalism, a form of socialism for the rich. It’s also a jurisdiction laden with red tape and high taxes that’s largely unaffordable for the poor, middle and working classes. It’s also home to Wall Street, which has been bailed out time and time again at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer and the value of the U.S. dollar itself. What is more, NYC is subject to the BitLicense, which makes it hard for Bitcoin companies to serve New Yorkers, creating more friction for those who want to break free from the crony capitalistic system via Bitcoin. If more people held and understood Bitcoin, they wouldn’t have voted for Zohran Mamdani. But the traditional financial system doesn’t want people to understand it, because it would make that system irrelevant. So, in essence, I blame Wall Street and the other benefactors of the Cantillon Effect (look it up) as well as the bureaucratic hellhole that is NYC (and New York State more broadly) for Mamdani being elected mayor. Until we confront on a larger level how Wall Street/bank bailouts, infinite money printing, and red tape hurts the most financially vulnerable among us and acknowledge that Bitcoin is an answer to this, expect many more Mamdani types to be elected.

It's with a heavy heart that I share I will be moving on from my position at Bitcoin Magazine as of next Friday, 10/31. I am deeply grateful for the opportunities that working at BM has afforded me. It's been an absolute honor and a privilege to be a part such an special team.

Super excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Bitcoin Medellín in January! Hope to see some of you there!

Narratives are one of the greatest forms of illusion.