Craziest day in Tuscany. After an awesome day exploring wineries and small towns, we stopped in for dinner in Monteriggioni, not knowing that the opening night of the Festival of the Sun was here. Just saw Rick Rubin, ran into Jack Dorsey, and a surprise concert is about to start. This is the view from our table.

Congrats to @Luke de Wolf on the launch of an important addition to the Bitcoin space.

Defending Bitcoin: Industrial-Grade Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid: de Wolf, Luke, Hyppönen, Mikko: 9789908976631: Amazon.com: Books

I find it ironic that the of return that underlies the treasury model business requires Bitcoin to be a currency and that their own businesses impair that outcome. If they want to get away with the dangerous game they’re playing, I would suggest they start investing in the spend your bitcoin (not stablecoin) narrative and ecosystem very quickly.

En route to @BTC Prague for my first time. Really looking forward to it!

It’s wild that some people are selling Bitcoin to be exit liquidity for spaceX employees who will likely buy Bitcoin.

If the entire global economy runs on “credit money” (money that is lent into existence) and the entire parasitic structure of debasement faced a margin call through Bitcoin in self-custody, then wouldn’t “digital credit” face that same margin call if Bitcoin remained decentralized and secure?

Hearing good things about @npub1rtlq...jtfs ‘s cooking abilities while filming dishing up bitcoin in New York.

Brilliant podcast highlighting FIPS and the work the sovereign engineering is doing on Bitcoin and Nostr to bypass the legacy system and bring freedom tech to the world. Thanks @Gigi and @PABLOF7z

24: Building FIPS w/ Johnathan Corgan — NoSolutions — Overcast

For anyone in Bitcoin for some time, it may appear that its true essence - the one that changes the world…is being co-opted by fiat narratives. My belief is it only appears that way because the number of people starting their journey far exceed those further along. So, in larger groups, larger conferences, larger media platforms (X) the noise seems to outweigh the signal and in turn we amplify it because it is so outrageous that “others” don’t get it. If Bitcoin was to change the world, it would have to look like this as 8 billion people moved from a system based on control to one of freedom. Long way of saying the signal is still very much there - growing stronger every day.

Great view for my first F1 race today.