Bitcoin and crypto users deserve good UX, but innovators and policy professionals must continue to educate on, protect, and defend self-custody as our universal directive. Let people build innovative products and provide legal clarity to custodial solutions, but let's allow consumers, first and foremost, to embrace monetary sovereignty and keep cryptocurrency tech-neutral and free. That was my message at the European Blockchain Convention in Barcelona this week.

Servus aus München!

I had sats on Nicehash from when I mined on my CPU a few years ago They informed me if I don't log in, they'll take the money ("we'll charge for inactive accounts), so I was luckily able to send to a lightning address. Imagine all the trapped bitcoin sitting on all these various services we've used over the years

I’m next up on the Visionary stage at European Blockchain Convention in Barcelona to talk about consumer adoption of Bitcoin and its crypto offspring, and what we need in our public policies, our innovation, and our cultures to empower ordinary people to use them #EBC10

Apologies to my Spanish friends, but I will never be able to conjugate “vosotros” I’m an Usted kinda guy. Blame my high school Colombian Spanish teacher.

Barcelona at night is an shitshow. Thousands of people, construction blocking all major streets, cops blaring sirens, people pissing everywhere, throwing bottles

Heard at this crypto conference: yeah they just launched this new layer one, it’s revolutionary Yeah, okay pal

Barcelona beach at nighttime

Oh my, are @Rod Palmer @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 sponsoring this blockchain event?? COMPLY HARDER, FASTER, STRONGER

never gave these folks my number yet here they are

it always pains me to shut down a lightning node I had running for a long time with lots of graph connections and liquidity. but sometimes you gotta move on, try different implementations or services, and juggle the balance between a hardware node and a software one

Barcelona: the city of innovation that forces you to wait 15 minutes before booking a rideshare in lieu of a taxi

Love to see any and all building on phoenixd to make it a consumer-friendly lightning wallet and interface. Zapping away. Lightning is an awesome protocol

Sipping espresso in the airport lounge and taking this flight “for Bitcoin”

Made a trip to the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy

wow these new MacOS updated features are baller

above all, Venice AI offers one of the best, unfiltered AI experiences that aren't artificially throttled or neutered. Great implementation of open-source AI models

speaking this week at the European Blockchain Conference about my favorite bitcoin projects and how consumers should be using them much more (not crypto gambling). What else should I tell them?

ashigaru looking pretty sweet props to the anon open-source developers helping us make private money happen

My brother on the wall at the NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen before the next pit stop