PSA Brands that sell products that include Bitcoin in the name. If your brand is only about Bitcoin, you’ve capped your audience. No one wears USD shoes. After hyperbitcoinization, your brand is just “money fan club.” You also want to bring in normies, and no normie is going to buy a pair of shades from bitcoin sunglass co. Think bigger, stay cool longer.

To everyone complaining about boomers getting a free ride with real estate. You think they knew property would appreciate the way it did when they bought in 1970? Hindsight is 20/20 and you’ll complain about bitcoin when it’s millions too.

Reviews like this make all the blood sweat and tears worth it.

Nahatlach Provincial Park. While much of it remains scarred from the fires of 2021 where Lytton,BC burned, still so much beauty remains.

Its is CRAZY how far a brand can get you. We started a brewery (House of Funk) that is ultimately failing, but we did our best and launched incredible beer and coffee, along with unique imagery and packaging. Despite failing and now being up for sale, the brand we built opened doors to new opportunities that we couldn’t foresee or been able to enter without the hard work we did from day one. 
FUNK Coffee Bar: The owners of Bentall Center in Vancouver wanted to create amenities for tenants that make it more appealing to sign leases. They envisioned a large expansive cafe which did happy hour beer at night. Being the only shop that did really good coffee and beer in town, they built a location with us in mind, and offered us a sweetheart lease deal which we would never had been able to get if it wasn’t for our brand. This cafe has ultimately acted as a launchpad to the coffee business thriving. House of Lager: A multi-billion dollar development project was about to break ground in Squamish, and the developers wanted a brewery attached to their presentation centre to be able to talk shop with potential residential buyers after the presentation centre. Their GC, upstairs from our humble brewery, really loved our beer and brand, and introduced our team to the developers of Squamish Oceanfront.

Over the years, our brand has become disjointed, with the brewery failing, and the coffee business being the business that is thriving. So we’re relaunching everything for scratch, FUNK coffee, FUNK coffee bar, and the upcoming FUNK listening bar (shhh!) will the cafe that lives on, all powered by Bitcoin treasury, events and customers.

My advice to builders is do NOT make brand an afterthought. People need to understand what you are about, and how it relates to them. Done well, doors will open in ways that you could never have imagined. Especially with Bitcoin companies, technology is usually considered first and Brand is often an afterthought, but this is not how we are going to scale adoption. People need to think you are cool, and that you fit their lifestyle in order to want to relate. Think about Cash app and how sick their brand is, I WANT to be a user of this over something like Venom.

Disruption as a brand value icon.

Roasting & serving low time preference coffee since 2019.

New logo who dis?

There will be signs…

Dark roast is fiat coffee. We’ve been sold a lie that coffee should “taste strong” (burnt) but the reason starcucks roasts like that is so poor quality beans taste consistent(ly bad) and your 17 year old barista can’t fuck up the extraction. Quality beans, harvested ripe and processed with care from a uniform crop should be naturally sweet, and flavourful. Real coffee, like real money, should be transparent and traceable. Proof of work in every sip.

Confused about why @jb55 was building Notedeck? I was, but his chat this week @ FUNK cleared it all up for me. We talked about some of the biggest issues facing nostr today and how he envisions Notedeck becoming the browser of the new internet. https://www.youtube.com/live/qz0EhL2bMmY?si=2YN8sfcMlbxGsN76

🟣 BTC Van Meetup 025 with @jb55 of @Damus to talk Nostr and Notedeck! 📹Live-streamed on YouTube @npub1th5g...mnel and nostr @FunkCoffee ✉️RSVP:

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Bitcoin MeetUp 025 - JB55 aka Will Casarin founder of Damus (NOSTR), Wed, Jun 25, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Come hang out at Funk Coffee in downtown Vancouver for a laid-back evening with William Casarin, founder of Damus — the social app built on Nostr...

@jack mallers what’s the reason for Strike being in over 100 countries but not Canada? Is it a regulatory hurdle? Wouldn’t be surprised 😒