3-2-1 night at Great American Ball Park this week. My first Busssscccchhhh Light. The best beer is the right beer for the situation. Sometimes I forget that.

Where I live, it seems like Toast has pretty serious control over small business POS systems. I’ve even seen Clover a few times recently. Not much Square. Anyone else notice this?

Cincinnati Bitcoin will be hanging out at Braxton Covington Thursday evening. Please join if you’re in the area!

Meetup

Bitcoin Social 🍻 at Braxton Covington, Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Join us at Braxton Covington just to eat and drink with other Bitcoin-minded people in Cincy. No agenda. Ask Bitcoin-related questions, or just tal...

I've been using AI in earnest since early 2025. I got a ChatGPT subscription last spring when I was consistently running into message/photo limits. I was asking a lot of questions about home projects. I've used AI very frequently as a research and thinking partner, but it's been more of a challenge to get into building. I've had Claude Code at work and used that to create a Mac Claude Code onboarding page for dummies (me), but agentic workflows have been more of a mental leap for me. At work, some of that has had to do with access issues and bifurcated tools that disallow me from making obvious flows to solve administrative tasks. I recently upgraded my ChatGPT subscription so I could use Codex, and I made an agent that creates Meetup events for Cincinnati Bitcoin. I tinkered a lot last weekend, creating a couple templates and md files and trying to find the right workflows for different types of sessions. There were some limitations since my Meetup subscription doesn't grant access to APIs. But today, I one-shot an event successfully. It created the page, event name, updated the description for the topic, created a new image and got me ready to publish in about seven minutes. Only thing I had to do was manually upload the photo. It's not able to do that and I haven't found a solution yet. I am mildly technical depending on the circle. On Nostr and in Bitcoin, I frequently feel like a dummy. So I am sharing as encouragement for anyone who may be in the same boat! And here is a link to this Thursday's social if you happen to be in the area. We'd love to hang out with you.

Meetup

Bitcoin Social 🍻 at Braxton Covington, Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Join us at Braxton Covington just to eat and drink with other Bitcoin-minded people in Cincy. No agenda. Ask Bitcoin-related questions, or just tal...

I posted this November 2022 at the absolute bottom. Even if we’re not at the bottom quite yet, today has felt the same. And I’m still here smirking. Saying that, four years ago I was two years into my Bitcoin journey and thought I knew, but I’ve learned so much. In another four years I’m sure I’ll say the same thing. “Stay humble, stack sats,” isn’t just to keep your stack growing, it’s to keep yourself growing.

This week feels much more like a bottom than February. I cant quite explain it. But it might have to do with the plausible narrative that capital is flooding to the incoming AI IPOs. With that, I’m thinking we might have a while to stack some cheap sats

Modernity kinda sucks fr

Cincinnati Bitcoin celebrated Pizza Day by going to Galactic Fried Chicken to get some grub and spend in Bitcoin. First time I’ve used the terminal for it, was super easy. I’ve heard folks say that owners still have to enable the function. Is that true? Unfortunately I don’t see Square terminals often. I see a ton of Toast

I am so sick of living at the behest of Boomers who love Donald Trump and Israel more than their children. They have done everything they can to siphon value from the world and destroy their children’s inheritance. It is too late for good people to affect change in government. At least until generational turnover. My levers for positive influence are my involvement with my church and ministries, and Bitcoin education. What are yours?

Bike escort for the Flying Pig Half Marathon this morning. I was with the top males (floated between 3-5) so it was early and peaceful. A lot of spectators weren’t out yet, so it was like getting a private tour through the city. It was darn near perfect weather for runners, but a bit cold for cyclists!

Like playing a Fender through a Fender

Bro what

I don’t think we get our bull run til it’s clear why bitcoin crashed. We were able to piece together the story in real time in 2022. We’ve gotten weak and sparse speculation since this began in October.

Baby’s first tallow render. This was with one mesh filter pass. The third jar was cloudy with sediment as I was getting to the end of the slow cooker, but all in all it turned clean and smells pretty neutral. This was with beef kidney fat, which is the good stuff to use for tallow.

Rendering my first tallow from beef kidney fat. Not quite sure when it’s done

Girls: only 20 people wished me happy birthday!! 😢☹️ Boys who have known each other 25+ years:

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It’s not a presentation without memes

Good morning. I added a little leftover homemade pumpkin pie mix to my scrambled eggs this morning and it was surprisingly good (I’m a pumpkin fiend)