I respectfully disagree with this take.
I've done more than 400 livestreams over two years all focused on growing Bitcoin adoption and helping Bitcoiners protect their sats
The entire journey has been funded by the community. We have no sponsors and have no plans of changing that.
I believe that maintaining one's voice - without influence of sponsors - is most important in this space.
There are a ton of INCREDIBLY generous and supportive Bitcoiners out there.
The community has allowed me to wake up every day and talk about Bitcoin.
Could it be better? Of course.
I feel like I should have 100,000 viewers on the livestreams every morning - strictly because of how exciting and important Bitcoin is.
God bless all the people who have and continue to support the channel. You know who you are - and I would not be here without you 🧡
We just got a pretty major grant from a thing called Octant and the Ethereum Foundation to produce a documentary about the DOJ‘s case against Roman Storm.
Probably gonna get lynched for this, but I think we need to talk.
While we are grateful for every donation, over the past ~1.5 years we received noticably less donations in Bitcoin than we received in ETH, Zcash and Monero over the course of just a few months - while our main audience *are* bitcoiners.
The only way I can explain this to myself is that there seems to be an issue with the general mentality of trying to keep your bitcoin to yourself, which results in a significant lack of support for others - and it makes me really sad.
The way the Ethereum community is supporting the tornado cash developers is nothing short of extraordinary. Compare that to our support of Samourai, who collected a mere few 100k, while Roman Storm raised millions to fund his case.
At the same time we end up wondering why most people in bitcoin are retarded orange tie maxis that treat BTC like just another stonk, and why its use as a tool for the people falls more and more behind in the global narrative.
Its time we start taking better care of each other in this space, and I hope that next time one of us is criminally indicted, we support them with all that we have.
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