The Royal Ballet Cuts 64 Roles. The Currency Cuts Everyone Else.
Bitcoin For The Arts, 6/27/2026
Bitcoin For The Arts
Bitcoin for the Arts, Inc. (BFTA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering sovereign creators in visual arts, theater, dance, music, writing, storytelling, and film—exclusively through Bitcoin. Fueling a cultural renaissance with sound money grants, workshops, artist stories, and our decentralized Nostr Artist Hub. Group Chats 💬 https://signal.group/#CjQKIDaPMCQ6CFS3CyXBbD01b1KeEkd6V5-fv0pyVxp22M5IEhDbX_Aki0FWck4LXcoFL2hl ♣️🍊: https://app.cluborange.org/iUR3LcV4 #BitcoinForTheArts #SovereignCreators #SoundMoney
Art is Health Infrastructure. So Why Do We Fund It Like a Luxury?
Bitcoin For The Arts, 5/15/2026
The Immorality of Fiat: Why Artists Are the First to Suffer — and the First to Lead the Renaissance
Bitcoin For The Arts, 4/2/2026
New Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Ep 18:
. The artist creates first. Then you serve the artist.
Exclusively on
for the next week. 21 sats ⚡
Support Artists Value for value. https://fanfares.io/s/rIgKok
10/19/2026, 36 engagements
, a London maker: Saatchi, Glastonbury, a Star Wars droid.
"My thoughts became zaps and those zaps became food in your belly."
Ep 7 of Share Your Bitcoin Journey. 21 sats ⚡ now on Fanfares.
10/14/2026, 37 engagements
New Share Your Bitcoin Journey is live on Fanfares.
The Higher Low is a Finnish punk singer who writes songs about Bitcoin that never say the word. Thirty years of DIY punk, one guitar, and every sat he earns saved for the next album.
21 sats this week. Free on YouTube and RSS next week. Every sat goes to Bitcoin For The Arts to fund artists.
Value for value. 🧡
#Bitcoin #Nostr #V4V #ValueForValue #BitcoinMusic #Fanfares
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10/13/2026, 2 engagements
The Higher Low saves every sat his music earns. One day, he says, it pays for the next album.
Hear his story on Share Your Bitcoin Journey Ep 17. 21 sats on Fanfares this week. https://fanfares.io/s/mmJB72 https://aqstr.com/task/cmv6ogt1dy3pig0xnyn
10/13/2026, 51 engagements
Share Your Bitcoin Journey is on Fanfares.
Alana Mediavilla: The Filmmaker Behind Dirty Coin.
Alana is the Puerto Rican filmmaker behind Dirty Coin and the founder of Campo Libre. Ten years in Big Tech, then home to San Juan to build her own company. She bought three bitcoin in 2015. Her husband sold them. Not your keys. One bitcoin donation financed the film and was worth more by the time it was spent. Five hundred screenings, two hundred cities, no studio. First English-language film to win Best National Documentary in Puerto Rico.
Zap to unlock.
https://fanfares.io/s/-INPIW#pay
bitcoinforthearts.org
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10/4/2026, 5 engagements
Share Your Bitcoin Journey is on Fanfares.
From Widow to Bitcoin Author: A Mother's Journey with Lindey Magee.
Lindey is a Mississippi mother and homeschooler. Her son tried to orange-pill the family in 2012, at 12. They didn't listen. Years later, after her husband died, she put the life insurance into Bitcoin and learned it like a job. She and her daughter live on a Bitcoin standard now. She wrote the children's book Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL.
The episode is on Fanfares. Zap to unlock.
bitcoinforthearts.org
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10/4/2026, 2 engagements
Ep 8 is live on Fanfares.
James Kintore — materials-first design, sound money, and going where you're treated best.
#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #V4V
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Tomorrow in NYC.
Bitcoin for the Arts founder Dion Wilson is facilitating Cohort NYC’s OPEN TALKS:
Can Artists Achieve Financial and Artistic Independence in the Age of Bitcoin?
An interactive conversation on fiat risk, Bitcoin-native patronage, and what happens to creativity when artists move onto sound money. Not a panel. A real room.
Thursday, Oct 1 5:30 PM settle in · 6:00 PM conversation · 7:30 PM hang Sugar Mouse NYC · 47 3rd Ave, East Village Free · Hosted by Cohort NYC
RSVP: https://luma.com/d1gkjhb1
Artists. Founders. Builders. Creatives. Come talk.
#BitcoinForTheArts #Bitcoin #Artists #NYC #CohortNYC
We are uploading our Share Your Bitcoin Journey Series on Fanfares! https://fanfares.io/s/kNoBD8
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9/30/2026, 1 engagement
Midwest is done. Thank you. Next: Nashville.
Bitcoin Arts Park was our first public appearance on an Expo floor. Artists donated their time and craft. The feedback was generous.
Issue #27 is the thank you, the credit list, and the invitation to keep building culture on a Bitcoin standard.
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-27
Bitcoin Arts Park just happened.
Midwest Bitcoin Summit. Columbus. Two days of working artists paid and programmed on Bitcoin.
Thank you to every artist who showed up with a canvas, a song, a film, a book, a print, or a pitch.
and Nadia Vaeh
Thank you to the people who built the booth, ran the sheet, held the room, and let culture sit on the Expo floor instead of a side room.
Thank You to our talented creative genius Board Member . for designing the Bitcoin Arts Park.
bitcoinforthearts.org
9/26/2026, 8 engagements
Advance bids are open. Lightning silent auction at Bitcoi Arts Park
Midwest Bitcoin Summit · Columbus · Sept 23–24
CA Danner. Lady RedHorns. Shipwreck Sean. Timechain Mag Genesis Edition. Bid in sats from home. Highest advance bid seeds the paper sheet on the Expo floor. Winner picks up in person Thursday at 3 PM. No shipping. No platform cut.
Lots: https://bitcoinforthearts.org/midwest/auction Park: https://bitcoinforthearts.org/midwest
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16 Nadia Vaeh
“In ancient Rome there were patrons who paid people to produce plays, installations, sculpture. Modern society evolved away from that. We need to return to it. Demystify what it actually takes to make the art that moves people. When that returns, the art only gets more honest.”
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinArt #Patronage #Nostr
Issue #25 is live.
One week to Midwest.
Bitcoin Arts Park · Sept 23–24 · Columbus Expo floor.
opens Wednesday.
Rock ’n’ Roll Andy Breakheart Thursday.
Nadia Vaeh pitches One Poop Scoop Away.
Short North Stage. Lightning silent auction. Cinema. Living Room.
Episode 16 with Nadia is out.
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-25
#Bitcoin #BitcoinArt #Nostr #MBS2026
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16 Nadia Vaeh
“The industry only shows the highlights. That’s why I love documentary. It shows the side hustles an artist takes on to move the work forward. The burnout. The exhaustion. You wake up. You do it tired. Because it is the fuel.”
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinMusic #IndependentArtist #Nostr
Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Episode 16 with Nadia Vaeh.
Award-winning recording artist and filmmaker. Owner of Galactic Cat Records. Documenting what "make it" means for indie artists in One Poop Scoop Away.
Music as a lifeline. Streaming math versus patronage. Ownership. Bitcoin. Midwest Bitcoin Summit.
Full episode:
#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #BFTA #IndieMusic #SoundMoney #V4V
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 15
“Think back to 1,000 true fans. With Bitcoin and Lightning, that idea is real. A thousand people giving you $100 a year on the Lightning rail.”
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinMusic #Lightning #Value4Value #1000TrueFans #Nostr
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 15
“I have the most supportive parents in the world. They moved me to Nashville at 15. COVID hit. Both my parents were out of work. I didn’t get Music Row in person that first year. I did it virtually. Hundreds of songs. Leave your ego at the door. Do what’s best for the song.”
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr
9/8/2026, 3 engagements
Issue #24 is live. Cinema at Bitcoin Arts Park.
Films on the Expo floor. Pitches at the booth from Nadia Vaeh and Jason R. Johnston.
Dirty Coin. Finding Home. Hummingbird. Bigger Than Bitcoin. Till My Last Breath. One Poop Scoop Away.
opens the Park.
Share Your Bitcoin Journey Ep 15 is out.
Two weeks. Columbus.
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-24
#Bitcoin #BitcoinArt #Nostr #MBS2026
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 15
Music Row. Bitcoin Park. Two old Florida Georgia Line houses. A Lightning summit in July 2023.
Her dad sat in on a Wavelake demo, came home, and said: “Trust me on this one. Go down tomorrow.”
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr #Wavelake
Share Your Bitcoin Journey Ep 15 is live.
: Nashville pop rock, first to 1M sats on Wavlake with Cherry On Top, and opening Bitcoin Arts Park at Midwest.
Watch the full conversation:
#Music #Art #Rock #Nashville #Artists #SongWriters #CherryonTop #Musician #BitcoinArt #AinsleyCostello #BitcoinForTheArts
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 14
“Your phone is a tracking device. Your phone is following you. Listening. Recording you when you’re sleeping. Why you not looking for the solutions? The solutions are there. I’m Nostr native because algorithms completely destroy my head. I touched the banking system, Palestine, war — and I realized I’m invisible to my friends. My people don’t see my content.”
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr
Issue #23 is live. The auction table is filling for Bitcoin Arts Park. Lots:
— Satoshi White Paper Series #52
— The Transfer of Light
— HODL On
Genesis Edition
Founded by Asanoha
Share Your Bitcoin Journey Ep 14 —
Bid: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/midwest/auction
Letter: https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-23
#Bitcoin #BitcoinArt #Nostr #2140
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 14
“All I want to do in a few years is give keys to my kids, to my close people, to my tribe, to my very good friends. Keys to the world built by my people, by cypherpunks, that respect my privacy and my values. Not the world built by governments.”
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr #cypherpunks
8/30/2026, 9 engagements
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 14
“Manifesto number four was printed in the oakwood. Stencil techniques. Building communities like 2140. People don’t understand how this matrix is eating us. Title of the artwork: Fuck the Banks. Banks don’t own nothing. Money in the banks is not your money. It’s a pure scam. That’s how they control us. We don’t want this.”
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #2140 #Nostr
8/29/2026, 5 engagements
“Nostr is a permissionless protocol. You own your keys. You protect your keys. Nobody can ban you. If you are loud about Palestine, Elon Musk can’t stop you because he don’t own your keys. You own your keys. Relays can ban you, but you can still spread your message. You can use your own relays.”
Full episode:
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr
8/28/2026, 14 engagements
Canvas is
Bitsby is locked in.
is painting live for two full days at Bitcoin Arts Park — Midwest Bitcoin Summit, Sept 23–24.
Everything else on this canvas is still open.
What do you want next to Bitsby?
Drop your idea.
Sean is waiting.
We’re building this one with the community.
8/25/2026, 6 engagements
Come see Shipwreck’s work and live painting happening in our Bitcoin Arts Park exhibit at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit.
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8/25/2026, 6 engagements
Issue #22 is out. Gallery. Film. Live painting raffle. Artist openers both days. Call for more artists to put themselves on the floor at Bitcoin Arts Park.
Read it:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-22
Stack culture.
Artists — We’re collecting short (30–60 sec) video clips for the Bitcoin Arts Park booth at Midwest Bitcoin Summit.
Name + discipline + whatever you want to say about yourself, Bitcoin, or BFTA.
We’ll play them throughout the two days. Raw is welcome. Send via DM or [email protected]
Let’s put signed, sovereign creators on the floor.
8/24/2026, 3 engagements
Most newsletters talk about price.
Ours talks about artists getting paid in Bitcoin, culture that resists censorship, and building institutions that outlast fiat.
Bitcoin For The Arts newsletter:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/
Join the ones who are actually stacking culture.
8/24/2026, 4 engagements
Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16 is coming.
We’re going live with
.
This line hit hard: “They can change the books. They can destroy the books. They can put them in the bin, and they can change narrative in anything what they scan… but they will not scan and change my narrative, because my narrative will be there, signed by me, signed with my secret key… That’s the power of the permissionless protocols.”
Full conversation dropping soon. Stay tuned.
#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr #nsec
8/22/2026, 12 engagements
opens day two of Bitcoin Arts Park at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit.
Sept 24 · 12PM · Expo Stage · Columbus Presented by Bitcoin for the Arts
One-man band. Live loops. Real rock in a Bitcoin room.
#BitcoinForTheArts #MidwestBitcoinSummit #V4V #RocknRoll #Music #Arts #Musicians
Chicago’s Dance for Life is raising $500K for dancers without real health coverage.
The healthcare gap is real. The monetary gap under it is deeper.
A dollar grant is a claim on future care that may cost more than the claim can buy.
New piece from BFTA: The Gaps in the Dam
https://bitcoinforthearts.substack.com/p/the-gaps-in-the-dam
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Bitcoin For The Arts presents
live at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit.
September 23 · 12 PM · Expo Stage
Pop-rock energy. Lightning-native. Zero gatekeepers.
This is culture on a fixed supply. See you in Columbus!
#Bitcoin #MBS2026 #BitcoinForTheArts #AinsleyCostello #Music #LiveMusic #Art
We are looking for a visual artist to feature in our booth at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit. 9/23 -9/24
Name an artist👇👇👇
#BitcoinArt #VisualArtist #Artist #Art
8/17/2026, 26 engagements
“It wasn’t the mathematics of Bitcoin… it was the same kind of empowerment of humanity. The untapped potential of who we are.”
has carried this theme in his work for years. Before Bitcoin, it felt like talking to a wall. People weren’t ready. The messages came back “returned to sender.”
Now those same ideas finally have a receiver. They connect. They flourish.
Making art with purpose — and finding an audience that actually understands.
8/16/2026, 1 engagement
“Why oil? Why classic technique for a subject that exists in code?”
Anik Malcolm’s answer: proof of human.
The small irregularities. The warmth. The thing that makes the image intrinsically human instead of just printed.
He tried a graphic version. It was colder. More austere.
Oil carries something the machine can’t.
Clip from Episode 13:
8/14/2026, 1 engagement
900 hours. Each bead shaded and highlighted by hand. No shortcuts. Monk-like work.
While Bitcoin art is usually neon, vector, and digital,
chose classical oil painting — a physical object that exists in real space.
The most Bitcoin thing about the painting may not be its subject. It may be the time.
Clip from Episode 13:
8/11/2026, 1 engagement
“We have been so suppressed for so long that we don’t actually know what humanity is… the untapped potential of humanity is vast.”
: Bitcoin is the vehicle. The beautiful thing is us. Once the shackles come off, we get to find out what we’re actually capable of.
8/10/2026, 4 engagements
Newsletter Issue #20 is out.
Plebs already own 80% of Bitcoin. Institutions dominate its use. That gap is a choice, not a rigging.
Inside this week: → Hodlers Are Not Enough. New Substack piece on BIP-110, Adam Back, and the composition question. → Bitcoin Was Never Supposed to Be an Investment. Companion piece. → Episode 13 of Share Your Bitcoin Journey with painter Anik Malcolm from central Italy. 900 hours on canvas. 21 million beads. One cube. → Six weeks to Bitcoin Arts Park at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit in Columbus, Ohio. → Q3 grants close September 1. $500 to $2,000 in sats per artist.
Read it, share it, forward it to a working artist.
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-20
Hodlers are not enough.
BIP-110 stalled after two blocks. Adam Back was right about the reason: economic users control the protocol through the market — not nodes with no economic weight. The problem is that “economic user” has slowly been narrowed to mean exchanges, custodians, and large treasuries. The rest of us — the people who already own most of the Bitcoin — are treated as mostly irrelevant.
Holding sats preserves value. Using them creates influence. Paying artists in Bitcoin is not just patronage. It is one of the few remaining ways ordinary people can still become real economic participants on the network.
New piece from Bitcoin For The Arts:
https://bitcoinforthearts.substack.com/p/hodlers-are-not-enough
8/10/2026, 6 engagements
Episode 13 of Share Your Bitcoin Journey is live.
walked away from the London and Reykjavik art establishments, moved with his wife and children to the mountains of central Italy, and spent 900 hours painting
The Whole Entire Universe: a cube of 21 million beads that only fits cleanly at this one number in all of finance.
The full conversation ends with his own animation video explaining the math. Watch the whole thing.
New long-form essay from Bitcoin For The Arts.
Bitcoin Was Never Supposed to Be an Investment.
Every well-meaning "how to invest in Bitcoin" post shares the same broken framing. The correction to bad Bitcoin advice is always better Bitcoin investment advice. That is the entire problem.
Fiat is a ruler that will not sit still. The entire investment industry exists because of that one design choice. If the ruler sat still, none of it would need to exist.
Bitcoin is a ruler that sits still.
The essay makes the full argument: what money is supposed to do, the pathology of fiat, why Satoshi priced Bitcoin in dollars anyway as a bridge for human psychology, the current Wall Street absorption threat, and why artists specifically are the corrective.
The ruler stopped moving. Look at the world through it. Everything else follows.
Read: https://bitcoinforthearts.substack.com/p/bitcoin-was-never-supposed-to-be
#Bitcoin #Nostr #V4V #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney
8/5/2026, 1 engagement
Bitcoin For The Arts, Issue #19 is out.
The Bitcoin Arts Park lineup for the Midwest Bitcoin Summit is named: · Ainsley Costello + Short North Stage on Wednesday, September 23 · Andy Burghardt + Short North Stage interns + Lindey Magee's book reading on Thursday, September 24 · Shipwreck Shawn's paintings across both days · Proof of Print's live Bitcoin mining feed on the monitor
Plus a new Substack essay on our founder's origin story (Two Weeks Before Capitol College), a new featured artist story with @nogoodkid, and Share Your Bitcoin Journey now on Apple, Spotify, and via our Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed with Value-4-Value Lightning splits to the show.
Read: https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-19
#Bitcoin #Nostr #V4V #BitcoinForTheArts #MidwestBitcoinSummit
on the challenge of funding Bitcoin film:
“
, shout out to them. They do a great job of helping filmmakers find funding and promote, and they give people a platform to develop their projects. It’s not something I know a lot about because I’m a writer and a publisher, and I don’t usually operate in a world of knowing who to ask for funding and how to get it. So it’s a challenge.”
Full episode:
#Bitcoin #BitcoinFilmFest #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinForTheArts
on the moment it clicked: “It’s very easy to swallow all of the lies that you’re fed… ‘Oh, it’s this war. Oh, it’s the energy crisis. Oh, it’s the climate.’ It’s always some temporary issue rather than a group of unelected officials pushing a button and deciding to print more money.
That was the moment I thought, ‘I’m gonna look into this.’” He hasn’t stopped reading since.
#Bitcoin #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinForTheArts
7/29/2026, 3 engagements
Speaker announcement.
BFTA founder Dion Wilson will be speaking at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit 2026.
September 23–24. Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio. Two days on Bitcoin, energy, mining, technology, policy, business, and the revitalization of the Midwest.
Bitcoin For The Arts will be on the ground with Bitcoin Arts Park, our activation featuring artist stories, a Dirty Coin community screening, a homeschool book reading of Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL, and the working artists building culture on a Bitcoin standard.
Come find us.
Tickets and full lineup: https://midwestbtc.com
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Bitcoin Arts Park is eight weeks away.
At the Midwest Bitcoin Summit (Sept 23–24, Columbus), Bitcoin for the Arts is building its own dedicated cultural space — film, music, visual art, and a live children’s book reading with Lindey Magee. Dion will be speaking on the main stage both days.
We’re looking for: • Volunteers • Sponsors • Sats contributions • Homeschool groups for the book reading
All the details are in Issue #18:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-18
If this mission resonates, now is a good time to step in.
#Bitcoin #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinForTheArts
🧡 New BFTA Newsletter just dropped — Issue #17
This week we’re covering: • Why Broadway’s Cats: The Jellicle Ball is closing despite three Tony Awards and strong weekly grosses — and what it reveals about the broken funding model for the arts • Episode 12 of Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Philip Charter (Bitcoin ghostwriter, co-editor of 21 Futures, and advocate for sovereign publishing) • Bitcoin Arts Park updates at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit (Sept 22–24) — volunteers and sponsors needed • Growing the BFTA Artist Directory
If you care about sound money, working artists, and real cultural sovereignty, this one’s worth reading.
Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-17
#Bitcoin #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinArts #SovereignArt #ArtistFunding #Broadway #MidwestBitcoinSummit #BitcoinCulture #ValueForValue #BitcoinPodcast #Nostr #CreatorEconomy #BitcoinCommunity
New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped.
, the British author, editor, and ghostwriter behind Totally Human Writer, sits down with Bitcoin For The Arts for a full conversation on writing, fiction, and community as the tools that actually change minds.
Philip is the co-editor of 21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain, the world's first Bitcoin fiction anthology, released by Konsensus Network in December 2023 and presented at Bitcoin Atlantis in 2024. He is the author of seven books in his own name. And he is the driving force behind the Gran Canaria Bitcoin community and its "Proof of Walk" gatherings.
Highlights from the conversation:
- Leaving a London marketing career in 2011 and teaching English across Latin America, Asia, and Spain
- Publishing the first book of short fiction in 2018
- The coaching client whose book about "something called Bitcoin" changed everything
- Founding Totally Human Writer as the deliberate opposite of AI-generated content
- Editing 21 Futures with Knut Svanholm, Ioni Appelberg, and Niko Laamanen
- Bitcoin Atlantis 2024, and the anthology becoming a Konsensus Network imprint
- Expanding from Bitcoin fiction to the wider freedom-fiction universe
- Three million LinkedIn impressions on writing tips for Bitcoin founders
- Life on a Bitcoin standard as a resident of a Spanish island
- Advice for writers looking to work in the Bitcoin space professionally
Watch:
#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #BFTA #21Futures #SoundMoney #V4V #Writer #Art #BitcoinArt
🧡 New from Bitcoin for the Arts: Broadway just killed its most-awarded new musical of the season after only five months.
Cats: The Jellicle Ball won three Tony Awards, made history with the first openly trans woman to win a Tony for costume design, and was grossing close to a million dollars a week. It still couldn’t survive.
Andrew Lloyd Webber says the American theater is in “dire danger.” He’s right — but the reason isn’t what most people think.
This isn’t really a story about taste, diversity, or streaming. It’s a story about money. When production costs triple (or more) while the dollar quietly loses value every year, even successful new work gets crushed by the math.
Broadway had its biggest year ever in ticket sales. At the same time, most new musicals are closing inside four or five months.
The same pattern is showing up across the arts — ballet companies cutting roles, orchestras struggling, regional theaters shrinking. Different cities, different disciplines, same underlying pressure.
If you’re an artist trying to build something that lasts longer than the next budget cycle, this is worth understanding.
Read the full piece:
https://open.substack.com/pub/bitcoinforthearts/p/broadway-just-killed-its-most-awarded
#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #Broadway #BitcoinForTheArts #ArtsFunding #MonetaryDebasement #AndrewLloydWebber
🧡 New BFTA Newsletter just dropped!
This week we’re covering:
• New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Alana Mediavilla, director of the powerful Bitcoin mining documentary Dirty Coin
• Midwest Bitcoin Summit updates — we’re looking for volunteers, sponsors, and homeschool families for a special book reading
• NEA July grant cycle is now open
• Christie's Art+Tech Summit happening this week
If you care about artists building on Bitcoin, sound money, and real sovereignty in the arts, this one’s worth reading.
Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-16
#Bitcoin #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #DirtyCoin #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinMining #MidwestBitcoinSummit #ArtistGrants #NEA #DecentralizedArt #ValueForValue #BitcoinCulture #SovereignArt #BitcoinCommunity #Art #BitcoinEducation #ArtistDirectory #BitcoinPodcast #Nostr #BitcoinNews
New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped.
Alana Mediavilla, the Puerto Rican filmmaker behind Dirty Coin and founder of Campo Libre, sits down with Bitcoin For The Arts for a two-hour conversation about the making of the most important documentary on Bitcoin mining ever made.
She spent more than a decade inside Silicon Valley producing for Google, Apple, PayPal, Volkswagen, and Volvo. In 2020 she walked away, moved her family home to Puerto Rico, and built Dirty Coin from the ground up. The film has since been screened in over 200 cities through a community-hosted distribution model, and won Best National Documentary in Puerto Rico as the first English-language film ever to do so.
Highlights from the conversation:
- Buying 3 BTC at $200 each in 2015, and how she found out her husband had sold them at $600
- The 2018 phone call from her Cuban grandfather that reframed Bitcoin as a family-scale tool
- Why she left Google Cloud during the 2020 lockdown and moved the kids home to Puerto Rico
- Becoming a Bitcoin-only maxi after watching neighbors get rug-pulled on the island
- What Malawi taught her that Texas could not, and why Bitcoin mining unlocks stranded renewable energy
- Financing a documentary in Bitcoin, and the day a 40k BTC donation turned into 70k of production spend
- Community-hosted distribution: 500 screenings in 200 cities via Kinema, aimed at meetup leaders
- Node Runners, her next documentary on how to own your own data and run your own compute
- Advice for women and mothers looking at Bitcoin from outside the movement
Watch:
#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #BFTA #DirtyCoin #SoundMoney #V4V
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
Lindey Magee shares how she used the Bitcoin from her late husband’s life insurance to fund her children’s book — even though it meant spending what could have been long-term wealth.
She explains that she did it because she believed the book would matter. Dion responds by pointing out that she operated with true low time preference and created something with real generational value.
This is a beautiful example of Bitcoin enabling creators to build things that can outlast them.
Full episode:
#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #LowTimePreference #Nostr
Bitcoin Journey 🧡
After losing her husband, Lindey Magee made a bold decision with the life insurance he left behind.
Instead of following the traditional path of studying Bitcoin first and then deciding, she acted on strong conviction. She put the money into Bitcoin — and credits that decision with giving her and her daughter stability and freedom during one of the hardest seasons of their lives.
She shares:
“That decision is the reason why Palyn and I have a roof over our heads today… I was able to have the freedom to pour into her versus be stressed out over finances.”
https://blossom.primal.net/78d9a7c422842888f6621c46f8507d17995a9e1347a5dce0ba96ecb81055b6c2.mp4 New clip from Share Your
Full episode:
#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr #Mom #HomeSchool #Conviction
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
Lindey Magee shares a very practical reality of living on a Bitcoin standard:
Even during a bear market, she’s been able to stretch her money significantly further — sometimes living at “more than half off.” As a result, the life insurance her late husband left her has gone twice as far (or more) than it would have in fiat.
Dion points out: She took fiat money and made it go twice as far in a world where most people are losing purchasing power.
Full episode:
#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
In this moment, Lindey Magee shares how her faith shaped her view of money:
She explains that fiat currency “steals from savers through inflation and punishes the poor,” and that this offends the character of God. For her, discovering Bitcoin wasn’t just financial — it was a conviction she believes came from the Holy Spirit.
Full episode:
#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr
New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
This week I sat down with Lindey Magee, a Mississippi mother and author of the children’s book Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL.
After losing her husband to cancer, Lindey made the decision to put his life insurance into Bitcoin. That choice gave her the freedom to stay home with her daughter, heal, and eventually write a book introducing sound money to families.
Her story is honest, faith-filled, and deeply moving.
Watch the full episode:
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr #HomeSchool #Mom #Arts #Artist
New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter just dropped 🧡
This week we cover:
- Full programming details for Bitcoin Arts Park at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit (film screenings, live performances, Lightning wallet activation, and a peer-to-peer silent auction)
- New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Lindey Magee, author of Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL
- Q3 micro-grant applications now open for working artists
Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-15
#Bitcoin #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr
Artists, what is the most creative way you have marshaled fiat to transfer into sound money, during this opportunity market? 🧡
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
BFTA founder,
references
point that as Bitcoin gains more recognition and adoption, the noise in the space will grow louder — making it increasingly difficult to focus on what actually matters.
He explains why it’s especially important for artists to understand Bitcoin as peer-to-peer, rather than getting lost in the growing confusion around it.
Full episode:
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #BitcoinForTheArts #Nostr
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
Lady Nakamoto shares how snowboarding and the X Games helped lead the way for equal prize money for women in sports — a big step forward at the time.
She also talks about her older sister, a 3-time Olympian who was the first woman named to the U.S. Snowboard Team in 1998 and won a bronze medal in 2006.
Watch the clip:
Full episode:
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #Olympics #Snowboarding #XGames #WomenInSports #BitcoinForTheArts #Nostr
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
Lady Nakamoto shares how she transitioned from competitive downhill ski racing to snowboarding in the late ‘90s — right as the X Games took off.
She describes the X Games as a “massive cultural revolution” that felt just like Bitcoin for sports. Athletes stepped outside the traditional system, took control of their sponsorships and events, and built something entirely new.
Full episode:
Do you see any other moments in culture or sports that felt like “Bitcoin before Bitcoin”?
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #BitcoinForTheArts #Nostr #Sports #Skiing #SnowBoarding
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
In this short intro, Lady Nakamoto reflects on how Bitcoin felt different from anything else she had encountered.
She describes it as “so much more than money… it’s like a living organism” and compares it to a landscape — something that felt natural and aligned with how she already moved through the world.
From growing up in Alaska as a competitive skier and snowboarder, to going through a major personal crisis, to her first peer-to-peer Bitcoin art sale in Portland, her journey has a very grounded, embodied quality.
Movement is our first language. The way a person moves across the room is the way a person walks through life.
Watch the clip:
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #BitcoinArt #Nostr #Arts #Artists #Sports
New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter is live 🧡
This week we cover:
- Becoming a founding sponsor of The Six Billion Dollar Man, the Golden Globe-winning documentary about Julian Assange
- Our new plans for Bitcoin Arts Park — a dedicated 30-foot cultural footprint at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit featuring film, art, Lightning auctions, and live performances
- Episode 9 with Lady Nakamoto
- How the community paid Ainsley Costello ~7 million sats peer-to-peer at Camp Nakamoto
Read here: https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-14
#Bitcoin #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #nostr
Clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Lady Nakamoto.
She shares what it felt like to sell her first piece of art peer-to-peer using Bitcoin:
“It was so weird… and it was so instinctual. It was magic. It was wild. It was an embodied experience. It was just a love. It was a real connection of heart to heart.”
A beautiful reminder of what peer-to-peer exchange can actually feel like when it’s real.
Watch the clip:
#Bitcoin #BitcoinArt #ValueForValue #PeerToPeer #BitcoinForTheArts #Nostr
New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡
In this conversation, Lady Nakamoto opens up about her journey from competitive snowboarding (X Games & World Cup) to becoming a digital artist and Rolfer.
She shares how her background in sports and bodywork gave her a unique lens on Bitcoin. One that focuses heavily on, wholeness, sovereignty, and seeing the big picture rather than getting lost in the parts.
Beth also talks about:
- Selling her first artwork peer-to-peer with Bitcoin in Portland
- Why Bitcoin feels like a natural extension of freedom and self-determination (especially relevant in Alaska)
- How Bitcoin can support Indigenous communities seeking real sovereignty
This episode has a very grounded, philosophical, and artistic energy.
🎥 Watch:
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #BitcoinArt #Nostr #Sports #XGames #Athlete #DigitalArt #Artists #Arts
Good morning, create something that outlives you.🧡
6/25/2026, 5 engagements
Share Your Bitcoin Journey – Episode 8 with James Kintore.
James draws a powerful parallel between his work in interior design and Bitcoin: He explains how quality interior design is built on long time horizons — using materials like European oak, walnut, and cast bronze that gain patina and outlast the client. Once he started understanding Bitcoin through the lens of energy, natural law, and time-chain rules, it felt like the same logic at a different layer.
Do you see Bitcoin as an extension of long-term, energy-based thinking in other fields?
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #Value4Value #Nostr #Arts #Artist #Makers
Bitcoin for the Arts is proudly supporting THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN, Eugene Jarecki's documentary on Julian Assange.
Bitcoin World Premiere this Saturday, June 27 at 4PM EST. Private watch party for the community.
The case for sound money is the case for free expression. Both depend on rails that cannot be censored, debased, or controlled by the institutions in power.
Documentary filmmakers are working artists. Journalists who tell hard stories are part of the cultural class BFTA exists to support.
Uncensorable money. Uncensorable minds.
https://www.thesixbilliondollarman.com
Bitcoin #BFTA #FreePress #SoundMoney #JulianAssange #UncensorableMoney #SovereignRenaissance
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey – Episode 8 with James Kintore.
James shares how difficult it’s becoming to run a business in Australia while trying to prioritize Bitcoin. He talks about recent capital gains tax changes, increasing friction from banks when trying to buy Bitcoin, and how it feels deliberately engineered to make life harder for those stepping outside the traditional system.
Have you experienced similar friction in your country when trying to build with Bitcoin?
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #Australia #SoundMoney #Taxes #CapitalGainsTax #FinancialFreedom #BitcoinAdoption #Sovereignty #Nostr #Value4Value
New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter is live.
Issue 13 is out with our latest updates, artist stories, and what we’re building right now.
Read it here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-13
Appreciate everyone following along.
#BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #Bitcoin #Nostr
New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey –Episode 8 with James Kintore
James was deep in traditional investing and property until a friend randomly compared a local crypto project to “buying Bitcoin at this price.” That one comment got him curious. Once he started listening to podcasts and doing his own research, it was like the scales fell off his eyes.
Have you had that moment where Bitcoin suddenly clicked for you? https://blossom.primal.net/5fb83407d7c4c34370e916ce7b4e58c79c949453bd0ba93dde4e4925ef2d722e.mp4
#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #Value4Value #Nostr #Arts #Artists #Makers #Creators #RealEstate #Property
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. Thank you to Ainsley and her team
for making it happen!
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New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped.
James Kintore, Australian interior designer, founder of Kintore Design, co-creator of the furniture brand Matt and Kin. Published in The Local Project and Artedomus for the level of craft and intention in the work.
In 2025 he moved to Costa Rica to build life closer to a Bitcoin standard. He's using Bull Bitcoin and Simpay to pay daily expenses in sats; he's plugged into the Bitcoin Jungle community in Uvita; he's pivoting toward fine art, sculpture, and finishing a book of musings 15 years in the making.
The story I can't get out of my head: he and his collaborator Matt sourced 250-year-old French oak from a regional Victoria lumber yard — wood cut from the heart of Paris 25 years before they found it through a 10-year-old YouTube clip. They built a four-and-a-half-meter restaurant table for an Adelaide Hills chef. Materiality as a time chain.
"Bitcoin is an energy agreement." "AI raises the value of real human creation, not the opposite." "I want to get paid in Bitcoin for the work I do."
#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #BFTA #Design #Architecture #Furniture #SoundMoney #ArtsFunding #SovereignRenaissance #Artists #Art
Our mission is simple-restore the world built by Artists with sound money.
6/15/2026, 1 engagement
Check out this amazing work by from our Board Advisor. We couldn't be more proud to have him apart of BFTA! 🧡 🧡
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🧡 BFTA Artist Directory — Now Open
A private opt-in roster of working artists building in the Bitcoin space.
Your contact info is never published Only the public count is shown We make verified introductions between directory members on request
This is how we grow a real network of sovereign creators who support each other and what BFTA is building.
No Bitcoin requirement — just serious working artists who want to be part of something bigger.
Be counted → https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/artists/directory
#Bitcoin #Nostr #SovereignArt #BitcoinArtists #BitcoinForTheArts #Artists #Arts
In this clip of - Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP:7,
talks about the value for value that Nostr provides.
#Bitcoin #Art #V4V #SocialMedia #Nostr #Decentralize #BitcoinArt #Maker #Creator #SoundMoney #Zap #Lightning #Artists
🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts — Issue #11 is live
Momentum is building: • Our intro video screened at the Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw • New Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP7 with London maker/designer Thomas Forsyth is out • Ainsley Costello is on the ground representing BFTA at Camp Nakamoto • Full landing page for our Midwest Bitcoin Summit curatorial role (Generations gallery + live music) is now live (Sept 23–24, Columbus) • We quietly launched the private BFTA Artist Directory — opt-in roster for working artists in our network
Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-11
Zaps welcome ⚡️ Forward to any artists or Bitcoiners who should be in the loop.
We’re still early — but we’re moving.
#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #SovereignArt #MidwestBitcoinSummit #BitcoinFilmFestival #ValueForValue #ShareYourBitcoinJourney
🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with
“It’s this really difficult thing to describe or fully grasp until you start playing around with it… There’s a lot to feel pessimistic about in the world right now. But at the same time, things like Nostr, Lightning, and Bitcoin feel like green shoots of hope coming through.”
Tom on why these tools feel like real sources of hope — not theory, but something you start to feel once you actually use them.
What’s giving you real hope right now in Bitcoin or Nostr?
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Lightning #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #ValueForValue #Arts #Artist #Artstr #BitcoinArt #Creators
🧡 New Episode — Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP7
London-based designer, maker & engineer
joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on building a creative practice across wood, metal, electronics, props, and kinetic sculpture — all while staying true to craft. Tom shares:
Discovering Bitcoin three separate times before it finally clicked Why physical making and Bitcoin share a deep philosophical backbone (“There’s something very Bitcoin about that”) The first time Lightning settled a bill in a London restaurant How Nostr reawakened his urge to make work for himself again Advice for younger makers that has almost nothing to do with making
A thoughtful episode on low time preference, sound craft, and building outside the platform economy.
Watch here:
What’s one thing you’ve picked back up because of Bitcoin or Nostr?
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Maker #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #LowTimePreference #ValueForValue #Arts #Artists #BitcoinArt #Creator
Big thanks to
for screening our Bitcoin For The Arts intro video at the conference! 🙏
Super cool catching it on the big screen — grateful they gave us the platform to share the mission of funding sovereign artists with sound money and low time-preference patronage.
The Bitcoin + Arts intersection is only getting stronger. Excited for what’s next!
#BitcoinFilmFest #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #SovereignArtists #Nostr
🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with
“I try my best to be efficient with words… I’ve reached the best version of the song when there’s nothing left to take away — not when there’s nothing more to add.”
Joe on the craft of songwriting: stripping away the excess until only what’s essential remains, with the goal of telling a three-hour movie in three minutes.
It’s a beautiful reminder that great art often comes from subtraction, not addition.
Watch the clip:
What’s one song that feels like it has “nothing left to take away”?
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Songwriting #ValueForValue #BitcoinArtists #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Music #Musicians #Artists #Art #Artstr
Nostr is not going anywhere but up. Why? Because BFTA is here and we understand in order for the decentralized world to reach mass adoption we need to allow the cultivators to lead the way.
Outside of the dev community and bitcoin influencers, those with the most supporters on nostr, are the artists. To name a few
Support artists that understand what the world needs. Help us allow these voices to reach the world. It’s not just sound money that’s meant to HODL , it’s sound money that’s meant to change the world.
6/2/2026, 1 engagement
6/2/2026, 2 engagements
🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with
"I think for people, for it to click for people, they just need to see it and they need to experience their first zap, whether on Nostr or whether it's podcasting 2.0.”
Joe nails the real challenge: artists are frustrated with unfair streaming platforms, but the shift to Value for Value happens when people finally get to feel how much better it is.
This is exactly why we keep building and showing the real thing.
#Bitcoin #Nostr #ValueForValue #BitcoinArtists #Podcasting2 #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #ShareYourBitcoinJourney