Bitcoin For The Arts

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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NEW EPISODE: Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 4

spent 17 seasons as a Soloist of The Royal Ballet in London. He's had roles by Crystal Pite, Wayne McGregor, and Hofesh Shechter. He retired in December 2025 after a career that started with a stress fracture and two titanium pins — and almost ended before it began.

He found Bitcoin during COVID while serving as a union deputy, negotiating dancer contracts and watching Robert Breedlove and Michael Saylor blow the lid off everything he thought he knew about money. The deeper he went, the more the veil was lifted. Then Bitcoin led him to faith. Proverbs 11:1 — "The Lord detests dishonest weights and scales." He saw money printing for what it is. Dishonest scales. And he saw Bitcoin as even weights and scales. Moral money.

This conversation is one I never thought I'd have. Two professional dancers — one from Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and The Lion King, one from The Royal Ballet — both union reps who saw the broken economics from the inside. Both Bitcoiners.

We talked about:

• Arts Council funding for The Royal Ballet dropping from 50%+ to 19% and still falling
• Being at the apex of your career but not at the apex of living
• How his parents ran their own ballet school with zero government grants — "we'd rather it be harder but have freedom"
• First buying Bitcoin in 2015 for 50 pounds and not understanding it
• COVID, money printing, The Bitcoin Standard, and the moment everything clicked
• The tension of being a union deputy with growing libertarian leanings
• Christopher Wheeldon's new production company and where Bitcoin fits in dance
• His vision for a choreography studio in London running on a Bitcoin standard
• Trying to orange-pill The Royal Ballet (twice) — and the low time preference path forward
• Building a Bitcoin treasury for his church
• His advice to young dancers: "Don't ignore Bitcoin at your own peril" "We're at the apex of our career but we're not at the apex of living. That's exactly why Bitcoin For The Arts exists."

Watch the full episode:

Bitcoin For The Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit — the first paying artists exclusively in Bitcoin.

https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org

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