niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡

big tax opportunity to help get bitcoin into primary and secondary education in America — direct 3.4k of your tax dollars towards the bitcoin scholars fund ; we’re going to build the next gen of American bitcoiners 🇺🇸

on location at the hoover dam for the @btcplusplus that starts tomorrow 🫡

this is gonna rockkk

HELP WANTED: We just kicked off a pledge drive for

and I bet @phil_geiger i can get more pledges than he can

Use my referral link, pledge to send your tax dollars and help me kick Phil’s butt → https://bitcoinscholars.org/pledge?ref=KR9BKUY6

really excited to be launching the first ever scholarship fund dedicated to supporting schools that are up-skilling their teachers and educators to really understand bitcoin 🚀 Americans can now direct a portion of their tax bill to funding primary + secondary education -- i really hope that the

is going to be a great method to orange pill to so many schools!!

in case you missed it last week: bitcoin++ exploits edition is now streaming

open source reporter

is publishing directly to nostr!

you won't want to miss his latest updates from the open source trenches. we've got new releases from core-lightning, stratumv2, and more!

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sometimes it's hard to know what to keep tabs on in bitcoin devland;

is here to help 😏

you don't have enough taipei fomo cc

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deleting all the socials off my phone 📱 for a week? a month? a year? hmu on telegram if you need me (@niftynei)

and follow

for the loot drop (next conf announcements!!)

running events is exhausting but i love it. my biggest regret is not having the mental space to do ~anything else right now 😭

dropped a chunk of taco on the ground and this adorable dog waited for me to give her the ok before eating it

is my trading card fetish a millenial++ thing or do kids these days still like collectibles??

went to bed last night super depressed, woke up excited about

sovereignty edition in Taipei this December 🧨

👉 https://btcpp.dev/taipei

if you’re headed to the Canadian Bitcoin Conference this week, you can use ecash to buy some wifi time thanks to the

team sending a router home with

from

in Berlin

took dad to his first bitcoin dev conf 👌

paging

why is she like this 😭

really excited about this one. thanks Roger!!

explained to someone that the only rule you need for AGI is to never put it in charge of designing the incentive system (taxes, gvt etc) and their reply was “but wait that’s all that these people really want to do with it”

and it’s like well yes. of course that’s their goal. but if they’re serious about AGI Safety whatever whatever they should not do that. it is an unwise idea.

of course they will do it anyway because hubris is a bitch

sure i could just fix my caffeine headache but at some point into suffering i just accept that this is my life now and resolve to ride it out 🐎

one of the biggest current challenges with bitcoin adoption in the tech industry is that it’s the scoreboard, not the game

there is no exit liquidity in bitcoin TM

you may not like it but sovereign adoption is happening before mass adoption

next up: finding out if trickle down economics is real or not 🍿

trying to motivate myself to get back in shape and the universe delivered. yesterday one of my high school cross country teammates posted about winning a local 5k with 6.40m mile splits 🏆 😅

ran my ass off today

one thing I’ve noticed is that acknowledging the strengths in another person’s sworn enemy is usually not well received by the person whose enemy it is

idk maybe it’s useful to acknowledge what their strengths are before we ride into battle my man. if you can’t respect your enemy, they will crush you along every axis of pride you still hold

twelve more sleeps til

lightning++ edition in Berlin (event #12)

A much overdue write up of the

privacy edition now available on

🧡

https://open.substack.com/pub/btcpp/p/you-wouldnt-give-your-mom-a-utxo?r=2jfs7&utm_medium=ios

rare video of dog speak for “come human, there is a dinner to be served”

btc++ planning has officially gotten to the point where i have to make tough decisions about what i have time for on the schedule and i am not enjoying having to make decisions

It used to be the only way to get a talk slot was if i invited you, now i have an open form and i stg the invitation-only mode was so much easier emotionally 😭

people joke about me running too many events (and i agree!) but holy cow the truth is there’s too much content to fit on even the existing stage space that we’re creating

if you want to present at a

i suggest you apply sooner rather than later and consider putting in an application for Taipei 🇹🇼 or Brazil 🇧🇷

https://btcpp.dev/talk

setup a wireless hdmi receiver sitch so i can unsuccessfully fumble with the system BIOS from the comfort of my own bed 👌 really love that it lets you send keyboard + mouse signals too

every once in a while i run across an idea i dont understand, and it makes me question whether i'm the idiot or they are

today i learned that Peter Todd is putting up bounties to add features to Libre Relay

this one would make it such that you can set the minrelayfee to millisats, not sats ;)

I'm so excited to announce the launch of the reporting arm of

!!

I grew up reading the Wall Street Journal every morning at the breakfast table.

Now it's btc++'s turn to keep me informed.

I couldn't be more excited about partnering with some great voices and devs in the bitcoin industry to bring you an insider focused publication.

Please give Janusz and

a follow, along with

and stay tuned for updates from the frontier of bitcoin🌄

Subscribe to our substack or follow along on nostr for updates => https://btcpp.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-insider-edition

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hey chat! After about four years, it’s time for me to step down from the

board

im a huge fan of all the work that we’ve done as an org to support open source devs in bitcoin, and proud of so many projects that we were able to greenlight. huge kudos to

for building such an awesome org from the ground up, along with the rest of the crew helping pilot the ship

I’m stepping back to focus on building momentum around my dev education non-profit

again while scaling the community’s we’re building through nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 events around the globe

hope to see many of the nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f grantee family talking about their work at one of out events or classes soon!!

catching up on some Media 📺 ✨

full episode here:

👉👈

ok im trying to get back into bitcoin content posting but not really sure what people want to read at the moment. what’s one thing i could talk about wrt bitcoin technicals that you’d want to hear about?

in one place for twelve days and contemplating a newspaper subscription

not following a news site and realizing i have no idea what’s happening in the world

something something drumbeat of content

Alright here's

and

reacting to Saylor's interveiew with JBP part two. Saylor talks about the financial products he's built on bitcoin, how bitcoin is digital energy, and where he thinks bitcoin is headed over the long term.

Join

and

as they react along to

' latest interview with Jordan Peterson as he talks about his journey into bitcoin, history of company building and investing wins, and final realization that he needs to discover what is money

and I are gonna do a reaction video of Saylor’s chat with Jordan Peterson over on X in 20m come hang out 😂 (i will try to use zap stream. I may fail)

sort of ironic we're talking about how to use blockspace at a time when ~nobody's using blockspace 😅

I sat down to talk to

about social media, the new &otherstuff fund. learned a lot about communities and his vision for a digital bill of rights.

don’t miss his forthcoming interview series with the heads of social media projects, at revolution.social

catch the full interview on YouTube

regulations unfortunately have a big impact on adoption, if you’re in the USA please take a minute to register your opinion on a proposed law to improve clarity around rules for decentralized bitcoin services!!

I’m looking for some part time help getting reports on open source projects in bitcoin, hmu if you’re a talented technical researcher looking to make some sats in the bitcoin space 😉

more info and how to apply here

https://stacker.news/items/995385

tried using a credit card from plane wifi and it got declined. bitcoin fixes this 😭

u heard the man 👌

legitimately hate it when songs get stuck in my head

currently on brain worm repeat 🔁 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=F37thHiKw68&si=1NEHeCVaBH3N19XF

day 3 in Istanbul was more venue tours, ty Feyza of Citrea and Aytek from Ofis Voyvoda for their help checking out amazing venues for the upcoming

Sept 3-5 in Istanbul 🇹🇷 https://btcpp.dev/istanbul

day 2 in istanbul we looked at two venues and got some amazing turkish breakfast 👌 #istanbul #btcpp ty

for the hospitality 🙏

join us this September 3-5 for the ZK edition!! https://btcpp.dev/istanbul

visiting Istanbul for #btcpp venue research 👀

need an excuse to come to Istanbul yourself?? we’re running

ZK/Scaling edition this Sept 3-5

https://btcpp.dev/istanbul

we just launched the first ever merch shop for

with two hats

show your support for knots or core with the hottest new dev merch in bitcoin

https://shop.btcpp.dev

brb turning into nostrdoomer