If you love coffee and Bitcoin, visit the FUNK Coffee Bar in Vancouver. They’re building something special!
This might be a first… Here is the “Proof-of-Work” Bitcoin Bachelor Party! Cycled 300KMs across 3 days along the Pacific Marine Circle Route on Vancouver Island, BC. I’m drawn to Bitcoin and fitness because they both require humility, discipline, and dedication. Bitcoin is a complex subject that demands countless hours of study to understand it. It encourages critical thinking and rewards those who put in the effort and are open-minded enough to learn about it. Meanwhile, fitness is all about self-discipline. Your health can't be bought with money or power. You need to put in the time and energy if you want your body to perform in a certain way. This trip was the best of both worlds for me. To cap it off, we ended up visiting Victoria Kayak where we purchased one person a free ticket to Learning Bitcoin using sats of course! Sad to be missing this event but shoutout all the Canadian Bitcoiners in British Columbia 🇨🇦
Be open to speaking publicly about your hopes and dreams. Social accountability is a strong force of motivation and action.
I used to watch/listen to books and podcasts at 1.5-2x speed in order to save time and be more efficient. I took pride in thinking I was "smarter" than the typical consumer because I was blowing through tons of content.  However, I started to realize that I was not ingesting what I was listening to, particularly when I was multi-tasking. Ask yourself, if you attended a university lecture on mathematics and macroeconomics, how much would you learn if you were doing pushups and box jumps at the same time?  The podcasts and books that are online today are incredibly valuable and I took this for granted. My goal now is to sit down and listen/take notes on one podcast episode per week, digest the information, and be able to summarize the content to a friend, in a few key talking points. Learning isn't about chasing degrees and certificates... We need to normalize giving ourselves TIME to think deeply about what we've learnt but also the SPACE to determine what it actually means.
When a high school student asks if you can recommend any Bitcoin resources, what do you say? (You can only pick 1). I went with Welcome to Bitcoin by Swan hosted by @nat brunell
Tomorrow, I will be teaching Chapter 6 of the @My First Bitcoin Diploma Program to a small group of secondary students in Hong Kong. I'm really looking forward to discussing Bitcoin's prehistory... Understanding that Bitcoin is the result of 40 years of research, development and demand, was one of the key aspects that helped me differentiate it from "fake magic internet money". @Gigi image
Capitalism x Decentralization Capitalism allows individuals to own and control property, while decentralization can empower local entities to make decisions. It's interesting to think how the characteristics of capitalism that nurture competition and entrepreneurial spirit have played a role in the emergence of decentralized systems like Bitcoin and Nostr.
One of my favourite pickups from the Bitcoin Conference Asia. The Hong Kong Hodler 🧡 image
Been listening to a lot of @preston lately and one of my takeaways is: Our current economic landscape is far from resembling free and open markets. Whenever a slight crack appears within the financial system, Central Banks swiftly intervene to avert a complete collapse (most recently Silicon Valley Bank). This degree of intervention shows how heavily manipulated the markets are and its inability to self-correct. Troubled actors like banks who misallocate capital and businesses who take on excessive risk are shielded from failure, so instead of addressing the underlying issues, we often resort to short-term solutions, perpetuating a cycle of delayed consequences. This recurring behavior has led to excessive levels of debt, the endorsement of risky and unsustainable practices, and the distortion of the natural flow of capital that should seek out the most valuable opportunities.