Our first group coaching program for people working on Bitcoin projects is now full, but more people are still reaching out about it. So we may start a second group in another 6 weeks or so. If you're interested, reach out.

JUST IN: ECB announce first progress report on the digital Euro Features: - easier to surveil you - easier to deplatform you - easier to freeze your account - “just trust us bro” level privacy - limits on how much you’re allowed to hold in your account

European Central Bank

Progress on the preparation phase of a digital euro - First progress report

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price...

3 hours is a long time. Long enough to orange pulled the person I sat next to on my flight. Not only that, she going to take it to her whole church, and also her cousin who is standing for the House of Representatives.

Everyone needs a coach. In the history of modern sport has there ever been an athlete who won on the global stage without a coach? This principle applies to everyone who wants to change the world, not only athletes. Steve Jobs had a coach. Eric Schmidt had a coach. Jeff Bezos had a coach. I have a coach. If you want to change the world, you need a coach. Around the world, there are good people who can help you scale the technology and the commercials. But the mind that created the technology is more powerful than the technology, and that’s what a coach can optimise. Coaching often involves improving your capacity to positively influence current and future team members, investors and customers. And it always involves cultivating the right combination of skills, habits and mindset. One on one coaching works best for skill development. Coaching in a group is best for cultivating habits and mindset.

Last month, a number of people suggested that since I’ve coached entrepreneurs for a long time, I start working with bitcoin companies. I put out a message seeing who was interested and a number responded. The people include 👩🏼‍🚀An bitcoin influencer successfully navigate a sequence of life transitions 👩🏼‍💻👨🏻‍💻2 bitcoin startups with their pitch and cap raise 🏦A bitcoin hedge fund owner refine their offering and attract more wholesale investors It’s a lot of fun and they are getting some great results📈, so I’m going to launch a special group coaching program. This will be for people who want to be in a group of other founders and influencers who are ✅moving the needle forward, ✅ lifting up others by your example ✅ highly committed Jim Rohn once said you’re the average of the 5 people you spend most time with, so what if those people were amazing? That’s the intention of the group. We meet once a week. No more than 7 people on a group. I facilitate the group, answer coaching questions. I’ve run these groups for 10 years, seen several exits and turnarounds as a direct result, and there’s no group of people I’d like to be successful more than people running bitcoin companies. Before I ran them I was also part of such a group. It was an unforgettable experience which created not just results but amazing friendships I still have. Reach out if you feel the pull, but you never believed something like this could be possible.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." ~ Albert Camus on Bitcoin

Swan and Bevan Waite have just put together an incredibly produced video in why Bitcoin is good for the environment. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/embed/sr-RGdbyRDQ

Paid or free? If you value serving others above all else, its always a nuanced question to answer. At my first software company, we had the same dilemma. In the end, we created a paid version of our software (a niche product for molecular biologists). It was the right move, and we could not have sold to a larger buyer years later without it. Because of that I gained more street-cred to help more tech founders as a coach, and make more of a difference. This year I had the same dilemma. I started a newsletter. It got great feedback. But then ... First, the guy I wrote it with turned on an option to voluntarily pay. I wasn't sure, but thought "OK let's try it and see. To my surprise, many people took that option. Because of that I was able to pay him, which has helped him get one step closer to his dream to get a job inside the Bitcoin ecosystem. Then something I didn't expect happened. 2 subscribers challenged me on why I was still even giving the option of free, saying it was "paid content quality" and making it free devalued it. Whenever I'm unsure of something, I like to run experiments. So ... I decided to run an experiment and announce I was ending the free subscription period in a couple of months. Immediately a group of people subscribed. Because of that, I had the resources to fire up another Bitcoin project: launch

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: an institution grade site aimed at showing the world, particularly the world's sovereign wealth funds, why Bitcoin mining is the world's #1 ESG asset. Because of that, I was able to put that project up on

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A Bitcoin crowdfunding platform where creators raise funds for causes, sell products, manage campaigns, and engage with their community.

, which is an incredible site if you haven't checked it out by the way. Because of that, yes it generated more sats that's given my some more time bandwidth to create a team working on the project. But more importantly the interest of a potential sponsor who loved the idea of orange-pilling the world's ESG investment committees at Sovereign Wealth Funds, because the ROI of doing so is so big for everyone who owns Bitcoin It's fair to say, the experiment seems to be working. Having a paid newsletter also allowed me to dedicate more time to deep research, like the current edition, which revealed that Bitcoin mining was never banned in China. The punchline is, sometimes free is the right model (like putting out high quality content on Nostr for free), and equally sometimes you can serve more people and more causes by charging. There is no one rule. But as long as you are maximizing for "what maximizes the success of people and the mission" you'll find the right model. It's a lesson that's taken me a while to learn!