I think we just hit PMF. I’m terrified. #EverGive #Bitcoin

I put to the audience at Global Donors Forum that Bitcoin is not to be feared, and why - as a humanitarian, not a banker - it is the most hopeful I’ve ever been about society’s future. I shared that Bitcoin liberates broadly in two ways: 1. You will never be at the mercy of the banks or the state with your money, you become your own bank (many of us under appreciate how revolutionary and urgent this civilsational shift is) 2. You’ll never get poorer through inflation again. Your morning coffee gets cheaper each year, not dearer.

Our UK government plans to cut over £20bn in welfare spending, including £5bn annually that would help disabled people. I recently spoke on a panel on future-proofing philanthropy at Global Donors Forum. A pressing conversation given our unstable economies. I put to the audience that those looking after our most vulnerable need to stop relying on government or public donations, and need to develop the financial responsibility to build their own reserve. I shared how EverGive helps them do that. As government continues to fail our most vulnerable, more people will be harmed if we get this wrong over the next decade.

Founder advice. Founders obsess over product and talent but forget geography is strategy. The country you build in will either be oxygen or a slow suffocation. Choose wisely, and choose early. “Analysts say adoption in the US has been slowed by comparatively weak government support for the sector, which has limited the kinds of subsidies, trade-in programmes and rules that have helped the industry in places such as China, the UK and Europe.”

Just shipped a critical piece that fatally tests our product-market-fit @EverGive. Metrics trickling in. If this works, no resistance to the upside. If it fails, I’m out of ideas 😭. Should have results in 72 hours. Will let you guys know. Pray for us 🙏🙏💯

Bitcoin’s fight is incomplete without Nostr

Yesterday, I called on the @BBC to explore Nostr, a platform I consider will become core infrastructure for any free society. The BBC Media Action kindly invited me to their NY offices to discuss safeguarding the integrity of truth media and its reliable distribution, something I feel strongly about. I shared with their CEO that truth in reporting rests on two foundations in my view: 1. Did the thing actually happen 2. Is the person reporting it who they say they are, with no modifications (think, Trump deepfakes). With the rise of AI and deepfakes, protecting both is more urgent than ever. I was glad to see the BBC engaging with these challenges with their C2PA program. I shared the unique and pivotal role that Nostr plays, a decentralised platform where every message is cryptographically signed, enabling us to know the true identity of the reporter and whether the message has been modified or not. Here is how Nostr safeguards BBC’s integrity in truth reporting: 1. Decentralisation of publishing. No gatekeeper. Elon can never offboard, shadow ban or pressure the voice of their journalists if his political tastes shifted. 2. Verifiable identity and authenticity No more Trump deepfakes. This reduces the risk of tampering and increases trust in the source - critical for truth-seeking media. In an AI world we need to know who is who. No platform delivers this as confidently as Nostr. 3. Honest incentives Funding from the people, not governments. Journalists can be supported directly by readers (micro-tipping, subscriptions, crowdfunded investigations) without reliance on ads or corporate sponsors, which often bias coverage. Thank you to @ODELL who enlightened me on this, and revitalised my appreciation for it. This is how our future looks like - Bitcoin is the source of money, and Nostr is the source of truth. Our democracy and freedoms will thrive to the extent we take the ideas embedded in these two technologies seriously.