Next week's @AustinBTCclub will feature a screening of the new documentary Hummingbird that explores the rise of a circular economy in the @BitcoinJungleCR. Join us by RSVPing below. See you on Tuesday (9/15)! meetup.com/bitcoin-park-aust…

Recapping this week's Tangents with @bitkite: -@SGBarbour: off-grid power & Bitcoin mining -@erskingardner: private messaging with White Noise -@RyanTheGentry: Bitcoin businesses going public & AI micropayments Building takes patience, focus, and a willingness to keep solving difficult problems. Nothing great happens in a straight line. Links below.

Great Austin Bitcoin Club (ABC) meetup tonight watching the Hummingbird documentary and learning the story of the @BitcoinJungleCR! Well done @thepaulosophy + team and thanks to everyone who showed out 🙏 👏. Embodying what it means to have a low time preference.

20 days. Nashville, TN.

When you send money on Venmo, you have no idea which bank your friend uses. You don't care. That abstraction is the product. Bitcoin, almost ironically, doesn't have that yet, and @parkeralewis of @ZapriteApp argues that this problem sits upstream of everything else in bitcoin commerce.

.@_Adam_Sullivan1 believes the world is completely underestimating how much compute we will need. 🧵/

Imagine IF capital flowed toward the future, not the past. @CathieDWood built @ARKInvest on this premise.

AI may be the first machine that can betray you. A computer has never given you legal advice, medical advice, or financial advice with a conflict of interest possibly buried inside it. 🧵/

There is a critical vulnerability being actively exploited on BTCPay Server, which can result in the loss of funds. Please update your BTCPayServer to 2.4.2 by going to Admin Dashboard -> Server -> Maintenance -> Update & verify the 2.4.2 version string in the footer. If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update.

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67 days until Imagine IF in Nashville, TN. One ask: sound 🆙

Imagine IF school only took two hours. The data is proving this model works. 🧵/

When the industrial revolution led to mass migration of people into cities, fire codes had to follow. Fire escapes, bedroom windows, etc. were all standards written together to minimize risk and ensure safety. That's analogous to what this panel is building for bitcoin custody. 🧵/

"To get something of value, you have to create something of value." That is @harry_sudock's definition of proof of work. This is a principle he argues as being injected across the American economy. 🧵/

.@GideonOPowell calls his team at Cholla Inc. wildcatters: zero interest in following the herd. Almost 10 years ago they built the first bitcoin mine in West Texas. The critics called it dumb. 🧵/

"We don't know what is going on in the chip beyond what the manufacturer tells us." Black box technology is not the path that Satoshi intended in the White Paper. Bitcoin is open and accessible to anyone, but that doesn’t necessarily happen organically.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week to learn how to integrate and implement practices that will endure beyond the bear market. Bullish! ⚡

Kodak owned photography. Blockbuster owned movie night. BlackBerry owned mobile. The goal of business is to not suffer the same fate as these once giants 🧵/