I was at a “blockchain” policy event in Ottawa last week and the most remarkable thing happened. While everyone was schmoozing, @Jeff Booth was sitting at a table talking with people. I went over to introducing my friend to Jeff, but they appeared to be having a debate so we pulled up seats to listen. As we were at a crypto event, I assumed it was a bitcoin v crypto debate, because it was the founder of a large Canadian digital asset hedge fund, a crypto law firm partner and a former Goldman Sachs partner, probably all in their 50s & 60s. I shit you not, they were discussing the intricacies of running a bitcoin full node and they were in a knots vs core debate 🤣 The Goldman Sachs partner was running a node and her friend (the lawyer) wanted to run a node (her husband does). All 3 of them had visited Bitcoin Beach on separate occasions. Very heartening experience. I think we’re winning!

Behind blockchain lines in Ottawa repping ₿itcoin at a policy event with @Jeff Booth and Saylor on drums.

A bunch of Bitcoin startups I’ve invested in are on the Bitcoin standard where they’ve kept BTC in their treasury. As of late, I’ve been getting actively involved in public Bitcoin Treasury companies. I participated in the private placement of Matador, the largest Canadian Bitcoin Treasury Company, my friends Sunny Ray and Mark Moss are part of that company, and I’ve recently joined David Bailey as an advisor to the company. My goal is to get Matador using multi institutional self custody and steer them towards bitcoin maximalism. I’ve also invested along with Adam Back and UTXO into H100, the largest Bitcoin Treasury Company in Sweden. There’s a few more treasury companies I’m getting involved with that I probably can’t disclose yet. I think Bitcoin Maximalists should be taking advisory seats and board positions of these companies so we can impart our long term thinking, strong hands and risk management tendencies in the board rooms of these bitcoin vacuum corps. If we get involved, we can help prevent the over-leveraging that so many are afraid of, and we can have a hand at ushering in a decade long bull market - the Orange Rush.

Check out this cool project - digital collectibles. Seems like a cool idea, the founder reached out to me a while back and is building an MVP.

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

I backed it for 50k sats.

Picked up my #scarce shirt at the @Scarce.City booth. The shirt has a BTC address but nothing can be withdrawn from it 🤔 bc1q6r7ch5jhjc9thpmzvsuzguf48h3fepq0nqnukq

Any other collectors of Bitcoin Trading Cards? Some people are into coins, some people are into cardboard. I’ve chosen cardboard. If anyone is building cool physical bitcoin collectibles, board games, cards, etc - hit me up! I’m a bitcoin culture hoarder.

Been trying to get my barber to accept Bitcoin for about a year. He was interested but he is not good with technology. From the Azores but moved to canada in 2016 to work construction but his real passion is 💈 He’s a real artist and is very clearly meant to do hair and beards, he does it after work in his basement. He was laid off from his full time construction job about a month ago because of the trade war. Today, I finally got him setup to accept Bitcoin with a @Blink Wallet ! His Lightning address is maniqas@blink.sv if anyone’s feeling generous to give him an onboarding zap!