Crypto
- Mint POAP for trip!
- DL2589 from MSP to EWR.
- Massive police incident at Newark Airport.
- AirTran to train.
- Arrived at New York Penn Station.
- Took 1/2/3 to Times Square.
- Check in to Hyatt Centric Times Square.
- Left to explore city.
- Donuts at Dough.
- Nintendo Store (girls underwhelmed).
- Visit St Patrick’s Cathedral.
- Visit LEGO Store.
- Walk through Central Park.
- Walked to 7th Street Burger.
- Giant delicious cookies at Levain.
- Beacon Theater for BONO!
- Put our devices in Yonder bags.
- Amazing show.
- 1/2/3 train back to Times Square.
- Return Hyatt Centric Times Square.
Worlds Smallest Bitcoin Hobby ATM
This Bitcoin ATM is one of my favorite things I’ve seen at Bitcoin 2023. You put coins in the device, I put 3 pennies. You tap the screen and it gives you a Lightning code to scan and I got 99 sats in my wallet. 🤩
Update (May 23):
I did some digging and found that “Tortcher” is the one who made this awesome device. I found him online and was excited to see that he is selling the World’s Smallest Bitcoin Hobby ATM. I’ve ordered the Multi-ATM and can’t wait to show people how fun, easy, and fast Bitcoin and Lightning can be with it! 🤩⚡️ Oh yeah, and Tortcher lives in the Twin Cities area — small world! The code is on GitHub as well.
Hot tub heated by a Bitcoin miner.
Jack Mallers of Strike closed out Friday at Bitcoin 2023 with massive announcement of global expansion and Lightning improvements. ⚡️
Excited to see Arthur Hayes and Michael Lewis on stage at Bitcoin 2023.
Lyn Alden taking Nakamoto Stage with Natalie Smolenski at Bitcoin 2023 sharing deep financial insights.
Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy with Bill Miller IV on Nakamoto Stage at Bitcoin 2023.
“The universal frequent flyer mile is the Satoshi.” Interesting concept of using Sats to enable very different systems.
“The Future of the Creator Economy” session with Layah Heilpern and Zuby moderated by Justin Rezvani on Nakamato Stage at Bitcoin 2023.
Great session “Nostr vs. Everything” with Will Casarin, Vlad Stan, and Pablo Fernandez moderated by Rockstar Dev at Bitcoin 2023.
Departing for Bitcoin 2023 in Miami Beach! Meeting up with Hector there.
I took the opportunity with low Ethereum gas fees this morning to update my primary ENS domains to new resolvers, and also wrapped the four subnames that we have for each of us. It seems I lost the properties on thingelstad.eth in the process. 😬 It is cool to see the subnames as full NFTs.
Thinking about making a crypto themed Wicky Thing Candle that you can only purchase via a L2 crypto network: Bitcoin Lightning, Gnosis, Arbitrum, Optimism, or Polygon. 🤩🤣🤓
Finally figured out Bitcoin Lightning transactions. Ready to use Lightning at Bitcoin Miami. Want to try? Send some Sats to sinfuljam38@walletofsatoshi.com (no longer used) or jthingelstad@strike.me. ⚡️
I claimed my ENS 6th Anniversary POAP for: thingelstad.eth, weeklything.eth, 0xjjt.eth, and magicpines.eth. Unfortunately I don’t have avatar records set for all my ENS domains. Get yours at the ENS Anniversary site.
Ethereum gas prices have been very high and sustained for a week now. This seems like the highest since the merge and the crazy highs of 2020. 🤔 I would like to upgrade all my ENS domains to the v3 wrapper but not at 100+ gwei!
I tried several times earlier to participate in the (historic?) Ethereum KZG Ceremony but was never able to get in because so many people were queued up to do it. The demand died down and thingelstad.eth was contributor 91,614 in the ceremony.
Tammy's NYC Birthday Trip Day 1
Cloudy and started raining at night.
16,424 steps.
Just claimed the POAP Tyler made for Tammy’s NYC Birthday trip to see Bono and much more. Love it! 🤩
It was cool to see the Minnebar 17 POAPs highlighted in the April 25 issue of This Week in POAP!
Minnebar, America’s “largest and longest-running technology unconference” was held at Best Buy’s corporate headquarters in Minneapolis and dropped POAPs for attendees, presenters, and organizers, as well as a POAP during a session on creating digital community with POAP (LinkedIn post highlighting the POAPs).
I also really like how the POAP images turned out.
Hector and I at Minnebar 17! I’m sporting my Community Supporter tag, as well as my awesome POAP pin!
See also Minnebar collection.