Oh no! 😲 Neeva is shutting down. I’m saddened by this — I’ve enjoyed not having advertising alongside search results and seeing what an innovative search company would do. Sadly they didn’t make it.
Clever — Fiat House of Cards. 🃏
The final session for Bitcoin 2023 on Nakamoto Stage “The Biggest Bulls” with Matt Odell, Adam Back (Blockstream), and Jack Mallers (Strike). 🐂
Zoltan Pozsar (Credit Suisse) & Arthur Hayes (100x Group) on Nakamoto Stage at Bitcoin 2023 on “New Monetary Order”.
Good macro session “Steady Lads” at Bitcoin 2023 with Mark Moss, Lyn Alden, and Preston Posh.
Good session on “Bitcoin Core Maintainers & the Path Forward” with Gloria Zhao, Niftynei, and Jess Jonas moderated by Steve Meyers at Bitcoin 2023. I appreciated three things:
- Loved that this was an all women panel!
- Great call out to help fund Bitcoin Core development via Brink. Donate!
- Call to action for Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund. Donate!
Really great! 🙌
Interesting technical solutions to identity and privacy in the “Web 5: Open to Build” session with Daniel Buchner at Bitcoin 2023.
The Bitcoin Mining Museum was a fun time. The USB miners were a crazy flashback. And the very first mining rig, the Avalon1. 🤩
Apparently I’m at the age where I have to hang my sunglasses and my readers from my shirt. 😎🤓
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.
Happy Vyshyvanka Day
TeamSPS in Ukraine celebrated Vyshyvanka Day together.
Vyshyvanka Day is an international holiday that aims to preserve the Ukrainian folk traditions of creating and wearing ethnic embroidered clothes called vyshyvankas. It is celebrated the third Thursday of May. Vyshyvankas are, along with pysankas (traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs), one of the best known symbols of Ukrainian culture.
More pictures on Instagram. I’m going to find a Vyshyvanka of my own for next year. 🇺🇦
Google Cloud & Voltage party at Backyard.
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.
Connected with Vlad Stan of LNBits after the Nostr session and got one of the DIY signing kits he was sharing. Love a group huddled around a laptop with devices geeking out.
