Bitcoin adoption is broken💔 These three mantras can help plebs and BTC companies get better results from their messages (watch the vid) Thanks to @larpar for the chance to present this at @BitcoinconfIRL. #marketing #bitcoin #communications

Latest for @KonsensusN. Bitcoin podcasters take note! substack.com/home/post/p-204…

To all users of Club Orange. Update now!

One last hike before the summer heatwave.

Vibe coding is cool. Most of the apps I see solve a genuine problem. But they all look the same and they all sound the same. Claude writes copy that is generic. It's full of 'no noise, pure signal' soundbites. It doesn't know your audience and it can't explain in human terms why they should give a fuck. We are living in strange times where the number of tools available far outstrips the understanding for their need (but there is a need). If you are a builder, and you are wondering why downloads and community use is slow, it's your messaging. Big SaaS companies put almost as much resource into marketing as they do into development and maintenance. More Anthropic tokens does not equal more users. If you are a freedom-tech builder working towards an MVP, don't forget to allocate funds for marketing and messaging. A funnel audit costs just a few hundred bucks. Landing page copy a little more. DM me if you are interested. Happy to help bring you more conversions and users. #devs #vibecoding #builders

👇👇 The hard part is not buying Bitcoin. It is living on a Bitcoin standard without handing your keys to a neobank. Bringin gets close in Europe: self-custody wallet, euro IBAN, Lightning bridge (euros) and Visa card. Promising. Project still early. Our 7.5/10 review: bitcoin.diy/reviews/bringin @bringinxyz @prashanthc123 #Bitcoin #Lightning

Still recovering from having to attend my building management meeting last night. Supposed to be a 30-minute meeting to approve simple maintenance budget via a vote. It was 30 minutes of waiting, 45 minutes of 12 people all speaking at once (MAX VOLUME) with no one in charge, 15 minutes of looking at the numbers. Then more shouting and smalltalk with me politely trying to escape. All this could be done remotely, but Canarians suddenly turn into career politicians when allocating their 10 euro per month fees (we literally pay 10 euro per month). Oh, and this takes place in a sweaty corridor with no seating and hellish acoustics. Absolute nightmare to attend. 0/10 would not recommend.

What is a story? How does it relate to Bitcoin? Here is my answer.

I was looking for books and @HumanWriter21 came through with this on @cluborange!! Read or publish 👇 konsensus.net/books/ @KonsensusN Join the chat 👇 app.cluborange.org/ebwkSwSY The Bitcoin Army Group Chat is the best!

Current reading list just arrived. If you want Bitcoin books in many languages (🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇹🇫🇷🇫🇮), visit konsensus.net/books Use the code THW for 10% off and pay in sats if you want. (Bitaxe not included 😅). #books #reading

How to be a good writer in the age of AI... That was a question I answered recently on the Language Pros podcast. This advice was aimed at non professional writers (teachers, coaches etc). Obviously, 10 years studying the craft and delivering words helps too! What are your thoughts on being a good writer in the age of AI?

Update: The platform worked as it should. The escrow was funded and after communication about the project and delivery of the work, I was paid in Lightning. It took a little longer than expected, but the platform has only just launched. They are doing lots of things at once, including running a Telegram group for early users. Escrow funded Lightning payments are undoubtedly the best way forward for freelancers (especially in countries with shitty payments infrastructure). If we get more buyers moving to places like Bitlance, this thing will fly!

“The American Booksellers Association reports that the number of independent bookstores in the US has grown by 70% since 2020, from roughly 1,900 to more than 3,200. In 2025 alone, 422 new independently owned stores opened nationwide. Barnes & Noble opened more than 50 new locations in 2024 & has plans for 60 more.”

Following your GrapheneOS tutorial now, @BTCsessions. Thanks for the last 10 years of videos! I can't wait to see what you do with @SOVsessions. Non devs like me NEED these videos.

For freelancers like me, Bitcoin largely solves payment issues. There is no 'it should be arriving soon'. You either sent the money or you didn't. I'm testing out Bitlance.work. Seems interesting as it provides escrow to ensure there is no waiting for payment. Bitcoin deserves platforms which solicit high standards of work, not where we outbid each other in a race to the bottom. Let's see what happens in the space.

> published in 2002 > imagines a group of freedom-seekers building an untraceable, ungovernable society on the internet > no rulers. no taxes. no permission. a parallel economy beyond the reach of any state > years before Bitcoin. before the darknet. before anyone said "decentralization" > named Freedom Book of the Month > becomes an underground bible in cypherpunk circles > "there are five or six books every serious cypherpunk ends up reading. this is one of them" Max Hillebrand > most people still haven't read it > so we re-edited it last year > you should get it

LIFE HACK: "Make no mistakes."

Just got back from my monthly Bitcoin meetup. Two events just blew my mind wide open 🤯. 1. "You saved my life. Thank you." A guy I'd never met said this to me and shook my hand! I'd recommended the Freedomia card in our group chat, and it turns out he is a poker player who withdraws winnings in Bitcoin and needs to spend non-KYC. I've never even used the card, but he says it helps him live life. 2. A 21-year-old asked me what I do in Bitcoin. "Write articles, edit books, do marketing work for companies," I said. "And you can earn more than 1,000 euros a month doing that?" he asked. I swallowed and thought how to answer. "Yes, I make more than 1000 euros a month." I know he is young. He has studied in Canarias, and that is his only measure for success, but fuck... That's the only yardstick for success. Earning so little, you couldn't even rent a room in a mid-sized American city? I struggled to expand on my answer. I wanted to tell him he could do whatever he wanted. Not to think in fiat terms, let alone those defined by small-minded, big-government pencil pushers. This guy wasn't even Spanish. Surely he was not this captured aged 21. But yes. Walking back home, that conversation replayed again and again. It wiped put the great chats, laughs, and new members that arrived. Someone who knows what Bitcoin is dreams of a chill life living off the state and paying back 1,000 cuckbucks per month. Fuck. Just fuck... God damn, it's bleak for most people. This is why we build communities. To do the work and slowly change minds. To expand our horizons together. Sometimes it's easy. You change someone's life with a link. Other times, it's brutally slow, and when you go to speak, nothing comes out.