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140 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 4 Aug \ on: The Peter McCormack Show: Accelerating Bitcoin with Car González - WBD689 bitcoin
Austin is pretty awesome. But there's so many great centers getting formed: Presidio in the Bay area, ATL Bitlab, Bitcoin House Bali, Bitcoin Park in Nashville...it's one of the most positive things I see in Bitcoin: there are hundreds of these small communities spinning up all over the world. It's really cool!
Yes it is.
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There was a time where we use to brag about it now we just help others build up their communities from the ground up. That’s why we do things in Mexico City and Yucatán. PlebLab has a big enough global brand now to assist with helping these smaller communities not only believing in themselves but each other and driving attention to them. The coolest thing about it all it’s entirely a Pleb movement.
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Is it too much to say Austin’s the Bitcoin capital these days? cc/@Car
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Ya we’re in the Empower stage of community.
Wrote about this here need to properly write about it. We had to all learn a lot growing up in the 90’s were just built from a different era, see things a little different also being from central Texas makes us unique as well.
It just means further pockets spin off the already existing community, creating more individual leaders further creating a bigger and bigger community. Which gets us back to the word Grassroots, once you reach the Empower stage ideally each of these individual leaders further spin off more individually leaders further creating a bigger and bigger community. At that point you won. It's why it's so important to teach and train the next person in your community everything you know it only helps you grow and sustain long term. It's why I think it's called Grassroots, it literally planting and watering these individual leaders and helping them grow for the long term in your community.
Austin officially has 3 Bitcoin Hackerspaces, 1 of them is an Accelerator PlebLab, another is Nifty’s Bitcoin++ basecamp, and another is a new one spawned up on the far east side.
We also have a Bitcoin coworking space, Bitcoin Commons now renamed to Bitcoin Park. We also have a ton of meetups in North Austin, South Austin, Bitcoin Park, Capital Factory/PlebLab, and even more AI crossover ones now.
That’s only the stuff I know about, I am not nearly as active on the community side as I use to be. I give about 7-10hrs of community service a month to Bitcoin through Bitcoin Builders Club and @PlebLab workshops, on Hackerspace Tuesdays and any meetup days people usually come in to talk to me about there startup/project so in a way I offer free mentorship on those days. But outside of that not much else, new people like Jack Lesser have stepped up and become the new guys in the community leading now, it’s beautiful to see.
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