Line-Up for BTCHEL BITCOIN FESTIVAL REAAAAADY

You got your tix? You booked them travelz? Den see yahz there?

Missing out on the annual Austrian economics slugfest “Mises U” in Alabama this week, at least I can look forward to a small fix to my praxeologically derived addiction, via with a deep economics convo between Stephan Kinsella, Thomas Brand, and Knut Svanholm in “Austrian vs Classical: Which school does Bitcoin actually run on?”

Also, a shocking amount of Canadian presence… Madex, Francis Pouliot, and a whole talk on Alberta independence! There’s more, and across three stages (Expo, Main, OG), the conference’s medium scale and intimate feel will be obvious and well worth your time (and sats!). From Remu’s announcement last week: “the EU, Nordic adoption, all aspects of mining, BIP110 aftermath, the quantum question, proper self-custody solutions, privacy, individual liberty and human rights.”

I’m mostly excited for Eric Yakes, the managing partner at Epoch VC and main author of the excellent annual Bitcoin Ecosystem report. Confession: I primarily like Eric for his The 7th Property from 2021, which might be the best and most underrated monetary economics book in Bitcoinland. Imma just be over there, fangirling, if that’s alright.

What's for Reading Lunch?

Quite a lot this week,

Hum, Hum, Little Hummingbird: the Bitcoin Jungle story from Costa Rica in documentary form is now out in its full glory. If, you know, you’d rather see some heartwarming bitcoin usage instead of BIP-110-infested social media takes… 

Trust Me, Bru: for Forbes, Susie Violet Ward (who’s also coming to BTCHEL!) describes some novel ways to use bitcoin for fundraising in a crisis. The perils of fintechs or donation pages refusing to honor payouts to this or that disfavored country are astonishing: Workarounds involve sending funds to supposed allies of the recipients in other countries, running into the well-known problem of third-party custodians. If only there were a global money where you could send funds directly to another person, regardless of political lines… 

Snacket snackar: The Swedish-speaking Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet has an old-school podcast, you know, the talkshow ones where three peeps just talk shit over one another. For a blissful six minutes (32:22→38:30), Jeanette, Anders, and Magnus talked about bitcoin. Not ranty, not ridiculous, pretty open-minded, though with a heavy focus on gainz and shudda-bought-bitcoin-in-2011. Oh well. Given the Nordic bitcoin media climate, I’ll take it.

Disagree But Worth Reading: I’m on record opposing BIP-110 (even owning some 50,000 sats’ worth of No contracts on the bitcoin prediction market, Predyx), but Saylor’s very sloppy “110 Reasons BIP 110 Is a Bad Idea” was truly horrendous. There were three or so decent arguments in there, with the rest being derivative points or unnecessary restatements of prior points, or straight-up trivialities and stupidities. #1527852

"Very few people have acquitted themselves honorably in this entire debacle. Can’t wait for it to be over."

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