Teaching was a HUGE help to what I do now. When you're dealing with really young kids you have to extract and focus on a central concept or movement (maybe two) to really drive home an idea they can absorb. It taught me to literally ELI5 to everyone learning Bitcoin... because many of us forget that you have to start somewhere and you should never assume someone has that foundational knowledge yet.

Love lightning addresses. I've experimented with Zebedee and Wallet of Satoshi on this. Alby is a new one for me, and I've now jotted it in my list of things to try!

So I earn BTC directly from show sponsors (though I do earn some dollars as well in a small amount of cases where BTC is not yet possible). My flow is basically:

1. Receive BTC
2. Instantly pay any necessary bills via Bull Bitcoin
3. Instantly buy gift cards for essentials based on my typical expenditures
4. The rest stays as savings
5. If a surprise expense pops up later, you have to be conscious of capital gains/loss

My invoices go straight to sparrow and addresses are labeled by who paid. Coinjoin immediately. Pay bills from there. The rest goes to multisig savings.

Accounting is awful and I just dump that shit on my person at the end of the year. They hate me, and I hate the bill I get afterwards. I do this because I hate the fiat system even more.

Tips are definitely sneaking up on traditional youtube revenue. Right now I'd say in a GOOD month, my BTC tips are about as much as 10-20% of my regular YT pay (not including sponsors). That's actually pretty impressive now that I think about it - although YT ad revenue is dismal.

Honestly it's just a waiting game at this point. People will use it, they will see it removes gatekeepers, and they will love that. We haven't hit critical mass yet, but companies like Zebedee and Thunder games focusing on niche markets is probably a big piece of that puzzle.

I do not, unfortunately. I even feel like an idiot navigating command line most of the time. I've dabbled with some very basic stuff in apps, but it's been quite a while. TBH it's tough balancing trying out every new thing, making videos, keeping healthy, and having a family, lol. I'd LOVE to learn to code, but I need to learn how to make days last 34 hours instead of 24.

We need to take our own advice and view education through the lens of low time preference. We want everyone to do a million things out the gate without compromise, but that's not how learning works. Sometimes you're gonna have to get someone to buy KYC sats and use a custodial lightning wallet or a piece of hardware that isn't Coldcard in order to EVENTUALLY lead them down the path of a self-sovereign bitcoiner. You'll never get there if your student turns around after the first couple steps of their journey.

I think the most important thing here would be choice and accessibility. My hope would be nodes normalized as part of your home network infrastructure - one in every router. The default would be self custody because exchanges are obsolete... you simply earn and live on Bitcoin. Custody is only ever needed if you require collateral for a loan - and even then it would be multisig with an impartial 3rd party for disputes. Education would put a focus on the fiat mistakes of the past and virtues of low time preference to build for yourself, your children, and generations to come.

Oooh damn that's a good one. First off, all Bens are equal in ranking but have their own unique skills. For a VP I might go with Ben Gagnon from Bitfarms. Not everyone will be familiar, but he's a hell of a guy and one of the sleeper Bens on his way to greatness.

Hot Wallet - Muun because I can do on-chain/LN in one balance. Blue is a close second Coinjoin - I use Sparrow with whirlpool because I prefer desktop BTC Book - The 7th Property by Eric Yakes Non BTC Book - How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Resources that helped me most tended to be pods/videos TBH because I'm a visual learner. Also conversations with other Bitcoiners whenever I had little questions. Books... Inventing Bitcoin my Yan Pritzker was awesome

1. Home mining (because I'm starting down that rabbit hole)
2. Currently run Umbrel as my primary but have a Ronin Dojo brrrring away now too.
3. Honestly this is gonna sound stupid but... Jurassic Park (sometimes my brain needs a break)
4. I'm bullish on privacy making as many advancements in the next 5 years as scaling has made in the past 5
5. I default to Muun Wallet now

It depends on what that hardware is protecting. Perhaps for an on the go additional layer of protection that's pretty good. For long term savings, I'm less sold. That said, I'll be testing out the Block device as soon as it drops and letting everyone know my thoughts then!

UI for hardware could be a little more user friendly. If we could get the hardware UI to be as simple out of the box as blue wallet, but with as many features just under the hood, that would be pretty solid. Bitcoiners tend to put WAY too much info front and center rather than keeping it simple.

The default privacy assurances of lightning are pretty decent so that's helpful, but I think there will be a need for on-chain privacy for quite some time, even for the average user. I like to see wallets adding payjoin fake coinjoins and collaborative transactions. I also like how Sparrow wallet has a toggle switch that either optimizes for efficiency or privacy, then automates the rest.

Automation is the key here though. If the default is shitty privacy, that's just what people will do.

It may add some confusion... BUT it will be less confusing that tens of thousands of other coins out there all claiming you need a new blockchain & token to execute certain functions.

In general, bad ideas are bad ideas regardless of which platform they reside on. If there is a use case for any of these things, they will survive. I personally don't have a need for much of this stuff at the current time. Perhaps simple things like vouchers to redeem for products, event tickets, etc may have a place... but i dunno if it offers a markedly better experience outside of the status quo. The main benefit might be secondary markets without gatekeepers, but you still have to verify a token is actually linked to the real world thing it claims to represent.

This is a long rambling way of saying... I guess we'll see! I'll experiment as things come out

So many great ones! John Vallis, Jeff Booth, Greg Foss, Francis Pouliot, NVK... just to name a few.

1. Quality over quantity.
2. Consistency (scheduling-wise) is key
3. Cross pollinate between yourself and other creators for greater reach
4. The market is saturated now, so find a niche BTC realm that you can excel in
5. Unique ideas will get more eyeballs - latest example I like is Citadel Hunter on YT
6. For income, sponsors are currently what pays the bills, but to maintain integrity it's typically me reaching out to companies I already like to ask them to sponsor. Anyone who asks me typically ends up being shitcoin-y or scammy, so those are hard nos. Value for value models (streaming sats) are great and I hope they grow, but it's not big enough yet to replace the former.

HAHAHA omg I would do this. I'll teach them all a popping combo, followed by a bit of locking and some beginner floor work. Let's do it.

I think in the future renewable mining can become viable as the technology improves. I don't think it's there YET, but I don't buy the narrative that it never will be.