Christian. Grantmaker. 20 years in Istanbul. Philosophy → MPA → Grant Making → Bitcoin & AI. Writing about where trust lives — and what happens when it moves.
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Last Notes What happens to the 1 in 5 American households outside the banking system when USDT becomes USAT and USAT becomes the only authorized dollar? Indy Bitcoin meetup slide deck from July 15th meeting. About 30 attended. It was fun! Twenty-two minutes. Twenty-one essays. Abraham’s silver weights at Machpelah. Nixon’s 1971 gold window. Bitcoin’s fixed supply. A bitcoiner is someone who owns and uses bitcoin. Sure. And some of us also want to know why it’s worth owning. Different question, not a smaller one. Honest weights and measures show up in Leviticus, Proverbs, Deuteronomy. Not as economic policy. As moral requirement. Early preview: 22 minutes of AI audio discussion covering 21 essays on institutions, trust, and monetary architecture — unified by Claude, analyzed by NotebookLM. Three months of writing in one listen. 500 sats on Fanfares. Check out this exclusive content on Fanfares! First post on Damus. Trying nostr someplace other than primal We often talk about moving as if it were a logistical problem. One thing I’ve learned from living through multiple institutional transitions: Solidarity did not only oppose. It built. I found an old drive from 2003. Found a 256MB Lexar JumpDrive from 2003. You notice infrastructure most clearly when it stops fitting your body. Love it. Hope you don’t mind but I hope to continue my Substack but also migrate over to nostr / fanfares Bitcoin changed how I think about infrastructure. The strangest forms of power are often the ones embedded inside standards people stop noticing. Ran 13.1 miles through downtown Indianapolis and onto the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at sunrise. The people who dismiss Bitcoin as a speculative novelty have not read enough history. Three thousand years before Bitcoin, the Hebrew Bible condemned dishonest weights and measures as a moral crime. The essay is ultimately about rooms. The Bible condemned dishonest weights and measures thousands of years before modern economics existed. Posted this on x too! https://x.com/_paulweaver/status/2053874533929476102?s=46&t=823LzIGHcU0T8Rulssnbxw Some truths can only be learned by being there. The cloud was never abstract. When large systems feel unstable, people move toward what they can still touch, verify, repair, and care for. The system wasn’t broken. I could do the work. Before Bitcoin, there was a real attempt to build digital cash that preserved privacy. Their loved ones are wrongfully imprisoned and they are paying $millions in legal frees. It is an unfair thing for anyone to carry I recorded a short message on why this matters beyond Bitcoin—down to the people carrying the cost. I wrote this out more fully here: The safest identity in Bitcoin has always been: Interesting. Exactly. This question came out of something you’ve written about - constraints: npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc Most of the week I write about systems. “Just 2%” compounds. Exactly. Got removed from X. Update: I’m back on X. Update: I’m back on X. I’m trying to understand what happens when trust moves— Bitcoin is not the gospel. https://primal.net/pbw34/a-taste-for-rainy-days--and-something-deeper Rainy weekends and murder mysteries go together. Appreciate that — the history wrote itself once I started pulling the thread. Diocletian understood something about money that we lost for over 2000 years. Bitcoin is different. For two thousand years, kings and popes made alchemy a capital offense. Bitcoin doesn’t just change what you own. When systems scale beyond our ability to see one another as persons — responsibility doesn’t disappear. Going forward i plan to just put custom graphs and tables on fanfares and not ever put text behind any paywall. Here is the Reads article that is associated with this Fanfares.io link. A world where generosity flows freely across borders, and where Christian communities have the tools they need to endure, serve, and flourish. https://fanfares.io/s/T63P7-#pay https://fanfares.io/s/iX8dr_ Moving my X profile and projects over to Nostr.
Here with an amazing team from Fanfares.io
If you want to see my framework for thinking about Trust Not all communities are the same. X suspended my account this morning. Iran just made Bitcoin a condition of safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Rome's legions weren't weak at Carrhae. Every energy crisis in history trapped people inside failing money. Turkey cut six zeros in 2005. The hardest part isn’t the training. Most people think signing up is a small step. We are not entering a normal cycle. Money is language. We don’t eliminate authority. Not all digital money is the same. We don’t know as much as we think. We don’t know as much as we think. This week I’m writing a short series: Published this at 6:45am. We amused ourselves. Wrote more about this here: It’s possible to store value for the future Not just a capital stack— Same asset. https://blossom.primal.net/84fc2b67c7d129b9528fe45811e1f7589b28b610a25d867216f6c3b1c3771f45.png Most people understand Bitcoin. One of the more uncomfortable implications of this: Mimetic desire → rivalry → scapegoat → temporary peace 100% it certainly made clear to me we need new rails more than most have any idea. Thanks for reading We are entering a world where tools no longer just assist human action—they enable entire systems of action. I’m trying to understand: After the Turkey earthquake, we had funds ready to help people still living in containers. Prediction markets assume participants are neutral. The core idea: Not everything should be priced. Deep dive into MSTR instruments, inspired by @nprofile…90hw interview with @nprofile…8l3u. Infograph built on ChatGPT last night on a flight Aqua wallet - BTC as savings and btc layer 2 and USDT as spending - also interesting that the USDT is btc2 based. Very cool. Happy ♾️ /21M day. My iPhone wallpaper from @btcwallpaper (via x). Loved the color way and subtle reminder. Been a fun conversation starter with normies several times 🥳 I just received the biggest zap I’ve ever received - 2100 - thanks to being part of the orange pill app! Best platform for finding local plebs all around the world I have really enjoyed this gamified intro to money & bitcoin. Kinda like @nprofile…dx93's Broken Money book but as an educational app. Thanks @simpleBTCapp https://t.co/94yEGHa8ZT This is a remarkable contrarian discussion. WiM565 - coming global monetary reset via back doors & dubious executive branch moves. Thank you @Breedlove22 Nostr primal: [email protected] We managed to set up a futurebit Apollo BTC today. Took over a year to get this over here to set up. Listening to WIM on web5 (https://developer.tbd.website) and decentralized identity. Running on nostr maybe making my profile picture marginally less obvious it is me via Prism-ai is a step deeper in the rabbit hole First time posting on primal. Nostr has come a long way in the past year or so. Thanks to @npub1vzj…x9gc & @bitcarrot for the encouragement
