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The Part I Didn't Tell You (Nostr first post) A couple of months ago my daughter and I had a conversation about drinking. My wife and I decided after researching the impacts of drinking on teenage brain development that we had a simple clear "no drinking" rule for our children. But I didn't just say the rule, we explained why "Because we love you, and part of loving you is keeping you safe. Your brain - particularly your cerebral cortex - is still developing. Alcohol interferes with that development. What you have is precious, and we want to protect it so you can reach your potential." Like her Dad, she's been brought up to challenge things that don't make sense - even if they come from me. She's scientific in her mindset and demands evidence for things. She looked at me for a moment, paused. Then she said, "OK. That makes sense" the way she only does when something has landed. That conversation with my daughter at our dinner table is the same thing I did with Greenpeace, with journalists, with policymakers, with central bankers - the same method, the same respect for the other person's autonomy, just at a different scale. I'll back up and explain what I mean by that. For the last four years, I've called myself different things at different times - an ESG analyst, a Bitcoin mining analyst, a climate activist, an environmentalist. All true, but none of them complete. I've correctly said that the Bitcoin narrative changed because we had good data, good collection of data, a good presentation of data, and the truth was coming out. And that's true. But it wasn't truth alone. Truth is like water - it needs a container. And there was a part of the container I wasn't telling anyone about. During the battle, I couldn't. If I'd said publicly that I was applying decades of influence methodology to every soundbite, every chart, every rebuttal - opponents would have said, "See? It's not about the evidence at all." So I kept quiet. And the data became the visible story. But the truth is that every single element was carefully contextualised, nuanced, framed for maximum impact. It was no coincidence that my rebuttals would regularly ratio accounts with ten times my following. It was no coincidence that the head of Greenpeace's anti-Bitcoin campaign sat across from me and said, "We monumentally failed. We should have engaged with people like you from the start." There was no randomness to journalists changing their editorial policies, or critics quietly deleting tweets they'd been posting for years. It was by design. There's a well-known rule that a lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on. The research confirms it - lies spread ten times faster AND disperse ten times further. Which means that to reach parity, the truth doesn't just need to be correct - it needs to be a hundred times better. Truth is like gold. The gold is already there - buried under rock and stone. But without someone willing to chip away at the false layers, nobody sees it. That's what I focused on - not adding anything to the truth, but removing what was obscuring it. The data was real and essential. But data by itself was sitting in papers and spreadsheets that just got ignored. The influence craft - the framing, the sequencing, the story structure, the Socratic approach, the non-attachment to outcome - that's what made the data travel. Neither works without the other. The gold is real, but without the right extraction tools, it stays buried. Now here's where it gets interesting... Ten compliments and one insult - what do you remember? The insult right? What does the media prefer to cover - ten positive things about Bitcoin, or one negative? The negative off course. And when we look at our own capabilities versus our incapabilities - which do we doubt? We doubt our capabilities. We never doubt our incapabilities. The exact same dynamics that create false narratives about Bitcoin create false narratives inside people. The FUD-busting techniques I employed to help change the Bitcoin narrative - I have used for ~20 years to help people bust their own fears, their own uncertainties, their own doubts. I don't use the blunt instruments of positive affirmations or pop psychology. I use a much more deadly weapon against FUD: the sword of indisputable logic, expressed clearly. Used correctly, logic disarms fear, makes the uncertain clear, and turns doubt into certainty. Because fear (F.E.A.R) is false evidence appearing real. And that is true whether it's operating at the scale of a global disinformation campaign against Bitcoin, or inside the mind of a single person. When we present the real evidence to the masses about Bitcoin, people are able to embrace Bitcoin. When I present the real evidence to an individual about their own capabilities, their fears and doubts and uncertainties dispel. They start taking action. And the adoption of their vision imprints itself on the world. The method is the same, the chisel is the same - just different gold. So what am I actually doing now? I'm teaching other Bitcoiners influence. And influence has four applications. 1. You can use it to change narratives - useful for Bitcoin, but also for changing the narrative on your own company so you're more likely to get investment. 2. You can use it to lead effectively. 3. You can use it to coach people in your team. 4. And yes, you can use it to sell - not selling the way it's traditionally done, but selling as an act of service which enriches and empowers the other person. Whether it's through my work with HRF, through Bitcoin policy institutes around the world, or through key individuals who are now influencing at a nation-state level, my job is to work behind the scenes to train the people who are right now influencing investors, politicians, central bankers, national grid operators across four different continents to incorporate Bitcoin. It will never be my name on those conversations. These people already have the talent. Half the time my role is just removing the blindspots they can't see which all humans have - the things standing between them and their full potential when the stakes are highest. When someone walks into a room with a prime minister or a central banker and says exactly the right thing in exactly the right way - that's them. I'm the aanoying person they workshopped this conversation with for weeks become who asked the pointed questions before forcing them to practice before game day, like any good coach should who believes in their players and demands the best of their does: "What does this person already believe?", "What's the bridge between that belief and where you need them to get to?", "How show me how you're going to say it", "I'd say "no" if you said it like that, do that again but add this part in", "There, that's better." Sometimes the person that Bitcoiner is talking to is the president of Chile. Sometimes its the political left, centre, and right in France. Sometimes it is the Prime Minister of New Zealand Sometimes it's a central banker in Ethiopia Sometimes its the national grid operator of South Africa or Sweden. Sometimes it's a merchant banker who's about to fund a company listing at the intersection of HPC and Bitcoin mining onto the NASDAQ. On my book on influence, I wrote that truth is like gold. The stone needs to be chipped away so it can be seen. That chipping away is the art of influence, but influence (at least the type I coach) only works if there the gold, the truth, exists. That's the part I couldn't tell you at the time while we were in the middle of a war about Bitcoin and energy. But it's important I tell you now, because it affects what happens next. Yes, we won the energy narrative. But it's critical that we don't come out of that win thinking truth and data do the job by themselves. They were necessary ... but they were not sufficient. The next battles - nation-state adoption, regulatory frameworks, the conversations happening right now behind closed doors in rooms most Bitcoiners will never see - will not be won by better data alone. They'll be won by people who know how to carry truth into a room and put it down in front of someone in a way they can receive it. Because truth is like water - it needs a container in order to be absorbed and appreciated. And for as long as I'm here, because I care about truth and therefore Bitcoin I'll continue to coach those people to build the container to be their best and destroy their own inner FUD - for Bitcoin, for their companies, for the people they lead, for their families, and for themselves.

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What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is the world's best technology at solving the monetary problems that people of influence pretend we don't have What is Bitcoin mining? Bitcoin mining is the world's best technology at solving the energy proglems that people of influence pretend we don't have.

Carl Jung once said “Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you" That's something I've been working to resolve for a while now More about that in this video Application for those keen to continue the conversation: https://form.jotform.com/261165909484870

What if Bitcoin's adoption path looked more like this? West: Energy revolution -> Money revolution South: Money revolution -> Energy revolution

I encourage those I coach to know your not only their values but to distinguish where those values find expression ... and where they don't. Here's mine. Clarity saves everyone a lot of time ... and energy

Both. I've coached Bitcoiners that have founded bitcoin/bitcoin mining companies and Bitcoin policy institutes, and also non-Bitcoin companies (including a healthtech company, 2 AI companies and a nutraceutical company)