Last night we drove out to a small village in Bulgaria to visit a bitcoiner who built his own water, solar and geothermal energy system. In the summer during the day has enough excess energy to power 6 miners. Completely automated. The power went out last week and he was the only house in the town that still had energy. This is the way. Engineering solutions to problems.

Build skills. Add value. Save in bitcoin.

The question I have for my fellow Americans is, are you really free? Sure, drink some booze and light off some fireworks, but if you are still living on fiat you are contributing to a system of control and extraction. Some might even call it slavery. Free men live on a bitcoin standard.

Open door when you visit seattle as well! Thank you for the hospitality 🙏

Saying goodbye to the Black Sea. I’ll be back ✌️

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TRY THIS HACK next time you visit a restaurant or cafe. If you want to onboard a merchant to accept bitcoin it’s not going to happen the first time you visit. Whenever you ask, “do you accept bitcoin as payment?” expect a “NO” 99% of the time. This is normal. Chances are you are the first person to ever ask. Rather than get discouraged, ask if they will accept a tip in bitcoin. In my experience 90% will say yes. Have them download a lightning wallet and one minute later they have used bitcoin for the first time. If they say no, my friend has the perfect response: “Okay, if you don’t want any money that’s fine.” By casually referring to bitcoin as money you trigger an emotional response which cements the memory in their mind. Next time they hear about bitcoin they’ll remember turning it down. That’s a win.

Thanks for commenting melody let me know how it goes. The key is using the word “money” in your response

Bulgaria actually!

Wen 58?

Spent the day learning about regenerative farming and off-grid solar powered bitcoin mining. Day 8 was another good one! We are building on bitcoin ✌️

I would argue that one of the most important metrics to predict a nation’s future success is bitcoiners per capita. No idea how you’d get the data but Bulgaria has to be high on the leaderboard.

Bringing back the selfie… 🤳 These are a few of the people I’ll be filming with in Bulgaria this month. What questions do you have about bitcoin adoption in Bulgaria?

A WARM welcome in Bulgaria. The Journey has begun...

Hey Mike let’s connect tomorrow! Really appreciate your note. Headed to Bulgaria Sunday. Sending you a dm with my telegram

Gonna be hard to beat! Great day 1.

Entering BTC Prague. Signal is high as always!

If not you, who? If not now, when? GN from Prague.

Behind the scenes at Trezor HQ with and Mark Moss. Great conversation and amazing set, not to mention the hospitality from the Trezor team.