This Friday we're hosting our 7 local Bitcoin market in Calgary! We're expecting just shy of 40 merchants, all accepting BTC. We've got tradesmen, farmers, artisans, real estate agents, barbers, masseuses, hypnotherapists, and plenty more! Love seeing the local Bitcoin circular economy grow.

I'm testing out @Obscura VPN right now. No ID, no email address, paid in bitcoin. Randomly generated account number can be used across multiple devices. So far so good! I'll do a tutorial on this over on Sovereign Sessions when it launches. You can pre-emptively subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@SovereignSessions?sub_confirmation=1

UUUUUGE. Thanks all! Also shoutout to @Bitcoin Mentor for joining and massively contributing to the journey. LFG team.

As a reminder, you can get sats without ID (which are the best kind of sats!) I've been messing around with @Hodl Hodl now that they added lightning and it's pretty seamless. Definitely worth testing if anyone gets the chance. I'll have a tutorial for that when Sovereign Sessions launches this August, but it's basically the same flow as on-chain with some small differences. Feel free to check out my previous tutorial: HODLHODL website is here:

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Oh and this video is totally unrelated... but also useful.

Excited to give this a whirl.

What's a reasonably secure way to use Hermes? Does it have to be on a segregated machine, or is there a good way to sandbox it on your main computer? How difficult is it to give the agent selective access and have it still be useful?

It's pretty neat that I'm sitting here in Europe, hit the zap button while browsing Nostr, and it triggers a lightning payment from my node back home in Canada. Magic!

Hey I'm teaching a bunch of human rights activists about Nostr! Let's show them what ZAPPING means!

NEW EPISODE: Mentor Sessions Ep. 072: Why “2-3 Years to Human-Level AI” Is the Most Dangerous Signal of 2026, Why This Is NOT Just Another Tech Breakthrough But the Start of Superintelligence Deciding Humanity’s Fate, and How Bitcoin Becomes the Only True Neutral Reserve Asset | Dr. Roman Yampolskiy @Bitcoin Mentor