Bitcoin isn’t a break from history, but rather a return to the most important lessons of history. Jonathan Kirkwood (@TEN31) joined historian Brian Domitrovic at Imagine IF on why Bitcoin looks backward to move forward. Free money built America. Property rights fueled risk. Growth created liberty. Bitcoin rewinds the tape so we can move forward. Catch their full conversation on YouTube: Catch their full conversation on YouTube:

On stage at Imagine IF, @Marty Bent and Dr. Andrew Hohns tackled a technical problem with a human response. “Whenever there is a problem in the world, what is needed is moral courage.” The problem for Hohns, is the broken credit system and a trust deficit between the institutions and financial leaders tasked to fix it. Bitcoin provides a technological escape valve, and the power of next generation credit tools. See the orange path laid out by Marty and Andrew:

Free Samourai. Angela McCardle, former head of the national Libertarian Party, joined us at Bitcoin Park to spread awareness for the petition to pardon Samourai Developers Bill and Keonne before they are scheduled to report to prison later this month. Code is speech. Sign the petition: https://change.org/billandkeonne Stay informed on all things freedom tech—register for our daily email at

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Austin Bitcoin Club (ABC) Presents: Bitcoin Preferred Here We were joined by Parker Lewis, Michael Vaclav (Medici Roasting), and Rancher Sam Moffett (Local Pastures) at Bitcoin Park Austin discussing Square's Bitcoin Payments launch. Learn about the realities of operating a small business, dealing with rising input costs, and how the simplicity of the newest feature from the Square team has made their businesses more resilient. Thanks to all who joined us and made our December ABC an absolute banger. Don't miss a future Bitcoin Park Austin meetup: https://bitcoinpark.com/austin Watch the full meetup on Youtube:

“We need leaders, not managers.” – Sen. Marsha Blackburn From Bitcoin as a strategic reserve to AI governance, we were privileged to be joined by the senator and CEO of CleanSpark, Matt Schultz to kick off Imagine IF diving into why freedom must be at the center of innovation. Watch the full conversation on our Bitcoin Park YouTube:

‘I can’t take the argument that Bitcoin is zero seriously anymore.’ It’s pristine collateral. It trades 24/7. You can liquidate it on weekends. Listen to Stephan Livera and Rory Murray discuss Bitcoin as a treasury asset at CTS25. Read our full Bitcoin Custody in 2025 White Paper: bitcoinpark.com/custody-whitepaper Watch the full conversation:

“Imagine if your memories could be edited.” @Marks of @Maple AI asked how AI could reshape thought itself, at Bitcoin Park’s recent Imagine IF Summit. Because AI can already nudge what you see and how you feel, the idea of impacting our very thoughts creates what he calls subconscious censorship. Marks warns this could come for freedom of thought itself. His answer: open systems, verifiable code, and sunlight as disinfectant. Watch the full conversation on our BP YouTube channel:

Bitcoin works because its supply cannot change. Everything else flows from that. At Imagine IF, Rapha Zagury explained to Parker Lewis, what it was like growing up in Brazil and watching grocery prices rise throughout the day. When you live through that, you understand why predictable money matters. Proof of work transforms electricity into certainty and sustainability. Watch the full fireside chat on YouTube: Catch the full panel on Bitcoin Park's YouTube:

Sean Bill didn't mince words. He's looking to help @Blockstream create the Berkshire Hathaway of Bitcoin by managing an active treasury and helping find efficiencies in the market to increase their Bitcoin treasury. He sat down with @preston to talk about the real-world use cases of a Bitcoin treasury at CTS25 Read our full custody whitepaper:

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On the Imagine IF stage, @Troy Cross a simple challenge: Just try accessing a permissionless, censorship-resistant network that has no borders… You won’t go back. He likened Bitcoin to having children: pre-experience fears are real, but the post-experience perspective is richer and truer. Yes, disruptive tech carries risks, just like cars did too. But fear, tribalism, and politicization blind us to what new technologies unlock in human flourishing. Watch the full Imagine IF We Didn't Fear Innovation keynote:

The real question: how do you avoid a single point of failure? Most businesses only think of Bitcoin custody as “cold vs. hot.” Collaborative custody and distributed keys make sure no one person, device, or company can put all your Bitcoin at risk. At CTS25, @Will Cole discusses the various approaches around institutional custody with @Becca Amilee and @Jesse Posner Read our full custody whitepaper:

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Nostrville 3.0 - October 25, 2025 - Doors Open 2pm @Bitcoin Park Workshops/Other Stuff: 3pm-6pm Live Music: 6pm-8pm @Derek Ross @OpenMike @Ainsley Costello @Joe Martin 🎶🟠⚡ @Phantom Power Music

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Nostrville 3.0 - Live Music & Other Stuff, Sat, Oct 25, 2025, 2:00 PM | Meetup

**NOSTRVILLE** is a celebration of Nostr and the re-birth of a new internet built by private-public keys. Join us! **October 25, 2025** **2pm-8pm*...

The internet made us more connected—and less free. Our lives moved online. Our freedom didn’t. At Bitcoin Park’s Imagine IF, @ODELL argued that the only way to fix it is to make freedom profitable. Because open protocols don’t scale on donations. They scale on alignment.

Fifty years ago, Cathie Wood learned economics from Dr. Art Laffer. Now they share a stage, connecting Bitcoin, stablecoins, and AI to the next chapter of sound money. Recorded live at Bitcoin Park’s Imagine IF. Watch the full conversation below.

Bitcoin isn’t just digital gold. It’s becoming working capital: collateral for loans, liquidity in Lightning, and a new frontier for financial services. But where the "yield" actually comes from needs to be understood in order to properly assess the risk of lending Bitcoin. This panel from CTS25, featuring @Shawn, @Max Kei, @myles_snider, and @Jestopher some of those strategies and how to proceed with caution. Read our Custody in 2025 White Paper:

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“We need to stop wasting our waste.” @Erik Hersman is on the frontier of the emergent grid → connecting compute to renewable energy where it’s abundant. In rural communities across Africa, energy doesn’t just power homes, it fuels productivity, education, and healthcare. But too often, excess renewable energy goes to waste. At Imagine IF he gave this impactful keynote on the 2 sides of the same coin, and how Bitcoin mining is the solution to the next wave of human productivity and flourishing.

“Not your keys, not your coins.” Self-custody means trade-offs—but it’s the only way to truly own Bitcoin. Individuals: use hardware wallets + backups. Institutions: multisig + proof of reserves. No keys, no control. @ODELL and @npub1qg8j...24kw discuss the endgame of defending the free and open network of Bitcoin by securing your own custody at CTS25. Read our full Bitcoin Custody in 2025 White Paper:

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Most of us only think about insurance when something goes wrong. But when something goes wrong with your Bitcoin custody, it is gone forever. Listen to our panel with Rob Hamilton, Danny Baer, Dave Schwab, and Dan Ross discussing the future of Bitcoin and insurance. Read our full Bitcoin Custody in 2025 White Paper: bitcoinpark.com/custody-whitepaper Watch the full conversation:

When you hold Bitcoin, you’re holding something unlike anything else. It isn’t a bank account balance. It isn’t a stock certificate. It’s a digital bearer asset. It lives everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Trey Sellers, Frank Hinek, and John Arnold broke down the ins and outs of multi-signature custody at CTS25. Watch their full panel below. Read our full Bitcoin Custody in 2025 White Paper:

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“The best deterrent to confiscation is distribution.” Just as the Second Amendment empowers citizens by distributing arms, Bitcoin custody is strongest when keys are widely held. The more individuals and institutions that take real responsibility for their keys, the harder it becomes for any government or central authority to coerce control. @preston, @npub1w69y...zltw, and @npub1j4u5...d6x9 the Tradeoffs of Control at CTS25 and how the tail risks of bitcoin are impacted by the strategic choices of custody deployed and who ultimate holds the key to sign transactions.