$600,000 more #Bitcoin. Last week saw our second largest Bitcoin purchase at EverGive 🚀 Every Bitcoin we purchase is to build the permanent financial engine that will serve humanity and social causes forever. It has been a wild ride in 2025 - super grateful for all the support we’ve received from everyone 🙏 We’re super excited about 2026, including big growth plans globally! You can keep track of all of our Bitcoin purchases transparently on our public dashboard here dashboard.evergive.com We have now passed 25 Bitcoins. 100 Bitcoins soon 🚀

Observation. I’ve recently taken out ‘office space’ and so I commute. I leave my house at 4.30am and notice the only other people you see out are the lowest paid in our society (cleaners, drivers, factory workers) and the highest paid (finance, entrepreneurs etc). Everyone else in the middle leave at 9 and come back at 5. Made me think that wealth and struggle aren’t too different, both demand sacrifice - comfort lives in the middle.

Last week I flew 5000 miles to speak to an empty room, and here is what I learnt about leadership. When you walk into an empty room, you’re not leading the people in front of you – you’re leading the people watching how you handle it. As a leader, how you show up when the room is empty speaks (read: times of failure) volumes to your team when the room is full (read: times of success). Moments like this are when your team watches closely - not for your success, but for your resolve. The counter-intuitive truth is that you don’t show up for the numbers; you show up to model consistency, humility, and belief in the mission, regardless of the outcome. Your team doesn’t need you to lead when it’s easy; they need to see you lead when it’s hard. That’s when they develop an unbending trust in your leadership, and will go to war for the mission you point them to. When I arrived back to London, I shared the news with my team, and sent them this message on morning Slack. Remember: conviction is contagious. Take away here is that your team learns not from how you lead the many, but how you lead when no one’s watching. Build that integrity. That’s how movements start.

Earlier today, I stood on stage in Dubai, to an empty room. I delivered my first ever stage talk - at Expand North Star - a large tech startup conference. But as fate would have it, I got the last slot of the day (...the graveyard shift 😏 )! The organisers warned me of the low turnout they expected for that slot since they knew I was flying in from London, and I insisted nonetheless. I found myself speaking to fewer than ten people in the room. Two were my friends, and 3 were stewards. And you know what? I wouldn’t have changed a thing! I flew out because our mission - building the financial backbone of humanity, on the Bitcoin standard - is bigger than any room. It’s bigger than any crowd size. Those who were there heard a message that I’m willing to share anywhere, even if it’s just one person listening. I specifically told my friend to take a picture of the empty room; because that’s where movements start - with a handful of believers who see the future before it’s mainstream. Moments like this remind me that impact isn’t measured by numbers, but by conviction. I've never had more conviction about anything in my life. I enjoyed every moment, because our mission isn’t about chasing applause; it’s about building something that lasts forever. It's about the generations of communities who will be benefiting from our work 500 years after this Linkedin post. And I’ll gladly speak in any empty room again if it means one more person joins us on this journey to secure humanity's future, forever. So, if you’re out there, and you believe that the social good that undergirds our society should never run out of money, that money should never be weaponised to control people, and that a free and open society is worth fighting for - let’s talk. And yes, if you’ve got an empty room, podcast or just time, I’m down to fill it with ideas that can change the world, so let's chat. - And a side note to other entrepreneurs starting out with a bold and strange idea: If you’re in a season of obscurity - don’t fight it. It might just be your incubation period. History’s best ideas were once invisible.

Thank you Patricia Cullen and @EntrepreneurUK for this piece on me! I speak about solving the humanitarian world's biggest challenge - financial instability - using hashtag#Bitcoin. I also reflect on what I've found hardest in my journey building EverGive. "Ask Dainehine what the hardest part of building EverGive has been, and he'll pause - but not for long. "The hardest problems are very rarely technical – they're cultural," he says. "Culture determines how much change people can absorb, how much simplicity they need, and how far they're willing to trust a new idea." And so much of EverGive's energy has gone into creating a cultural bridge between a cutting-edge financial tool and a deeply human cause. "We discovered the real work was not building the infrastructure, but cultivating a mindset people could step into." "Once you solve for culture – once you align with how people think, feel, and trust – the rest follows."

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I think we just hit PMF. I’m terrified. #EverGive #Bitcoin

I put to the audience at Global Donors Forum that Bitcoin is not to be feared, and why - as a humanitarian, not a banker - it is the most hopeful I’ve ever been about society’s future. I shared that Bitcoin liberates broadly in two ways: 1. You will never be at the mercy of the banks or the state with your money, you become your own bank (many of us under appreciate how revolutionary and urgent this civilsational shift is) 2. You’ll never get poorer through inflation again. Your morning coffee gets cheaper each year, not dearer.

Our UK government plans to cut over £20bn in welfare spending, including £5bn annually that would help disabled people. I recently spoke on a panel on future-proofing philanthropy at Global Donors Forum. A pressing conversation given our unstable economies. I put to the audience that those looking after our most vulnerable need to stop relying on government or public donations, and need to develop the financial responsibility to build their own reserve. I shared how EverGive helps them do that. As government continues to fail our most vulnerable, more people will be harmed if we get this wrong over the next decade.

Founder advice. Founders obsess over product and talent but forget geography is strategy. The country you build in will either be oxygen or a slow suffocation. Choose wisely, and choose early. “Analysts say adoption in the US has been slowed by comparatively weak government support for the sector, which has limited the kinds of subsidies, trade-in programmes and rules that have helped the industry in places such as China, the UK and Europe.”

Just shipped a critical piece that fatally tests our product-market-fit @EverGive. Metrics trickling in. If this works, no resistance to the upside. If it fails, I’m out of ideas 😭. Should have results in 72 hours. Will let you guys know. Pray for us 🙏🙏💯

Bitcoin’s fight is incomplete without Nostr

Yesterday, I called on the @BBC to explore Nostr, a platform I consider will become core infrastructure for any free society. The BBC Media Action kindly invited me to their NY offices to discuss safeguarding the integrity of truth media and its reliable distribution, something I feel strongly about. I shared with their CEO that truth in reporting rests on two foundations in my view: 1. Did the thing actually happen 2. Is the person reporting it who they say they are, with no modifications (think, Trump deepfakes). With the rise of AI and deepfakes, protecting both is more urgent than ever. I was glad to see the BBC engaging with these challenges with their C2PA program. I shared the unique and pivotal role that Nostr plays, a decentralised platform where every message is cryptographically signed, enabling us to know the true identity of the reporter and whether the message has been modified or not. Here is how Nostr safeguards BBC’s integrity in truth reporting: 1. Decentralisation of publishing. No gatekeeper. Elon can never offboard, shadow ban or pressure the voice of their journalists if his political tastes shifted. 2. Verifiable identity and authenticity No more Trump deepfakes. This reduces the risk of tampering and increases trust in the source - critical for truth-seeking media. In an AI world we need to know who is who. No platform delivers this as confidently as Nostr. 3. Honest incentives Funding from the people, not governments. Journalists can be supported directly by readers (micro-tipping, subscriptions, crowdfunded investigations) without reliance on ads or corporate sponsors, which often bias coverage. Thank you to @ODELL who enlightened me on this, and revitalised my appreciation for it. This is how our future looks like - Bitcoin is the source of money, and Nostr is the source of truth. Our democracy and freedoms will thrive to the extent we take the ideas embedded in these two technologies seriously.