My research partner and I have finalized our BTC payment service design case study. In case it might be relevant for someone, here it is:

GitHub

GitHub - linasantlinijos/Bitcoin-Service-Design: Service design research into how to help bitcoin holders to use it for payments more.

Service design research into how to help bitcoin holders to use it for payments more. - linasantlinijos/Bitcoin-Service-Design

Tl;dr: - By designing BTC payment products for the whole service ecosystem, understanding personas and what job BTC does for each of them, Bitcoin builders don't waste their resources and can pull the levers that can actually make a difference in BTC payment adoption. - Service design is heavily underutilized in Bitcoin, and the methodology provides the exact tools to find and activate the most effective levers. - Using all the available tools has become crucial for BTC as competition with other payment rails increases and new frontiers emerge, such as the agentic economy. Anyway, the topic is really complex and exciting! Any feedback is always welcome! Now we're looking for Bitcoin builders we can work with to apply our findings and methodology. We're also preparing for Phase 2 of our research.

#EGO #DEATH #CAPITAL This post will be an unusual one for me on this ego-boosting social capital platform. I want to share a short story about my favorite company name: ego death capital. The use of lowercase letters in this beautiful name is not accidental too. ego death capital is a Bitcoin VC firm. However, this post is not about #Bitcoin (sorry, Bitcoin) or VCs (you folks are awesome too). It’s about the ego, its death, and the capital created in the process. The firm explains: “For a new system to thrive, to bring abundance, opportunity and accessibility, the old system must self-destruct. For this to happen, it will require a phase of "self-surrender and transition.” First an awakening. Then resistance to a false sense of loss. Then dissolution and deconstruction. Then exploration. And finally, enlightenment. This is referred to as ego death.” Beautiful, isn’t it? It is important even more. It reminds me of a quote from the TV series Bodies: “Remember, change isn't what you seek. It’s what you fear”. Self-surrendering is a frightening leap. It requires bravery, strength, and persistence. You can't evade it if you genuinely desire to embark on the never-ending path of self-discovery, healing your traumas, and revealing your true self (whatever that may mean) to yourself and the world. It creates an authentic milieu that fosters the world's growth more sustainably and healthily, both within and around you. This loop of surrender and rediscovery is what we always need to create a better self, better companies, systems, and a better world. Thankfully, this process is always on. Do we need more self-surrender and self-rediscovery? Yes, we do. Can I, and you, do more? Yes, we can. This, my dear friends, is how we establish Love Birth Capital. ——— Repost to dissolve more egos and cultivate the power of #love instead of the love of power on both personal and systemic levels. 💀 ❤️ ♻

In #MissionImpossible, there's this thing, The Entity. It makes a quadrillion computations per second and wants to rule the world. #Bitcoin  makes 449 quintillion computations per second and wants to free the world. #MissionPossible Original pic by @SDWouters, tweaks by me

When you orange pill a billion new #Bitcoin users, you get an Orange Pillion.

If this is the case, then having “a money that serves the interests of its end users (everyday savers)” seems to be even more important. Hint - #bitcoin 

Incredible! Confirmed

Waxy.org

The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS - Waxy.org

I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?

News Corp CEO: “tech companies should pay to use publishers’ content to produce results from #AI chatbots.” So, we have +1 use case for #Bitcoin . (Meanwhile, ChatGPT: It's essential to consider the interests of both parties & find a mutually beneficial agreement. lol) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/business/media/publishers-chatbots-search-engines.html

There are rivets and there is #Bitcoin.