From the "You Can Just Do Things" files: A couple of our awesome lady Vegas Bitcoiners (Stacey and Meg) are putting on a Bitcoin Basics course this Summer at UNLV in their Lifelong Learning Institute. If you happen to know any folks in the Las Vegas area that want to learn, please let them know about the class. Course Catalog: https://olli.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/catalog-library/OLLI_Summer_2026_ADA_catalog.pdf

At the Open Source stage. Always figured @ODELL was a top but he’s really showing it today. iykyk

Big Jay Oakerson at Wiseguys. Checking another one off the list.

Posted this over on Twatter but I'm seeing a lot of the same shit here on Nostr, so may as well post it here, too: I've seen far too much of this smug, sanctimonious, virtue-signaling lately. I'm a Bitcoiner... specially a Vegas Bitcoiner. A nobody in Bitcoin. I stack sats, run a node, run a meetup, and I'm heading to the conference this year like thousands of others. That doesn't make me "shitcoiner" or "tradfi grifter." It doesn't make me inferior. And it certainly doesn't justify the endless mental gymnastics and gatekeeping that's infecting our community. Many of you have lost the plot. Bitcoin was never meant to be a purity test or a social hierarchy where the loudest twatter accounts decide who's "in" and who's "out." Satoshi gifted the world "money for everyone" regardless of geographic location, status, or identity. He promised us decentralization. He promised us permissionless access and censorship resistance. He promised us a strict adherence to a predictable monetary policy. He promised us that we could have direct, exclusive control over our wealth. But you'd think he promised some of you a superiority complex for simply buying the asset. The arrogant behavior, the dismissive attitudes, the need for control, the "always right" preaching... I have no doubt he'd be embarassed in how a lot of you act. The same cypherpunk energy that gave us Bitcoin is being replaced by clout-chasing and performative superiority. If your version of Bitcoin requires looking down on others who don't meet your arbitrary bar, that's a YOU problem. Bitcoin doesn't care about your beliefs and opinions, your follower count or Interwebs street cred, or how early you got in. It cares about sound money, individual freedom, and voluntary participation. Come on, come fucking all. As for those of you knocking Las Vegas. You can dislike the Strip, but it is a purpose-built entertainment and convention ecosystem that caters to damn near everyone. For us that live here, we've got zero state income or capital gains tax, world class dining and entertainment, endless activities, hour flights to most of the southwest for even more optionality, a relatively LCOL, and 300+ days of sunshine. I've read your moody posts and have seen pix of a lot of you... trust me, many of you could use the sun. Finally, the conference is what you make of it -- whether it is in Vegas, Prague, or whatever town it's in. It's about finding some signal in the noise. It's about finding some alpha that you can't find hiding behind your keyboard. It's about reconnecting and spending time with the friends you've made along the way. Maybe some of you never understood the plot. For those of you that do, I'll see you in Vegas at the happy hour I'm hosting, at Hotstyle Takeover, at the Club Orange party, at NOSVegas... be sure to say Hi!

Jason Salmon at Wiseguys. Watched his special on YouTube and he is one to keep and eye on. Give him a look.

What I Wore This Week: Vegas Heat Wave Edition Nishane Ege, Chanel Platinum Egoist, Lorenzo Pazzaglia Summer Hammer, YSL L'Homme Ultime, and Clandestine Laboratories The Boy (FKA Pool Boy) #cologne #fragrance #smellywater

The whole $XXI thing is getting pretty weird. So they held their annual meeting last week and re-elected seven directors only for six of them to immediately resign only leaving Jack? "Twenty One Capital, Inc. (NYSE:XXI) held its annual meeting of shareholders on Thursday, March 12, 2026. At the meeting, shareholders voted to re-elect seven directors—Jack Mallers, Paolo Ardoino, Zachary Lyons, Bo Hines, Raphael Zagury, Jared Roscoe, and Vikas J. Parekh—to serve until the next annual meeting or until a successor is elected, or upon earlier death, resignation, or removal. All 304,842,759 shares of the company’s Class B common stock entitled to vote were cast in favor of the proposal. In connection with the annual meeting, the company reported that, under its governance agreement with Tether Investments, S.A. de C.V., iFinex, Inc., and Stellar Beacon LLC (SoftBank), certain directors delivered letters of resignation. Specifically, Paolo Ardoino, Zachary Lyons, Bo Hines, and Raphael Zagury (the “Tether Affiliate Group Directors”), as well as Jared Roscoe and Vikas J. Parekh (the “SoftBank Directors”), submitted resignations from the board and applicable committees. These resignations become effective immediately upon request by Tether or SoftBank, as applicable." https://www.investing.com/news/sec-filings/twenty-one-capital-reelects-directors-and-updates-board-resignation-procedures-93CH-4564201

Felt cute… can’t delete later. Haven’t taken a physique picture in awhile. 208 this morning. Been trying to grow my shoulders and it’s been slow going. Drop your favorite delt exercises in my comments so I can add some variety.

If there is one thing that irks the hell out of me from "Bitcoiners" is the whole wishing for lower prices so they can accumulate more. That is peak TradFi behavior and cope from those that didn't take the last decade plus to build a position. Bitcoin cannot advance its mission pussyfooting around at lower prices. It needs to be much higher to be able to actually be seen/used an inflation hedge, used by countries to settle trade, etc. I'm not here to fuck about in the existing system especially when history shows all these LARPers don't buy at lower prices, either.

For a season that was meant to install Ben Johnson's philosophy and culture, the Bears punched above their weight all season long despite endless injuries and being outmatched talent wise. Now the real work begins. The GM has to retool the defense on the fly and now take another hard look at the offensive line with the Trapillo injury. Very few people come back from the injury he has. You essentially have a couple years left on Caleb's rookie deal and that is the typical window before you're forced to pay your QB 25-33% of the cap. Now if DJ would have only given max effort on that last route...

I really need a solution to be able to filter out news, rss, and other bots. Every time I try to find to search content from PEOPLE to interact with, all I get returned is shit from those accounts. It's a miserable user experience.

He literally is HIM. Bear Fucking Down.

DJ Moore: "F the Packers as always" Iceman Calls Game. Bear. Fucking. Down.

Listened to the Bitcoin Today twatter space with Keonne Rodriguez on the Samourai Wallet case today. For me, everything boils down to the fact that the SDNY ignored FinCEN's ruling that Samourai was not a money transmitter. The fact that it did not end there tells me this was just more Biden-era lawfare against the Bitcoin slash crypto slash digital asset industry. You can tuck this in right next to the Operation Chokepoints, the assassination of Silicon Valley Bank, and the other egregious actions the Government has levied against the industry. The facts never mattered here. In any of these things. This is abhorrent abuse of the justice (sic) system against our citizens. Especially when you realize that violators in the tradfi realm get menial fines and a slap on the wrist. "For liberty and justice for all." -- Absolute bullshit.

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Was listening to Bitcoin Today over on Twatter and Terence Michael (author of Proof of Money) summed up exactly what the Average Joe thinks of Bitcoin when he was explaining his reluctance to Nostr: "I don't see the need. I'm already perfectly comfortable and cozy here on X." It's also a tad bit ironic that the sub title of his book is "What you don't know about why you need it."

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