Evan (Captain Sidd)
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Believe in yourself. Everything is mental. #Bitcoin -er. DO NOT come on a Ride of Passage if you want your life to stay the same afterwards.
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Not sure what a Ride of Passage is or why you'd want to go on one?
Hear directly from last year's riders:
@modernTman
@SymbolSatoshi
@techengineer21
@wesb_tweets
@Trucksess
@pursuingfreedo1
And learn more about how you can join at the link in my bio.
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The great American
#Bitcoin
Tour has begun! I will visit 21+ Bitcoin meetups on a ride taking me through 10,000+ miles of the USA.
If you’re a Bitcoiner living in the USA, I want to hear your story - shoot me a DM.
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You have no good reason not to have one of these on every toilet in your house.
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Self-custody doesn't just protect your coin from exchange thefts and frauds like that perpetrated by SBF/FTX.
Holding your own
#Bitcoin
protects the Bitcoin price.
Want to hodl to the moon? Withdraw your
#BTC
and read my latest in
@BitcoinMagazine
.
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Just 21 of these
#Bitcoin
Tour hats. Going to give them out at meetups across the country.
Follow me to hear when I’ll be at your local meetup!
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“If you want to understand bitcoin, the first question you have to ask is: what is money?” -
@parkeralewis
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
Starting at
@theBitcoinConf
, I will ride the ultimate freedom machine - a
@harleydavidson
- across the USA sharing how Americans of all stripes are finding and understanding Bitcoin from diverse angles.
Why do these stories matter?
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From Miami to Texas on a motorcycle visiting Bitcoiners and meetups, and I’m just getting started… hear about the trip so far and tell me about your local meetup!
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Just set up a
#Bitcoin
mine in the mountains of northern Thailand to generate some funds and heat for a small community up here.
Super fun!
Thanks
@JimmyKostro
@SovereignSk8
@killedbybtc
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Feeling dead tired today yet hopeful and excited about the future. So great to meet so many inspirational people and internet friends at
@TheBitcoinConf
. See you on the road!
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I wrote about a few of the great Bitcoiners I met on the
#Bitcoin
Tour who are making things happen. Thread for those of you with low attention spans! 🤣
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I went out and touched grass... here's what I learned about the culture springing up around Bitcoin through 10 weeks on the road visiting 25 Bitcoin meetups.
A few thoughts in thread:
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I’m starting a series in
@bitcoinmagazine
focused on home mining.
This piece is with
@bigcohoo
- a new member of the
@compass_mining
ops team focused on AHM. He shares a lot of resources on home mining!
Why did I interview
@bigcohoo
first?
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@Hunter_Weiss
This is what fiat money does. Destroys people until their last vestige of sanity can only be found in a bag of chips.
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Bunch more
#Bitcoin
Tour meetup dates for May + June:
✅ May 19 - Columbus, OH
@ColumbusBitcoin
✅ May 21 - Detroit, MI
@detbtc
🗓️ May 26 - Indianapolis, IN
@IndyBitcoin
🗓️ May 27 - Benton Harbor, MI
@dvhaley
🗓️ May 31 - June 3 in Chicago (
@chibitdevs
let’s talk!)
plus...
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Why I didn't drink, even when the drinks were free
Not drinking alcohol is definitely a superpower.
This is not a post about willpower, or health, or the right way to live. I don't want to shame anyone in to not drinking. In fact, selfishly I would prefer if everyone kept
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When I was at
@BTCPrague
I heard a lot of myths about Thailand 🇹🇭
After 5 years living here let me clear them up.
Here’s myth
#1
: Thailand is just for backpackers.
Maybe this was true 20 years ago, but it couldn’t be further from the truth today.
Yes, Thailand has a low
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Today's TFTC newsletter from
@MartyBent
was absolutely killer. Summed up bitcoin vs shitcoin.
My favorite excerpt:
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What does
#Bitcoin
have to do with raising your own livestock?
If you know, you know. Self-sovereignty doesn't stop with a hardware wallet.
My latest for
@BitcoinMagazine
, exploring the intersection of Bitcoin and homesteading.
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Hey
@nayibbukele
- would this look nice in your office?
This motorcycle saddlebag is a Proof of Tour to 30+ local Bitcoin meetups, signed by hundreds of sovereign individuals.
Maybe the next tour will be in Bitcoin Country AKA El Salvador?
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Happy Veterans Day 🫡
Thank you to the veterans who put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms. I wish our govt didn't throw you in to battle as much as it does.
My latest in
@BitcoinMagazine
covers how
#Bitcoin
can end "forever wars".
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@safespaceghost
@simonsarris
Has it occurred to you that an immigrant coming to America and building a company that vastly lowers space flight costs, even getting humanity to the moon again, might be a demonstration of the virtues of a free and democratic society?
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CHICAGO
#BITCOIN
TOUR MEETUP!
Hey Chicagoans, thanks to
@chibitdevs
I was able to put together an event in Chicago for the
#bitcointour
!
Location: Sully's House Sports Bar
Time: 6pm on Wednesday June 1st
Here's the event page. See you soon!!
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Thank you to
@BitcoinMagazine
for giving me the opportunity to write another piece!
In this one, I cover the misunderstood debt ceiling mess, and its roots in an increasingly reckless and self-serving bureaucracy.
Summarized in thread.
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Hey
@Strike
@jackmallers
how come you just locked my Strike account and stole $2,000 dollars from me?
Support is giving no explanation or help.
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Wrote a new piece for
@BitcoinMagazine
about a community you may not be familiar with... Southeast Asian hill tribes.
These are fascinating cultures nestled in the hills with a lot to teach
#Bitcoiners
about resisting the state.
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Meetup dates locked in for Part 2 of the Bitcoin Tour:
- Columbus, OH
@ColumbusBitcoin
- Thu, May 19
- Detroit
@detbtc
- Sat, May 21
- Indianapolis
@IndyBitcoin
- Thu, May 26
- Minneapolis
@BitcoinersMPLS
- Wed, June 8
- Sioux Falls
@SiouxFallsBTC
- Mon, June 13
LFG!
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Thank you
@techengineer21
for an awesome discussion about your
#bitcoin
generating home heating system.
Read on to learn how to easily double-spend your energy bill to earn sats.
Why did I interview
@techengineer21
?
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First day of the great American
#Bitcoin
Tour - 250 miles across Florida. I wasn’t looking forward to flat Florida, but riding at dusk was beautiful tonight.
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Took the Bitcoin Bike out today for a last ride before I move back overseas. Still as thrilling as the first time I twisted the throttle.
Blessed to have had the year I did meeting so many awesome Bitcoiners across America. You all rock!!
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@stackhodler
Love it
I’m building motorcycle trips for sovereign individuals. I feel that sense of flow on a bike, it can become a nice business, and it’s challenging to explore and then steward that exploration for others.
Thanks for putting some clarity on to what’s gonna go down 🙏
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A short story of traveling to
@BTCPrague
1. Booked flights, stopping 1 night in Vienna.
2. Open
@orangepillapp
and search for plebs in Vienna
3. Find Paul who runs a lunch place that accepts Bitcoin -
@DasDelicious
4. Message him about my Vienna visit
5. Find out that Paul
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What if
@SBF_FTX
had the best of intentions? The result to onlookers is still indistinguishable from fraud.
What that says about other institutions apparently working in our best interest is damning.
Thanks
@BitcoinMagazine
for publishing my thoughts!
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Chicago Bitcoiners - see you on Wednesday!
Looking forward to hearing how you got in to Bitcoin and what you're up to now. I'm in town for the week, then on to Milwaukee -- for
@harleydavidson
HQ and
@btcfangorn
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Central bankers don't get natural balance.
Fiat maxis don't understand it either.
Autocrats can't even fathom it.
I talked to
@JackyHODL
and
@LivChevre
about why both Bitcoiners and homesteaders get the importance of living in symbiosis with nature.
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Riding my Harley across the USA to over 30 Bitcoin meetups, I noticed a unique camaraderie among Bitcoiners.
What I saw overall saddened me: decaying small towns, frustrated people, misguided anger... From the ground, I saw my former home descending in to division.
Except at
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You’ve waited long enough… here’s what it means to go on a Ride of Passage.
2024s rides will be announced soon. Limited seats.
I hate selling, so I'll let the video do the talking. The Ride of Passage is a memorable experience with likeminded Bitcoiners - as
@modernTman
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Do not sleep on the American Midwest.
These
#Bitcoin
meetups are helping decentralize America: welcoming people out of overpriced fiat cities and in to small towns across the country.
You need to see them.
incl
@ColumbusBitcoin
@swmibitcoiners
@MKEbtc
@IndyBitcoin
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Going no phone this week, will report back on my findings 🫡
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The Midwest is a sleeping giant when it comes to
#Bitcoin
and sovereignty. You have to see it to believe it.
The Ride of Passage: American Heartland tour is your avenue for shaking the hands revitalizing this land. If this sounds interesting, see the link in my bio.
Thanks
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Live from the road on the
#BitcoinTour
! Thanks
@niftynei
and
@stakamoto21
for hosting the awesome Astrobits meetup on Tuesday night in Houston. See you tonight at the monthly meetup sponsored by
@unchainedcap
!
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We are all swimming in one big Ponzi scheme.
How does it work, and what can we do about it?
tl;dr in thread, long version here:
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In a world of unprecedented technological and scientific advancement, why are we at each others' throats instead of living in utopia?
Because easy money is destroying growth and sucking out prosperity.
My latest in
@BitcoinMagazine
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Many people dislike this headline.
If you’re concerned about people FOMOing in to an asset they don’t understand, then consider whether most people understand the other assets they invest in - or currencies they use!
New piece for
@BitcoinMagazine
-
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Phoenix, AZ
#Bitcoin
Meetup coming up on the Bitcoin Tour!
Date: Thursday, July 7th
Location: Linger Longer Lounge, Phoenix
RSVP:
Shoutout to
@gmekhail
@azbitcoiners
and especially
@sthenc
for organizing!
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Bitcoin Educator's Retreat in Thailand -- Looking for some help!
I need your help gathering interest in a retreat for Bitcoin educators and community builders. Please retweet, comment, and share this so we can gather a group together.
At this retreat we will host a 'mastermind'
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Great analogy I heard from
@bitcoinissaving
on
@garyleland
show:
Inflation is like a blind in poker. Blinds push people to play worse hands, bc of opportunity cost. Inflation hurries spending + investment, causing worse outcomes. Higher inflation/blind = more hurry, risk, ruin.
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Homesteading doesn't have to mean living out in the wilderness all alone.
@realizingerin
is farming in her Berkeley backyard, enjoying the best of city social life while sowing the seeds of self-sufficiency.
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From tinkerer to mini-industrial-miner,
@CoinHeated
shares some wild tales of his
#Bitcoin
mining journey.
Why did I interview Coin Heated?
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Just want to share one story that exemplifies how awesome the
#Bitcoin
community during my tour around the USA.
This one is about my visit to Milwaukee, the birthplace of the company that made the tour's motorcycle: Harley Davidson.
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Dallas / Fort Worth Bitcoiners - see you at BitBlockBarbeque tomorrow! The
#BitcoinTour
motorcycle will be there!
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Okay I want to do a Ride of Passage in the Midwest in the fall this year.
This is an area of the country that really impressed me on the
#BitcoinTour
in 2022 and I want to explore it further with other Bitcoiners and sovereign individuals.
I want this ride to be different
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Wrote something for the layman about Bitcoin's Quantitative Hardening (QH) vs central bank Quantitative Easing (QE).
@adam3us
@pierre_rochard
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3000 miles on the
#Bitcoin
Tour so far is a lot of gas - thanks
@upstreamdatainc
@SGBarbour
for filling the tank!
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Working on a new idea to lead a motorcycle tour here in Thailand for Bitcoiners.
The aim will be to shatter your comfort zone. It won't be a cushy vacation, but it will be way more fun than sitting on the beach.
@modernTman
will be along for the ride as well.
Interested?
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Another great home mining interview with
@DaddyBTC_pleb
. Dan runs multiple miners around his house, either as quiet space heaters or additions to his HVAC home heating system.
Check out his story and setup here.
Why did I interview Dan?
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Yesterday I hit Logan Square Farmer's market in Chicago to buy meat directly from a farmer. I was able to pay for a steak in
#Bitcoin
that I cooked on my tailpipe riding to Milwaukee, plus I met the guy who set that vendor up with a Bitcoin wallet.
Here’s the story:
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The saddlebags from the Bitcoin Tour will be AUCTIONED at
@TheBitcoinConf
in about a month!
Signed by hundreds of Bitcoiners around the USA, they are a true PoW inside and out.
And I will raffle off 21% of the auction earnings to
#Bitcoin
meetups. Here's how...
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Love chatting with
@modernTman
... in this rip we covered:
- Motorcycling the USA on
#BitcoinTour
- Slim's TX --> TN tour for
#BeefInitiative
- Our plan to explore food systems and spread
#Bitcoin
in Thailand next year
Thanks
@modernTman
!
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So many in "crypto" think they are geniuses who have discovered a new paradigm that can make them insanely rich, but the reality of the situation is they have discovered a way to recreate the corruption that exist in the incumbent financial system...
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Paid P2P over lightning for an Airbnb from a Bitcoiner in Vienna last night. Simplest booking and payment process of all time.
This is the power of the
#Bitcoin
network.
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Last year, I went on a tour around the USA to over 30 local
#Bitcoin
meetups supported by
@SwanBitcoin
@unchainedcap
@BitcoinMagazine
and
@upstreamdatainc
I met the front line of Bitcoin educators: pragmatic, humble, hardworking people filled with hope for a brighter future...
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THANK YOU for sharing the
#Bitcoin
Tour with me!
After 11,500 miles around the USA, the tour is almost over… one more meetup with
@bayareabtc
in San Francisco.
I shot lots of video that Swan Studios is working w/ for a series (shoutout
@brekkie
+ team).
LA Meetup pictured!
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Alright folks, it's time.
Time to announce this year's Ride of Passage trips. Comment with your questions.
The Ride of Passage was born out of the Bitcoin Tour I took on a Harley across America, where I learned just how well Bitcoiners get along in person.
So last year I
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The only thing I dislike about living in a warm climate is I have no need to run an S9 space heater.
Real shame.
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Launching something new... The Thailand motorcycle trip (details coming in ~12 hours) will be the first experience.
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Check it out
@markgoodw_in
- Broke Issue of
@thebtcmag
from
@BitcoinMagazine
made it across the Pacific!
And it was opened by Customs in Thailand. So maybe we orange pilled a customs agent over here 😂
Thank you!!!
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Having too much fun playing with
#InVisionStudio
animations. Imagining pushing and pulling a card on and off a stack with animation timelines. Thank you
@InVisionApp
for the beta invite!
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If you want to join a Ride of Passage motorcycle tour like this with a group of incredible
#Bitcoin
-ers, please leave a comment.
I want to get in touch with you.
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Made it to Monument Valley. Time to relax. The road is long but we take it day by day.
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Just put a deposit down on this NSR150, I'm psyched.
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If you signed the Bitcoin Tour saddlebags, leave a comment below and retweet!
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It's here. Ride across Thailand with a group of Bitcoiners on the Ride of Passage: Magical Thailand Tour.
@modernTman
of
@beefinitiative
is already in.
Are you?
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Might buy a fifth wheel and tour the USA again. Hit a lot more
#Bitcoin
meetups. Stop at ranches in the
@beefinitiative
Roll for 6-12 months this time. Bring my girlfriend to see the country - just need to figure out how to get her a USA visa.
The aim would be to trial and
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Some people think I’m anti-USA.
I am a United States citizen. I want to see the USA succeed.
But the USA needs to succeed on its own feet. It needs to stop relying on pillaging the rest of the world by trading paper it prints from thin air for real goods and services from
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Heading to Nashville this morning on the
#BitcoinTour
.
I’ll be in Nashville til Friday - hit me up if you’re in the area!
@ck_SNARKs
@bitkite
@ODELL
@SpecificMills
@RFreebing
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Since some of you have asked how I am dealing with gas prices on the
#Bitcoin
Tour…
Proud to announce
@upstreamdatainc
is helping out by contributing towards gas for the tour!
Why work with Upstream?
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Thank you for the amazing conversation as always
@bitkite
! Bitcoin across America is a force to be reckoned with.
EP5: Bitcoin Across America w/
@CaptainSiddh
- Writer and Rider, Bitcoin Tour of America
We covered a lot including:
- a detailed look at Sidd’s route from Miami to the San Francisco Bay area
- what most Bitcoiners are really like in-person
- cont. 👇
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#Bitcoin
and motorcycles - comment and repost if you get them both.
Let's gather the freedom-lovers.
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How I ditched shitcoins and ended up riding across the USA on a Harley to 30+ Bitcoin meetups on the Bitcoin Tour.
That led straight to starting an adventures company for Bitcoiners and sovereign individuals called the Ride of Passage.
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The shitcoiners and the venture funds who enable them have made the conscious decision to become the benefactors of this new form of seignorage at the expense of retail investors. Luckily for us, they have destroyed their own reputations and collective net worth in the process.
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Mega Meetup was awesome, thank you to everyone who came. Plebs united.
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Meetups coming up on the Rockies, Southwest, and West Coast leg of the
#Bitcoin
Tour:
🗓️ June 27 - Denver, CO
@BeerBitcoin
🗓️ July 1 - Ranch Visit + Montrose, CO Meetup
@JasonWrich
@adam_egloff
🗓️ July 7 - Phoenix, AZ
@azbitcoiners
@sthenc
continued...
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Had several great conversations in
@BTCPrague
about living in Thailand: lifestyle, family friendliness etc
Likely that your perception of Thailand is very wrong 😂
My life improved massively when I moved there.
If you’re curious, come find me! I’m usually at the Nostr booth.
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@_AustinHerbert
@TheBTCTimes
@w_s_bitcoin
This is where people start acquiring bitcoin not to get rich but to avoid slow impoverishment by financial controls.
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Girlfriend was denied a US visa, so I'm leaving the states soon after the Nashville
#Bitcoin
meetup.
Going to Turkey, Georgia, and Europe (maybe France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland) for about a month.
Where are the Bitcoiners I should meet?
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