The OG Bitstorian. History PhD. A professor @Binghamtonu. Editor @bitcoinbooksrev Past Senior Fellow @BTCpolicyorg. Scholar @FulbrightPrgrm Grad @BTCstartuplab
Joined January 2024
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Apr 20
Bitcoin student research prizes. Bitcoin books. Bitcoin learning. Bitcoin innovation. Bitcoin Studies: a field, a discipline, a paradigm shift. Congrats!! @itserinfitz @jyn_urso, Cameron Peterson, @salpineda @AGseedfree, Levi Johnson and Nolan Nachbar. The future of Bitcoin.
BRB is super excited for the winners and all the amazing Bitcoin research that students are doing, often totally in silos. We hope that this first Bitcoin Student Research Prize will foster the approval of Bitcoin courses, labs, programs & mining at US educational institutions.
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Packing up the Jeep to our all-electricity-inclusive lake house when I realized that Wranglers are designed with a dedicated spot for a @RickThomasII Slim19. Who’s the quiet @heatpunks engineer @Jeep and when are we getting hashboards pre-installed? 👀
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Jun 11
You know you’re a Bitcoiner when you stand in front of fan on a hot summer day and think about your body as a semiconductor with logic gates needing air cooling, and wonder whether a hydro-cooling option would be more effective to feel comfortable.
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Jun 6
NY Southern Tier sits on an enormous gas reserve. Accessing it is banned in NY. The Party that is perpetually in power here does not want it used. Local energy costs are outrageous. The Party's partisans say it wants to help. It's only "solution" is to protest power consumption🤷
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May 22
I've been teaching Bitcoin for years & yet I learn more about it daily, by experimentation, by voracious reading, by chats w/Bitcoiners in the wild, etc.. to me, Pizza Day is a celebration of the mind & its creative potential, & appreciation for my Bitcoin research opportunities.
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May 20
Bitcoining. Generating sovereignty by uniting universality (electricity) with materiality: the forever manifests via man’s temporal experience and a new truth is born. Get your hands dirty, speak P2P, encounter immanence, render unto Caesar, and just physically build new.
This is what actual sovereign compute looks like before the UTXO is broadcast or the website loads...
Gens moving. Power coming online. Stranded energy becoming infrastructure.
Proof of work, built by outlaws, not suit-clad tourists. ⚡🏴☠️
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May 19
A bitstorian deploys paleogr. & archival skills w/their publ. work in found./math. ontology, w/a bit of physics, an obsession w/electricity, & an llm, & voilà, summer months away from maybe broadcasting a BTC tx over arpanet, w/help of github.com/larsbrinkhoff/lin… Why? Meshmerizing.
ALT https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8.pdf
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May 18
10 BTC funds a sovereign Bitcoin lab to pioneer/BTM next-gen tech, e.g., PV mining loops, complex compute & optical hashing, revers. logic gates, pyrolysis as Bitcoin climatech, scaled Bitcoin network overlays,... teaching existing tools, e.g., building HydroPool servers w/Pi & regtest timechains w/Rust for shared AI agents for OS/OA analyses, designing nodes from open repositories, using Meshtastic-Lora (& an ARPANET VM?) for Bitcoin tx,... Minds of all kinds set free to build.
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May 18
Learn. Build. Learn. Build. Teach. Learn. Build. Educate. Enjoy.
Build like censorship is coming, because pretending it isn’t is clown behavior.
Private compute.
No KYC. No leash. No babysitter.
@SHCompute
Sovereignhybridcompute.com
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May 16
Bitcoin is, in part, a product of the public’s desire for transparency and accountability by states and institutions.
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May 17
2% of Americans trust the federal government "to do what is right 'just about always'" and 15% trust the federal government "most of the time". In 1964, 77% of Americans trusted the gov. "always/most of the time". You failed, so we built our own money.
pewresearch.org/politics/202…
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May 17
In 1776, freedom meant escaping a king, printing pamphlets without permission, and bearing arms against tyranny.
In 2026, freedom means resisting financial oppression, protecting speech online, owning your digital identity, and using freedom technology like Bitcoin, sovereign computing and decentralized networks.
The battlefield changed.
The fight for freedom didn’t.
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May 10
Bitcoin is (not has) value 1. b/c it’s the product of the full scientific method, & 2. b/c it parallels biological processes, life itself, in turning energy into heat for being. Here’s a perfect example of that. Awesome! @BeeEvolved
May 9
Sneak peek at HeatHarvest 2026: Satoshi’s Hatchery
“Proof of Hatch”
This season, we’re putting Bitcoin mining heat to work in a whole new way: poultry cultivation.
The mission is to use Bitcoin miners not only to hatch quail in custom-designed incubators, to carry them through the full early-life cycle, from incubation, to brooder, to overwintering habitat, with Bitcoin miners serving as the primary heat source from start to finish.
The system will include custom automatic turners, humidity control, temperature monitoring, and control modules designed specifically around Bitcoin miner heat recovery.
The builds will include two incubator variations: Mini, designed for small-scale 6-egg hatching, and Max, designed for up to 50 eggs. We’ll also be developing a Bitcoin-heated brooder with capacity for up to 100 quail chicks, along with a one-of-a-kind Bitcoin heated adult quail habitat designed to complete the cycle and start it all over again.
Proof of Hatch begins.
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May 9
Schools in the UK are starting to accept Bitcoin for tuition payment.👏 Lomond. I did my PhD in the UK precisely because of its forward thinking and creative intellectual liberties. How many years will it take for this BTC innovation to make it to the US?
bitcoinmagazine.com/news/bit…
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May 9
Bitcoin has its own facticity protocol powering its unique deployment of the scientific method. This is why Bitcoin, as a truth procedure, cannot be fully grasped by existing disciplines and is why we need a new one, Bitcoin Studies 👀 my future @Braiins volume for more.
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May 2
Pythagoreanism Extropianism Bitcoinism = Rational Trinitarianism, a new and intriguing ontotheology.
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Apr 28
Awesome. Now, let’s power this with batteries charged by recapturing some of the airflow energy of air-cooled miners with turbines in the exhaust… :)
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Apr 28
Congress fails in all ways, yet we the people lack the constitutional right to not elect anyone from our districts, no right to simply re-allocate taxpayer funds back to the payers instead of to a "representative" who's "elected" by us (if we don't vote, the gov appoints a rep).
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