When we started @BuildwBitcoin, @isra_munoz and I expected to find incredible innovation -- we didn't anticipate that we'd find a way to reimagine venture capital and funding startups that benefits founders as much as investors, aligning incentives to build the best companies possible, over time. That's what sound money can do - that's what Building With Bitcoin *is* doing. Thanks to our guests -- the founders and investors -- who have generously shared their stories and inspired us along the way!

History rhymes. Governments once tried to treat cryptography as a munition. The math didn't care. Open-source won. The same playbook is now being applied to AI. It will fail for the same reasons. Not your AI, not your intelligence. Open-source, local-first, intelligence you own. That's the only path forward. That's why we created QVAC. Qvac.tether.io

‘The factory floor was the venture capital’… I believe this also contributes to outsized success because incentives are so closely aligned.

Exactly. Here's to entrepreneurship, and no one does it better than @elonmusk. You don't achieve big rewards without taking big risks. 🚀🚀🚀

I truly enjoyed my talk with @TimKotzman, where we not onlyexplored the landscape of Bitcoin startups but also ideas around Bitcoin Treasury companies and 'fixing VC'. We also chatted about the upcoming @MitaTechTalks, where Tim will be one of the speakers exploring the future of Capital and the intersection of Bitcoin, AI, and Energy. Give it a listen, and let me know if you have questions!

🦾 This is why we’re building PlebTV. One of our creators is already seeing traction back to his own website from his PlebTV channel. Not just views. Real discovery. Real traffic. Real business. Built for the Bitcoin Era. Check out Ventac’s Startup Legal Series for founders: plebtv.com/c/ventac Learn more about Ventac here: myventac.com/professor-know-…

No one has spirit like my adopted Mexico!! 🇲🇽 💚🤍♥️

Code is not a crime. This should frighten all of us.

we still need to free samourai billandkeonne.org

Informal metrics: walking through my Mexico City neighborhood this morning, roughly 80% of people (men & women) are wearing the colors. Viva Mexico 🇲🇽!!! @FIFAWorldCup Opening Day!

The Bitcoin Lightning Network is ready for institutions ✅ This integration with @bitgo increases the liquidity depth in lightning enabling larger payments with enterprise reliability for @ambosstech customers.

If you live in Mexico City and are interested in Bitcoin from a professional point of view, BitDevs is probably your best shot at eventually getting involved in the industry. 👇

Hello all, On Friday I got news that I am to be transferred to a new institution. I will no longer be an inmate at FPC Morgantown. I am a little disappointed because this is a nice place (for a prison) and my wife can visit easily. For security reasons they do not tell you where you are going but I am hopeful that it won't be too far from home. I was told to be ready to "pack out" on Monday or Tuesday - it is very likely I will be leaving on Wednesday - so I spent the weekend getting ready to leave. It is amazing how much stuff you accrue in such a short period of time, it has been nearly 6 months since I arrived here. I expect they will call me down to "R&D" (receiving and discharge) where they will inspect my belongings to make sure there is no contraband and I am not taking anything unauthorized and pack them away in a box or two that they will ship to my new institution. As for "shipping" me, it is very likely that I will be flown out to the central transit prison hub in Oklahoma before I am then flown onward to wherever they are putting me. Yes, Con-air is a real thing. Needless to say going through transit (Oklahoma) is a real nightmare. You can be stuck there from 1 day to several weeks, you're around all kinds of prisoners of all different security levels. No one looks forward to Oklahoma - myself included. There is the slightest possibility of avoiding the transit nightmare. On Friday after I got word I submitted a formal request (a "cop out" in BOP lingo) to the CMC (case manager coordinator) here at the institution. I requested that they allow me to perform what is called a 'transfer furlough' which means instead of the BOP spending upwards of $10,000 to fly me across the country several times my wife can come pick me up and drop me off at my new location at my own cost. Transfer furloughs are rare of course, but the CMC didn't reject it outright, he promised to take it up the chain of command and let me know. So while I am not expecting it, there is the slightest glimmer of possibility that they allow it. Considering that I have had no incident reports, that i self surrendered, that I had no issue on pre-trial supervision for nearly 2 years, etc, all makes a compelling case that I can be trusted to self transfer. So here is to hoping for the best. I will let you know where I will be once I know where I will be. All the best, Keonne

The 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum has come to a close, but the impact of our gathering continues to resonate.

weekend project: cypherpunkbooks.com one shelf for books, manifestos, essays, etc... built it for myself to keep everything I want to read and everything i love in one place.

AI is deflationary. Bitcoin is scarce. Put them together. @lynnerae: "The deflation that AI will bring to the world couples perfectly with Bitcoin's scarce supply. The two together are a really powerful force I hadn't thought of in that way before." @isramunozp: "AI just further untaps true free market competition dynamics — things have to continue getting cheaper. That's deflation of technology." This is the thread Build With Bitcoin keeps pulling on, and that we discuss in our recent Highlights episode, available now 🎧

With all of the exploits in DeFi, Zcash, and all of the other insanely complex crypto systems we are reminded again that Bitcoin’s simplicity is its biggest feature.

Opinions in Bitcoin are expressed by running software, not by voting.

Our new @BuildwBitcoin Highlights episode gives you the top takeaways and common threads running through our most recent five episodes -- because the only thing scarcer than Bitcoin is your time!

What does it take to build a truly global Bitcoin protocol? @lucasdcf, co-founder of @Vinteum_org, has spent years making space for Brazilian developers in the Bitcoin open-source ecosystem. Through grants, education programs, and @casavinteum, Vinteum has helped 15 developers land full-time roles at projects like @bitcoindevkit, @StratumV2, and @Blockstream. Read the full story: Link in the thread

Everyone is using AI to write content. And it's starting to show. Fernando Nikolic @basedlayer, founder of @BTCPerception, is watching it happen in real time: "Everybody is leveraging AI to write their content, and everybody starts talking exactly the same, writing exactly the same — generating this collective slop." His solution: proprietary data as the differentiator. When one major company told him they already built their own internal tools, Fernando challenged them to A/B test it against Perception's data feed. "It was night and day. They're now a very happy enterprise customer." Code is commoditized. The data underneath it isn't. 🎧 Latest episode of Build With Bitcoin with Fernando Nikolic of Perception — link in bio.