👉 Throwback post from 2022

Sounds simple enough but few people actually think about the future and what they are trying to create and accomplish for the community when they are starting. The initiative I was apart of was built around starting a Bitcoin Standard in Austin and we never looked back. To this day that has always been the goal and will continue to be the mission I follow. I personally am not stopping until hyperbitcoinization, that's how much I love my city and state. So make sure to get your core group together and decide what that vision is and never look back.

When I was involved in art groups and band collectives that was something I found that was really profound was just how the community of musicians and artists supported each other through different initiatives. We all shared each other's gear, equipment, talent, musicians, we collaborated on pieces, albums and even toured in support of one another. It was a collective. When I came into the Bitcoin space in 2020. Few helped each other or saw the value of collaboration, many viewed each other as competition. That made no sense to me. In music there was no Bitcoin. In our ecosystem we all hold Bitcoin, so all boats rise together. That was the simple logic in my head.

Plus living in Austin and seeing it grow through the many years has opened my eyes to just how much recruiting others to our town had already helped established businesses and brands grow much bigger. In my mind it was the same with Bitcoiners. So if you are doing something in your town or city you should try to recruit them to your grassroots initiative it can only help your community grow. What's the saying the grass is always greener where you water it the most.

So this is kind of out there a bit, so feel free to skip this last one, I've written about this on Thriller but I see Community in three different phases to get off the ground. When you first start out you are in the Manifesting stage. It is more giving and volunteering than anything else and takes the longest time, read more here. The next stage is the Fostering stage read more about that here. I would argue that Austin has already entered the last stage which is the Empower stage, which at some point this year I will have to right about on Thriller. It just means further pockets spin off the already existing community, creating more individual leaders further creating a bigger and bigger community. Which gets us back to the word Grassroots, once you reach the Empower stage ideally each of these individual leaders further spin off more individually leaders further creating a bigger and bigger community. At that point you won. It's why it's so important to teach and train the next person in your community everything you know it only helps you grow and sustain long term. It's why I think it's called Grassroots, it literally planting and watering these individual leaders and helping them grow for the long term in your community.