I loved how you kept time by block height! It helped me create a mental timeline and in a fun way.

They’re getting real merchants to show up, meetup members are branching out and learning new skills to sell for sats, and even many children are involved. Nicks daughter, only nine, makes 3D printed bitcoin accepted here signs and other trinkets and sells them at these markets. She’s well equipped to send and receive sats and loves collecting bitcoin. They each said the kids are big in numbers and are all generally really excited and capable to collect Satoshis, which is just wonderful. Bitcoiners making Bitcoiners.

We've tried to do this a few times in Austin but it never really stuck. It requires someone to organize it. Sounds like they have a great crew.

Bitcoin doesn’t promise to increase in fiat value forever. Bitcoin doesn’t know fiat exists. It promises to allow us to send a transaction over the internet peer to peer with a unit of account that has a finite supply. And that’s about it! It has never failed in those regards, so to call the project a failure among this little dip is just lost on me. I think this rhetoric is even hostile to bitcoin's purpose and is self-defeating. At this point we’re at block 937307 and the panel is about to start.

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