Mining sites and landfills using methane. Let’s get this bitch carbon neutral baby.

I'm wrestling with different ideas, and it will take too long to try to make them well-ordered and ranked, so instead I'm going to just post a bunch of candidate ideas, of which this is the first.

Bounty: on the strength of that goofy video with that furry orange coin monster, set aside $2 million in btc for btc "early funnel" videos -- designed to introduce people to btc, in whatever way the authors think is best. It could be funny and goofy, it could be serious and techy, whatever.

Awards: the first hundred videos that clear the bar of "credible and good enough" (voting method to be described momentarily) get $10k of btc. These hundred videos are put in competition with each other, and the ultimate winner gets a million dollars in btc.

Voting: videos will be submitted, via special process, to Stacker News. Stackers cast vote based on zaps, with proceeds going to the site. Videos zapped beyond a reserve threshhold price will automatically win, unless I decide otherwise due to seeming bullshit or hijinx or whatever. I can also arbitrarily award the prize to a video even if it hasn't met its zap reserve price.

Disclaimer: since I am the dictator of this $55m btc success fund , I reserve the right to make assorted determinations on its behalf. This is the easiest way to prevent things like a Satoshi-wannabe stuffing the video submission ballot with child porn; and would also serve as a good lesson that while btc reduces the total trust necessary to operate a monetary system, there is no such thing as 'trustless' in a system built by and for humans.

fund a ton devs, probably half protocol, half product

Donations to communities at the condition of never exchanging to fiat, Bitcoin Beach style

Fund projects seeking to build zk rollups on Bitcoin with trustless two way pegs so that we can scale this thing effectively.

I'd just try to scale, broaden, and deepen bitcoin dev education like Chaincode and base58. I'm not sure how much difference $55m would make on such a thing, but I imagine Chaincode's budget is <$5m/year.

I'd buy thousands of cheap durable cellphones (usable in the global south) and gift mutiny wallet/ zeus to as many freaks possible

Well if I couldn't smash buy and just have the Bitcoin network do its thing I would probably focus on how I could generate as much new energy production across Africa with Bitcoin as a demand response tool and bootstrapping these new power plants.

I think for me the bang for buck is real, give people energy and then watch them to put it to work, plenty of value to be unlocked on the continent

Fund 20 $50k bounties to create btc-focused university-level classes on assorted topics across the sciences and humanities. The point isn't to create classes about btc for the sake of btc, but rather to create classes in key fields that illustrate those topics with first-rate btc material. Students who don't necessarily care about btc would take the classes because they're really effective for teaching some key topic area. They would emerge with btc knowledge as a trojan horse.

It's not hard to think of technical classes in {algorithms, cryptography, distributed systems, software engineering} that could include a significant btc component, but the really interesting place to include it would be the non-economic social sciences. Everyone who's gone deep down the rabbit hole comes to understand how profound are the implications of money in general, and btc in particular, across a host of domains. Having quality content that foregrounded btc's relationship to history, psychology, sociology, communications, anthropology, and political science would be super interesting.

Making classes that were fully academically credible and that came with free materials, detailed syllabi, good problem sets, and high-quality instruction available free to everyone would orange pill a host of people who may not otherwise wind up orange-pilled. I think this is a major weakness of existing educational material -- the classes I know of start from the premise that btc is the most amazing things and you already want to learn about it. The audience who meets that criterion is severely limited. Far better to spread the conceptual underpinnings of btc to anybody who wants to learn the things that come as part of a standard university education -- that would be a million bucks well spent.

Then use Bitcoin for Bitcoin

id buy $55 mil of l-btc to try and bootstrap liquid 🤣

Smash buy