The OG Bitstorian. History PhD. A professor @Binghamtonu. Editor @bitcoinbooksrev Past Senior Fellow @BTCpolicyorg. Scholar @FulbrightPrgrm Grad @BTCstartuplab
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.
@robertwarren And: the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026 - creating fiat value out of thin air to buy BTC 🤯 Also, ensuring Americans' right to own & transfer BTC, but not to mine it (i.e, to create money). And, still no right to mine for education & research.
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My doctor told me that nonfat cottage cheese is not a healthy food item. Hmm... Is "healthy" the medical professional's term for "not profitable for us"?
In any case, Bitcoin once again provided me with a valuable tool: "don't trust, verify".
@miketwenty1 Your transparent, community driven GitHub system for submitting talks and panels inspired me to push for this in academia and to use GitHub in innovative ways. Really, what a fantastic system! Thanks, and see you all in October.
@ocean_mining block 950529, w/"Christ is King", right before Pentecost is fascinating, firstly b/c the CB tx ScriptSig may reveal miner's awareness of Ocean's server adding 1 byte 0f to 14-byte “Christ is King” to render OP_PUSHBYTES_29, y/o Crucifixion. & 14= Stations of Cross, 3x14 gens to Jesus, etc. The Unix blocktime lands on a Friday, like the Crucifixion, and its digital root is 7... and so on. Cool block.
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.
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. ⚡🏴☠️
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 https://t.co/2BiUN95kRJ Why? Meshmerizing.
@BitcoinMagazine They should come upstate next semester to learn hands-on w/students how to (but not!) execute tempest attacks via thermal emissions, & how complex compute w/opt. hashing & jet-fighter & other decoy mining could defend ag. computational risks. What’s in the building’s template?
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.