65 MILLION NEW $BTC OWNERS, ONLY 21M COINS. MICHAEL SAYLOR COULD START IT. What if Saylor committed $100 million to give every American newborn Bitcoin? At $82K per BTC: • 25,000 sats per child ($20.50). • 3.6M new owners annually. • $74M funds the first year. • 65M potential owners over 18 years. Saylor starts it and other Bitcoin billionaires and companies keep it going. The BTC stays locked until age 18. Now imagine millions of parents learning about Bitcoin, buying more for their children, and raising an entire generation that grows up owning it. That's the real opportunity. Not the initial $100 million. It's creating a self-reinforcing adoption cycle with millions of families. 65 million new owners competing for an asset capped at 21 million coins. The most bullish thing Saylor could do for Bitcoin might be giving some away. @saylor, what if giving Bitcoin to the next generation became the largest adoption initiative in Bitcoin history? @saylor @Strategy @elonmusk @MichaelDell

What did I learn at Bitcoin Alpha? @britishhodl brought this up last night in a Space hosted by @MitchTX21, suggesting it wasn't worth going since nobody he talked to could say what they "learned at Bitcoin Alpha." I was half asleep, jet lagged, and wiped from back to back networking all week, so I didn't come up to speak. Here's my answer. This was only my second Bitcoin event, and no, I didn't learn stuff you write in a book. I learned there are very smart people out there, like physicist @jamestagg, running real world experiments with quantum computers in his backyard. Since I love Bitcoin mining, I brought up an idea. Everyone talks about quantum computers cracking wallets, seed phrases, or private keys. I asked, what if quantum was used to crack mining a block instead? Turns out James is already experimenting with that on a Bitcoin miner in his backyard. That led to a talk about a software program that could give miners a better chance of finding a block, which I can't disclose yet. I brought @LorenHodl and @btc_overflow into the conversation, and the four of us had talks about starting a business venture together. I learned you can't get that from a book, a Space, or a YouTube talk. It only happens at an event like Bitcoin Alpha. I learned you have to be in the room with the people actually building in this space and into the same things you are. You see how they really think, and who's legit versus who's just talking online. I learned you don't pay the ticket price for the food or the talks. You pay for access to those people. The talks are content. The people are the value. I also learned: • The price is a filter. Everyone there is serious, has money, or is building something. • Access. People who'd never answer your DM will talk to you over coffee in the hallway. • Trust happens in person. People do business with people they've met, shaken hands with, and shared a meal with. • The real action is off stage. Deals, partnerships, and investments start at dinners, in hallways, and at after parties. • Inside info. You hear what people are building and buying before it's public. I learned @bensig has a very nice wife, a beautiful daughter, and a great family. I learned an event like this takes a lot of hard work and prep, and @dotkrueger and Ben did a great job. While donating my time to help Ben and Fred set up, I met @shantbuilds and learned he discovered Bitcoin Alpha last year while the event was happening. This year he and his girlfriend, who are awesome people, help out with the event. Even more importantly, he's contributing to the Bitcoin space by making a watch that actually solo mines Bitcoin. I learned I'm still not confident speaking in front of an audience. When Ben passed me the mic in the AI conference room to tell my story, I got shy. I shouldn't have been afraid. All of this is what I learned from Bitcoin Alpha. And I learned one connection pays for the ticket. A single partner, investor, or client can be worth 100x what you paid.

I don't know what you are going through. Some of you are struggling with challenges I could never imagine. But you know who does know what you are going through? God. He is real, and he loves you. I met @RjMitte 3 weeks ago and had a wonderful time with him. We hung out together for a few hours and he told me about his family, his work, his philanthropy, his investments, and his dreams. Breaking Bad was my favorite TV show, so getting to hang out with him in person was surreal. He was just a totally normal dude and we had a lot in common. He told me that he had 36 students on scholarship. Thats 36 kids that got the opportunity to get an education because of him. I had the privilege to tell him about my app and we talked about it for a while. In the moment, this was the most important thing to me - telling my new celebrity friend about my Bitcoin app. But, today, I can't help but wish I would have just told him about Jesus instead. We interacted a bit on X over the past 3 weeks, and I was looking forward to continuing to get to know him and following his career. But today, he abruptly took his own life. I say this to hopefully help you learn from my mistake. I encourage you remember what is important. It's not us. It's Jesus. If you don't know him, you can. If you do, tell someone who doesn't. Rest in peace, RJ.

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It’s funny how much modern professional sports remind me of the Roman Colosseum and gladiatorial games. Since discovering Bitcoin in 2020, I haven’t played fantasy football. I barely watch the NFL anymore. I couldn’t tell you much about my hometown team, its players, trades, or even how the season is going. And frankly, I couldn’t care less. What’s more interesting is my reaction when someone starts talking about football at a party. I almost immediately lose interest. Sometimes I even catch myself judging them. I’ve wondered why. I think Bitcoin fundamentally changed my hierarchy of what deserves my attention. It opened the door to monetary history, central banking, geopolitics, capital markets, incentives, and eventually a much broader understanding of the forces shaping society. Once you start understanding how the game actually works, it’s difficult to get excited about watching another game. And that’s where the Roman Colosseum analogy becomes interesting. Millions of people can explain the intricacies of a defensive formation, recite player statistics, debate trades, and spend countless hours analyzing the performance of their favorite teams. Yet many couldn’t explain how the Federal Reserve operates, how money is created, or why their purchasing power continues to erode. We’ve developed extraordinary expertise in entertainment while remaining remarkably ignorant about the systems that govern our economic lives. Bread and circuses. Now, I recognize there’s a danger in that perspective. Enjoying football doesn’t make someone intellectually inferior or oblivious to the world. People need entertainment, community, and opportunities to disconnect. And Bitcoin has its own Colosseum. Influencers, tribal rivalries, personality conflicts, price predictions, and endless arguments over who’s winning and losing. You can abandon one spectacle only to become consumed by another. Perhaps that’s the real distinction. Are we investing our attention in understanding the world around us, or simply finding increasingly sophisticated ways to distract ourselves from it? I don’t begrudge anyone their Sunday football. But I do wonder how different society might look if people devoted even a fraction of the energy they spend understanding professional sports to understanding the monetary and political systems shaping their children’s futures. Because unlike football, we’re all playing in that game, whether we understand the rules or not.