What I'm Focused on Now

Updated June 20, 2022

Themes: Bitcoin, markets, monetary policy & history, resiliency, privacy

Doing

• Work I’m grateful for, expanding access to bitcoin by helping others build on the Bitcoin and Lightning networks with Bottlepay/NYDIG
• Investing more time and energy in the growing Nashville Bitcoin community as part of Bitcoin Park
• Preparing my family for an uncertain year ahead and bracing for impact as the US runs headlong into recession

Learning

• Taro, a new protocol and extension of the Lightning Network, built on Bitcoin’s latest major update, Taproot
• The Lightning Network, diving deeply into the protocol and major software implementations
• The history of monetary policy and central banking

Reading

I keep a handful of books on the go—a few non-fiction and a sci-fi selection for nighttime reading, when my infant permits

• The Fiat Standard
• Mastering the Lightning Network
• The Salvage Crew

Listening

My podcast selection is Bitcoin-heavy, mixed with macro economic trends and privacy, and delivered via the Lightning-powered Fountain app. And always new music.

• Bitcoin Audible
• Citadel Dispatch
• Closing the Loop
• The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
• The Kevin Rooke Show
• My “Best of 2022” playlist

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Inspired by Derek Sivers’ now page project