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@nprofile…hesc , a London maker: Saatchi, Glastonbury, a Star ...

2026-10-14T22:03:24Z

thomasforsyth (nprofile…hesc) , a London maker: Saatchi, Glastonbury, a Star Wars droid.

"My thoughts became zaps and those zaps became food in your belly."

Ep 7 of Share Your Bitcoin Journey. 21 sats ⚡ now on Fanfares.
https://fanfares.io/s/M4p7Qk

New Share Your Bitcoin Journey is live on Fanfares. The Higher ...

2026-10-13T13:04:05Z

New Share Your Bitcoin Journey is live on Fanfares.

The Higher Low is a Finnish punk singer who writes songs about Bitcoin that never say the word. Thirty years of DIY punk, one guitar, and every sat he earns saved for the next album.

21 sats this week. Free on YouTube and RSS next week. Every sat goes to Bitcoin For The Arts to fund artists.

Value for value. 🧡

#Bitcoin #Nostr #V4V #ValueForValue #BitcoinMusic #Fanfares

https://fanfares.io/s/mmJB72

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Rami Korhonen has sung in the Finnish melodic punk band Fumble since the early nineties. One of their songs opens an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. A few years ago, on long business trips in the Middle East, he picked up a guitar he found in a rented apartment and started writing songs about Bitcoin, with one rule: the songs never say the word. He calls it acoustic pleb rock. The project is The Higher Low.
In this episode, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Rami to trace the whole road: seeing the Ramones in Helsinki at sixteen, thirty years of DIY punk, recording twelve songs in one four-hour session over a Christmas break, the Bitcoin Beats invitation that turned them into the album Node To Freedom, and opening Bitcoin conference stages with one voice and one guitar.
He explains why his songs carry more than one meaning, what the name The Higher Low really means, the campfire test every song has to pass, and why he misses the freedom-tech spirit of Bitcoin's early culture. He tells the story of Knut Svanholm jumping on the drums at Baltic Honeybadger in Riga, writing Freedom Engine in El Zonte, handing his acoustic songs to Jesperi Mommo and the band for Freedom In the Digital Age, and crowdfunding the vinyl on Geyser.
His sats from music are never spent. "One day it's going to be enough to do another album."
This episode is a one-week Fanfares exclusive. Your 21 sats go straight to Bitcoin For The Arts to fund artists. Next week it goes free on YouTube and RSS.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Seeing the Ramones at sixteen and starting Fumble. Walk Alone in 1992, the break, and the 2006 comeback. The Law & Order: SVU song. Two people and a dog: playing every show like a festival. A guitar in a rented apartment and writing LFG on the spot. Twelve songs in one four-hour session. Bitcoin Beats, Boston, and Node To Freedom. Why the songs never say Bitcoin. What a higher low really means. Finding Bitcoin in 2017 and The Bitcoin Standard in 2020. The music pyramid, the fiat pyramid, and value for value. The campfire test. One guitar, nothing to hide behind. Opening the room at Bitcoin conferences. Knut Svanholm on drums in Riga. Freedom Engine in El Zonte. Handing the songs to the band. BTChel launch and the Geyser vinyl. Saving every sat for the next album. The next five years. What a $500 to $2,000 micro-grant would unlock.
FIND THE HIGHER LOW:
Website https://www.thehigherlow.co
Fountain https://fountain.fm/album/rWSoiYiNOhMmQd4AqmOT
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0rqMu9KHHUWw3TQbyaoWGq
Substack https://thehigherlow.substack.com/
X https://x.com/thehigherlow
ABOUT BITCOIN FOR THE ARTS:
501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin grants, education, and sovereign funding tools.
https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org
Grants https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/grants/apply
Donate https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/donate
X https://x.com/Bitcoinfta
Nostr https://primal.net/p/npub15rnn220qfdyhpgv9apjt38nadc0dzj8a7zpcrd2q4spq5apvvt2suswnaw
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The Higher Low saves every sat his music earns. One day, he says, ...

2026-10-13T12:50:51Z

The Higher Low saves every sat his music earns. One day, he says, it pays for the next album.

Hear his story on Share Your Bitcoin Journey Ep 17. 21 sats on Fanfares this week.
https://fanfares.io/s/mmJB72 https://aqstr.com/task/cmv6ogt1dy3pig0xnyn

Share Your Bitcoin Journey is on Fanfares. Alana Mediavilla: The ...

2026-10-04T01:19:25Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey is on Fanfares.

Alana Mediavilla: The Filmmaker Behind Dirty Coin.

Alana is the Puerto Rican filmmaker behind Dirty Coin and the founder of Campo Libre. Ten years in Big Tech, then home to San Juan to build her own company. She bought three bitcoin in 2015. Her husband sold them. Not your keys. One bitcoin donation financed the film and was worth more by the time it was spent. Five hundred screenings, two hundred cities, no studio. First English-language film to win Best National Documentary in Puerto Rico.

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In this conversation, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Alana Mediavilla, the Puerto Rican filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary Dirty Coin and founder of Campo Libre in San Juan.
Alana spent more than a decade inside Silicon Valley producing for Google, Apple, PayPal, Volkswagen, and Volvo, including four years as a video producer for Google Cloud. In 2020 she walked away, moved her family home to Puerto Rico, and built the most important documentary on Bitcoin mining ever made. Dirty Coin has since been screened in over 200 cities through a community-hosted distribution model and won Best National Documentary in Puerto Rico, the first English-language film ever to do so.
This is the full story: a photographer father at Kodak, a Cuban mother whose family left Havana under Fidel, the personal sovereignty question that runs through every choice she has made since, and why the next decade of cinema belongs to artists who control their own rails.
Watch or host Dirty Coin: https://kinema.com/films/dirty-coin-the-bitcoin-mining-documentary-46arp1 Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/tw4Hl5EFm4w Bitcoin For The Arts: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org
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Share Your Bitcoin Journey is on Fanfares. From Widow to Bitcoin ...

2026-10-04T01:17:25Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey is on Fanfares.

From Widow to Bitcoin Author: A Mother's Journey with Lindey Magee.

Lindey is a Mississippi mother and homeschooler. Her son tried to orange-pill the family in 2012, at 12. They didn't listen. Years later, after her husband died, she put the life insurance into Bitcoin and learned it like a job. She and her daughter live on a Bitcoin standard now. She wrote the children's book Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL.

The episode is on Fanfares.
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Mississippi mother Lindey Magee never planned to become a Bitcoin author. In August 2024, her husband Chuck lost his battle with cancer after twenty-five years of marriage, leaving her a widow with two children and no traditional income. Twelve years earlier, her then-twelve-year-old son Bennett had tried to teach her about Bitcoin. In grief, that conversation came back.

In this episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Lindey Magee, author of the Seuss-style rhyming children's book Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL, which debuted at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas and is now in the Ingram catalog for nationwide bookstore, library, and school distribution.

Lindey walks through her journey from grieving widow to Bitcoin advocate. She talks about the Holy Spirit conviction that led her to put Chuck's life insurance into Bitcoin, the New Year's Eve she sat down at her kitchen table and wrote most of the book by three in the morning, the offset print run of ten thousand copies she committed to on her own, and the thirty thousand dollars she has invested in the book while raising her teenage daughter on a Bitcoin standard, currently from inside a twenty-six foot Winnebago after mold destroyed their home.

Buy the book: https://lindeymagee.com Watch: https://youtu.be/S7oBI9aAz6w Bitcoin For The Arts: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org

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Advance bids are open. Lightning silent auction at Bitcoi Arts ...

2026-09-18T17:46:22Z

Advance bids are open.
Lightning silent auction at Bitcoi Arts Park

Midwest Bitcoin Summit · Columbus · Sept 23–24

CA Danner. Lady RedHorns. Shipwreck Sean. Timechain Mag Genesis Edition.
Bid in sats from home. Highest advance bid seeds the paper sheet on the Expo floor. Winner picks up in person Thursday at 3 PM. No shipping. No platform cut.

Lots: https://bitcoinforthearts.org/midwest/auction
Park: https://bitcoinforthearts.org/midwest

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16 Nadia Vaeh “In ...

2026-09-15T12:42:21Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16
Nadia Vaeh

“In ancient Rome there were patrons who paid people to produce plays, installations, sculpture. Modern society evolved away from that. We need to return to it. Demystify what it actually takes to make the art that moves people. When that returns, the art only gets more honest.”

#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinArt #Patronage #Nostr

Issue #25 is live. One week to Midwest. Bitcoin Arts Park · Sept ...

2026-09-14T15:14:08Z

Issue #25 is live.

One week to Midwest.

Bitcoin Arts Park · Sept 23–24 · Columbus Expo floor.

ainsleycostello (nprofile…90st) opens Wednesday.

Rock ’n’ Roll Andy Breakheart Thursday.

Nadia Vaeh pitches One Poop Scoop Away.

Short North Stage. Lightning silent auction. Cinema. Living Room.

Episode 16 with Nadia is out.

https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-25

#Bitcoin #BitcoinArt #Nostr #MBS2026

https://youtu.be/RXNaiUEawv4

2026-09-13T15:55:47Z

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Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16 Nadia Vaeh “The ...

2026-09-13T15:55:24Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16
Nadia Vaeh

“The industry only shows the highlights. That’s why I love documentary. It shows the side hustles an artist takes on to move the work forward. The burnout. The exhaustion.
You wake up. You do it tired. Because it is the fuel.”

#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinMusic #IndependentArtist #Nostr

Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Episode 16 with Nadia Vaeh. ...

2026-09-12T20:31:06Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Episode 16 with Nadia Vaeh.

Award-winning recording artist and filmmaker. Owner of Galactic Cat Records. Documenting what "make it" means for indie artists in One Poop Scoop Away.

Music as a lifeline. Streaming math versus patronage. Ownership. Bitcoin. Midwest Bitcoin Summit.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/RXNaiUEawv4

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #BFTA #IndieMusic #SoundMoney #V4V

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 15 @nprofile…90st ...

2026-09-12T04:20:09Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 15
ainsleycostello (nprofile…90st)

“Think back to 1,000 true fans. With Bitcoin and Lightning, that idea is real. A thousand people giving you $100 a year on the Lightning rail.”

#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinMusic #Lightning #Value4Value #1000TrueFans #Nostr

Issue #23 is live. The auction table is filling for Bitcoin Arts ...

2026-08-31T15:01:36Z

Issue #23 is live.
The auction table is filling for Bitcoin Arts Park.
Lots:

CA Danner (nprofile…mzxx) — Satoshi White Paper Series #52

ladyredhorns (nprofile…9pv6) — The Transfer of Light

Shipwreck Sean (nprofile…7tvt) — HODL On

TimechainArtMag (nprofile…fys2) Genesis Edition

Founded by Asanoha (nprofile…0wru) Asanoha

Share Your Bitcoin Journey Ep 14 — MadMunky2140 (nprofile…8mr7)

Bid: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/midwest/auction

Letter: https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-23

#Bitcoin #BitcoinArt #Nostr #2140

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 14 @nprofile…8mr7 “All ...

2026-08-30T16:20:11Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 14
MadMunky2140 (nprofile…8mr7)

“All I want to do in a few years is give keys to my kids, to my close people, to my tribe, to my very good friends. Keys to the world built by my people, by cypherpunks, that respect my privacy and my values. Not the world built by governments.”

#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr #cypherpunks

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 14 @nprofile…8mr7 ...

2026-08-29T01:28:30Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 14
MadMunky2140 (nprofile…8mr7)

“Manifesto number four was printed in the oakwood. Stencil techniques. Building communities like 2140. People don’t understand how this matrix is eating us. Title of the artwork: Fuck the Banks. Banks don’t own nothing. Money in the banks is not your money. It’s a pure scam. That’s how they control us. We don’t want this.”

#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #2140 #Nostr

@nprofile…8mr7 “Nostr is a permissionless protocol. You own ...

2026-08-28T04:03:54Z

MadMunky2140 (nprofile…8mr7)

“Nostr is a permissionless protocol. You own your keys. You protect your keys. Nobody can ban you. If you are loud about Palestine, Elon Musk can’t stop you because he don’t own your keys. You own your keys. Relays can ban you, but you can still spread your message. You can use your own relays.”

Full episode:

https://youtu.be/11JVdjVwWNI

#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr

Canvas is Bitsby is locked in. @nprofile…myyn is painting live ...

2026-08-25T12:58:56Z

Canvas is

Bitsby is locked in.

Shipwreck Sean (nprofile…myyn) is painting live for two full days at Bitcoin Arts Park — Midwest Bitcoin Summit, Sept 23–24.

Everything else on this canvas is still open.

What do you want next to Bitsby?

Drop your idea.
Sean is waiting.

We’re building this one with the community.

Come see Shipwreck’s work and live painting happening in our ...

2026-08-25T09:58:04Z

Come see Shipwreck’s work and live painting happening in our Bitcoin Arts Park exhibit at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit.

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Preparing for the Midwest Summit

Artists — We’re collecting short (30–60 sec) video clips ...

2026-08-24T13:00:20Z

Artists —
We’re collecting short (30–60 sec) video clips for the Bitcoin Arts Park booth at Midwest Bitcoin Summit.

Name + discipline + whatever you want to say about yourself, Bitcoin, or BFTA.

We’ll play them throughout the two days.
Raw is welcome. Send via DM or hello@bitcoinforthearts.org

Let’s put signed, sovereign creators on the floor.

Based Wrong.

2026-08-24T10:58:50Z

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Based Wrong.

Most newsletters talk about price. Ours talks about artists ...

2026-08-24T03:26:07Z

Most newsletters talk about price.

Ours talks about artists getting paid in Bitcoin, culture that resists censorship, and building institutions that outlast fiat.

Bitcoin For The Arts newsletter:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/

Join the ones who are actually stacking culture.

Ep. 14. sorry

2026-08-22T01:47:22Z

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Ep. 14. sorry

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16 is coming. We’re ...

2026-08-22T01:45:47Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey — Episode 16 is coming.

We’re going live with MadMunky2140 (nprofile…8mr7).

This line hit hard:
“They can change the books. They can destroy the books. They can put them in the bin, and they can change narrative in anything what they scan… but they will not scan and change my narrative, because my narrative will be there, signed by me, signed with my secret key… That’s the power of the permissionless protocols.”

Full conversation dropping soon.
Stay tuned.

#ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Bitcoin #Nostr #nsec

@nprofile…cv0m opens day two of Bitcoin Arts Park at the ...

2026-08-21T14:32:25Z

Andy Breakheart (nprofile…cv0m) opens day two of Bitcoin Arts Park at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit.

Sept 24 · 12PM · Expo Stage · Columbus
Presented by Bitcoin for the Arts

One-man band. Live loops. Real rock in a Bitcoin room.

#BitcoinForTheArts #MidwestBitcoinSummit #V4V #RocknRoll #Music #Arts #Musicians

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2026-08-21T03:32:18Z

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Chicago’s Dance for Life is raising $500K for dancers without ...

2026-08-20T23:16:17Z

Chicago’s Dance for Life is raising $500K for dancers without real health coverage.

The healthcare gap is real.
The monetary gap under it is deeper.

A dollar grant is a claim on future care that may cost more than the claim can buy.

New piece from BFTA:
The Gaps in the Dam
https://bitcoinforthearts.substack.com/p/the-gaps-in-the-dam

#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #Dance #ArtsFunding

Will you be attending the summit?

2026-08-19T15:04:20Z

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Will you be attending the summit?

Bitcoin For The Arts presents @npub13qr…almy live at the ...

2026-08-19T14:25:08Z

Bitcoin For The Arts presents ainsleycostello (npub13qr…almy) live at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit.

September 23 · 12 PM · Expo Stage

Pop-rock energy. Lightning-native. Zero gatekeepers.

This is culture on a fixed supply.
See you in Columbus!

#Bitcoin #MBS2026 #BitcoinForTheArts #AinsleyCostello #Music #LiveMusic #Art

Thank you all!! All amazing artists🧡 🧡 .

2026-08-17T18:35:01Z

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Thank you all!! All amazing artists🧡 🧡 .

We are looking for a visual artist to feature in our booth at the ...

2026-08-17T03:04:39Z

We are looking for a visual artist to feature in our booth at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit. 9/23 -9/24

Name an artist👇👇👇

#BitcoinArt #VisualArtist #Artist #Art

“Why oil? Why classic technique for a subject that exists in ...

2026-08-14T12:08:45Z

“Why oil? Why classic technique for a subject that exists in code?”

Anik Malcolm’s answer: proof of human.

The small irregularities. The warmth. The thing that makes the image intrinsically human instead of just printed.

He tried a graphic version. It was colder. More austere.

Oil carries something the machine can’t.

Clip from Episode 13:
https://youtu.be/Uq8f4HcZYQg

“We have been so suppressed for so long that we don’t ...

2026-08-10T15:54:39Z

“We have been so suppressed for so long that we don’t actually know what humanity is… the untapped potential of humanity is vast.”

anik (nprofile…v7p0):
Bitcoin is the vehicle.
The beautiful thing is us.
Once the shackles come off, we get to find out what we’re actually capable of.

Hodlers are not enough. BIP-110 stalled after two blocks. Adam ...

2026-08-10T11:26:20Z

Hodlers are not enough.

BIP-110 stalled after two blocks. Adam Back was right about the reason: economic users control the protocol through the market — not nodes with no economic weight.
The problem is that “economic user” has slowly been narrowed to mean exchanges, custodians, and large treasuries. The rest of us — the people who already own most of the Bitcoin — are treated as mostly irrelevant.

Holding sats preserves value.
Using them creates influence.
Paying artists in Bitcoin is not just patronage. It is one of the few remaining ways ordinary people can still become real economic participants on the network.

New piece from Bitcoin For The Arts:
https://bitcoinforthearts.substack.com/p/hodlers-are-not-enough

New long-form essay from Bitcoin For The Arts. Bitcoin Was Never ...

2026-08-05T10:36:08Z

New long-form essay from Bitcoin For The Arts.

Bitcoin Was Never Supposed to Be an Investment.

Every well-meaning "how to invest in Bitcoin" post shares the same broken framing. The correction to bad Bitcoin advice is always better Bitcoin investment advice. That is the entire problem.

Fiat is a ruler that will not sit still. The entire investment industry exists because of that one design choice. If the ruler sat still, none of it would need to exist.

Bitcoin is a ruler that sits still.

The essay makes the full argument: what money is supposed to do, the pathology of fiat, why Satoshi priced Bitcoin in dollars anyway as a bridge for human psychology, the current Wall Street absorption threat, and why artists specifically are the corrective.

The ruler stopped moving. Look at the world through it. Everything else follows.

Read: https://bitcoinforthearts.substack.com/p/bitcoin-was-never-supposed-to-be

#Bitcoin #Nostr #V4V #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney

Bitcoin For The Arts, Issue #19 is out. The Bitcoin Arts Park ...

2026-08-03T15:25:06Z

Bitcoin For The Arts, Issue #19 is out.

The Bitcoin Arts Park lineup for the Midwest Bitcoin Summit is named:
· Ainsley Costello + Short North Stage on Wednesday, September 23
· Andy Burghardt + Short North Stage interns + Lindey Magee's book reading on Thursday, September 24
· Shipwreck Shawn's paintings across both days
· Proof of Print's live Bitcoin mining feed on the monitor

Plus a new Substack essay on our founder's origin story (Two Weeks Before Capitol College), a new featured artist story with @nogoodkid, and Share Your Bitcoin Journey now on Apple, Spotify, and via our Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed with Value-4-Value Lightning splits to the show.

Read: https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-19

#Bitcoin #Nostr #V4V #BitcoinForTheArts #MidwestBitcoinSummit

https://rss.com/podcasts/share-your-bitcoin-journey/3023947

2026-08-02T05:04:57Z

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@nprofile…hyuh on the challenge of funding Bitcoin film: “ ...

2026-07-30T15:39:05Z

totallyhumanwriter (nprofile…hyuh) on the challenge of funding Bitcoin film:

“ BitcoinFilmFest (nprofile…lh3f), shout out to them. They do a great job of helping filmmakers find funding and promote, and they give people a platform to develop their projects. It’s not something I know a lot about because I’m a writer and a publisher, and I don’t usually operate in a world of knowing who to ask for funding and how to get it. So it’s a challenge.”

Full episode:
https://youtu.be/c--KiT8r8iI

#Bitcoin #BitcoinFilmFest #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinForTheArts

@nprofile…hyuh on the moment it clicked: “It’s very easy to ...

2026-07-29T12:54:51Z

totallyhumanwriter (nprofile…hyuh) on the moment it clicked:
“It’s very easy to swallow all of the lies that you’re fed… ‘Oh, it’s this war. Oh, it’s the energy crisis. Oh, it’s the climate.’ It’s always some temporary issue rather than a group of unelected officials pushing a button and deciding to print more money.

That was the moment I thought, ‘I’m gonna look into this.’”
He hasn’t stopped reading since.

#Bitcoin #ShareYourBitcoinJourney
#BitcoinForTheArts

Speaker announcement. BFTA founder Dion Wilson will be speaking ...

2026-07-27T20:31:23Z

Speaker announcement.

BFTA founder Dion Wilson will be speaking at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit 2026.

September 23–24. Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio. Two days on Bitcoin, energy, mining, technology, policy, business, and the revitalization of the Midwest.

Bitcoin For The Arts will be on the ground with Bitcoin Arts Park, our activation featuring artist stories, a Dirty Coin community screening, a homeschool book reading of Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL, and the working artists building culture on a Bitcoin standard.

Come find us.

Tickets and full lineup: https://midwestbtc.com

#Bitcoin #Nostr #MidwestBitcoinSummit #BitcoinForTheArts

Bitcoin Arts Park is eight weeks away. At the Midwest Bitcoin ...

2026-07-27T15:03:36Z

Bitcoin Arts Park is eight weeks away.

At the Midwest Bitcoin Summit (Sept 23–24, Columbus), Bitcoin for the Arts is building its own dedicated cultural space — film, music, visual art, and a live children’s book reading with Lindey Magee.
Dion will be speaking on the main stage both days.

We’re looking for:
• Volunteers
• Sponsors
• Sats contributions
• Homeschool groups for the book reading

All the details are in Issue #18:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-18

If this mission resonates, now is a good time to step in.

#Bitcoin #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinForTheArts

We will make it happen at some point!

2026-07-25T14:33:24Z

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We will make it happen at some point!

Only on YouTube.

2026-07-25T12:43:05Z

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Only on YouTube.

🧡 New BFTA Newsletter just dropped — Issue #17 This week ...

2026-07-20T15:17:43Z

🧡 New BFTA Newsletter just dropped — Issue #17

This week we’re covering:
• Why Broadway’s Cats: The Jellicle Ball is closing despite three Tony Awards and strong weekly grosses — and what it reveals about the broken funding model for the arts
• Episode 12 of Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Philip Charter (Bitcoin ghostwriter, co-editor of 21 Futures, and advocate for sovereign publishing)
• Bitcoin Arts Park updates at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit (Sept 22–24) — volunteers and sponsors needed
• Growing the BFTA Artist Directory

If you care about sound money, working artists, and real cultural sovereignty, this one’s worth reading.

Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-17

#Bitcoin #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinArts #SovereignArt #ArtistFunding #Broadway #MidwestBitcoinSummit #BitcoinCulture #ValueForValue #BitcoinPodcast #Nostr #CreatorEconomy #BitcoinCommunity

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped. ...

2026-07-20T11:09:03Z

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped.

totallyhumanwriter (nprofile…hyuh), the British author, editor, and ghostwriter behind Totally Human Writer, sits down with Bitcoin For The Arts for a full conversation on writing, fiction, and community as the tools that actually change minds.

Philip is the co-editor of 21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain, the world's first Bitcoin fiction anthology, released by Konsensus Network in December 2023 and presented at Bitcoin Atlantis in 2024. He is the author of seven books in his own name. And he is the driving force behind the Gran Canaria Bitcoin community and its "Proof of Walk" gatherings.

Highlights from the conversation:
* Leaving a London marketing career in 2011 and teaching English across Latin America, Asia, and Spain
* Publishing the first book of short fiction in 2018
* The coaching client whose book about "something called Bitcoin" changed everything
* Founding Totally Human Writer as the deliberate opposite of AI-generated content
* Editing 21 Futures with Knut Svanholm, Ioni Appelberg, and Niko Laamanen
* Bitcoin Atlantis 2024, and the anthology becoming a Konsensus Network imprint
* Expanding from Bitcoin fiction to the wider freedom-fiction universe
* Three million LinkedIn impressions on writing tips for Bitcoin founders
* Life on a Bitcoin standard as a resident of a Spanish island
* Advice for writers looking to work in the Bitcoin space professionally

Watch: https://youtu.be/c--KiT8r8iI

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #BFTA #21Futures #SoundMoney #V4V #Writer #Art #BitcoinArt

🧡 New from Bitcoin for the Arts: Broadway just killed its ...

2026-07-15T00:21:30Z

🧡 New from Bitcoin for the Arts:
Broadway just killed its most-awarded new musical of the season after only five months.

Cats: The Jellicle Ball won three Tony Awards, made history with the first openly trans woman to win a Tony for costume design, and was grossing close to a million dollars a week. It still couldn’t survive.

Andrew Lloyd Webber says the American theater is in “dire danger.” He’s right — but the reason isn’t what most people think.

This isn’t really a story about taste, diversity, or streaming. It’s a story about money. When production costs triple (or more) while the dollar quietly loses value every year, even successful new work gets crushed by the math.

Broadway had its biggest year ever in ticket sales. At the same time, most new musicals are closing inside four or five months.

The same pattern is showing up across the arts — ballet companies cutting roles, orchestras struggling, regional theaters shrinking. Different cities, different disciplines, same underlying pressure.

If you’re an artist trying to build something that lasts longer than the next budget cycle, this is worth understanding.

Read the full piece:
https://open.substack.com/pub/bitcoinforthearts/p/broadway-just-killed-its-most-awarded

#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #Broadway #BitcoinForTheArts #ArtsFunding #MonetaryDebasement #AndrewLloydWebber

🧡 New BFTA Newsletter just dropped! This week we’re ...

2026-07-13T15:07:18Z

🧡 New BFTA Newsletter just dropped!

This week we’re covering:

• New episode of *Share Your Bitcoin Journey* with Alana Mediavilla, director of the powerful Bitcoin mining documentary *Dirty Coin*

• Midwest Bitcoin Summit updates — we’re looking for volunteers, sponsors, and homeschool families for a special book reading

• NEA July grant cycle is now open

• Christie's Art+Tech Summit happening this week

If you care about artists building on Bitcoin, sound money, and real sovereignty in the arts, this one’s worth reading.

Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-16

#Bitcoin #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #DirtyCoin #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #BitcoinMining #MidwestBitcoinSummit #ArtistGrants #NEA #DecentralizedArt #ValueForValue #BitcoinCulture #SovereignArt #BitcoinCommunity #Art #BitcoinEducation #ArtistDirectory #BitcoinPodcast #Nostr #BitcoinNews

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped. Alana ...

2026-07-13T13:35:59Z

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped.

Alana Mediavilla, the Puerto Rican filmmaker behind Dirty Coin and founder of Campo Libre, sits down with Bitcoin For The Arts for a two-hour conversation about the making of the most important documentary on Bitcoin mining ever made.

She spent more than a decade inside Silicon Valley producing for Google, Apple, PayPal, Volkswagen, and Volvo. In 2020 she walked away, moved her family home to Puerto Rico, and built Dirty Coin from the ground up. The film has since been screened in over 200 cities through a community-hosted distribution model, and won Best National Documentary in Puerto Rico as the first English-language film ever to do so.

Highlights from the conversation:

* Buying 3 BTC at $200 each in 2015, and how she found out her husband had sold them at $600
* The 2018 phone call from her Cuban grandfather that reframed Bitcoin as a family-scale tool
* Why she left Google Cloud during the 2020 lockdown and moved the kids home to Puerto Rico
* Becoming a Bitcoin-only maxi after watching neighbors get rug-pulled on the island
* What Malawi taught her that Texas could not, and why Bitcoin mining unlocks stranded renewable energy
* Financing a documentary in Bitcoin, and the day a 40k BTC donation turned into 70k of production spend
* Community-hosted distribution: 500 screenings in 200 cities via Kinema, aimed at meetup leaders
* Node Runners, her next documentary on how to own your own data and run your own compute
* Advice for women and mothers looking at Bitcoin from outside the movement

Watch: https://youtu.be/tw4Hl5EFm4w

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #BFTA #DirtyCoin #SoundMoney #V4V

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡 Lindey Magee shares ...

2026-07-10T09:32:34Z

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡

Lindey Magee shares how she used the Bitcoin from her late husband’s life insurance to fund her children’s book — even though it meant spending what could have been long-term wealth.

She explains that she did it because she believed the book would matter. Dion responds by pointing out that she operated with true low time preference and created something with real generational value.

This is a beautiful example of Bitcoin enabling creators to build things that can outlast them.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/S7oBI9aAz6w

#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #LowTimePreference #Nostr

Bitcoin Journey 🧡 After losing her husband, Lindey Magee made ...

2026-07-09T12:10:32Z

Bitcoin Journey 🧡

After losing her husband, Lindey Magee made a bold decision with the life insurance he left behind.

Instead of following the traditional path of studying Bitcoin first and then deciding, she acted on strong conviction. She put the money into Bitcoin — and credits that decision with giving her and her daughter stability and freedom during one of the hardest seasons of their lives.

She shares:

“That decision is the reason why Palyn and I have a roof over our heads today… I was able to have the freedom to pour into her versus be stressed out over finances.”

New clip from Share Your

Full episode: https://youtu.be/S7oBI9aAz6w

#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr #Mom #HomeSchool #Conviction

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡 Lindey Magee shares ...

2026-07-08T10:14:36Z

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡

Lindey Magee shares a very practical reality of living on a Bitcoin standard:

Even during a bear market, she’s been able to stretch her money significantly further — sometimes living at “more than half off.” As a result, the life insurance her late husband left her has gone twice as far (or more) than it would have in fiat.

Dion points out: She took fiat money and made it go twice as far in a world where most people are losing purchasing power.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/S7oBI9aAz6w

#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡 In this moment, ...

2026-07-07T12:07:34Z

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡

In this moment, Lindey Magee shares how her faith shaped her view of money:

She explains that fiat currency “steals from savers through inflation and punishes the poor,” and that this offends the character of God. For her, discovering Bitcoin wasn’t just financial — it was a conviction she believes came from the Holy Spirit.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/S7oBI9aAz6w

#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡 This week I sat ...

2026-07-06T17:13:46Z

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡

This week I sat down with Lindey Magee, a Mississippi mother and author of the children’s book *Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL*.

After losing her husband to cancer, Lindey made the decision to put his life insurance into Bitcoin. That choice gave her the freedom to stay home with her daughter, heal, and eventually write a book introducing sound money to families.

Her story is honest, faith-filled, and deeply moving.

Watch the full episode:
https://youtu.be/S7oBI9aAz6w

#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr #HomeSchool #Mom #Arts #Artist

New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter just dropped ...

2026-07-06T15:26:51Z

New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter just dropped 🧡

This week we cover:

- Full programming details for **Bitcoin Arts Park** at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit (film screenings, live performances, Lightning wallet activation, and a peer-to-peer silent auction)
- New episode of *Share Your Bitcoin Journey* with Lindey Magee, author of *Bitcoin: A Treasure to HODL*
- Q3 micro-grant applications now open for working artists

Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-15

#Bitcoin #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #Nostr

Artists, what is the most creative way you have marshaled fiat to ...

2026-07-06T14:09:40Z

Artists, what is the most creative way you have marshaled fiat to transfer into sound money, during this opportunity market? 🧡

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡 BFTA founder, ...

2026-07-02T23:10:07Z

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡

BFTA founder, Dion (nprofile…wfrw) references Jeff Booth (nprofile…w2ua) point that as Bitcoin gains more recognition and adoption, the noise in the space will grow louder — making it increasingly difficult to focus on what actually matters.

He explains why it’s especially important for artists to understand Bitcoin as peer-to-peer, rather than getting lost in the growing confusion around it.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/o29FeRGsu6o

#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #BitcoinForTheArts #Nostr

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡 Lady Nakamoto ...

2026-07-02T12:29:37Z

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡

Lady Nakamoto shares how snowboarding and the X Games helped lead the way for equal prize money for women in sports — a big step forward at the time.

She also talks about her older sister, a 3-time Olympian who was the first woman named to the U.S. Snowboard Team in 1998 and won a bronze medal in 2006.

Watch the clip:

Full episode: https://youtu.be/o29FeRGsu6o

#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #Olympics #Snowboarding #XGames #WomenInSports #BitcoinForTheArts #Nostr

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡 In this short ...

2026-06-30T11:17:34Z

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡

In this short intro, Lady Nakamoto reflects on how Bitcoin felt different from anything else she had encountered.

She describes it as “so much more than money… it’s like a living organism” and compares it to a landscape — something that felt natural and aligned with how she already moved through the world.

From growing up in Alaska as a competitive skier and snowboarder, to going through a major personal crisis, to her first peer-to-peer Bitcoin art sale in Portland, her journey has a very grounded, embodied quality.

Movement is our first language.
The way a person moves across the room is the way a person walks through life.

Watch the clip:

#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #BitcoinArt #Nostr #Arts #Artists #Sports

New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter is live 🧡 ...

2026-06-29T14:40:51Z

New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter is live 🧡

This week we cover:
- Becoming a founding sponsor of *The Six Billion Dollar Man*, the Golden Globe-winning documentary about Julian Assange
- Our new plans for **Bitcoin Arts Park** — a dedicated 30-foot cultural footprint at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit featuring film, art, Lightning auctions, and live performances
- Episode 9 with Lady Nakamoto
- How the community paid Ainsley Costello ~7 million sats peer-to-peer at Camp Nakamoto

Read here: https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-14

#Bitcoin #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #nostr

Clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Lady Nakamoto. She ...

2026-06-28T19:30:37Z

Clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Lady Nakamoto.

She shares what it felt like to sell her first piece of art peer-to-peer using Bitcoin:

“It was so weird… and it was so instinctual. It was magic. It was wild. It was an embodied experience. It was just a love. It was a real connection of heart to heart.”

A beautiful reminder of what peer-to-peer exchange can actually feel like when it’s real.

Watch the clip:

#Bitcoin #BitcoinArt #ValueForValue #PeerToPeer #BitcoinForTheArts #Nostr

What would you prefer Lady Nakamoto do?

2026-06-28T15:48:34Z

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What would you prefer Lady Nakamoto do?

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡 In this ...

2026-06-28T14:31:01Z

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey 🧡

In this conversation, Lady Nakamoto opens up about her journey from competitive snowboarding (X Games & World Cup) to becoming a digital artist and Rolfer.

She shares how her background in sports and bodywork gave her a unique lens on Bitcoin. One that focuses heavily on, wholeness, sovereignty, and seeing the big picture rather than getting lost in the parts.

Beth also talks about:
- Selling her first artwork peer-to-peer with Bitcoin in Portland
- Why Bitcoin feels like a natural extension of freedom and self-determination (especially relevant in Alaska)
- How Bitcoin can support Indigenous communities seeking real sovereignty

This episode has a very grounded, philosophical, and artistic energy.

🎥 Watch: https://youtu.be/o29FeRGsu6o

#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #BitcoinArt #Nostr #Sports #XGames #Athlete #DigitalArt #Artists #Arts

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2026-06-25T11:55:53Z

Good morning, create something that outlives you.🧡

Share Your Bitcoin Journey – Episode 8 with James Kintore. ...

2026-06-25T09:37:31Z

Share Your Bitcoin Journey – Episode 8 with James Kintore.

James draws a powerful parallel between his work in interior design and Bitcoin:
He explains how quality interior design is built on long time horizons — using materials like European oak, walnut, and cast bronze that gain patina and outlast the client. Once he started understanding Bitcoin through the lens of energy, natural law, and time-chain rules, it felt like the same logic at a different layer.

Do you see Bitcoin as an extension of long-term, energy-based thinking in other fields?

#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #SoundMoney #Value4Value #Nostr #Arts #Artist #Makers

Bitcoin for the Arts is proudly supporting THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR ...

2026-06-24T12:14:17Z

Bitcoin for the Arts is proudly supporting THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN, Eugene Jarecki's documentary on Julian Assange.

Bitcoin World Premiere this Saturday, June 27 at 4PM EST. Private watch party for the community.

The case for sound money is the case for free expression. Both depend on rails that cannot be censored, debased, or controlled by the institutions in power.

Documentary filmmakers are working artists. Journalists who tell hard stories are part of the cultural class BFTA exists to support.

Uncensorable money. Uncensorable minds.

https://www.thesixbilliondollarman.com

Bitcoin #BFTA #FreePress #SoundMoney #JulianAssange #UncensorableMoney #SovereignRenaissance

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey – Episode 8 with James ...

2026-06-22T18:49:20Z

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey – Episode 8 with James Kintore.

James shares how difficult it’s becoming to run a business in Australia while trying to prioritize Bitcoin. He talks about recent capital gains tax changes, increasing friction from banks when trying to buy Bitcoin, and how it feels deliberately engineered to make life harder for those stepping outside the traditional system.

Have you experienced similar friction in your country when trying to build with Bitcoin?

#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #Australia #SoundMoney #Taxes #CapitalGainsTax #FinancialFreedom #BitcoinAdoption #Sovereignty #Nostr #Value4Value

New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter is live. Issue ...

2026-06-22T15:26:19Z

New issue of the Bitcoin for the Arts newsletter is live.

Issue 13 is out with our latest updates, artist stories, and what we’re building right now.

Read it here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-13

Appreciate everyone following along.

#BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #Bitcoin #Nostr

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey –Episode 8 with James ...

2026-06-21T12:09:14Z

New clip from Share Your Bitcoin Journey –Episode 8 with James Kintore

James was deep in traditional investing and property until a friend randomly compared a local crypto project to “buying Bitcoin at this price.”
That one comment got him curious. Once he started listening to podcasts and doing his own research, it was like the scales fell off his eyes.

Have you had that moment where Bitcoin suddenly clicked for you?

#Bitcoin #BitcoinJourney #Value4Value #Nostr #Arts #Artists #Makers #Creators #RealEstate #Property

Give it up for @nprofile…98xl🧡🔥🧡🔥🧡. We are ...

2026-06-21T01:43:38Z

Give it up for ainsleycostello (nprofile…98xl)🧡🔥🧡🔥🧡. We are thrilled to be sponsors of CampNakamoto (nprofile…9em6) . Thank you to Ainsley and her team PhantomPowerMusic (npub1d9a…w3fp) for making it happen!

#CampNakamoto #AinsleyCostello #BitcoinForTheArts #PhamtonMusic #EpochMusic#Nashville #Arts #Artists #Music #Creators

@nprofile…lun3 having a great time! Thank you for the love! ...

2026-06-20T21:13:28Z

CampNakamoto (nprofile…lun3) having a great time! Thank you for the love! Catch the BFTA banner 👀🤗🧡

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped. James ...

2026-06-20T13:46:51Z

New episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey just dropped.

James Kintore, Australian interior designer, founder of Kintore Design, co-creator of the furniture brand Matt and Kin. Published in The Local Project and Artedomus for the level of craft and intention in the work.

In 2025 he moved to Costa Rica to build life closer to a Bitcoin standard. He's using Bull Bitcoin and Simpay to pay daily expenses in sats; he's plugged into the Bitcoin Jungle community in Uvita; he's pivoting toward fine art, sculpture, and finishing a book of musings 15 years in the making.

The story I can't get out of my head: he and his collaborator Matt sourced 250-year-old French oak from a regional Victoria lumber yard — wood cut from the heart of Paris 25 years before they found it through a 10-year-old YouTube clip. They built a four-and-a-half-meter restaurant table for an Adelaide Hills chef. Materiality as a time chain.

"Bitcoin is an energy agreement."
"AI raises the value of real human creation, not the opposite."
"I want to get paid in Bitcoin for the work I do."

https://youtu.be/TjghYaEnCIM

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #BFTA #Design #Architecture #Furniture #SoundMoney #ArtsFunding #SovereignRenaissance
#Artists #Art

Our mission is simple-restore the world built by Artists with ...

2026-06-15T18:02:04Z

Our mission is simple-restore the world built by Artists with sound money.

Check out this amazing work by from our Board Advisor. We ...

2026-06-14T16:55:17Z

Check out this amazing work by from our Board Advisor. We couldn't be more proud to have him apart of BFTA! 🧡 🧡

Shout out to BlackBeltEagleScout (nprofile…2gtf) The song is 🔥 🔥 🔥

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2026-06-12T19:01:11Z

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TIP_NZ (nprofile…u24g) ! We’ve been reaching out. Check your dm

🧡 BFTA Artist Directory — Now Open A private opt-in roster ...

2026-06-12T13:10:26Z

🧡 BFTA Artist Directory — Now Open

A private opt-in roster of working artists building in the Bitcoin space.

Your contact info is never published
Only the public count is shown
We make verified introductions between directory members on request

This is how we grow a real network of sovereign creators who support each other and what BFTA is building.

No Bitcoin requirement — just serious working artists who want to be part of something bigger.

Be counted → https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/artists/directory

#Bitcoin #Nostr #SovereignArt #BitcoinArtists #BitcoinForTheArts #Artists #Arts

In this clip of - Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP:7, ...

2026-06-09T14:50:04Z

In this clip of - Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP:7, thomasforsyth (npub1rdl…58rj) talks about the value for value that Nostr provides.

#Bitcoin #Art #V4V #SocialMedia #Nostr #Decentralize #BitcoinArt #Maker #Creator #SoundMoney #Zap #Lightning #Artists

🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts — Issue #11 is live Momentum is ...

2026-06-08T15:18:17Z

🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts — Issue #11 is live

Momentum is building:
• Our intro video screened at the Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw
• New Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP7 with London maker/designer Thomas Forsyth is out
• Ainsley Costello is on the ground representing BFTA at Camp Nakamoto
• Full landing page for our Midwest Bitcoin Summit curatorial role (Generations gallery + live music) is now live (Sept 23–24, Columbus)
• We quietly launched the private BFTA Artist Directory — opt-in roster for working artists in our network

Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-11

Zaps welcome ⚡️
Forward to any artists or Bitcoiners who should be in the loop.

We’re still early — but we’re moving.

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #SovereignArt #MidwestBitcoinSummit #BitcoinFilmFestival #ValueForValue #ShareYourBitcoinJourney

Thank you Thomas for sharing your story! There’s someone out ...

2026-06-08T10:45:17Z

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Thank you Thomas for sharing your story! There’s someone out there waiting to be inspired by your story. 🧡

🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with ...

2026-06-08T01:47:20Z

🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with thomasforsyth (nprofile…hesc)

“It’s this really difficult thing to describe or fully grasp until you start playing around with it… There’s a lot to feel pessimistic about in the world right now. But at the same time, things like Nostr, Lightning, and Bitcoin feel like green shoots of hope coming through.”

Tom on why these tools feel like real sources of hope — not theory, but something you start to feel once you actually use them.

What’s giving you real hope right now in Bitcoin or Nostr?

#Bitcoin #Nostr #Lightning #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #ValueForValue #Arts #Artist #Artstr #BitcoinArt #Creators

🧡 New Episode — Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP7 London-based ...

2026-06-08T00:14:41Z

🧡 New Episode — Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP7

London-based designer, maker & engineer thomasforsyth (nprofile…hesc) joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on building a creative practice across wood, metal, electronics, props, and kinetic sculpture — all while staying true to craft.
Tom shares:

Discovering Bitcoin three separate times before it finally clicked
Why physical making and Bitcoin share a deep philosophical backbone (“There’s something very Bitcoin about that”)
The first time Lightning settled a bill in a London restaurant
How Nostr reawakened his urge to make work for himself again
Advice for younger makers that has almost nothing to do with making

A thoughtful episode on low time preference, sound craft, and building outside the platform economy.

Watch here:
https://youtu.be/ZepNitUDItg
What’s one thing you’ve picked back up because of Bitcoin or Nostr?

#Bitcoin #Nostr #Maker #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #LowTimePreference #ValueForValue #Arts #Artists #BitcoinArt #Creator

Big thanks to @nprofile…y265 for screening our Bitcoin For The ...

2026-06-06T15:21:55Z

Big thanks to BitcoinFilmFest (nprofile…y265) for screening our Bitcoin For The Arts intro video at the conference! 🙏

Super cool catching it on the big screen — grateful they gave us the platform to share the mission of funding sovereign artists with sound money and low time-preference patronage.

The Bitcoin + Arts intersection is only getting stronger. Excited for what’s next!

#BitcoinFilmFest #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney #SovereignArtists #Nostr

🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with ...

2026-06-03T23:16:25Z

🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Joe Martin (nprofile…2yzn)

“I try my best to be efficient with words… I’ve reached the best version of the song when there’s nothing left to take away — not when there’s nothing more to add.”

Joe on the craft of songwriting: stripping away the excess until only what’s essential remains, with the goal of telling a three-hour movie in three minutes.

It’s a beautiful reminder that great art often comes from subtraction, not addition.

Watch the clip:

What’s one song that feels like it has “nothing left to take away”?

#Bitcoin #Nostr #Songwriting #ValueForValue #BitcoinArtists #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Music #Musicians #Artists #Art #Artstr

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2026-06-02T23:16:50Z

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Nostr is not going anywhere but up. Why? Because BFTA is here and ...

2026-06-02T23:00:04Z

Nostr is not going anywhere but up. Why? Because BFTA is here and we understand in order for the decentralized world to reach mass adoption we need to allow the cultivators to lead the way.

Outside of the dev community and bitcoin influencers, those with the most supporters on nostr, are the artists. To name a few AviBurra (nprofile…nduy) Joe Martin (nprofile…xeh0) Sara Jade (nprofile…fghr) Lebanese Hodl (nprofile…m3vs) OpenMike (nprofile…dnk4) ainsleycostello (nprofile…k2y5) manlikekweks (nprofile…hgg9)

Support artists that understand what the world needs. Help us allow these voices to reach the world. It’s not just sound money that’s meant to HODL , it’s sound money that’s meant to change the world.

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Before nostr totally winds down... Can we at least try some marketing ideas? Especially my ideas.

Like every week we try a new ridiculous idea I came up with whilst on the toilet.

We need a funding system for this obvs.

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2026-06-02T22:26:54Z

https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherlarson/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-with-dion-wilson?r=7ybxcx&utm_medium=ios

🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with ...

2026-06-02T01:59:46Z

🧡 Clip from the latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey with Joe Martin (nprofile…2yzn)

"I think for people, for it to click for people, they just need to see it and they need to experience their first zap, whether on Nostr or whether it's podcasting 2.0.”

Joe nails the real challenge: artists are frustrated with unfair streaming platforms, but the shift to Value for Value happens when people finally get to feel how much better it is.

This is exactly why we keep building and showing the real thing.

#Bitcoin #Nostr #ValueForValue #BitcoinArtists #Podcasting2 #SoundMoney #BitcoinForTheArts #ShareYourBitcoinJourney

Ever thought about funding Culture? #nevent1q…352y

2026-06-01T18:10:46Z

Ever thought about funding Culture?

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there is no deep conspiracy for the motives behind primal

we have been trying to increase nostr user growth like everyone else and have been failing to be quite honest

user growth keeps trending down, retention is horrible, thousands of users have come and left because apps are broken

hopefully the trend reverses because nostr is needed now more than ever

🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts — Issue #10 just dropped Big moves ...

2026-06-01T15:22:22Z

🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts — Issue #10 just dropped
Big moves this week:

We’re pivoting our flagship September event to the Midwest Bitcoin Summit in Columbus, Ohio (Sept 23–24). We’ll be curating the Generations gallery + live artist programming.

New Share Your Bitcoin Journey episode with UK singer-songwriter Joe Martin is live.

Fresh article: “The Money Is There” — why record-breaking auction sales still aren’t reaching working artists.

Q4 Grant Cycle is now open.

Read the full issue here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-10

Zaps welcome ⚡️

Forward to any artists or Bitcoiners in your network.
We’re still early — but we’re building.

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #SovereignArt #MidwestBitcoinSummit #ValueForValue #BitcoinArtists #SoundMoney

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2026-05-31T22:06:48Z

Drop a 🧡 if you can see this post. Testing relays.

Usually mobile with WiFi.

2026-05-31T22:05:30Z

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Usually mobile with WiFi.

Not sure. Messages seem to not always come through as well. I ...

2026-05-31T20:41:35Z

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Not sure. Messages seem to not always come through as well. I recieved this post notification via YakiHonne but not Primal.

🧡 New Episode Just Dropped! Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP6 – ...

2026-05-31T01:37:20Z

🧡 New Episode Just Dropped!

Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP6 – Joe Martin (nprofile…2yzn)

The 21st century troubadour shares his journey — from piano at age 5 to building a sovereign music career on Bitcoin and Nostr.

Joe talks about:

Making his album Alone In Valentine with zero AI, traveling halfway around the world, and spending most of his savings
Why AI slop + inflation are parallel debasements of art and money
The chicken-and-egg problem of Value for Value adoption
Living as a true independent artist in 2026

This is a deep, principled conversation about staying true to Bitcoin’s original vision while building a real career as a musician.

Watch the full episode here:
https://youtu.be/MXUgrViBCaI

What stood out to you most?

Zaps welcome ⚡️

#Bitcoin #Nostr #JoeMartin #ValueForValue #SoundMoney #BitcoinArtists #SovereignArt #BitcoinForTheArts #LowTimePreference #ShareYourBitcoinJourney #Arts #Artists #Music #SongWriters #Musicians

🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts is featured in the new book “The Last ...

2026-05-28T12:24:04Z

🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts is featured in the new book “The Last Refuge: Bitcoin Amid the Digital Dystopia” by Victor Rosano.

Our Founder Dion Wilson contributed a piece on how we’re building direct, transparent, sovereign funding for working artists on Bitcoin — moving away from fragile fiat grants toward sound money and real creator sovereignty.

Big thanks to Victor for putting this project together and including us.

Get the book here:
→ English: http://amzn.eu/d/0bdAJEMD
→ Spanish: http://amzn.eu/d/0hUf8msa

If you’re thinking about Bitcoin, culture, creativity, and building outside broken systems — highly recommend.

Zaps welcome ⚡️

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #SovereignArt #SoundMoney #TheLastRefuge #ValueForValue #CreatorEconomy

🧡🧡🧡 Thank You Sara!

2026-05-28T09:59:02Z

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🧡🧡🧡 Thank You Sara!

🧡 New Article: “The Money Is There — But It’s Not ...

2026-05-27T15:46:46Z

🧡 New Article: “The Money Is There — But It’s Not Reaching Working Artists”
Christie’s just sold $1.1 Billion of art in a single night.

Yet the latest Bank of America Art Market Report shows the brutal reality: the middle and bottom of the market are hollowing out. Working artists and the galleries that support them are getting squeezed harder than ever.

The capital exists.

The bridge is broken.

At Bitcoin For The Arts we’re building a new one — direct, transparent, sovereign funding on sound money. No gatekeepers. No disappearing grants. Just Bitcoin moving from those who have it to the creators who need it.

Read the full piece:
https://bitcoinforthearts.substack.com/p/the-money-is-there

Zaps welcome ⚡️

What do you think — how do we fix the broken bridge between big money and working artists?

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #SovereignArt #SoundMoney #ValueForValue #ArtsFunding #CreatorEconomy

🧡 This is what it looks like when sound money meets sovereign ...

2026-05-26T17:40:56Z

🧡 This is what it looks like when sound money meets sovereign art.

BitcoinisforEveryone (nprofile…r4ec) in Portland, Beth Alta Fletcher (Lady Nakamoto) — while volunteering at the Bitcoin For The Arts booth — sold one of her original artworks… and the buyer paid her in Bitcoin, right there.

Real-time. Direct. No middleman. No platform cut.

This is one of the earliest and purest use cases for Bitcoin as a medium of exchange for art.

The history books are watching.

#Bitcoin #Nostr #ValueForValue #BitcoinArtists #SovereignArt #BitcoinIsForEveryone #LadyNakamoto #BitcoinForTheArts #SoundMoney

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nevent1q…7esm
Along the Watchtower by Lady Nakamoto

This piece pulses like an echo from Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "All Along the Watchtower"-a world suspended between warning and awakening.

A fractured landscape unfolds like a dream on the edge of revelation.
Figures drift between fire and transcendence, between control and liberation.

The Olympic rings, the crumbling of ancient monuments, the guarded gates, and the winding path upward, all mirror the tension Hendrix channeled— "there must be some kind of way out of here." Here, that "way out" takes form as Bitcoin.

The faint words "Satoshi was here" echo like a whisper from an unseen architect, positioning Bitcoin less as a product and more as a philosophical intervention-an idea planted in the collective psyche.

The lover's revolution is the hidden center of the work. Not a revolution of violence— but of remembrance. A rebellion against emotional sterilization, against systems that reduce human beings into managed units of production and consumption.

Beneath the satire, symbolism, and cultural debris, the piece holds onto one radical belief: That human connection still has the power to outlive empire.
A glowing portal at the center, framing a serene, almost divine feminine figure, introduces a moment of transcendence: a possible rebirth, or an alternative system of value rooted not in domination but in harmony.

This piece is not just seen—it's wandered through. It hums with urgency like Hendrix's guitar, bending reality into something electric and unstable, while asking the viewer:

Are you the thief, the joker, or the one climbing the path beyond the watchtower?

We will definitely let you know!

2026-05-26T15:34:03Z

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We will definitely let you know!

🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts — Issue #9 is live This week we’re ...

2026-05-26T15:06:17Z

🧡 Bitcoin For The Arts — Issue #9 is live

This week we’re covering:

Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP5 with @sarajade is out — she shares getting zapped live on stage, building 30k+ on Nostr, and why she left the traditional streaming model

Portland Recap — Beth Alta Fletcher represented us at Bitcoin Is For Everyone. Great conversations and real sats flowing at the booth

The $1.1 Billion Night — Christie’s just had a massive art sale while working artists still struggle. We break down what the Bank of America Art Market Report actually reveals

Update on our September Benefit at Pubkey DC

Straight talk on the gap between big money in blue-chip art and real support for working creators — and how Bitcoin changes that equation.

Read Issue #9 here:
https://bitcoin-for-the-arts.beehiiv.com/p/bitcoin-for-the-arts-issue-9

Zaps welcome ⚡️

Forward to any artists or Bitcoiners in your network.
We’re still early, but we’re building.

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #SaraJade #ValueForValue #SovereignArt #BitcoinArtists #SoundMoney #ClubOrange

The Artist Lady Nakamoto!! 🧡 🧡 🧡

2026-05-26T03:10:21Z

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The Artist Lady Nakamoto!! 🧡 🧡 🧡

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2026-05-26T02:55:45Z

“We want artists to have time on their side… to create the best work they can possibly do.”

Bitcoin lets us build the next renaissance.
In the fiat system, too many artists are forced to make work just to pay rent — projects they don’t truly believe in. The money isn’t real, so the work suffers.

We need real resources so artists can reach their highest creative moments. Bitcoin gives them that freedom.

Clip from my conversation with heatherlarson (nprofile…vevv) RadioDetox (nprofile…yh23) 👇
https://youtu.be/O1kLFTpabK0

Artists & creators — how has fiat affected the work you actually want to make?

Zaps welcome ⚡️

#Bitcoin #Nostr #BitcoinForTheArts #SovereignArt #ValueForValue #BitcoinArtists #SoundMoney #CreatorEconomy #BitcoinJourney

“You don’t own your content. You are the product.” ...

2026-05-24T20:15:54Z

“You don’t own your content. You are the product.”

Sara Jade (nprofile…qv3f) on why she gets suppressed and shadowbanned on TikTok — and why she now builds on Nostr.

On centralized platforms your work can be taken down, demonetized, or hidden at any moment.

On Nostr 💜 🧡 💜
→ You own your content
→ You can stay anonymous
→ No one can change the rules on you overnight

This is the difference that actually matters for artists and creators. ⚡

Watch the clip from our latest Share Your Bitcoin Journey EP5:

What platform still makes you feel like the product? 👇

#Bitcoin #Nostr #SaraJade #ValueForValue #OwnYourContent #Decentralized #BitcoinArtists #SovereignArt #BitcoinForTheArts #Artstr #Artists #IndependentArtist #Art