Austin Bitcoin Club Michael Atwood

⚡ Sovereign Computing
Matt Hill, co-founder and CEO of Start9, will talk about the world of sovereign computing, the need to eliminate trusted third parties from the human/computer relationship, and demo the Start9 Embassy - a powerful plug and play personal server solution made for everyone.

⚡ Lower Your Time Preference Fireside Chat
We're thrilled to have Saifedeam Ammous at the Bitcoin Commons this month. Father Time Preference himself will be joining Marty Bent on a deep dive into the importance of time preference and its impact on future generations.

Bitcoin is hope for millions, and inevitably billions of people all over the world. Lower your time preference and learn why hard money and low time preference are a match made in heaven.

🟠 Saifedean Ammous is the author of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard, the forthcoming Principles of Economics, and the host of The Bitcoin Standard Podcast.
🟠 Marty Bent is the founder of TFTC, a media company focused on Bitcoin and Freedom in the Digital Age, Venture Partner at Ten31, and Director at Cathedra Bitcoin.

⚡ Running the Numbers Panel
Distribution of Bitcoin's digital ledger is paramount to the success of the network, as is the importance of verifying your Bitcoin transactions without the use of any third party. Let's dive into how, why, and other "weird mountain man fantasies."

Moderated By: Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, author of the Gradually, Then Suddenly blog series.

🟠 Marty Bent is the founder of TFTC, a media company focused on Bitcoin and Freedom in the Digital Age, Venture Partner at Ten31, and Director at Cathedra Bitcoin.
🟠 Matt Hill is the co-founder and CEO of Start9, focused on building technology for the sovereign individual.
🟠 Pierre Rochard is co-founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, co-host of the Noded Bitcoin Podcast, VP of Research at Riot Blockchain, and prolific memer, auditor, and mountain man, largely responsible for the RUN THE NUMBERS meme back in 2020.

⚡ Bitcoin Privacy Panel
Let's dive deep into the importance of privacy, the nuance of using  bitcoin privately, how lightning network improves upon this, and why  developers are hard at work to enhance bitcoin privacy best practices  through code and user experience.

Moderated By: Michael Atwood, Founder and CEO of Oshi App, ABC organizer, and host of the Bcommerce Podcast.

🟠 Ben Carman is a bitcoin core contributor, co-founder and backend engineer at The Bitcoin Company, OP_RETURN Bot creator, and lightning privacy advocate & researcher currently working on Lightning Vortex 👀

Find more from Ben here.

🟠 Tony Giorgio is a lightning developer and researcher currently hacking away at the privacy-first lightning wallet, Mutiny.

🟠 Paul Miller is a frontend engineer at Voltage, lightning researcher, and Mutiny Wallet contributor. Check out his github and fantastic blog.

⚡ Securing Your Bitcoin
Phil Geiger, Managing Director of Concierge at Unchained Capital,  talks with us about the importance and nuance of securing your  bitcoin, reducing single points of failure through multisig, and performs a live demo of Caravan, an open source multisig coordinator.

Austin Bitcoin Club - June 2, 2022

This month we're focusing on Bitcoin Mining + Community.

⚡Nick will kick us off with an intro to pleb mining. He'll show us how to set up a bitcoin miner (Antminer s9) using SlushPool and Braiins OS open-source mining firmware from start to finish!

⚡⛏️Next up, we'll have a Bitcoin Mining + Community Panel with both plebs and experts in the field.

Moderated by: Michael Atwood, Founder and CEO of Oshi App, ABC organizer, and host of the Bcommerce Podcast.

-Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, author of the Gradually, Then Suddenly blog series.
-Chad Harris, AKA GigaChad, CEO of Whinstone US, the largest bitcoin mining operation in North America.
-Mitch Klee, Mining Analyst at Compass Mining
-Michael Schiltz, founder of Lionshield Capital