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A affirmative outlook tin beryllium pugnacious during the throes of a carnivore maer. Community is conscionable 1 important happening that helps get Bitcoiners done pugnacious times.
This is simply a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. In this episode, they are joined by Matt Odell to speech astir Bitcoin, Bugs arsenic Food, the value of community, and of course, the terms of Bitcoin.
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Matt Odell: So invited to my studio.
Q: It's gorgeous. Let's speech astir Bitcoin Park for a 2nd due to the fact that this is an absurd thing. Is it like, this is conscionable Soho House for Bitcoiners.
Odell: It's amended than Soho House though, right? Like, was that an violative statement? No. Did you mean that critically?
Q: I meant it arsenic a compliment. Thank you guys. Like what you guys are trying to physique present is genuinely remarkable. I mean this treble location situation.
Odell: We gag astir astir it being akin to Soho House and that you person memberships and you person backstage spaces. You tin work, you tin meet, you tin collaborate, we tin podcast, you tin party, you tin podcast. We person podcast studios each over. I deliberation the large quality betwixt america and Soho House — the mode I deliberation astir Bitcoin Park — is that Bitcoin Park is truly a community.
It's chiefly for supporting Bitcoin and grassroots Bitcoin adoption and supporting the section assemblage successful the country alternatively than a massively profitable planetary concern fair.
It'd beryllium bully to person a nice, sustainable nett astatine the park, obviously. I'm not pretending it's a nonprofit initiative, but astatine its core, it's a assemblage initiative. We're gonna person dev workshops here, a batch of workshops, education, backstage events, nationalist events, meetups bringing section businesses to merchantability their wares for bitcoin. I mean, we had a cocktail barroom present accepting Bitcoin, household java shop, worldly similar that.
P: When you accidental “family java shop,” what does that mean?
Odell: Literally the full household works there.
P: So, it's a abstracted concern from Bitcoin park?
Odell: Yeah. There's 3 section java shops that we've been moving with and we person 2 buildings here. I similar to telephone it the campus, Bitcoin Park campus. There's a afloat functioning java store that conscionable came with the property.
So, we conscionable stumbled into this java store with the afloat espresso machine. Like that's a truly costly espresso machine. It's similar a $15,000 machine.
Q: Wait, they conscionable near the espresso instrumentality behind?
P: No, no, they fucking bought it arsenic portion of the building.
Odell: My friend, it was included successful the deal. They wanted to permission america arsenic galore things arsenic possible. These chairs we’re sitting connected were near by the erstwhile tenants. This array we brought, but it's 1 of the fewer things we really brought to the park. It was successful Rod's store previously, but anyway, we had a afloat functioning java shop. We're not trying to tally a java business, but we bask coffee.
What did we determine to do? We reached retired to 3 antithetic section java shops, each family-owned operations. They travel in, they antheral the java store during our events. They proviso america with bags of java passim the week erstwhile members are present and they're moving and whatnot.
One of the families has their children tally the full operation. They roast the beans, they bash everything. And nary of these java shops were Bitcoiners up of time. So they came in, we're like, “We conscionable wanna enactment section business. We person this caller wealth called bitcoin,” and we got them hooked up to judge bitcoin.
Now they're dilatory getting orange-pilled. It's beauteous cool.
Q: That's epic. You guys are fulfilling the ngo of Bitcoin park.
P: The 1 you conscionable learned astir 30 seconds agone successful this conversation. Yes. Got it.
Odell: So, backmost successful the time we had a batch of these Bitcoin embassies successful 2014 that popped up each astir the world. A batch of them conscionable weren't sustainable. They didn't survive.
Q: What, wherever was an embassy? What did it have? I was not successful Bitcoin successful 2014. I was a degenerate.
Odell: So, similar we had 1 successful New York that I wasn't progressive with, but that existed successful New York. They had an ATM, they had hardware wallets connected display, worldly similar that, but it was mostly conscionable a storefront.
Q: Oh, interesting.
Odell: They had these things called … I forgot what they called it, but connected definite days, you could spell determination and you could commercialized bitcoin, peer-to-peer.
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