stacking bitcoin

can’t get enough?

you've obtained the rights to some bitcoin, moved it, thought about it, and saved it. you are currently the custodian of a portion of the global bitcoin network. similar to how holding a stock represents a company, this network holding represents your investment in a community of 100 million other people interacting with this technology. you are holding some, your investment is also an investment in yourself.
Bitcoin, a shared ledger that is publicly audited every 10 minutes, can serve as a foundation for your communications and commerce. your communities, companies, and customers communicating securely without depending on third party services. there's a lot of infrastructure and overhead that is eliminated in the bitcoin ecosystem where everyone is treated equally and things don't need to be very complicated.
do you want more? don't worry - you're right on time!

the smallest unit of bitcoin is known as a satoshi, or 'sat'. it is 1/100,000,000 (a one-hundred-millionth) of a bitcoin, or 0.00000001 (8 decimal places of significant digits). many bitcoin users use 'sats' to price items. a baseball cap might run you between 30k-50k sats, and you can tip your favorite podcaster as little as 1 satoshi using a podcastindex.org app. the Fountain.Fm app allows you to download transcripts of podcasts and clip pieces of shows. the clips are shareable and link back to the original piece of content. people might send you some tips if your clips are on point, in their opinion.

'stack sats,’ ‘save bitcoin'. you can use various services to receive 'sats-back' on purchases with a debit or credit card, purchase gift-cards through services that give generous percentage returns in bitcoin, and purchase as little as 0.50 cents a month through strike.
for recurring purchases like “DCA” dollar-cost-averaging, you can use
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cash app (xbbb.world/Cashapp)
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swan bitcoin (xbbb.world/swanborce)
river (xbbb.world/river

you can purchase a few dollars of bitcoin a month, or day, and you can utilize some services like swan and river to manage high-dollar investments. swan and river will help you obtain bitcoin securely and can deposit it automatically to your blockstream green wallet. setting up a daily recurring purchase with a trusted third party is a great way to ensure that you are able to catch a wave no matter what day it comes.

yet another beginning in a journey. you have unlocked 100 million new people to do commerce with. you are holding a piece of one of humanity's wildest innovations.
I appreciate your time and attention. may your wallet be filled with bitcoin.

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save your bitcoin

under a mattress?

today, you will learn about ways to save your bitcoin. in order to hold your own bitcoin, you must hold your own keys. yesterday, you learned that the 'seed phrase' is a series of words that can be used to authorize the movement of funds from your bitcoin wallet. to be abundantly clear, these words ensure that your bitcoin cannot be moved without your involvement or prior approval. today, you will download what's known as a 'hot wallet' (a phone application) that will allow you to take custody of the bitcoin you purchased using strike or cash app (the custodian of your bitcoin).

there are many choices of wallet software to use. blockstream green is the chosen wallet for today's learning demonstration. blockstream, founded in 2014, has provided incredible open-source innovations in the bitcoin ecosystem, and this wallet is one of the favorites on the market.
use your phone to download the blockstream green app. you can also download the application to your computer and manage your account from either device.

https://blockstream.com/green/

the application will walk you through creating a wallet, and then it will ask you to record your seed phrase. we know you listened yesterday when we told you to think about it, and that you're ready to record these words securely. please do so!

let's proceed:

1. create a new wallet in blockstream green.
2. copy the public address.
3. open the strike app and go to your bitcoin tab.
4. press 'send' and paste your blockstream green address.
5. select how much value to transfer, look both ways before you cross the street (make sure you copied the right address!) and press send.

your bitcoin will arrive in your blockstream green wallet within an hour. you're an advanced bitcoiner now! the next time someone asks you if you have bitcoin, you can reply 'yes!' and ask them if they keep their bitcoin on an exchange or if they hold it themselves.
if you would like to fully verify that everything works, you can delete the blockstream green app from your phone, reinstall it, and choose to 'restore' a wallet rather than create a new one. this will demonstrate how you are able to recover all of your bitcoin using your seed phrase should your device be lost.

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time to think

slow down

maybe you've heard that it's important to know why things are the way they are. specifically, why was bitcoin created? to avoid the chicken and egg paradox and move forward, let's allow time to think. there's a good chance that the "why" about bitcoin that is settled on today will look very different from the "why" that future generations elucidate.
today's focus is on "how bitcoin interacts" and "why it doesn't it matter why it was created."
you may want to use bitcoin to transfer value because it eliminates the need for middlemen. what do middlemen do? historically, counterparty risk and double-spending attempts have required that third parties act as middlemen for transactions. these middlemen are likely familiar to you: visa, mastercard, wells fargo, deutsche bank, and many more. with middlemen managing the transaction economy, the risk of default and double-spending is distributed and insured against to protect the middlemen who enable people to communicate fiscally (colloquially known as spending money).
middlemen are paid for managing transactions with a fee. this fee is paid by you and the merchant. sometimes you will pay a fee even when you are sending money to yourself! with bitcoin, the same transactions can be sent without middlemen. bitcoin treats every transaction equally, and every payment is peer-to-peer. there are no shortcuts, nor are there extra steps. the costs of sending value over the bitcoin network are balanced with the usage of the network.

today, we ask you to take this time to think about how all of this strikes you so far. most of us have exchanged goods or services for cash, without depending on visa, your bank, or a payment processor. maybe you've assumed that this type of cash transaction cannot happen digitally.
the 450 unique and unaffiliated programmers who joined satoshi nakamoto, the anonymous creator of bitcoin, engineered it to enable users to send secure peer-to-peer communications. it is also auditable in full by any individual. this is one reason why it doesn't matter why bitcoin was created. one can see bitcoin in its entirety and reliably know how it will behave. bitcoin was created such that its creator has no privileges or abilities that you do not have yourself. there are no administrators. you are sovereign.
remember that bitcoin is a combination of technologies, just like a car or a washing machine. this constellation of technologies and human communications (remember that code is language) provides a permissionless, decentralized communications network globally that has garnered quite a bit of value.
bitcoin's code is like a book, and like any implementation of a book, it takes the cooperation of everyone in the network to make the project work. self-help books may only need you and your spouse to cooperate. a clear and informative manual is at the core of most successful businesses. these require the cooperation of business leaders and employees. nations like the united states of america are born on the back of documents like the declaration of independence.
bitcoin is a simple book about decentralized fiscal independence. the knowledge is easy to apply, clearly correct, and sometimes difficult to explain.
the bitcoin book has been 'checked out' and 'saved' by over 100 million people who use the knowledge enclosed to communicate with each other reliably. it's also one of the first books available globally 24/7 via satellite. this enables people without reliable cable internet connections to use bitcoin.

the next step for entrenched members of the bitcoin community is to move your bitcoin value off strike and into a wallet. tomorrow's email will guide you through that process. currently, strike holds your bitcoin in a digital wallet and gives you access to that wallet. once you have your own wallet, you can take your bitcoin out of strike and into your own custody. you can think of strike as a 'checking account' and your own wallet as a 'savings account'.
a 'seed phrase' or 'recovery seed phrase' is created first. the 'seed phrase' is a series of words that can be used to recover your bitcoin value held in your personal wallet. you could forget everything you know about bitcoin, go off the grid for a decade, and return to use this seed phrase to recover all of the bitcoin in your wallet. this reliability depends on good practices in wallet creation. the most important thing to do is ensure that the 'seed phrase' is created and stored safely and securely.
this phrase can be stored on a steel plate and passed down for generations or written on a piece of paper and lost in a tragic boating accident. please think about how to securely record and store your first seed phrase. a physical copy is highly recommended. a private notebook will suffice. should you decide to store a significant amount of your savings with bitcoin, you should consider a steel plate from coinkite or a copper sheet from copperseedsafe to store your seed phrase.

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at your service

don’t reinvent the wheel

in securing your first bitcoin yesterday, you entered a living network that enables peer-to-peer communications between you and 100 million other people. this number grows daily as more people like you take steps to learn a new financial language.
the bitcoin network is the result of over 450 unaffiliated individual programmers' hard work. for years, a few volunteers maintained bitcoin before it was ever worth much 'money'. at the time of its inception, many people were working on similar projects aimed at creating a digital currency secured by cryptography. bitcoin succeeded where so many had not, and did so in such a way as to ensure that the system would always treat each user equally. there are no administrators in bitcoin, only users, and you are one of them.
bitcoin's code is available in its entirety online, for free. since anyone can make a copy of bitcoin at any time, why doesn't someone make something better? technology moves so fast, after all.
creating a 'new bitcoin' is difficult because the bitcoin implementation of digital scarcity is more akin to a chemical compound like water than it is something to be competed with. despite a global marketing department and technical advantages, gatorade will never compete with its main ingredient: water. further, you won't see many commercials for water that someone isn’t making money on.
if you want decentralized, censorship-resistant, energy-based money based on math, it exists. you’re already using it.
#insert alien energy based money meme

let’s interact with bitcoin using the strike app or the cash app. if you didn’t download one yesterday, you can do it now:

Download the Cash App (xbbb.world/cashapp)

Download the Strike App (xbbb.world/strike)

remember, you can interact with the bitcoin network without becoming a ‘fan’ or an ‘investor’.
at the most surface level, you can use your current debit card to pay a bitcoin invoice with dollars. this is like learning a few words of a foreign language that will enable you to get by. you can now conveniently use the bitcoin network without investing in it.
a bitcoin invoice typically consists of a qr code or a link. similarly to how your preferred email app opens when you click on an email, the strike app will open when you click on certain types of invoices. you can also use the ‘pay’ button in strike to scan an invoice with your phone’s camera.

“pollo feed” is a website where a live camera feed is shown of a chicken coop. the creators set up a feeder that automatically dispenses chicken feed when a bitcoin invoice is paid. you can try it here: https://pollofeed.com/

you can also create bitcoin invoices using the strike app. bitcoin invoices are useful for micropayments, people who insist on paying you in bitcoin, and payments that need to be settled in finality. you can receive this bitcoin payment as dollars and deposit them to your bank account.

have you ever encountered a paywall on the internet? you can create your own using the strike app with plebpay.com. a standing invoice is created that hides your link or message until the visitor pays the toll.

receive streamed payments
have you ever wondered how you can access any tv show ever made in seconds, yet you only get your paycheck every two weeks? streaming technology has been around for years. many of you may faintly remember receiving a dvd in the mail from netflix. it's about time you were able to get some 1's and 0's streamed to your wallet!
strike enables you to stream money globally, as demonstrated by strike ceo jack mallers in the following video:

Streaming Money from the US to Europe (YouTube)

you're starting to look seasoned, friend. you've obtained bitcoin and used it to send value directly to another person without anyone's permission. you are now able to shop and engage in commerce with 100 million other people around the globe. no names required. no credit check needed. if you've got it, you can spend it. your money's always good here.

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the first step

successful

greetings!
you have opted to explore the world of bitcoin.
bitcoin is a global communications network that started functioning on january 3, 2009.

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to have & to hold

the first drop is the wettest

welcome to bitcoin.
you may have heard folks liken Bitcoin to the enlightenment, while some critics think that bitcoin has no use at all.
these reactions are to be expected. the bitcoin system is made up of processes gathered from the fields of investing, computer science, cryptography, game theory, politics, and economics. one can spend a lifetime learning about any of these fields, not to mention a combination of all of them!
thanks to the efforts of strangers around the world, bitcoin was invented to navigate these fields with certainty. this email course will familiarize you with bitcoin and how you can interact with it.

"many roads might lead you to take a closer look at bitcoin...many entries lead down this particular rabbit hole."
-der gigi, the bitcoin journey

soon you will become one of over 100 million bitcoin users. while it takes courage and an open mind to test drive brand-new technology, getting started only takes a few minutes, and this email course has your back!
today's email will guide you through the process of securing some bitcoin using the strike app, which functions similarly to venmo and cash app. with strike you can use your current debit card to pay bitcoin invoices, send any currency to friends worldwide, and purchase bitcoin with no exchange fees.

"bitcoin is the internet of money, and currency is just the first application."
-andreas antonopoulos

if you are reading this, then you have made the leap from mail delivered by hand to your mailbox through the postal system to mail delivered instantly to your digital inbox via e-mail. people love sending each other messages. e-mail was one of the first things the internet was used for and continues to be one of the main ways people use the internet.
our mailboxes continue to operate despite faster technology being available. the invention of e-mail did not replace the postal service, it simply changed what we use it for and created a new method of communication for our society.
similarly, the invention of bitcoin did not replace fiat banking systems, precious metals, and equity markets. in fact, bitcoin, a new way of storing and transacting time value, has been operating alongside these systems for thirteen years already!
imagine bitcoin as an e-mail or text messaging service with a limited number of messages. you can use bitcoin to communicate with anyone else who has bitcoin, and services like strike make it easy to use bitcoin to communicate with people who don't use bitcoin.
users can purchase additional message credits at market rates. some users (miners) donate energy and computing power to maintain the network, and, in return, the network gives them additional message credits (bitcoin).
at first, the internet, e-mail, and text messaging were used for business communications and making plans with friends. these technologies have grown and are now used to pay bills, unlock your house door remotely, and share home movies. by the same logic, it is likely only a few of the many ways to utilize bitcoin have been discovered so far.

bitcoin is complicated, and it is natural to resist trusting anything that is hard to understand at first glance. to add to that initial confusion, you might think bitcoin is used solely for speculation and nefarious activities.
as you learn more about the bitcoin network, many reactions to the technology will start to look more and more like reactions to the internet when you paid for dial-up by the minute.
once you hold bitcoin yourself, you will find that it is an honest servant.

bitcoin's beauty is in the eye of its beholder and after today that beholder is you.
if you’d like to take some bitcoin for a test drive, take a few minutes to install either the cash app or the strike app by clicking the link below. you will receive a cash bonus upon confirming your account, which you can use for the next step (buying some bitcoin!)

click here to download the strike app - you’ll get a cash bonus for using my referral link, xbbb.world/strike

click here to download the cash app - you’ll get a cash bonus for using my referral link, xbbb.world/cashapp

once you have the strike app set up, navigate to the 'bitcoin' tab and purchase $0.50 (or more!) of bitcoin. this is your first step toward access to direct peer-to-peer financial communication with the global bitcoin community.
you have joined 100 million other people in utilizing the bitcoin network to communicate fiscally. tomorrow, we'll show you more ways to use your strike account.
take a break, you know a little more about what being a bitcoiner means now. note that the term 'bitcoiner' will be dated soon. how many internetters have you seen around lately?

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