Happy belated Genesis Block Day!

Bitcoin Turned 15 Yesterday

BTC birthday cake. Photo credit: Nikhita Singhal

Yesterday was Bitcoin 15th birthday — the day when the first Bitcoin block was mined.

All praise be to Lord Satoshi.

Let us not forget, though that it took almost 40 years to develop all of the technological components that went into Bitcoin.

Image credit: Dan Held

In other words, it wasn’t cooked up overnight.

My Interview with CEO Ray Youssef

To celebrate, I’m pumped to share my interview with Ray Youssef, CEO of NoOnes — a peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin/crypto trading app, focused on serving users in The Global South.

Ray is grand in stature, and yet he has an even bigger heart. He’s on a mission to find and empower leaders in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

If you’re looking for a dose of inspiration to combat the post-holiday season malaise, check out this interview.

The Bitcoin Whitepaper

Also, if you’ve never read the Bitcoin white paper, I recommend doing so. It’s a thing of beauty. And what better time to do so than in the wake of Bitcoin birthday?!

The Yzer App

Lastly, if you’ve stumbled upon this edition of the newsletter and have no idea what Bitcoin is, I highly recommend using the Yzer app to learn more. The app pays you in Sats — fractions of a bitcoin — to learn more about Bitcoin. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me.

Please use my referral code when you download the app and set up your account: 6I9135O (copy and paste it).

Our First Sponsor: Blink Wallet

Super lastly, I’m excited to announce that new renaissance capital has its first sponsor — Blink: The Everyday Bitcoin Wallet! How rad is that? (It’s really rad.)

I highly recommend downloading this Bitcoin Lightning wallet (click the link in the paragraph above) if your jurisdiction allows you to. It’s awesome.

If you already have a Blink Wallet (or any other Lightning wallet) and you’re thinking to yourself, “Man, this Frank guy is so cool. I should send him some Sats for pumping out such great content,” then, please don’t let me stand in your way:

With that, let’s move on to markets…