It's Time to Stack Sats

And Isaiah Jackson Wants to Help You Do So

Shortly after I learned about what cryptocurrency was in January 2018, I began finding personalities on Twitter (now “X”) that taught about it.

Isaiah Jackson was one of those personalities, and this week I had the honor of interviewing him for my podcast.

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Author of Bitcoin and Black America, host of “The Gentlemen of Crypto” and a member of the team behind the Yzer app, a Bitcoin education app that pays you in sats (fractions of a bitcoin) to learn (Referral code: 6191350), Jackson is a true Renaissance Man.

And with his new eBook (a 16-page guide), he’s looking to help you earn sats without having to spend any of your hard earned fiat/dollars.

In our conversation, we touched on what the Bitcoin space was like when he got into it back in 2013, how he feels about being the voice for “Bitcoin and Black America” and how Bitcoin changed his life.

Though Jackson looks like quite a serious dude in the photo above, he’s actually one of the funniest people in the Bitcoin space, and I appreciate the fact that he often brings levity to a virtual environment in which people often takes themselves far too seriously.

I hope you enjoy the interview!

Meeting Gladstein

On Wednesday, I got to meet someone else in the Bitcoin space who I look up to: Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer for the Human Rights Foundation.

Photo credit: Someone at the Pubkey Meetup

Gladstein, author of Check Your Financial Privilege: Inside the Global Bitcoin Revolution and Hidden Repression: How the IMF and the World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development, often speaks to audiences of thousands, so it felt like quite a privilege to hear him speak to a group of 30 or 40 in the back of Pubkey, a Bitcoin bar in the West Village of New York City.

I asked him what it’s been like trying to explain Bitcoin to people in the worlds of social services and humanitarian aid, as I assumed most look at him like he’s crazy.

He confirmed that this has been the case but also added that more and more non-profits, NGOs and dissident groups are coming to the Human Rights Foundation to ask it for information on how to use Bitcoin.

Much like Isaiah Jackson’s approach, Gladstein doesn’t try to convince anyone to use Bitcoin; he just teaches those who want to learn.

He also discussed how he’s in touch with Alexei Navalny — Russian opposition leader, outspoken critic of Putin, lawyer and anti-corruption activist — and his team, and how they now use Bitcoin as their primary form of money because they’ve been debanked in Russia and in former Soviet States. This blew my mind twofold.

First, it felt kind of surreal knowing that I was sitting in the presence of someone who’s in touch with Putin’s opposition. Second, I love that the opposite of Putin is Bitcoin (okay, that’s a bit reductive, but whatever).

If you’d like to support Gladstein’s work, consider buying either of his books (linked above) or attending the Oslo Freedom Forum in New York, an event that the Human Rights Foundation organizes, on September 28.

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Bitcoin Price Drop

The price of Bitcoin dropped from about $29.5k to $26k this week.

What does this mean? Well, it means we should pack up our bags and go home, because this Bitcoin thing is surely over and done.

j/k!

Here’s what this week’s BTC price drop looks like zoomed out:

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Let’s see if it’s worth scooping up some BTC (and other correlated assets) at these levels…