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Joe Rodgers

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2023 Bitcoin Twitter Drama Timeline

January 8, 2023•364 words

Week WTF Happened 01 // JAN 01-07 Luke Dash "got hacked". Twitter in disbelief. Udi is Mossad, telling people to use custodians. 01 // JAN 01-07 Cameron Winklevoss sends open letter to Barry. DCG still fucking around, holding $900m from customers. 01 // JAN 01-07 Alex Bosworth asks IF state agents are operating on the Bitcoin space... 🤔 ROFL. 02 // JAN 08-14 Fuck off Peter Zeihan on Rogan. Ruins Bitcoin Twitter for a day or two. Don't waste your time. It pissed everyone off. 02 // J...

Internal Comms

August 5, 2022•153 words

I can't stress this enough, comms matter. Effectively communicating what you're doing, how you're progressing towards goals, blockers you're encountering, and celebrating wins is critical to achieving top performance. In my experience, teams and individuals who "fly under the radar" under achieve. They get less attention until all attention is on them. How to masterclass comms? Individual contributors: Send a Monday list of things you plan on accomplishing to your leadership and team. Mi...

The Art of Escalation

August 4, 2022•228 words

Spending a decade at a fortune 500 big tech did a lot of good for me and my career, but one of the biggest things I learned was the art of escalation. Coming into the job I carried various entry level sales jobs at non tech firms. I had never experienced politics in the workplace and how to get things done. One of the first things my boss said to me was "escalate early and often". I had no clue what he meant. Literally no one in my life had used the word escalate in this way to me. I quickly l...

Power of the DM

August 3, 2022•179 words

One of my super powers is the direct message or DM. Up until a couple years ago, I reserved DM's exclusively for communicating with people I knew in real life. It wasn't until I became more active on Bitcoin Twitter that I began to notice bitcoiners saying things like DM's open and people encouraging inbound comms if you have questions. This felt foreign and not natural. Why would I DM if I don't know you? DM broke my mental barrier to connect with humans. By sliding in DM and asking an honest q...

The Pursuit of Hashiness

July 30, 2022•125 words

The long winter is upon us. The BTC price has driven many home miners are powering down. Old Asics are no longer in profitable. Some leveraged commercial miners are getting margin called. All the while blocks keep stacking. Difficulty keeps adjusting. And the network matches on. Many miners are looking for ways to squeeze additional earnings out of existing infrastructure. This is bear market mentality. When things are booming, leverage is used, people get sloppy, and efficiency is ignored. ...

Target Market

July 20, 2022•68 words

Target Market is a broad group of potential customers defined by ranges. Those ranges can be ages, location, income bracket, etc. Target market is made up of various target customers or personas. This is a more narrow look at a person. You use this to describe the person(s) you are selling to. Defining a Target Market is essential in developing a business plan and finding product market fit. ...

Target Customer

July 20, 2022•70 words

Business is all about definitions. Defining what you sell, defining your customer, defining how you sell it. Defining a target customer is a key element to successful business. It is also important to understand that there are many target customers which roll into a target market. Once you have a target customer identified, you are on your way to finding product market fit and can develop marketing ands sales plans. ...

Finding Product Market Fit

July 20, 2022•85 words

When thinking about how to build or launch a product/service, finding product market fit is essential. Product market fit or PMF is how well a product satisfies a strong market demand. Product Market Fit Pyramid Source: Dan Olsen1 Target Customer Defining your Target Customer is essential in Resources HOW TO CREATE YOUR PERFECT PRODUCT DEFINITION IN SIX SIMPLE STEPS link to an article about pmf Product User Fit Marc Anderssen coined and popularized PMF 1. Source Link ...

Purity Tests

July 20, 2022•138 words

A common FUD that scammers use against maximalists are Purity Tests. This label is applied when a scammer gets shit on for bad ideas and they cry wolf about purity tests and conformity and mean maxis. The more I think about purity tests, the more I am into them. I think this is probably a meme we (maximalists) should lean into. What is the downside of purity tests? You get labeled as using purity tests You get called a cult (false we are a religion) You get called a bully What is the upsi...

Bitcoin Trends

July 20, 2022•108 words

If you look at established markets or sectors, finance bros usually produce annual reports that highlight what's happening in the space. These annual reports cover micro and macroeconomic trends, happenings with companies and people, and other "big deals". Two notable reports for reference are from Mary Meeker and Benedict Evans. They both are focused on high tech and economics and there exists nothing like this that focuses on Bitcoin. This is why I'm building Bitcoin Trends. 1 part cha...

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Bitcoin Twitter Drama Timeline

September 9, 2020•534 words

Year Week Start Day End Day Primary Theme Secondary Theme 2020 29 7/12/2020 7/18/2020 Twitter hacked for Bitcoin - god mode and shadow bans confirmed 2020 30 7/19/2020 7/25/2020 2020 31 7/26/2020 8/1/2020 2020 32 8/2/2020 8/8/2020 Dave Portnoy challenges Bitcoin 2020 33 8/9/2020 8/15/2020 Run the Numbers - auditors attempt to verify supply of ETH 2020 34 8/16/2020 8/22/2020 2020 35 8/23/2020 8/29/2020 What is XPUB - Peter unwilling to learn after 3 years of running succ...

Lightning Network and Email Newsletters

September 7, 2020•1,030 words

Bitcoin is disrupting everything... if you think email marketing won't be disrupted then you can GTFO. Time for some #reckless thoughts. Traditional email marketing has a couple different key metrics. Open rate, click rate, lead gen, subscribe rate, unsubscribe rate, are some of the most important. Influencers, brands, or anyone managing a big list are always trying to get something out of subscribers. This is usually a click on a call to action! Email marketers are constantly balancing wa...

Notes on The Viral Aspects of Language

July 4, 2020•1,594 words

A Quantitative Research of Memetic Selection Criteria This is a 92 page senior thesis. It covers the basics of memes but digs into how memes spread and specific research into virus hoaxes. This paper is broken into 4 chapters: Introduction to Memetics Spreading of Memes Reseach Methodology and Corpus Research Results Introduction to Memetics Memes according to Richard Dawkins: Meme - unit of cultural transmission. Memes "propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to...

Notes on Memetics - A Growth Industry in US Military Operations

July 2, 2020•925 words

First things first, download this paper. The executive summary is really great. A single page that sums up the contents. Thesis: Tomorrow’s US military must approach warfighting with an alternate mindset that is prepared to leverage all elements of national power to influence the ideological spheres of future enemies by engaging them with alternate means—memes—to gain advantage. Conclusion: Cognitive scientists, cultural anthropologists, behavior scientists, and game theory experts must b...

Notes from Meme Warfare

July 1, 2020•1,794 words

How to Overthrow the Powers that be On a Low Budget I recommend you download this paper. It's an easy read and overall very quotable. It goes a little micro on some parts but overall it is a great read. This articles describes memes, memplex, how memes spread, how the memeplex gets and holds power, memeplex vulnerability, and how to subvert current memeplex. Let me first level set what you'll get out of this. You WILL walk away with an understanding of how power is derived and the power of ...

Make Guns Not War

June 30, 2020•483 words

A great meme is one that prompts the receiver to share it. Memes tug on emotions in order to replicate between hosts. One of the classic memes from the anti-war movement of the 60's1 is "Make love, not war". The meme was born out of opposition to the war in Vietnam. It is a great meme because it is short, memorable, and includes to polar opposites, love and war. The meme was painted across bare chests, on posters, and printed on buttons. It is so catchy that is still circulates today. Fast forw...

Quotes On Privacy

June 28, 2020•56 words

Saying you’re against privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you’re against free speech because you have nothing to say. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing so many of you that privacy - in itself - is a crime. Wake up. Have some self respect. - Matt Odell ...

Memetics Resources

June 26, 2020•197 words

This page serves as a repo to navigate resources I've put together that focus on memetics. A large portion of the focus is on military memetics but some of these resources cover memetics from an educational standpoint i.e. the nature of memes and their effect of society. Bitcoin Meme Warfare Purity Tests Military Memetics Docs Library Docs Library on Keybase My Notes on the Meme Papers Notes on Memetics - A Growth Industry in US Military Operations Notes on Meme Warfare Military Mem...

The Memetic Meditation

June 25, 2020•484 words

This is a notepad I am keeping to track these thoughts Memetic Meditation The use of memetic mantras in meditation Repitition is used in all sorts of spirituality and medititaon. Schelling points are universal truths, what we all believe in. A schelling point is the strongest mantra around an idea or belief system Many supporting mantras and memes develop in order to preserve and spread the idea. What is Mantra Meditation? A mantra is a syllable, word, or phrase that is repeated during m...

Metatron's Cube

June 25, 2020•334 words

This is a notepad I am keeping to track these thoughts This is an idea of using Metatron's Cube as a memory tool to recall your seed phrase and also for memetic meditation. Bullets Metatrons cube sacred geometry The cube has 6 sides, 4 words per side each point should have a meme to recite Need more info on metatrons sacred geometry Sacred Goeometry Sacred Geometry. Jobalou/Getty Images In her book "Metatron: Invoking the Angel of God's Presence," Rose VanDen Eynden writes that stud...

The Witches Case for Bitcoin

June 25, 2020•443 words

This is a notepad I am keeping to track these thoughts The Witch's Case for Bitcoin Three proposed points for this short essay: Seed Creation is a spell Energy and the Earth The Magic of Time Preference The Magic of Cryptography Seed Creation is a spell This section should discuss the magical probability of the seed. Talk about how many lifetimes it would take to guess a seed. How there is a really good chance that once a seed is created, that combination of words has never been said by m...

The Way

June 25, 2020•414 words

This is a notepad I am keeping to track these thoughts The Way An exploration of perfection through Bitcoin Sovereigns are the most powerful men in a territory Low Times preference brings out the best in us Citadels are built from within Reference Sacral architecture Cornerstone and masonry The corner-stone, 107 as the foundation on which the entire building is supposed to rest, is, of course, the most important stone in the whole edifice. It is, at least, so considered by operative m...

AI and Strong Hands

June 25, 2020•69 words

This is a notepad I am keeping to track these thoughts AI and Strong Hands The AI droids will have unbelievably strong hands and will cooperate beyond anything we're seen or can imagine. By cooperate I mean not without but within. Thinking through this plotline... will there be multiple AI or one sentient AI mind? IF there are multiple AI minds, will they cooperate or will they compete? ...

The Ritual of Seed Creation

June 25, 2020•1,050 words

This is a notepad I am keeping to track these thoughts The Ritual of Seed Creation About this article This article is an exploration of the sovereign nature of creating a seed, sommiting it to memory, and the spiritual effects of this exercise. This is a work in progress. The Sovereign and the Seed The sovereign is the person who makes the rules for himself and/or others. Since the beginning of time, the sovereign has been determined by violence. He has wields the most violence, has sover...

Dropgang Protocol

June 25, 2020•349 words

This is a notepad I am keeping to track these thoughts Idea: Dropgang Protocols I first heard about the ideas of dropgangs from Frank and Smuggler on their epic podcast. Dropggangs are organizations that facilitate IRL deliveries. While this sounds pretty simple, dropgangs can be highly sophisticated in their workflow by utilizing many kinds of technology to make deliveries. One problem with this is how it scales. I mean, dropgangs are not located in every city. How could the idea of dropgang...

The Bitcoin Diaspora, a Confederation of Tribes

March 11, 2020•1,848 words

The Bitcoin Diaspora, A Confederation of Tribes By Joe Rodgers Posted March 11, 2020 Introduction “There is no Bitcoin community” - Everyone This is the battle cry of true-believers and deniers alike. There is no CEO, PR, or speaker for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is decentralized, so there is none of that. So why do people get triggered so easily when people utter the phrase “Bitcoin community”? Surely there is something, but what is it? During Bitcoin’s short existence, it has grown from a small c...

Bitcoin Layers

August 8, 2019•490 words

The past few weeks there have been several good threads about Bitcoin’s scaling layers. Two camps have emerged as they try to define the stack. While this has no real implications and the market will ultimately decide on the best way to define layers, I wanted to put a post together to show the two camps. Any Tech Stack Any technology that allows you to move Bitcoin around without making a Bitcoin L1 transaction, and settles directly on L1. link to tweet This is consistent with our friends ...