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Here's somebody explaining how the economy works. Great journalist and broadcaster, by the way, Ross Ashcroft, RIP, interviewing me around 2015.

We winning 🇿🇦🔥 SA's Vambo AI released MORENA: open-weight, 1.5B parameters, built from scratch for 12 African languages plus English & French (per Disrupt Africa). Check the licence neh 🙏🏽 My read: more local devs build on it by mid-2027 🦾 Let's Build ⚡️

The people who are the best in the world at what they do, do not trade in the currency of money, or equity, but in purpose. If your mission is rich in this currency, and more importantly you know how to send this currency from your head to their heart over a power network called "human speech" then you have the capacity to build a dream team that can do what is impossible alone. This is not a random message, so let me give a practical datapoint to back this up. Our infrastructure company CH4Capital has one purpose "profitably destroy landfill methane." To achieve this I needed our team to know about Bitfcoin mining, infrastructure financing, landfill gas power generation and landfill gas carbon credits. I had expertise in exactly none of these things. So I asked myself "who is the best person we could have in each of these 4 areas". After some time searching, I found the world's leading authority on landfill gas power generation and landfill gas carbon credits was the same person. Nuno Barbosa. I contacted Nuno, and explained how I thought we could solve a problem: half the world's landfills couldn't sell power to the grid: solve this and we double his project pipeline. He agreed that was a big problem and said he was curious to find out more, so we arranged a call, but send the details of how it worked beforehand on a one pager, which he responded positively to. I opened the call with a simple request "I'd like you as an advisor to the fund. What this would look like is we get on a half hour phonecall every fotnight for the next year. The worse that happens is that you waste 26 hours of your life. The best that happens is that we double your business and change the way methane mitigation is done globally." Then paused. He replied simple "Yes, that sounds like a good idea." No spin. Transparent about risk. But also transparency about the potential CH4Capital is now close to 2 separate projects in Latin America, with PVARA (Pakistan's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority) also now actively looking to enact Bitcoin mining across the whole country's landfills. Without Nuno on the fund, this would have been impossible. His expertise was instrumental to our ability to build a fund that yielded a high return through harnessing carbon credits in addition to standard loan financing. Finding Nuno was the (relatively) easy part. Knowing what to say to Nuno took both research into the problem he faced, and a lot of pre-work to understand how to communicate to influence, not merely inform. This is why I say, people who are the best in the world at what they do, do not trade in the currency of money, or equity, but in purpose. If you understand how to trade (communicate) in that currency, you have the basis for forming a dream team who can achieve what you cannot possibly do alone. I'm currently coaching other Bitcoiners how to do this, with some good results that have helped progress various Bitcoin projects. If your mission depends on having others see the value of your ideas, reach out!

This is to show us where central bank digital currency (the digital euro, the digital pound, the digital yen) are heading.

France is grappling with debt and political instability, while its former colonies in the Sahel are challenging its influence. Fiat is dying. Paris is ground zero. 🇫🇷₿ Not because the euro is collapsing today, but because the old systems of monetary power are being questioned