The Average Bitcoiner – Sum Divided by Count

In this episode, I think out loud with a friend about how capital, proximity, and stewardship show up in real life—on the homestead, in local businesses, and in our Bitcoin habits. We draw parallels from permaculture and electronics to community economics: keeping systems close reduces leakage, and spending intentionally can keep value circulating where we live. We get practical about choosing loc...

In this solo riff, I unpack a big idea that’s been stuck in my head: extraction. From fiat inflation as parasitic theft to how attention-harvesting social media drains local value, I explore what gets siphoned out of our families and communities—and how we can stop it. I connect dots between Bitcoin as hard money and unit of account, circular economies, and practices like regenerative agriculture...

I’m back behind the mic after a minute away, reflecting on chaos, community, and the tools we can use to build real resilience. I share why I’ve been experimenting with DIY mesh networking—selling Heltec ESP32 LoRa nodes, trying Meshtastic, and looking to flash Mesh Core for a better UX and potential BitChat integration—plus what I’ve learned helping non‑coders ship with LLMs. From repo-deep dives...

In this short, on-the-road reflection, I talk about the value of simple family rituals—like Friday night pizza—as an anchor amid the chaos, and how that same spirit of intentionality applies to our digital lives. I share two recent touch points with privacy‑first, self‑hosted, open‑source hardware efforts, and why I’m increasingly convinced that veterans and builders in our communities will drive...

In today’s short solo episode, I share a distilled argument—drawn from C. S. Lewis’s thought—about whether psychedelics have any place in Christian life. The answer, as presented, is a carefully bounded “yes” only for strict medical restoration in severe cases (think combat PTSD or situations where fear, sleep, or emotional regulation are physiologically blocked), treated like anesthesia: a tool t...

In this solo riff, I share a brain-dump from the bench: provisioning a batch of Heltec LoRa boards and debating whether to stand up a Meshtastic network or lean into MeshCore for its BitChat interoperability. From there, I zoom out to the bigger goal—helping a sovereignty-minded community learn off‑grid radio—and why asking users what they actually want beats building in a vacuum. I also sketch a...

In this solo riff, I get back to basics with a simple question: what small, durable skills and systems will still matter through whatever economic “turning” we’re in? I start with baking bread—salt, flour, water, yeast—and how a tiny, profitable craft can outlast volatile cycles and even complement a Bitcoin-standard mindset of spending less than you make. From there I jump to homelab tinkering: w...

In this episode of The Average Bitcoiner, I dive into the idea of government data accessibility and why public information should be truly public—available via API, rate-limited, and anchored to real-world, in-person identity through local jurisdictions. I explore how modern AI tools can scrape, analyze, and visualize county and school data, and share an experiment to publish transparent audits wi...

I’m kicking off The Average Bitcoiner with a deep dive into my Ehash experiment: marrying Stratum V2 pooled‑mining shares with Cashu ecash to create a private, liquid IOU for work-in-progress hashpower. I walk through how mining shares are “almost blocks,” why they’re basically worthless until a payout, and how issuing ehash against validated shares can function like a pool’s accounting database—o...