build the bridge

For folks looking to point people to a high signal site about bitcoin and freedom tech: notfinancialadvice.com h/t @lopp @clarkmoody @bitcoinpark_

/5 Why this is a big deal: Machines are about to be the biggest consumers of APIs. AI agents don't have credit cards. They don't want to sign up for accounts. With MPP + Lightning, an agent just pays and gets access. The internet finally has a native payment layer.

I’m back. Will be pushing on agentic bitcoin payments and building things agents will actually pay for. First step was getting @moneydevkit working on @Cloudflare. Required building a custom @lightningdevkit node that compiles to wasm to run on cloudflare’s js runtime and take advantage of their tcp, storage, and durable object apis. Source and examples here: github.com/johncantrell97… npm install mdk-cloudflare Just point your agent at the repo and will be able to get it running for you.

had a lot of fun at the Bitcoin Takeover at @bitcoinpark_ Austin last week!! big thanks to @Justinmoon for moderating a great convo + @bitkite for inviting me out 🇺🇸

Voltage is hiring! We’re looking for an Infra Engineer. Let me know if you or someone you recommend is interested!

Building software is cheap Maintaining it remains expensive

A new Tennessee bill would end the state’s twice-a-year clock changes by requiring residents to remain on standard time year-round. bit.ly/40vudM6

your edge is whatever you know that the models don't know

Vibe coding is so addictive. You open your laptop “just to fix this one bug” at 5pm and suddenly it’s 2:30am.

The new reality is if you have a FAANG job you have 0 job security

My young Aggie bitcoiners @bitcoinpark_ this week for Bitcoin Takeover 2026! Phenomenal event, flawless execution @bitkite

@Cernovich Sound money is essential to defending freedom!

Printing money enables the fraud. You can paper over it. Every issue we face is downstream of the money printer.

@BitcoinNewsCom what would even be the point of tax exempting something that has no income - the stable coins are not paying interest to retail users. and forget the de minimis, bitcoin needs zero cap gains as a global digital currency.

@blocks has been on the frontlines advocating for de minimis for bitcoin, and we have had to combat a growing stablecoin-only narrative on the Hill. The threat is real. Now’s the time to unite as an industry and push for meaningful reform for the future of payments.

@brian_armstrong @TFTC21 I have sources that say otherwise, not you personally but your team and/or lobbyists. Will you commit to walk away from the market structure bill if it doesn’t include the de minimis exemption for bitcoin like you did stablecoin yield?

@TFTC21 Not sure where you're getting this misinformation (perhaps you can share?) but it's totally false. I've spent a bunch of time lobbying for Bitcoin's de minimis tax exemption, and will continue doing so. It's obviously the right thing.

@jack Yep

hope this is true for de minimis as well. @brian_armstrong?

This is extremely concerning if true. I can confirm that over the past three months there’s been a strong shift on the Hill to limiting the de minimis exemption to stablecoins only. BPI continues to meet with lawmakers to explain what a strategic blunder this would be for the U.S. We’ve spent years on this issue—we can’t let it slip at the last minute.

My X algorithm makes it look like AI is taking over everything, the reality is far from it. If you want to see it for yourself, ask an avg. small business owner how they're using AI in their business. Or ask a group of college students, how they're using AI. You'll quickly realize how SLOW the adoption really is. Here are some of my findings: - Most people use AI as a glorified Google search. This is the Primary use-case in my finding. - Others are using it for generative content (i.e emails / etc). This sounds cool until you watch the workflow. It's quite manual and requires MANY iterations to get a single text output. There's no agentic AI do it for me stuff happening. Most folks are NOT using Claude Code or Cowork. - Now let's talk about vibe coding. At this point, I have spoken to over a few dozen SMBs who attempted to "make their own apps" to replace SaaS tooling. On surface the "popular" vibe coding platforms made it look very nice. Until the endless debugging started. One SMB owner showed me that they spent $3k+ on a vibe coding platform and countless hours building an internal app to replace a SaaS but failed ... because the vibe coding platform was making up numbers and putting placeholders that looked real 🤦‍♂️ Basically the doom and gloom scenario that some folks on X share about AI taking over everything is way overrated. The adoption is very slow in real world. Now don't get me wrong, I love AI and I think it's only getting better. But like most major technologies, the adoption and penetration will take a long time. Any smart "AI-first" company will embrace Human first and Human last in all workflows. ^^ We have a lot of AI implemented in @awesomemotive but you have to monitor things. If you're just getting started, don't think you're too late. You're very very early! If you're a business owner, dive in and learn AI. But don't rush things. Be smart about it. Aside from tech debt, we'll soon discover and experience ... prompt / AI skills debt as well. Fun times ahead.