Jasmine Birtles

"Those foundations are here for El Salvador to be building on in perpetuity." @bitstein is the OG Bitcoin historian, as the founder and president of the @NakamotoInst. His work preserves a digital archive of the most important ideas and conversations from Bitcoin's history and pre-history. In this mini-interview at El Salvador's National Palace during Bitcoin Histórico, the extraordinary event produced by @stacyherbert and @maxkeiser and the @bitcoinofficesv, we discussed: - why Bitstein founded the Nakamoto Institute in 2013 - some examples of their most famous articles and terms they've popularized such as "speculative attack" and "hyperbitcoinization" - his first impression of El Salvador - why it's important for Bitcoiners to understand history If you agree that it's important to preserve Bitcoin's history, you can click the quoted post to learn more about the Nakamoto Institute and support their work:

"You've told me two things. They contradict each other. One's not true." @jackmallers on the impossible math of AI valuations. Either AI takes the jobs and the entire credit system collapses, or AI is overhyped and GDP craters. Either way, they print.

We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation just weeks ago. We were a darling of the SaaS era and invented so many of the patterns you see in software today. Nearly four years ago, in need of a reboot, we jumped on weeks-old modern LLMs to create and define the category we know as Customer Agents today. Salesforce invented modern software and SaaS. And @benioff is like the final boss of tech founder CEOs. In seat for 27 years, he’s one of the last of his era. Still pushing, pivoting, placing big bets. It’s a privilege for @destraynor and I to get to partner with him and join forces with Salesforce upon close at this most fascinating time. And will be very fun to get their help bringing Fin to magnitudes more consumers. To our customers: Over the past few years we’ve been shipping intensely. Including recently our groundbreaking model, Apex, and our paradigm-defining internal agent, Operator. With the resources of Salesforce this will only accelerate. And yet little will practically change. I’ll still be CEO, Des will still be running R&D, we’ll both still be committed to continuing to lead this category. Thank you very sincerely and deeply for your belief in us. To all of our friends, our families, and our employees, past and present: While this is not the end, it is a major, pivotal, special, and emotional moment for us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For everything. To my cofounders, my exec team: Look what we built. Four young lads with a dream and nothing to lose. And a home grown exec team who pulled off the greatest and arguably only late stage software company pivot to AI, and invented one of the most important categories in AI. Thank you for sticking through all of this with me. And now, time to get back to work. See you at our next product launch in a couple weeks. (:

this project would be nothing without @virtuals_io and @eastworlds_io who were supporters from day 1 grateful for all their help