July

Week ending 6th July 2025

Weather remains good, went for a cold swim in the English channel. Only just passable swimming weather.

What I've been up to:

• Built an educational website for bitcoinevents.uk explaining how to start a Bitcoin meetup
• Styling updates on my website and this one
• Considering doing more with satoshi-power.com — adding a sat converter, asked Rob about SEO keywords
• Caught up with my longest friend Rob — SEO and digital marketing expert and AI/vibe coding whizz
• Listened to Knut Svanholm on Robert Breedlove's show
• Argued with buttcoiners on Reddit for a bit of fun
• Found out they do complimentary coffee at my gym — double espresso before an evening workout, couldn't sleep, unfortunate side-effect
• Migrated to a new phone and new number, swore a lot at various apps' clear interaction design failures, lost count of 2FA circles of doom
• A fair amount of reflecting and figuring out where I want my career to go next

Reflections

Also working on a website for Simon from bitcoinevents.uk. He's got an amazing resource for helping people start their own meetups, but it's just a GitHub readme. Simon took up my offer to build this into a proper website. Luckily my day job was quiet.

Inflation

Enjoyed walks along the coast listening to Knut Svanholm — my favourite Bitcoin personality — talking on Robert Breedlove's show. Some incredible thought bombs, particularly around inflation. How the natural state of the free market is deflation — prices go down — but the productivity gain is absorbed by our inflationary system, where new printed wealth is funnelled into the pockets of the cantillionaires. Knut called Bitcoin a "lovely little headfuck." What a legend.

One point stood out. How inflationary government-issued paper currency is putting the brakes on what could be exponential productivity growth. 1 to 2 to 4 to 8 to 16 and so on. With taxes and inflation we don't even get to two. He doesn't go into much more depth on this, but it has me thinking. If money was not inflationary, and there were no taxes, could productivity exponentially grow year on year? I guess in the same way that there's a physical limit to how many times a piece of paper can be folded in half, exponentials always hit a limit in nature — the top of the S-curve. There's a limit to how much energy and resources can support this kind of growth. But we like to say it would only take 42 folds for a piece of paper to hit the moon. How many years would it take for us to become a Type III civilisation? 42?