Things are moving, but not in clean straight lines. The newsletter is becoming real — I’ve been down in the weeds of Beehiiv trying to figure out if I can set up a discount code that triggers a specific automation. The idea is: $5 first month for a $9/month premium subscription, and the second someone signs up through that link, they automatically get a 20-minute course video. No manual work, no giving it to people who didn’t use the code. I want the machine to do it. I don’t know yet if Beehiiv can actually pull that off cleanly, but I’m mapping it out. That’s where my head was at 2am.
The Bitcoin conference. It’s coming and I’m not ready — not in terms of logistics, but in terms of having a reason to be there beyond just walking around collecting t-shirts. I went last year. I know how big it is. This year I applied to speak and I applied for a press pass, and I still might get it. But what’s really on my mind is the opportunity sitting right there if I actually prepare. I want to line up an interview for every half day. Get companies to share the content. Get crypto clarity in front of people who have actual reach — Saylor would be the dream. Eric Trump is apparently a main speaker. That’s the play. But there’s a lot of ground to cover between now and then and I’m not sure I’m moving fast enough toward it.
$285 million got stolen in what’s being called the biggest crypto hack of 2026. I caught it while out last night — someone mentioned it and it landed. That’s the thing about this space: the story writes itself every single day. If crypto clarity is going to mean anything, there’s no shortage of content. Whether I’m fast enough to be first on it is a different question.
How to actually work the conference. I know I want to be there with a plan, not just a badge. Interviews lined up, a script, people who will actually share what I make. But there’s no clear path from here to that. It’s the kind of thing where I know what the outcome looks like but the steps in between are fuzzy. I asked Gemini how to maximize the time between now and then. It helped some. But I’m still sitting with the gap between knowing what I want to do and knowing how to make it happen before the deadline.