Bitcoin for Startups

Context

By 2021 I had spent years inside Bitcoin, and I kept meeting the same person: a capable founder with a real idea and no one to ask the obvious first questions. They had arrived, and the door to the network was not open to them yet.

The problem I saw

The knowledge these founders needed existed. It was just locked inside private group chats and relationships that took years to earn. If you already knew someone, you were fine. If you did not, you were guessing.

Why I cared

I had been the person guessing. I remembered how much time it cost and how avoidable most of it was. Closing that gap for the next founder was work I actually wanted to do.

What I built, and my role

I built and organized Bitcoin for Startups: programming and plain-spoken resources that met early founders where they were, and, more importantly, connected them to people a step ahead. I ran it.

What worked and what did not

The introductions worked. The written resources worked when they were specific and dated poorly when they were generic. TODO(Kyle): add the honest account of what did not land.

What it influenced

Running this made one thing undeniable: the coordination gap in Bitcoin was structural, not incidental. That realization is the direct line to founding Bitcoin Culture Hub.