Cooking Up Community at Nostr Valley w/Seth: State College, PA | Ep. 029

I do want to get all of the exact details about when this, when this meetup is happening, when this event's happening and you know, what, if you got any, um, you know, content lined up.

But before that, there's several things that we kind of touched on already.

And the first was wearing Bitcoin swag, right? Reid and I have recently had a discussion about wearing Bitcoin swag.

And, you know, David Bennett of the Bitcoin And podcast is like, do not wear, you're going to get fucking stabbed to death.

You know, don't wear your Bitcoin shit out in public.

But really, you know, When you're in a small town like where I'm at, this only, in my mind, creates opportunities like what you just presented.

Because you had that Bitcoin hat on, you realized that Derek Ross was right in your neighborhood and now you're at the Bitcoin meetup because of it and everything.

And then here comes Nostra Valley out of that whole thing.

And, you know, every time I wear my because I honestly, dude, at this point, as my old clothes kind of wear out, I just have kind of only Bitcoin clothes to wear, only Bitcoin T-shirts.

And I got my Bitcoin hat, my Bitcoin shorts and all this stuff.

And I'm wearing it around.

And eventually, you know, every once in a while, you know, someone says, hey, you like Bitcoin? yeah, I like Bitcoin.

And I'm like, by the way, I do a Bitcoin meetup in South Bend, you should come, you know, and not all the time does that does that convert into somebody coming to the meetup.

But when it does, it typically ends up being somebody that you are very glad to have met.

And so anecdotally, like my experience wearing the Bitcoin swag is like, It's to my benefit more so than my detriment, especially if you're a person that's ready to, you know, protect yourself when, you know, someone's going to have a fresh idea about, oh, you got Bitcoin.

Maybe you have something on that cell phone in your pocket, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, the only thing it tells me is that, you know, this guy here has, you know, one, he knows how to protect himself, knows how to protect his finances.

And, yeah, he might be packing some heat or knows some defense moves or something of that nature versus, you know, I think you're – far worse off if you have a Rolex on your arm and some sort of status symbol.

I think it's just pure marketing.

It's just trying to grow the community and saying, hey, reminder that this is money.

Because my experience, IRL, when you talk to the sort of normie crew that exists out there, and I've tried it over the years, especially early on, you go deep and you're like, You know, when you're first learning about Bitcoin, you're like trying to tell everyone, oh, listen to this, you know, and they're like, I don't care.

You know, it's like or you tell them about it and they're like, yeah, that's a that's a volatile asset and I'm not going to get into that.

And it's like, OK.

And at this point, I don't say I've given up, but, you know, I don't necessarily lead the conversation with it.