This can be a transcribed excerpt of the “Bitcoin Journal Podcast,” hosted by P and Q. On this episode, they’re joined by Matt Odell to speak about Bitcoin, Bugs as Meals, the significance of group, and naturally, the worth of Bitcoin.
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Matt Odell: So welcome to my studio.
Q: It is attractive. Let’s discuss Bitcoin Park for a second as a result of that is an absurd factor. Is it like, that is simply Soho Home for Bitcoiners.
Odell: It is higher than Soho Home although, proper? Like, was that an offensive assertion? No. Did you imply that critically?
Q: I meant it as a praise. Thanks guys. Like what you guys are attempting to construct right here is really outstanding. I imply this double home scenario.
Odell: We joke round about it being much like Soho Home and that you’ve got memberships and you’ve got non-public areas. You possibly can work, you may meet, you may collaborate, we will podcast, you may get together, you may podcast. Now we have podcast studios throughout. I believe the massive distinction between us and Soho Home — the best way I take into consideration Bitcoin Park — is that Bitcoin Park is mostly a group.
It is primarily for supporting Bitcoin and grassroots Bitcoin adoption and supporting the area people within the space reasonably than a massively worthwhile international enterprise honest.
It might be good to have a pleasant, sustainable revenue on the park, clearly. I am not pretending it is a nonprofit initiative, however at its core, it is a group initiative. We’re gonna have dev workshops right here, plenty of workshops, schooling, non-public occasions, public occasions, meetups bringing native companies to promote their wares for bitcoin. I imply, we had a cocktail bar right here accepting Bitcoin, household espresso store, stuff like that.
P: While you say “household espresso store,” what does that imply?
Odell: Actually the entire household works there.
P: So, it is a separate enterprise from Bitcoin park?
Odell: Yeah. There’s three native espresso outlets that we have been working with and we’ve got two buildings right here. I wish to name it the campus, Bitcoin Park campus. There is a totally functioning espresso store that simply got here with the property.
So, we simply stumbled into this espresso store with the complete espresso machine. Like that is a extremely costly espresso machine. It is like a $15,000 machine.
Q: Wait, they only left the espresso machine behind?
P: No, no, they fucking purchased it as a part of the constructing.
Odell: My buddy, it was included within the deal. They wished to depart us as many issues as potential. These chairs we’re sitting on have been left by the earlier tenants. This desk we introduced, nevertheless it’s one of many few issues we really dropped at the park. It was in Rod’s storage beforehand, however anyway, we had a totally functioning espresso store. We’re not attempting to run a espresso enterprise, however we take pleasure in espresso.
What did we resolve to do? We reached out to 3 totally different native espresso outlets, all family-owned operations. They arrive in, they man the espresso store throughout our occasions. They provide us with baggage of espresso all through the week when members are right here they usually’re working and whatnot.
One of many households has their kids run the entire operation. They roast the beans, they do every little thing. And none of those espresso outlets have been Bitcoiners forward of time. In order that they got here in, we’re like, “We simply wanna help native enterprise. Now we have this new cash known as bitcoin,” and we bought them hooked as much as settle for bitcoin.
Now they’re slowly getting orange-pilled. It is fairly cool.
Q: That is epic. You guys are fulfilling the mission of Bitcoin park.
P: The one you simply realized about 30 seconds in the past on this dialog. Sure. Obtained it.
Odell: So, again within the day we had plenty of these Bitcoin embassies in 2014 that popped up all around the globe. Quite a lot of them simply weren’t sustainable. They did not survive.
Q: What, the place was an embassy? What did it have? I used to be not in Bitcoin in 2014. I used to be a degenerate.
Odell: So, like we had one in New York that I wasn’t concerned with, however that existed in New York. They’d an ATM, they’d {hardware} wallets on show, stuff like that, nevertheless it was principally only a storefront.
Q: Oh, fascinating.
Odell: They’d this stuff known as … I forgot what they known as it, however on sure days, you can go there and you can commerce bitcoin, peer-to-peer.