The Dispatch

FROM THE CAMPFIRE TO COLUMBUS.

Dear subscribers,

Three updates this week. Ainsley Costello represented BFTA at Camp Nakamoto. Episode 8 of Share Your Bitcoin Journey is live with Australian interior designer James Kintore. And programming for Generations at the Midwest Bitcoin Summit is coming together, with two specific calls to working artists and to sponsors.

◆ Camp Nakamoto

Ainsley flew the BFTA flag in the woods.

BFTA on the Camp Nakamoto stage backdrop. Cultural programming alongside the conversations.

This past week, singer-songwriter Ainsley Costello represented Bitcoin for the Arts at Camp Nakamoto, the annual Bitcoin retreat that brings artists, builders, and patrons together in a working-camp setting away from the conference circuit.

Ainsley took the stage and reminded the room what the cultural side of Bitcoin actually sounds like. A working artist, paid in sound money, performing for an audience that gets it. We posted the clip:

Thank you, Ainsley, for carrying our flag into the woods. And thank you to the Camp Nakamoto team for making space for the artist class in the Bitcoin movement.

◆ Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Episode 8

James Kintore.

Australian interior designer  ·  Kintore Design  ·  Matt and Kin  ·  Sydney to Costa Rica

Episode 8 of Share Your Bitcoin Journey is live. Australian interior designer James Kintore, founder of Kintore Design and co-creator of the furniture brand Matt and Kin, joins us for a conversation about materiality, the time chain, and what it means to design for things that last.

The headlines:

• The 250-year-old French oak. James and his collaborator Matt sourced wood that had been cut from the heart of Paris 25 years before they found it, through a 10-year-old YouTube clip in a regional Victoria lumber yard. They built a four-and-a-half-meter restaurant table from it. Materiality as a time chain.
• The 2020 awakening. When Australian property should have crashed and the money printer fired instead, the scales fell off his eyes.
• "Bitcoin is an energy agreement." A framing for value, creation, and exchange you won't hear in any other Bitcoin podcast.
• The Sydney-to-Costa Rica move. In 2025, James left Australia to rebuild on a Bitcoin standard, paying daily expenses through Bull Bitcoin and Simpay, plugged into the Bitcoin Jungle community in Uvita.
• Why AI raises the value of real human creation. "The frequency of real creation cannot be AI'd or engineered."

◆ Midwest Summit Update

Generations is taking shape.

Programming for Generations, our co-curated cultural room inside the Midwest Bitcoin Summit on September 23–24 in Columbus, is coming together. Live music, visual artists, on-site podcast tapings, the Lightning Lounge, a live mural, and broadcast to Nostr in real time. Two specific asks this week:

Working artists planning to be in Columbus. We want to hear from you.

We're still actively engaging artists for the gallery, the live music slots, the panel, and the Storytelling Booth. If you're a working artist who plans to be at the Summit and wants to be part of the programming, write to us. The room is being built right now.

Sponsors. This is the moment.

Sponsorship tiers run from $500 to $25,000, with named placements (Visual Artists Sponsor, Lightning Lounge Sponsor, Storytelling Booth Sponsor, Presenting Sponsor), in-kind opportunities, and full tax deductibility. Fundraising target: $80,000+. The clock is real.

Until next time.

Bitcoin for the Arts

Where to Start

Bitcoin for the Arts  ·  501(c)(3)

Sound money for timeless creators. Empowering artists with Bitcoin micro-grants & workshops.

bitcoinforthearts.org

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