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Joe Martin calls himself a 21st century troubadour. He is an independent singer-songwriter based on the Isle of Man, writing Americana and country, touring the UK, and selling music and merch for sats.

In this episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Joe about putting the song first, the streaming economy that paid him almost nothing, and the week he uploaded one song as a podcast and earned about $100. That was more than years on Spotify.

They walk through his album Alone in Valentine, recorded in Nashville with Cal Campbell and Cornelius Webb, sons of Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb. Joe went to Valentine, Texas, to shoot the artwork himself. He spent most of his savings. He made the record with no AI, on purpose. He wanted one fully human document before shortcuts became the default. The parallel is plain. Inflation eats your money. AI slop eats your art.

IN THIS EPISODE: Piano at five, a guitar in his teens, and a father who wrote songs at home Why he calls himself a 21st century troubadour It's all about the song: nothing left to take away Why he left the UK for the Isle of Man About $100 in the first week on RSS, more than years on Spotify The chicken and egg of value for value Alone in Valentine: Nashville, most of his savings, and no AI Inflation and AI slop as twin debasements Vinyl at Grimey's in Nashville, and why he would rather be paid in sats A room of 30 listeners over a room of a thousand Advice for a younger songwriter: Nostr first, then RSS, then save the sats What a $500 to $2,000 Bitcoin micro-grant would unlock: marketing the album

FIND JOE MARTIN: Website: https://www.joemartinmusic.com Listen and zap: Fountain and Wavlake U.S. vinyl: Grimey's, Nashville Nostr: Joe Martin Watch: https://youtu.be/MXUgrViBCaI

ABOUT BITCOIN FOR THE ARTS: 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin grants, education, and sovereign funding tools. https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org Grants: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/grants/apply Donate: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/donate X: https://x.com/Bitcoinfta Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub15rnn220qfdyhpgv9apjt38nadc0dzj8a7zpcrd2q4spq5apvvt2suswnaw

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Classically trained in London, disillusioned with the arts establishment in Reykjavik, and now living with his wife and children in the mountains of central Italy, Anik Malcolm is producing some of the most rigorous fine art anywhere in the Bitcoin space today.

His practice carries a two-word tagline: Depicting Bitcoin. His most consequential work is a monumental oil painting titled The Whole Entire Universe, which debuted at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas after more than 900 hours of labor. Twenty-one million beads. A cube of 276 by 276 by 276. Each face yields exactly 4,096 squares. The halving pattern appears in the image itself, and it only works cleanly at 21 million.

In this episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Anik to go back to the beginning: classical training, the gallery-world moment that broke the spell, the move to Italy, how Bitcoin became not just a subject but the subject of his entire practice, collecting and exhibiting outside the museum circuit in places like Lugano and Roatan, fatherhood inside a sound-money household, and what a renaissance in serious craft looks like when it happens outside MoMA.

IN THIS EPISODE:

- Knowing he would spend his life making things since childhood

- Classical fine art training in London and pattern recognition as a way of seeing

- Disillusionment with the arts establishment in London and Reykjavik

- The gallery meeting that felt like the fiat system sitting across the table

- Moving to the mountains of central Italy with his wife and children

- How Bitcoin clicked after selling a Reykjavik flat, and why it became the whole practice

- Folding an entire artistic identity into Depicting Bitcoin

- The Whole Entire Universe: 21 million beads, math, meaning, and the Las Vegas debut

- Bitcoin patronage geography: Lugano, Las Vegas, and a planned sculpture in Roatan

- Building an artistic household and what his kids learn by watching dedication

- Where the practice is heading over the next five to 10 years

- What a $500 to $2,000 Bitcoin micro-grant from BFTA would unlock for a sculpture version

FIND ANIK:

Website: https://anikmalcolm.com

X: Anik Malcolm

Nostr: Anik Malcolm

YouTube video version: https://youtu.be/Uq8f4HcZYQg

ABOUT ANIK MALCOLM:

Conceptual multimedia artist. Classically trained in London. Based in the mountains of central Italy. Practice tagline: Depicting Bitcoin. Creator of The Whole Entire Universe.

ABOUT BITCOIN FOR THE ARTS:

501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin micro-grants, workshops, and education. The first nonprofit paying artists exclusively in Bitcoin.

https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org

Donate: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/donate

Grants: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/grants/apply

Substack: https://substack.com/@bitcoinforthearts

X: https://x.com/Bitcoinfta

Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub15rnn220qfdyhpgv9apjt38nadc0dzj8a7zpcrd2q4spq5apvvt2suswnaw

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In this conversation, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Philip Charter, the British author, editor, and ghostwriter behind Totally Human Writer, and the co-editor of 21 Futures, the world's first Bitcoin fiction anthology.

Philip lives in Gran Canaria. He is the co-editor of 21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain, a collection of twenty-one stories from twenty-one authors including Knut Svanholm and Ioni Appelberg, released by Konsensus Network in 2023 and presented at Bitcoin Atlantis in 2024. He has published seven books, and his writing tips have earned over three million impressions on LinkedIn.

His thesis has quietly made him one of the most influential communicators in the Bitcoin space: "We don't need more technical explanations. We need to get better at telling stories."

IN THIS EPISODE:

- Walking away from a London marketing career in 2011 and teaching English across three continents

- The coaching client whose book about "something called Bitcoin" changed everything

- Founding Totally Human Writer as the deliberate opposite of AI-generated content

- Editing 21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain, the world's first Bitcoin fiction anthology

- Working with Knut Svanholm, Ioni Appelberg, and Niko Laamanen to build the book

- 21 Futures becoming an imprint of Konsensus Network in 2025

- Building the Gran Canaria Bitcoin community and the monthly "Proof of Walk" gatherings

- Three million LinkedIn impressions on writing tips, and what content actually works for Bitcoin founders

- Ghostwriting for Bitcoin leaders: what converts, what falls flat, and what founders keep getting wrong

- Advice for creators and writers looking to enter the Bitcoin space professionally

- What a $500 to $2,000 Bitcoin micro-grant from BFTA would unlock for the next 21 Futures project

READ PHILIP'S WORK:

Totally Human Writer: https://totallyhumanwriter.com

Philip Charter: https://philipcharter.com

21 Futures: https://21futures.com

ABOUT PHILIP CHARTER:

British author, editor, and ghostwriter based in Gran Canaria. Founder of Totally Human Writer. Co-editor of 21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain, the world's first Bitcoin fiction anthology. Author of seven books.

ABOUT BITCOIN FOR THE ARTS:

501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin micro-grants, workshops, and education. The first nonprofit paying artists exclusively in Bitcoin.

https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org

Donate: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/donate

Grants: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/grants/apply

Substack: https://substack.com/@bitcoinforthearts

Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c--KiT8r8iI

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In this two-hour conversation, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Alana Mediavilla, the Puerto Rican filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary Dirty Coin and founder of Campo Libre in San Juan.

Alana spent more than a decade inside Silicon Valley producing for Google, Apple, PayPal, Volkswagen, and Volvo, including four years as a video producer for Google Cloud. In 2020 she walked away, moved her family home to Puerto Rico, and built the most important documentary on Bitcoin mining ever made. Dirty Coin has since been screened in over 200 cities through a community-hosted distribution model and won Best National Documentary in Puerto Rico, the first English-language film ever to do so.

This is the full story: a photographer father at Kodak, a Cuban mother whose family left Havana under Fidel, the personal sovereignty question that runs through every choice she has made since, and why the next decade of cinema belongs to the artists who control their own rails.

IN THIS EPISODE:

- Growing up in Puerto Rico with a Kodak photographer father

- Half Cuban, half Puerto Rican: sovereignty as a verb, not a noun

- The 2018 phone call from her Cuban grandfather that reframed Bitcoin as a family tool

- Buying 3 BTC at $200 each, and finding out her husband had sold them at $600

- Leaving Google Cloud during the 2020 lockdown and moving three kids home to Puerto Rico

- Becoming a Bitcoin-only maxi after watching neighbors get rug-pulled on the island

- Why Dirty Coin had to exist: policymakers regulating math they did not understand

- What Malawi taught her that Texas could not, and how mining unlocks stranded renewable energy

- Grid balancing: why a Bitcoin miner can turn on and off 20 times a day and an AI data center cannot

- Financing a documentary in Bitcoin, and the day a 40k BTC donation became 70k of production spend

- Building trust with Cynthia Loomis, flare-gas operators, and communities burned by mainstream media

- Community-hosted distribution: 500 screenings, 200 cities, aimed at meetup leaders

- Node Runners: the documentary she is filming through 2027 for 2028 release

- What a $500 to $2,000 Bitcoin micro-grant from BFTA would unlock for Node Runners

WATCH DIRTY COIN or HOST A SCREENING:

Kinema: https://kinema.com/films/dirty-coin-the-bitcoin-mining-documentary-46arp1

ABOUT ALANA MEDIAVILLA:

Puerto Rican filmmaker, director and producer of Dirty Coin, founder of Campo Libre (San Juan). Mother of three. Currently filming Node Runners, her next documentary.

ABOUT BITCOIN FOR THE ARTS:

501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin micro-grants, workshops, and education. The first nonprofit paying artists exclusively in Bitcoin.

https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org

Donate: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/donate

Grants: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/grants/apply

Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tw4Hl5EFm4w

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Mississippi mother Lindey Magee never planned to become a Bitcoin author. In August 2024, her husband Chuck lost his battle with cancer after twenty-five years of marriage, leaving her a widow with two children and no traditional income. Twelve years earlier, her then-twelve-year-old son Bennett had tried to teach her about Bitcoin. In grief, that conversation came back.

In this two-hour episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Lindey Magee, author of the Seuss-style rhyming children's book Bitcoin: A Treasury to HODL, which debuted at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas and is now in the Ingram catalog for nationwide bookstore, library, and school distribution.

Lindey walks through her journey from grieving widow to Bitcoin advocate. She talks about the Holy Spirit conviction that led her to put Chuck's life insurance into Bitcoin, the New Year's Eve she sat down at her kitchen table and wrote most of the book by three in the morning, the offset print run of ten thousand copies she committed to on her own, and the thirty thousand dollars she has invested in the book while raising her teenage daughter on a Bitcoin standard, currently from inside a twenty-six foot Winnebago after mold destroyed their home.

IN THIS EPISODE: (bullets follow — full list in the doc)

ABOUT LINDEY MAGEE: Mississippi author, homeschool mom, medical freedom advocate, and Bitcoin evangelist. Author of Bitcoin: A Treasury to HODL. Widow of Chuck. Mother of Bennett and Palin. Buy the book: lindeymagee.com. X: @LindeyMagee. Nostr: Lindey Magee.

ABOUT BITCOIN FOR THE ARTS: 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin micro-grants, workshops, and education. https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org

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In this episode of Share Your Bitcoin Journey, Bitcoin for the Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Lady Nakamoto, the Alaskan digital artist whose work has become one of the most distinctive voices in Bitcoin art. This is the first time she has sat down for a full interview.

The conversation traces a path almost no one else in Bitcoin can claim: from the X Games and snowboarding World Cups, to the Rolf Institute, to years that nearly broke her, to a vision quest that led her into Bitcoin and digital art.

Lady Nakamoto represented BFTA on the floor at Bitcoin Is For Everyone in Portland, where she sold her first artwork peer-to-peer with Bitcoin. She has been a supporter of Bitcoin for the Arts from the beginning. Her work has been featured at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas and lives at the intersection of Bitcoin, sovereignty, and Alaskan landscape.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Growing up in Girdwood, Alaska

• From age 7 skiing to X Games snowboarding

• A family of competitive snowboarders

• Rolfing, structural integration, and personal agency

• Discovering Bitcoin in 2010 during the bailouts

• Years in the wilderness and the vision quest

• COVID, awakening, and the birth of Lady Nakamoto

• Along the Watchtower, The Patriot, and The Greatest War

• Her first peer-to-peer art sale in Portland

• Why peer-to-peer is the most overlooked line in the white paper

• Indigenous Alaskan sovereignty as a Bitcoin frontier

• Why she would use a BFTA micro-grant to "buy time"

ABOUT LADY NAKAMOTO:

Alaskan digital artist, former X Games and World Cup snowboarder, and Rolfer trained at the Rolf Institute. She creates work exploring sovereignty, politics, the American experience, and Bitcoin.

Art: https://www.ladynakamoto.com

Journey: https://www.radicalindividual.com

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/o29FeRGsu6o

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Introduction

1:23 Growing up in Girdwood, Alaska

4:00 From skiing to X Games snowboarding

9:00 The Rolf Institute

26:00 Peer-to-peer and Bitcoin

29:00 Finding Bitcoin in 2010

35:00 The vision quest

47:00 Lady Nakamoto and digital art

52:00 Portland peer-to-peer sale

54:30 "I would buy time"

55:00 Closing

Bitcoin for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin micro-grants, workshops, and education.

https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org

Donate: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/donate

Grants: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/grants/apply

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

Known for uncompromising craft on the New South Wales coast, James builds small-batch walnut and cast-bronze pieces made to outlast the buyer. His Woollahra Residence was published in The Local Project and Artedomus. In this episode he shares how the same logic that drives his materials led him to Bitcoin, why he calls Bitcoin "an energy agreement," and what made him leave Australia in 2025 to rebuild on a Bitcoin standard in Costa Rica.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Growing up rural in South Australia — space, craft, and early design instinct

• Building Kintore Design and Mat and Kin

• The 250-year-old French oak and materiality as a time chain

• The 2020 awakening when the money printer fired

• "Bitcoin is an energy agreement"

• High-net-worth clients, the Australian dollar, and real estate

• Banking friction, CGT pressure, and going where you're treated best

• Why AI raises the value of real human creation

• Sydney to Costa Rica — Bull Bitcoin, Simpay, Bitcoin Jungle in Uvita

• Advice for young Australian designers and makers

• What a BFTA micro-grant would unlock: finishing his book

ABOUT JAMES KINTORE:

Australian interior designer and furniture maker. Founder of Kintore Design. Co-creator of Mat and Kin. Now building life and work on a Bitcoin standard in Costa Rica.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kintoredesign

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/TjghYaEnCIM

Bitcoin for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin micro-grants, workshops, and education.

https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org

Donate: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/donate

Grants: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/grants/apply

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London designer, maker, and engineer Thomas Forsyth works across more materials than most makers touch in a career: wood, metal, ceramic, plastic, paper, electronics, 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC. His work has been made for the Saatchi Gallery, Glastonbury Festival, Nissan, Honda, Greenpeace, Cadbury, Lush, Ogilvy, and the Wall Street Journal, plus a life-size paper K-2SO with a moving head for Silicon Valley Comic Con.

In this episode, Bitcoin For The Arts founder Dion Wilson sits down with Tom to talk about why he stopped trying to put a label on what he does, and let the work people needed decide it for him. He calls himself a general handychap, and he means it: the gallery commission and the shelf on someone's wall both count.

Tom tells the story of a Glastonbury build where everything that could go wrong did, and what sixteen-hour days in the mud taught him about working smart instead of long. He explains the secret he and paper artist Owen Gildersleeve kept from the Comic Con organizers until the reveal, and why an art event brief is a different kind of creative problem than a brand job.

Then the rabbit hole. Bitcoin showed up three times before it clicked: a bar in Finsbury Park, a quiet January spent teaching himself about money, and years of watching it do what people said it would do. He describes his first Lightning payment in a family restaurant in South London, and why Nostr is the first social media he has ever enjoyed. "Your thoughts became zaps, and those zaps became food in your belly."

He also gives a maker's view on AI, from someone who watched 3D printing go from hype to useful tool, and on the link between sound money and sound craft: reality tests your work, and it humbles you.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Building dens as a kid, and how it "got totally out of hand"
• Why he stopped trying to define what he does
• Graduating into the 2008 crash and learning to freelance
• What a general handychap is, and why ego has no place in it
• The Glastonbury build that almost broke him
• Paper Iron Man, then K-2SO with a secretly animated head
• Signage for Art Night London on an art-event budget
• Running a solo creative consultancy with a network, not a payroll
• Three times discovering Bitcoin before it clicked
• Learning money and finance during a quiet January
• From Damus to Primal: owning your profile with a private key
• First Lightning payment, and getting zapped by strangers
• 3D printing, AI, and using new tools without losing the work
• Sound money and sound craft: proof of work in the physical world
• The London maker scene and the people he admires
• Advice for a freelance maker with no bitcoin: passion, low time preference, and learning what money is
• A sculpture series of melting objects, and what a micro-grant would unlock

FIND THOMAS FORSYTH: Website: https://www.thomasforsyth.co.uk Nostr: Thomas Forsyth on Primal

ABOUT BITCOIN FOR THE ARTS: 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering artists with Bitcoin grants, education, and sovereign funding tools. https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org Donate: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/donate Grants: https://www.bitcoinforthearts.org/grants/apply