As the CEO of Club Orange, my duty is to serve our customers and our shareholders.

As a father and husband, my duty is to serve my family.

Both of these duties requires me to defend Bitcoin.

So here's some thoughts about Bitcoin:

Saylor is right that there are multiple camps trying to steer Bitcoin in their desired direction.

The Technologists (core, ordinals wizards, citrea, and co.) think bitcoin is fundamentally just a database, most of them probably don't even own bitcoin. Their goal is to turn bitcoin into ethereum 2.0 where all kind of experiments and new technologies are layered on top of bitcoin. If they win, I believe bitcoin will die rapidly.

The Capitalists (saylor, walton, and all the bitcoin treasury companies aficionados.) think bitcoin is "digital capital" a financial product that should be exploited for fiat gains. Their goal is to turn Bitcoin into another Wall Street product: "We convert Bitcoin into money". "Our goal is to outperform Bitcoin". Essentially they want to turn Bitcoin into fiat. If they win, I believe bitcoin will become another stonk and captured by the government.

The Maximalist, the camp I find myself in, think bitcoin is our only hope to separate money from the state, that it should be used as money, that fiat is a cancer to the world and that the ultimate goal is not to get rich, but to enrich the world. I believe this was Satoshi's original vision for bitcoin, a mission much greater than NGU.

These 3 camps cannot coexist and they are colliding as we speak (bip110, attacks on saylor, adam back, etc). We are living in the most consequential time in bitcoin history so I urge you to pay attention.

In a few years it will be obvious which camp has won but there might be nothing left to fight for.

Club Orange is now the first AI-enabled bitcoin Lightning Wallet.

I think you’ll like it.

RECAP FROM VEGAS 2026:

sleep very little
did not gamble
listened to 1 talk
spent a lot of sats
met 100+ Club Orange members
had dinner with strange characters
ran the first Club Orange Private event

Until next time.

How often do you go to a Bitcoin meetup?

When we launched the Club Orange Lightning wallet 14 months ago, we set out to build a faster, more social way to move Bitcoin. Today, after processing over 5 million transactions, we’re handing the keys back to our users.

We believe Bitcoin is only truly revolutionary when you have absolute control.

What this means for the Club Orange community:

- True Self-Custody: Your keys, your coins. No middlemen. No permission required. This is Bitcoin as it was intended to be.

- Interoperability: Your wallet is now fully portable. Use it across 100+ Spark-enabled apps or bring an existing Spark wallet into our ecosystem.

- No Limits: We’ve officially removed the 1M sat cap for balances and transactions.

While the "under the hood" tech has evolved, the experience you love remains the same. Features like GeoZap and ProximityZap works exactly as before, now backed by the security of self-custody.

What’s next?

Soon, you’ll be able to withdraw your sats to an on-chain address and buy Bitcoin directly in Club Orange.

To our incredible members & supporters: thank you for trusting us with your precious sats and for joining us on this journey. 🙏