
Founder and Partner of Appold and Sundial Protocol. #bitcoin #blockchain #ai
London, England
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Bitcoin already has a pretty big online world.
But something different happens when you put people in the same room.
That’s the idea behind Bitfest.
📍 Manchester · 🗓️ 19–22 November
Come and experience Bitcoin IRL.
bitfest.uk
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Rob Gaskell retweeted
NEW EPISODE! 'Would You Hire An Eddie Izzard?' ...starring Dr P @Psychgirl211
Should people have to pretend that John is Jane, just to keep their job? The episode you've all been waiting for drops TONIGHT at 7.30pm (UK) - Wednesday 30 September.
Link ⬇️ See you shortly!
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@RGaskell of @AppoldTech joins us at Bitfest 2026.
Another long-time Bitcoiner perspective, joining a programme deliberately built to put different parts of Bitcoin in the same building and get them talking to each other.
Welcome back, Rob!
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Omarchy is blowing up. I've never been involved with anything in my career that has grown this fast. With Ruby on Rails, we had years to build solid institutions, teams, and relationships. With Omarchy, we've been forced to figure it all out in twelve days. It's exhausting, but also incredibly exciting.
It was never sustainable with just Ryan and me running everything. That's how it was, more or less, up until Quattro. Lots of other contributors, but all the responsibility was on us to make sure the ship stayed afloat, the servers didn't crash, and fixes got pushed out quickly.
Now it's time to build a proper institution. Durable, resilient, and competent. That's what we're doing here on Basecamp now. I'm spinning up teams for every facet of responsible distro management, and I'm getting an absolute outpouring of interest for all of them. Everyone wants to be part of this. We're winning hearts, minds, and volunteers at an astounding rate. Great! We need all of it to succeed.
Because make no mistake: There are many people who'd love to see this rocket blow up before it reaches the moon. Aggrieved Linux users who don't like the sudden attention their exclusive hobby has received. Competing Linux distributions that are seeing our numbers explode. Mac stans who've sunk their identity into an apple. And, of course, any of the haters I've picked up in my quarter-century career speaking bluntly on the internet.
They're not going to succeed. Because we've already become unstoppable. There's too much momentum, too much money, and too much support now backing this effort. We're living the Mandate From Heaven meme at the moment. And we are here to fulfill the prophecy: The Year of Linux on the Desktop!
That has been a joke for two decades. But by the end of the year, nobody at Apple or Microsoft is going to be laughing. They're going to be scrambling. Because neither of these proud organizations currently has any method to counter the speed, vision, or ambition with which we're going to accelerate into the future of personal computing.
This is the moment. This is the opening. This is our chance.
For thirty years, we've been subject to one OS overlord or another. Dictating how we compute. Choking off competitors through platform malfeasance. Tollboothing the distribution. That ends now. Because Linux is going to win. And Linux is free. As in beer, speech, and source.
But just because it's inevitable doesn't mean it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work in front of us if we actually want to make our mark. But there's never been a better time for this kind of delusional ambition. The age of agents is the unlocking factor. It sounds like a LinkedIn slogan, but it's true. Where the application of tokens goes, the innovation follows.
We can fix everything.
Let's do it together.
Let's go.
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This is what I sent to the dozens of new volunteers who've signed up for teams within the new Omarchy organization yesterday. But we might as well broadcast our mission and intentions to the world too.
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ANNOUNCEMENT📢
Sundial L2 testnet is LIVE🌠
This is eUTXO-native Bitcoin yield infrastructure🪙
The dashboard is up and the bridge works✅
Try it today↓
sundialprotocol.com/dashboar…
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Hey Cardano community,
Some of you have noticed we've gone quiet on the Alchemy proposal. Here's where we stand.
We built something real with Alchemy. FIRE on Bitcoin testnet. A genuine Bitcoin Treasury Protocol for Cardano. Real tech, real team, real vision.
But timing matters as much as tech. The community and the market are telling us something right now, and we're choosing to listen. Cardano governance is in a formative period - and pushing a treasury ask when the ecosystem is still finding its footing does more harm than good, for everyone.
So we're stepping back. Not abandoning the vision. Not losing conviction on BTC yield for Cardano. Just recognizing that the right idea at the wrong time is still the wrong time - and discipline now builds more trust than persistence at any cost.
Sundial keeps building. More to come - much more. ☀️
Alchemy Announcement
First, thank you to everyone who read, engaged with, and believed in the future of Alchemy Protocol. We believe our work with Charms could bring significant Bitcoin liquidity to Cardano while creating a first-of-its-kind Bitcoin Treasury Protocol.
We're incredibly proud of Alchemy. Thanks to @AThrouvalas, @imikushin, @sde_laney, and @_MrHunt_, along with the entire Sundial and Charms teams, we built a novel solution for bringing Bitcoin to Cardano. We even began minting FIRE on the Bitcoin testnet and improved on the Digital Asset Treasury model pioneered by Strategy.
After reflecting on the Cardano treasury and broader market conditions, and after speaking with DReps across the community, Sundial and Charms have decided not to proceed with the Alchemy treasury proposal at this time.
This decision wasn't made lightly. We firmly believe Alchemy has a place in both the Bitcoin and Cardano ecosystems, and it's a project we hope to revisit in the future. For now, though, both teams agree it's best to step back.
We recognize that the community's current priorities lie elsewhere, and we respect that. We still believe diversifying the treasury and creating investment opportunities is critically important. But in crypto, timing is everything.
Thank you to everyone who helped and believed in this proposal. Sundial and Charms will continue building on their respective projects, and we'll share more when the time is right.
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I genuinely believe Cardano NEEDS this.
Deep collaboration, innovative tech, transparent on-chain Bitcoin infrastructure + liquidity.
Let's change the game! 🔵🤝🟠
Encourage your Drep to vote YES for Alchemy and to build the growth infrastructure Bitcoin needs here on Cardano
The proposal is live. 🟠🤝🔵
Alchemy by Sundial x Charms: Cardano-Native Bitcoin Treasury Protocol.
Support our effort to grant Cardano its first killer Bitcoin app. 👇
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Rob Gaskell retweeted
This is exactly how the Alchemy proposal works too btw.
When you combine BTC+ & BTC- you effectively just get BTC. The treasury's money is converted into BTC, and the assets it holds are backed by that BTC.
We're making that generational upside available to Cardano
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☀️ It’s all coming together!
Update on the L2 progress for y'all. We've pushed ahead with developing on top of @midgardprotocol and have an internal L2 deployment running.
Highest TPS (so far) = 800. We expect to be able to push that much higher as we harden & optimize.
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Update on the L2 progress for y'all. We've pushed ahead with developing on top of @midgardprotocol and have an internal L2 deployment running.
Highest TPS (so far) = 800. We expect to be able to push that much higher as we harden & optimize.
Replying to @midgardprotocol
@midgardprotocol is getting faster ⚡
At @SundialProtocol, we’re pushing #L2 to institutional-grade #performance.
No assumptions — just benchmark, fix, repeat.
Upstreaming soon ⏫⏫⏫
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