A Cattleman's Feast
Bitcoiners weep bitter tears while learning lessons about scarcity, market forces, and the power of adaptive multi-paddock grazing
Texas Slim vs. the Big Four
Johnny Ochoa works with gravity to break down an entire cow using only a knife and a small hatchet. Spoiler: It’s delicious.
Arriving in Nashville to cover July’s 2024 Bitcoin Conference — a celebration of digital currency — my first order of business was to check in at the Music City Center to fetch my press pass. A press pass, like money, used to be a tangible commodity. One could fidget with them on a lanyard or tuck them neatly into the ribbon of a fedora. It said: I am a man of the press, which, like this pass, is made of paper. At the Bitcoin conference, the press pass is a digitally linked bracelet that you receive by scanning a QR code sent to your email. Incredibly, I somehow missed a link in this chain when applying, and the support staff are now staring at me blankly as I attempt to retrieve my pass the old-fashioned way: by stating my name. “We do not have that identity,” reports a blond man with an efficient buzz cut. “The identity is not in our system,” a slender woman pinched into a form-fitting dress confirms. “Are you saying that I won’t be able to cover this conference?” “That is what our …
