An Interactive Guide to The Lightning Way

An essential step in the movement from gradually to suddenly for hyperbitcoinization will be for businesses to integrate satoshis not just into their balance sheets, but also their payroll, their Point of Sale operations, tax accounting, business structuring, and accounts payable/receivable. Bitcoiner business owners, even IF they manage to put in the time to do their own research and become Orange Pilled enough to decide that Bitcoin is the Way, do NOT have the time, attention, or skill sets required to train their Managers, Retail Staff, and Customers. The certainly do not want to wait or to trust any of these Players to Do Their Own Research!

What Bitcoiner Businesses will need are Bitcoin Learning Management Systems (https://learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/buzzword-decoder-learning-management-system-lms)) teaching what I've been referring to as Bitcoin-as-a-Second-Language of value, BaaSL. Newcomers to the Bitcoin Realm will all benefit from having a native speaking "tour guide" that performs the function of a jet ski pulling them quickly up to speed so they can ride the tidal wave that Bitcoin is about to bring crashing down on mainstream entertainment industries.

The idea of streaming money for streaming content, pay-as-you-consume for ONLY what you consume is likely to disrupt a significant portion of the current marketing and advertising worlds. Eliminating middle-men from the equation by using bitcoin as their universal common denominator of value will all Creators to actually "work" for their Fans, not their advertisers and the platforms currently providing their only paths to monetization. No longer will Creators of audio, video, and/or written content have to their artistic endeavors used as bait to bring in their audiences for feeding to the advertising sharks.

These tools will inevitably branch out into use through streaming satoshis for streaming video as the current Podcasting 2.0 model spreads from the music industry into comedy, sports, theater, pornography, and education. Once the educational pathways are established for Live Musicians, Music Venues, Sound Board Operators, and Music Fans, this template can easily be modified for these other mediums of artistic creation. The challenge is in curating the specific tools, tactics, and protocols that will be required for all 4 Levels of bitcoin game play. The pieces of these puzzles will not assemble themselves and currently there is no one-stop shop for acquiring an understanding of what I've broken down into 7 categories of concern, with around 50 types of tools and 200+ actual tools in my curated Top 4-8 Tools in each category.

In order to reach people where they're at, we need to not only speak to them in their national languages but also do so in metaphors that they're familiar with and paradigms, strategies, and operational protocols that they already understand. In order to functionally do this at scale, what Is needed is an AI concierge teacher of BaaSL, a virtual librarian to act as co-pilot for no-coiners needing a bitcoin native speaker as a tour guide. I'm envisioning something similar to the Ogden Nash's virtual character in the VR library in Ready Player One.

Manifesting as a smart customer service Bot that accesses a public and open source wiki of tools, tactics, and strategies for each of the 4 levels of play in the bitcoin money game. Part cyber self defense teacher/business architect/language instructor. What a Bitcoin LMS will require to reach the world of the banked and unbanked Fans, the disgruntled Creators, the out of work Technicians, and the nearly out of business Venue Owners is a "Co-Pilot/Drill Sergent/Dungeon Master" sort of guide for their choose your own adventure bitcoin educational journey.

THIS is what I'm wanting to unlock for 1st for Live Musicians, Hosts, Technicians, and Fans with an AI VR Instructor to operate as their personalized tour guide helping Players level up their operational game play.

My intent here is to arm and train the starving artists of the world with the tools and knowledge they need to monetize their creativity at will. Empowering them by not just Orange Pilling them with a "savings/investment technology" but with an "earning technology" that will impact the rest of their lives and that of their descendants, especially for 1st Movers while bitcoin is still in a "bear" market (despite lows still higher than previous all-time highs up until a couple years ago). Doing so by leveraging the attention economy in order to realize their reputational capital through privately streaming satoshis flowing from their fans phones to cascade into the entire production team's LN applications.

This great article explains some of what is coming to the creator economies and the implications of it. https://dergigi.com/2021/12/30/the-freedom-of-value/

When considering how I might earn the title of Legend of Lightning I began by asking myself "How can I quickly onboard 1,000 raving fans into using the streaming satoshis for streaming sounds earning technology? How might those 1st 1K fans for a single Artist be turned into 100K fans for 100 Artists? How might that be scaled up worldwide to the 1st 10K Artists who serve 10 Milliion Fans by Orange Pilling them all?"

Might doing this not be an effective strategy for us bitcoiners to use the existing "Bread & Circuses" as a form of Trojan Horse to get satoshis onto the phones of millions of music fans worldwide...

How fast might this bolt of lightning spark a wildfire of adoption that initiates the avalanche of hyperbitoinization? Might not this fire quickly spread into the dry tinder of sports, theater, comedy, and education when we training for video content streamed live and on demand, once we've worked out the template for just streaming sats for sound.

Doesn't it seem likely that sharing and directly monetizing live music, 1st in Austin, TX, that's not only Bitcoin Mecca but also with an established reputation to protect as the Live Music Capital of the World, will allow a live venue to begin earning more from its remote attendees than its physical attendees on a weekly basis.

How likely is it that the touring Musicians passing through Austin will be interested in broadcasting their live shows from ALL the venues in ALL the cities they pass through on tour?

Is it not probably the greatest service these Musicians and Venue Owners will offer their Technicians and Fans will be to Orange Pill them also?

For the Legend of Lightning Hackathon it seem reasonable to at least lay out a pattern language design template for just the initial use case of teaching these 4 Levels of Play, with an AI program offering the Players to not only choose their own educational adventure, but also whether to interact through English or Spanish in this 1st iteration. Eventually giving newcomers to the bitcoin realm choose between let's say 3 different themes for their choose their own learning adventure experience, but as a start just using the metaphor of international merchant mariners engaged in commerce on the crypto seas full of killer whales, predatory sharks, hacker pirates, corrupt agents of the "Crown", volatile waters, and unpredictable storms.

The AI will guide the "Gamers' Evolution" from passive consumption as a Fan into active consumption as a Technician, Creator, and Host, ultimately culminating in curation, custody, and distribution broadcasted by all of the above on their own self-hosted channels with data on their self hosted node hardware.

Fan, to Artist, to Technician, evolving into Host level play. Each will need customized toolboxes with hardware, software, and subscriptions necessary to open up "play" on each level of operations. With the AI acting as a form of "Co-Pilot" leading Fans down a "choose your own adventure" style education as they learn to speak satoshis like a native to the bitcoin realm. I'm wanting to use a nautical international merchant mariner theme as the default, with a military theme and a Dungeon Master theme as next two thematic options?

Using VR technology to educate them all on the least 7 categories of concern to be addressed, suggesting they become familiar with the 50+ types of tools and 200+ curated tools/weapons/magic items the LN Bitcoin ecosystem currently has for them to select from. The AI will help them craft a navigational plan, give them their marching orders, and assist in manifesting their magical visions for themselves and their businesses.

Our AI/VR educational adventure guide will not only need to teach a new language of value, but also to point out hazards along the Lightning Way, asking questions to help them determine the appropriate destinations for their current knowledge and value levels, while suggesting destinations along their journey to becoming a 1st Class Bitcoin Citizen, not just a tourist or a temporary resident.

The final destination is for them all to live natively on satoshis as a self-sovereign individual and a multi-layered private family office playing the international money game.

This is intended to become a white label pattern language for businesses to craft customized learning management systems for the entire vertical of their organization from C-level management to retail front line staff and customers, from Musician to Sound Board Operator and International Fan Clubs.

As part of the Lightning Way, we'll be teaching cyber and physical security, due diligence, compliance, tool coordination and OpSec, business structuring, estate planning, OTC operations remotely & F2F, and more. With the history of money, of the privacy wars, and Austrian economic theory thrown in as they travel along the Way of Lightning.

This may all seem quite ambitious, but I've already laid out the educational materials, and I'm already assembling a team to at least get a storyboard and wire frame together for all this during this Hackathon.

Facilitating global adoption of LN bitcoin and earning the title of Legend of Lightning won't happen without speaking to people wherever they are, in whatever language and paradigm they think in, and motivating them to participate through whatever they love. I believe this is best done by through Interactive Guidance along the Lightning Way.