Hello founders,

This one is a bit personal, something I have been thinking about a lot over the past few months. There is a flame that burns in all of us who are part of the Bitcoin ecosystem. It’s that flame that drives us to build, to create value, to offer something useful to others. Along the way, yes, we often end up earning more sats, but that is usually just the byproduct of doing the real work.

For some, that flame shows up as an idea that will not leave you alone. For others, it is about solving a problem that matters or helping more people understand what Bitcoin makes possible. However it looks for you, that flame is burning, and what keeps it alive is proof of work.

It is a beautiful thing while the flame is burning. The passion, the grit, the persistence, all of it creates momentum. But over time, even the strongest flame can lose its heat when there is no financial capital to turn effort into real progress. Every business, no matter how driven the founder is, needs some capital to get off the ground and move through those early stages.

You might think it is possible to bootstrap your way through, maybe rely on savings or lean on friends and family, the old school way. That worked once, but the world has changed. Ever since the SoftBank era came in with billions of dollars flooding startups, everything shifted. It turned into this wild game of pumping money into companies like bloated chickens, hoping they would somehow take off like eagles. But at the end of the day, they were still chickens, just heavily funded ones. WeWork was a perfect example. What they had was serious firepower. Across industries, across geographies, capital has been flowing faster and heavier than ever and that changes how new founders have to think about getting started.

At the heart of it all, it comes down to capital. It is the runway that keeps the business alive, the fuel that allows you to build a working MVP, put it out into the world, and hopefully use that traction to raise more and keep going. This cycle of building, proving, pitching, and repeating has become the rhythm of startup life. Every day, millions of ideas come to life in someone’s mind, and thousands of them are set in motion. But only a small number make it all the way through, often because they had access to the right people and resources that helped them move faster and go further than others. Someone once said that your network is your net worth, and nowhere is that more visible than in the startup world.

Even the strongest flame, no matter how bright, eventually needs to be turned into real thrust. Even a spaceship, with all its technology and precision, cannot leave the ground without a booster. It needs that initial force, that giant push to escape gravity and break through into orbit. Once it is in space, it can float and adjust with far less effort, but getting there requires serious thrust. It is the same kind of push that many of us once gave to our children, the hand on their back as they learned to ride a bicycle, and the encouragement when they opened a computer for the first time. That kind of early momentum can make all the difference.

The most powerful kind of support comes when your investors see you as more than just a cash cow, more than just a way to multiply their money. When they see you as a builder with conviction, someone they respect because your values align with theirs, the relationship changes entirely. These are people who believe in freedom, in open systems, in the power of Bitcoin and Nostr, just like you do. And when that kind of alignment is there, the connection runs deeper than the financial capital involved.

This is the kind of network that gives real energy. These are fellow Bitcoiners who are rooting for you, who want you to keep contributing, keep building, and keep pushing forward. You can meet people like this through Nostr, through X, at meetups, or through conversations in the community. Bit by bit, the connections form. But imagine if there was a place where you could launch your project directly, where you could share what you are building and raise support from people who speak the same language and believe in the same mission. A platform designed for Bitcoiners, where everything runs in sats and every part of it reflects the values of this ecosystem. It is the kind of space many Bitcoiners have been waiting for.

Angor.io is that space that gives founders a way to raise their initial funding in a decentralized, peer-to-peer way, with no third party in the middle. Everything runs on Bitcoin, and founders can use Nostr to share updates and progress with the community in real time, staying open and transparent throughout the journey.

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Maybe it works for you, maybe it doesn’t. But unless you give it a shot, you will never know. You never learn if you never try, and you never build trust if you never ask. On my first call with @ldsm…zsk3, before I was hired to write blogs for the project, he said something that stuck with me. He told me, “Even if just one percent of all Bitcoin ever stays in circulation, that alone is enough wealth to move around. Anyone can use Bitcoin to raise funds through Angor Hub, and if a founder connects with how Angor works, they can fork it and build their own version. Everything is open source.”

What he said made me think. Everything we need to raise funds already exists in Bitcoin. And if you look at the world around us, it becomes even clearer. There is a market for everything in this world. Whether it is a shopping mall, a car showroom, or a platform like Amazon, someone is always selling something, and someone else is ready to buy. We now live in a world where markets are digital by default, and where we are already connected across the globe through nothing more than cables running under the ocean. In a world this connected, it makes complete sense to have a new marketplace where founders have the option of raising capital in Bitcoin, share what they are building, and reach a global audience without relying on the traditional system.

I do not need to explain the benefits of Bitcoin to you because you already understand what it stands for. But by choosing to raise initial capital through Angor, you are making a clear statement. You are opting out of the old system. You are choosing to build with the most honest form of money we have, alongside others who share that same belief.

You never really know who is watching. Someone out there might see your vision and decide to support it. Rumor has it that it might even be easier to raise funds on Angor than to mine a block with a Bitaxe. Just kidding, but you get the point. This is possible now. With just a few clicks and a bit of writing, you can share your project and let the network do what it does best. Let Bitcoiners from across the world discover you, support you, and help you launch forward. And who knows, with enough belief and firepower behind you, your project might just make it into space.

Angor is already being used. So far, four projects have raised initial funding through the platform. These include Nostr clients like @nostria and @YakiHonne, a documentary on Bitcoin circular economies called Network Effect by @34v5…myxg, and an open-source festival known as @Bloom Fest 25 🌼🌐⚡.

So take the leap. Launch your project. Put your signal out there and let Bitcoiners find you. That is it from my side. Stack, spend, replace, hodl, invest. Do what feels right. And may the blocks keep ticking.

Ciao.