Philadelphia · Field
Pizza DAO OG since day one.
We Them Media x Pizza DAO
Bitcoin Pizza Day 2026
Philadelphia · May 22
We asked the world one question. Eleven pieces came back from Philadelphia.
Pot: $530 · winner announced later this month
Submissions closed May 29. The announcement video below is how it started. The gallery below that is what came in.
The announcement · 1 min · how it started
Maceo from We Them Media on the bounty, the rules, what we were looking for. The frame for everything that came back.
Winner picked on stream. Date drops in the Telegram first.
01 · The submissions
Bitcoin Pizza Day 2026 · shot in Philadelphia
Eleven pieces. One day. One city. Five threads.
Shot in Philadelphia on May 22, 2026 by Maceo with Benny and Estaban, local Temple University students. What follows is not a highlight reel. It is the record of who showed up to Bitcoin Pizza Day in this city, what they had to say, and what crypto looked and sounded like on the sixteenth anniversary of the first transaction.
Saucy Saucier · Pizza DAO OG.
Three cuts of one subject. The on-camera piece, the sit-down interview, the behind-the-scenes.
Philadelphia · Sit-down
The real interview.
Philadelphia · BTS
Behind the scenes.
Carol · deaf rights, the ADA, and Rise Up.
Three angles on access, inclusion, and what crypto has to learn from civil-rights organizing in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia · Field
Deaf rights, the ADA, and Bitcoin Pizza Day.
Philadelphia · Conversation
Hope and Pizza DAO. Rise Up and Philadelphia.
Philadelphia · Field
Carol drops game.
Scarlett · crypto and Philadelphia politics.
Philadelphia · Field
“Crypto as the real free trade.”
John · Pizza DAO, inside the OG room.
Philadelphia · Field
Inside Pizza DAO. John and the OG members.
Will Entriken · ERC-721 lead author.
The protocol thread. The author of the standard that made digital ownership a thing, at a pizza party in his city.
Philadelphia · Field
ERC-721, sixteen years into the experiment.
Temple students · first contact with crypto.
Philadelphia · Field
Temple students discover crypto.
The room · group photo and crypto talks.
Philadelphia · Ambient
Group photo. Crypto talks. The texture of the night.
More from the field on the portfolio and the YouTube channel.
02 · The pot
Closed at $530. One winner. Decided on stream.
$530 in the pot. One winner takes it.
- The pot closed at $530. Twenty-three names on the record. Live on poidh. Payout follows the live vote.
- Winner announced later this month. A few of us from the team will sit down on stream, watch the strongest submissions back to back, and decide in conversation. Stream link drops in the Telegram the morning of.
- Finalists who don't win the headline still get paid for their footage and still get the conversation about joining the network as a regional reporter.
The math, in public: $560 raised across 23 names. $25 paid to Coinbase to move the pot into a payable form. $530 goes to the winner.
03 · The backers
Who put the pot together
The people who made this real.
Pam · Nathan · Angel · Hannah · Dawilka · Maryann · Kenny · Tony · Lior · Zaal · Isaac · Erica · Renee · Zach · Drew · Dr. Young · Omar · Nam · Arikia · CY · Donna · Aja · Phyllis.
Twenty-three names on the record. They funded the pot before the network had earned the right to ask.
04 · Field credits
Who shot Philadelphia
Three people, one camera kit, one night. Philadelphia, May 22.
Maceo Whatley · founder, We Them Media. Directed the night. Ran most of the interviews on camera.
Benny · Temple University. Field producer. Helped run the room and pull subjects in.
Estaban · Temple University. Field producer. Camera support and on-the-ground coordination.
Pizza Day was the audition. We are hiring reporters, city by city. If you can hold a camera and ask a real question where you live, the join page is the next door.
05 · How we pick
Decided together, on stream, later this month
The winner is picked live. A few of us on the team, in conversation.
We are not running this through an algorithm and we are not putting it to a public vote on social. We will sit down together on stream, watch the strongest submissions back to back, and decide in conversation. You will hear what we think. You will hear why one piece is moving us and another is not. The standard is supposed to be visible. Stream link drops in the Telegram the morning of.
What we're weighing: authenticity, range of voices, the kind of human impact that lasts past the scroll. Did the piece make us see the room. Did the subject get to speak in their own register.
06 · The Telegram chat
Where the community lives
Join the chat. Watch the winner picked. See what comes next.
Submissions landed here. The community lives here. Everyone who shot for the bounty, everyone who backed the pot, everyone who wants to see what comes back from cities they will never visit. All in one room. The stream link for the live winner pick goes in the Telegram first.
This is also where the next bounty briefs land first, before they go public.
Thank you for being in this. The world gets recorded by the people who live in it, or it doesn't get recorded at all.
Submissions closed May 29, 2026. Winner picked on stream later this month.
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