GM
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Without comparing yourself to others we would have no reason to believe that's we are less than perfect.
We each brought gifts with us into this realm. Our job is to uncover & expand these gifts knowing that there are people out there waiting to receive them.
Forget about those who don't value what you create or express, they're not important. Find your passion by following your excitement & share you gifts freely. Trust that your higher self has a plan & surrender to that plan, even if pursuing it seems scary.
The unknown can be scary but ultimately that's where we discover more of who we are.
♥️💚🧡
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I'm pretty sure it's a Bible quote & it has a much broader application than just creating. Chaining yourself to an ideal has a very similar effect & is perhaps more limiting than comparing your idea to what already exists.
I feel like the creation process largely requires you to get out of your own way. To allow the inspiration to flow to & through you rather than force it out with sheer will.
The doubt over your own abilities & how the creation might be received doesn't help.
An ideal outcome is subjective & only reached by comparison with what you known & have experienced.
One of the beautiful aspects of creating is enjoying the unexpected outcomes from the process. The more you let go of expectations, the easier the creation process becomes.
Achieving an ideal outcome is near impossible but iteration of both the solution & your approach is important. Create then iterate. Judgement & comparison to your ideal before & during the creation process just gets in the way.
I know man!
I never expected to be taking this journey either but the more blocks & limiting beliefs I clear, the more empowered & free I feel.
All this from magic internet money. 🤣
I'm here to help find a way for humans to thrive together using positive sum games.
I have no bugbears about Bitcoin or Bitcoiners. From my perspective, everything is unfolding as it needs to & I see evidence of this every day.
I'm filled with hope & excitement but I've also just spent the long weekend camping with based Bitcoiners & their families.
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GM
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Without comparing yourself to others we would have no reason to believe that's we are less than perfect.
We each brought gifts with us into this realm. Our job is to uncover & expand these gifts knowing that there are people out there waiting to receive them.
Forget about those who don't value what you create or express, they're not important. Find your passion by following your excitement & share you gifts freely. Trust that your higher self has a plan & surrender to that plan, even if pursuing it seems scary.
The unknown can be scary but ultimately that's where we discover more of who we are.
♥️💚🧡
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If you're a provider of a service utilising the value 4 value model, know that you can't easily link your specific actions with zaps.
What I've found is that there's often a big lag between providing value & then receiving the value in return.
Yesterday I received a zap for a V4V BBQ I put on 2 months ago. I only knew it was for that because they wrote it in the zap. That zap made my day yesterday. The longest lag has been about a year & it was a pretty fat zap.
Providing services that have a real cost beyond my time, takes a bit of trust in the universe & bitcoiners. I've not been let down & always seem to get more value than I give. This is partly because I really enjoy cooking meat for people.
Although I don't keep tabs of who does & doesn't pay me, I've gotten to know who the generous Bitcoiners are. People's comments tend to give them away.
I'm very grateful for those generous brothers & sisters. 🙏🫂
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Yeah - a bit like that.
We've been conditioned to expect transactional relationships with our vendors.
V4V is hard to get your head around. It's so different to what we're used to as both customers & service providers.
I've also found most Bitcoiners don't want to feel indebted to others. Most I've come across are givers rather than takers.
People forget how easy it is to mute/unfollow people.
If someone thinks that they're going to receive Sats from these scammers, then I'm going to start questing their discernment ability.
I think the NSFW tag put a content warning around this note 🤣
The good news is that the debt won't have to be paid back & Bitcoin price hasn't really compensated for the extra fiat currency deployed yet.
People still have time to save the value of their fiat exposure but not for long.
I'd be disappointed that he'd revealed himself. So much of the magic of Bitcoin is wrapped up in his disappearing. The idea of Satoshi is more important than the reality that it was created by a fallable human.
Would I sell & rage quit? Nah - there is no alternative.
I just think it would be dumb to reveal yourself after so long. Spend some of your coins? Sure - no problems, but do it quietly without endangering yourself or risking the rest of your stack being captured.
Nice! I've got 6 jalapeno plants in this year.
I'm hoping to have enough to pickle some slices & also do a batch of sriracha.
I've got a feeling that I won't get too many fruit this year. I over winter my chillies, so I get my best harvests in years 2 & 3.
I'm in the subtropics so in summer our days don't get that much longer. I've a feeling that's why I don't get a lot of fruit that first year. The positive side is that i don't get frosts, so they just go dormant in winter.
I usually just use white vingar, salt & a few cloves if garlic to pickle them. The pickled jalepeno slices I've bought in the last fews years have a strange chemical taste to them. It's probably just some preservative but I really don't like it. Mexican food without jalapeño slices, just doesn't cut it.
Wise advice.
The only thing I'd add is that it's probably not in your best interests to judge those who are loose with their word. Notice it & remember it but try not to judge them for it. This is the distinction between discernment & judgement.
We're all on a journey & we don't know why people act the way that they act. We just can't make that assumption & doing so doesn't help us on our own journey. It also doesn't mean that you should trust them with anything significant either.
It's near impossible to eliminate PUFAs. Tallow has omega 3 & 6's but because they're combined with 30 odd times more saturated fat, it's stable.
I'm convinced that this omega 3:6 ratio bullshit is just to sell fishing waste as a health food product. Fish oils didn't become a product until we banned the dumping of fish guts & bones into the ocean.
Seed oils are unstable at body temperatures & in an oxygen rich environment. They screw your mitochondria & hence your metabolism.
Keep taking your linseed oil & fish waste believing it's helping your cellular balance though.
I think quite a few have. That whole experience started to wake a lot of people up.
Maybe it's because I now stay away from the cities except with Bitcoiners.
Fear & isolation really messes with people quickly.
I found carnivore far more mentally easier than keto because the decision making was easier. Did it come from an animal was far easier to answer than how many carbs are in this.
Psyllium husks tear up your intestines man. You don't need fibre to poop.
Fibre's a psyop man.
Think about it.
They literally turned flour waste into a health food product.
Why would putting indigestible substances into your digestive system be a good idea?
Before you say gut biome, I've got some probiotics to sell you.
Expansion is a process that never stops but it only occurs in the unknown. Consciousness cannot expand in the known.
I've become more confident in my own intuition & grateful for the lessons in responsibility that Bitcoin has taught me.
Most humans prefer to follow others & stay in the known. I suspect many in the spiritual space are waiting to be saved. My litmus test for spiritual influencers is whether they're trying to empower humans or have them adopt a better master.
Nobody is coming to save you or your soul, you're going to have to do that yourself.
I like the contrast of the eye being unsealed.
I like how the eye is the first thing you notice & then the hand becomes visible.
A really cool peice man 🤙
For Coinbase? I don't know.
For a Bitcoin only exchange, it's a suspiciously long time to wait.
For any exchange, the fiat side of the exchange has the most risk. Bitcoin doesn't have charge backs, once the transaction has confirmed, it's settled. I can understand why some exchanges delay withdraws for new customers.
Ghee is butter fat (butter with the water & proteins removed). It's good fat, just a little expensive.
In terms of health - as good as tallow IMO.
Have a look in the butter section of your supermarket. They usually sell sticks of tallow & lard.
There are no coincidences!
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I still buzz my hair with the cordless beard trimmer I bought in about 2019.
I reckon that $100 trimmer has paid for itself. I barely used it until I found Bitcoin.
GM
I don't normally do breakfast but it's cold & wet this morning & I've left over pulled pork from last night.
Pulled pork with cheese & poached eggs is one of my favorite breakfast indulgences.
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If you're a provider of a service utilising the value 4 value model, know that you can't easily link your specific actions with zaps.
What I've found is that there's often a big lag between providing value & then receiving the value in return.
Yesterday I received a zap for a V4V BBQ I put on 2 months ago. I only knew it was for that because they wrote it in the zap. That zap made my day yesterday. The longest lag has been about a year & it was a pretty fat zap.
Providing services that have a real cost beyond my time, takes a bit of trust in the universe & bitcoiners. I've not been let down & always seem to get more value than I give. This is partly because I really enjoy cooking meat for people.
Although I don't keep tabs of who does & doesn't pay me, I've gotten to know who the generous Bitcoiners are. People's comments tend to give them away.
I'm very grateful for those generous brothers & sisters. 🙏🫂
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GM, everything is happening for you, not to you.
Sometimes things happen in your life that are very undesirable.
As disruptive & frustrating as these events can seem, they all have value. Don't make yourself into the victim or the judge as it will obscure the value from you.
Accept that life has thrown you this challenge & look for the hidden value. Failing to do this often leads to similar "learning opportunities".
You're allowed to have preferences but nobody gets to skip the lessons.
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The more you resist what is, the longer you will suffer & the more likely a similar thing will repeat.
I believe everything is happening for the greater me.
Nothing is personal. I have chosen this experience, for whatever reason.
It can sometimes take me a little while to remember this though. Sometimes I get caught up in the drama of it all.
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Are you using a VPN?
Sometimes it helps to switch locations that you're using with the VPN.
No issues here but it's much easier to use freedom tech on an Android device.
Try changing the location that your VPN is using & see if that helps.
I can't tell you how lovely it feels to not have big tech watching my every move online. I wasn't aware of how much I hated this until I got my privacy phone running.
It was definitely worth the effort & inconvenience.
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