Excited to be kicking this off.

ego death capital raising $100 million Fund II

In 2021, ego death capital was officially launched as a venture capital firm. Andi Pitt, Nico Lechuga, and I, along with Preston Pysh, Lyn Alden and Pablo Fernandez as advisors, saw an emerging opportunity to invest, through ego death capital Fund I, in companies that would both accelerate the Bitcoin ecosystem and allow us to work alongside some of the most amazing entrepreneurs of our time. Most of the “smart” money at the time still hadn’t realized that #Bitcoin was emerging not only as the preeminent store of value, but equally important, the first layer (tied to energy) of a new peer-to-peer decentralized internet of money. Because of this, many venture funds didn’t understand the difference between Bitcoin and everything else, which is probably still true today. Bitcoin was scaling in layers and there was now an opportunity to build enduring businesses on a stable and secure foundation. The thesis of Fund I was to take advantage of that asymmetry in knowledge and help the best entrepreneurs build value for users. The #Bitcoin ecosystem at that time was still quite small. We raised $25.2 million in Fund I + a $7.5 million SPV to ensure a disciplined focus on companies that could be enablers of the transition underway.

We’re extremely proud of the entrepreneurs in our Fund I portfolio companies, their teams, and their success to date. So far in Fund I, we have led funding in Fedi, Breez, Synota, Relai, and Wolf, along with two companies in stealth. Our thesis proved correct, and many of our portfolio companies (as well as others in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem) are now experiencing incredible growth, with much more expected on the horizon. Real companies, bringing real value to users – and growing as a result.

In 2024, the funding market still hasn’t caught up to the opportunity, and a significant gap exists in Series A funding for Bitcoin only companies. This makes sense because a majority of venture capital still doesn’t understand the transformative nature of the Bitcoin protocol nor how it is emerging in layers. Without this key knowledge, it would be hard to understand the profound shift this entails to businesses in the future. This leaves Bitcoin only entrepreneurs not only pitching on the value and metrics of their business, but in parallel trying to “teach” capital that has been burned with their crypto investments about a new protocol. To add insult to injury, it is many of these same Bitcoin only entrepreneurs who warned of the various scams in the crypto/web3 market in the first place. It’s not a stretch to say that those building on Bitcoin prefer a partner who understands and is focused on it. For any entrepreneur, it is hard to imagine building enduring trust with a financial partner who doesn’t share your world view.

One of the most exciting things about the Bitcoin space is the extraordinary talent it attracts from all over the world. Having a front row seat at the profound shift that the internet demonstrated and how it attracted the best and brightest, I honestly didn’t think I would have another chance to experience it. Instead, we’re experiencing something even more powerful than the rise of the internet. An exponentially growing talent pool of entrepreneurs, users, and capital who fully understand that the most profound challenges of our time are unable to be solved from the very system creating them. Who instead of trying to optimize from within that broken system, have decided to focus their time, talent and capital on a parallel system built on Bitcoin that changes the world.

That dedication applies to our team too, we are very excited to announce that Lyn Alden and Preston Pysh are joining Fund II as partners. Through their work as advisors to Fund I, we already know the incredible value to the fund and companies in it they provide. In addition to our new partners for Fund II, we are adding renown Bitcoin and Lightning Network expert, Lisa Neigut alongside Pablo Fernandez as an additional technical advisor. We are also fortunate to add Pete Briger (Chairman of Fortress Investment Group) as an advisor to Fund II. Besides being a long time Bitcoin advocate, Pete helped to build Fortress into one of the preeminent financial firms of our time. These moves deepen our own bench with incredible people so that we in turn can continue to deliver value to the entrepreneurs and investors we serve.

While it is still early and there will be many ups and downs along the way, a transition from the world operating on top of a dishonest ledger, to the world working on top of an honest ledger is firmly underway. That transition will create incredible business opportunities, while bringing hope and abundance to billions of people around the world.

We feel super fortunate to be a part of it.

Read the full release here:

https://egodeath.capital/blog/gjqg3b90h389ufb4y0wnzflv0wfcho


Since I first learned about Ego Death Capital I always wished that they had more bandwidth to further accelerate the incredible growth in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Thankfully my prayers have been answered 🤩. I can’t imagine a more inspiring place to be spending my time

Congratulations Jeff to you and your amazing team !!!


#Bitcoin is playing in big leagues now and the game is at a new level.

How I suspect it plays out: An attempt to capture as much as #Bitcoin as possible including regulation to “try” to slow self custody of #Bitcoin (Warren et all) and leverage games on paper #Bitcoin to reduce price. (ETF’s)

Which “causes” more Bitcoiners aware of the manipulation and how the game is being played to use lower prices to buy and self custody more #Bitcoin (reducing supply)

Which at some point creates a short squeeze of MEGA proportions (maybe along with halving - maybe later ) that liquidates a major financial player. (Similar to FTX)

Money has become a monopoly because of the games that have been able to be played with others assets due to the centralization and control of those assets.

But Wall Street has never seen an asset like this. It is not gold and too many #Bitcoiners know how the game is played, meaning if you don’t play by the rules, eventually you will be caught short. (And no one is coming to save you)

Or as nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx says:
Stay humble and stack sats.


If you knew everything was really all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right.


How to Manage Bitcoin UTXOs and Save on Transaction Fees

An important guide for every bitcoiner to read. UTXO management will be paramount as fee markets continue to develop.

https://tftc.io/bitcoin-utxo-management/


My Most Important Relationship Is With My Source… There is no relationship of greater importance to achieve than the relationship between you, in your physical body, right here and now, and the Soul/Source/God from which you have come. If you tend to that relationship, first and foremost, you will then, and only then, have the stable footing to proceed into other relationships. Your relationship with your own body; your relationship with money; your relationship with your parents, children, grandchildren, the people you work with, your government, your world . . . will all fall swiftly and easily into alignment once you tend to this fundamental, primary relationship first.


What you do is miniscule in comparison with what you choose to think, because your vibration is so much more powerful and so much more important.


Bitcoin's purpose is much higher than increasing the net worth of those who hold it (or hold exposure to it). Bitcoin is freedom money and the siren calls of wealth and convenience are on their way to undermine the  mission. Don't get distracted. Our children will be free.

https://tftc.io/prepare-for-number-and-noise-to-go-up/


Bitcoin is not perfect for every possible money use case. The same way the discovery of electricity didn't fit every use case of energy.

You don't use electricity to push water, you can use electricity to push a propeller

Bitcoin is at least a million times better than any other form of private property system we ever had.

It will enable many propellers.


Life hack - Celebrating what each of your friends do exceptionally well/better than you, versus thinking/talking about what they do wrong….will greatly improve your relationships and ability to learn from the best.


Dumb Money is awesome


You cannot control circumstances. You never intended to control circumstances. You intended to discover unconditional love. You intended to discover a way to feel good, no matter what, because you have the facility: you have the power: you have the ability to focus.


“If you take away the state’s monopoly over the means of economic interaction, then you take away one of the three principal ingredients of the state. In the model of the state as a mafia, where the state is a protection racket, the state shakes people down for money in every possible way. Controlling currency flows is important for revenue-raising by the state, but it is also important for simply controlling what people do...”

— Julian Assange (Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet)


Next time somebody tells you that you can't buy anything with #bitcoin, show them this video!

Javier used Bitrefill for his travel, entertainment, eSIM, and more on his last trip from El Salvador to Mexico. It really is possible to travel the world without using fiat!

https://youtube.com/shorts/K5o86KjESqE?si=YgDq4rTlTUXWGgJJ


Watch this #BitcoinTalk episode of THE #Bitcoin Podcast on YouTube or Rumble:

nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev and I dig into the power of stories and shifting narratives, the role of Nostr and the future of social media, P2P tech like Holepunch, AI, the Wild West, Bitcoin, and so much more.

I think you’re going to dig this episode  of nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 🤙
YT: https://youtu.be/CIrUD3sc5zM

Rumble: https://rumble.com/v456n2b-guy-swann-freedom-tech-and-the-power-of-stories-bitcoin-talk-on-the-bitcoin.html nostr:note1mhyn6kgwwkfxj7el5pr6j05mcgcu7vehg5vvgtu3hep5rnkylucqd79vdu


Bitcoin Accelerationism.

Bicoin Accelerationism embodies all that Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) represents, yet it posits that Bitcoin is crucial in ushering in this future. Let’s explore:

First, let’s break down what e/acc stands for, and why bitcoin is inevitably intertwined in this technological movement.

Effective Accelerationism posits that the universe inherently aims to optimize itself, constantly expanding and evolving. This expansion is seen as an unstoppable force, with the future always building upon and surpassing the present, and the main driver of this is ‘techno-capital’. Said more simply, ‘techno-capital’ is the force which will change/fix the world.

Now, let’s turn to bitcoin:

Similar to AI, bitcoin mining faces never ending scrutiny regarding its “energy use”. In reality, mining serves as a pivotal tool for energy grid load-balancing and waste energy mitigation. It's one of the only consumers of energy that can power off on a moments notice entirely subject to market demand.

By empowering location agnostic energy monetization while enforcing ever increasing efficiency through the difficulty adjustment, bitcoin mining doesn't waste energy, but rather consumes energy waste. With the brutal reality of continuously rising network hash rate subsequently increasing mining difficulty,  inefficient operators are driven out via market forces, while the increased difficulty simultaneously reinforces the asset’s supply inelasticity and programmatically increasing marginal cost of production.

The significance? There is now a global opportunity cost for energy waste that exists anywhere found by satellite signal, thereby directly incentivizing and quantifying the chase of Moore's Law AND the ascent of the Kardashev scale.

Bitcoin adheres to e/acc principles, and metaphorically aligns with the natural order and thermodynamic laws, by adeptly transforming forms of energy into an immutable ledger of subjective value.

Its 21,000,000 capped supply mirrors the finite energy in closed systems, a nod to the conservation law. Bitcoin mining, which channels raw energy into computation, goes to securing and extending property rights to $800b of pseudonymous global wealth. The process of elegantly converting energy in any form into an immutable ledger of absolute monetary scarcity brings about order from entropy.

Do not shy away from energy production nor energy consumption. Bitcoin's Proof of Work is not a weakness, but an absolute source of strength. Lean in.

As a store of value, bitcoin epitomizes a free market for capital, underpinned by the energy securing it, SHA-256 cryptography, and a global consensus of distributed nodes, each user acting in their own self-interest. The key principle is that value is not derived by decree, but rather subjectively by self preserving individuals through economic incentives.

As a unit of account, bitcoin is the ruler against which the vast technological gains of past and future decades will be quantified and measured against most accurately, given its attributes and free market emergence.

In contrast, political currency, issued by increasingly corrupted institutions, will continue to devalue against everything we hold dear; fundamentally incompatible with a future where AI brings about abundance through the reduction in the cost of everyday services.

This contrast between two opposing forces has never been more evident, with tech advances accelerating by day while the issuance of additional political currency aims to offset said deflationary gains to keep an evermore fragile and faltering system of debt and IOUs from collapsing under its own weight.

As censorship-resistant money, bitcoin is pivotal for a future where censorship and surveillance by the state and/or techno-monopolies are more powerful and potentially oppressive than ever.

As a bearer asset, bitcoin stands out as one of the few possessions that can be truly owned in a digital native world riddled with third party custodians and counterparties. Possession can be custodied literally in one's mind, not as the liability of a captured and corrupted institution operating under the long-reach of the state.

Lastly, it is an inevitable reality that all monetary mediums compete in perpetuity, and the Darwinian process of a free market monetary medium monetizing from scratch, not by decree but by free market forces, has only occurred successfully a rare few times in human history, and never with the speed or global scale currently underway.

Bitcoin Accelerationism is an acknowledgment of this all; the growing surveillance apparatus of the state, the attempt to restrict and reduce global energy production/consumption, and the precarious position of the global political currency experiment that threatens to undermine the past and present gains brought about by technological innovation. In e/acc terms, bitcoin is THE capital in ‘techno-capital’.

In a world where the very medium in which we store our time, labor, and value is led by individuals more interested in looting the coffers than in the long-term health or vitality of our society, it’s time to lean in.

Bitcoin Accelerationism is about embracing this reality. No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

We will not apologize, reconsider, slow down, or reverse course. Instead,

ACCELERATE.


This is what real investigative journalism looks like.
Ian Burrell, who was a big #Bitcoin sceptic, came to Africa with us with an open and curious mind. Through the trip and meeting people where they were, found a narrative outside of what he thought.

FYI - Ian is one of the top investigative journalists of our time (and a pretty great human being)
Reinforces how hard it is to stop an idea based on truth, hope and abundance, because “eventually” good people will discover it for themselves.

https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-african-village-mining-bitcoin


Source is there for everyone at all times. And so when you are aware of the presence of Source and when you are not offering a vibration that prevents you from your alignment with Source, then you have those wonderful moments. And you can do that all the time. And people refer to those who are doing that as masters. But all of you can do that. It is the mastery of focus. That’s what it is.


Excellent! Ayn Rand couldn’t have said it better 🤩


My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others.

https://video.nostr.build/87003c81bd1276fa2b3ce7d4819b8a3fa92811ca3af7a505e6dc26d48fd206ef.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=720x720&blurhash=UN9QqOkEN%25a%23OLofs%3Aa%24XBjYsQWUV%40WAWUj%3F&x=d257a65d8c7a29ed13fe6ee084a83d4c4e0df12460a0b21c42e617df7e93569b


I hear Matt @odell claims people think his VC firm, Ten31, is closely tied to Swan and that some people may be influenced to use Swan or invest in Swan because of Ten31's involvement. Let me state very clearly that Ten31 has no influence on Swan, and no information rights. Ten31's biggest investment by far is in Strike, they sit on the Unchained board, and Matt and Marty's podcast is sponsored by River.

Matt was a very early advisor to Swan, specifically focused on privacy, and we very much appreciate his contributions. He owns some advisor shares in Swan, but has never been asked to invest.

Jonathan and Grant from Ten31 each cut angel checks into Swan very early on, and rolled them into their first fund. They also cut a small check into our A round from Ten31, which was a party round (lots of small checks) in Fall 2021. I don't think we ever received an investor referral from Ten31, nor do I remember ever hearing someone mention Ten31 when getting in touch about a Swan investment.

In summary, as @Odell himself said, Ten31 invested a tiny amount in Swan, long ago, and has no information rights. All large investors in Swan do extensive diligence, and they are not concerned with the names of seed funds from early rounds.

Regarding Swan's small hedge fund that we created for a couple of our institutional investors, which seems to have triggered the latest outburst from Mr. Odell:

We needed a head of trading for institutional clients to execute trades with VWAP / TWAP etc and tight spreads from multiple OTC desks. He happened to have a great track record of asset management, and a strong desire to continue managing money. A couple of our investors wanted a lower-vol Bitcoin strategy (sit in cash during drawdowns, ok with losing a little upside by missing part of some pumps), and decided to seed him in a Swan-managed fund. The fund is already at capacity and we are not marketing it.

My advice to retail investors remains the same as it's always been: DON'T TRADE UNLESS YOU WERE ALREADY A PROFESSIONAL TRADER.  99% get rekt, and it's even worse in "crypto" because that game is rigged even worse than tradfi. Much better to stay humble and stack sats, ideally with a Bitcoin-only company like Swan (we don't even have a sell button! and we have still have FREE automatic withdrawals).


MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT BUY BITCOIN,  THEY WILL EARN IT.

MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT SELL BITCOIN, THEY WILL SPEND IT.

MOST PEOPLE WILL STACK EVERY DAY AND NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.  IT WILL BE THE MONEY THEY EARN,  SPEND, AND SAVE.


I NO LONGER OWN ANY US DOLLARS. NOT EVEN A PENNY.

AS AN AMERICAN MILLENNIAL, I LOVE OUR COUNTRY BUT I OPPOSE OUR MONEY.

I'M ALL IN ON #BITCOIN. SETTING MY SAILS TOWARD PROSPERITY OR GOING DOWN WITH THE SHIP.

I BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT TO TAKE A STANCE NOW MORE THAN EVER 🫡


There is no risk for you out here on the leading edge, ever. And when you come to understand the true nature of Well-being in which you have come forth—then you can relax and begin to enjoy this magnificent adventure which is your creative life experience. We are not here to guide the specifics of that which you choose. You get to choose that, and you can’t get it wrong. We are here to assist you—only to assist you—in finding vibrational harmony with your desire; knowing that when you find vibrational harmony with your desire, you are, in this moment, a joyful Being. And that is our dominant wish for you.


understand that you are a powerful creator and you have the ability to be or do or have anything that you desire. But, you have got to begin by creating a vibrational atmosphere or vibrational climate or vibrational nucleus. Make yourself the vibrational starting point.

When you start in a gentle place of non-resistance…

When you are in this place of soft non-resisted vibrational Well-being, everything that you desire will come into your experience.


Never give up https://image.nostr.build/3d8f33ae2bfa0a71fd4b4cc265bf444a8f3971d558f9b2959438fd276cc96bf5.jpg


Don’t try to recreate peak experiences. Instead, just accept them as the gift that they are, and don’t beat up on yourself for not being able to stay there. Because if you stayed there, they wouldn’t be peak experiences. They would be normal, every day in time hum drum boring, experiences. So, savor the peak experiences and compliment yourself upon your achieving of them, and expect more of them, and leave everything else out of the equation.


Leave The Fiat World Behind and Build a New One (with Freedom Tools like #Bitcoin)

New interview with Whitney Webb to close out 2023:

https://youtu.be/uVUZZ5xSR5w?si=GwS_66dAwa-fkucC


Whenever you are feeling less than good, if you will stop and say, Nothing is more important than that I feel good—I want to find a reason now to feel good, you will find an improved thought.

Anytime you feel negative emotion, you are in the mode of resisting something that you want, and that resistance takes its toll on you. It takes its toll on your physical body, and it takes its toll on the amount of wonderful things that you are allowing to come into your experience.


This table represents MicroStrategy's #Bitcoin  holdings per share, or BPS, from 2020 to 2023.

Overall, the BPS is in an uptrend. However, there is a slight decrease of -1.31% from 0.01147 BPS in 2022 to 0.01132 BPS in 2023.

$MSTR https://image.nostr.build/9aa36b5d692059ac5e909962bb882c1658fb7a473cc6f02a8a3a6af50da6f6b8.jpg


A call to crypto flippers

Whether or not there is another “alt season”, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your life’s energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/“invoosting”, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin front—we have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.

You see we’re approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that years’ long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.

I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse control—I struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.

But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.

I’m just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. I’m here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.

So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one you’ve been telling yourself you don’t need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.

We’re all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.

Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. You’ll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that you’d forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of “not having enough” head on, you’ll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and you’ll start to feel happier than you’ve ever been.

Help yourself, you’re worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that “meh…” or eye rolling part of you, that’s not all of you, that’s not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you can’t feel it, it doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there for you, but just that there’s clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.

So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!


Just finished reading Lyn Alden’s “Broken Money”.  Highly recommend !  A great  book to really understand the the nuances of our manipulated financial system…

As essential as  Jeff Booth’s “Price of Tomorrow” https://image.nostr.build/3c71056ce2abed3cf211df5575a787efa25277255789ad65a5a732f8d40befb9.jpg


If you make your relationship with your Inner Being your top priority, and you deliberately choose thoughts that allow your alignment, you will consistently offer the greatest advantage to the others with whom you interact. Only when you are aligned with your Source do you have anything to offer another.

If your behavior is influenced by your desire to keep another person happy, you will lose your Connection to your Source. And it is not possible for you to be happy unless you are in alignment with your Source. Without that alignment, you have nothing to offer another.


One lovely holiday tradition that my wife introduced me to: Boxing Day donations 🎄

In that spirit, I’m matching zaps to support nostr developers today.

Pick a dev or project you appreciate.

Zap their note. Comment here with the note ID & why you picked them. I’ll match your zap up to 15K sats, for the first 10 zaps today ⚡

Please repost for visibility 🙏

#grownostr
#nostrdevs
#boxingday
#ZapADev


Take your Inner Being everywhere you go. If you take your Inner Being to the party, it’s going to be a good party! If you take your Inner Being, the food that you eat will be received perfectly by the cells of your body. Every word that comes out of your mouth will be beneficial to everyone who hears them with their ears—or with their vibration. Don’t go anywhere without your Inner Being. That’s what “Allowing” is. Always having your Inner Being present with you.


Awesome 🤩


Build it and they will come!! Christmas Eve at the Booths.

Merry Christmas!! https://video.nostr.build/d41f808219534852ca1e44acc4a3560110867446d461f56564461d202c054925.mp4


Beautiful walk above valley https://image.nostr.build/9f18a80c5f2e6ce7a224fcd0bd715a6b17a98e6e4b4d496cdfb3cf7b97a31e0c.jpg


My annual node performance tests are now live: https://blog.lopp.net/2023-bitcoin-node-performance-tests/


We’re asking you to trust in the Well-being. In optimism there is magic. In pessimism there is nothing. In positive expectation there is thrill and success. In pessimism or awareness of what is not wanted, there is nothing. What you’re wanting to do is redefine your relationship with the Stream. We do not ask you to look at something that is black and call it white. We do not ask you to see something that is not as you want it to be and pretend that it is. What we ask you to do is practice moving your gaze. Practice changing your perspective. Practice talking to different people. Practice going to new places. Practice sifting through the data for the things that feel like you want to feel and using those things to cause you to feel a familiar place. In other words, we want you to feel familiar in your joy. Familiar in your positive expectation, familiar in your knowing that all is well, because this Universe will knock itself out giving you evidence of that Well-being once you find that place. We have enjoyed this interaction immensely. There is great love here for you. We are complete.


Stay calm through the holiday season by joining a large group meditation twice a day

https://enjoytmnews.org/strengthen-your-tm-practice-with-tm-connect/


“We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics.”

- Tyler Winklevoss


I downloaded Bitcoin core last night and eagerly, awaiting my note to sync fully to the network! https://image.nostr.build/e0d342eef49442163c097a9cbfb3919769e2bc728fa52122149c50dfaf2a6844.jpg


Never thought I would do a podcast from 30,000 feet while visiting Africa to see and hear first hand how #Bitcoin is bringing an end to modern day slavery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sY19BRtYuc&t=862s&ab_channel=WhatBitcoinDid


only a part of the Consciousness that is really who-you-are is focused into the physical personality that you believe is you, so that you can then begin to consciously consider the larger part of you, who continues to remain Non-Physically focused.

Once you remember that you are a physical extension of Source Energy, you can then begin to consider, and consciously tend to, your alignment with your larger, Eternal, Non-Physical counterpart.

As you made the decision to focus into this physical time-space reality, you understood it to be a spectacular arena of balance and variety and perfect contrast.

You understood that there is no competition for resources, but only opportunities to give birth to your own ideas—and you understood that once an idea has been given birth, the means with which to fulfill it will follow.

And now here you are, an extension of Source Energy—focused in the environment of perfect contrast and balance, just as you have intended—exploring, deciding, preferring, creating, and becoming.


Many more will try - many more will fail. Warren and banking establishment backing her are only today’s SBF’s.


One of the more beautiful things about a truthful, decentralized and secure protocol is that it imposes a self inflicted pain on those who try to control it, cheat it, or corrupt it for their own self interests.

#Bitcoin


If they could decide, then bitcoin would not be decentralized and secure.  They only decide for themselves and those who believe they decide.
And time will prove that.


The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you’ve discovered—and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.


If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.


There are 60 million millionaires in the world, and every single one of them has a store of value problem. And so does everyone else in the world.

The cost to ship a sizable amount of gold internationally costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. Even if you just buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold domestically and bring it home, you're paying a spot markup of thousands of dollars. The cost to close a luxury mansion real estate deal (which many wealthy people just own and leave empty as a store of value) can be hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and then depending on their jurisdiction they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in property taxes on it. An international wire transfer often costs like $30 and takes days and is entirely permissioned/centralized/credit-based. Credit card fees are like 3%. The global banking industry generates hundreds of billions of dollars in fees per year even though it's all centralized.

Bitcoin is a decentralized global liquid store of value and settlement network. You can send money to any internet-connected person in the world generally in an hour or less depending on desired block confirmations. You can indefinitely self-custodially store value in a unit that is scarcer than gold and scarcer than real estate and that unlike both gold and real estate is globally portable. It currently costs like $35 to do this and everyone is losing their minds at how expensive that seems. But $35 is an *outstanding* price for this service, and in ten years I have no idea what the price will be but there are many scenarios where it could be way higher.

Right now, bitcoin fees are higher than normal because people are trading frogs on the timechain and so forth. But regardless, people need to be ready for the prospect of sustained high fees if bitcoin adoption continues to grow structurally with limited block space. This means users, developers, businesses, etc. To put it into this bigger context, fees are still insanely cheap compared to other alternatives listed above that give similar store of value and global payment properties at scale.

I'm a bit surprised fees haven't *already* been $35 on a regular basis by now. So to flip it around; fees aren't expensive because there are frogs on the timechain; fees are still cheap because relatively few people are using bitcoin to send and store money compared to the total addressable market that could be doing so.

Does this price out small users? Unfortunately, yes. That's where layers come in, and the options vary depending on if someone is a power user or not. Hal Finney wrote about that in 2010; it's not a new narrative.

A couple Lightning channels can open a lot of payment liquidity for you. Sidechains like Liquid didn't get much attention when fees were low but now people are giving them a second look. Chaumian mints allow communities around the world to set up their own community banks/custodians with built-in privacy.  Places like Cash App allow people to buy bitcoin with decent custodial assurances run by serious people (eg it's not some crazy-haired idiot in the Bahamas). These are all tools that people can use to have bitcoin price exposure, pay in bitcoin, etc. And a unique aspect of bitcoin is the ability to split control. Multi-institution multi-sigs, or federated sidechains: the fact that ownership can be broken into several different entities is not something available to gold or similar assets, and yet a lot of people take it for granted on bitcoin. These are all tools that businesses can offer and people can use for smaller amounts, and then pull into on-chain self-custody if they have a sizable balance for longer-term storage.

In the future, some soft forks or non-form upgrades might allow other types of models. I think the ecosystem is still in its infancy. But in the meantime, it helps to have perspective on what bitcoin offers compared to alternatives, and to be realistic about the long-run inevitability of substantial base-layer fees if any meaningful adoption becomes sustained, and thus the importance of preparing for them.

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ORDINALS DO NOT EXIST AND INSCRIPTIONS CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED.

MOST PROMOTERS REALIZE THIS BUT SEE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF RETAIL TO STACK BITCOIN.

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You are the creator of your own reality because you are the chooser of the thought right now.


If you encourage your children to stay connected to Source Energy, they will remain clear-minded; they will remain optimistic; they will remain enthusiastic. They will remain balanced; they will remain flexible. They will remain in a state of grace. They will remain in a state of Well-Being. And they will make wonderful choices.


DONATIONS TO OPENSATS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

IF YOU HAVE A LARGE TAX BILL THIS YEAR CONSIDER SUPPORTING FREEDOM TECH 🫡

https://opensats.org/


Many think success means getting everything I want. And we say, that’s what dead is, and there is no such thing as that kind of dead. Success is not being done; not being complete. Success is still dreaming and feeling positive in the unfolding.


🚨 https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-they-must-defeat-hpsci-s-horrific-surveillance-bill


OVER A HUNDRED TRILLION US DOLLARS WORTH OF BITCOIN HAVE BEEN TRANSACTED WITHOUT SUCCESSFUL CENSORSHIP.

AMID ONE OF THE GREATEST FINANCIAL CENSORSHIP REGIMES IN HUMAN HISTORY.

JUST THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND. LET IT SINK IN. APPRECIATE IT. DEFEND IT.


You didn’t come here to fix things that are broken, or to know things you don’t know. You came because life on the path of least resistance is a delicious state of being. And you are in love with life, and you are in love with you, and you are in love with being in love with life.


Perfect walk in nature https://image.nostr.build/05e5b56564dba7958502b2a6f9ffd81fda71e762a68d66308929386218624025.jpg


If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows. And if you know that the way you feel is your indicator of how connected you are to Source, then you know that which only a handful of Deliberate Creators, respective to the total population, really know. The beasts all know it.

Your animals know that all is well. Your animals live in the moment. They understand the power of their now. They expect the Universe to yield to them. They don’t worry or fret or conjure or make laws or rules or try to regulate. They are Pure Positive Energy. Your beasts vibrate more on the Energy scale of contentment than of passion. Their desire was set forth from Nonphysical, and continues to be set forth by those, like you, who want Energy balance, who want sustenance.

The difference between the beast and the human is that the beast is more general in its intent. The human is usually less blended, usually less allowing of the Energy to flow, but is more specific. And that is why the human is seen to be the Creator while the beast is more the balancer of Energy.


FUCK EASY

I'm fed up with easy.
You don't want easy.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and one of said intentions is making things too easy.

Easy is staying on the couch.
Easy is not putting on your running shoes.
Easy is watching the porn, eating the junk food, binging the fucking stupid series.

Easy is not sticking out.
Easy is shutting up when you should be speaking out.
Easy is compliance.
Easy is saying the same thing, thinking the same thing, and liking the same thing as everyone else.

Easy is kicking the can down the road.
Easy is short-term gain for long-term losses.
Easy is starting up the money printer.
Easy is "papering over" failures.

Easy is "This is too hard. This is not for me. Someone else should take care of it."
Easy is not educating yourself.
Easy is not taking responsibility.
Easy is trusting a third party.
Easy is not holding your own keys.

Easy is comfortable.
Easy is not having to think.
Easy is not having to understand.
Easy is the coddling of the mind.

Doing things right is hard. Understanding things right is hard too. As is changing the status quo. But there's no improvement without change, no change without pain.

Fuck easy.


An open thank you to all bitcoiners.

I had to stop listening to a podcast from Hidden Forces today.  It finally recognized it for what it was - the same doom and gloom it always has been…  "The West is failing, government is failing, society is failing etc”.  No answers, just more identification of the failure.  Definitely not any solutions there.

I switched over to my list of bitcoin podcasts.  More nostr:npub1hrnt73hppyc5v9h7ynnv0cn90yd97t6we9dw32s46ug845jsm33sktjsct , nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe  , nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z Pysh... and even nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx - yes even Pedro.  Why?  Because there is a hope in bitcoin.  Maybe that is partly because we seem to have turned the corner on the bear market but mostly because bitcoiners are optimistic, building and moving forward.

Devs are creating new apps and fixing and improving old ones.  Bitcoin philosphers are, well philosophizing (looking at your nostr:npub1mz704n7dsaw3jcj3kr5le45n97tqughyt5lxe3yv3xy3025hv3dsp5tl8g  , nostr:npub1jdwujjpaxmeyg44fz5xa87yhtrnvg8lzqnv9hprk5sdkx6h58gjqwtujzl  and Parker Lewis to name a few).  Meetups are getting bigger and more people are taking their first steps into the bitcoin network. Meanwhile the Plebs are out educating and orange pilling every day.

Bitcoiners are hopeful and optimistic.  We know there are problems - we’ve identified a host of them and we are working to fix what we can.    Sure we might be bickering over what hardware wallet is truly FOSS, bitching about ordinals and debating mining protocols.  But we are building and moving forward anyway.

Jeff Booth is right - there is no point in living in the old world.  You simply feed it by engaging with it.  Even listening to the old world is tiresome.  I’ve moved into the new world, a world with Bitcoin and I don’t ever want to go back.

Burn the boats.


Reduce your workload by 30% and increase your fun load by 30% and you will increase your revenues by 100%. And you will increase your productivity by 10,000%. More fun, less struggle—more results on all fronts.


You are the creator of your own reality, and so you are not in jeopardy. You do not need to control the behavior of others in order for you to thrive. Your attention to things that you think they do that keeps you from your thriving is, in fact, what keeps you from your thriving… It is not what they do to you; it’s what you do to you in fear of what you think that they will do to you.


Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

"In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information. Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests," Apple said in a statement.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/apple-confirms-governments-using-push-notifications-to-surveil-users/


Alright fellow psychopaths.  I need your help.

For a few weeks now I've been drafting this turn-key response to FinCEN and their absurd proposal for CVC mixing, etc.

I want you to take action and use what I wrote in this proposal to post comments into the register - less than a minute to perform and all the links are in the document.

Accelerate.  Take Action.  #Bitcoin

https://egodeath.capital/blog/fincen-may-be-violating-your-rights-bitcoin


Urgent Action needed against proposed FinCen rules against privacy and self-custody of Bitcoin. Please read Preston Pysh’s analysis.

https://x.com/prestonpysh/status/1732498639463841867?s=46&t=2dnzdyjtW2NLX1w2Q73rWg


Within the seed of your desire is everything necessary for it to blossom to fulfillment. Your work is just to give it a fertile growing place in order to expand.


World peace means one mindset big enough to make the decisions about what everybody else wants and the rest of the world conforming. That is the ultimate definition of world peace.

You say, “Oh, let’s get along!” And what each of you mean is, “You do what I want.” A peaceful world means, “Everybody wanting what I want. Going along with what I want.” And the only problem with that is: there are more than one of you, and you have endless desires that are born within you.

The ultimate experience is everyone having their experience and launching their individual rockets of desire, and the Universe yielding to all of them simultaneously. And everybody not worrying about what anybody else created, and so, then allowing what they are wanting. What a world that is, when there are endless desirers—who are allowing the fulfillment of their own desires.


When you expose yourself to contrast, you expose your Inner Being and All-That-Is to the same contrast. As you conclude a new desire, you summon Life Force forward into this leading edge experience. And whether you are allowing it to flow through you or not, All-That-Is benefits from that.


An awesome podcast with Jeff Booth, where he goes into depth about how living inside a manipulated system makes it nearly impossible to see the solution is outside of it. #Bitcoin

https://youtu.be/QTlG6a5GI3s?si=XugI0Uc2rsl9d7ba


If you measure in Bitcoin, all prices fall forever as prices fall to the marginal cost of production in the free market.

We only use things that give us more value. The market + technology compete to do so - and prices fall as a result.


When you want something that you believe, it feels good. But when you have a desire that you doubt, then that desire does not feel good because the vibrational content of your desire and the vibrational content of your belief does not match. Negative emotion is simply present when you are thinking in opposition to your own desire.


Many believe that Source is outside of them and that you are separate from Source and being tested in some way. But only you can cause the feeling of separation from Source. That is what all negative emotion is.

Source is never withholding from you. Source is always focused upon you, surrounding you with appreciation and unspeakable love.


When you withdraw your attention from those things that are not pleasing, and you put your attention upon those things that are pleasing, those pleasing things begin to become more abundant; and those not-pleasing things become more rare. Until, eventually, those not-pleasing things cannot be part of your experience because you will have eliminated your attraction factor from your vibration… What you think and what you get always matches.


Conquering Anxiety E-Book

https://fearlessreport.s3.amazonaws.com/report+8.0.pdf


Scroll for your personal reminder 😁☀🧡 https://image.nostr.build/066fe1385face7d320e2cbe3730555b83eb614503885ed81b4a76698f06935c5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fd82e0fc54223795289af6369f240435d2193813447417c7707b75061bdc7100.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f237422afc948baf59e10e89612eb167490b3556211cba831ef60af3b733e86c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f7b62875a053e9b9e143cbc5b61c9f9985c5b8d13da1a0afd2ba16a5fe0114fd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7063d1c61e9e91d7719934de699c5b93535e79a245fec0d052d4489cc16108d1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2c253a358923273efd064ab44291d0bb6a22ff9ec1ec52f7e4a593fd68d1bd4d.jpg


So many people need you to behave in a certain way for them to feel good. They condemn you for your selfishness. “How dare you be so selfish as to follow what makes you feel good? You should follow what makes us feel good.” At an early age, you were convinced that you weren’t smart enough to know and that somebody else should make the decisions… You could not live in this culture during the times of your life without getting a huge amount of information relative to that, just in the way people respond to the things you do and say.


You are Beings who intend to come forth and to continue to expand and grow and change. What is the perfect age? “Well, it’s the age where I finally understand my freedom, and I finally understand that I am free to create, and it’s the age that I am at my most beautiful.” And we say, by whose standards? In other words, who gets to decide the perfect age? And we say, rather than determining what the perfect age is, why not decide what the perfect state of being is—and then discover that you can find the perfect state of being at any age.


#Bitcoin, NOT CRYPTO

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#plebchain #grownostr #zapathon


#Bitcoin is the ultimate form of money

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#plebchain #grownostr #zapathon #quotes


Excellent explanation of the misunderstanding behind the recent events at Open AI

https://x.com/brianroemmele/status/1728067473063420340?s=46&t=2dnzdyjtW2NLX1w2Q73rWg


The realization that something is not as you want it to be is an important first step, but once you have identified that, the faster you are able to turn your attention in the direction of a solution, the better, because a continuing exploration of the problem will prevent you from finding the solution. The problem is a different vibrational frequency than the solution.


How Awesome.  Can’t wait to listen.  Are you going to give a step-by-step tutorial on setting up your personal AI?

Also, when will you release “Jeff Booth AI” so I can be mentored by you daily? 🤩


You are adaptive Beings. And you’re not finished as a species in your evolution. You are as unevolved now to what you will be 2000 years from now, or a million years from now—as the relics that you are digging up of the cave man. You are…we are all eternally continuing to evolve.


Is it an employment “opportunity” or bondage?

Because what you really want is freedom, many of you equate working for other people as bondage. But if you would realize that the corporation, as an entity, is not so different from the individual, it might be easier to understand the employer’s decisions.

Long before the buildings or the workers, the visionary of the corporation had an idea for something that began summoning Energy. So years later maybe you are hired as a part of that team and, without realizing it, you are now the beneficiary of that continuing flowing Energy. When you step into one of those employment positions, Life Force is summoned through you because of the vision of the founder—unless you’re bucking the current. Most get into that fast moving stream and paddle against the current—and then complain about it being a hard ride—where they could get into their canoe and easily paddle with the fast moving current.

You can soar and thrive in any environment as long as you are not seeing things that you are using as your reason to paddle against the current. And so, it doesn’t really matter what others are deciding. The questions is: “As I am choosing to stand here, it’s a way for dollars to flow through me in exchange for the effort I am offering. Am I predominantly letting the Energy flow through me, or not? Am I letting it in?


Of course, you are enjoying your personal desires and preferences, because that’s what you signed on for. You said, “I will focus into a physical body! I will explore! I will be inspired to improvement—constant, never-ending, personal improvement and expansion! And once I have identified a desire, I will focus purely in a non-resisted way, upon it. I will not let old beliefs deny my new desire.”


7 Valuable lessons learned from Difficult times:

1. Failure is necessary to grow:
Failure and success aren't opposites; they are parts of the process.

2. Difficult times are necessary:
Life isn't a linear line; it's a wave of good and evil. Embrace the tough times because they help you grow, thrive, and teach you to be grateful.

4. Problems aren't always negative:
Some storms come to clear your path. When you can't decide where to go, a problem will arise to clear the path and guide you to your destination.

5. Change is constant, not variable:
You are always in a state of constant change. Wherever you try to settle in any situation, an event may arise that forces you to change. And that's how the world works. You are in a mode of discovering and learning your new versions.

6. Energy is finite; invest it wisely:
Pick your battles wisely. That's the way to survive in this world. Every action doesn't require your reaction. Your reactions to specific actions set the tone in your life. So, choose where you want to invest your energy.

7. Be grateful for everything:
You should thrive on living a peaceful life alongside your hustle to live a great life. When you're grateful for the small things around you, happiness will cost less. And that's what every individual should aim for finding happiness in small things. https://image.nostr.build/9ec0177696bac665973cf8cbe34283a76135a3c96adaaf3c112178753b9a80b8.jpg


He’s freaking awesome 🤩


This is still a wild video for me. https://video.nostr.build/dda98b3307a2f35f0c56b00034c164478ca52b89f337593a58ba5ad3e50f8b24.mp4


That’s why I love the lightning network


🇸🇻🇦🇷 #Bitcoin

From a colleague at Strike.

There’s still work to do. Let’s get to work.

🫡✊
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GN

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“With legal tender, they scam you with the inflationary tax… #Bitcoin  is the natural reaction against central bank scammers; to make money private again.”  - Javier Milei, President of Argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷


Milei is the new president of Argentina https://image.nostr.build/9d7f28037031e902e035b41b2561b40ef1b5f1abfb6e70d679563ea32c5f5f00.jpg


More pearls of wisdom from Jeff Booth

https://youtu.be/EpH-098I-Ws?si=mjkVUgu8c3rENLMX


There is not something you’re supposed to do. There’s not something that you should do. There is only that which you are inspired to do. And how do you get inspired except by the contrast? It’s the life experience that gives you the idea of the desire, and then as you focus upon the desire, the Energy flows.


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I had the privilege of talking with nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe  on the nostr:npub1h727rfzm6hk9egx5yr602hxszezu0pyl2l7azwuvttlvf67uepyq559jmf with nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y

Here are my key takeaways from the episode 👇

The episode is titled: "Bitcoin and the Nature of Reality"
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This is because we explored how #Bitcoin intertwines with every layer of our reality, from personal choices to the intricacies of quantum physics.

First, the obvious takeaways:
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Bitcoin will fundamentally change how productivity & wealth flow, making it accessible globally.

More than just money, it's a revolutionary system that will reshape economic & social structures.

Deflation, because of course Jeff covers deflation!
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Technology naturally drives prices down to production costs, leading to deflation in a free market.

Current economic systems, inflated by fiat currencies, resist this natural deflationary pressure.

Now some deeper philosophical topics:

Bitcoin as a Noise Remover:
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Bitcoin cuts through the noise and distortions in a fiat-dominated world.

What remains is the signal - we need to find that ourselves, but #Bitcoin makes it easier!

Love and Belonging:
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We're all searching for love and belonging. Each of us wants to matter, as the stars of our own movies.

Grasping this helps us empathize and understand the actions of others.

There is room for everyone in Bitcoin:
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Bitcoin is an open network - if you're wondering how to get involved in the space, just get started!

Connect with people, find Bitcoiners and Bitcoin companies you're interested in working with.

And just start!

If you want to check out the episode, you can find it wherever you listen to podcasts, including Fountain:
https://www.fountain.fm/episode/aWVfL0rma2aHBSdjCeYC

And you can watch on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Ex7pT1kS0-k


All of you are allowing through the crack of least resistance. So there are a combination of factors. The degree of desire is a factor. In other words, the amount of pulling power that’s going on is a factor. Someone could really, really, really want something, and could really, really, really be disallowing it—but because they want it intensely they get it, but it comes the hard way.

#introductions


"The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to help create something that will. #Bitcoin" —Jack Mallers


Our world is pointing toward an insistence on conformity which is causing you enormous grief. All of our wars and global irritation with one another are over your determination to promote sameness.


"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." Winston Churchill


At #Nostrville during the live recording of #plebchain radio, Nostr being Bitcoin's third layer was discussed. Here are my thoughts:

Nostr has the potential to be a powerful tool for social communication and engagement, but it is important to clarify its relationship to Bitcoin. Nostr is *not* a Bitcoin layer three technology. Nostr is not dependent on Bitcoin at all and it can function effectively without it. However, the two technologies complement each other well, and they can be used together to create a more robust and decentralized ecosystem. From a technical perspective, Nostr would need to be built on top of Lightning to be considered a true third layer solution.

However, for Bitcoin enthusiasts, Nostr can be seen as a valuable social layer that enhances the overall community experience by brining us all together. For the broader world, Nostr represents a tool for freedom and communication that has yet to be fully discovered. It is our responsibility to #grownostr beyond our social circles and introduce it to new communities of users.

Besides, I truly do think that the purple pill helps the orange pill go down. And, given enough time, everyone that uses Nostr will see why decentralized communication and decentralized money go hand in hand. It's undeniable.


You are extensions of Non-physical Energy, taking thought beyond which it has been before, and through contrast you will come to conclusions or decision. And once you align with your desire, the Energy that creates worlds will flow through you…which means enthusiasm and passion and triumph. That is your destiny.


the former and we are the minority


Soon everyone will demand payment in Bitcoin

https://graduallythensuddenly.xyz/if-not-you-then-who/


The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.

One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.

Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes::  politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.

Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.

Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.

+10 Jack
-10 Elon
Any day of the week.


Have you ever won a fight that you should have lost? Here’s a funny story.

I grew up in a trailer park from age 6-18 with my single father, who was elderly. But my father had been a police officer for decades, and was an orderly kind of guy. He kept a tight household, and he would work each day and I basically had to be an adult from a young age to take care of myself, and he also put me in martial arts classes starting just before or around age 7 which I then did like clockwork multiple times per week for years straight. Many other kids in the neighborhood were less lucky by not having such attentive-but-hard parents, and went astray.

My neighbor Jordan lived with his single mother, who was kind of crazy and usually not home. Nobody really cleaned their trailer; it was gross. Jordan and his little sister grew up largely alone and in squalor, and were given no direction. But Jordan was a character, and he built his own direction as an agent of chaos. We became friends, and I would hang out with Jordan and his little sister there in the evenings after I came back from school and martial arts practice. Jordan’s best friends aside from me, were marijuana dealers and so forth, and I got to know them. Jordan was a couple years older than me and taught me how to play Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, and a bunch of video games, and he was a big cultural influence on me. Most of my hobbies ended up being tomboyish probably because of him; he was the only kid on my street that was in my age range, and just slightly older to be a significant big brother type of influence on me, rather than me being the one to influence him. He and his friends joked that I was the “innocent” one among them; the nerdy girl across the street who was kind of part of them but also kind of different. Jordan usually didn’t call people by their name, but rather had a nickname for everyone. He always called me “Squeaks”.

A lot of people grow up in certain social bubbles, but my social groups at the time couldn’t be more different. My friends at school were like, fellow nerdy mathlete team members. Then I had friends at my highly disciplined martial arts school that felt almost like a military academy, with push-ups and rank hierarchies and “Osu Sensei!” type of shit. And then I’d come home and hang out with Jordan and his chill pot-dealing friends who did whatever the hell they felt like. I feel lucky that I had all these totally different vibes going on.

Jordan would host fights in his backyard with his friends. They were all bigger than me and kind of tough, but had zero martial arts training, and after some prodding I agreed to spar in it once when I was 15. My first opponent was a far larger guy who was obsessed with Pokemon and dealt pot, and he jumped toward me and literally picked me up and was about to body slam me. But he didn’t know what he was doing, and made the common takedown mistake of putting his head on my side under my arm, so I guillotine-choked him as he picked me up, and he immediately crumpled to the ground and submitted to me before he could complete the slam. Jordan was like, “Well, Squeaks wins.”

In my martial arts school, we fought full contact, like I had been punched and slammed and dropped and tapped out for years, but always with headgear on and mouthpieces in. It was always a safe, controlled environment. Julian’s fighting pit was acutely *unsafe*; just with some gloves on and nothing else. I always felt more afraid of a real fight than a controlled fight, and this moment and the subsequent adventures in it helped me build more confidence that even my fellow martial arts students rarely had.

From then on, Jordan held various fights in his yard and loved to put me in there from time to time because it was so unexpected to people. I wasn’t innately talented, and compared to every fighter being a boy I wasn’t strong, but nobody else had the 8 years of training that I had, or any training at all really, so I won every single time, usually through unexpected chokes after initially looking like I was losing, and Jordan was highly amused by this fact. It was comical to him when someone who didn’t know me was there, and he’d be like, “hey, you should spar with Squeaks here, she’s nice.”

The more that I would fight the same person over time, however, the closer the fight would be, because they were way stronger and would learn to avoid the easy traps. Anyone who knows the game of chess probably knows “Fool’s Mate”, which is the quickest way to checkmate someone in a few moves by immediately getting the queen into position near the opponent's king through their front line, backed up by a bishop. It’s one of those techniques that works once or twice against a newbie, and then they know how to avoid it. My initial chokes were kind of like that; I had a few tricks up my sleeve to win the first few times on easy mode against boys who didn’t know what they were doing. If they tried to take me down wrongly, they got insta-choked. Or, for example usually in my second fight against them, I would do the opposite and be super aggressive and go in and push them back, and then after a few seconds they would overpower me and push me back way harder, which I had anticipated and planned for from the start, and so as soon as their momentum shifted hard toward me I would instead immediately grab them and pull them *toward* me and to the ground with their own momentum, and then jump on their back and choke them out before they knew what the fuck just happened. But once they learned to avoid these certain common mistakes like “be careful about putting your neck under her arm if you try to take her down” or “don’t let her use your own momentum against yourself” or “just make sure to avoid her chokes at all cost because she’s not strong enough to submit you with an armbar or anything else”, then it would turn into a longer fight. And at that point they would be more cautious, and I would revert to kickboxing and relying on my speed and technique to just win with stamina and steadily out-hitting them, which was a longer grind. I would then try to avoid grappling them due to the strength difference.

After a couple years, the very last time I fought there before Jordan graduated from high school and we ended up going our separate ways, Jordan put a 200-pound black belt cousin of his in there and was like, “you should fight Squeaks, I think you’ll be the one to finally take her out but trust me it won’t be as easy as you think, and she’s also a black belt, and be careful of her chokes”. We were of similar age and training, but this guy was 75% heavier and a half a foot taller, so this was by all accounts an absolute non-starter of a match. Jordan asked me if I wanted to fight, and I was like, “Sure, why not. I’ll lose this time, but it’ll be fun. At least we have gloves on, lol.”

So, we get into the yard and this guy starts utterly beating the shit out of me every bit as thoroughly as one would expect. Jordan had told him that despite appearances to the contrary, not to hold back, that I had never once lost here before after several fights, and this guy indeed took Jordan’s advice seriously and didn’t play the over-confident routine. He had fought many opponents of many sizes in his training and knew not to underestimate people, and he just wanted to win from the start and treated me as though I was his equal. I got slammed all over the place. I was throwing punches back, but barely. Eventually I was dropped on my back, and before I could get up, he kept coming for me to punch me while I was down. But I rolled and flipped backward and got back to my feet, eyes wide in desperation. He came to me again and kept slamming me over and over. I blocked most of his hits, but the sheer power of his hits made my own elbows dig into my ribs and cause damage. He eventually got over me and started wailing on me over and over, and I couldn’t really go anywhere, like he was looming over me and had me trapped from multiple sides and I couldn’t even really back up. I was focused entirely on defense, because all of his hits had knockout potential against me and I couldn’t let any one hit my head clean, and I couldn’t last long like this. One false move and I’d be literally unconscious. My goal at this point was just like, don't lose teeth or get knocked out.

But after he failed to drop me with those initial barrages, he got more open, more aggressive, more comfortable. He punched me over and over on my forearms, harder and harder, letting his guard down to generate more power, trying to finally end the fight by just breaking through my defenses.

And then, amid my beatings, I saw a brief opening. In his comfort, he started focusing too much on damage and not enough on defense. Between his punches, I regained composure, and I did an all-out full-body hook punch right on the deep side of his jaw. I put every ounce of technique and twisting all my body weight I had into it, and it came out of nowhere from his perspective. He stumbled back from that one hit, dizzy, and sat down on the grass, unable to focus his eyesight. I stopped and looked at Jordan. Jordan asked if he could continue, and he shook his head no, unable to speak. Jordan and me looked at each other like “O_O” and Jordan was like, “holy shit, Squeaks wins.”

But it was a fragile victory in many aspects. I had way more bodily damage than my opponent did. In a half hour he was fine, whereas I was hurt for the next week. My ribs were utterly black and blue the next day; he had hit me so hard and so repeatedly before he got KO’d, that even when blocking his hits, my *own elbows* had repeatedly jammed into my ribs and caused bruises as he pounded my defensive forearms. And my forearms and shoulders were black and blue from taking so many direct hits. Both of us were chilling and playing Playstation 2 with Jordan the next day and I was the one that was injured, not him, even though I had technically won the fight. It became a funny joke among us. All I had done was avoid a knockout, gradually lose on all metrics throughout the course of the fight, but then win it all with one strategic haymaker hook punch after he let his guard down.

He asked, “Want to do a rematch?” I said, “Maybe give me a week to recover first, holy shit.” But by that time he wasn’t around anymore, and the rematch never happened. Likely he would have won, so that was for the best.

My experiences with Jordan and his friends in middle school and high school were some of the most defining for me in my malleable years. My mathletes team for example didn’t teach me shit in comparison to what Jordan did. Jordan was a significant influence on my hobbies and cultural influences for years to come, built my confidence in a real-world setting, and was a good friend.


“Responsibly all-in.”

“I like the orange coin. A lot.”

My research and audience straddles the macro finance world and the bitcoin world. And so humorously, I get heat from both sides.

“Lyn, I love your macro work but you’re too obsessed with bitcoin; I wish you would focus less on that stuff.” -hedge fund reader.

Vs

“Lyn, since you’re a fellow bitcoiner, why do you only have a 5-10% allocation to bitcoin in your public model portfolios!? Shouldn’t you sell all your stocks and buy more?” -fellow pleb.

I talk to many institutions, as well as high net worth individuals, and medium net worth individuals like engineers and doctors. This is where individual situations come into play. I had been watching bitcoin for a while, publicly wrote about it near the top of the cycle in 2017 and (correctly) passed on it from that point, but then kept watching it during the bear market and then hardcore jumped into it during the March/April 2020 crash starting at $6,900/coin as a long-term bull, and haven’t wavered since.

For example, 2.5 years later as Bitcoin crashed amid the FTX fallout in November 2022 from 69k to sub-16k, I was at Pacific Bitcoin laughing about it. I was not uncertain.

In those initial months of 2020, I put every dollar of my liquid capital into bitcoin. I didn’t sell my existing stocks and trigger capital gains tax, didn’t withdraw from my IRA or 401(k), but otherwise most of my existing liquid cash and all of my incoming earned cash went into bitcoin. I threw like a quarter of my net worth into it. And it paid off. For me as a conservative investor, that was my version of “all-in”. I wasn’t fucking around. I never go all-in like that, but I did it for bitcoin.

I grew up poor, and then worked for 12 years in engineering and engineering management. There is no world where I would invest in such a way that there was even a 1% chance that I could be wrong and lose my entire net worth and the past 12 years of my work at that point. I would never be 100% invested unless I consider it to be risk-free, and I consider nothing to be risk-free, and so I diversify by default. I am conservative as a baseline, but opportunistic when appropriate. I put at most 5% into any one stock, but I threw 25% into bitcoin as an anomaly due to how bullish I was. My husband was like, “what are we doing?” and I was like, “trust me, here’s why”.

And then, there are eight family members and associates who, if I were to go broke, would have to radically diminish and change their lifestyles. Their housing support and their everyday income comes significantly from my earnings. It’s like running a small business. So, when I see people on social media be like, “wHy DoN’t YoU gO aLl iN?” I’m thinking like, “Bitch, I’ve gone about as all-in on this new distributed ledger as I can while still sustaining a reasonable level of lower volatility equity and other assets for tangible income and fallback support for eight people”. And then I realize the anon who wrote that is probably a single dude in his parents’ basement, and my response is unwarranted. Don’t let anons on social media affect you.

For example, our extended family ran into a liquidity issue and had to change households this year, and we got a good real estate deal but it was based on me having six figures in liquidity to just throw around at short notice, which meant having maintained adequate diversification for that possibility, which I was anticipating.

In my model portfolios, I began to recommend a 5% bitcoin allocation in early 2020, and then I took some chips off the table in 2021 near the highs after a 3x and 5x gain as Musk was pumping Dogecoin, to rebalance back down to that 5% target. Why? Because not everybody has put a thousand hours of research into it and can realistically put a quarter of their liquid net worth into it. My point was, “your portfolio has zero bitcoin, you should probably have at least 5% bitcoin, and better yet, you should buy bitcoin non-custodially at whatever size is appropriate for you. As it soars, rebalance. As it falls, buy back in.” That rebalancing worked well for my public portfolio. I warned of exuberance, leaned into fear, despite not trying to predict any short-term price action.

And during 2022, amid the bear market, I joined the formation of Ego Death Capital, a bitcoin-only VC firm, as a founding advisor. And more recently, I’m leaning more into that role, and some announcements regarding that are incoming in terms of my deeper involvement. In other words, while bitcoin price action was in a period of weakness, I was happily ready to lean in to it with my capital, my time, and my reputation, to fund bitcoin companies that were developing cool stuff. https://egodeath.capital/portfolio

And then there was my husband’s wisdom. He edits all of my research reports, among other work that he does. And he has better wisdom than me overall. One day in early 2023 amid the bear market out of the blue after hardly ever talking about bitcoin he was like, “How many bitcoins do we have?” I said the number X but also explained that I am buying more lately. He said, “Alright, good, let’s get to Y soon. I know you are super cautious, and I love that, but don’t mess around on this. Buy more. Push harder. I know you have extra pockets of liquidity above the baseline. Use them.” By Y, I mean he gave me an aggressive number that was a bit above what I would have otherwise done in that timeframe.

I was like, “Okay I’ll try. But I mean, we need certain liquidity.” And he said, “I’ve edited your research reports for years. I’ve never seen you more convicted on something. Don’t fuck around on this. Lean into it. We will figure out liquidity if need be. You said to trust you in early 2020 when you initially bought it. Trust me here in 2023 when I say to buy extra vs whatever you’re buying. I can read you better than you can read yourself, and the answer is to buy. You’re being too conservative.” I followed his advice, at like sub-$20k and sub-$25k.

And then later this year, within the past few months, we indeed balanced it very tightly; I had bought as many bitcoin for us as we could early in the year and I barely hit the target he set since I was being cautious, and then we ran into a surprise liquidity requirement (changing households in Egypt) and needed to throw capital at a new place as a down payment for our family for seven people, and I was like, “This is why I maintained so much liquidity, btw. We have it because I saw this type of thing coming!” And he was like, “But we have it, right?” I and I was like, “Yes, barely at such short notice!” And he was like, “So we have the exact amount then, fucking nailed it!” The yin-and-yang worked well.

The point is, I’m as all-in on bitcoin as I get with any asset. Which means to say, I am ready to survive its failure or repression in long bear markets without selling any, but I am also highly engaged and invested in its success.  I never go all-in on anything, but I’ve never leaned into any asset as thoroughly as I have done on bitcoin since April 2020. It’s the maximum I lean into any asset while still maintaining financial prudence. When it falls 80%, it doesn’t affect my lifestyle or force me to sell. When it soars, I am cautious, and focus on how to best improve the success of the network.

Good evening. Let's accelerate.


“Inevitably every government intervention does improve the world, on paper at least, given who’s paying the analyst. The end result is every government program works perfect in theory. And every government intervention fails miserably in practice.”
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“What is Austrian Economics? The Economics of Liberty” by Dr Peter St Onge
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Listen to this #BitcoinOutLoud episode on Fountain or wherever you get your podcasts by searching “THE #Bitcoin Podcast”
It’s a great primer to start your journey down the Austrian Economics rabbit hole.

#AnotherFuckingBitcoinPodcast
https://fountain.fm/episode/zHjxlIkT2Bdr48e5mR5p


Another example of human ingenuity to solve a problem, courtesy of Peter Diamandis

Ozone Depletion: Problem Solved

It was the 1970s, a time when disco ruled and chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, were king.

Coolants in refrigerators, aerosols, industrial cleaning agents—you name it, CFCs were everywhere. But in the midst of this ubiquitous substance, a chilling discovery emerged. Three chemists, Mario Molina, Sherwood Rowland, and Paul Crutzen unveiled a sinister reality: CFCs were steadily eating away at our planet's ozone layer, our shield against harmful solar radiation.

By 1984, evidence of our self-inflicted wound was stark.

At Antarctica's Halley Bay research station, the ozone layer had depleted by a third compared to previous decades. A world increasingly bathed in dangerous UV radiation sparked fears of apocalyptic proportions. As Paul Newman hauntingly asked, "How do you raise crops for the few billion people on the planet if you've got so much sterilizing UV radiation pouring in on the Earth?"

Predictions of soaring skin cancer rates and collapsing ecosystems ignited a palpable terror globally.

Amid this looming catastrophe, the tide began to turn. A ray of hope pierced through the dark clouds in the form of the Montreal Protocol of 1987, a global treaty that signaled the end of the CFC era. A unified front against this invisible foe, the Protocol saw the near eradication of CFC production by the early 2000s, and the introduction of alternative substances, albeit with their own climatic concerns.

As the years rolled on, the seemingly insurmountable problem of ozone depletion began to recede into the annals of human memory. Indeed, today, after universal ratification of the Montreal Protocol and a constant scientific vigil, we've achieved a remarkable feat: the ozone layer is healing.

While a seasonal hole over Antarctica reminds us of our past transgressions, it's closing steadily, signifying a return to pre-1980 levels by mid-century.

According to certain models, this historic international pact has thwarted up to 2 million skin cancer cases yearly and staved off millions of cataract cases globally.


The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1900: Problem Solved

The sun was beginning to beat down on New York City on a typical summer morning in 1893, casting long shadows among the tall, stone-and-brick buildings. The city was alive with the hustle and bustle of horsecars navigating through New York's labyrinth of streets. By this time, New Yorkers were making over 100 million horsecar trips each year, a far cry from the 35 million a decade earlier.

New York had become a city of horses, with more than 150,000 of them plodding its streets, each producing, on average, 22 pounds of manure daily. That was approximately 45,000 tons of manure produced each month in the city alone. On Liberty Street, the manure pile had reached an appalling height of seven feet. Vacant lots were transformed into manure mountains towering 40 to 60 feet high.

As the summer heat intensified, the city streets, layered with manure, seemed to simmer, emitting a noxious stench that held the city hostage. To quote Edith Wharton from The Gilded Age Revisited, “The stench of horses was an omnipresent part of life, an almost living entity that pervaded our nostrils daily. It was a potent brew of manure and urine, enough to make the most ironclad stomach wretch.”

When it rained, rivers of manure would flood the streets, often creeping into basements and contaminating homes.

Predictions about the future of the “Great Horse Manure Crisis” were grim. One commentator predicted that by 1930 horse manure would reach the level of Manhattan’s third-story windows.

The problem seemed insurmountable.

And it wasn’t limited to New York. In England, The Times newspaper predicted in 1894 that, “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.”

Then, in the early years of the 20th century, hope began to glimmer. A new form of technology, the automobile, began to make its presence felt. Silent, swift, and, most importantly, clean, these machines promised a solution to the problem that had plagued the city for decades.

With the development of the internal combustion engine suddenly there were new ways to move people and goods around.

By 1912, the number of automobiles in New York outnumbered horses. The city's last horse-drawn streetcar made its final run in 1917. The mountains of manure that had once been a fixture of city life began to disappear, and the pungent odor that had once permeated the city started to fade.

The once predicted demise of New York City buried under horse manure was but a distant, grim memory.

Instead, the streets were filled with the hum of engines and the honking of horns. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner summed up this story in their book SuperFreakonomics:

“When the solution to a given problem doesn’t lie right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no solution exists. But history has shown again and again that such assumptions are wrong."


We want you to understand that abundance expands proportionately to match desire, and that there is great untapped abundance not yet allowed by the very humans who have created it. When your life experience causes a focused desire within you, the means to fulfill that desire is created at the same time—but you have to be on the Vibrational wavelength with your desire in order to see the path to the fulfillment of it.

A belief in shortage or lack will prevent your discovery of the path to your own creation, and any feeling of resistance indicates that you are on the wrong Vibrational path. However, in your understanding of the never-ending abundance of this Universe, you will feel personal delight whenever you observe anyone’s alignment with it, for their achievement can in no way diminish yours, but can only enhance it.


Be easy about it. Don’t rush into things. Savor them more. Make more plans and be more deliberate and specific about the plans that you are making; and in all that you do, let your dominant intent be to find that which pleasures you as you imagine it. Let your desire for pleasure—your desire for feeling good—be your only guiding light. As you seek those thoughts that feel good, you will always be in vibrational harmony with the Energy that is your Source. And, under those conditions, only good can come to you; and only good can come from you.


Put a #bitcoin sticker in public before FinCEN makes it illegal

Get a free pack here: https://bitcoin.rocks/stickers


A technology solution to end global conflict that was recently published in the Wall Street Journal.

https://comm.tm.org/2023/documents/2023-11-03-WSJ-Dr-Nader.pdf


“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
— Richard Feynmann


1. Internet connected closed source microphone in your living room, kitchen, and bedroom.
2. Internet connected closed source camera at your front door, surveilling your street.
3. Internet connected closed source watch with a microphone and health tracking. (apple
4. Internet connected closed source "AI powered" pin on your shirt, recording video and audio.

Surveillance capitalism has dominated the last decade, without any laws compelling people to use them, these tools have been normalized. People have chosen to be digital slaves for a little extra convenience.

FUCK THIS DYSTOPIA. Freedom tech provides us all the ability to say NO but it requires us to choose the more difficult path.

https://m.primal.net/HPov.mp4


A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.


Most rarely align with their true power, because it seems illogical to them that there is power in relaxation, in letting go, or in love or joy or bliss. Most people do not understand that their true power lies in releasing resistance—which is the only obstacle to their true power.

Most people do not expect their path to great abundance to be one of ease and of joy. They have been taught that struggle and hardship and sacrifice are requirements that must be met before the reward of great abundance can be realized. Most do not understand that the very struggle they deliberately involve themselves in, in their quest for success and advantage, actually works against them.


“Bitcoin maximalism is the same as TCP/IP maximalism. Common sense.”

- Dennis Parker


Best guide to getting started with Bitcoin and answering FUD

https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/getting-started.html#misconceptions


Thanks Jeff for this explanation of how to escape the broken system that steals our money, time and freedom https://youtu.be/yVpH6qMCEGk?si=rGZKIyKoyNJI1FVJ


If it is true—and it is—that when I—meaning any point of Consciousness—asks, it is given; then can you not feel the perfection of the selfish ego? Every vantage point gets to ask, and every vantage point is answered. And when everyone is individually choosing and Source is answering, then what could be a more balanced world?


Agreed 👍


When you’re pricing #Bitcoin in a fiat contract that is being debased (slowly or quickly) you are thinking as a trader.

Ie - I’m going to trade my #Bitcoin (at some price) for a money that must be devalued further (at some point)

While you may win a short term on the “trade”, the truth is that #Bitcoin is repricing everything. (Just some things are holding their value better than others)

And picking up pennies in front of a steamroller is a pretty risky strategy in my humble opinion!!!


Hey Jeff, I appreciate all of your your insight and I was curious what you thought about the Techno Optimist Manifesto, Byeee, Andreessen Horowitz?

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/


Elon Musk started PayPal and as a result of that and his first principles thinking, it is highly likely that he perfectly understands money.

Similar to how it is highly likely Elizabeth Warren perfectly understands money.

He also must understand that the natural state of the free market IS deflationary.

If both of these are true - then he also must know (as one of the top AI + robotics companies) that he is stealing the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices by pretending he is solving planetary issues through a broken system that makes them worse.

In other words, Elon not advocating for #Bitcoin is not because he is stupid. It’s because he believes you are.


If you consider it from first principles, the ONLY thing that makes Elon different from her in this respect is the amount of money stolen. In other words, he is better at it.


I Have Complete Control Over My Own Thoughts… You can find yourself in an endless loop where you explain that you feel negative because of the negative behavior of someone else. But if, instead, you take control of your own emotions and you think an improved thought because it feels better to do so,  you will discover that no matter how the negative trend got started, you can turn it around. You have no real control of what anyone else is doing with their Vibration (or with their actions, for that matter), but you have complete control over your own thoughts, Vibrations, emotions, and point of attraction.


Also my base case nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 - because the existing manipulated system makes people more reliant on it as it as they turn to self interest in order to “protect” themselves from a system based on theft, coercion and control - making it and their own life within it - worse over time. People fall for easy to believe narrative’s within that system leading to division, giving more strength for the very system hurting them.

The good news is that once you see #Bitcoin and #Nostr - you can’t “unsee” it, meaning that as one system gets worse, the network effect of #Bitcoin gets stronger - with each of us as nodes.
Ie - the darkness cannot put out the light.

The great news is that our path is accelerating at a staggering rate - with each person added in the ecosystem, every new product delivering value, and capital understanding starting to understand the opportunity - building ever more momentum on aligned incentives.

If you simply ask what would those advocating or winning from a dishonest ledger say about an honest one you should expect chaos - lots of it.

That said, it is hard to fight truth with lies. And there are far more of us….because we are all #Satoshi.


"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Thomas A. Edison


Ladies and gentlemen, enthusiasts of the decentralized revolution, and advocates for the future of digital finance, I stand before you today as the world's foremost expert on Bitcoin technology to celebrate the remarkable 15th anniversary of the publication of the "Bitcoin White Paper." This momentous occasion is nothing short of a testament to the power of innovation, the resilience of an idea, and the unstoppable force of decentralization.

Fifteen years ago, on October 31, 2008, an individual or group using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto released the "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" white paper, forever altering the course of human history. It was a document of profound significance, outlining a radical vision that would disrupt the traditional financial systems and empower individuals like never before.

In this white paper, Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the concept of a decentralized, trustless, peer-to-peer digital currency – Bitcoin. It offered a solution to the age-old problem of double-spending and provided a framework for a distributed ledger that could record transactions without the need for intermediaries. It was a breakthrough that would ignite the spark of a revolution.

Fast forward 15 years, and we stand in awe of the incredible journey Bitcoin has undertaken. It has weathered countless storms, skepticism, and regulatory challenges. It has scaled new heights and brought financial inclusion to those who were previously excluded from the global economy. It has opened up the doors of innovation, allowing a multitude of digital applications to flourish.

Bitcoin is not just a technology; it's a symbol of resilience, a beacon of hope, and a testament to the power of the decentralized dream. It has transcended borders and ideologies, bringing together a global community of passionate individuals who believe in the potential of a peer-to-peer, open, and borderless financial system.

The impact of Bitcoin goes beyond the financial sector; it extends to our understanding of trust, security, and the future of technology. It has paved the way for new paradigms of governance, transparency, and privacy, as well as opening avenues for smart contracts and decentralized finance.

As we celebrate this 15th anniversary, we look ahead with excitement and anticipation. The journey is far from over. The Bitcoin network continues to evolve and adapt. It remains a testament to the ingenuity of the human spirit and the power of a decentralized vision. With each passing year, Bitcoin reinforces its position as a cornerstone of the digital age.

So, let us not only celebrate the past but also look forward to the future. The journey is long, and the challenges are many, but as the world's foremost expert on Bitcoin technology, I can confidently say that the best is yet to come. Together, we will continue to shape the destiny of digital finance, and in doing so, we will reshape the world itself. Happy 15th anniversary to the Bitcoin white paper!


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