Convincing someone to buy btc is hard.
Convincing them to buy btc and take off the exchange is even harder.
Convincing someone to buy btc anonymously and store it privately seems too hard.
Actually doing these things is not hard.
I’m done trying to convince people.
Everyone gets the price, security and privacy they deserve.
https://fountain.fm/episode/Sz4V3wyrQyfuftLbKnqF
It blew my mind back when I read the selfish gene that Dawkins missed the importance of the religious meme. Weinstein and Breedlove nail it. Great listen
“into a soul absolutely free from thoughts and emotion, even the tiger finds no room to insert its fierce claws.”
When they lash out at me I try to just be grateful i am no longer in the subconscious grip of all these influences anymore.
The manifestation/creation and expression of your thoughts going into that note is just as interesting to me as where the decision came from for the actions you’re taking towards sovereignty.
Lately I can’t stop considering the reasons why we do anything.
Is that moment of “is-ness”, truth and manifestation something you have “decided” to make happen? Or are you just experiencing it? Isn’t it just a result of every experience you’ve ever had? Most of which are a consequence of events that are downstream of dominoed moments from before you are born?
Through that lens I see bitcoin as something even more beautiful. It’s a result of everything that came before it. A result of all the tyranny, suffering and devastation in history which bitcoin aims to overcome. Are all the bad things the only reason we can have bitcoin? This isn’t original obviously, this concept of good and evil toying with each other and reality being manifest outside of our will is where every religion comes from.
To be seeing the potential for such a huge shift in society, right before our eyes, as a reaction to so many negatives in history. I’m so grateful for this.
“Value” of global assets is supposedly worth $900T USD currently. Divided by the current bitcoin “in existence”. Would this mean, on a true BTC standard,1 Btc will buy the same amount of goods as $47M USD can currently purchase?
The biggest issue for bitcoin and nostr is not showing people how they solve many of societies problems. The real issue is that so so many people don’t see the problems yet…
While self custody is better than holding on exchange, buying anonymously p2p into self custody without KYC is the only way to be properly protect yourself from government overreach
I can’t figure out why, but I’ve had a bad feeling about him for the last year. I really enjoyed all his earlier material. I don’t know if he has changed or me.
Voting for one of two parties, both funded by the same groups, completely unaccountable for their actions.
Actions over which you have no influence.
Pointless.
I don’t care about the price in fiat however I really want general population bitcoin adoption to accelerate as fast as possible so that positive changes happen within my lifetime.
Something I’ve struggled with for a while now... I’m sure there is plenty of philosophical thought devoted to this idea which I have yet to find. I’m sure this is not an original idea. But nonetheless, it blows my mind.
You can’t change the past, and it is the past which has formed your present. You don’t know the future and how your decisions will affect it, all you can do is guess the outcome, and that guess is based on things that have already happened and cannot be changed.
So really you are just on a ride, experiencing.
Your decisions aren’t really yours, they are determined by everything that has happened in the world, before the moment they were made.
Everything you will go through in life has really already been determined, before you were even born.
The experiences you will have, people who will shape you, ideas that appear to you, decisions you make, mistakes you will regret, emotions you feel, success you acheive. None of it was really because of you, it was just you who experienced it.
Even gratitude and appreciation of this is not a decision, it is itself an experience. If there is a point of life, it is to experience. And if there is something after this life, our experience here is all that will matter there.
I do not lack comprehension, just expression. Men are still exploiting women as whores in the porn industry and only fans. The filth that run this industry are no different. They have just realized than when women feel like it’s their idea to be a whore they are more profitable, because the exploitation becomes more publicly acceptable and marketable.
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