Can I be honest for a second? Probably an unpopular opinion on here but a year ago I would’ve jumped at the opportunity to buy cheap sats as Number Go Down. Now I have no desire to.. At this point I see my existing stack as something I hold as an insurance policy/restart our life in another country fund. I’m not selling, but also ain’t buying. I’ll accept it when people offer to pay w it and spend it where it makes sense, but that’s about it So where am I putting my fiat instead? Stacking as many other freedom and sovereignty tools/skills that my family will need regardless of what financial markets do. Some of those: -Food and water sovereignty- homesteading plants, animals, tools and skills (making quality compost, biochar, rainwater harvesting, slowing/sinking water in the landscape, etc). Just joined @☠️ 𝕯𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉 𝕻𝖎𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖊 ☠️ plant/seed swapping group on Skool which I’m stoked about (called the Rootstock Collective) -Travel and free movement- updating the passports for all the kids (no Plan B yet) for planes. By land we’re building out the “go van” rig with tools and knowledge to work on it wherever. Got a “parts van” to match our current camper van so we have redundancy of all parts and the body itself (and you get to learn/make mistakes on the donor van), high end diagnostics tool, and every socket/ratchet that we’ll ever need. Spending at least 1-4 months on the road every year is good practice for our entire family and fun as hell -All of the building/carpentry projects (especially for rent producing units)- building materials are only going up in price, and mailbox money is trickier to come by when you don’t code or sell digital products -Freedom tech- I’ll admit I should learn to diy more in this area and not rely on out of the box products. For us it was a start9 server, pixel with grapheneOS, an ozone generator (to treat infections, and to have an oxygen source for kids with low oxygen levels which is a $5k bill from a hospital- ask me how I know), browns gas generator (hydrogen for breathing and water infusing), all of the EMF mitigation devices like Blushield, FLFE (focused life force energy), and now lots of Aires Tech since they shared a bunch of their units to test I want to learn more about mesh networks and other diy tech..open to suggestions on what you see as valuable.. #asknostr -A valuable free one (but does take time, and you can donate to the centers)- Meditation. Went for a vipassana meditation course this year and received pure signal from wherever our higher wisdom/intuition comes from- I call it God. When I sit for meditation daily I find I have so much more control of my mind and reactions. The best place to test those mental “gainz” is in everyday parenting and interacting with the internet (mostly nostr). Just looking at current events in clown world are a great practice for this. Can I view a rage bait video unemotionally, analyze it objectively, and without interjecting my biases and judgements into it? Looking through current event feeds like @FLASH and @War Monitor are good practice for me of non-emotional reaction. Charged comments coming at us are also good practice for awareness and choosing actions/responses beyond our defaults -Education and Learing (just playin)- for the kids it’s been stacking piles of physical books (mostly ambleside recommendations), a @npub1a00w...9q3h tablet, forest school a few days a week, jiu-jitsu training, etc. For the parents its been online courses, lots of books for us too, conferences (to learn, but also find our tribe IRL), lots of YouTube university for diesel mechanic videos I’ve found that tangible skills and know how are our most valuable assets in a rapidly shifting world. And imparting those skillsets to the next generation is a massively worthwhile investment In conclusion, I'm good w NGU but wouldn’t mind if NGD so we can be forced to take a long hard look at the state of the bitcoin network, and where we want it to be in 5 or 50 years. I’d prefer it to be the hardest money ever created. If you made it this far thanks for listening to my ted talk. Be well!