Brad Mills - Nostr Hypermedia

I’m going pro. I just secured a starter citadel which I’m financing with a BTC backed loan (not selling any BTC to make it happen.) I’m building a media company, POW Media. Cameras will be following me around. I’ve been living with middle class camouflage on for the last 7-8 years. I’ve been able to avoid the uncomfortable feelings and fears of having people around me know my relative net worth. (I told Peter McCormack privately how much BTC I had in ~2020, but I gave him a fake number to see if he would repeat it 😅) I’ve been very cautious about this, but in fact I think it’s held me back. I want to get a million people to start a bitcoin savings plan and mint10,000 wholecoiners. Bitcoin education and increasing financial literacy is what helped me escape poverty, and I want to do the same for others. However, I’m not as smart with thinkythoughts as @HODL and people follow confident voices who they trust can give them a blueprint to repeat the path they took. My paranoia about people knowing how wealthy I am has provided me some ground cover so far, but it also made me less credible (why would you take a former child magician’s financial advice when he can’t even afford a razor, and lives in a normal house like yours because he can’t get a mortgage.) For the people around me, there will be signs. There have been signs (the real estate purchases for family members, the trips, the RV, donations and investments). A few years ago they started speculating … “brad can pay, he’s a millionaire.” “Don’t worry dear, you’re a millionaire.” I never confirmed nor denied, never told anyone in my family the number. I just dealt with it awkwardly, and felt weird. They will start to get a picture of the level of wealth I have soon, and I’m going to have to face more awkward conversations. I’ve been dealing this year with my negative beliefs and limiting beliefs around this. Why do the words “rich” and “millionaire” trigger negative feelings? I discovered that your reaction is a reflection. What do I believe about rich people? Is it true? How can you fix that? Doing the work to create Citadel Mind has been helpful this year. I also run into the opposite problem where people assume I’m way wealthier than I am because I got into bitcoin in 2011. I’ve been very public about all of my hacks, losses, bad sells & other lessons learned to advocate buy & hold. IE I sold half my coins at $30, I tell that story a lot to illustrate the value of “saving” not “investing” or “trading” … but I also tell that to temper people’s curiosity if I’m one of those made-every-right-move early billionaire bitcoiners 😅 My coach Dan Martell told me the other day that my secrecy around my success is the only thing holding me back from helping more people, and if that truly is my goal, I have to face it or give up on it. Lots of folks are public with their wealth like Michael Saylor, Jason Williams, American HODL, etc. On the flip side, people like @ODELL, @Adam Back, @nat brunell, @Lyn Alden, @preston and others are very influential and I do not believe they ever talk about their net worth. I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to thread the needle of having obvious signs of wealth, influencing regular ppl towards bitcoin effectively at mass scale, while not disclosing how much BTC you have or what your rough net worth is. It seems kind of like once you live a certain lifestyle, it becomes obvious that you have a high net worth, and there might be some mystery brand value around not disclosing it…makes ppl want to lean in to try to figure it out. These are questions we’re all gonna to have to deal with on the way to $1 million per coin and beyond. I think I will probably just start being more public about my upgraded lifestyle, talk confidently, and not give specifics. Once you disclose, there’s no undoing that (especially on Nostr.)