What does Stack Sats, Stay Humble mean to me? Being humble is having gratitude & contentment with what you have and what you are. Bitcoin is inevitable, working harder for your future than your worrying about the present. Work on your mindset to be happy with what you have so you can be ready for what Bitcoin will bring you. The future will never exist, the past isn’t real - now is all there is. If you aren’t content and happy NOW with a cup of coffee or a moment with a loved one, nothing about “the future” will bring you happiness. If you’ve been on a journey of betterment and change, often you hit resistance from people around you. “I would be happy, but my partner is not on board with my goals, how do I get them to support me?” One of my mindset coaches Dan Martell says it best: “Nobody has to change for you to win.” Blaming your spouse for your lack of sovereignty of mind and body is not the bitcoin way. Take sincere responsibility for your actions, mindset and harness the concept of proof of work in your personal life. Just like how in Bitcoin you can’t have a valid output without the proper inputs, it works the same with your mind. Practice coin control with your life not just your UTXOs. Bitcoin does the heavy lifting for your future, you need to do the heavy lifting for your present. Scrolling twitter? Bad input. Constantly watching the macro and following every economic news item? Bad input. Bad inputs lead to bad outputs (worrying, trolling, arguing.) Start controlling your inputs by building a citadel mind and body to handle the citadel wealth that will come to you from your Bitcoin conviction. What is a citadel mind? Take the problems you have right now and amplify them by 10X. Could you handle them? Bitcoin brings abundance through scarcity, but if you have a scarcity mindset you’ll have an abundance of problems. It’s easy to START cultivating a humble mindset. It takes work to stay humble. Wake up earlier and read a book or watch a video on mindset development. Learn how to become a better leader. Learn how to become a better wife/husband/parent. Learn how to set goals. Practice gratitude for what you have. Tick tock next block applies to your life, however unlike in bitcoin consistency compounds over time to REDUCE the difficulty. Your willpower is like blockspace, it’s a limited resource that renews after a time. Do you want to use all your willpower on the equivalent of spam transactions? “Should I wake up or sleep in? Should I go on my phone to check notifications while having my morning coffee? Should I avoid this muffin at the drive thru? Should I troll this dumb post about Bitcoin? Should I hit the gym today?” These micro decisions use your willpower & clog up your ability operate efficiently and have valid outputs. The more you control your inputs, set goals and show up to do the work, the consistency replaces the need to use willpower and the difficulty reduces and it gets easier to solve the puzzles. Consistency is to willpower like the lightning network is to the mempool. DCA towards staying humble and achieving your goals. Daily Consistent Action. Consistency & a clear vision bypasses the need to spend willpower bringing the cost to achieve your goals and solve your problems down to 0 sats/vbyte. If you do this, as Bitcoin marches towards inevitability and brings you abundance - you can take on the greater and greater challenges that come with greater wealth & power. If you need some resources that have helped me, feel free to ask. If you have some resources that have helped you, please share.

Are you friends with your anger? I struggled with suppressing my anger for years. I still struggle with it. Buddhists believe all emotions are from One Energy, and that you need to befriend all of your emotions. From experience, I observed that suppressing anger and avoiding my emotions actually caused me to feel less happiness & love. Obsessing over shitcoins, spending the majority of my time on Clubhouse and listening to podcasts & audiobooks was a way to distract me from my emotions. It wasn’t until I started prioritizing my mind & body through making commitments to myself and keeping them that I eventually found my emotions again. The advice from the book is to acknowledge your anger, recognize it and observe it - only then can you do something about it. If you are feeling or experiencing anything in this list, you might want to acknowledge you have repressed anger and find one thing in your life you can change to befriend all of your emotions. Is it wake up earlier, meditate more, read more books on mindset / self, exercise more, spend more time with loved ones, have more fun? For me it’s all of the above + continuing to find new good habits.

Your reaction is your reflection. AKA your triggers are mirrors. AKA the world will show you where you’re not free. AKA your truth will show others where they’ve been living a lie. Pissed off about what someone said on Twitter? Getting enraged about someone’s reaction to <INSERT SUBJECT>? Feeling angry and frustrated about XYZ? These are all clues to help you identify what you need to fix about yourself. You can’t control what other people do, you can only control your reaction to what happens - and when you are triggered it’s a reflection of what’s going on inside of you, not what that person said or did. For me, usual the solution is to level up and stop playing small. Free time is a mindfuck. When you create too much free time and don’t fill it with something meaningful, it creates dullness - you are ceding territory. Notice what you get triggered about and ask yourself what you need to change about yourself in order to not be reacting to that anymore. Likely it’s wake up earlier, go to the gym, be more creative, learn a new skill, be more structured & mindful about time with the people you love, or read more to work on yourself. Bitcoin is inevitable, so your problems are only going to get bigger as Bitcoin grows. Your main job is to level up alongside Bitcoin, to become a better leader - because eventually a lot of people will look up to you and rely on you. Stack skills alongside sats.

You’re not crazy, you should feel angry - but make sure to forgive.

Nobody told me Paper Bitcoin Summer was actually going to be Summer of Compliance and KYC 😰 Glad that’s over with

The real reason I invest in bitcoin startups is so I can have founder tech support privileges 😅

What’s the best wallet for Lightning Authentication these days? Something that uses LNAuth that will be here in 10 years.

Yoooo @Julian Figueroa has been hitting the gym 👀 proof of work 💪

I have a problem.

As a Bitcoin angel/seed investor I get a lot of investor updates from the startups in my portfolio. There are so many great Bitcoiners getting traction, making progress, generating revenue and creating value. Many of them are doing subsequent raises, some of them are on unicorn track. I get to have convos with people doing bitcoin as money, bitcoin as freedom tech, bitcoin as store of value, bitcoin as public markets speculative attack, bitcoin as a platform, and more. Grateful for being able to live a meaningful life and having followed the Orange path so early. As an entrepreneur I had imposter syndrome, was always trying to keep up with the latest marketing hack or trend, and experienced a lot of burnout and pivoting. Always finding new partners, etc. As a Bitcoiner I still suffer from activity bias, and pivot a lot, but bitcoin remains constant - and it’s my conviction in bitcoin alone that has made me succeed. I have always been inspired to be helpful and back good people - even when I was poor. I’s really easy to do that when we speak the common language of ₿. ₿itcoin gave me ₿reathing room. Thankful for my small role in bitcoin, lucky to have such high signal friends and shocked to be the source of inspiration for people who tell me they follow me and I changed their lives 🧡 🫂

I offer my bear market beard as a sacrifice to the gods of green candles. I have deployed my life shavings so the ₿ull can start his run.

Yesterday I had a call with an upstart Bitcoin Treasury Co. Very hot deal, lots of FOMO. Was hard to get a call scheduled. Potential 100X. I've been going to the gym for over a year now consistently, partly to be a good example of health for my daughter. Once in a while I'll casually ask her if she wants to come with me as I'm leaving. This time she said yes 🧡 I knew my gym session was going to run late now that she was coming, so now I had a problem - do I skip the call that I've been trying to get done all week and signal that I'm unreliable to the team, or do I try to make it work and do the call at the gym while I put my daughter on the treadmill for 20 mins and split my focus? The words of my coach dan martell (Buy Back Your Time) came into my mind. He talks about how people often tell him their number 1 priority is their family, but when he asks to see their calendar, he sees either nothing planned with the family or too much work. "Show me your calendar and I'll show you your priorities." I decided to prioritize my daughter and our time together by not trying to fit the call in. I had my team reschedule the call and I spent the focused time with my daughter. Tbh I might have missed the opportunity because it’s gonna be hard to get that call rescheduled, but I’m glad I made the right choice for what I’m trying to optimize my life for 🫂

I was at a “blockchain” policy event in Ottawa last week and the most remarkable thing happened. While everyone was schmoozing, @Jeff Booth was sitting at a table talking with people. I went over to introducing my friend to Jeff, but they appeared to be having a debate so we pulled up seats to listen. As we were at a crypto event, I assumed it was a bitcoin v crypto debate, because it was the founder of a large Canadian digital asset hedge fund, a crypto law firm partner and a former Goldman Sachs partner, probably all in their 50s & 60s. I shit you not, they were discussing the intricacies of running a bitcoin full node and they were in a knots vs core debate 🤣 The Goldman Sachs partner was running a node and her friend (the lawyer) wanted to run a node (her husband does). All 3 of them had visited Bitcoin Beach on separate occasions. Very heartening experience. I think we’re winning!

Behind blockchain lines in Ottawa repping ₿itcoin at a policy event with @Jeff Booth and Saylor on drums.

Behind blockchain lines with @Jeff Booth repping ₿ in Ottawa, with @Michael Saylor on drums.

A bunch of Bitcoin startups I’ve invested in are on the Bitcoin standard where they’ve kept BTC in their treasury. As of late, I’ve been getting actively involved in public Bitcoin Treasury companies. I participated in the private placement of Matador, the largest Canadian Bitcoin Treasury Company, my friends Sunny Ray and Mark Moss are part of that company, and I’ve recently joined David Bailey as an advisor to the company. My goal is to get Matador using multi institutional self custody and steer them towards bitcoin maximalism. I’ve also invested along with Adam Back and UTXO into H100, the largest Bitcoin Treasury Company in Sweden. There’s a few more treasury companies I’m getting involved with that I probably can’t disclose yet. I think Bitcoin Maximalists should be taking advisory seats and board positions of these companies so we can impart our long term thinking, strong hands and risk management tendencies in the board rooms of these bitcoin vacuum corps. If we get involved, we can help prevent the over-leveraging that so many are afraid of, and we can have a hand at ushering in a decade long bull market - the Orange Rush.

Any other collectors of Bitcoin Trading Cards? Some people are into coins, some people are into cardboard. I’ve chosen cardboard. If anyone is building cool physical bitcoin collectibles, board games, cards, etc - hit me up! I’m a bitcoin culture hoarder.

Been trying to get my barber to accept Bitcoin for about a year. He was interested but he is not good with technology. From the Azores but moved to canada in 2016 to work construction but his real passion is 💈 He’s a real artist and is very clearly meant to do hair and beards, he does it after work in his basement. He was laid off from his full time construction job about a month ago because of the trade war. Today, I finally got him setup to accept Bitcoin with a @Blink Wallet ! His Lightning address is maniqas@blink.sv if anyone’s feeling generous to give him an onboarding zap!