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"This is it." #Bitcoin
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alanbwt 2 weeks ago
One of the greatest ballads in Bitcoin history: “My Star Will Rise” by Rob Warren
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alanbwt 2 weeks ago
People who already sold most of their Bitcoin are always looking for reasons to get others to sell theirs.
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alanbwt 2 weeks ago
“The Buddha explained that his doctrine, his method, was a raft.” – Alan Watts, The Middle Way image
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alanbwt 2 weeks ago
Worried about quantum computing overpowering SHA-256, but not the 4-digit PIN securing your bank account?
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alanbwt 2 weeks ago
“The ad men have persuaded you that if you could get this kind of car, this kind of yacht, this kind of house, this kind of scene, whatever it may be, you should. That’s the thing in life. That’s what’s important. And it doesn’t make people happy at all. And then they wonder why it doesn’t, and feel cheated. And they have to go to psychoanalysts, and churches, and things like that, to be persuaded that it’s coming sometime. Somehow, the thing that is always seems to be missing. And there’s nothing missing at all. Except, I mean, supposing you’re absolutely starved, and you just don’t have the normal flow of energy through your organism. Then, of course, you need food. Or if you’re freezing, you need shelter. But in the ordinary way, when you are fed and sheltered, there isn’t anything missing. It’s all here. But nobody is here to see it. Everybody is wandering after something else in the distance.” — Alan Watts, Ecological Awarness image
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alanbwt 2 weeks ago
“When you look at patterns on the foam of the breaking waves on the seashore, and you look at the outlines of mountains, and the grain in wood, and the markings on marble, you notice that it never makes an aesthetic mistake. Never.” — Alan Watts, Four Ways to the Center image
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alanbwt 3 weeks ago
If a lion skulked around apologizing for its beautiful mane and feeling guilty about its physical prowess, it would cease to be majestic.
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alanbwt 3 weeks ago
“This is in Zen parlance called the no-gate barrier, or the gateless gate. Because, it looks like a gate, a barrier, something to be attained, some entrance to a special in-group, so long as you’re standing outside it. But the moment you cross the border, the gate vanishes, so does the wall. And you see everybody at all, everybody in the world, as manifestations of the Buddha nature, or we’d say in Western terms of the divine power, and you see they’re all just behaving marvelously in their ignorance.” — Alan Watts, Future of Religion image
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alanbwt 3 weeks ago
Bitcoin is gold for the digital age. image
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alanbwt 3 weeks ago
To be sufficiently bullish on gold/silver over Bitcoin, one must imagine a bleak mad-max style future where the internet goes out forever, armed men trade heavy rocks with one another to buy cans of tuna, and civilization as we know it ceases to exist. Reject doomerism. Embrace Bitcoin. image
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alanbwt 3 weeks ago
Cypherpunks shall inherit the earth.
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alanbwt 3 weeks ago
There are infinite dollars waiting to be printed. There are only 21M Bitcoin. image
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alanbwt 3 weeks ago
You can’t send gold over the internet. You can send Bitcoin.