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Brandon Gentile
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Host of "Playable Characters" interviewing pioneers, big brains, and plebs of Bitcoin! 👇 | BTC class ‘18 ☢️ | Former Pro-Hockey Player🏒
🇺🇸 All Gave Some. Some Gave All. 🇺🇸 My entire life I have felt guilty that I did not serve in the military. Something inside of me has never let me get over that feeling. I loved playing hockey as a kid and when I learned about the US national team, I quickly gravitated toward that, and that became my purpose to “don the sweater” of the United States and serve my country in that way. I completed that goal, but the feeling of guilt still never left my body, as it has not today. There’s a certain fire or a crucible that must be conquered in a man’s life. I’m not sure if it’s a sense of duty or wanting to serve others or protect others but it’s always been there at least for me. So I want to take this time to acknowledge and thank those who have put their life in harm’s way for our benefit. Acknowledge those who have laid down their life for me and my family’s benefit. Acknowledge those who have sacrificed so much and those who have sacrificed even a little in order that me, my family and my children might have a better and more free and prosperous life. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to properly thank or pay back all of those people. I hope in some way selfishly the work I am doing now to try and question everything and bring education to the masses using first principles and logic (to the best of my ability) is at least a fraction of the repayment I can offer. “All gave some, and some gave all,” may be my favorite line when it comes to remembering those who heroically served in order that we may enjoy our lives in this great country. It is all those men and women who have served in the Armed Forces who give credibility and order to this world It’s those men and women that give the world a sense of security and peace that humans had not known for thousands of years. Those men and women navigating the waters or flying the dangerous skies or marching around in search of an unknown predator. It is those people (so many will never be known or forgotten), who give us the chance to live lives where we will know no such danger. I thank you and I hope that you get all the rewards love and respect you deserve. Have a beautiful memorial day, and God bless America! Brandon
We have a duty to spread peace through #bitcoin all around the world as Americans and anyone with any type of privilege in life. What did you do for the world?
The world is currently under the illusion of a conjured up and fake system of fiat currency that is designed to serve the interests of the elite at the expense of the rest of society. Fiat currency is created out of thin air and has no intrinsic value, making it subject to endless inflation and devaluation. As a result, we are left with a broken system that incentivizes poor enlightenment, manipulation, and greed.
When we say that incentives are misaligned because of broken money this is one of the reasons why… $37,000,000,000 is spent each year on lobbying. Divide that by 535 congressman and you get over $69,000,000 per congressman spent shilling products and services. Super productive. The epitome of creditism and crony capitalism. Bitcoin starts cleaning this all up by suffocating the cheap credit, fractional reserve lending and currency printing that favor those at the top who understand the broken fiat system. #Bitcoin sends these lobbyists and politicians back home where they came from where they must provide real value to the world. They must pick up a hammer and start building things or farming or starting businesses that produce goods and services that people want which increases competition and lowers costs for the consumer. We can’t begin to comprehend as humans a fraction of the ills and pains we cause by letting governments run the money supply and steal our time and energy through inflation. #few
At the age of the millennials, boomers had 20% of the nation’s wealth. Millennials currently hold 4% of the nation’s wealth. How does this next chapter play out?
If you don’t stand then there will be no one left to stand for you. I decided to put my time and energy in to education and specifically children’s education. Bitcoin Trading Cards is a huge vector in that mission and in orange-pilling the world. I’m not waiting around for school and government or media or culture to inform my children what the truth is. When your formal schooling ends your real education begins as our founding fathers also noted. We must be the change that we seek in the world and take an active role in educating and informing of our children and the youth. If we wish to live in a prosperous and fulfilled world. Ross Ulbricht is one of us who was improperly imprisoned in my opinion because he exercised his right to free speech. https://twitter.com/bitcoinshooter/status/1661446969263357954?s=46&t=NXAAL7ZcYd2C4aeYVxCuYQ It’s not up to him what other people choose to do with the tools he created. His card is being auctioned off by 3pm today and ALL proceeds go to the “Free Ross Foundation” to help fight his case. But his case is all of our cases. Easily could happen to any of us. Today is the only easy day. Tomorrow will be harder and the next day after that even harder to win back freedoms and liberties that are lost. Those who stand silent in the face of evil is in fact evil itself. I hope you consider bidding on this card as it’s supporting the fight for your freedom to do and say what you please. We are God’s highest form of creation, and you are not obligated to answer to anyone. You are a free man/woman and that will never change. Unless we let those in power continue to the point where they have suffocated the life out of all of us. Indifference and apathy are the devil’s dream. Stay strong, Brandon Check it out and help progress freedom and justice! https://twitter.com/bitcoinshooter/status/1661446969263357954?s=46&t=NXAAL7ZcYd2C4aeYVxCuYQ image
Wake up anon, Are you going to bitch all day about politics and do nothing and not vote? Are you going to complain about the the costs of everything and your cash being sent across the world without your consent? Are you going to sit there and take it and stay uninvolved? When do you realize YOU are the government? When do you realize that your vote is your wallet? Follow the money, not the science. Bitcoin takes power from the governments (THAT HAVE SINGLE DIGIT APPROVAL RATINGS) and gives the power back to the people. Are you too scared to do this for yourself, your parents, and your children? What are you making excuses for? What are you waiting for? There are much more of us than there are them. Oh…what’s that you say? Your vote doesn’t matter? Your vote doesn’t count? Your apathy is an admission of defeat. You must not live in a free world. Your mind is broken because you are not a free person. A free person LIVES free and makes their own decisions and doesn’t let others make it for them. Your indifference is telling...
The war is on… Be on the lookout for all things that could destroy you: Mentally Personally Socially Economically You gotta make sure you are winning the war. - Jim Rohn
Our lives are mostly affected by the way we THINK things are. Not the way they are. The way we think they are affects us most. - Jim Rohn
Wow. What a #bitcoin conference in Miami. Think I watched about 10-20 mins total of speeches. Beautiful stuff networking and hanging with plebs the entire week. Bitcoin is winning hard. Finally home. Wow. ☢️⚡️
Preparing for carnage 🔫 All we have done at “The Reset” is get prepared for the inevitable demise of the Roman Empire. The Empire who helped kill the messiah, which we witnessed this past month (Happy Easter to you), only to have truth come back and win over evil… A similar human event will take place with truth on Earth moving forward. The FIAT LIE that has swept over the Earth the last 100 years with the of communism will begin to crumble spectacularly. Banks, politicians, governments, nation states, criminals, war mongers, groomers, pedophiles, etc., all getting exposed like cockroaches in light. Nayib Bukele calling out the USA for their hypocrisy, banks failing for making terrible decisions and governments (and their currencies) failing because they were only designed to enrich a few to hold their power at the top. Why can we guarantee the truth will only speed up and take down these centralized control structures? Decentralized money, energy, and social media that cannot be censored or stopped: #Bitcoin, #Nostr, #Zion, #Ghost, #Start9, Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, Thorium, Fusion/Fission, memers taking on “elites” directly, etc.. The legacy power structures are falling and WE WILL SEE CRAZIER THINGS HAPPEN AS THE “DROWNING MAN IN THE WATER” LOSES ITS POWER. The unproductive class will do whatever they can to try and salvage their last vestiges of power and they will make it sound like the world will end unless you let them keep their power. Don’t believe a second of it. The abundance and freedom we will all have on the backside of this will be humanity-changing on an order humans have NEVER seen. Free and abundant energy, censorship-resistant communication, money, property rights, and wealth that is for the people and cannot be controlled by the unproductive class. Buckle up because this decade will be for the record books but there will be bumps along the way. This is why we prepare for chaos and hope for the best.
This is how I would have responded if I were Warren Buffett instead of getting owned by a teenage girl… ☢️ You are correct that the debt is unsustainable, and will eventually collapse under its own weight. This means that the dollar will eventually collapse and we will transition into a new monetary system. Currently the unproductive class is scheming up central bank digital currencies that they can bribe everyone to move over to so they have full and complete control over your wealth, property, movements, and all freedoms. If they can turn off your money, then you cease to exist. Because the debt is so large it resembles somewhat close to the situation United States found themselves in the 1940s and the flavor is the same as you alluded to the Federal Reserve telegraphing now… Financial repression. They will continue to monetize your debt as you correctly concluded. Meaning, Fed will continue to buy treasuries to pour liquidity into the market and keep rates down so asset and consumer prices will continue to rise long-term. This means as long as we are in an inflationary debt based system, and more of a crumbling dollar, then you have to get into debt and hold as much good debt as you possibly can that hopefully throws off dividends or cash flow. That’s what we plan to continue doing at Berkshire like we have done for the last 3000 years. Now if you really want to fix things and fix the inequality gap and provide a higher standard of living and lower cost for the entire world, you would work on creating a new system parallel to the current one. We would build one that was deflationary, and based off of equity instead of inflationary, and based off of debt. So the priority in my opinion should be printing off as much fake currency as possible to buy as many assets as you can, and I would buy as much as bitcoin as I could. As far as a family or individual goes, most people are not investment gurus or real estate investors so the best thing to do is trade all of your worthless fiat currency into hard appreciating bitcoin. Everyone can save bitcoin, no matter who you are as long as you save more than you spend. This will defund the cronyism we see rampant across government and global organizations alike. This will then put more freedom and wealth, back in the hands of the people. Ironically, this will also make the governments more efficient and will make their life easier as their citizens are wealthier and not burning down the country. Remember, the government is just made up of people, and all those people in government have to live in cities and neighborhoods and go to the same stores that you and I do. So the more division and chaos that the government brings on knowingly or unknowingly, only makes the government life worse. Sometimes I think we all forget that. So choose to trade your finite time for a finite asset. Many people make the mistake of trading a finite time for infinite liabilities. Infinite pieces of paper or digits on a computer like Dollars or Pesos or Yen. So be very very careful what kind of trade you are making because it may just cost you your life. De-dollarization means that the United States has screwed up and that people have left the dollar network or we have kicked them out. This means that the currency is weaker and weaker as more and more people leave the system. As a currency gets weaker and people sell off our treasuries, since no one believes in the American worker is good for paying them back with their own taxes, yields start to go up and this negative doom loop reinforces itself and crashes the entire system. This means a higher cost and lower standard of living for Americans moving forward. Remember that wealth is never destroyed. It is merely transferred. You are on the right side of this trade by hedging yourself in hard assets and sound money, you will be richly rewarded in this transition of de-dollarization into the next global monetary standard.
This is how I would have responded if I were Warren Buffett instead of getting owned by a teenage girl… ☢️ You are correct that the debt is unsustainable, and will eventually collapse under its own weight. This means that the dollar will eventually collapse and we will transition into a new monetary system. Currently the unproductive class is scheming up central bank digital currencies that they can bribe everyone to move over to so they have full and complete control over your wealth, property, movements, and all freedoms. If they can turn off your money, then you cease to exist. Because the debt is so large it resembles somewhat close to the situation United States found themselves in the 1940s and the flavor is the same as you alluded to the Federal Reserve telegraphing now… Financial repression. They will continue to monetize your debt as you correctly concluded. Meaning, Fed will continue to buy treasuries to pour liquidity into the market and keep rates down so asset and consumer prices will continue to rise long-term. This means as long as we are in an inflationary debt based system, and more of a crumbling dollar, then you have to get into debt and hold as much good debt as you possibly can that hopefully throws off dividends or cash flow. That’s what we plan to continue doing at Berkshire like we have done for the last 3000 years. Now if you really want to fix things and fix the inequality gap and provide a higher standard of living and lower cost for the entire world, you would work on creating a new system parallel to the current one. We would build one that was deflationary, and based off of equity instead of inflationary, and based off of debt. So the priority in my opinion should be printing off as much fake currency as possible to buy as many assets as you can, and I would buy as much as bitcoin as I could. As far as a family or individual goes, most people are not investment gurus or real estate investors so the best thing to do is trade all of your worthless fiat currency into hard appreciating bitcoin. Everyone can save bitcoin, no matter who you are as long as you save more than you spend. This will defund the cronyism we see rampant across government and global organizations alike. This will then put more freedom and wealth, back in the hands of the people. Ironically, this will also make the governments more efficient and will make their life easier as their citizens are wealthier and not burning down the country. Remember, the government is just made up of people, and all those people in government have to live in cities and neighborhoods and go to the same stores that you and I do. So the more division and chaos that the government brings on knowingly or unknowingly, only makes the government life worse. Sometimes I think we all forget that. So choose to trade your finite time for a finite asset. Many people make the mistake of trading a finite time for infinite liabilities. Infinite pieces of paper or digits on a computer like Dollars or Pesos or Yen. So be very very careful what kind of trade you are making because it may just cost you your life. De-dollarization means that the United States has screwed up and that people have left the dollar network or we have kicked them out. This means that the currency is weaker and weaker as more and more people leave the system. As a currency gets weaker and people sell off our treasuries, since no one believes in the American worker is good for paying them back with their own taxes, yields start to go up and this negative doom loop reinforces itself and crashes the entire system. This means a higher cost and lower standard of living for Americans moving forward. Remember that wealth is never destroyed. It is merely transferred. You are on the right side of this trade by hedging yourself in hard assets and sound money, you will be richly rewarded in this transition of de-dollarization into the next global monetary standard.
#Bitcoin is the greatest civil rights movement of all time. Because this time it’s global, not regional in America.
In the halls of Congress… There are men and women, who were once elected to serve the people, now believe themselves to be rulers in a world that they can shape as they see fit. Their arrogance is stunning and their disregard for the people they were elected to represent is appalling. One of the most egregious examples of this self-serving behavior came from a representative in California, Brad Sherman, who recently made a comment about Bitcoin and its supposed creation out of thin air. He clearly doesn't understand that the US government is guilty of the very same thing he accuses Bitcoin of doing. The hypocrisy is staggering. Just imagine if he would have admitted the obvious and exposed that truth for all… Oh wait. He did!! Sometimes the jokes write themselves. Here’s Brad Sherman owning himself and outing the government, all politicians, and every one world government proponent across the globe: https://twitter.com/Dennis_Porter_/status/1656378187839078401?s=20 There you have it, simple as that. The currency has value, “BECAUSE I SAY IT DOES!” What if tomorrow you say it has NO value? Then what? • I can’t totally blame them. It's not just the creation of money that they have distorted, it is reality itself. These politicians have a complete disregard for the theft of time and energy from the very people they claim to serve. They have ceded power to global overlords and sold our sovereignty off for a profit. The Founding Fathers wanted the capitol to be in that swamp where no one would want to go. Now it’s where politicians spend most of the year, opposite of how we were founded. When you realize the power you can exert and you find yourselves around other people incentivized to exert control through a broken money where you can throw other people’s time and energy at problems to keep yourself in a position of power, most of us would too. You become the people you hang around. Government attracts people who like power. So in order to be liked, asked to the committee, asked to the cocktail parties and fit in you have to go-along to get-along. Before you know it, you find yourself compromising values here and some morals there. Not too long until you find yourself staring in the mirror unable to recognize the person that once came to DC. Broken money has untethered our “leaders” from reality and the grift is coming to an end. The masks are coming off and the charade is being exposed. • It's time for a wake-up call. We cannot continue to allow these politicians to believe that they are our rulers. They are not. They are our elected representatives, and they are accountable to us and work at OUR CONSENT. It's time for us to take back our power and hold these politicians accountable for their actions. No human lives on the earth for the “use of government” or another person. No one has a right to know what you are buying or how you are living your life as long as you aren’t harming another human. Period. Governments have completely overstepped their bounds and forgot they work to uphold our liberty, NOT to take it from us. • The answers? Affix the money to energy and work. This way society can regain its strength and the power leaves Washington. One way to do this is by supporting decentralized currencies like Bitcoin. These currencies give power back to the people and take it away from the politicians who have abused it for far too long. By embracing decentralized currencies, we can take back control of our financial system and ensure that it serves the needs of the people, not just the interests of the ruling class. This will by its nature help the government. Because the government is made up of all of us. It will then incentivize politicians to get back to REAL work as well, providing actual value to the economy. We must also be vigilant and engaged in the political process. We must hold our elected officials accountable for their actions and demand that they work on behalf of the people they represent. We must reclaim our power and demand that our elected officials work for us, not against us. Let us get to the root cause and stop the fruitless act of putting bandaids on bullet holes. Fix the money to fix the world.
How many times do you need to be punched in the face by evidence to realize that you are in a global information fight? 🧐
⚡️ Why The Masses Get Left With The Scraps ☢️ The average person waits for someone at the top to tell them what to do. Most seek a leader instead of being a leader. Some do more than others. We have all fallen guilty to this. For instance…Most cannot see the money that is broken, causing all of the modern ills we are experiencing. They’re waiting for a government or a figurehead to tell them things are broken & must change. That’s like asking a Realtor if you should sell your home by owner. So they wait around and miss things like bitcoin. Because it’s not mainstream and being talked about all over media or in government they don’t believe it or trust their own instincts. So most miss the boat because they are constantly looking and waiting for someone else to give them the “all clear.” In that time the money is already made and the average person misses the boat. image Fortunately bitcoin is just money. A finite container for your finite time. The best trade man has ever found so it is and always will be a good time to swap your depreciating fiat for appreciating sound money. The lesson is in using your instincts and your intuition. We have 6 higher faculties that only humans possess. Intuition Will Reason Imagination Perception Memory Only we can hone and train ourselves on these unique skills and move off the bottom rungs of Mazlow’s hierarchy permanently as a species. image Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs Let’s look within and trust ourselves instead of seeking validation and reassurance from others which is often misplaced. Government and other people are not out to save you or take care of you. As Jim John said, “if you rely on government for your retirement you can divide your wealth by 5 at the end of your life. If you rely on yourself you can multiply by 5.” Here’s to be being a “playable character” instead of “non-playable character.” Stay strong, Brandon