Would you trust your bank with your life? Would you trust your insurance co. with your life? Would you trust your credit union with your life? Would you trust your broker with your life? Would you trust your brokerage acct with your life? Are you putting your life in someone else’s hands? When we work our time and energy is traded away in return for something we hope is an asset, equally finite to our finite time. Money is a finite container for our finite time and energy. Currency is infinite from government with an inflationary hole in the container spilling out our life (time and energy). Majority of people accept currency (infinite) for their time (finite). Most put their savings (time and energy), if they have any leftover, in to a bank or credit union. They are literally trusting the bank or credit union with their life. Many have asked if there is another answer to keeping your life in banks or brokerage accounts or with mutual 3rd parties. Where do I go to get away from inflation? Is my cash safe? Will I have enough for retirement? Will there be any left? Great questions, all of them hinge on what kind of government you have and who is in power. What are you letting them get away with? Are they following the rule of law, the Constitution, natural law, does anyone care? Acta Non Verba. Deeds not words. Politicians campaign on intentions and results are often devoid from the promises. America used to be a “nation of rules” and we have become a “nation of men” instead. Whoever gets in to power changes the rules as they see fit. History has shown us, this will end poorly. FDIC is bust You can have the “greatest” bank, insurance company, or brokerage account in the world but that means nothing when the government is breathing down their neck coercing them to do what they want. FDIC has admitted that they have only a fraction of the funds in their accounts to back your livelihood in case of bank failures or bank runs. $125B to to cover $10T in deposits! #FDIC has just above 1.25% of the actual funds to cover what they have guaranteed you. Do you have the connections to get bailed out when the crises keep coming? Who do you think will take the hit? Your leaders? The bankers? The banking collapse in 2008 was already eclipsed in some measures by the banking collapse we had earlier this year. Do you believe the problem is contained? At a time where governments are censoring everything and everyone, I would suggest that trusting your life with a third party might be one of the most dangerous games you can play moving forward. The hard truth is that FDIC, just like social security, or pensions, or any other government program WILL get bailed out but currency printing more fake dollars in to existence. Inflation will increase through this dollar debasement. The people who pay will be the ones who get the new monetary units last once it flows through the system: the middle class. You will get the $1000 you are owed but bread will cost 10x, 100x, 1000x as much. This sneaky sleight of hand of inflation is what has collapsed all empires throughout history. What the hell do you do? The easiest answer is to simply fix the money. Why do we have a broken currency based in debt? Why don’t we have a natural money that stores value for you long term based in equity? (#Bitcoin  ) Why do we have governments in charge of the currency? Why is the average person forced in to selling their currency to buy assets just in hopes of preserving their life? They could be saving an instrument that is designed to be equally finite to their finite time, going up in value throughout the years instead of down like dollars. But government won’t allow it, Brandon!! If you believe that government will outlaw a neutral money that grows your purchasing power over time and increases the freedom of its citizens, do we think that there is something inherently wrong with that? Do we even live in America at that point? Reread what was just said. Who is really benefitting from this system? Do we think there might be something wrong with that government? If a 3rd world country did that to their people most westerners would look on in horror. The Declaration of Independence clearly stated that the government works at the consent of the people. Why don’t we change how the government works? If we don’t believe that we have that ability anymore, then we have bigger problems. The Declaration also states we have the duty to throw off such tyrannical governments. We should not be patriotic about the dollar itself, it is merely just a piece of paper. We should be patriotic for founding principles and documents that made America the greatest experiment on Earth. Our idolization of a green piece of paper is akin to someone going to battle for the person(s) that lock them in a cellar each day. We have put false idols on a pedestal and are reaping the rewards. Ease and convenience has been placed in higher esteem than morals and principles. Again, history has shown us that this will end poorly. Change could happen overnight but my concern is society won’t realize that until it is too late. Hindsight is 20/20. Change is tough. Easy to go along to get along and not make waves. Just because a system has worked this way for 100 years or “your grew up this way” isn’t a reason to continue living in that system. Stay strong. #btc

Absolutely spot on. Could not agree more. Wish this for everyone. Earth would be very different. View quoted note →

This is how America used to run… Found this after thanksgiving. Would society be better off with leaders like this again? 👇 Thanksgiving proclamation The interposition of divine providence in our favor hath been most abundantly and most graciously manifest-ed, and the citizens of these United States have every possible reason for praise and gratitude to the God or their salvation. Impressed, therefore, with an exalt ed sense of the magnitude of the blessings by which ve are surrounded, and of our entire dependence on that Almighty Being, from whose goodness and boun-y they are derived, the United States in Congress assembled do recommend it to the several states, to set apart a day of public thanksgiving, that all the people may then assemble to celebrate with one voice grateful hearts and united voices, the praises of their supreme and all bountiful Benefactor, for his numberless favors and mercies. 231658 That he hath prospered the labor of our husband-men with plentiful harvests; and above all, that he hath been pleased to continue to us the light of the blessed Gospel, and secured to us in the fullest extent the rights of conscience in faith and worship. And while our hearts overflow with gratitude, and our lips set forth the praises of our great Creator, we also offer up fervent supplications that it may please him to pardon all our offenses, to give wisdom and unanimity to our public councils, to cement all our citizens in the bonds of affection, and to inspire them with an earnest regard for the national honor and interest, to enable them to improve the days of prosperity by every good work, and to be lovers of peace and tranguility. that he may be pleased to bless Us in our husbandry, our commerce, and navigation; O smile upon our seminaries and means of education, to cause pure religion and virtue to flourish, to give Peace to all nations, and to fil the world with his glory. THE NATONAL THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION Issued by Congress in 1783

⚡️☢️The trinity of sound money ☢️⚡️ I believe one of the most interesting things we can learn about someone are the frameworks they use to become the person they are. Personally, I used to study Sergei Fedorov and would watch him skate in slow motion as a kid so I could imitate his framework and become a great skater like he was. Fortunately, skating became my best attribute as a hockey player and helped build the foundation for my career playing internationally and as a pro. This has led me over the years to thinking about my frameworks on money, investing, psychology, selling, persuasion, politics, and the first principles I have used to build the foundation of my life and my decision making. I have been blessed with my life and success I have had, and hopefully my children can learn something and start further down the road. I don’t want 2nd or 3rd generations to have to make the mistakes I did. Some are good but I want them to have a head start. I want them learning the skills necessary so they aren’t losing the freedoms they were granted. Going to continue to share my journey and the things I am thinking through to document mental models etc. (Ongoing feedback welcome and wanted.) For example, I use to think the answers to fixing the human world lay within politics, then I saw the events of the last 15 years and the “uni-party” unveiled and it radically changed my views. I realized the fight wasn’t "red versus blue," but instead "the state versus you." Once I had the correct lenses everything started to make sense, just like getting the right prescription from the eye doctor. This led me to studying the destruction of money in to fiat currencies and how our communication layer of money has been distorted to steal from the productive in society. I initially thought gold and silver were the answer for years as I started my studies, because of course the metals backed real money for thousands of years. I kept learning and studying, building businesses, investing, and the problems I saw still persisted. Polarization, hate, division, and disparity continued to grow and I began to study a new world where people had ultimate control over their lives, wealth, property and was no longer in the hands of a few. This picture is one of the foundational pieces to the next step in that journey that I started in 2009 and then had to question my beliefs again in 2017-2018. Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book Future Shock said, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” I have had to question long held beliefs of mine and many have been shattered over the last 15 years. Unfortunately, the further in to your studies you go, the less you feel you know. If you have any models or frameworks that have really helped in your life that you would like to share please do, always looking to grow and refine and polish my own thinking. Stay strong. #bitcoin #btc

What this picture screams to me… Currently somewhere in the middle of the game board towards losing our freedoms completely. Governments aren’t stupid enough to take them all in one fell swoop. They employ the “frog in the boiling pot” strategy. They aren’t going to “take your guns.” They will just make it impossible to buy them or run a gun/ammo business. They aren’t going to stop you from eating meat, or clean food, they will just tax it, so it’s impossible to attain They won’t force you to stop smoking, they just tax you until it doesn’t make sense to buy anymore. They won’t force you in to war, they’ll just keep provoking people until things snap and then people ask for it. They know if they make changes small enough over time vast majority people will never stand up and will idly sit by thinking someone else will do or say something so they can relax and go back to the mindless thing they were doing. Human’s good nature and empathy being weaponized against them. The irony, sadly, in all of it is that if the group of people who could feel intuitively the patterns in their gut just stood up and started vocalizing and taking action, things would revert back quickly, as politics are downstream of culture. We must hang together, or surely we will all hang separately. Maybe I’m the crazy one? #Bitcoin #btc #nostr

This is why throughout human history secular governments have always sought to remove God from society and culture. The higher being makes humans realize they are not puppets and property of the state but instead “governments are instituted among men to work at the consent of the governed.”

Had the pleasure to sit down with @michelleweekley once again and talk about some #bitcoin merchant adoption projects she is working on. Helping the first gas station in the United States start accepting #btc lightning payments. We dive deep in to the 3% intransigent minority being necessary to drag the rest of the population across the freedom finish line. Not looking to the person sitting next to us to do something, it is up to each one of us as freedom loving #bitcoiners to vote with our wallets, voice, and our feet. The liberty, property rights, and wealth of 8 billion people are hanging in the balance. We were put on the Earth for a specific reason at this specific moment in time. Are we ready to answer the call? Courage is contagious. The easiest time to stand is today. @Bitcoin Magazine @npub13tct...7qx7 @ByteFederal @Swan

Am I off base here? Saying you don’t care about the right to privacy because “you have nothing to hide” is like saying you don’t care about free speech because “you have nothing to say?”

Only took 26 months after leaving our decades long war in Iraq/Afghanistan that we now find ourselves in wars with Russia (Ukraine), Iran (Hamas), and China (Taiwan.) Congrats to the American voter. The real winner here in this. Putting people in office hell bent on sending their own kids in to battle all while paying for it through their own time and energy (inflationary currency printing.)

Why don’t schools teach this stuff anymore? 🤔👀

What’s the video size limit here on #Nostr ?

People always ask if it’s good that politicians are in #Bitcoin etc… Short answer: Yes, all PR for bitcoin is good. Long answer: Fact is many humans still take political figures seriously. Any time you have one of them speaking highly of the purest form of money humans have ever discovered you inevitably force someone somewhere to go do a little homework and start studying #btc And as any of us know, that only bodes well for bitcoin. No one goes and studies it and becomes less interested in it. Bitcoin changes you. All roads lead to bitcoin. So whether it’s Elizabeth Warren trying to criminalize 12 words in your noggin or Joel Lightbound speaking highly of bitcoin, it all works out for us who value economic justice, wealth, and property rights for 8 billion people. Do not be deterred. Onward!

Let's call it what it is – Bitcoin is not what you think it is, it’s more… 10 bullish reasons to buy MORE #bitcoin for 2024. The perfect storm is brewing: 1. Mining Hash at All-Time Highs: Bitcoin mining is going stronger than ever, with hash rates hitting all-time highs. It's like the engines of a rocket firing on all cylinders. The more secure the network, the more confident the investors. 2. Bitcoin Spot ETF on the Horizon: After years of anticipation, a Bitcoin Spot ETF is finally on the brink of approval. This ETF is the golden ticket to institutional acceptance. In other words, the big players are about to join the game. 3. FASB Accounting Rules Favoring Bitcoin: Hold onto your balance sheets, folks! FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) is changing its rules, and they're leaning towards being Bitcoin-friendly. That's great news for companies holding Bitcoin in their portfolios. 4. Larry Fink’s Blessing: Blackrock's big cheese, Larry Fink, amidst chaos praised Bitcoin's recent price move as a "flight to quality." That's like having your sternest teacher nodding in approval - the rest of the class (institutions) is going to take notice. 5. Global Chaos: If there's ever been a perfect backdrop for Bitcoin's rise, it's the chaos unfolding across the world. Geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and a general sense of unpredictability are all contributing to Bitcoin's allure as a safe haven asset, like Fink mentioned above. 6. Fed's Balancing Act: If you're into financial astrology, then the stars are aligning. Many experts are foreseeing that the Fed will have to expand their balance sheet in 2024. What's that got to do with Bitcoin, you ask? Well, a booming Fed balance sheet usually means Bitcoin is in for a bullish ride as interest rates go down. 7. HODLers' Love: Those who firmly grip their Bitcoin with “diamond hands,” are in control. A whopping 70% of the Bitcoin supply hasn't moved in a year. These folks are committed, and their commitment is driving Bitcoin's value higher as fiat falls on its face. Who is death-gripping their fiat? 8. The Bitcoin Halving: In less than six months, April 2024 approximately, Bitcoin is going to experience a halving. No, it's not about sharing your burger; it's about the mining rewards getting cut in half. Supply and demand, anyone? 9. Conserving The Environment: The fall of fake ESG initiatives as just propaganda for those at the top coupled with the rise in Bitcoin mining is quickly becoming the fastest way to securing electrical grids and truly cleaning up the environment. This super power of bitcoin has not even begun to seep in to the mainstream yet. 10. Dictators, Despots, and Tyrants: Justin Trudeau censored bank accounts and orange-pilled millions of people in 2022. Elizabeth Warren continues to come after Bitcoin. These attacks, from politicians who don’t respect your freedom, create more marketing material for the sound money as they ramp up their anger. When money is easy to make, societies break… 2024 is shaping up to be the perfect storm for Bitcoin, the time to accumulate cheap Sats are certainly dwindling as the days tick by. But, as with all financial adventures, a word of caution is in order. Bitcoin is still young and volatile as the money is adopted around the world. The waters might be choppy, but the potential rewards? They're enough to make even the boldest investors grin like a Cheshire cat. The separation of money and state is upon us. * Closing the wealth gap. * Bringing property rights, liberty, and wealth to 8 billion. * Ridding ourselves of revolving door politics. * Ending endless wars brought on by the banker’s currency printing machine. The alternative is to choose to stay in fiat currencies that debase your livelihoods at best and promote war and destruction at worst. Don’t believe me. Trust, but verify. I am just reporting what I have witnessed and experienced over the past 15 years. Stay strong.

The beautiful part about the #bitcoin bull market will be the same thing as the bear market. A smoke out of the true believers who are here to change the world and bring freedom, wealth, property rights, and a voice to 8 billion people and those who are here for gainz. 🤔🧐

We will have lower salary/pay each year in the future. Bitcoin is neutral money that captures deflation and distributes advancements back to the users. And prices will go down faster in the future as well to those who hold #btc  Welcome to #bitcoin ⚡️☢️

“If you're measuring productivity gains FROM the very system that steals the productivity gains, everything becomes confusing. Then you need to hire more people in government to "explain" how economics work to transfer more money. #Bitcoin - is replacing all of this nonsense.” - Jeff Booth, author of “Price of Tomorrow” This has to be the most important thought in the experiment we are currently going through in the #Fiat world, and the most understood, which is why so many people are having a hard time seeing clearly.

Hard to understand the world or see what’s going on clearly unless you have your Marxist/One World Government glasses on.

45 Declared Communist Goals for Takeover of America (1963) Read in to Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. 2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war. 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. 5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites. 6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination. 7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N. 8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N. 9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress. 10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N. 11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.) 12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party. 13. Do away with all loyalty oaths. 14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office. 15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. 16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. 18. Gain control of all student newspapers. 19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. 20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions. 21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." 24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch." 28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." 29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man." 31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over. 32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture-- education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. 33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus. 34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI. 36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions. 37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business. 38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat]. 39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. 41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems. 43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government. 44. Internationalize the Panama Canal. 45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike. 🎯 How many do the enemies at the gates have already? None of this should be a surprise to anyone. They knew the faith, spirit, familial foundation, and armament of the U.S. was too strong to take from the outside. They needed to rot it from the inside out…

Times of crisis reveal people, groups, organizations, and countries for who they really are. Survey the landscape and take note, and don’t forget. “What’s good is bad and what’s bad is good.” - Bob Proctor

Thoughts of the day: What can I do, what can any of us do to help ourselves and get the world on track??? 🟢 Get healthy. Mind and body and soul. I work out and eat healthy for life; for my family, my longevity, for those around me on the mission, so I can be a productive member of society (not a drag) 🟠 Support #bitcoin educators and companies and give as much feedback as possible. Support the new circular economy you are trying to build. 🔵 Make as much content as you can in ANY way! (Audio, written, video etc.) Overwhelm the negativity and the algorithms and cued up narratives. Only need 3% for change. 🟡 Accountability is low Men haven’t been punched in the face enough growing up as children. Few know the meaning of consequences. Few have respect and control of their mind and thoughts. 🟣 Following 10 laws If we did what’s right and we worry about laying down our life to pick our cross it is contagious. Worry about the log in my eye instead of the splinter in my brother’s eye.