Getting objections on #Bitcoin is literally a mirror to your prior self. It’s comical and frustrating all the same time. Patience is certainly required and empathizing with the person that you were once in that position as well. We are early and that is a good thing as there’s much educating to be done. 🫡

As the unproductive class in Davos last week examined each other’s undercarriage and tried to find the recipe for “rebuilding trust” and locating the truth… We here think that it’s much easier than our “leaders” make it out to be. There are a few steps that it takes to figure out exactly how to get closer to the truth, and it starts with being honest in the first place. And maybe an understanding that there are, in fact, evil people in the world in positions of authority. I (as I am sure many of you reading this) have been called “crazy” and “extreme” over the years by friends and family. I have heard it all. But in the last few years (not so ironically, since 2020) I have had many of those same people come back to me and admit that they believe me now and couldn’t fathom there were evil people in positions of power. The story I tell everyone is that when I was a kid I played monopoly and I loved to be the banker. I would steal extra cash every time a transaction happened. Sounds like real life banks, right? I used to cheat every time I could and I was a kid! I had nothing to play for other than wanting to win. You don’t think sinners with all the fame, power, and fortune in the world at stake aren’t doing anything at all to sleight you? If not, then I have some beach front property in Nebraska to sell you. I don’t need ALL the info and facts to know exactly what is happening, I just need to be directionally correct. Like the late Charlie Munger would say, "show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome." 👉 If there are weaknesses in the voting system, they will be exploited. 👉 If there is cash to be laundered in an opaque monetary system, it will be laundered. 👉 If there are positions or people of power that are blackmail-able, there will be people getting blackmailed. BBB = Bullshit, bribery, blackmail. This is the political playbook according to my wife’s Italian zio. He isn’t wrong. In fact, he is spot on. Bullsh*t your way in to power. If that doesn't work, then you can bribe your way in. Last resort if all else fails, is to blackmail your roadblock in to submission. When we put our "collectivist glasses" on, then everything the government/global entities do start to come in to focus and make sense. The question isn’t red versus blue, it is the state versus you. And the government can only do this by controlling the issuance of currency. Hence why #bitcoiners say, “fix the money, fix the world.” And "#Bitcoin  fixes this." So what can we do in the meantime to cut though the garbage of media, academia, and politics while we are patiently fixing the money? 1) Read past titles and headlines 2) Triangulate position reading many different competing sources 3) Pick up on patterns 4) Determine who has made correct calls in the past 5) Follow the money and who is behind what you are reading. Who do they answer to? 6) Remove emotion, think logically and critically 7) Try to poke holes in what is presented Why does this matter Brandon? Why spend time worrying about who gets voted in, who controls the money, who makes the rules? You entire life, fortune, family, and freedom hang in that balance. #btc  (an article taken from my Substack this week)

How many times do you need to be lied to straight to your face, before you change your thinking model?

The individual has the presumption of innocence and must be found guilty. The government; centralized authorities and global entities et al. have the presumption of guilt and must prove to the people beyond a shadow of a doubt why they are ethically and morally true in their ways. When this gets twisted life starts to not resemble reality.

Nigerians like these two things and hate this one thing…

Did Jamie Dimon really say this about #bitcoin and #Ukraine ?

The best out there. 🫡💪🏻 View quoted note →

Change the money by taking the power to counterfeit and inflate the currency out of the hands of the politicians and bankers. Then you begin to change the world by putting the issuance of money back in the hands of the people. #bitcoin accomplishes this. #nostr aides in this.

Here’s the only way the primary caucus vote in Iowa and all other primaries make a difference to bitcoiners…

WEF agenda this week in Davos…. You can make this stuff up 🤯🤯

#Fiat currencies are issued by government decree backed by coercion. #Bitcoin issued by code and backed by energy. These are not the same.

Listen Senator… I have a personal message for Senator Elizabeth Warren & Senator Roger Marshall (that I am positive they could give a rats a** about because politicians no longer fear the people) regarding their Bitcoin/crypto anti-money laundering bill they sponsored after they were paid off by the banking association: Leave the people of the United States alone. Why do you continue to meddle in our affairs? You do not know how to run my life nor anyone reading this article. You once stood for dismatling banks after the Occupy Wall Street protests and here you are 10 years later in bed with them. I am not alone. According to Perianne Boring you also love sponsoring and talking about “crypto” because it is allegedly a campaign tool you use because it gets a lot of clicks on your campaign site. You cannot make this stuff up and in no way is this conducive to a productive society. This is how politics works and one big reason why the country has become SO divided; Leaders doing nothing that resembles leading and becoming puppets of special interest groups. Protecting no freedom or wealth, but their own. The senators admittedly don't even know how to pronounce the bills, what is in it, or how Bitcoin works. This is the proverbial fox in the hen house. We have become a nation of men not laws, rulers and not rules decades ago but only truly now is it becoming obvious to the average person because of decentralized media amplified by the collapse of command and control centralized media. We have a long way to go but the collateral damage (losses of liberty, freedoms, rights, etc) can be mitigated if a small irate minority stand and make their voices heard. Every day that goes by the harder this becomes to turn back unjust laws. 3% in to the breach. Stay strong.

Knowing what I’ve learned over the past 5 years it’s hard to watch any of the Jason Bourne movies the same way ever again.

Keep posting, keep talking, keep sharing your journey. You never know who needs that message at that moment to get themselves through to the other side. #bitcoin #nostr

If you are taking flak, that means you are over the target. Keep on. 🎯

What kind of bitcoin/freedom conference is still missing?

If I ever find myself for some insane reason agreeing with legacy media and mainstream pop culture, please let me know immediately. There’s no way I’m in my right mind or healthy. 🤷🏼‍♂️🫡

This decade people will come to know and dread the term: inflation. Next decade people will come to know and fall in love with the term: deflation.

One of the nicest things someone has said about my writing. Thanks! Well said on normalcy bias. That doesn’t get talked about enough. View quoted note →

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