I'm tired of people saying Bitcoin is a digital commodity. It isn't. It is sui generis. #bitcoin

Leadership Principle #9: Training Your Team for Optimal Performance A well-trained team operates cohesively, enhancing performance, boosting morale, and fostering a positive work environment. Engaged individuals, when equipped with clear roles, can unlock their full potential. Effective training, coupled with solid organization, is key. Organizations and teams benefit from clear structures defining roles, responsibilities, and communication channels, leading to enhanced efficiency and growth opportunities for team members. Key Considerations: - Is your organization structured with clear authority, communication, and accountability? - Do roles align with individual talents, training, and goals while meeting organizational needs? - Are mission, objectives, and strategies clearly understood by all? Is there a culture of initiative? Actions for Skill Development: - Assess organizational structure with a focus on clarity and efficiency. - Engage with team members to ensure roles match their skills and aspirations. - Foster open dialogue through team meetings to enhance communication and structure. - Drive improvements based on team feedback to optimize performance and structure.

📚 The Bitcoin Canon: A Curated Reading List for Builders, Thinkers, and Holders #Bitcoin #HardMoney #SoundMoney #LightningNetwork #CryptoPhilosophy #ProofOfWork #BitcoinBooks #Nostr #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty Saifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking Nik Bhatia • Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies • Bitcoin Age Kiara Bickers • Bitcoin Clarity: The Complete Beginners Guide to Understanding Gigi • 21 Lessons: What I’ve Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole Eric Yakes • The 7th Property: Bitcoin and the Monetary Revolution Knut Svanholm • Bitcoin: Everything divided by 21 million • Bitcoin: Sovereignty through mathematics • Bitcoin: Independence reimagined (with Daniel Prince) Jonathan Bier • The Blocksize War: The battle for control over Bitcoin’s protocol rules Vijay Boyapati • The Bullish Case for Bitcoin Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism Andy Edstrom • Why Buy Bitcoin: Investing Today in the Money of Tomorrow Phil Champagne • Bitcoin vs Altcoins: The Battle for Dominance • The Book of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Lawrence H. White • Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? Brian E. De Mint • Bitcoin Evangelism Jason Maier • A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin: A Path Toward a More Just, Equitable, and Peaceful World Andreas M. Antonopoulos • Mastering the Lightning Network (w/ Osuntokun, Pickhardt) • Mastering Bitcoin (3rd edition) Mark Goodwin • The Bitcoin-Dollar: An Economic Monomyth Micah Warren • Bitcoin: A Game-Theoretic Analysis Aaron Van Wirdum • The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin Robert Warren • The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac: Where Code Meets Business and Everything in Between Andrew M. Bailey, Craig Warmke, Bradley Rettler • Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin Vijay Selvam • Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy ⸻ 🔍 Want to go deeper? These books cover the full terrain—monetary history, protocol battles, game theory, mining, and Layer 2. ⚡ Whether you’re a dev, thinker, or node-runner—there’s something here for you. Zap or repost to spread #BitcoinLiteracy. 🧵👇

📚 Essential Reading List on Money, Credit, and the State #Bitcoin #AustrianEconomics #SoundMoney #Nostr #Books #FiatStandard #CryptoHistory #Mises #Rothbard #HardMoney Ludwig von Mises • Human Action • The Theory of Money and Credit • The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science • Theory and History • Nation, State, and Economy • Liberalism • Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis • Omnipotent Government Jesùs Huerta de Soto • Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles George Reisman • Capitalism Murray Rothbard • The Case Against the Fed • The Mystery of Banking • What Has Government Done to Our Money? Robert P. Murphy • Understanding Money Mechanics Lyn Alden • Broken Money Saifedean Ammous • The Fiat Standard Frederick Taylor • The Downfall of Money Finn Brunton • Digital Cash Steven Levy • Crypto Adam Tooze • The Deluge ⸻ 🧠 Curated for thinkers exploring #monetaryhistory, #BitcoinSkepticism, and the evolution from #goldstandard to #digitalcash. Feel free to zap or fork. Drop your own must-reads below. 🧵👇

Why “para” in parasovereignty? The prefix para- comes from the Greek παρά, meaning beside, alongside, or beyond. It signals that parasovereign systems exist in relation to sovereignty—but outside its command. These systems do not oppose or replace the state; they operate adjacent to it, often preparing alternative spaces for action, freedom, and cooperation when sovereign structures falter.

I guide leaders and thinkers through the terrain of sovereignty, power, and the individual—illuminating parasovereign systems that enable human action and cooperation beyond the reach of the state. As a strategist, theorist, and builder of interpretive frameworks, I study how symbolic and technical orders—like Bitcoin, Nostr, or language itself—persist and function without institutional permission. These systems do not claim sovereignty, yet they operate before, beneath, behind, beside, between, and beyond it, sustaining forms of freedom, expression, and coordination outside centralized control. My aim is not to idealize these systems, but to understand their structure, origins, and implications for human life. To understand parasovereignty, one must first understand sovereignty—so we can recognize their interplay, act wisely in their interstices, and prepare for a future in which meaningful cooperation may depend less on command and more on constraint by design. I write to clarify this strategic landscape, not only as a matter of theory, but as a way to navigate—and shape—what comes next.

Choke points and checkpoints are sites of concentrated sovereign ordering. They reveal in microcosm the full logic of sovereignty: spatial control, temporal authority, action regulation, and relationship classification—imposed within a bounded, physical territory. They are where the abstract becomes concrete—where sovereignty is not claimed, but enacted.

Leadership is the disciplined act of guiding people to accomplish a mission. It requires both task orientation—defining objectives and ensuring execution—and people orientation—building trust, morale, and alignment. True leadership goes beyond personality traits like kindness or empathy; it demands clarity, accountability, and the ability to lead through both direction and connection. Success depends not on being liked, but on achieving purpose through others.

Three levels of being: 1. Living – self-organizing, self-maintaining systems with metabolism and reproduction (e.g., bacteria, plants). 2. Sentient – living beings capable of sensation, perception, and subjective experience (e.g., animals). 3. Sapient – sentient beings with abstract reasoning, symbolic thought, and self-awareness (e.g., humans). Each level deepens interiority and agency.

The physical sciences study what is measurable, interchangeable, and law-bound—matter, energy, force, transformation. The life sciences study beings: individuated, self-maintaining, and purpose-driven. A rock is mass; a bacterium is a being. Physics describes what things do. Biology asks how living things do what they do as beings.

Life is too short to be paranoid for no good reason. I can understand a political dissident at fear for their life wanting to remain anonymous. Or someone whose livelihood or safety is at stake. But for me, I prefer just being a bit mysterious. 🥸

I’m on Nostr because it’s cool, not because I’m paranoid.

Me being very serious 🧐

It’s important to distinguish between praxeology and proctology.