@Guy Swann followed me!! He is going to help me harden security and hold a backup of seed word just in case I lose mine. What a nice guy!

Post 4 – When Winning Was Losing After I dropped out of high school, I got my GED. I scored high enough on the GED and ACT that a D2 school still honored my scholarship, just on hold for the first year. If I proved I could keep my grades up, I would earn it back. But I did not even last two months in college. I walked away. That is when the mask shifted again. I was not a student anymore. I was not an athlete. I was a full-time dealer. And at first, it looked like I had made it. Cash stacked up. Cars. Parties. People respected me, or at least, they respected the product I carried. Cocaine was my main hustle, but I kept everything in rotation. Pills. Weed. Oxy. Even heroin. A one-stop shop. From the outside, it looked like I was winning. I had what I thought I wanted: money, attention, control. But underneath, the decay was setting in. Heroin was not in the background anymore. It was daily. Meth slipped in too. What started as managing the high turned into managing withdrawals. And no amount of money covered the rot eating through me. That life lasted three years. Three years of looking untouchable. Three years of telling myself I was on top. But every empire built on sand eventually crumbles. If you missed the first post in this series, scroll back and start there. This is CooperSpoon | Dirt Over Diamonds It is not a comeback story. It is the truth, one post at a time.

Primal (Nostr) is going to take over the internet. #nostr #primal #damus #nostur

Love Bitcoin. Value Family More. Bitcoin is powerful. It’s freedom, innovation, and a way to take control of your financial future. Loving it makes sense. But no matter how far it goes, family still matters more. Bitcoin can grow your net worth. Family grows your heart, your strength, and your purpose. One builds wealth. The other builds legacy. Stack your sats. Learn everything you can. Win big. But always show up for your people. Call your parents. Be there for your partner. Spend time with your kids. Keep building a life that holds value in every way. Never stop growing your family. That’s the real long-term investment. #Bitcoin FamilyFirst #RealWealth #StayGrounded

Post 3 – Cracks in the Mask I was still getting offers. Division 2 football scholarships were coming in. A couple Division 1 schools were offering probationary walk-on spots with scholarships on the table if I proved myself. Coaches saw potential. They saw the athlete. What they didn’t see was how far gone I already was. If I had kept my grades up, the D1 doors would’ve been wide open. But I wasn’t focused on school. I wasn’t focused on anything except staying high and keeping the image alive. By this point, I was fully addicted to opiates. It wasn’t recreational anymore. It wasn’t for fun or rebellion. It was survival. I had moved past snorting. Now I was smoking it. I needed it just to feel level. Heroin started creeping in. Not openly. Nobody was calling it that yet. But it was there. Quiet. In the background. Like a shadow waiting its turn. And it didn’t feel like a hard line anymore. The stuff we said we’d never touch had already worked its way into the routine. Then 2008 hit. And everything changed. My family had been running on credit and image. And when the crash came, that credit ran out. Everything they’d been hiding got ripped wide open. The big house didn’t mean anything anymore. The mask we’d all been wearing stopped working. And right as our family was being exposed financially, my secret life started getting exposed too. Word started getting around. School. Coaches. Family friends. My parents couldn’t keep pretending anymore. And the pressure blew the whole thing up. They got divorced. And when people asked why, they didn’t hold back. It was because of me. Because of my drug use. That’s what they said. Everything fell apart at once. And I still wasn’t ready to stop. If you missed the first post in this series, scroll back and start there. This is CooperSpoon Dirt Over Diamonds It’s not a comeback story. It’s the truth, one post at a time.

Post 0 — The First Real One I’ve posted some random stuff here before. Nothing real. This is the first post that matters. I’m Seth. I grew up in a Denver suburb. Big house, sports, good kid on the outside. But inside, everything was a mess. By 15, I was dipping my toes in the drug world. I began to burn down everything that looked good on paper. This series is called CooperSpoon Dirt Over Diamonds. I was raised with a silver spoon and chose the dirt instead. I found myself in the middle of all that chaos. I’m gonna share 6 to 8 stories. Not pretty. But real. Then I’ll talk about what life looks like now slower, simpler, honest. #Bitcoin If any of that hits you, stick around. Let’s see where this goes. #reallife #lowtimepreference

We’ve chosen to live on a single income so my wife can stay home and raise our child. It means we live simply and don’t often spend on ourselves. But after saving since the Christmas before last, we finally got something we’ve been talking about for a long time. A new mattress!! We’re a modest family and don’t need much, but we honestly didn’t realize how much we needed this. The difference it’s made is incredible. I know this is gay post, but I’m genuinely blown away by how life-changing a good mattress can be.

GM! I need some recommendations for eye protection. I’m on a computer all day and it’s starting to wear my eyes out.

Why do you have to be a gamer to be accepted into the Pc world?

GM! Bitcoin makes work worthwhile. Family makes life beautiful. One gives purpose to the grind. The other gives meaning to t