Friends and family have started to reach out to me about this Bitcoin thing. A part of me wants to continue the effort to bring them into the fold. Another part of me wants to say 'bitcoin? Nah, I sold it all last year. Why do you ask?'

We are 3-4 daily candles like this until the current ATH. Halving is in 54ish days. Be a cheerleader to the new plebs who feel despair that they started too late. If you feel that, take heart - your brain is just being a jerk. 2028, 3032, 3036, etc. Just keep stacking.

Whirlpool enthusiasts please enlighten me. I have tried to coinjoin on several occasions and it never works. The last time I remixed a tx 6 times, and was very careful, and when I checked it through kycp.org it showed 0 bits of entropy and a single interpretation. Am I doing something wrong or what? I'm just about done with fucking around with this stuff. #asknostr

I know ink has been spilled on this topic ad nauseum, by writers more knowledgeable and eloquent. But something really clicked into place for me this week, and I wanted to share. Humanity was trapped in an endless cycle of states rising and falling. The 'good times creates weak men' meme. States are incentivised to grow their power in order to justify their existence, because each state is nothing if not a collection of people who are self-interested. But that power must be granted by the populace. Governments are literally incentivised to break societal bonds, to sap our strength and will, -to make us weak- so that we are inclined to grant them ever more power. If the average person took maximum responsibility for their own life, family, and community, what space is there left for a government to step in and LARP like they're solving problems? We've been driven to this abhorrent softness over the course of generations, because this is what happens every cycle, in every land, with every people. Because we're flawed, and fearful, and imperfect. But now we have Bitcoin, and Nostr... And I think these two things will give us enough space to break that cycle and realize our potential long term. If you have young kids - take a look at them. When we are all gone and they are spending time with their grandchildren, the world will be a blindingly bright place.

I'm so tired of doing the corporate thing. Just... ugh. First world problems for sure. I'll try to wake up feeling more gratitude and less exhaustion. GN all.