*The current economic ecosystem is dominated by companies that depend on surveillance* View quoted note →

*The stronger a person's familal bonds are, the lesser he relies on the State. It's not surprising then for intellectuals and opinion moulders who love the state apparatus to hate the notion of family.* View quoted note →

*The dips are where conviction is built. The market transfers wealth from the impatient to the patient. From those who trade fear to those who stack sats with faith* View quoted note →

*Self custody is only half of the solution. The other is spending your Bitcoin in a p2p manner.* View quoted note →

*The magnitude and frequency of the numbers moving tell us about how much things are valued, but those numbers aren't the value - the value is the value, and the numbers only symbolize that. So, while you see physical things moving, the true movement is the value.* View quoted note →

*The point is the transformation taking place as you realign your values* View quoted note →

*If you live in illusion of any sort, you're enslaved to the falsehood, even if you're unaware of it* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin… doesn’t promise miracles, but it offers a present built on clear rules: 21 million, self-custody, sovereignty. It’s not about blind faith, but about understanding. And when you see it, you realize blind patience is just another form of obedience. …Bitcoin… proposes a different kind of patience: not passive or resigned, but informed and active. A patience based on immutable rules, not institutional promises.*

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*Do not accept the empty promises of “operators” and custodians! Learn to use the tools!* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin isn’t just software. It’s social infrastructure* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin adoption grows fastest when it feels like an opportunity - not a confrontation* View quoted note →

*I lead with community-first language (“keeping value local”) (“circular economy”) before saying Bitcoin* View quoted note →

*Don't let #bitcoin be marketed as an investment as it gives legitimacy to the fiat system.* View quoted note →

*Just because NASA was established by a satanic cult, doesn't mean the earth is flat* View quoted note →

*[Nostr] is, in effect, an attempt to decentralize the [attention] loops of civilization, making them less fragile, less hijacked, and more open to emergent wisdom.* View quoted note →

*It’s useful to keep in mind that there is never a real lack of anything. All of it exists, somewhere, sometime.* View quoted note →

*The abolition of fiat arms will not come from disarmament treaties, but from a competitive race toward incorruptible settlement. Once Bitcoin anchors global trade, central banks lose their discretionary weapon. Nations, for the first time in modern history, would be unable to mortgage the future to finance coercion. That is what it means to "lay down arms" in the age of Bitcoin.* View quoted note →

*The shift is not gradual coordination, but a cascading equilibrium: when one major player moves, all must follow to stay competitive.* View quoted note →

*Information cascade: Proof-of-reserves by major states reframe solvency; BTC becomes the benchmark of credibility.* View quoted note →