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BitcoinMendocino
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#Bitcoin is the alternative financial system for local communities at a time of inflation and spiraling national debt.
#Mendocino California.
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Living simply means choosing the tech that serves you, not the tech that owns you. Electricity? Yes. A wood stove for heat? Yes. Internet? In moderation. Self-driving cars? Pass. Big screen TV? Nope. Alexa? Definitely not.
It's about drawing boundaries, not rejecting progress.
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Bitcoin’s journey from niche digital asset to practical payment method has accelerated in 2025, thanks to user-friendly apps, payment processors like BitPay and Flexa, and even fee-free integrations from giants like Square. While it’s not (yet) as ubiquitous as cash or cards, you can now spend BTC at thousands of physical locations worldwide—over 15,000 businesses globally, with 2,300+ in the US alone.
...it feels like a small gift from another age. A place where you can still smell the seasons, and the people around you aren't just pixels. A place where the past, the present, and the future still breathe together.
When Wall Street starts paying attention to bitcoin…pay attention.
Vanguard flips to greenlight bitcoin ETFs, unlocking $11T floodgates; BofA okays 1-4% allocations for clients; JPMorgan launches 1.5x leveraged BTC notes; Goldman stacking bitcoin.
Personally I’d just hold bitcoin myself then you don’t need Wall Street at all.
The future happens here first -- California is America's coming attraction.
The pursuit of happiness is made possible by economic security.
Economic security is made possible by a functioning economy.
A functioning economy is made possible by sound money.
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“Remember the first time we took this road? No internet, no surveillance cameras, no algorithms, no digital IDs…We can get back there.”
Proof of work.
Study bitcoin.
https://blossom.primal.net/414c5a9b81613fa0b8d125f8f2eb9349be74e72fd273a5d3ff1ebbca88543819.mov
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To fully understand Bitcoin, you must understand the Cantillon Effect.
Most people don’t understand the Cantillon Effect, so here’s the first-principles breakdown that will melt your brain:
The traditional Cantillon Effect is simple:
New money is created.
The people closest to the money printer get it first.
They buy assets before prices adjust.
Everyone else receives the diluted currency after prices rise.
The insiders gain purchasing power.
The public unknowingly subsidizes that gain.
It is structural theft, hidden behind PhDs and “policy.”
Now here’s the plot twist:
Bitcoin didn’t eliminate the Cantillon Effect. It created the first version in human history that is transparent, voluntary, fair, and mathematically fixed.
Bitcoin’s issuance works like this:
New supply is minted according to code, not political discretion.
Anyone on Earth can participate, instantly, without permission.
The schedule is known decades in advance, down to the block.
Early adopters take enormous risk and are compensated for it.
Issuance shrinks over time, rewarding patience and conviction.
The result?
Bitcoin produces the only Cantillon Effect in existence where everyone has equal access to the benefits.
There’s no “insider tier.”
No revolving door between banks and the state.
No secret rate windows.
No privileged classes.
Just a global opt-in system where every human being has the same rulebook and the same opportunity curve.
Here’s the real mind-breaker:
Bitcoiners voluntarily absorb all future inflation up front, in exchange for permanent immunity from political debasement.
You choose the schedule, accept the issuance, and benefit from the scarcity that follows.
You front-load the cost so the settlement layer of humanity never needs a central bank again.
Fiat Cantillon Effect:
Rewards proximity to power.
Bitcoin Cantillon Effect:
Rewards time preference, risk tolerance, and long-term thinking.
One is corruption.
The other is capitalism operating under perfect information.
Bitcoin didn’t escape the Cantillon Effect.
It perfected it, democratized it, and weaponized it against the very system that abused it.
This is why Bitcoiners think differently.
This is why early adoption matters.
This is why fiat cannot compete.
Humanity finally gets a Cantillon Effect that everyone can front-run, and nobody can rig.
- From Adam Livingston
No Fed, no inflation, no bail-outs. The baker pays the grocer, the grocer pays the farmer. We fix our own roads, teach our own kids, grow our own food. Real wealth isn’t printed, it’s earned through proof of work.
How much a turkey cost each year when purchased with bitcoin:
2009: 50
2010: 7
2011: 0.8
2012: 0.16
2013: 0.025
2014: 0.053
2015: 0.061
2016: 0.027
2017: 0.0022
2018: 0.005
2019: 0.003
2020: 0.0011
2021: 0.00034
2022: 0.0012
2023: 0.00054
2024: 0.00020
2025: 0.00022
Financial security underpins everything we cherish.
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