Bitcoin helps human rights globally.

Change - like when the telegraph and railroads showed up, when electricity lit up cities. Everyone is anxious. Everyone is living online in their own version of reality. Meanwhile I just stick to what I know and hope our community doesn’t become an Instagram backdrop.

Saying that bitcoin is ‘crypto’ is like saying a Saturn V rocket is a mode of transportation.

Most people still think the financial system is broken. It’s not. It works exactly as designed: - Debase your money. - Trap you in debt. - Tax your time. - Keep you distracted… …Bitcoin isn’t an investment. It’s an exit.

“I’m glad we got rid of our Amazon Alexa.”

Strongly believe our parents are the last humans who will ever retire. They know it. You know it. And it's because the math is fundamentally broken. Life expectancy up. Birth rates down. Pension funds gambling on 8% returns while bonds pay 2%. Every government running the same Ponzi hoping they're not in charge when the music stops. But also, and here's where it gets darker, we don't want retirement anymore. IMO when people say "I want to retire early" I think what they really mean is that they want optionality. The "dream" isn't to stop working at 65 it's to stop taking orders at 35. So when Bitcoiners say "Bitcoin is my retirement plan" I don't think they really mean a literal retirement plan because retirement isn't a thing anymore. It's an escape velocity plan. You don't need enough to never work. You need enough to never need to work. The 401k is a museum piece. The pension is a fairy tale. We're all going to work until we die OR build something that works while we sleep. - Fernando Nikolic

Our society has been bled dry in part by a financial system that is designed to steal wealth from the middle class while benefiting those with assets. This system creates wealth inequality. But today there is an exit from this system that’s available to anyone.

Another perfek Mendocino morning.

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July 27, 2024: BTC $67K Milk $3.98/gallon = 5,940 sats per gallon Oct 10, 2025: BTC $117K Milk $4.17/gallon 3,564 sats per gallon In less than 15 months: The Dollar price of milk went UP ~4.77% The bitcoin price of milk went DOWN ~40%

Pavel Durev Telegram Founder: I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU). Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy. A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away. We’ve been fed a lie. We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological. So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

Square payments processing now integrates bitcoin.

Heading back to the ranch.

Mendocino was originally built as a New England-style logging town in the mid-1800s by East Coast settlers who shipped prefabricated Victorian homes around Cape Horn to recreate their east coast architecture surounded by redwood forests—giving the coastal village its uniquely charming, saltbox-cottage aesthetic.

A sovereign debt crisis is when a government struggles to repay its loans, but can print its own currency-flooding the system with $s. When communities start using bitcoin, they keep value local and remove themselves from the planned inflation of government mandated currency.

What you’re really seeing is the first stage of a global unit-of-account fracture. •In nominal USD terms, everything looks like it’s booming: stocks up triple digits, homes up double digits, “wealth” everywhere. That’s the performance everyone sees. •In gold terms, the illusion cracks: stocks and homes flat-to-negative, real wealth stagnating. •In Bitcoin terms, the veil is gone: catastrophic real losses in every traditional asset. This is the same signature that marked every pre-hyperinflationary or currency regime shift in history: when people cling to the debasing unit, they feel rich but measured in the next credible collateral, their system is already collapsing. And the “risk asset” meme about Bitcoin? That’s just a coping frame. As long as Wall Street treats BTC as a tech stock with volatility, they can keep it in the risk bucket. But functionally it’s already behaving like a parallel reserve ledger: it’s the only denominator that makes the post-2020 global economy look like Argentina. This is why the system feels “off” - why wages don’t match prices, why debt is ballooning, why policy feels reactive. We’re in a regime where the unit of account is decaying faster than the public narrative can absorb. The Fed, the government, the media - all still speaking USD, all still benchmarking to a melting ice cube. This isn’t a normal market cycle. It’s the unit-of-account transition phase. And almost no one is positioned for it because they’re still measuring their “returns” in the wrong yardstick.

Once you understand that the global financial system operates on currency (and not money) controlled by a handful of powerful central bankers, a lot of inequality, social upheaval and political division begins to make sense.