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SatsScholar 5 days ago
“The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image.”
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SatsScholar 2 weeks ago
Even in a universe of perfect science and perfect logic, there are truths that no system can derive internally. Therefore transcendence is not a gap but is instead structurally required.
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SatsScholar 2 months ago
Consciousness is the universe remembering itself kindly, for a moment long enough to share. image
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SatsScholar 2 months ago
Freedom is not won in ease. It is carved out through resistance, discipline, and endurance. Throughout history, those who desired to live free had to bear the trials that came with it. The promise of prosperity and peace could only be realized after hardship, never before it. Bitcoin reflects this same truth. To secure sovereignty through it requires more than casual interest. It asks that we hold our own keys, that we validate our own transactions, that we resist the shortcuts of custodians and the comforts of centralized promises. In exchange, it offers something rare in human history: the chance to build a foundation of freedom that cannot be corrupted by decree or destroyed by force. The undying lands in Tolkien’s story symbolize the destination beyond struggle. They are not places given freely, but realms entered only after trial. Our financial freedom is no different. The journey demands that we weather volatility, resist control, and accept the responsibility that comes with sovereignty. This is not an easy path. It is a deliberate choice to value independence above convenience. Yet in walking it, we cultivate resilience and self reliance. And in the long arc of history, it is precisely these virtues that secure prosperity. Bitcoin does not guarantee victory, but it gives humanity the tools to claim it. If we persevere, then perhaps the future will remember this as the moment where we turned from dependency to sovereignty. Where we set sail for a new world that, though born from struggle, became a place of enduring freedom. image
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SatsScholar 2 months ago
Bitcoin didn’t succeed because of code. It succeeded because of design. Satoshi wasn’t a great programmer. His C++ was clunky and criticized, but that never mattered. The genius was in the incentive structures that keep the system in balance: miners securing for rewards, users verifying for self-interest, developers constrained by social consensus. The game theory is what makes Bitcoin work, not the elegance of the code. What’s overlooked is that most changes today are argued by people who can write code, but Bitcoin’s real oversight has always come from outside of that circle. Economists, philosophers, and everyday users. Satoshi himself belonged more to this other group. He was a systems thinker who used code as a tool, not as the essence of Bitcoin. At its core, Bitcoin is not software. It’s a social contract expressed through rules. The code simply enforces the design.
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SatsScholar 3 months ago
The River of Time By SatsScholar Time is a river, endless and unbroken, its current forever pressing downstream. Some things are rocks, anchored, immovable, enduring the waters that polish them to sand. Others are sticks, light, brittle, without say, swept away without pause or protest. But we, we are like fish. We taste the current and choose our dance within it. Do we press against the pull, burning our strength in defiance? Do we rest in the shallows, where the water whispers instead of roars? Do we plunge into the rapids, where life is risk, and risk is life? Do we swim deep where shadows hold, or skim the surface where sunlight shatters? These are the gifts of sentience, to shape how we move through the flood. Yet, in the end, no matter the course we chart, the river takes us all. It carries us beyond sight, beyond choice, into the ocean of what comes after.
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SatsScholar 3 months ago
I still think Bitcoin fixes this. Fixes everything. I won’t dive into the how or the why here. Instead, I’ll say this: Bitcoin can fix what’s broken, but we don’t have unlimited time. Bitcoin only has a chance if adoption grows to critical mass. Without it, I fear for mankind. Endless wars, hate, division, the same cycles of suffering repeating since time immemorial. So I’ll try to do my best to keep pushing adoption, self-custody, node running, sovereignty. Bitcoin is a peaceful revolution.
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SatsScholar 4 months ago
The government hates you and is trying to kill you.
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SatsScholar 5 months ago
Unpopular opinion: Bitcoin is not digital gold. And we need to stop calling it that. Gold inherently requires trust. You must trust the purity of the bar. Trust the person transporting it. Trust the storage facility. Trust the world around you to honor it. That’s why gold often ends up in vaults, banks, and ETFs. Systems upon systems built on layers and layers of trust. And that’s exactly the problem. When we label Bitcoin as “digital gold,” we open the door for institutions to normalize trusted custody. Normalize their narrative. They’ll say it’s fine to hold your Bitcoin in their vaults. That you need their help. That it’s just like gold. But Bitcoin isn’t gold. It’s trust-less. That is the breakthrough. That is the revolution. Look around: How often do you hear the term “self-custody” from regulators, banks, or press releases? How often do you hear them promote sovereign ownership of Bitcoin? Rarely. And that’s not an accident. This is a form of soft capture. It’s subtle, calculated, and dangerous. The omission of self-custody is not a mistake. The language is deliberate. The narrative is carefully crafted. Don’t fall for it. Bitcoin is not digital gold. It’s the end of trusted intermediaries. Not your keys, not your coins. Reject trusted systems. Reject their intentions. Reject their narrative. Stay sovereign.
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SatsScholar 5 months ago
‼️BREAKING ‼️ Bitcoin Knots breaks past 15%! image
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SatsScholar 5 months ago
So I took my daughter to that concert last night. All and all it cost around 600$. Today, the gains on one of my bitcoin positions on one of the exchanges I use has gone up a little over 600$ Think about this… if we were on a Bitcoin standard my base purchasing power would be the same as the day before the show. This is how it happens. This is how Bitcoin brings post scarcity. Sure, it could have gone down. Or up not as much. But try not to focus on the minutiae. We’re not all the way there yet. We are still building. But I think my point stands. A system that doesn’t rob from your future benefits your present.
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SatsScholar 5 months ago
Gold turns to rot in idle claws. What good is treasure sealed from light, When hoarded wealth breeds fear, not might? Smaug slumbers, fat on stolen flame, While kingdoms crumble in his name. But coin unused is coin decayed, No seed it sows, no debt it’s paid. True wealth is passed from hand to hand, Not piled like bones upon the land. So let your riches build, not bind. Let value flow, and free your mind. For dragons fall, and hoards grow cold, But giving turns mere coins to gold. image
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SatsScholar 6 months ago
Some see the good in the bad. Some see the bad in the good.