A work in progress. Didn’t spend much time on it.

The only thing Warren is protecting here is the government’s monopoly on monetary debasement and her ability to control what you do with your own wealth. View quoted note →

Grassroots adoption through individual education and self custody is more valuable to Bitcoin’s long term success than institutional accumulation IMO. Our real work is orange pilling the person to the right and left of us.

Parents need to stop outsourcing protection to markets or algorithms. Today’s fight isn’t just for safety, it’s for your children’s minds, souls and their willingness to stand outside a culture that profits from conformity. If you don’t shepherd your household, the culture will and it will do so for profit.

We don’t need to fix this system. We need exodus from it. A government limited to protecting life, liberty, and property, as our founders claimed to want doesn’t require massive parties, permanent bureaucracies, or trillion dollar budgets. It requires Christians who refuse to bow to political tribalism and who build faithful communities outside the state’s grasp. The reset isn’t Left or Right. It’s up, toward the Kingship of Christ and out from under Leviathan’s shadow.

The imperial system will defend itself. It will call Bitcoin dangerous, unpatriotic, a threat to stability. Of course it will. Every system resists the thing that makes it obsolete. But the beauty of voluntary systems is that they don’t require permission. You don’t need to convince the empire to let you leave. You just leave. One transaction at a time. One node at a time. One person at a time choosing something that doesn’t require bombing Syria to maintain its value. America can wake up. But waking up means recognizing that the empire isn’t something happening “over there” in foreign policy. It’s here. In the currency. In the complexity. In the trap we’ve built ourselves into. Bitcoin is the alarm clock. Whether we hit snooze or actually get up is still our choice. But history suggests the snooze button doesn’t work forever.

When @Derek Ross needs a jam, someone has to do it. Track 1 out now- “Stack Sats, Run Code”

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Build on centralized infrastructure, inherit centralized vulnerabilities. The question isn’t whether Nostr will protect speech better than alternatives. The question is whether any centralized platform can credibly claim to offer free speech at all. History suggests the answer is no.

Wild how much clearer your thinking gets when you’re not constantly plugged in. So catch me up. Anything I missed over the weekend? Also, Gm Purpleverse

Gm Nostr Fam.

Your current limitations are not permanent fixtures of reality. They are simply the boundaries of your present understanding and effort. What you cannot do today becomes possible tomorrow through sustained focus and deliberate practice. The question is not whether you have what it takes. The question is whether you’re willing to endure the temporary discomfort of becoming the person who has what it takes. Choose growth. Choose difficulty. Choose the path that makes you slightly uncomfortable, because that discomfort is your compass pointing toward expansion. Make today count. Gm

We’re all fighting the same quiet battle every day trying not to repeat the mistakes we’ve already made. It sounds simple, but it’s one of the hardest things we do. Growth isn’t about never messing up. It’s about catching yourself before you fall into the same trap twice. It’s recognizing that feeling, that moment where you know you’ve been here before, and choosing differently this time. The real work happens in those split seconds when awareness kicks in. When you feel yourself reaching for the old response, the familiar pattern, and you pause. That pause is everything. That’s where change lives. We like to think growth is linear, that one day we’ll have it all figured out. But the truth is messier. You get better at noticing. You catch yourself earlier. You make different mistakes instead of the same ones. That’s the progression. This internal war never fully ends. You don’t graduate from being human. But each time you choose awareness over autopilot, you’re building something. You’re becoming someone who can observe themselves clearly enough to change course. The struggle isn’t a flaw in the system. It is the system. It’s how we evolve.

gm You know that moment when you load up Nostr and the world's drama just doesn't appear? That instant sigh of relief when you remember exactly why you keep coming back to Nostr every day. No algorithmically surfaced catastrophes. No engineered anxiety. Just signal.

Life sometimes delivers its best opportunities disguised as ordinary moments.

Gm Nostr Moral courage demonstrates possibility. When one person acts despite fear, they transform abstract principles into concrete proof that resistance to pressure is achievable.