Adam O’Brien
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Inspiring the next generation to reclaim freedom
Enable independence '@bitcoinwell'
Love Jesus, save in bitcoin
I am a Christian bitcoiner who likes to play golf
Anybody else?
It’s a privilege to know these days are scarce
Thirteen year old you had it figured out already 🎯
@thepaulosophy on Nostr's slow build toward the global town square, and the three life goals that have not budged in two decades.
You're stuck in the Matrix. Here’s how you escape.
Something felt off, even when everything on paper looked right. That feeling doesn't fix itself with more success. For one man, it got fixed by leaving.
This is the story of his journey from chasing a predetermined life to building a new one. A graduation day bet with his grandmother’s gift, no other money. Meeting Bitcoiners in El Salvador. Building an actual working economy in a jungle town in Costa Rica, from scratch, with his own hands, and staying.
💥 @thepaulosophy
Your credentials mean nothing if dinner with you is awkward 🍽️
@thepaulosophy on why being someone people actually want around outlasts every skill AI is coming for.
Turns out God is not impressed by your seed phrase backup plan.
@BornTo_BeFree on what's left when multisig fails and the only recovery option is faith 🙏
A 500 year old Mayan prophecy somehow predicted what's happening at @BitcoinJungleCR in Costa Rica 🌴
@thepaulosophy on the eagle and the condor finally reuniting, and why Bitcoin might be both birds at once.
I just set up a travel router.
This is something I have never considered until recently.
> $150 device.
> Light as a feather.
> Wifi repeater or tether for internet
> All devices connected
> VPN built in
So smooth!
This guys did his research
John and Nadja from @BornTo_BeFree asked me what I think about the Nephilim.
"I believe the Nephilim are actual beings that roamed and roam the earth, and are a large part of why we have so much evil in the earth."
Look at the state of the world. That's not an accident.
Guys there are people that think if we pay the government more money the weather will get better
We are not the same.
"I gotta be hard to kill because I don't want my daughters to be widows."
John and Nadja from @BornTo_BeFree and I dive into what it takes to be "hard to kill" and how to live with that as the standard
6 figures in Canada
Get on our level USA
Are you using your primary nsec with Buzz or a secondary?
I can’t decide what the better move is @jack or others?
"Stack sats for your last name, not your first name."
That one sentence changes how you think about everything. If I've bought bitcoin for my grandkids, why would I buy a Lamborghini? Why do anything selfish?
You stop optimizing for yourself and start optimizing for the people who come after you. That's what sound money does to a society.
Do you know what’s better than being a bitcoiner? Being a dad!
Soon to be a dad of 5 😁
Bitcoin teaches you the system lied.
Christ shows you the harder truth.
You are not as good as you think you are. The biggest barrier between bitcoiners and Christ is sin.
Full episode with @jimmysong on the Adam O’Brien Show is out now:
There's a pattern in the bitcoin space: skeptical, first-principles thinkers keep turning to Christianity.
Full episode w/ @jimmysong out now.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
3:48 Begging his dad for a Commodore 16, then learning BASIC from a pregnant tutor
14:27 Writing two-hour emails in college made him a better thinker
23:53 2008 and Ron Paul's End the Fed turned a coder into a libertarian
26:43 The five-person email list that became his first Bitcoin community
33:38 Nobody predicting AI's future actually has a clue what it will become
40:11 The COVID Bible study that became Thank God for Bitcoin
48:56 Bitcoiners keep converting to Christianity through slow, methodical study
1:03:44 Judges over Kings, and what Israel lost by demanding a ruler
1:07:19 René Girard, mimetic rivalry, and why kings function as sacrificial scapegoats
1:13:08 The pattern of losing VP candidates as modern-day scapegoats
1:20:03 Coming to terms with sin is the real barrier for Bitcoiners meeting Christ
My kids don't care what bitcoin is doing. They just want me there. Best reminder I get to zoom out on a regular basis.
