Shared this video on Facebook only to have the post not even show up on my timeline when I went to look at it. Being censored for posting this felt so surreal. Here's the clip:

@primal the app isn't showing a few of my posts that show up on the Web browser version of primal.

For the first time I read the Apology of Socrates this last week, in the middle of it the following statement stood out to me: "What do they say? Something of this sort: That Socrates is a doer of evil, and corruptor of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state" The gods of the state. What is a "god of the state" exactly. Are not the gods worthy of being placed on circulating coinage? They were in ancient Rome, the coins of the Republic featured the faces of the Pantheon of Rome. When the Republic fell to Julius Caesar, he was the first to have his face on his coin while he was still alive. That evokes power. But the emperor's of Rome did not want it to seem like the city was conquered, but liberated. They wanted the people to believe "Rome" survived a troublesome time, just under new leadership. They kept making coins, but with their faces on them instead of the Pantheon. Functionally declaring themselves gods. This is where we get the term "God-Emperor", because the emperor's declared themselves living gods. The empire over time developed into a religious theocracy under the Catholic religion, having originally started out as a Republic it transitioned into a God-Emperor theocracy it became a religious dictatorship where the emperor was the head of the Church. Instead of a god, he was closest to God. This still evokes power. Eventually though, the collapse of the government was also the collapse of the coinage as everytime the government couldn't pay it's bills it dipped into the savings of it's people by reducing the silver content/value of the coins as they were issued. The coinage of the United States started out very much the same, honoring only the Pantheon of America. Namely Lady Liberty, who ruled along side Lady Justice in the courts of law. The only things that mattered to Americans, being "Liberty and Justice for all". Opposite Lady Liberty on our coins was the majestic eagle in the seal of our country and our original non-theocratic motto "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of many, One) proudly displayed on the coin. To show we were united in Liberty, even though we were all independent states. But over time the dominant form of the dollar changed, and instead of Lady Liberty being on the front as was always the case on our Constitutional Silver and Gold Dollars, our paper dollars instead featured the gods of the state. Namely the God-Emperor presidents, and the paper dollars became so popular they eventually became dominant and the US Mint switched to dead presidents on it's coinage as well. After replacing the Liberty herself with dead men, it replaced the guardian of Liberty - Gold/Silver - with copper and paper. Our coinage is how we do business, a dead coinage is a dead government. As the dollar is slowly replaced by digital versions of it, such as "Bitcoin-backed dollars" (apps paying dollar denominated bills with pure Satoshis over the lightning network), the government slowly becomes the slowest issuer of new exchangeable value to the market and they start to lose influence and power as they cannot control the Bitcoin network. We are already on the path to freeing the world from the fiat yoke, it's a mathematical certainty that (with the halving and a stable or rising hashrate) Bitcoin grows in value exponentially over the next hundred years. Within a decade it will likely eclipse or have already eclipsed all the combined value of every other currency on earth. It wins because it makes the other issuers of value antiques, it makes them irrelevant and ignored, and everyone is perceived to suddenly be exposed to higher quality forms of money (Bitcoin and free market precious metal moneys) and their honest depiction of costs changing over time. Observe the world with an attitude of wonder and pity, as the transition slowly happens over the next few years there will likely be bumpy patches where it will be very rough, but whatever happens we're already off the fiat death spiral train and growing more stable all the time. It's going to be interesting watching it all happen with y'all #nostr. I look forward to it. 🫡

I really enjoy this channel. This video is very relatable to me. I need to be as kind to myself as I am to others.

Really enjoyed this. Well done.

My thoughts on the recent price actions between precious metals and Bitcoin: 1: Global stage. • Recently the US has had an unstable government, since the government supports the dollar the result is trust in the dollar is down on the global stage and central banks are already seen to be liquidating their US treasuries more than normal. • With governments and central banks around the world reducing dollar holdings, what do they trust most as the alternative? Precious metals. China in particular appears to be stockpiling gold and went from 3000 kg to 40000 kg in only 18 months. If other nations, groups, and wealthy individuals are doing the same that would explain gold growing nearly 3x in the last 2 years. If this continues it may rise further. • Like it or not Bitcoin is still very much too small for nation states to truly jump into in the same way, it would need to 10x - 20x before that point is reached where it could support that much liquidity. Trust isn't yet there, but with every higher bottom that trust is building. ----- 2: Pleb stage. • Average people are really hurting from the last 5 years of inflation, plus they are scared of Bitcoin's historic crashes, so there's been less participation this cycle from this group than previously. • The unpopularity of the current president after he declared himself the "Bitcoin president" and then proceeding to become in reality the Shitcoin president among other things, also the mention of Bitcoin in the Epstein files, Bitcoin is being hammered in the views of people who don't understand what makes Bitcoin unique and not a part of all the scammer's and elite's bullshit. It's not part of the problem, it's the solution, but people don't know that. ----- 3: Bitcoin is money. • AI is causing lots of job losses. • Government instability and shutdowns are causing government workers to either lose their jobs entirely or go long periods without pay. • Government tariffs are causing significant strain on the overall economy. Leading to struggling economic activity across the board. Less economic activity = less savings buildup. • Bitcoin is the easiest asset you can both self custody and liquidate quickly and at a low cost of ~1%~, compare that to precious metals which when self custodied are much harder to liquidate and often have a 5 - 10% fee for doing so. • All things considered anyone holding Bitcoin as their savings that ends up affected by these things, easily accesses their savings and sells some of their holdings as needed. Bitcoin's advantage as money, leads to it appearing to lose as a long term store of value as its price falls in the short term. ------------ Conclusion: As the world struggles Bitcoin gets used as emergency access money with savings easily liquidated, and Gold and Silver get jumped into at the nation state level to be used as a store of value. The result is they travel in opposite directions in the short term. If Bitcoin were difficult to liquidate then it wouldn't have it's fast short term crashes, but it also wouldn't have it's fast increases when times favor such movements. Nobody knows what the future holds, and as the economy suffers Bitcoin will spread from the wallets of those who need it now to those who can afford to stack now. Remember the heartbeat of Bitcoin is it's hashrate finding blocks, while the price has cut in half the difficulty only reduced roughly 25% from a high of 155.9 T in October/November to 125.9 T a week ago, and this last adjustment saw a massive jump back up to 144.4 T. IMO we're massively oversold, and we're forming a solid bottom around the 2021 ATH level. But things remain uncertain on the global stage as well as in the halls of government, and AI fears continue as well. Those who can afford to stack in these times will be very happy in the future when things turn around. But nobody knows if that's right around the corner or months or even years away. Do your best to disattach from short term market movements and live in the moment, enjoy the rollercoaster that is Bitcoin and life itself. 🤟

Yesterday I bought something for $10 at Walmart. Paid exact change with only copper coins, the cashier didn't have any idea what to do with them and called over a co-worker. He said: "Where do I put these? I've never been paid with medieval coins before." That comment was so funny to me, after paying I couldn't stop chuckling to myself. But it is also striking that we really are losing our coinage, so much has changed in less than a lifetime on pure fiat. IMO the Dollar is already dead, it's a zombie monetary system that people don't realize is worthless now. In a way though the dollar network played themselves by becoming primarily digital, much easier to sidestep the whole thing when people are used to just using their devices and not physical currencies.

I may seem really smart, but I'm just a math loving mildly autistic person living with childhood CPTSD. Growing up my family was always hyper afraid of government, you could argue they were justified in that fear but you could also argue that they focused on it too much and let it rule their lives. Not being put in school was good in some ways, it helped me develop my open minded nature which led me to learn about Bitcoin much earlier than the majority of people. But what my parents labeled "homeschooling" was actually child neglect. They were violent with each other, physically and verbally abusive, paranoid of the end of the world and government conspiracies. They were hoarders, who allowed a massive infestation of roaches to continue living in our home for my entire childhood until I took matters into my own hands as a young adult. They even almost let me die from dental infections that would swell up my entire jaw, because they were too lazy to take me to the dentist and they were afraid of the drugs the dentist used (like the super deadly... ibuprofen) would kill me. 🙄 I still like the idea of homeschooling when done right, but I also like the idea of a trusted environment where division of labor gives children a better education than I could alone (provided the government is not involved). I'll probably find a good private school or tutors which will assist me in my educating my own children. But only time will tell. Despite the early exposure into Bitcoin, I was not in command of much money and I didn't really know what I was doing. So even if I wish I had made different choices and wish I had more Bitcoin, the choices I did make allow me a more comfortable existence than many and that is it's own wealth. These days I study Bitcoin still, I also study the history of the US dollar and the Roman system of money and am in the early stages of writing a few books, but my focus is shifting to working on healing myself from my trauma and supporting my partner in her journey to heal hers as well. The truth is we're all waiting for/working towards a world of abundance when if you choose to see it the world is already in abundance. When viewed from a lens of the original US gold standard anything that costs less than a 1/2 Goldback (~$5~) is under $0.02. on the $20.67/oz of gold US monetary system. I picked up a package of sliced ready to eat cheese at Aldi's for $1.48 the other day, that's less than a gold standard penny. I am not posting as much lately, my analysis of a long term bottom in Bitcoin was evidently incorrect given the last 4 months of significant downward price action. So I'm not focusing on Bitcoin right now, I don't know what it's going to do other than eventually go up again. Instead I'm working on letting go of fear, accepting that there's little chance those who wish to control me affect my personal life directly, little chance a pleb like me is on anybody's radar. Even if they did try to affect me, I'm very insulated from indirect methods of attack these days. I could honestly live without a bank account, just order precious metals online and sell them for cash if I need it. I choose not to participate in the broken system anymore, the only fix for the world at large is Bitcoin allowing us to focus on the world immediately around us and help our family, friends, and communities in their own journeys of growth. Stack Bitcoin, and focus on your own sense of inner peace, the rest will follow. Love you all. ❤️

The most common action following Bitcoin falling to unexpectedly low prices, is it climbing to unexpectedly high ones. The reverse is also true though, and the prices simply repeats.

The struggle is real.

When you love someone deeply, but the right thing to do is end the relationship. ❤️‍🩹

It is okay to have grown out of a relationship. It hurts, but it's a part of living a healthy life.

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