Bankers are the Cantillonaire captains who'd rather sink with the ship than join us Bitcoiners in the life raft. It isn't a trade; it's the exit from an unfixable system.

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Regarding worldviews, there is no such thing as a "None." Neutrality is illusory. Either you shape your philosophy with intent, or the prevailing orthodoxies of the zeitgeist shape it for you. An open mind is only useful if it closes on truth.

$BTC Money Multiplier: - Mean = ~3x - Range = 1x to 8.5x $BTC Paperization (as a % of spot) - Mean = ~4% - Range = 3-6% $1 invested → >$1 of market cap ₿1 mined → ₿~0.368 of paper bets Self-custody your bitcoin to increase the money multiplier and decrease paperization.

Personal growth is a single-player game with two simple requirements: 1. Obsession with your protocol. 2. Outgrowing those who resist your sovereignty. Via negativa.

People despise organized religion but embrace organized politics. They reject divine commandments as flawed but elect amoral leaders. They call religion an opiate but ritualistically obsess over partisan conflict.

"What we are seeing is the collapse of cultural agnosticism. The middle ground - where nothing is true, where good and evil are just labels - is being burned away. People are realizing that metaphysical stakes are real, not metaphorical. That realization is terrifying but also stabilizing, because it reopens the possibility of order and coherence. Evil has overplayed its hand. By being too blatant, it has become the strongest proof for God in the modern era. It has forced the myth back into history. And once that door is open, it cannot be shut again." - SightBringer Cultural agnosticism manifested itself as hedonistic nihilism. This epiphany that morality is objective undermines the postmodernist progressive's entire worldview. Let's hope this collapse brings more of them to God than it does to Satan.

The irony is that this is actual, rather than perceived, dehumanization based on a caricature. And yet, their resentment clouds their judgment to such an extreme that they don't experience cognitive dissonance or recognize the dangerously unprincipled nature of their worldview. They condemn Kirk for “dehumanizing marginalized people,” yet their own statement openly dehumanizes him and his community by denying empathy and even condemning those who offer it. They claim to fight fascism, but their rhetoric mirrors fascist logic: Some people are beneath empathy, unworthy of mourning, and disposable. They accuse others of hypocrisy, but do not see their own cognitive dissonance because they are blinded by resentment. Tribal framing has overriden their conscience. They ration empathy to in-group members only; out-groups are stripped of rights to it. Their moral absolutism blocks reflection— they're convinced they're fighting evil, so hatred feels righteous. Their views are a narrative, not truth. Dehumanization + twisted moral justification for sociopathic selective empathy = violence becoming thinkable and even justifiable. This rhetorical pattern of rationalizing and celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination mirrors historical examples of scapegoating and persecution. The claims against Kirk are distorted interpretations weaponized against conservative and Christian worldviews. Christophobia has gradually become normalized over the last several decades. It is now rampant and intensifying. Cultural hostility, media stereotyping, and activist rhetoric on campuses across the country foment this hatred. Charlie Kirk's mission was to fight it. When they falsely frame verbal disagreement as harmful violence and an "existential threat by an oppressor," this is the result. “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.” Isaiah 5:20 Scripture warns us that the world will hate Christ and His followers (John 15:18–19). Sadly, as society drifts further from God, hostility toward Christians is expected to intensify. Nevertheless, to honor Charlie Kirk's legacy, we must remember 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 — The weapons we fight with aren't weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

When emotions run hot, nuance is marginalized. When nuance is marginalized, empathy cannot exist. When empathy does not exist, you enjoy the fruits of today's public discourse. Seek first to understand, then be understood. P.S. It's ironic that people who normally advocate for subjective morality tend to possess such a strong sense of social justice. Perhaps cognitive dissonance isn't an issue because they are, as Ayn Rand would submit, ethical egoists. The Universe: "I'm composed primarily of darkness with a few speckles of light mixed in. The darkness is expanding, it's increasingly difficult for the sources of light to genuinely impact one another, and I'm getting colder as a result." Humanity: "Same."

"Withholding empathy from someone who lacked it is not cruelty, but honesty." This reasoning is harmful and self-refuting. First, empathy cannot be conditional without undermining its very nature. If you extend compassion only to those who first extend it to you, then you merely value reciprocity, not empathy. True empathy has force precisely because it isn't earned. Second, minimizing sorrow for the death of another—even someone you disliked—inevitably spills over into minimizing the genuine grief of others who do feel loss. That turns selective empathy into indirect cruelty, regardless of intent. Third, rationalizing detachment as “healthy boundaries” is psychologically convenient but morally inconsistent. If lack of empathy in a public figure was harmful, then mirroring that sociopathy in response only perpetuates the cycle. If you have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything at all. If you wish to resist the coldness you condemn, then the consistent and rational course of action is to extend compassion universally, even to those who withheld it. That's how you, as Christ demonstrated, break the pattern and be the change you want to see in the world.

your savings in fiat = your brain on alcohol Fiat debases your wealth. Alcohol debases your brain, gut, hormones, mood, and motivation. Alcohol and fiat are the high time preference antitheses of low time preference human flourishing.

Change is vital for growth, but upheaval breeds dysfunction. The ☯️ Barbell Protocol - In the physical, career, emotional, social, digital, environmental, and spiritual dimensions of wellness, adopt block-by-block hormesis. - In asymmetric creative, financial, and intellectual domains, volatility is vitality. Major in order. Minor in chaos.

Apparently, all of my previous efforts to provide value on X have largely been in vain. This is why I use Nostr. No throttling, no suppression, and no automatically treating accounts as if they're bots until they meet some arbitrary and unknown usage requirements. X: "You've unlocked more." Nostr: "You were never locked." Google: "Don't be evil." Nostr: "Can't be evil."

FOREX Reserves: ~90% = bonds/securities ~10% = cash/deposits 🌐 Reserve Assets: USD = #1 Gold = #2 Foreign central bank gold holdings are now worth >90% of their total US assets. Gold MC = $24.4 trillion Digital Gold MC = $2.2 trillion Gradually, then suddenly: $BTC > $XAU

buying $11 of $BTC per month >>> buying a blue checkmark protocol > platform sovereignty > status

President Trump's 1st Term = Supreme Court supermajority 2nd Term = Fed Board of Governors supermajority (?) If we can't end the Fed, then removing Keynesians and appointing Bitcoiners should at least shift the Overton Window... Gradually, then suddenly.

We slide down the slippery slope of compromise and call it tolerance. We mistake disobedience for freedom. We substitute superstition for faith. We celebrate our lack of self-control and label it relaxation. We demonize prayer and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism. We embrace godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

The Average American on Fiat: - Lifetime Earnings¹: $1,500,000 - Lifetime Spending²: $3,300,000 - Lifetime Taxes¹: $525,000, or 35% of lifetime earnings - $ Purchasing Power Lost to US M2 Growth³: 95% over 45 working years (6.84% annually) Debt, taxes, and inflation place the average American in a precarious financial position. The only way for them to improve their standard of living is for their income and savings to outpace debasement. Let's assume they understand this and are one of the 62% of US adults who own stocks (generally via a retirement account). To reference the past statements of Lyn Alden and Michael Saylor, let's assume broad money supply growth is (was) the ideal hurdle rate. - Benchmark S&P 500 Average Nominal Annual Return: 10% - Average annual real return over 45 years = 3.16% The average American invests $5,000 per year.⁴ - $5,000/year for 45 years grows to $3.6M nominally. - Adjusted for M2, that’s just ~$183k in today’s purchasing power. Assuming contributions rise with M2 growth, the final real balance is still only ~$429k. Thus, even if the average American earns benchmark returns, they remain on a financial treadmill. What can they do to get off and get ahead? - 1-Year CAGR⁵: 99% - 5-Year CAGR⁵: 58% - 10-Year CAGR⁵: 86% - Projected 10-Year CAGR⁶: 20-30% Enter the new hurdle rate: ₿itcoin. REFERENCES ¹

Life of Tax: How Much Tax is Paid Over a Lifetime | Self.

How much could the average person spend on taxes over their lifetime? This study answers the question. See the lifetime tax findings here.

² https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-average-american-spends-$3.3-million-over-their-lifetime:-see-how-that-breaks-down ³

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Americans Believe They Will Need $1.26 Million to Retire Comfortably According to Northwestern Mutual 2025 Planning & Progress Study

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The notion that every person has a soulmate is largely a product of wishful thinking. This idea is refuted by millennia of human history, wherein sexual selection has favored female reproductive success over male reproductive success. More specifically, around 80-90% of females have reproduced compared to only 40% of males.² Today, a growing number of young men remain single, with more than 60% currently unattached. A significant minority may never experience a romantic relationship over their lifetime.¹ It’s a fact of life that, historically, more men than women have lived and died alone. Today, an ever-increasing cohort of men willingly accepts that fate. For those who decide it's better never to love at all than to love and lose, others should respect that choice—or recognize that some people may never have that choice in the first place. ¹ https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-young-men-are-single-most-young-women-are-not/?utm_source=perplexity ²

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