Bitcoin straddles the line between Exit and Voice. My vote of no confidence in the dollar is an expression of my free speech and a voluntary exit from a legacy system that no longer serves me. We Bitcoiners are taking collective action in search of a better alternative. That’s the epitome of self-sovereignty. We are walking the talk.

"To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown."

Elephants are red. Donkeys are blue. Doesn’t matter who’s in charge, it’s the money printer versus you.

“Wisdom is a question of grasping the coherence of things and time, of deciphering oneself, and of penetrating one’s own becoming and dying. The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order later to rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”

Witches call it spells. Christians call it prayer. Buddhists call it One Taste. Spiritualists call it manifestation. Scientists call it the placebo effect. Atheists call it happenstance. Jung calls it synchronicities. Philosophers call it Being. Physicists call it the Observer Effect. Poets call it inspiration. Artists call it the muse. Mystics call it gnosis. Hippies call it vibes. Hackers call it signal. Psychologists call it flow state. Economists call it animal spirits. Lovers call it chemistry. Gamblers call it luck. And children—before they forget—just call it magic. Everyone is arguing over its name. No one is denying its existence. It’s the force that bends probability around intention, that tunes the universe to attention when consciousness enters the room. You don’t summon it—you sync with it. That’s energy. Civilization builds temples around it. Ideologies are quick to label it God. False prophets will package it up and sell it for a profit. The bodhisattva will dedicate their life to it. But it doesn’t belong to any of them. It belongs to the silence between your thoughts, the stillness between your breaths, the spark at the center of your darkness. Once you feel it, you’ve seen the universe blink back and you stop looking for it. You start listening instead.

If you want to increase your surface area for luck, focus on producing proof of work.

“What makes this method of producing and recording information so special that it imparts monetary value to the record? First, the record is kept on ledgers maintained independently and voluntarily by tens of thousands of computers dispersed around the world. Second, the sanctity of the record is ensured by hundreds of thousands of specialized computers that expend tens of millions of dollars a day to keep the records secure from manipulation. Third, cryptographic techniques are used by which users control their ownership record on the distributed ledger and securely enter into transactions. These factors together attribute monetary value to these digital ownership records.” The Bitcoin ecosystem is a flywheel of checks-and-balances where not only is the medium perfectly the message but the map is the territory. When the ledger and the asset are the same, you got a perfect ‘digital•commodity’ — an objective database backed by the strongest computer network in the world. AKA Perfect information anchored by energy.

“No one knows why magic mushrooms evolved to produce psilocybin, a powerful psychedelic molecule. But this trait was apparently so beneficial for fungi that it independently evolved in two distantly related types of mushrooms.” 🍄 Psilocybe (magic mushrooms) thrive on decaying material such as decomposing organic matter or cow dung. 💩 🍄‍🟫 Inocybe (fiber caps) are symbiotic organisms that form intimate, mutually beneficial relationships with trees. 🌳 https://archive.ph/bdHG1

The Federal Reserve is the Shirky Principal. Thanks, Pal.

The No Kings protest actually started on January 3, 2009, when the Genesis Block was mined. With the separation of Money and State, the world has no kings and the power belongs to the people. Rules without rulers is our generations’ protest, our revolution, our hope.

“If we practice mindfulness, we will know how to look deeply into the nature of war, and, with our insight, wake people up so that together we can avoid repeating the same horrors again and again… The war is in us, but is also in everyone… Everything is ready to explode, and we are all co-responsible.”

The Bitcoin mining ecosystem creates an open bounty for all unpriced global energy. As the Joule Paradox states: energy sets the value for Bitcoin and Bitcoin sets the value of energy. Therefore, Bitcoin sets the marginal price floor for this energy. It's the ultimate energy sink—if no one else buys, Bitcoin miners do. They serve as a buyer of last resort for surplus energy. This now incentivizes economic actors around the world to produce energy more efficiently. In macro terms, Bitcoin behaves like a mathematical constant—like π or the golden ratio—for global price signals. A self-regulating thermodynamic monetary standard for the energy grid. A macroeconomic thermostat or feedback loop for pure price discovery and energy distribution. This is all possible only because Bitcoin is the first technology that directly transforms energy into a unit of account. Because SHA-256 proof-of-work crystallizes expended energy into incorruptible, immutable information. The blockchain economy coordinates all human activity to self-organize around the one thing that can’t be faked, the currency of the universe itself: energy. So practically, pragmatically, logistically, and economically, Bitcoin doesn't waste energy—it discovers it.

At the end of the day, corporatists and oligarchs will meet at the rock bottom of the horseshoe.

Freudian slip of the decade or the century?

The endgame for the military industrial complex of the United States of America is Ferguson’s Law.

Spotted on r/inflation. Nature is healing.

Fiat is an ouroboros eating its own debt. #brokenmoney

The Cantillon Effect is a snake that eventually eats its own tail, resulting in a Triffin death H/t @Lyn Alden @Luke Gromen

Bitcoin is the right of the people to peacefully assemble and to petition the government for the redress of grievances, and the free exercise thereof. To wit: we are exercising our freedom of speech to assemble a public ledger that redresses the universal grievance of time theft and silent taxation by inflation.

"Threats, violence, censorship — all are the weapons of those who fear open debate and free exchange. When argument fails, the club appears." We only have two choices: war or words.