GM. Today is my last day of being 39. Others at this age: "Oh, no! Tomorrow I'll be 'old'!" Me: "So *this* is how long the Tribes of Israel wandered in the wilderness..." Tomorrow I'll be 40. Bring it on.

PSA:

Flat Earth is nothing more than FUD about reality. GM.

Walking is now my 1-year-old's preferred mode of transportation. He is officially a toddler. That makes him a toddler hodler (which rhyme, to me).

Meanwhile, on the defunct bird app: His account 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 have been hacked! 🤯 He just said something positive about Bitcoin, yet Bitcoin is pumping? Anyone checked the temperature in Hell, lately? 😅

At the end of each week, my wife talks with our kids about what they learned & accomplished that week so she can help them set new goals and hold them accountable for their goals from the past week. She's doing that right now. She calls this "Proof of Work Day". What a woman. 😍

My @npub1srsa...whlh finally arrived earlier today! It's now hashing at about 10TH/s, and cleaning the air around it! 🤩 I tested it in my family room first, where the air quality was great, but now it's warming up my garage, where the air quality is, well... ...we call it 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳.

My youngest son started pulling books off our bookshelf earlier this evening. I think he's trying to tell me what he's interested in learning about.

My second son, Adam, is about to celebrate his 16th birthday, and this is the invitation he created. No, you're sadly not invited to his birthday party, but it's so good, I had to share it here. 😂 It's best read in a "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" type of voice (e.g., "And the number to which thou shalt count shall be three").

$21 stamped and ready to go back into circulation! Thanks, @UNCLE ROCKSTAR! #BitcoinCircularEconomiesSummit #ElZonte

GN, from #ElZonte!

On my way from Chattanooga to Dallas, and then from Dallas to El Salvador! 🤩 GM

I'm SO excited for the Bitcoin Beach Circular Economy Summit next week in #ElZonte, right before the Plan ₿ Forum in #SanSalvador! I'll be speaking there about @Satlantis: Social Events , and how we can use it to supercharge all our efforts in building, maintaining, and improving Bitcoin circular economies. If you're going to be there, then let's meet up! 🧡

GM! So happy to wake up to a world where a US president keeps his promises, and where Ross Ulbricht is finally free! 😌

"When they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, 'How can we, #few as we are, fight against so great and so strong a multitude? And we are faint, for we have eaten nothing today.' "Judas replied, 'It is easy for many to ₿e hemmed in ₿y #few, for in the sight of heaven there is no difference ₿etween saving ₿y many or ₿y #few. "'It is not on the size of the army that victory in ₿attle depends, but strength comes from heaven. "'They come against us in great insolence and lawlessness to destroy us and our wives and our children and to despoil us, "'₿ut we fight for our lives and our laws. "'[God] Himself will crush them ₿efore us; as for you, do not ₿e afraid of them.'" - 1 Maccabees 3:17-22 Happy #Hanukkah, fellow Maccabees! 🕎

🇨🇦 The Vancouver city council voted in favor of the city further studying how to incorporate Bitcoin! 🙌 It's not on par with making Bitcoin legal tender, but it's leaving the door open for more opportunities and growth. Well done, Vancouver! 👏

𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗗 $𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬!!!!! @yellow IS FINALLY FREE!!!!! $1 = 1000 SATS!!!!! ₿1 = 0.1 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!! ONWARD AND UPWARD! 🚀

We played a 3-hour game of Cities and Knights of Catan earlier this evening. Settlers are like pilgrims, so it's a bit of a Thanksgiving tradition for us to play it as a family. I lost, in absolute last place, but my 12-year-old son won, and we all had a great time, so I'd say it was a complete success. GN

Today is the anniversary of the JFK assassination by CIA operatives. Seems like as good a day as any for #Bitcoin to reach #100K.

I was reading The @Bushido of Bitcoin earlier this morning, and this part stood out to me and hit 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥. 😖 I needed it, though. And every Bitcoiner needs to read this (as well as the rest of the book). Oh, & GM. ~ "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘹𝘦𝘯." - Heraclitus In our pursuit of excellence, we must reclaim the word elite. Traditionally speaking, the elite were those who worked to improve their society. They were the leaders of men, leaders of industry and patrons of the art and beauty that fills the old towns strewn throughout Europe. Today’s elites are not elite – but parasites who seek to undermine society. They spend their time leaching from the producers, bloating the government with a bureaucratic managerial class, revising history and filling the minds of the young with toxic ideology. Their goal is to weaken our culture with degeneracy and ugliness. To sully our history, and leave the world ugly, unsafe and uninhabitable while they retire to their opulent mansions behind private security. As a result, the word elite is today erroneously conflated with parasite. This has to change. We must rediscover its root, and take it back. It comes from Latin 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘴, which means “choice” or “selected,” itself from 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘦, “to choose” or “to select.” The PIE root of the word “elite” is 𝘭𝘦𝘨, which means “to collect” or “to gather.” To be elite is to be the ‘selected’. The choicest or the selected means ‘the best’ and thus to be elite is to be the best in your field, to be the cream of the crop, to be distinguished and outstanding. 𝘐𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵, 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩. Most people suffer from anti-elite syndrome. And while I can sympathize, their misunderstanding of the true meaning of the word causes them to point their vitriol in the wrong direction. In fact, many are so brainwashed by narratives of the average man, that they’ve come to hate anybody who excels. This disease of average is prevalent even in the Bitcoin space. You hear it when people say stupid things like “we are all Satoshi”, or celebrate being a “pleb”. This also has to change. We are 𝙣𝙤𝙩 all Satoshi. Satoshi did something far greater than any of us probably ever will, and to lay claim to that is both arrogant and ignorant. Yes – I understand the reference to the whole Guy Fawkes thing – which is cute – but it’s extremely inaccurate and disingenuous. Aspire to be “like” Satoshi in grandeur and virtue, but do not claim you are him. Furthermore, the pleb thing is not just cringe, it’s hands down false, or will be soon enough. Just being in Bitcoin makes you part of tomorrow’s economic “elite”. Barring any mistake, you will wield significantly more financial and social power than someone who comes into Bitcoin a decade from now. What will you do with that power? Of course, that is the focus of this book. It stands to reason that you must at some point come to terms with the fact that you are no longer a “pleb” but part of a small group of people who are 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵, economically “elite.” You should recognise this and begin to develop the attributes of a more holistic individual, working toward excellence in other areas of your life. You cannot hide forever behind the pleb moniker as an excuse for sloth or poor behavior. Humility is important of course: “stay humble”, but strive also to upgrade your behavior, enhance your vocabulary, deepen your knowledge, and become more cultured. With great power comes great responsibility. You don’t want to be some rich turd in a Lambo, or the eternal Twitter troll. There’s much more to life than that. To operate on a higher energetic plane, we need a grander perspective. We must climb the mountain. We’ve been tricked into believing that “average” is ok, because it represents the little guy. But the truth is that there is nothing aspirational about being average. Average doesn’t require courage, passion, drive, responsibility or self control. Average is a low energy state, and a small story designed to make you give up on your dreams – to trade all you could possibly be for what you’re told you should be. Pursuing excellence is one of the highest callings in life, as is the practice and cultivation of the virtues presented in this book. The world needs strong leaders – not trolls, plebs or parasites – there’s plenty of that around. As a Bitcoiner, this duty rests with you. "𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘯 & 𝘮𝘢𝘯, 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 & 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 – 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 – 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘦." - Friedrich Nietzsche, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴