It’s official. Bitcoin is fully mainstream. The influencers who arrived in 2017 now speak as authorities, and the crowds treat them like gods. ETFs, institutions, banks, exchanges — even your strange, perpetually single uncle Joe — all orbit the same asset now. Bitcoin will always be the pioneer. It holds a permanent place in my life’s history. It helped me build things I couldn’t have built otherwise, and I’m grateful for that. But Bitcoin has changed, and it’s still changing. Is it still Bitcoin? Is it still Satoshi’s vision? Each of us has to decide that for ourselves — to stay grounded in our values and make mature, intentional choices about what we support and why. PURA VIDA

In 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis pulled off one of the strangest feats in sporting history. He threw a no-hitter while tripping on LSD. Ellis had mistakenly taken acid believing it was still Thursday, only to discover he was scheduled to pitch that evening. He rushed to the stadium and somehow led the Pirates to a 2–0 victory. His perception was completely distorted. “The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes. Sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn’t.” It wasn't pretty. Ellis walked eight batters and hit another. But nobody got a hit. So how did someone hallucinating manage such an elite physical performance? One possibility is a bizarre, high-risk version of flow. Elite athletes can struggle when the conscious mind interferes with movements that years of practice have made automatic. Perhaps Ellis’s mind was so occupied that his deeply ingrained pitching mechanics simply took over. Definitely not a training method. But it raises a fascinating question. How much better might we perform when the anxious, doubting mind gets out of the way?

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