MY BITCOIN JOURNEY: 2011: rejects working for whole life to afford a house in a shitty suburb. Quits job. 2013: hears about bitcoin, too busy travelling I'm Latin America to care. 2017: meets crypto people and rums a mile. Too poor to invest in anything but my writing. 2019: reads 4-hour work week, sovereign individual and more. Starts online business and live on the road. 2020-21: wonders why inflation is eatingy lunch. Back on the hamster wheel chasing more and more money. 2022: gets orange pilled by client, reads ALL the books, finally get off 0. 2023: publishes world's first bitcoin fiction anthology. 2024: attends first conferennce in Madeira. Pivots to writing for Bitcoin companies. Joins Club Orange and finds friends. 2025: works with over a dozen clients, edits bitcoin books, publishes another anthology. Starts meetups and bitcoin walk in my city. 2026: speaks at 3 conferences, editing more books, expands to freedom tech writing. Prediction for 2027: becomes the first pleb to solomine 10 blocks in a row with a Bitaxe Gamma 602. (Do I get a bonus point for never touching a shitcoin?)

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GM. This is me, on my way to find more memes instead of writing the 3 newsletters and 2 books I'm working on...

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Perfect job checklist: * Creativity is valued * Clear performance goals * We make freedom go up * Microsoft Teams is BANNED * Part of a (nice) human team * WFH with occasional offsites * Long-term project (3-years+) * No one 'just runs it through' AI * Get fired if you use the word 'stakeholder' That's it. Not too many demands. Still, in 2026, that makes me pretty much unemployable. Maybe it's why I've been my own boss for nearly 10 years. (I've only applied to 2 jobs in the last decade). I love the variety and freedom of writing for different clients. It means I can say 'no' (e.g. because they forced me to write 'stakeholder'). I'm not looking for the perfect job. Just thought it would be interesting to share. If you are a freelancer, drop your perfect job checklist below. What would it take for you to accept a job? #asknostr

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Kahlil Gibran wrote 'The Prophet' in under one day, but it took him 11 years to finish it. How? In a 1930s interview with a small Alabama newspaper, Gibran admitted that each of the 26 chapters took just 30 minutes to write. Less than one full day of writing in total. One by one, they flowed out as fully formed and beautifully expressed life lessons. But it wasn't quick. The lessons, work, and inspiration which formed the chapters arrived slowly. He first started work on the book in 1912, and it was finally published in 1923. Deep meaning must be lived and processed. This can take a whole life. The click of a button after a few simple prompts creates the illusion of meaning. I'm rereading this short book of wisdom over 100 years after it was published. All the lessons still apply. Because truth is timeless. Read the interview here:

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GM. Major life update: I have become extremely interested in the whereabouts and actions of a raccoon named Jimothy.

After almost 10 years as a freelance educator, editor, and writer, I am pretty much unemployable. My moral compass stops me from hitting 'apply' to any fiat jobs. I wouldn't be able to avoid calling 'bullshit' 20 times a day. In that time, I have applied for exactly 2 jobs in Bitcoin. I love the variety of working with different clients - freedom tech apps, books about Nostr, consultants, mining companies, and more. Still, I'm feeling the call for a long-term build. I'd love to join a freedom-tech or bitcoin project that aligns with my unshakeable moral compass. Just 'clocking in' every day to work with a stable team on reaching 10-year goals would be cool. This could be in marketing, community building, content, biz dev, strategy. I'm not really sure. I don't really believe in 9-5 Bitcoin jobs, and I'm not asking for one. Just wanted to share that I'm open to chat about long-horizon missions, not projects looking to stay alive until next month. Need a Jack of all trades and a master of writing for your startup? Maybe I'm your guy. #startup #entrepreneur #builders

After 1 month of using GrapheneOS I can honestly say my screentime has reduced because now I hate using my phone.

I'm against Big Bitcoin and Small Bitcoin. I ONLY support Medium Bitcoin.

GM I recently used Amber to sign in to Primal and Yakihonne (new phone). I was following 700 accounts but that just got nuked down to 10. Any idea why? #asknostr

GM. DIY time today. Can you guess what I'm going to build here?

I'm happy about chat control in a way. We have a clear enemy, a timeline, a clear objective, a reason to build, and a need to spread freedom tech NOW. Fuck the panopticon. Use @White Noise.

In the gym, I always do three sets of seven reps. That way, I do 21 of every exercise. Anyone else do this, or am I so far down the rabbit hole, I've developed BTC-OCD?

A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul Rosenberg, in short: 1. A group of programmers and businessmen get tired of asking permission to live. They build an encrypted marketplace where anyone can trade, publish, and organize anonymously. No names, no jurisdiction, nothing to subpoena. Within weeks, the market has its ten-thousandth customer. The year is 2002. 2. The state notices the only way it can: tax receipts stop matching the economy. A classified memo admits someone has built "a fully-encrypted form of electronic cash" and that the agency isn't sure what an e-cash file would even look like. The state can only fight what it can see. 3. The FBI agent assigned to hunt the founders is written as a decent, intelligent man (which is rare in political fiction). The book makes you watch him slowly as you realize he was sent to destroy the best people he has ever studied. By the end of the book, he is on their side. 4. The founders never fire a shot. They win by being useful: arbitration instead of courts, restitution instead of prisons, entry gated by trust alone — if no one trusts you, you can't get in. Every merchant who joins is one more person the old world has lost, and no army can invade a market it can't find. 5. The cost is real, and the book refuses to hide it. Opting out means losing friends who think you're a criminal and carrying the moral weight that citizens never feel because they've outsourced it. "If you want to be great, you must be willing to be called evil." 6. Originally published in 2002: six years before the bitcoin launch, nine before Silk Road. Encrypted cash, anonymous markets, reputation as collateral, exit as strategy. The author published it all anonymously, and reality plagiarized him. 7. Rosenberg's message is that the state doesn't need to be defeated. Institutions die when the people they feed on walk away. The title is from Jeremiah: "Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them." Millions are living that verse right now. Most of them have never heard the book's name. This is the best book about Bitcoin and freedom you don't own. Get 10% off the cover price by using the code "THW" here:

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Still recovering from having to attend my building management meeting last night. Supposed to be a 30-minute meeting to approve simple maintenance budget via a vote. It was 30 minutes of waiting 45 minutes of 12 people all speaking at once (MAX VOLUME) with no one in charge. 15 minutes of looking at the numbers. All could be done remotely, but Canarians suddenly turn into career politicians when allocating their 10 euro per month fees (we literally pay 10 euro per month). Oh, and this takes place in a sweaty corridor with no seating and hellish acoustics. Absolute nightmare to attend. 0/10 would not recommend.

My privacy upgrades since 2022: Password manager VPN running Self custody Lightning Running a node Switching to Proton Suite Navigating with Open Street Map Nostr remote signer Switched to @GrapheneOS @Signal and @White Noise installed DuckDuckGo search I still have a ways to go until I'm deGoogled. I still use a Chromebook and G-Suite for work. What should I address next? #asknostr