Veterans Day is such a complicated holiday.

Intelligence without ethics creates a self-fooling prophecy.

The narrative that this year’s massive OG whale distribution is due to finally being able to realize Bitcoin wealth without persecution is valid. The less discussed element is that this may be the last period to predictably due this. Over the next decade, it’s very likely that both red and blue teams clamp down on the fiat bridges to Bitcoin. The Bitcoiners locking in now are the ones locking in for war. Give me freedom money or give me death!

Finally convinced my manager to buy some Bitcoin and now his wife is pissed at him lol

My left brain: Jeff Booth. Positivity. Build for the future. Energy wasted on the legacy system takes energy away from building the new. My right brain: Erik Cason. They sold us out for paper promises. Hang them all. Fuck the state. This will not stand. My right brain has been winning the last month or so lol

gonna tell my kids this was Satoshi

They think Bitcoin is an asset within their system of control. We know Bitcoin is an extraterrestrial protocol that vaporizes their control system.

GM Nostr, We all experience those magical moments. A perfect concert, a beach day with your spouse that was just right, a conversation with a friend that uncovered deep truth, etc. For me, what usually follows those moments is a yearning for it. Looking backward. Wondering where it went and trying to manufacture it again. That has never worked. Those moments only return once I stop searching for them and start being present. I believe being present is the only way to have those experiences. And if I’m consistently present, those magical moments become abundant. A life in flow state.

How it feels turning down my employer’s 401k match for self-sovereign Bitcoin. I will not accept fiat’s bribe and perpetuate its evil deeds.

Give me freedom money or give me death. Bitcoin and fiat are incompatible systems. One wins and one dies. There is no middle path. Every action we take strengthens one or the other. Bitcoin-backed loans and lines of credit, leveraged bitcoin penny stocks, and ETFs all strengthen the evil fiat control system. The number of Bitcoiners hyping up these products instead of self-custody, medium of exchange, and privacy tech shows how early we are. Satoshi’s protocol design helps Bitcoin win regardless in the end. But at the social layer, each of us must choose to accelerate or stifle adoption of Bitcoin as freedom money.