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John Balkam
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John Balkam 1 week ago
In episode 1, I interview the founders of Bitcoin Commons, a new Bitcoin node implementation that is 100% Bitcoin and 0% Core. Please enjoy! View quoted note โ†’
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John Balkam 2 weeks ago
Good News: It looks like the US and China will not be on a collision course to war against each other. Bad News: It looks like the US and Chinese governments and tech oligarchs will be collaborating to enslave the world population in an AI surveillance system that aims to eliminate individual sovereignty and autonomy. It is still the State versus you and me. Carry on.
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John Balkam 2 weeks ago
Stablecoins are stable in that they pen you in to a digital prison like a farm animal.
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John Balkam 2 weeks ago
It's likely the case that most people will not get Bitcoin because they do not want to go through the painful awakening process that accompanies understanding Bitcoin.
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John Balkam 3 weeks ago
The federal government would make sense if we elected a President who's sole job is to protect and grow the nation's sovereign health amd wealth. The military would report to the President. The President would hire a small team to manage fnance and operations, and everyone would have performance based pay structures. You could get rid of literally e everything else that the government currently does.
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John Balkam 3 weeks ago
Many who became powerful and influential under the Fiat Standard despise Bitcoin because it exposes them as incompetent, irrelevant, and impotent. Which is what those people fear the most.
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John Balkam 1 month ago
I watched Finding Satoshi today and it was a really moving documentary. The conclusion that Hal Finney and Len Sassaman likely collaborated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto to create Bitcoin seems very plausible to me given the evidence presented. Even more significant to me though was the takeaway about these two men as human beings. They were brilliant and competent, but they were also kind, thoughtful, humble, and principled. They were good teammates, friends, partners, and in Hal's case, a good father. All of our lives, we are shown example after example in society that these kinds of men are not valuable. That, in fact, power, cunning, and ruthlessness are the only ways for individuals to make an impact in the world. Might makes right and the strong can do what they want, while the weak suffer what they must. Bitcoin's origin story is a repudiation of that worldview. It shatters that framework. Look at how much positive impact Bitcoin has already had on the world. And imagine how much positive impact is yet to come. If Hal and Len were the creators of Bitcoin, it demonstrates to the world that kind, humble, hardworking, collaborative, and loving individuals are powerful. In fact, they may demonstrate that a dedicated network of those types of individuals are the most powerful force in the world. We Are All Satoshi. We can be peaceful, loving, and humble (enough) people, and we can also be a force of nature that even powerful tyrants bend to. Thank you Satoshi. We'll carry the flame from here.
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John Balkam 1 month ago
Strait of Hormuz: Open BTC Shorts: Rekt Sats: Stacked Skin: In the Sun ๐Ÿซก
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John Balkam 1 month ago
I'm launching a new show called "The Freedom Tech Frontier" under the @Sovreign banner. Who should I interview first?
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John Balkam 1 month ago
I'm sick and tired of folks who use scare tactics to try and profit off of other people's FUD. Enough already.
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John Balkam 1 month ago
Will quantum computers do anything useful? Or are they solely being created to try and break Bitcoin? Weird marketing strategy ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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John Balkam 1 month ago
I'm itching to zap right now. Tell me about something you're looking forward to the rest of this year.
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John Balkam 2 months ago
Bitcoin in self-custody is the No Kings protest that has real teeth.
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John Balkam 2 months ago
"You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems." - James Clear What is your Bitcoin accumulation and self-custody system? It might be worthwhile to forget about a stack size goal and focus on a stacking system.
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John Balkam 2 months ago
I had an American raised grass fed NY strip for dinner and a swear to you it was medicine
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John Balkam 2 months ago
The Death Economy Doom Loop Debt -> Lies -> War -> Money Printing -> Inflation -> Death and Despair Over and over again until the parasites have destroyed the host and seek a new one.
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