Real talk - How do you stay positive as a bitcoiner?
Within 4 years of understanding bitcoin, I've gone from dipping my toe in the water to full-on rabid maxi with 0 fiat who lives, breathes, and works in bitcoin.
I would also eat it if I could (but I prefer crisps).
However, my low time preference and my knowledge of the impending soverign debt crisis leads me to feel down on a daily basis.
I'm not dedicating my life to this to get rich. Hell, I don't even really want to buy anything (apart from crisps).
When the monetary crisis ramps up, people won't thank me. They will think I'm a smug asshole because I waxed lyrical about bitcoin.
I'm not sure I'll live to see the world prospering on a bitcoin standard.
And most days, I dedicate my hours to writing into the void.
This is perhaps why I, like many bitcoiners, enjoy the echo chamber a little too much.
Still, I'm interested to know.
What keeps you grounded and positive?
#asknostr
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Progress in several projects that are long term but making small gains keep me grounded and focusedπ
Realizing bitcoin will improve my life and the ones around me. There is nothing but doomerism around Bitcoin that is the reason Satoshi created it in the first place, not to keep dweling on it, but to escape it.
I focus on my family, I focus on my craft, I try to live my life outside the bubble because it is toxic. It is not the bitcoiners' fault, it is fiat and all its allies. We are just righteously indignated about the whole thing, the problem is that it will consume you if you let it.
Do as nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqs05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sgew2ua does, that is usually a good compass to start the day. Good luck.
Bless man. You keep me positive. The void and the crisps too. And every other pleb on this journey. Evolution is calling us π
I like the focus on your craft angle often mentioned in Bitcoin culture. So, if Bitcoin 'wins', the writer can become a better writer, the artist a better artist, the programmer a better programmer etc.
The separation of money from state may also lead to the separation of work from compulsion.
For sure.
2026 may involve some time off for me to be creative.
Hope you are working on your craft too, brother.
Nostr is a great space for creativity.
It's that duality of wanting to shun trad media and still wanting a bigger community tho...
Bitcoin is just money. Money is just a tool. There is a world beyond that. The purpose of my life keeps me positive. I source the purpose of my life in the Power greater than myself. There are people around me that I can serve and love and help, even though I'm far from perfect and I also need help. But this makes perfect sense to me. In the end I won't take a single satoshi with me to my grave. There is life beyond death though. And this keeps me hopeful when I'm down. Faith gives me hope. Love (agape) is my purpose.
Such a magnificent ideas chamber. All the best bitcoin energy in one chaotic place
Keep writing, BTC will catch up in the end.
