Covid lockdown taught me how to harness my rage. 1. Know myself. 2. Identify and study the enemy. 3. Understand their environment . 4. And exploit their vulnerabilities. Separate perception (bullshit) from perspective (reality) eg We all have 3 faces i) The public face masked to deceive. ii) The private face - for family and friends and iii) the secret face - the REAL you - hides your shame, guilt, obsession, etc. I'm not the clever one - Shawn Ryan's ex CIA guest - Andrew Bustamante laid this out. Follow the money and you find the corruption - Vatican, City of London, Washington. Professor Richard Werner and Mike Malone (10 podcasts on The History of Money) To study the enemy - Learn the nuances of the English language - political speak, bank speak, media speak, trade speak, government speak, legal speak, tech speak, finance speak - All designed to confuse, to censor, to shut you up. Grateful thanks to Nostr developers for providing a free speech platform.. Their environment - they want control. Control the food, the energy, the money - Kissinger's mantra. The vulnerabilities - Greed. After gorging themselves on the free money - we will witness them cannibalizing each other eg Big Pharma - Fast Foods. I stole that from Charles Hugh Smith - Hollowed Systems to create the illusion of stability. The Ratchet Effect. Dedollarisation is happening thanks to BRICS and Bricspay blockchain. They're moving to their own currency, backed by gold reserves. China - From their history courtesy Professor Wang Gungwu to their current status as the global factory, supply chain infrastructure, to cornering the rare earths market. Global South - These countries have been subject to Western colonisation, slavery, scarce resource exploit, political regime change, bombed, sanctioned, genocided, poisoned, debanked - so yeah - there's some pretty pissed off people out there. BITCOIN - doesn't care about my face. It doesn't care about politics, vaccines, borders, sanctions, wars, BIS, Federal Reserve, Rothschild, Gates etc... Bhutan and El Salvador proved it. The crypto market cap is currently at 3.5 Trillion - compared to Forex who trade that amount every day. So now I will focus on the risks, rewards and help the shift from Fried Fiat to Beatem up Bitcoin. So how does this relate to Matt ODell's thread? We come from a society of quick fixes, convenience, consumerism. Where everything activates by pressing a button.So, there will be people who like the principle of being their own bank, but don't consider the type of hardware to use, the networks, the apps, the exchanges and at the same time secure their data against theft, scams, hacks. And then we have Wall St. They are not your friends. They have the broker, the maker, the taker - and their mode of operation is MEV - fancy name for Maximum extraction value . Translation - they slap your face when you enter and kick your ass when you exit. In other words the value you enter with, gets topped and tailed when you exit. ETF's are a classic example. Many of them are in the crypto space. See if you can pick them out. I trust Matt ODell, Marty Bent, Jeff Booth, Peter MaCormack, Lyn Alden, Alex Goldstein. They are my sit up and listen. Trust is not easily given. Bitcoin is hardening into a powerful tool. Its the one asset that will throw the spanner in their years of planning to turn us into dairy cows on a one way ticket to the abbotoir. I make no apology for ranting. Its like breathing in fresh air after a recent rain shower. To those who suffered through Covid - I'm really sorry.