Serious question:
What would you do in the coming years if you were no longer a slave to government-sponsored fiat grind?
Asked another way, what does life on a #Bitcoin standard actually look like for you?
Serious question:
What would you do in the coming years if you were no longer a slave to government-sponsored fiat grind?
Asked another way, what does life on a #Bitcoin standard actually look like for you?
Peaceful.
Machine guns. Lots of machine guns.
More time just hanging out with my kids and seeing family and friends
Bake bread and make beef jerky for people i care for.
Volunteering, cycling, eliminating hurry, spending time with my wife & daughter, reading, praying. Etc. etc.
Work only on things I believe on, help more people and live within driving distance from a beautiful beach, in a small house with a big yard to play with my kids. 🥰
Love that work on things you believe in
Connect more deeply with the universe and those I care about..

Focus on spending time with my kid and teaching asd learning myself basic stuff with him like farming, mechanics, construction and basic cooking. And I would probably also work in some bigger software projects I want to do. Also try different basic jobs, and focus more on helping the community.
Jeff I know this is going to sound altruistic but from the bottom of my heart I want to work the rest of my life doing whatever I can to change young people's minds away from socialism.
I can't un-see the horrendous damage it has done and it breaks my heart to see young people living in darkness and nihilism. Bitcoin and Jesus fixes this.
A noble cause for sure. It breaks my heart as well and I’m grateful because bitcoin broke me away from that shit.
I went to a very liberal university. I could have been the same as everyone else
I live this now. Honestly, it’s taking some getting used to. I have a truck and a couple of guitars and my clothes. I travel the US with my wife and dog and anything that doesn’t fit in our Tacoma we get rid of. We’re just exploring right now and will eventually branch out globally.
Our hope is to find opportunities to make the biggest impact we can. My problem is “help” is a complex thing with a cascade of second and third order effects. Most of the bad in the world is done by people who are convinced they are doing good.
It’s also the Buffett conundrum in that any bitcoin I spend now will be worth much more in the future. So part of me feels like the best thing I can do for now is just protect my holdings for the next decade and stay focused.
People have noticed I’m retired in my 40s and living a very unique life so I have to say no to a lot of things. Which I’ve learned is a super power.
Wow that’s definitely unique. Do you ever get tired of traveling? I feel like I would always need a home to come back to or a career/passion project
Being detached from “things” has given me a tremendous amount of free time. Being detached from the expectations of others has helped me figure out how to fill that free time. I started my career at 19 and didn’t let up until my late 40s. I saw enough of the world to know I want to explore a lot more. Nothing opened my mind as much as travel and meeting people so hoping to continue that as long as I’m able. Not to say we wouldn’t have a base again at some point but right now it’s nice being unencumbered. I have no idea where that base would even be and that’s a freeing feeling.
any kids?
One of the things for me has been the difficult question of schooling - and Bitcoin is allowing us to home school and spend scarce time with our children
I think LLMs are becoming a great tool for homeschoolers to leverage (thoughtfully and carefully). A usable virtual tutor on any subject for your kids.
Awesome, isn’t it!!? We live in the future!
Do you have any recommendations on which LLM to use ? Is there an open source one?
Don't have any personal experience but nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpzdmhxue69uhkzmr8duh82arcduhx7mn9qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcam28zl has a lot of content on running LLMs locally and fine tuning them to a specific purpose. He has a great outlook that the future of AI is bending towards self-hosting and trained/tuned with personal data.
Freedom & prosperity.
Most importantly, helping out family & retiring my wife.
Since I’ve begun saving in bitcoin nearly 5 years ago I’m getting closer to a point where maybe I move on and do something meaningful to me, and that could help the world/local community. I haven’t decided just yet but it gives me hope and dreams that actually seem possible.
impossibile to know on a 2 feet standing 😂
basically leave without that fastidious feeling to don't give a hell to something called "government" or "fiat".
seems a lot to me, because now is something that waste some moments on a daily basis 🌻
It looks just the way it does now.
#IYKYK
Help the amazing people of 🇯🇲 get on the #BTC standard 🚀
I would:
1. Enjoy more time with my kids still young and at home
2. Buy and built out a homestead and farm
3. Write a fantasy series
Men's ministry. Build a retreat and host gatherings for men to come together. Encourage one another, learn, strengthen, pray, brain storm about how to help other men. The masculine is under attack. We need counter- force. It's getting closer and more possible by the day. I'm no longer a slave. #Christ #bitcoin #masculine #men #pray #strength #freedom #ministry
Men's ministry. Build a retreat and host gatherings for men to come together. Encourage one another, learn, strengthen, pray, brain storm about how to help other men. The masculine is under attack. We need counter- force. It's getting closer and more possible by the day. I'm no longer a slave. #Christ #bitcoin #masculine #men #pray #strength #freedom #ministry
I would like to wait for 1-2 years that I would get so bored, that I would have to come up with something to do. No time to think things like that while grinding for almost 30 years. I'm soon done anyway.
I'm already developing affordable, off-grid, non-market housing as a product because I know how many people won't adopt a #Bitcoin standard & they're 100% gonna need it. 💁♂️
I would solve my mental health struggles, train, and find time to be a better father and husband.
My kids and wife are my world. I would serve the world by serving them. Personally I’d love to learn to sail and to get back into flying and scuba diving. I have some ideas for work I’d like to continue with, but my dream would be to take a couple of years off while my kids are still young to travel and support them. I have a feeling what calls to me from the other side of that experience might be different from what I’m drawn to now from my perspective in the fiat mines.
Improve my programming skillz and contribute to open-source projects full-time. And more time with family.
Ok, beyond just being there for my family, one of my thoughts is integrating Biochar production with Bitcoin mining and then converting the char into a component in 3D printed construction media for producing affordable homes. The char in the walls would act as a filter for the air in the home scrubbing out toxins. It’s produced from agricultural and forestry waste in a process that also produces energy. Building with 3D printing is fast, cheap and low labor. It creates a fraction of the waste that traditional buildings do. They last longer and you can produce shapes and features that were not possible with dimensional lumber creating inspirational spaces for growing humans.
Work. Provide value. Stack.
Just like today but my tribe would be much bigger.
Raise the production value of my podcast, increase my time serving at my church, buy a small business that is valuable for my local community and make it thrive.
I would like to build/buy some sort of business that could be used to teach values to my kids as they grow up.. passing down a business could be more valuable than simply passing down bitcoin
I would probably continue doing what I'm doing now because I'm actually enjoying it.
it looks the exact same for me. It's a mind set
Now my economic strength can support my own health and mind while also saving, making it stronger each month. As that strength increases, I could then do the same for a wife and kids.
For all intents and purposes my life would not change from the outside looking in. I would do all the same activities in the same proportions as I do today.
But internally, I would be liberated from a persistence sense of unease and worry.
Love 💜 on all spheres. It’s easier to project #IRL & spiritually
Translating it online is harder for me personally. Though I’m trying 🫂
I think the Bitcoin standard begins the healing process but much work needs to be done in other spaces to address ALL of societies problems.
Bitcoin just makes it easier for people to afford living again so that we can continue to grow, and innovate.
But realistically it looks like the 1950s to 2008 era of America, Stable Families, affordable living costs, decent quality of life, less violence, and tension, etc.
I learn new jobs
for example: bitcher
https://video.nostr.build/7be700bbcf389d25c65af47c80fe3ac514cc84f68e5a86ae49190c128ac74c9b.mp4
For starters, I will surf the ocean waves and manufacture cigars (but definitelly less than 40 hours weekly) for selling and for my own consumption. Once there are more bitcoiners around me that might require services and goods from bitcoiners (a.k.a. normal people), I might start providing / producing whatever they need. But certainly less than 40 hours weekly.
Once I can secure enough land to put wild edible animals in there, enough for them to really be wild and for me to hunt some of them for food, I will do that.
Also build a nice Thai / Lankan temple at whereever I will live if there is none there yet.
I am deadly serious, always.
Nothing would change except I'd have more scarce time. No large house I can't take care of, no stupid buys.....just time to explore anything I want.
Playing with friends, surfing, doing something important.
1. house
2. contractor in my current profession
3. shit tons of charity where I know is needed.
Work hard
Focus energy
Build family
Serve the Lord
Meet new people
More time studying big picture subjects that interest me, and attenpting to solve difficult problems. Less (no?) time working in the fiat mines.
Improve homesteading skills
Make the best possible food for my family
Build a circular bitcoin economy and educate my community
Seems like I'm already living my dream
The future looks great! If I didn't want to keep stacking sats with money from my current fiat job, I'd give retirement another try. It's so tempting.
Family/friends, fitness, golf
I have bad news for you. If you are not yet free of that, chances are low Bitcoin will change that.
Maximalism feeds on that hope and it's a bubble that will pop just like any other.
Most maximalists can not even see how governments put chains on Bitcoin gains.
There might me a small chance with Monero, but it heavily depends in plebs rejecting their governments and returning to a sane rule of law everybody can understand.
More of the same and a couple of new things (not necessarily in this order):
Sleep, Travel/Relocate, Study everything, Enjoy good/healthy food, Volunteering, Sports, SPA, Meditation.
Low time preference life.
Proper sleep, regularly exercise, quality nutrition, plenty of water, limited alcohol. Bitcoin. NOSTR.
FAMILY & FRIENDS
Creating more art and helping others (with less opportunities like we had/have) 🙏
Have a farm and a family
!!! i say almost everyday i love the work i do (i work with autistic children) but ultimately i just want to be a farmer lmao
The sound money grind is worth it.
I would be grinding harder than a red head at a middle school dance. 🕺
Think about this everyday
Because it's coming
And you need to be ready for it
not use my calculator at the grocery store 😶🌫️
I'd be living in my house or a different smaller one, I'd have dogs and cats and chickens. I'd be pursuing playing, writing and producing music. Just living ever so humbly off my retirement savings. I'm 56 and I think I'm just about done with the working world.
Dr. Ross, as a radiologist you might like my scan. oral cancer, mandiblectomy, fibial free flap reconstruction.

I would go on podcasts to tell the rest of the world HFSP!
Ceasing to be a slave arrives in two stages.
The first occurs when you when you realize for the first time that your period of bondage is only temporary, and allows you to plan a better future for yourself and your family. The second is when you are finally free, and are able to fully realize that plan.
Through Bitcoin, I reached the first stage; and through Bitcoin I will eventually reach the second.
Taking an excerpt from my article "Maslow's Apex":
"[The] realization that my bitcoin-denominated income would only trend down over time, as the value of my savings grew, was freeing. So I left my job that I hated, (a job that I began to realize I was only performing out of fear of falling behind inflation), and got a new job that was more aligned with who I wanted my future self to be.
I no longer see life as a mad dash for survival until death, but see it as a journey of self-discovery and improvement. I no longer chase money the way I used to. Instead, I simply desire to spend less than I make and to produce a positive output.
"Wow. We just landed on how we stop thinking about money... Exactly what the socialists want, but for real, not made out of hopes and violence. Bitcoiners are something else. Everybody thinks we're obsessed with money, but the reality is, we're in it, so nobody has to think about money. Just spend less than you earn and you'll be alright. No need for credit or debt. Just savings. Simple."
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I’d double down on personal projects and give back time to my family that was stolen
middle of no where mountains. I don't even want an address.
Isn't it strange that everyone acts like fucking Mother Teresa here but when I look the current set of bitcoin billionaires I don't get the same vibes somehow. 🤷♂️
Probably raise some local beef.
I already build furniture, so I’d do more of that.
I’m a tinkerer by nature, so probably do random odd jobs in my community.
Already living it:
I would be building out nostr:nprofile1qqs2xugc5jyguqkj36rk0syv4tmnkjdtmtperttl7x9rqjy3ustdcvcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg6waehxw309aek2mnyd96zumn0wdnxcctjv5hxxmmd9uxa0uz8 to support the free flow of commerce around the world, live and engage with a tight-knit community, and spread the ideas and technology to promote freedom globally.
Same thing I do everyday with Pinky. Try and take over the World.