Man, I just really love how bitcoin really connects people at this deeper level that is truly strange in the most spectacular of ways.
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It's amazing!
Discovering Bitcoin is an internal revelation. To discover you are a bitcoiner at your core is transformative. A spiritual awakening. Then everything fiat begins to unravel.
Blockchain entanglement 🫂
It’s a protocol, so it connects us at the base layer.
It's so true, Erik...
Reminds me of this old Timothy Leary quote....
"Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected.
Find the others."
-Timothy Leary
Likewise, just had the most deep and in depth conversation with a former athlete I used to coach when he was 11-17. Introduced him to Bitcoin last year, NGU did its thing, now you can see his wheels turning and being that he is a young professional who just got engaged, now is the time to go all in!
Bitcoin: a radical technology for skipping small talk and going straight to the heart
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When bitcoin citadel. Let’s fucking do this
The honesty behind bitcoin as money is akin to ancient moneys, helping us human beings return to a way of being that is more primitive, deep, and natural.
A bit of a crazy story....
A dude I met getting free ramen, a fellow surfer said during a conversation he was a Bitcoin Maxi. Later in that same conversation he said he was a Marxist/Leninist...wtf😆
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BITCOIN IS BETTER MONEY FOR GREATER COMMUNITY. 🫂🫡
That's true. Since the advent of bitcoin, we now have a clearer path to the future.
Yeah. We connect at multiple, significant levels.
Bitcoiners tend to be higher in open mindedness, often guarded by robust discernment.
As Austrian economists we tend to be libertarians who distrust the government, often to the point of being conspiracy theorists.
Conspiracy theorists often do their due diligence, and they’re often smart, both of which are common Bitcoiner traits.
Then the healthy side of the Bitcoin community makes almost too much sense in the light of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Hodlers, executing the low time preference strategy, sacrifice the present for the future. Realizing they’re sacrificing creature comforts now, hodlers will often make the choice to dedicatedly improve their own physical health. Exercising and eating well may extend the hodlers lifespan, perhaps making up the time sacrificed up front executing the low time preference strategy.
The Bitcoin metanoia is perhaps the deepest level. Hodlers, after all cycle or two, wind up with surplus discretionary capital and time to spend pursuing higher order and ultimate tier goals like love, legacy, and “self-actualization” i.e. kundalini/enlightenment.
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I feel like you do Fren 😊 it's awesome #Bitcoin makes Frens also in the unlikeliest places
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me too 🫂 so awesome 🥹❤️🔥
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In my opinion, bitcoin breeds a certain kind of freedom seeking individual, and when a bunch of those strong and emboldened type of individuals decide to gather and communicate, great things become of it.
It is a different type of community than those where “all are in service to others before self”. In #BTC communities individual expression and freedom comes before the group’s priorities, and I think that makes for a more powerful state.
Agreed. I think as early adopters of Bitcoin we have a tendency to experience “Cassandra complex” where we try to help people with our knowledge of future events but they won’t listen. Likewise, no coiners who “know better” attempt to justify their ongoing choice to be a no coiner by propagandizing Bitcoiners and throwing shade at us for our suspect judgment.
This kind of isolation coupled with the kind of success that tends to accompany hodling Bitcoin for a cycle or two does exactly what you said.
I would say that Bitcoin attracts sigma personality types, but, more along the lines of what you said, Sparrow, Bitcoin also forges sigma personalities.
The “have fun staying poor” retort to no coiners is about as sigma of a response as I can think 😆
I had to look up “sigma” personality, but I would say you are right. Perhaps that was part of my transformation with #BTC, is that I had to make a concerted effort to leave the liberal “hippie” mindset behind, and stop glorifying and morally justifying being broke, because it’s not fun, it’s not good for your health and well being, and it’s not taken advantage of the beautiful opportunities this life offers.
And..I had children at a young age. Nothing motivates personal success and sovereignty more than your own family, and a lot of Millennials are missing that part.
US founders also thought individual expression & freedom makes for a more powerful State, and from my experience & understanding, I agree.
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right back at you, bro
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Oui Chef. Let’s keep prepping and cooking!
