Going all in on Bitcoin was the most important decision of my life. Not for the money it would become, nor for the purpose and meaning that it would deliver to me, but because it was a decision that was truly mine.

The whole world and everyone in it has ideas of who you are suppose to be, and most of the time we conform with that in some way or another. While I did not know it at the time, I knew in my heart of hearts that Bitcoin not only had a chance to save me from a life of mind-numbing pointless work, and nihilistic existence; but more than that, it allowed for me to believe in what I saw for myself, and my own understand of it before what everyone else was telling me. It let me stand up for myself against a world that just wanted to use me and keep me in the suppressed, small role it had relegated to me. Bitcoin allowed for me to decide something else against this system that could not see the light and love that I really am.

This decision came from my own strong conviction within myself that I knew from the deepest levels within me. Even though it seemed crazy, irrational, and like it wouldn’t work to everyone else; just like most major decisions that can change your life for the better, I knew it was what I had to do for myself. There are no other people who can make these kind of decisions for you, and that is why they are them in their lives and you are you in your life. Only you can make the decision for yourself about how your life is going to be, where you are going to put your energy and how you are going to save yourself against a world that wants to exploit you like a machine, and give you worthless paper in exchange for it. You can choose something else now, but that decision is on you alone.

While I cannot promise that you’ll get rich from Bitcoin, or even that it will be a profitable decision with your timing of the markets, you will learn to have a new kind of conviction and faith in yourself which is a kind of wealth in its own right. You will learn that you can decide to take a risk on your own thoughts and decisions, and that is worth something in and of itself.

Just some food for thought going into 2025.

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The last paragraph really hits home. Thanks for posting!

Thanks for posting your thoughts on your journey. Well done!

🔥 Once you see it you can’t unsee it

Great post and well said. Taking responsibility for our own decisions makes us better humans, no matter the outcome. #bitcoin as a conduit to facilitate the ability to take responsibility was sorely needed.

Life is indeed better shorn of one’s fiat programming. Bitcoin is freeing, and buys you time.

it puts us in control.

control is key.

amen.

The keys are control. ;)

Great post, thank you. Been considering this for myself too , and perspective from those who have done it is very helpful

Very good. No marketing team or adman could ever beat this . Thank God.

Once you cross over to “the Bitcoin side” you’re not going back and it’ll be harder to truly connect with people on “the FIAT side”

Indeed, this is something I really struggle with in my personal life. While I really love my bitcoiner friends, they are spread all over the globe and not localized to me. While it can get lonely, I find it more lonely trying to connect with fiat people I struggle to find depth with.

Yeah. This is definitely the hardest part for me too. I’ve got really close friends close by but not to the same degree or in the same way that I have with my bitcoin friends.

It’s certainly not a perfect solution but the only way I’ve found to balance this is committing to travel and hang with bitcoiners about every 6-8 weeks and top up the tank.

I can sympathise Erik. I wish I were able to get my family on board but it’s a struggle. Not total failure but not a great success either 🤷‍♂️

I had the same experience in 2020 when I said no to the vaccine and openly defied all covid related regulation. The sense of confidence I felt to stand up for what I believe and be proven right over time, changed who I am as a person.

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My biggest worry is that I will grow old and die before this fiat debt slavery system is abolished, and my progeny will have to continue suffering under it.

Impatiently waiting for people to stop fighting each other over stupid shit and realize it’s the fucking monetary system that’s destroying everything.

This is why I’m here ⚡️

No doubt about it.

Making a decision and maintaining conviction in that decision is life affirming.

I am a different, better person after choosing Bitcoin. It's amazing what one important decision can do for your life experience.

I needed to hear this today. Thanks for sharing.

Everytime I was buying BTC it always felt like I did something for my future self, but never fully understood it. It was just an investment, a place in a lifeboat against inflation. After I’ve read The Bitcoin Standard by Saifdean it struck me right in the middle of my soul. It was a missing link that I was desperately looking for my whole life, but couldn’t pin point. BTC is a different experience for each one of us, but we have common denominator - it empowers us, gives us strength, freedom and is a beacon of hope for our life and life of others.

Thank you for sharing your story! Good luck!

I feel the same man! Thanks for sharing this

Even if you rarely buy, you should buy the top... It makes you strong.

Words of wisdom. 🧡 🎯

Beautifully said. The true “freedom” part of freedom money.

LOVE IT BROTHER. Amazing thoughts. Thank you!

I’m right with you!

Thank you for having so much conviction somebody has to get the ball rolling 🐝😊

MOST LACK CONVICTION

Fully committed, joist for the floor………

I entered bitcoin from Pomp Explaining the value proposition to me in a 15 second youtube commercial.

I leaned back in my chair and said "Hmm, fixed supply decentralized money at the beginning of its adoption curve while the competing money is garbage.......either I'm retarded or this things goin to the moon, I'll buy some." 3 months later I was flipping IRA's into thing like rocky fighting Ivan Drago.

Seemed like the most logical thing in the world. Was surprised to get so much irrational pushback on what appeared so obvious and right to me. 6 years later, people still have their heads in the sand, and I'm an anarcho capitalist, figuratively dressing up in a mask and cape while running through the internet like its Gotham.

Everything I thought I knew was a lie, so I reorganized my values and beliefs and kept it pushing. Going all in has completely changed the trajectory of my life. Common sense and hard work are both a hell of a drug.

Yes i

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You are absolutely correct, Eric.

Going all in on Bitcoin was my decision, and my decision alone.

Everyone around me (NPCs) thought I was irrational, impulsive, and reckless, but the decision was made: with my conscience clear, I had taken the final leap of faith.

Beautiful

My resolve doesn't come from faith and conviction but from understanding. I'm not looking to find resolve to cope with uncertainty. What is bitcoin is not a way to end ideologies like that which requires faith. Do you really stand by these words or did you just feel like writing something?

Bitcoin is that vanguard, or beachhead, into truth that is strong enough to break through. In other areas of life the lies of the groups push you back away from Nature and wear you down. Bitcoin's winning and increasing power acts as both a sword and shield to hold onto and keeps your psychic Will replenished. It's the easiest portal to go through toward alignment with Nature (walking with the gods).

It transformed so much for me. The Sun is rising.

"Only you can make the decision for yourself about how your life is going to be, where you are going to put your energy and how you are going to save yourself against a world that wants to exploit you like a machine, and give you worthless paper in exchange for it. You can choose something else now, but that decision is on you alone."

Preach nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf Spoken from the heart, wonderful!

Bitcoin for me was putting my money where my heart is; into a protocol that, when fully adopted, ends the system of unnecessary extreme exploitation of other people and the ecosystems around us.

Slavery never ended, it only changed forms. Parts of humanity have always found ways to enslave other humans in order to steal the value of their life energy from them. Bitcoin protects us from that, protects all of us in existence everywhere.

Bitcoin really, truly, is freedom.

Ditto brother 🖖

Beautiful 🤩

I owe my life to my parents, but I owe everything else to Bitcoin. Bitcoin changed the way I see the world.

live from first principles - choose your own adventure and make sure it's your own. this is the way.

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