Absolutely! I think everyone earning an honest living can agree with that! Lets build beauty that endures
Trade deal with the UK is a good start but let’s focus on India / South Korea to really show real progress. Making trade deals with another financialized economy doesn’t help Main Street Americans and we are the base that elected this administration to do a lot more for us
Boomers have had it easiest since we had the relatively soundest money at the start of our careers. But entitlement is uniquely different from easiest circumstances. We had a favorable money system but worked very hard and I don’t see that level of drive in the mainstream today who expect value without creating value. That’s why I love #nostr and the emphasis on value for value
He is using intergovernmental funding to do what Saylor is doing in debt capital markets and it is brilliant. Demonetize fiat and choose #bitcoin
No clue Ross, but I’m reluctant to. There’s a freedom in driving your own car. I will always choose sovereignty over a corruptible system
Well as my name makes clear, I’m a boomer and sadly don’t know what knots are or what’s going on in the dev community but it’s amazing to see the natural debate on the future of #bitcoin unlikely fake fiat
If Harvard is so elite, they can also use that overfunded and subsidized endowment to push their abysmal and disconnected agenda. No tax payer should pay for woke ideology for our children. Stay sovereign and pursue skilled labor instead
Incredible trip to El Salvador to meet Bukele and see for myself what has changed since last time I was there.
I think most that follow me, know where I stand on #bitcoin. That, as long as it stays decentralized and secure (which means it must be used as a medium of exchange) it is IMPOSING the first global free market that has ever existed. A competitive, yet cooperative protocol and network that forces abundance broadly. We are both the map and territory - our actions within it, and aligned to it, strengthen and protect Bitcoin, bringing more people to it and they each, in turn grow in their own understanding - which in turn strengthens it further. We are bitcoin, we are Satoshi. Each node (us) of sovereignty adding our voice, time, energy into something that changes the course of history.
Because that map of “what will be, or “what already is” (as long as it remains decentralized and secure) has never existed before, our minds have a hard time with it. So instead, most revert to measuring #bitcoin from within the system they have always known. This leads to most of the fights within bitcoin. People far deeper down the rabbit hole, versus those just entering or choosing to remain trapped (and not being able to yet see the bigger picture)
You can imagine - that change would be chaotic because the change……is the change within each of us. All 8 billion of us, and we often can’t see our own hypocrisy, the lies we tell ourselves. Etc etc. In addition, with over 3000 years of us living in a zero sum game - where someone else had to lose for us to win. So for many, it would seem normal to play by the rules of the old game.
This is why I went to El Salvador. I went to meet the President and see for myself who he was and what choices he might make along the way. Ie - how deep was he down the rabbit hole? Did he see El Salvador and himself as part of system change to a global free market that would permeate around the world - or would he be a pawn and be captured in a game that created imperialism 3.0? It was a very deep discussion…..lasting almost 2.5 hours. I came away convinced that he gets it. Moreover, he might be the most impressive leader of a country I have ever seen. Said to me, more people in El Salvador need to be in self custody, more need to use it as a currency, not in stablecoin but natively on lightning, more in non custodial. He understands the larger forces at play here.
El Salvador is still Bitcoin country, but is still early. Having a nation with security is a big deal. 50 years of poverty, gangs, wars, fear in a society doesn’t change overnight. (All of that caused by broken money and psyops)
It takes time to rebuild trust. I was last here the day after all the gang violence (coincidentally starting after introducing Bitcoin as legal tender)
Huge changes since I was last here, not only safer, but hopeful. That hope will lead to opportunity for people, and that opportunity to value creation. The downtown core in San Salvador, previously one of the most dangerous places in Central America is feels a like a European city with thousands out walking. Cool Social houses (Video below) shops everywhere with the hustle and bustle of people and opportunities. Bitcoin isn’t yet used broadly, but making inroads. I spent in it almost everywhere - but you could tell - bitcoin transactions are fairly rare.
Lots more to do, and big plans underway. Stay tuned!!!
And a huge thanks to Max and nostr:npub1pq2ll9l7qdmxsfqyrd5w9gul8c7ftqy9yepcqvc8a2l2ys9zhd6sk42rew for all their work in El Salvador and in helping make this a fantastic trip.
What a time to be alive!
https://blossom.primal.net/3937c43a0c98ec9871ac97651bc23885c6698586d63734bff846c271423e4369.mov
What a bright future indeed! Thanks for sharing Jeff! It sounds cheesy but even though I’m an old guy I wake up so excited every morning thinking about how #bitcoin can make life so much better for our children and world!
GM fellow Nostriches ☕️! I have a long day ahead in the fiat mines but wish each of you a blessed day and hope we can all transfer our hard earned and unbacked fiat into freedom preserving #bitcoin for our families to stay sovereign!
Two states down, many more countries and municipalities to follow!
Thing about taxes are they always start for a small niche and then spread to everyone. More to come I’m sure. Opt out of their fiat system and adopt #bitcoin
100% Dave, #bitcoin sets you free in so many ways
Also look at how they overran Scandinavia with open borders and pushing a narrative of being racist if you didn’t agree with the quantum of new arrivals. Do you see this happening in Asia? It’s natural for a nation to want to maintain its heritage and identity. We are a melting pot but don’t need a bunch of delivery guys for pad thai in 20 minutes who don’t speak our language or care to do so. Government funding and overreach needs to be checked. Sanctuary cities must stop. We need a #bitcoin system that ends this fiat backed fiction
Well said Sooly. This is a coordinated campaign funded by endless fiat printing that intentionally weakens unity and seeks division. We are better than this and it’s time to call things out for what they are. Americans don’t need a statue to accept others, we genuinely are tolerant of everyone but this statue is an unnecessary misrepresentation of trying to change our ideals
Fair point but we cannot just roll over and accept every single overreach. Opting out doesn’t mean giving up
The Denocratic led cities have lost the narrative on the values that Americans hold in highest regard. It doesn’t matter what anyone’s background is, what matters is a sincere effort to work hard, provide for your family, and live without government overreach in every facet of life. This statue is another step towards pushing a narrative and generating guilt around privilege and identity. Track the fiat funding, track the incentives, and you’ll see what this is about. Maybe if tax dollars were used on stopping crime and driving accountability in New York, everyone would be better off
Earn in fiat, save in #bitcoin. Leverage is a double edged sword and will not be for everyone. Just need to understand the risks before participating
Another reason why there is only one incorruptible asset worth owning #bitcoin
It’s incredible how quickly the fiat ponzi falls apart (like the UN) when the freely printed money dries up