One becomes a Bitcoiner in 3 phases
Phase 1: You’ve heard of #Bitcoin, but haven’t yet taken it seriously.
Phase 2: You start stacking sats, consume countless Bitcoin podcasts and books, make mistakes by scamcoining, panic selling, or taking on leverage. You learn through pain.
Phase 3: You are become Bitcoin, destroyer of fiat, creator of a fiscally sound world. You no longer need to consume Bitcoin content, as you live and breathe it. Price volatility no longer phases you. You simply save in Bitcoin and focus on your craft.
If you are in Phase 1, get to Phase 2. If you are in Phase 2, get to Phase 3. If you are in Phase 3, stay the course. 
“‘The Ultimate Ground of Being’ is Paul Tillich’s decontaminated term for ‘God’ and would also do for ‘the Self of the world’ as I put it in my story for children. But the secret which my story slips over to the child is that the Ultimate Ground of Being is you. Not, of course, the everyday you which the Ground is assuming, or ‘pretending’ to be, but that inmost Self which escapes inspection because it’s always the inspector. This, then, is the taboo of taboos: you’re IT.”
— Alan Watts, The Book 
Spoiler: The hardest money wins. nostr:note1va7fwptdjeyz0zhfnxld5e4ylwp0hc2rfjnumkwus7elu4ck0tcsnyt9pr
Them: When are you going to sell your #Bitcoin for dollars?
Me: The same day you decide to sell your dollars for pesos.
People thought they were “too late” to #Bitcoin when it was $8. Now they think they are “too late” at $100K. And they will still think they are “too late” when Bitcoin hits $1M.
But once you realize there are infinite dollars that will be printed, you see you will never be “too late” to Bitcoin. 
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
— Alan Watts, The Book 
Harsh but fair. 
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How Bitcoin’s detractors sound 
With ~2% of the total BTC supply, it’s hard to see how MSTR doesn’t become the largest market cap stock in the entire stock market, unless the Mag 7 move to a Bitcoin standard and start stacking sats with haste. 
Anyone who thinks the world will start calling satoshis Bitcoins is dreaming.
Regardless of the pros or cons, it simply isn’t going to happen.
“It comes, then, to this: that to be ‘viable,’ livable, or merely practical, life must be lived as a game—and the ‘must’ here expresses a condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of play rather than work, and the conflicts which it involves must be carried on in the realization that no species, or party to a game, can survive without its natural antagonists, its beloved enemies, its indispensable opponents. For to ‘love your enemies’ is to love them as enemies; it is not necessarily a clever device for winning them over to your own side. The lion lies down with the lamb in paradise, but not on earth—‘paradise’ being the tacit, off-stage level where, behind the scenes, all conflicting parties recognize their interdependence, and, through this recognition, are able to keep their conflicts within bounds. This recognition is the absolutely essential chivalry which must set the limits within all warfare, with human and non-human enemies alike, for chivalry is the debonair spirit of the knight who ‘plays with his life’ in the knowledge that even mortal combat is a game.”
— Alan Watts, The Book
One friend who has mastered the blade is worth six regular friends.
#Bitcoin plebs taking on the fiat system
“The lowdown (which is, of course, the secret and profound view) on life is that our normal sensation of self is a hoax or, at best, a temporary role that we are playing, or have been conned into playing—with our own tacit consent, just as every hypnotized person is basically willing to be hypnotized. The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.”
— Alan Watts, The Book 
When I first learned how to roll a proper joint in high school, my friend advised me, “It’s critical to get the foundation right. If you do that, the rest of the joint rolls easily.”
This applies to all of life. 
