Heresy incoming.

With all of these Bitcoin companies emerging on an almost daily basis, I think it's a good time to remember that, for an individual or family, just stacking sats is likely the best and most sovereign way forward. Definitely the most mentally stable way forward.

It's an impossible and futile task for an individual to keep track of all these Bitcoin "treasury or whatever" companies and trying to pick out which one will be the best or even buy all of them - not worth the stress or return imo.

However.

I think what is interesting, particularly with Saylor and those trying to copycat, is that this is to some degree a natural evolution of the Bitcoin thesis. Corporate and nation state adoption is inevitable as the fiat machine continues to print the fuel feeding it's decline. That said, the anarchocapitalist view of the future is likely unrealistic and so then the question becomes of how best to manage that transition. Additionally, what these folks are catching onto is that just matching monetary supply creation (i.e. S&P) is not adequate. If they are going to be worthy of investors, they need to beat digital gold.

What Saylor et al are doing is providing onramps for highly regulated capital markets to feed into the Bitcoin ecosystem. He is arbitraging the future to create product now that these institutions can participate in while making a profit and doing it in a pretty darn smart way imo.

Does the individual need to participate in that? Probably best just to stack sats in cold storage. However, some might have trapped funds in tax protected accounts, and imo Bitcoin ets while providing price exposure are just a fiat fake replacement for the real thing. So, is it unreasonable to allocate a little of those funds to some of these companies as a risk-on bet on the Bitcoin thesis? I don't think so.

Nostr - what is the best wallet that works well on grapheneOS for zaps/ecash/lightning?

Yep. Daily DCA solves this, and on strike that translates into no fees as well.

I think I often get distracted by the flood story, etc. and forget that Noah labored in faith for ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS before anything even happened.

I just tried on phone and multiple laptop browsers to get their referral code generator to work without success. ☠️

Have been using alps most recently but am intrigued by the nic nacs. Just ordered some. 🫡

Yep. Keep it simple. Most of us probably don't need Snowden level anonymity, but just getting off apple/google farms and controlling your data is an absolute huge win.

And it's not as KJVish, but this one is a very useable WSC

https://matt2819.com/wsc/

I'm not sure if you would dislike this one for stylistic reasons, but this is the Heidelberg version I like using with my kids when using an online reference.

https://www.crcna.org/welcome/beliefs/confessions/heidelberg-catechism

Boiling this down in my mind.

Theonomists: God's word matters (also must be acknowledged that general equity theonomy is a confessional position, we can bicker about reconstructionists etc).

Natural law: the "by good and necessary consequence" guys (completely on board as long as subservient to biblical principles and not independent from scripture).

*Insert based Chad YES and/or "why not both" meme*

This looks great 🙏

I'll have to check the podcast out, thanks for the rec.

Not EO, just a run of the mill URCer, but broader point was more in line with your second post - in other words, I think our in our individualistic and generally dispensational by default broader evangelical culture, at least within the US, I think we don't understand the rich heritage we share across millenia back to the early church. And even, in some sense at least, beyond that to our forefathers Abraham, who even then was saved by faith in Christ.

In short, Christianity didn't just start 5 minutes ago, and we didn't just perfect our faith in the last century. It's a pretty cool thing, really.

I would argue the reformation was in some respects catorizable in the box of "modern Christianity" 👴

CHRISTUS REX 👑

Guys the Bitcoin price is crashing and it's becoming a problem.

I'm running out of fiat to buy any more.

Interesting that he is talking about gold with France. Given the events leading up to 1971 and all. 👀

"It is a striking likeness when he compares faith leaning on God’s word to an anchor; for doubtless, as long as we sojourn in this world, we stand not on firm ground, but are tossed here and there as it were in the midst of the sea, and that indeed very turbulent; for Satan is incessantly stirring up innumerable storms, which would immediately upset and sink our vessel, were we not to cast our anchor fast in the deep. For nowhere a haven appears to our eyes, but wherever we look water alone is in view; yea, waves also arise and threaten us; but as the anchor is cast through the waters into a dark and unseen place, and while it lies hid there, keeps the vessel beaten by the waves from being overwhelmed; so must our hope be fixed on the invisible God. There is this difference, — the anchor is cast downwards into the sea, for it has the earth as its bottom; but our hope rises upwards and soars aloft, for in the world it finds nothing on which it can stand, nor ought it to cleave to created things, but to rest on God alone. As the cable also by which the anchor is suspended joins the vessel with the earth through a long and dark intermediate space, so the truth of God is a bond to connect us with himself, so that no distance of place and no darkness can prevent us from cleaving to him. Thus when united to God, though we must struggle with continual storms, we are yet beyond the peril of shipwreck. Hence he says, that this anchor is sure and steadfast, or safe and firm."

Calvin on Hebrews 6:19

"Bitcoin imports the integrity of the laws of physics into the socioeconomic domain."

https://youtu.be/Lo2t6exePIg