A man has no fear of commitment. He goes to the same barber for years, cheers for the same team, and keeps lifelong friends…

His loyalty isn’t missing. It’s selective. He’s simply waiting for the woman HE decides deserves all of it.

"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" —Socrates

if it is not obvious yet the game is gold vs bitcoin

competing monies, one will win

my bet is on bitcoin, all in

New sign at the local McDonald’s

I used to harbor a deep, structural prejudice against Bitcoin.

It was a mix of arrogance and the subtle conditioning of the state apparatus. I thought I was financially literate—I even arrogantly cited JK Galbraith’s A Short History of Financial Euphoria to dismiss Bitcoin as nothing more than a digital tulip mania.

But I owed it to myself to challenge my own bias. I couldn't ignore the fact that minds far sharper than mine possessed a conviction I lacked. That curiosity led me down the rabbit hole—from X to Reddit, and eventually, to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndv9kxjm3wdahxcqg5waehxw309ahx7um5wfekzarkvyhxuet5qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncdhu7e3 .

Lyn writes like an apostle of economic truth. I picked up Broken Money, and it only took a few chapters to dismantle my entire worldview. I realized my understanding of money was fundamentally flawed. I saw how Bitcoin’s scarcity, portability, fungibility, and divisibility render it the apex predator of value storage—a role gold can no longer fulfill in a digital age.

That was the red pill. I dove back into the signal—initially through Bankless, but eventually finding my home in nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcp2amhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33wv6hjufkwaskgamj0pjx2drvdpn8xdfkvahrvdrgwaa826rwvesnvu3ed44rgdekwg6hxdrgdd6ku7n80fchyuekwymh5qpqs5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqjx5gu2 's Bitcoin Mastermind.

The quarterly roundtables with Preston, nostr:nprofile1qy0hwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twd4shs6tdv9kxjum5wvhx7mnvd9hx2qgvwaehxw309a38yc3wd9hsqgypghst3pwjamjlsnxclc2vmtvz7g33sde3ge5wm7knuz9nhmfwwvt69pq8 , nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtjw3k8zcmp8pervct409shwdtwx45rxmp4xseryerdx3ehy7f4v3axvet9xsmrjdnxw9jnsuekw9nh2ertwvmkg6n5veen7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqgq6lcx8fc7h0p8t4ya9u0a92jnwavqe9rgjwwdw3wjgxfuxsz8rd5mths8c , and especially nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj76mwdaehgu3wdejh2arjd9hx2tnrdakszymhwden5te0d45hxumtv4ujuvp59eekjqpqk7vkcxp7qdkly7qzj3dcpw7u3v9lt9cmvcs6s6ln26wrxggh7p7sjlnx5t , were a revelation.

Jeff’s chart of the S&P 500 denominated in Gold shattered my perception of "growth." It was a moment of absolute clarity: what we call "gains" are often just an optical illusion of currency debasement. High asset prices are merely the receipts for fiat printing.

It made me realize that without the constant injection of liquidity, the so-called "corporate growth" curve might just be a flatline. It begs the question: what would the stock market actually look like if we were still on a true Gold Standard?

They say everyone buys Bitcoin at the price they deserve. My entry price is simply the tuition fee for the time it took me to wake up.

I spent years wandering the DeFi wilderness, speculating on ETH and researching altcoins like Kleros, reading Vitalik yet shamefully ignoring the pristine collateral staring me in the face.

But better late than never. I am here now.

I am fascinated by the ethos of open-source and freedom. I wouldn't be who I am without the selfless sharing of others in this space. I hope to pay that debt forward—contributing my own signal to the noise to help build a better world.

Hello, Nostr. ⚡

#Bitcoin #Macro #Introduction #Plebs #Nostr #Grownstr

Holding during a downturn is a lot like holding your ground after getting punched in the face.

It was around autumn 2012 that Japan ramped up its central bank balance sheet dramatically.

Notably, that's also when their GDP peaked in dollar terms, and their stock market had its generational bottom.

Japan serves as an example that what's going on economically can be very different than the stock market.

This dip feels like Deja Vu.

My goal for this bull run was to get out of debt with as much bitcoin as possible, but as we kept ranging above $100k, I kept waiting for "just one more pump".

It never came.

So now I'm facing the potential of another bear market with business debt that I swore to myself I would pay off.

Deep bear corrections are brutal. That's why staying humble and stacking sats is so important. When the tide goes out, it goes out far and any weak hands will be tested.

My debt choice wasn't particularly greed-oriented. Starting a winery is a capital and time-intensive business. Debt was necessary. Once I discovered Bitcoin, my choice was always between paying down low-interest loans or stacking sats. Easy choice, but freedom is my goal and being debt-free is something I'm dying to be.

I'm still bullish for 2026, but who knows where we go from here. CAN YOU TAKE ME LOWER?

“Why doesn’t the price action affect you?”

Fuck it. $58k gang.

Do you think bitcoin should be used for monetary transactions?

Use bitcoin for monetary transactions, then.

Always amazed by the fact that telling people to get married and have children seems to illicit this emotional response where some go “no, it’s not right for everyone”.

Actually, it is.

This isn’t like being interested in pickleball, this is the core of human existence.

Survive and reproduce.

It’s not a lifestyle decision.

And if you think it is you’re severely brainwashed.

It’s time to delete that bit of malware in your mind.

Live to Work or Work to Live?

Society has fed us the lie that work is just a grind for money, status, and stuff.

Most people live to work, chasing materialism and approval, and they end up empty, burned out, depressed.

Work isn’t just a paycheck. When we work to live, using our effort to create value, help others, and fulfill our purpose, we still face struggle, but it’s destruction by JOY, not despair.

We’ve been sold a culture that confuses survival with fulfillment. True meaning comes when work serves life, not the other way around.

Can confirm. I've had mine for almost 3yrs soaking up ass juice, getting beat in the sun sitting on my dashboard. I let my 4yr old son play with it. He throws it around the house to this day.

Still smells new.

Still looks new.

I'm pretty sure this will get handed down to my son for his first wallet....

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Reward people when they do things that are of value to you, whether in the physical or digital space. That might mean paying them outright, or it might mean just having the mindset that you’ll return the favor somewhere down the line. I have lived long enough to know that when I choose to be generous with whatever I can, I usually end up having more in the end than I started out with.