Hey Bitcoin family, I need some help. I need advice. I need anything that makes sense. My wife has cancer.

My post from this morning blew up and got more engagement than anything I've ever posted. I appreciate the genuine care and support that people have offered. I am falling apart, and I have to make some really hard decisions. If you're a real one, please read through this and offer any advice you have. I'm just a normal guy, and I really want to hear what you have to say.

So my wife and I have known each other since early high school. We were good friends. I left my hometown and did seasonal chef work and traveled for most of my twenties. We got together about six years ago, and my wife was battling with alcohol addiction. I was the main breadwinner-- supported her through her alcoholism, getting a DUI, and being completely dependent on me. After a few years of spiraling alcoholism, COVID hit. We tried to live out of a pop up camper and work on the Oregon coast, but it was too much with a Husky and a Manx Cat.

We moved to the city. I got a corporate job that crushed my soul and paid more than I've ever made. Her drinking got so bad that I was picking her up from bars at 1:30am because she was seizing and someone found me in her phone and called me. It finally got to the point where I had decided to leave. I gave her an ultimatum-- get sober, or you're homeless with no job, no assets, and no property to your name.

And then she did. She did a yoga sobriety program that transformed her life. She has been clean ever since. We took profits at the top of the 2021 market and bought a 1978 Toyota motorhome. I rebuilt it while we lived out of it, and we had many hardships. For a year we drifted up and down the West Coast of the United States, working when we needed to... and floating on when we had the money.

We found ourselves in San Diego and I had a manic episode. It turned into a full blown psychotic episode that landed me in the hospital. It took months if not an entire year for me to get my mind back. We moved home, sold the RV, and started building a life in NC again.

I got back into restaurants. I've been a chef my whole life, grinding hard for meager wages just chasing my passion for food and art. This time was different, I could no longer be a corporate line-dragger. Bitcoin had changed me too much.

I worked for a plant nursery, but the owners and management were incompetent and kept shooting themselves in the feet. I couldn't work for someone that cared less about their business than I did, so I quit. Shortly after, I had another manic episode, and after two nights of not sleeping I admitted myself to the hospital to be medicated. After a week in a psych ward, I was finally released. I have since been on medication that seems to stabilize my brain imbalances, and haven't had these issues.

My wife has Lupus, Sjogren's syndrome, and severe endometriosis. About a year and a half ago she got a surgery to address the endometriosis, and in the process we found out my she had the very early stages of mesothelioma forming on her colon. This is incredibly rare and maybe 1,000 cases at most have been documented. She healed from surgery, her chronic illness persisted, and we pushed forward.

I have wanted to attempt to become an entrepreneur, so my wife agreed to be the main breadwinner for a bit so I could take a step back and try to start building a farm so that we have income separate from the fiat mines. I am worried the stress of going back into kitchens could push me into manic episodes, and the trade I have used to support myself my entire life now seems out of reach.

I have been developing the property that we live on (that her family owns) to create a microfarm with the dream of having our own business.

My wife's health continues to spiral. After a year and a half of waiting for a referral to SOMEONE who can help, her doctor said there are three people in the country qualified to operate on her.

The Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and a private doctor that we absolutely cannot afford.

I just got our garden planted, and I've spent a good bit of money trying to get the farm going. Last week we found out the mesothelioma cells are growing rapidly. She's on Myfembree (a hormone blocker) for the endometriosis and it's forcing her body into menopause at the age of 34 to hopefully slow down the endometriosis scar tissue buildup.

Her first appointment with Mayo clinic is in early August... So we're going to have multiple flights halfway across the country to consult with doctors and hopefully get set up for her surgery. She needs endometriosis removed from her bowel, mesothelial cancer cells removed, and hopefully they won't have to take so much of her bowel that she'll be on a colostomy bag for the rest of her life. They'll also need to perform a partial hysterectomy to force her body into menopause so the Endometriosis will stop growing.

Since I've been focused on building the farm, I only work two days a week. She's our main breadwinner, working full-time and also doing a yoga teacher training to follow her passions. She is pushing herself too hard, but she's not the type of woman I can tell anything. She has to find these things on her own.

The cancer is starting to destroy her energy levels, she can barely eat, and she's unable to keep weight on. She's under 100 pounds at this point, but she's a very petite woman.

I really want to make the farm work, and I also desperately need income. Once she starts taking trips to Mayo Clinic the bills are going to pile up. We live in a very rural area, and there are not many opportunities for jobs that pay anything worth my time.

I have done nothing but grind and sacrifice for the last five years. I've saved up almost half a Bitcoin.

So that's it. Our life savings. Almost half a Bitcoin. I have around $2,500 monthly income, and she makes bank waiting tables at a Relais & Châteaux Hôtel. But I don't know how much longer she can keep pushing herself this hard.

I feel like a piece of shit because she agreed to take on being the main breadwinner so I could try to get us a business built to provide income... but that feels far off and not concrete. We need income NOW.

If I push to get a corporate F&B management job, I might push myself into another manic episode. If I have another break, then I add to the stress instead of alleviate it. I don't know what the fuck I'm going to do.

I feel like the only thing that makes sense is to sell most of our stack, and park it in MSTY. If I can save enough from dividends to cover our capital gains, then everything else can go into paying the bills and keeping us solvent... and anything leftover can go straight back into spot BTC. If we can beat the cancer, then I can sell the MSTY and put it back into spot BTC.

I feel like if I wait until the bills are piling up, we're going to end up being forced to liquidate our BTC and pay for everything, and then I'm back in the fiat mines and our life savings is gone.

If I plug it in MSTY, then at least we have a chance to keep the money flowing and retain some of the equity.

What would you do in my shoes? Any advice is welcomed.

I'm desperate. I've been self-made my entire life and never asked for handouts... But I really don't know what the fuck we're going to do. If this post strikes a chord with anyone and you're loaded and want to help a random pleb that's just trying to keep his wife alive:

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Hey that was it! Damn suspended? Thats no fun 😂

Thanks though I’ll save it this time of if I feel up for poking fun when we hit $150K

Then they give it up to be able to vote. Simple.

No Bitcoin miner has a right to be profitable, no matter how big or small their operation. Instead they have the opportunity to be profitable if they manage their operation wisely. The difficulty adjustment helps to ensure this is the case.

One of my big issues with the OP_RETURN debates is this idea that today’s block reward itself is somehow not enough to incentivize miners, and the underlying assumption that demand for block space with never increase again unless all manner of shitcoinery is allowed to infiltrate network activity.

The block reward is substantial and will be for many years to come. No miner has a RIGHT to profit, as they are TOO BIG TO FAIL. All miners have opportunity to achieve it, and if some fail and more smaller ones spring up along the way as they see a chance for profit, then that’s a good thing.

I can’t help but assume that short-term self-serving interests are driving those who want to allow for more arbitrary storage on Bitcoin’s blockchain.

Here me out, the major toxic voting incentives can be fixed very easily:

If you receive a subsidy, welfare, handout from the govt of any kind, you automatically lose the right to vote. In no world does it make sense for people who receive benefit to get to vote for those who pay for it to have a greater, coerced obligation to them.

It would be worth the same at the height of the fork. Critical error going unnoticed would be highly unlikely with something open source.

And it would allow him to buy at an artificially low price. He has certainly been accumulating more BTC since he lost his. he could then dump his forked coins for more real ones at an artificially low price when the fork coins are worth the most right after the fork. So he could still use it to get doubly more coins than he currently has.

Could Luke be gathering an army under the guise of decentralization and altruism. Then one day suggest the real solution is to actually remove OP_RETURN so arbitrary data can't get in at all. Guess what, then Bitcoin will fork and the people on knots will believe they are the good guys. Then they will all become poor when they sell the real orange coin. Just like Bcash. A clever way to spin the narrative. And the motive is there for a person that lost all their coins to a compromised key. That's one way to get rich again.

Anyone else thought of that?

If Saylor and Bhatia’s vision comes true, i.e. Bitcoin doesn’t eat government bonds, then Bitcoin is a failure. Don’t overthink it, Bitcoin eats all monetary premiums.

What if we have an MMA royal rumble to settle the opreturn dispute? 😂

If you can articulate why you do or dont want the memoool policy to change, specifically in regards to op_return limit, let's hear. And don't just regurgitate what you heard nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5klqft7 or nostr:nprofile1qqsggcc8dz9qnmq399n7kp2yu79fazxy3ag8ztpea4y3lu4klgqe46qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjctzd3jjummjvuhs8fa6r0 said.

YOUR OWN WORDS THO

Hit me.

Fiat mining,

Will zap answers not done by chat gpt after work

good job bud

i just opened another 5

this is your daily reminder to close those 100s of tabs on your phone browser, that you promised to come back to a month ago, but never did

Currently I post more detailed Bitcoin stuff here, less detailed Bitcoin stuff on Twitter/X, and music on BlueSky. Should I start posting music here or would people be annoyed cause they just want Bitcoin content?

Bitcoin Knots may not be perfect, but it’s nice to see an alternative to Bitcoin Core gain traction. Decentralization of full node software is good for Bitcoin.

I doubt it's informed consent though.

I'd like to see signage saying, hey we'll take this asset which inflates lower and in exchange give you this currency which gets manipulated and will surely devalue rapidly overtime ✌️

Genuinely curious: if running a node is so important, why didn't Satoshi set it up so that both miners and node-runners were compensated for their work?

The biggest thing I changed to reduce how long each workout lasts was that I started timing my rest periods. If I didn't time them, I'd take 4 minutes or more of rest without really thinking about it. I don't do a ton of isolation exercises unless, and this helps me save time too, I do them as a super set or a giant set with really short rest periods.

Something thing that I started doing in April is doing more body weight exercises. So more pull ups and more push ups, things I that don't need a ton of rest for in between sets.

I also had less than an hour to get the majority of my workouts done in April. On days where I was really short on time, I would take much shorter rests than usual since I need to leave time for my cardio.

If you have the time available for longer workouts, than there's nothing wrong with that. If I could give myself more time for a workout to space things a bit more I would.