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Derek Orrell
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Exec. Chef of Beck and Call, Oh Boy BK, and Oh boy LA(coming soon)

This is my overwhelming feeling these days. Especially when I see people I care about that I tried to convince many times.

I need to see an ATH here! USD is a bad denominator! #bitcoin #few

I’m back in!!! Took me a couple months to find my Nsec but I found it!! Let’s go!

Perfect way to start the weekend!

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Great episode with nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj on WBD! Listened to half. Purged my subconscious without an outrageous amount of mushrooms. Then finished this morning. Thanks.

Cryptography is something that has been with us for millennia and is constantly evolving

Since the human being fights for the territories in a professional way, with legions of soldiers trained to kill and die for the defense of a region, message encryption has been a vital and indispensable technique to protect correspondence on and off the battlefield.

Great stuff! Thanks for this!

Damn. I’ve slept on my Nosr account my bad. I have a feeling the sentiment will be better here when it dips! So much crying on X.

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Story time:

6 years ago my mother in law was left penniless in a surprise divorce at age 67.

My father in law (piece of shit) had left her with nothing and planned to dump her on social security.

She was working as a pre school teacher making $14 an hour.

We had to move fast.

Father in law literally shotgun divorced her.

Showed up at the doorstep with a notary and manipulated an emotionally fragile woman into a binding legal agreement.

I was pissed.

I showed up a few hours later with a series of financial plans.

And with tears still streaming down her face in the kitchen of her tiny apartment, she picked one.

I gave her 3 options.

1. Aggressive

2. Extremely aggressive

3. Dave Ramsey rice and beans

She chose number 3.

Over the next 4 years she rode her bike to work everyday. Watered down her lemonade. Spent nothing on herself. Walked dogs for extra income. Took weekend shifts at the preschool. Showed up early. Stayed late and against all odds was able to save 12k a year on a salary of only 27k.

I set up a couple retirement accounts for her and whenever she would scratch $1,000 together she would give it to me and I would smash buy GBTC or MSTR.

My mother in law has never invested a day in her life and I didn’t want the news or some boomer friend to freak her out, so my wife and I just tell her she’s invested in “the market” 😂

When Bitcoin (the market) is doing good, we tell her and when it’s not we just… don’t tell her lol

So she’s effectively shielded from the emotional volatility of hodling. Which makes her a very good hodler.

Fast forward to today.

I helped her retire from the preschool. She is now living with us and helping look after her grandchildren.

She went from being near suicidal. My wife and I were legitimately concerned about her mental health. To a happy healthy and vibrant grandmother.

And as of yesterday she crossed 500k in retirement accounts.

I expect she’ll be a millionaire soon.

She can now comfortably retire with dignity.

This is not something that would have been possible without Bitcoin.

As cool as it is to see people like @saylor make billions of dollars these are the stories I live for.

The average person fixing their life with bitcoin.

It’s so fucking beautiful man.

Life’s good.

Bravo! Similar story with my mom. Not newly divorced but always worried about retirement.

Sad realty that people are so easily fooled!

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I hope this omega candle does happen on a Saturday night on a weekend holiday! Would be truly hilarious and ironic!

Just realizing the coinkite blockclock is bearish, needs more space to go up!

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This is becoming more and more important! Let’s see if he follows through.