Watched two episodes and giving up. So much anxiety and not really "enjoying" it

zero carbs

Are the Bitcoins in self custody or not?

I like that when I tell myself not to stress. My body does exactly the opposite. Breathing exercises be damned. 🙃

Just cut up some eye of round beef, gotta make some more jerky. Beef jerky and smoked cheddar cheese is my new favorite snack. We're just about out of the jerky i made this weekend. #foodstr #homesteading

If btc holders are able to be 6102’d in 2025 then it stands to reason that they don’t really understand bitcoin fundamentals.

Nazism didn't fail bc it caused more harm, it failed bc they were fighting a war on multiple fronts. History shows several empires that caused more harm but had power so they persisted.

Also how can you say Nazism was harmful if everything is subjective?

Immorality and evil is subjective, so yes, you are correct. All humans act in a way they believe is good, whether most agree or not is up to everyone else. Dictating what is right and wrong is exactly what gets us to a point of corruption down the line, because now you have a "moral high ground" to defend any action. If you reject having a higher king you give yourself agency to parse and decide for yourself what is right and wrong. That can be scary, but ultimately what an individual and human collective decides is right and wrong should be up to them.

History also shows that if something is seen as wrong, it will be attacked, and whatever leads to the best outcome for all will typically win out. Nazism, for example, was set to fail because it's ideological and philosophical foundation is more harmful than helpful for humanity as a whole and was acted out on a zero-sum basis. The values in religion are beautiful because they paint the incentives of cooperation in a digestible way, but they innately exist and don't require a "God" to be true. Humans created that higher class to justify their control over others at scale.

I also think God is a fine thing to believe in; it's most definitely better than the state, politics, materialism, what have you. Whatever encourages unity and cooperation is cool with me; religion just has traits and a history that show it's a corruptable solution.

Rejection of religion isn't rejection of faith. One can be an atheist who believes in the strength of encryption, for example, but their belief is just that: a belief. There is no proof that P ≠ NP, and thus actions done with that underpinning are led by faith. Human action and growth have to be driven by faith in something; otherwise, we wouldn't have the will to do anything.

What rejection of religion is is a denial of a human construct of control that, regardless of how benevolent and pure its foundation claims to be, has without fail been used to subjugate and divide humanity. Religion can be useful at an individual, self-actualizing level, but that utility breaks down and is higly likely to become corrupted at a societal one.

Humans are inherently moral and driven to act in their self-interest, which, when taken to its maximum, is actually a collective interest. Every day we evolve to work and fight with one another to reach a point of pure oneness; it's just a volatile path to get there. There doesn't need to be a "God" to tell us this; we're all a sliver of the universe, a realization of its consciousness, part of a greater whole, and the crowning of a higher class of entity denies us the agency to live that reality to its fullest.

My employer came to me today and asked me if I could square him away on “Bitcoin stuff”.

He was pretty blown away that I already had a Bitcoin educational website built that I linked him to, and a full curriculum developed for teaching people about BTC acquisition, custody, transaction and security.

In five minutes I gave him enough material to easily keep him going for a couple of weeks, while he waits for his first signing devices and key storage hardware to show up.

I’m stressing the need to really understand the asset. And the need to stay current on best practices for the technical side of self custody. It’s not for everybody. Especially for people conditioned to using custodians for all of their investing and finance. So many people can’t even manage their passwords without relying on 2FA means of regularly recovering them.

I hope he knows what he’s in for, becoming his own bank…..manager, teller, head of IT, and head of security. I shudder to think. I hope he doesn’t rug himself by taking this responsibility lightly.

In a few weeks I’ll test his knowledge and whether or not he’s taking things seriously or not by offering to punch his seed phrases for 100k sats per set lol. Maybe make him number 3 on a two-of-three. Just because I care. Lol 😂

#bitcoin #grownostr

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