If your money wasn’t constantly losing value like a melting ice cube, would you lend it out to someone else to invest?

Now imagine your money was limited in quantity and superior to 99% of the other money out there, would you loan that money out to someone else to invest?

When the average Joe six pack figures this out, I think the financial industry is done.

The financial titans of this world didn’t exactly build their empires on hard work and innovation—they thrived by arbitraging the inflation of fiat currency through a slick mix of credit and other assets. Meanwhile, Satoshi came along and handed everyone a way to do the same thing, but with digital scarcity on steroids, and with next to no transaction cost. A beautiful upgrade, really.

The traditional trade-fi industry? Well, they’ve got no choice but to embrace this evolutionary shift in finance, whether they like it or not. But don’t expect them to go down without a fight. They’ll plaster over their impending obsolescence with a parade of complexity—shitcoins, ETFs, and an endless stream of “innovative” financial products designed to make themselves seem indispensable. And, of course, the masses? They’ll fall for it, as always, happily paying the middlemen for their “expertise” while missing the bigger picture.

I’ve had 32 stackable events so far in 2025.

I was more impressed in the beginning when Niks wife brought him coffee.

I have to start off saying I’m Fartface on the chance that you might know who that is and then I reveal my actual name. 😂 BTCSessions saw this in person like 5 years ago when I met Adam Back, it was a quiet embarrassing moment because he didn’t know me. He knows me now

I wish I could remember my history teachers perspective in grammar school, I would have badgered them with questions and challenge their assumptions if I could transfer my adult brain into that child

I’m in my early 50’s and history has never been more interesting to me. Especially now with all the different sources of information.

It’s sad, I remember when I first heard things like you need to be able to slay your hero’s, don’t trust verify.. I was impressed with the freedom fuck you culture

Thank you for the sats. I appreciate them and realize how hard they are to give

Very surprised at these results on X.

Maybe my perspective on history is different.

My perception is that statism started the day the 13 colonies (actually 12) signed the constitution. Rhode Island resisted central control.

Just took the dogs to take a shit on this path, how is your morning?

Twitter has got much worse. All the plebs I interacted with Either left Twitter or couldn’t hang onto their #Bitcoin 🍿

Paying people to participate was honestly the dumbest thing Elon ever did. Nobody is genuine anymore, everyone is looking for followers and clicks.

What’s not to love about the Atlantic?

He wants us to remain positive 😂

My December 2020 final Christmas gift to my adult Nieces and nephews.

Dear nieces and nephews,

You are all adults now. Aunt Dxxx and I have been gift giving your entire lives. Some 30 years, some 18 years. This year will be the final year, we are all adults. But I am going to give you the most precious gift I ever gave you, two very scarce things, my time and some bitcoin.

Over the last three years, I’ve probably been a little excessive with my group texts talking about the economy, government and money/bitcoin. I do not apologize, I feel the economy is a sham, our government is inept and our money is being debased by both.

I feel what gave me my opportunities in life was an early start and saving what I earned. I spent tons of time in my 20’s learning about stocks, options, bonds and other investments. I realized inflation was real and I needed to educate myself or trust someone else to safeguard, grow and protect my hard earned savings.

I’ve seen the government offer loans to people who shouldn’t get them in an attempt to stimulate financial activity, it has always ended in a collective bailout.

Housing crisis of 2008 robbed your generation of cheap housing. In lieu of the banks and the borrowers taking the hit they should have, the government bailed them out and housing prices just kept rising. This has also happened with college, the government gives loans to kids to go to school to get lectured at and party, they will bail them out also. But they are not bailing out anyone, because your government does not produce anything, they don’t add to the economic production, they only produce debts and liabilities in excess of the taxes we give them. They will continue down this road until they can’t convince the central bank to buy our bonds/debt. We need to seperate money and state.,So the option to function on debt(our future production) is not available.

3 years ago, I learned about a software project called Bitcoin(upper case B), it’s basically a distributed accounting system that has and emits it’s own native currency called bitcoins(lower case b)

It has a monetary policy that is written in software code that can’t be changed unless the majority (consensus) of the users run new software. Basically, it’s opt in, money you can’t fuck with. Hard Money!!!

Right now bitcoins are a nascent speculative asset, the total market capitalization is less than 425 billion. That’s 1/5 of Apple computer. It’s competing globally as a store of value for anyone with a smart phone. Anyone can hold bitcoins, you don’t need a bank or a 3rd party, you can spend your bitcoins on anything you want 24/7.

Learning about Bitcoin and interacting with it is easy. It’s fun to imagine what will be built on top of this protocol. They call it a truth machine because it’s an immutable ledger that is synchronizing with millions of computers globally every 10 minutes. Everyone’s software reviews and validates all transactions. Checking balances and keeping the score. The Bitcoin network survives on free market incentives. The government nor anyone forces you to use it or interact. Learning about it is like peeling an onion, many layers.

If anything I have said above resonates with you call me or text me and I’d live to discuss. If you are interested in owning some bitcoins to store, protect and save for your future self, I’ve enclosed an fresh Opendime. An Opendime is a bitcoin wallet, it allows you to generate a public address and a private key to later sweep the funds. The device is activated when you plug it into a USB and then load some data on like pictures, the data is used to produce a random public key/private key pair. The public key is like your bank account. Your private key is what allows you to sweep the funds from the account to somewhere else(friend, store, exchange) this device is not intended to be your wallet because you will eventually need to sweep all the funds somewhere else but you can store bitcoins on it. Here is a link to their site to learn more about it.

If you want your final gift activate the Opendime and send me your public key, I will prorate the amount I send you based on your age, the youngest getting the most and the oldest getting the least.

If you don’t want to partake, that’s ok also, just send me back the Opendime and case I made and I will Venmo you $100

Love your Uncle and Aunt

Are Bitcoiners familiar with the business term “schmoozed”?

It’s common in my business, when I was young my vendors “schmoozed”me and I “schmoozed” my customers.

Once you’ve been “schmoozed” it’s very hard to be objective, you feel a sense of dedication to the “Schmoozer”

What do you think lobbyists do?

Remember everyone has an angle. Bitcoiners should remain suspicious of everyone and anyone, don’t trust, verify until #Bitcoin 🍿 is the global unit of account.

Chokes me up

Sons of bitches

Since I did all the work already and did the 2025 safe harbor and elected from here on in, Highest in first out, my 2025 plan going forward is this. What’s in cold storage and accounted for will be gifted to my heirs. Going forward, I will continue to accumulate from 1 source, store those sats in one location and use that stack for spending, and since I’m Highest in first out, I should have very little taxable consequences.

Their only angle I can think of is they can advertise that you can making them an equal way to get into bitcoin as an exchange