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🚀 Your Sat-Stacking Cousin & Bitcoin Citizen | 📙Book Author - Bitcoin, Not Crypto |đŸ§˜đŸ»â€â™‚ïž Stillness & Gratitude | 🍬FUgum Founder

🚹New Video Release🚹

Why Bitcoin Scarcity Matters.

Take a watch and share with somebody why the Bitcoin 21 million hard cap is so important.

Based on ideas from my book and available on my YouTube channel also.

https://blossom.primal.net/be575ff24d9243696adcc43ce3fad02594aa0675eb7626a2ef3e5d127a894075.mov

đŸŽ¶Chain ReactionđŸŽ”

A rock song about leaving a system build on debt, deception, and distraction for sound money.

Distortion up, but signal clear.

Also available on my YouTube channel.

https://blossom.primal.net/b252f7b95c5289c47965cb2fc8dc1524e35682a176959fa88a60d6ace3fc54ee.mov

🚹New Video Release🚹

What is money??

We use money every day.

We trade our time, our trust, and our freedom for it.

But how often do we stop to ask
 what is money?

Also available on my YouTube channel.

https://blossom.primal.net/296e0c2f08763d1eae0923a8cada388fc1085cc7ee662a56e99e6f05c388530a.mov

Change your thoughts; change your standard of value. One spark of clarity can light a lifetime of conviction.

Grateful for you all. Hope your day is full of positivity, progress, and purpose.

t is cliché, but true: understanding Bitcoin changed me.

The gravity of truth bends everything around it.

Bitcoin is the black hole of value that nothing escapes.

What Is Bitcoin?

Educational video explaining Bitcoin. Also available on my YouTube channel.

Youtube.com/@mybitcoincousin

Give it a watch and share it with somebody who doesn’t yet understand the importance of Bitcoin.

https://blossom.primal.net/42f41b580c525ab443738cdaadc216b83f2ad1cb6c654f791923d4c0655649ed.mp4

There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin. Understand what true scarcity means.

Take the world’s wealth (≈$471T) and divide by 21 million Bitcoin = $22.4M per BTC. Even if BTC absorbs 5% of that, we are at $1.12M/Bitcoin đŸ€Ż Makes sense to stack as hard as possible. Scarcity matters. Nothing compares.

đŸŽ¶Cold Storage Skank music video.

Listen, learn, dance.

Bitcoin is the future. Self custody makes it yours.

https://blossom.primal.net/767b1bae8392e2199a80f348bebe238c40ac03219f5e5621cf59c054ba0ed6a7.mov

They will come for your Bitcoin.

Only self-custody keeps you safe.

#Bitcoin

Run your own node.

Verify your own transactions.

Keep the miners in check.

Participate in the network.

Fiat created the walls.

Bitcoin made an exit.

Step out of the cave, it’s nice out here.

#Bitcoin

đŸŽ¶ Music video: Sovereign In Money

Understand Bitcoin and protect your future with sound money for a digital age.

https://blossom.primal.net/3a08c88792e2d1ef9d9d9e742bf56adfe445bbbf510ae63959fb91d0cc58f66a.mov

Out of the shadows comes a gift no authority can seize, no empire can corrupt. Bitcoin is not offered, it is discovered.

If The Universe is conscious, what does that mean for us?

For centuries, we have been told that consciousness is a late arrival in the story of the cosmos, a byproduct of matter arranging itself into brains after billions of years of blind, mechanical processes. In this view, the universe is essentially indifferent, and awareness is a fragile accident destined to vanish when the bodies that hold it dissolve.

But what if we have it backwards? What if consciousness is not the final note in the cosmic symphony, but the first? What if awareness is not an emergent property of matter, but a fundamental quality of reality itself, as basic as space, time, and energy?

This idea is not new. Mystics, philosophers, and indigenous traditions have long described the world as alive in every part, from the stars to the stones. In modern philosophy, this view appears as panpsychism, the notion that consciousness is a universal and intrinsic feature of existence. In physics, some interpretations of quantum theory seem to flirt with the idea that observation and awareness play a role in shaping the very events we call reality.

If the universe is conscious, then we are not isolated islands of mind adrift in a dead ocean of matter. We are expressions of the same awareness that forms galaxies, grows forests, and flows in rivers. Our individual minds may be like waves rising from a vast ocean of consciousness, taking temporary form before returning to the whole.

Such a perspective would reshape more than philosophy. It would change how we treat the natural world, no longer as a resource to be consumed, but as a living network in which we participate. It would alter how we view death, not as a fall into nothingness, but as a change in the pattern through which awareness expresses itself. It would redefine identity, expanding it beyond the body and the self-story to include the entire field of being.

Skeptics argue that attributing consciousness to the universe risks making the concept meaningless, stretching it so far it no longer explains anything. And it is true that no theory, however elegant, replaces the need for evidence. Yet we cannot ignore that consciousness is the one thing we know directly, the ground upon which all experience rests. Everything else is an inference drawn from within it.

If awareness is woven into the fabric of reality, then our own consciousness is not an anomaly but a reflection of the universe knowing itself. The stars are not merely distant fires in the void, but part of the same luminous field that allows you to see them. The boundaries between self and world become porous, and the question shifts from “What is out there?” to “What am I, if I am made of the same knowing as everything else?”

We may never be able to prove this idea in the way science proves the orbit of a planet or the chemistry of a cell. But the shift in perspective it invites is profound. If the universe is conscious, then every moment, every breath, every particle is part of an unbroken field of awareness, and to be alive is to participate in the vast mystery of the cosmos looking back at itself.

When the mind awakens to Bitcoin, the current flows differently. A new network forms. One built on truth, energy, and unstoppable connection.

Empires crumble into dust, yet Bitcoin’s roots only grow deeper. The future belongs to those who plant seeds of truth today.

There is an exit from the monetary system that has been gaslighting us for generations.

An exit from inflation disguised as “stability.”

An exit from debt sold as “growth.”

An exit from manipulation presented as “policy.”

That exit is Bitcoin.

It doesn’t ask for your trust.

It doesn’t bend to politicians or central banks.

It runs on math, energy, and consensus.

Bitcoin is money aligned with truth.

Beneath the surface of who we think we are lies a vast network of memory, energy, and light.

Every thought is a thread.

Every emotion a current.

Every choice a ripple through the fabric of what we call the self.

The face you see is not just flesh and bone.

It is stardust, awareness, and infinite possibility woven together.

We are far more than what meets the eye.

https://blossom.primal.net/147e72d891cc7e75563521d643eaf723e28c314bcdf43653578bcb91a1ad06c6.mov

The ripple extends far beyond the splash.

Just as ripples stretch across the pond, sound money affects the whole system and everyone in it.

Run your own node.

While miners secure the network by expending energy, full nodes enforce Bitcoin’s rules. A node independently verifies all transactions and blocks, rejecting anything invalid.

If a miner attempts to include fraudulent transactions, nodes will not accept the block. This balance ensures miners cannot change Bitcoin’s rules, as their work is always subject to verification by the wider network.

Nodes place ultimate authority in the hands of users, keeping Bitcoin decentralized and censorship-resistant.

Your node, and the rules it enforces, are how you tell the network “this is what Bitcoin is to me”

The arc of monetary history is long, but it bends towards Bitcoin.

Thoughts on living in a simulation.

The simulation hypothesis suggests that our reality might be an artificial construct, a vast and intricate program running on a substrate beyond our comprehension. Popular versions imagine a highly advanced civilization creating worlds so detailed that the inhabitants believe them to be real. While this idea often appears in science fiction or technology debates, it also raises profound questions about the nature of consciousness itself.

If we are living in a sim, then our physical universe might be no more fundamental than the environment in a video game. The laws of physics could be rules coded into the system. Time and space might be parameters rather than absolutes. In such a scenario, the question becomes not only who or what created the simulation, but how consciousness emerges within it.

The traditional materialist view holds that consciousness arises from complex arrangements of matter. If the matter in our universe is simulated, then the same patterns could, in principle, give rise to simulated consciousness. This would mean that what we experience as awareness is not tied to the substance of the world, but to the structure and information within it. Consciousness would be a kind of pattern that could exist in any medium capable of supporting it.

Another possibility is that consciousness is not created inside the simulation at all. Instead, our subjective awareness could originate outside the system, with our simulated bodies and environments functioning as avatars. In this view, what you call your mind might be more like a receiver or interface, translating your true awareness into the language of the simulated world. Death would be less an end than a logout.

Some interpretations of the simulation hypothesis blend with ancient spiritual ideas. Mystical traditions have long described the world as an illusion, a dream, or a play of appearances. The point was never to dismiss life, but to remind us that the surface is not the whole. If the simulation hypothesis is correct, modern physics and ancient metaphysics might be pointing to the same insight: that what we take as ultimate reality could be a layer, not the source.

Critics argue that the simulation hypothesis is unfalsifiable. If every observation could be explained as part of the code, then no evidence could prove or disprove it. Yet even if it remains untestable, thinking in these terms changes how we approach the mystery of consciousness. It challenges the assumption that matter is the foundation and mind is an afterthought. It opens the possibility that awareness is primary, and the universe is an experience rendered for it.

If this is true, then the most important question is not whether we are in a simulation, but what the simulation is for. Are we here to learn? To evolve? To play? And if one day we discover that this reality is a construct, will that knowledge free us, or simply reveal that the layers go deeper than we imagined?

Thank you for reading 🙏

Fiat is Hopeless. Study Bitcoin.

Until we face the corruption in the fiat system, it will direct our lives and we call it an “economy.”

Letting go of fiat opens the door to what humanity might become through Bitcoin.

Sometimes we never realize the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Thoughts on silence in a Bitcoin world.

We live in a world that never stops talking. Every screen is shouting. Every brand wants attention. Governments hold press conferences to explain away failures. Banks issue statements to justify their next move. Corporations launch campaigns to tell you what to think, how to feel, and what to buy.

It’s constant, it’s loud, and it’s exhausting.

Then there’s Bitcoin.

No press releases. No PR team. No glossy ads with smiling actors pretending to care. Bitcoin just quietly
 works. Every ten minutes, another block is added. No drama, no headlines, no begging for attention. It doesn’t try to sell itself. It doesn’t need to.

That silence is not a bug. It’s the point.

Bitcoin doesn’t care who’s trending, who’s screaming, or who’s spinning the latest crisis. It doesn’t ask you to believe anything. It simply invites you to observe. No promises. No politics. Just uptime, consensus, and math.

There is something almost spiritual about the way it operates. It’s like a monk in a room full of salesmen. While everyone else is yelling to be heard, Bitcoin stays quiet and lets its actions speak. Every block is a quiet act of resistance. Every confirmation is a whisper of certainty in a world addicted to chaos.

In that silence, people start to hear something else: their own thoughts.

Bitcoin doesn’t push. It waits. It doesn’t flood your feed with slogans. It gives you something solid to stand on when everything else feels like quicksand. It teaches by doing, not by preaching. It reminds us that truth doesn’t need to shout. It just needs to be verifiable.

Maybe that’s why it feels so different. It doesn’t just change your relationship with money. It changes your relationship with noise, with truth, with the idea that real power doesn’t need a spotlight. Real power is quiet. Real power is consistent. Real power just shows up, block after block, while the rest of the world burns itself out screaming.

When you finally see it, there’s no going back.

Bitcoin isn’t just money, it’s the lens that changes how you see the world.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

-Confucius

Those who save in sats command the future.

-@MyBitcoinCousin

You are responsible for shaping what enters your mind and for what emerges from it.

The mind is the vessel , and your choices, virtues, and actions are what fill it. Discipline lies in mastering both.

Bitcoin is a battery for storing the value of your work across time and space.

Volatility is just noise when you understand the foundation.

Most people panic when the price drops.

They cheer when it rises.

They watch the chart like a mood ringđŸ€Ł

But Bitcoin isn’t about the chart. It’s about the system.

Do you understand why there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoin?

Do you know how often blocks are produced?

Can you verify that no one controls it?

If so, you’re grounded. The noise doesn’t shake you.

Because once you see what Bitcoin is: a neutral, rules-based, unstoppable monetary network, the day-to-day price becomes background static.

The dollar is losing value every day.

Banks are risky af.

Governments are spending more than they earn. Debt to GDP at all time highs.

That’s not volatility. That’s slow erosion.

Bitcoin is volatile because it’s early. Because it’s growing. Because it’s free.

Volatility doesn’t mean failure.

It means you’re watching truth being discovered in real time.

The question isn’t “Will the price go down?”

It’s “Do I know what I hold?”

If the answer is yes, you stop flinching.

You zoom out. You carry on.

When you teach people about Bitcoin, you liberate not just their money, but their mind.