Original shitcoin.

Got home from Montana. 4 days, 1500+ miles. Both my kids are here, steaks are being grilled, couldn't ask for anything more!

Today I rode my motorcycle.

To Montana.

14 hours, 750 miles.

That's the note.

Where's the brown sauce? Oh.

And one of my npubs follows @hopelessromantic - for the reasons stated. 🫶

Also doing this, or at least trying. Also nice to have a very different curated list of npubs followed to have a very different viewing experience.

🫂🫶

Some thoughts around bitcoin. Almost through with Erik Cason's book, and it hit me that the entire work is written from a framework that I don't share.

Erik comes from a generally Christian frame of understanding, where there is good and evil, original sin, a saviour (or messiah), and a single omnipotent god.

What I initially took for anger is more angst, brought about by the need to resolve oneself against that framework, do good, be aligned with the presumptive ethos of the god figure, and hold out hope for a messiah to save oneself from an existence of evil and sin.

So I apologize for that initial observation. But I look at things very differently, although I was raised in a Christian faith. I now see my reality as part of a triune, where there is what I can observe (matter/spacetime), what is unobservable (energy or light), and the intersection between the two (waves, or field energy). Yes, this is somewhat analogous to the Christian triune of god, Jesus, and spirit, but it is not the same. There is no messiah. There is no sin or hell, nothing to be saved from, and no angst involved in comparing oneself to the presumed ethic of a superior.

So my take on the significance of bitcoin is much different. I would say the most important concept of bitcoin might be the nature of ownership, and how bitcoin changed that. The other most significant concept is the network - which aligns nicely with my concept of field energy. Then there is the lack of a physical object, meaning that bitcoin can only be observed in at a point in time, with the complete ledger record at that point. Then - tick tock next block, it changes. The timechain is an entire new perspective on time itself, a very different way of observing time.

So no, I don't see it as messianic. I don't know that it will save us from some evil panopticon (and I'm dead sick of that word). But that is my take, and definitely a different book. I do think it defies the Abrahamic religious traditions, in many ways may change our thinking around what those traditions have been allowed to become - ultimately, fiat.

And I believe strongly in meeting people where they at, without relying on my own beliefs regarding what they should be, or how they could be different. My assumptions will never explain their existence, so far easier and more freeing to accept existence without presumption.

Proud Viking. Because it suits me and the DNA apparently confirms it.

The problem being that over generations, memories get garbled, traditions become either based on what is no longer assumed to be true, or altered to suit those in power. This happens in the short term as well, as we quickly develop habits and then continue as we've "always done it this way", or adapt to fit a new directive, without much consideration as to why our habit or pattern began.

Humans are good at patterns, but horrible at time. This is possibly because our perception of time is at odds with how "reality" actually works, but that's a far more expansive topic.

Science is not a hill I want to die on.

Science is not fact. Science gets it wrong more than right. Science is just a process for learning how to interact with our reality in a way that appears to work, at least for now.

GN.

(Early, but trying to not be on the phone in the bedroom, and I just never know when I may be headed there)

But will it get brittle and crack, especially under load?

Still badass. And a good anchor for things that want to fly away in storms.

Day 1. Not great with the cigarettes (had a couple more than I planned for), OK on coffee (drank one shortly after noon that I made before noon.)

Not discouraged, though. I plan to quit smoking after I get a prescription for bupropion filled, which is how I've had the most success in the past. Also I don't plan to quit until after a trip to Montana in a couple weeks. This was just to see how powerful that calendar reminder would be, and I definitely like it.

I also overslept last night for the first time in a long time, after waking up after about 2 hours of sleep, and not getting back to sleep for probably an hour. That also is very rare for me. It may be the change in caffeine load, may be the extra hydration, but could be a lot of things.

I've watched plenty of videos with doctors explaining various estrogen-related topics in connection with low-carb diets, and what impresses me the most is the amount of symptoms and hardships connected with menopause and infertility that are reversed or alleviated.

My overall take is that eating a proper human diet helps to bring estrogen and testosterone into balance, in both men and women.

But I must admit, that was a great answer!

(This was in response to HODL's note about bear markets being tough. Stands okay as its own note, but added this for a little context)

I had to remind myself that poverty is the base case.

Any time I am above poverty, I am playing on winnings.

And those winnings were earned. So I wished to keep them. Thankfully 1 bitcoin still equalled 1 bitcoin, so job done.

Hardest part has been denying urges to spend a little on the climb. Still might, but holding on for now, still doing my DCA.

Almost 4 years in. No huge selloffs or losses. The times I have sold some were early stages of experimentation with testing the offramps and at one point trying to convert my entire check to bitcoin and live by selling only what I had to.

Overall, I'm down about 10% from my top, but most of that was gifted to my family, so I can't really count that as lost. None of them have sold it, even though I offered to buy it back if any of them ever wanted to sell. Probably helps that I gave it to them around the bottom, so they've only seen it climb.

Gn. 🌛

Commissioned gifts from actual artisans are far superior to anything on Amazon. I love being able to be involved in the design process.

Last time I commissioned something was jewelry. This time, leather. Same vibe.

Laughing at their article photo choice because a plant-based keto diet is ridiculous, NGMI.

This does not mean you can't eat plants and be keto. But it works a lot better if your fat and protein come (together) from animal meat.