I was married at 24 and I’m still happily married to a gorgeous woman who has given me 4 healthy children (2 girls, 2 boys). Had my first child at 28. I agree that where possible it’s best to start early with a life partner and kids.

I also get that for many people now they can’t seem to find a partner willing to commit to marriage and children in their 20s and in this game it takes 2 to tango.

I disagree heartily that everything is downhill from 25. Yea for sure you might have peak energy at 25, and less aches and pains but I can honestly say at 38 I’m in excellent health. I have superb energy and vitality, sleep well, my libido is as good as it was at 25 and I’m more aware of balancing my wellbeing.

Everything is downhill from when you start allowing yourself to succumb to entropy. Fight against it and the edge stays keen.

How old are you? How long have you been married and how many children do you have?

THAT MOMENT WHEN YOU LOOK AT ANOTHER BITCOINER AND YOU REALIZE THAT YOU’RE BOTH FUCKEN LEGENDS.

#Bitcoin

Sometimes the best thing to do for your own wellbeing is to be silent.

Inside and out.

Then everything feels right.

#innerpeace #silence #surrender

Sometimes I feel it Chris.

I haven’t felt comfortable for a while now.

Still waiting on the great things 😂

#personalgrowth #life

Just go commando. Your junk will smell nicer.

We have no idea what will happen when humanoid robots, large language models and #Bitcoin converge in the near future.

Expect the unexpected.

Yep. Means a lot to me. An increase in my tangible purchasing power in the currency I spend with is absolutely worth celebrating 🙌

Fucken aye! The YouTube clip of Osho talking about the many meanings of the work Fuck is an absolute ripper.

Now is when the fear of FOMO begins to grips the sidelined non-participants watching the great freedom movement that is #Bitcoin

“It’s too late” they cry.

“This ship has sailed they wail.”

“I’ll have to buy PEPE instead.”

Now is our time to reassure these worriers that IT IS NOT TOO LATE ⏰

You are still early folks.

We can help you over the line.

There is room on board this vessel.

The great flipping is under way! Saudi Aramco is down.

Well it’s hard to say exactly as I did not fully immerse into it. The markets themselves seemed to function well and there are a number of vendors who accept Bitcoin as payment in the area. The hard thing for us is that the town of Uvita did not appeal to us at all. So we didn’t desire to spend a lot of time there. To really understand how effectively it is working you’d need to spend time in the local Bitcoin community and talk with them about it. We did notice local Costa Rican vendors taking sats as payment and I’m sure this is serving them well.

Once upon a time someone had a vision of a greater world, a world that was fairer, more abundant and hopeful than the one they were living in. They birthed a daring dream, a hero’s dream, one that no one had ever been able to achieve before. It was the beginning of a myth, a cycle and a new reality, but they did not know this yet. Their name was Satoshi and they were an enigma, a person of unknown origin, or gender. Whether they were one or many we cannot say, only that they held within them the Promethean flame of inspiration, a new light to guide humanity towards freedom and hope.

Satoshi’s dream was to create money that would supersede all money before it. A money for the information age; digital, scarce, secure and decentralised. Money that would put power back into the hands of the people. To do this was far from easy, in fact it had never been done before. It would require bringing together concepts from maths, computing, cryptography and energy into a unique combination that could change the landscape of money forever.

Satoshi was part of small band of misfits, geniuses and hackers knows as cryptographers. This motley crew specialised in cracking code, hacking the un-hackable and creating cryptography so secure it could never be compromised. They valued autonomy, sovereignty, freedom and subtlety and they preferred to be left alone. For decades members of this guild had been attempting to create a digital money that was incorruptible. They knew the history of money and the tendency for it to become controlled, centralised, manipulated and devalued. The powerful, technologically advanced, and cunning had always managed to find a way to capture money for their own devices and even the best money humanity had ever known, gold, had found itself manipulated. Money had become a series of empty promises, a government owned and controlled paper trail that was nothing more than ever increasing debt pushed forward into the future. Money was corrupt and they knew it, Satoshi knew it, and they were determined to un-corrupt it. There had been several prior attempts at creating a digital currency, but none had functioned convincingly until Satoshi found the combination that worked. In a moment of rare genius Satoshi was able to combine all the elements of money together in a digital form that was bound to the physical reality of the world through a process known as proof of work. Satoshi bound the intangible digital world to the tangible world of energy and scarcity through this process and against all odds Bitcoin was born. 

Initially it was a small success celebrated within the band of cryptographers. They knew the flame had been lit, the seed of something great planted, but whether anything would come of it was yet to be seen and for a couple of years the money had no tangible value. It was a plaything, a mathematically perfect system that was producing new bitcoins every 10 mins with incredible accuracy and could be run from a home computer with little energy costs. Bitcoins were created, sent and lost, Satoshi watched the process and let it evolve organically. As the creator of the money Satoshi could have held immense power, but this was not what Satoshi had in mind. Power over money was the issue and Satoshi was a hero of the people, willing to sacrifice for the good of all. They locked away 1 million bitcoins in a wallet, burned the pass codes and secured a portion of the total supply that could never be touched, like sending a ship full of gold down to the deepest depths of the ocean where no one could find them. As part of the genius plan Satoshi had set in motion they had pre-determined a supply cap on the currency; a precise number of coins that would be released over a set period and would never exceed it, a stroke of brilliance, creating the true scarcity that money had never seen before. The number, 21 million.

At some point in the journey Satoshi began to become quiet. Like a farmer who has prepared the soil, planted and watered the seed, fertilised the young shoots and set up caretakers over it they now began to withdraw and allow the harvest to come about on its own, organically. Eventually Satoshi went completely quiet, disappearing much like an apparition from the band of cryptographers to remain an enigma, a faceless presence who had blessed the world with something great and was content to remain anonymous. Bitcoin itself, the digital network, and the bitcoins that were tied to it started to spread through the digital landscape and at some point, spontaneously became valuable. Much like an idea, or a seed sprouting, the exact moment had to happen of itself and could not be forced. The first monetary transaction was rather simple, a young man decided to buy pizza with some of the bitcoin he had mined, two pizzas to be precise, for a grand total of 10,000 Bitcoins. Now BTC had value, it had arisen from nothing to become something, and word began to get out.

As the small shoots of the idea took root they were watered by the rains of curiosity. New technologies start gradual and then begin to shoot up fast. Satoshi’s visionary creation was now less of a plaything and more of a real opportunity. Freedom seekers, libertarians and developers began to mine it on their computers using energy to solve increasingly complex mathematical equations. As demand for bitcoins increased the first Bitcoin Spring came about. Shoots were popping up everywhere and they had value. The value was volatile, and people never knew when this crop of new money might fail. Risk takers jumped in, demand increased and the difficulty to mine the bitcoins went up. This meant more energy was required to mine them and investment into more powerful computers needed. Bitcoin miners required more energy and went in search of abundant sources of it the world over. The race had begun.

Competition is a powerful driver, and money will drive people to fight for it. In the case of Bitcoin, it is a bloodless war over energy, the kind of fight that levels the playing field. The flame of innovation was burning bright, the crop was flourishing, and Bitcoin Summer was born. An exchange dedicated to the buying and selling of bitcoins emerged and trading began. A Bitcoin boom was on and a harvest on the horizon. Satoshi’s inspiration was taking root around the world. Surely now was the time to take credit for what was becoming a global phenomenon, but Satoshi was gone, and the growth of this new internet money was left where it was always destined to be. In the hands of the people.

The beauty of the design lay not only in its scarcity and its tangible tie to energy but also its decentralised nature. Satoshi knew that even the best money if not adequately dispersed would eventually find itself centralised, captured by the hands of the powerful. They designed it that anyone could validate the network if they decided to do so. Bitcoin stands alone in its trustless mathematical nature. There is a ledger, known as a blockchain that keeps a record of every bitcoin every mined. It is immutable, in other words it cannot be altered, and it keeps a 100% accurate record of every transaction on the Bitcoin block chain all the way back to the Genesis Block: The very first Bitcoin ever mined by Satoshi in 2009. The issue with money as Satoshi knew was that you had to have someone, an intermediary, to validate that it was real. Counterfeit money has always plagued humanity and dishonesty is rife in our nature. Having to trust people is tricky and the only answer for an incorruptible money was to take out the human element, replacing it with maths. The blockchain is simple, it records transactions like an excel document and forever embeds them into one continuous chain of data back through time. Each bitcoin is mined with powerful computers and validated with more simple ones called nodes. There are now thousands of these nodes all over the world. When the nodes agree that the transaction is legitimate then it can be signed and placed into the blockchain. By allowing individuals the world over the chance to mine their own coins and validate the legitimacy of them in the network Satoshi created a truly powerful network of incentives that ensured each holder of these precious and scarce coins would be incentivised to protect their crop.

It is impossible to create something world shaking without making enemies. Those in power do not like to lose hegemony and the great controllers of money did not appreciate the idea of an organically created money they could not control. People having the freedom to mine their own currency, hold it anonymously, and transact with it beyond the reach of their tendrils was very affronting. As soon as Bitcoin moved from internet play money to something more tangible the incumbent industries began to attack it, demean it and try to stop it. Bitcoin has faced innumerable challenges since its miraculous conception, and they tend to come all at once. Many have tried to hack the network, corrupt it, ban the mining, attack it as criminal money, charge and tax the holders of it, and generally label it as a scam. No matter how many times Satoshi’s creation has been hit, it always comes back, and it only gets stronger. Much like a virulent plant that no matter how many times you cut it down it always grows back, so Bitcoin has proven itself to be a resilient and robust system; adaptable, evolving, unstoppable. Every myth must have its monsters, and this one is no different. The monsters of big government, big tech and big money have fought it with everything they have, and they are losing the battle. The cycle continues regardless because Bitcoin is a seven headed Hydra and no matter how many heads you cut off, a new one pops up. This is the beauty of decentralisation, robust cryptography, and energy.

The time when this becomes the most paramount is during harvest when the crop has grown tall and abundant. The first harvest for Bitcoin rewarded these early miners for their commitment and the conscientious received a plentiful harvest. Bitcoin had proven itself to be money although the price in dollars swung wildly and people rapidly moved in and out of the asset. All harvests eventually come to an end and fear of winter creeps in. The euphoria of that first boom was intense and short lived. The price fell, people lost faith and sold their coins into stronger hands. Winter is a harsh season, and the first Bitcoin Winter was long and hard. Many lost hope, yet others gained conviction and began to see a future where a decentralised and secure monetary network based on maths could radically transform the landscape of money and abundance. Satoshi’s vision began to spread, and a new myth was born, a myth that people could cling to. Hope began to blossom in hearts and minds and the understanding that this ‘magic internet money’ was more than just a fad. It was a new paradigm, a truth in the world, something operating on its own unique cycle, unstoppable and uncontrollable. Get on board or ignore it, regardless it was underway and like a plant that spreads from a single seed and takes over a continent, Bitcoin spread from the Genesis Block and began to take roots in every country on earth.

Bitcoin is now a global phenomenon and is in its fourth cycle of spring, summer, fall and winter. Each new cycle more people plant their own seeds, reap a harvest and begin to believe in the myth that Satoshi has given us. Bitcoins are becoming scarcer now, every four years the amount of Bitcoin that can be mined is cut in half, an event called the Bitcoin halving. Conversely the energy cost to mine these Bitcoin goes up as the block reward is halved. The cycle revolves around this four yearly halving and the supply shock that follows it drives up demand and initiates a fresh harvest. It’s an inbuilt mechanism that makes bitcoin deflationary and gives the coins ever-increasing value. Like a finite store of seed that reduces by half every sowing season so does the overall bitcoin supply diminish with time and the loss of many of the coins by careless custodians.  Supply drops, demand increases, and more care is needed. As the farmer must protect their harvest so we must protect the Bitcoin we own to ensure it is not lost or stolen from us. This game of security is one of vigilance, in the Bitcoin game we are each responsible for our wealth, we cannot hand off this responsibility to others or we lose the heart of Satoshi’s vision. Empowered, self-sovereign wealth and abundance for all. Due to the remarkable incentive structure built into Bitcoin and its decentralised nature, an army of developers work endlessly to find new innovative ways to protect and store bitcoin for the future, a future where the value of our savings increases every cycle, and the winners are those who have the greatest conviction in the new myth.

Satoshi knew there would come a day when having a whole seed would be next to impossible for new farmers. There were only ever 21 million bitcoin to be mined and Satoshi had already locked one million away for safe keeping. This meant that those later on might miss out and power could again centralise. There was plan, make the seeds divisible into tiny units, each bitcoin divided into 100 million smaller fractions which were named Satoshis or Sats. These sats enabled a person to own fractions of a coin and still get the benefits of a harvest. Like a farmer taking one seed and splitting it into many, abundance was multiplied and no one barred from owning bitcoin.

Over time the amount of energy required to solve the cryptographic equation and receive bitcoin became huge and larger farmers began to work together to pool their resources and then spit the profits of the harvest. Bitcoin again showed its collaborative nature as miners took the bitcoins, sold them to the exchanges and the exchanges passed it on to the people. An entire industry of miners, validators, developers, exchanges, and applications began to build upon the profoundly secure and reliable network that Satoshi has built. All solid myths must have a foundation of bedrock upon which the evolving story can be built, and Bitcoin is that solid foundation. In all its years of operation it has never failed to produce new coins every 10 minutes and it has never been hacked. It requires no trust and hence it can be trusted.

Those who can see the bright future harvest that belong to the patient person willing to plant, water, fertilise and protect their seeds have not only grasped Satoshi’s vision they have gained an entirely new mythology dedicated to hope, growth, evolution and abundance. They have found conviction, structure and dependability in a shaky and volatile world. They are the torch bearers bringing light into a world of darkness and the light is growing in intensity as more and more join the movement that Satoshi began.

#Bitcoin

It’s such a funny thing isn’t it, they appear excited for you and when you attempt to explain why it’s doing well they go silent as if it’s really all luck 🍀

Bystanders watching Bitcoin price appreciation who don’t own any (yet).

“Wow, Bitcoin is really pumping!”

Bitcoiners.

“It’s a hard money; mathematically secured, divisible into tiny fractions, cryptographically unhackable, truly decentralised and genuinely scarce. It’s only a matter of time before it is the most valuable asset on earth.”

Bystanders.

“Cool”

#bitcoin #hardmoney #wearesoearly

Men like to make money, women love to spend it.

If you want the women in your life to understand Bitcoin get them spending it.

Their curiosity will increase immediately.

#bitcoin #womeninbitcoin

That’s the great challenge.

Thanks for the repost Jeff.

Promoting Bitcoin in a gruelling bear market to disbelieving friends and family can feel like Sisyphus, a king of Corinth, who was cursed by Zeus to roll a massive boulder up a steep hill in the Underworld. Whenever he would get close to the top the boulder would inexplicably roll back down, forcing him to begin the task anew. So, it is with Bitcoin when all the sceptics focus on is USD price and every time the price would rise it would find itself cast back down like Sisyphus’s boulder, giving the BTC wary another opportunity to suggest it is too volatile, too risky, and likely to fail. Now the trend has reversed, sidelined friends and family are taking notice of the digital money that just won’t die! This is our time to humbly and consciously begin to remind them anew that Bitcoin is more than a speculative asset, magic internet money, or a horse that’s already bolted. We can at last see the opportunity to roll the boulder up and over the hill bringing on board a new wave of future Bitcoiners.

All of us who have a serious level of conviction about the emerging monetary technology, the mathematical truth it conveys, and the spiritual evolution it is awakening are in no danger of un-believing. We have seen the light as it were and what has been seen cannot be unseen. The beauty of all complex decentralised systems is that they are always providing more depth. There seems to be an endlessness to systems that can offer the devoted an opportunity for a lifetime of study and growth. The deeper we go into something the more convinced of its worth we become and the more difficult it is to remember a time when we were sceptical or even downright antagonistic about it. The atheist who becomes a theist struggles to recall they once hated the idea of God. Naivety on a subject when lost is difficult to recall and many of us would struggle to teach very simplistic concepts on Bitcoin in a way that relates to the unconvinced. In fact it is often the very act of trying to convince that pushes people away. Evangelists of anything are often as repelling as they are compelling.

In most cases trying to convince somebody, especially in difficult conditions such as a bear market, may not be worth our time, especially if the person we are sharing with has a low level of interest or is antagonistic towards Bitcoin (or the idea they have of it). There are others who show interest and even enthusiasm but will not get over the line to owning the asset as they are too apprehensive and fearful; a normal and even rational response to something new and ‘untried’. In many cases this rejection is so total that the ego wants them to suffer for their ignorance and a “fuck you” mentality creeps in. ‘You get Bitcoin at the price you deserve’ is an example of proclaiming that the most intelligent people get Bitcoin early, get the rewards, and those less intellectually rigorous who fail to see the light deserve to miss out. It can lead to a tribalistic self-righteousness among the early adopters who may be quite content to hold onto their hard-earned wins (Bitcoins) and let the friends and family who mocked them for their commitment to Bitcoin miss out.

Challenge this mindset we must, and aggressively so. Unless we are Satoshi, or one of the early cryptographers who potentially created this supreme asset, we can recall a point in our lives when we were also ignorant and with a little honesty acknowledge that it was not necessarily our incredible intelligence that brought us to buy our first sats. Perhaps it was FOMO, greed, an appetite for risk, or some other emotion that pushed us over the line. The intellectual component of understanding typically comes later as we dive down the rabbit hole that is the Bitcoin network and everything is contains. With humility and some objective remembering we can ground ourselves once again in the beginner’s mindset, and from this place recall that it was things like price appreciation and media attention that pushed most of us over the line. Here we are again in this place where Bitcoin is in the news, the price is reaching almost daily ATH’s, and friends and family are beginning to reach out, ask questions and even applaud. This is not the time to bask in the glory of self-congratulation, it is our time to get the boulder over the hill for as many people as we can. To graciously accept the praise that comes of hard work and dedication using them as fuel to bring others on board so their lives can also be transformed.

No matter how many times we have pushed the metaphorical boulder up the hill we must not rest too long at the bottom. There is hope on the horizon and fuel in our tanks to power us now. As people reach out and opportunities arise to bring more Bitcoiners to our cause, let’s approach them with understanding and the conviction born of experience. It is our time.

#bitcoin #itisourtime #wisdom #abundance #bitcoinbull

Crypto trading is like riding a motorcycle in the dark, fun until you hit a tree 🌲

#bitcoin #hodl