HOLY SMOKES. Just finished reading your 1st article (Paw Prints to the Timechain) and I now have nothing but mad deep respect for you. This part of your article struck me like lightning:

“This journey hasn’t just been about investing; it’s been about unlearning old beliefs and adopting new ones.”

Your newfound, serious commitment to getting and staying #OnZero is what I strive for as soon as I start making money in the fiat world (after I receive complete my national licensure exam) using #strike & #fold.

I’m glad I came across your unique, yet sincere voice here on nostr to learn more about what it takes to be self-sovereign on an economic level and move away from the fiat-minded philosophy that was drilled into our psyche since childhood.

Now onto the next article!

I’ll give it a read, determine if it’s a good stepping stone for them considering I’m like their “Uncle Jim” and let you know how it goes. You rock, bitcoinpup!

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones 🫂🎄🎁⚡️

What are your favorite seed words?

Did someone ask for corn for Christmas?

Did someone ask for corn for Christmas?

Year #2032 !!! ❓❓❓

What would you price #Bitcoin ❓ #asknostr #Nostr

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This was… an excellent read that rings VERY close to home with how I felt in the aftermath of the bear market with Bitcoin rising steadily past the ATH and my FOMO grew with it. We probably will never see Bitcoin take a 70% correction below 50k again (or maybe even 80k depending on how next year looks) but if it does, I’ll be ready to catch those dips.

Thank you for sharing with me your experience & the preview of your excerpt. I’ll be on the lookout for your article & will happily share it with the people I’m slowly orange-pilling who may feel the same as we did years ago.

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again.

I got my first sats in 2021. I had zero, ZERO, technical, security, software background. But, I knew this was something special to protect and secure.

So I figured some things out. I reached out for help when needed. I learned how to run my own node, I figured out which tradeoffs worked best for me (because there are always trade-offs)

If you care, you have to take the time to learn. There is no Bitcoin without self-custody. And for real it is even so much easier today than 2021! So many products and multi-sig options make it easy for the technically illiterate. Do the work. Bitcoin is proof-of-work. There is no corner cutting, while also admitting there are easy self-custody options out there today. Don’t trust disingenuous actors saying otherwise.

Mine was receiving the largest winnings in a meme war here in Nostr & since then I’ve been hooked.

My biggest regret was not stacking sats during the bear market as I thought I was in the red with bleeding losses in my hodlings fomo’ing into bitcoin when it was valued at 60k in 2021. I had no idea how all of this worked & the economics behind bitcoin. This was before I spent the last few years studying bitcoin while I was in graduate school.

PSA:

A comparable Store of Value?

#Gold, priced in #bitcoin, is trending to zero.

That's a regret I am grateful to have avoided.

I too FOMO'd in with all my savings around 60k, but after being convinced that we were on our way to 300k, I was thrilled to see the price fall into 2022.

I'm actually working on an article that breifly covers my experience during this period. Here's an excerpt:

"Perhaps I should have learned my lesson about what happens to the men who stare at charts by November 2022. But for better or worse, I couldn’t help but look at where we were in the cycle and think that we must be near the bottom of the bear market. While I couldn’t predict whether we might fall another 10-50%, I held an unwavering belief that we’d likely be higher within a year.

Part of this conviction came from the incredible amount of development I was witnessing in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Despite the bearish sentiment and the silence of once-vocal Bitcoin Twitter accounts, the progress being made was undeniable. Teams were tackling Bitcoin custody, building out Layer 2 solutions, and publishing research papers on mining innovations like methane mitigation and district heating. These advancements highlighted Bitcoin’s world-changing potential and only reinforced my confidence.

As my conviction grew, so did my frustration with the limitations of my current stacking rate. Despite stacking sats at the cheapest prices I'd seen since adopting Bitcoin, I felt a deepening sense of FOMO. No matter how much I reduced my expenses to redirect income to buying bitcoin, the pace of accumulation felt agonizingly slow in comparison to the opportunity I believed was slipping away. The belief that my dollars would soon buy fewer sats drove me to explore ways to accelerate my accumulation. It was a question of timing, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that I needed to act."

Mine was receiving the largest winnings in a meme war here in Nostr & since then I’ve been hooked.

My biggest regret was not stacking sats during the bear market as I thought I was in the red with bleeding losses in my hodlings fomo’ing into bitcoin when it was valued at 60k in 2021. I had no idea how all of this worked & the economics behind bitcoin. This was before I spent the last few years studying bitcoin while I was in graduate school.

My greatest haul so far was 100% back on a $30 meal back in 2022.

I don't remember the bitcoin price at the time, and am unsure if I have a screenshot (at least not easily available), so I don't remember the exact number of sats back.

To be fair, you won't hear about it from me!

Not as concerned about opsec over 1000 sats, but 100M...

You wouldn't hear about that one from me...

Niiiiice bitcoinpup! Looking forward to the eventual day either of us manage to score a full 1 btc on Fold 💭

HUER ALL GHEY