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Joe Welbourn, Ph.D in HODL
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Bitcoin HODL, PhD., University of AirMatress Above My Office. Entrepreneur, Freedom Bitcoin Optimist. Founder of Carbon Marine.

When you have to “invest” your money to preserve your purchasing power, it is no longer money.

A key characteristic of “money” is to provide a “store of value”. Learn Bitcoin. Buy Bitcoin. Discover Freedom

Money Captured = Individual Capture.

You are not free when bankers/politicians create money from nothing.

Separate the money from the State.

Learn Bitcoin. Buy Bitcoin. Experience Freedom.

Merry Christmas nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgl426zu and nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7xfn4ze . You two GOATS earned a day or two off.

Let’s go deer or turkey hunting in Florida in 2026-27 you two.

I know ODELL knows his way around guns. Come on Marty.

As an aspiring #Bitcoin educator, I am witnessing what Arthur Schopenhauer's work reveals.

Per Schopenhauer, most people lack the cognitive ability (the intellectual architecture) to think independently (paraphrasing).

They simply cannot understand a topic regardless of how when you explain or position the evidence and your logical extension from the evidence.

So, they fall back on memorization and dogma to engage conversation based on what they “believe/feel”. You cannot change them. They must change themselves.

This ties into the Dunning Kruger Effect: “…the less competent a person is on a topic, the more confidence they assert/display their position.” Confidence without competence.

So for our sanity, we must recognize when we have reached the cognitive limit of the person we seek to “Orange Pill”.

Overcoming this obstacle , as it pertains to Bitcoin, is the next step if we hope to see mass adoption of Bitcoin.

Here is a short video that summarizes the challenge.

https://youtu.be/PTvwJpjJEHk?si=88WJIXyLd_JjD1mv

Bitcoin will do to fiat currencies what the Internet did to long-distance tolls charges. Bitcoin = TCP/IP for money.

The Cantillon-Class smells the end. The populations are feed up.

Unfortunately the Cantillon-Class will not drift into history without a fight.

Bitcoin is our best tool for permanent removal of the Cantillon-Class.

Got to love government bureaucrats.

The State of Florida Department of Revenue redesigned the online sales tax filing/payment portal.

Result: it takes three times longer to complete and uses three times the paper when printing your confirmations.

State online systems are the worst I have ever used—-ever!

Just HODL. The suits are deliberately standing on the neck of #Bitcoin price.

Once they fill their bags, they will step off the neck and praise Bitcoin. Mark my words.

Would politics as an industry exist without a monopoly on violence?

In my opinion it would not.

Touch grass. Love family. Buy Bitcoin.

My elderly stepfather passed away yesterday at 84.

This man was my first introduction to gold and silver.

I remember as a teenager, walking into a closet/safe filled with 5gal buckets of worn silver coins and small acrylic sleeves of 1oz gold South African Krugerrands. He was German. His father fled German.

I took it for granted he would always be here. Now he is gone.

So ask your elderly family to tell you their story before they are gone.

Touch grass. Love Family. Buy Bitcoin.

PSA: My journey as a Bitcoin Educator has begun.

I have designed a portable, complete system for showing Bitcoin educational content ANYWHERE: indoors or outdoors; emphasizing outdoors without any grid-power.

Think a “pop-up” Bitcoin educational, drive-in theater with a 100in screen and robust audio.

The first featured showing: “What’s The Problem”, by nostr:npub1mtqa33dfl620yf8qjk6j2a7r8skv9w8n5tt2m89ag6z947xfslcqn9q4xu .

I am will to go anywhere from Charleston, SC to Gulf Shores, AL to Key West, FL.

Reach out to me via DM if you have a meetup or group interested in having me come show Bitcoin educational content to your group with questions and answers afterwards.

Lastly, what other Bitcoin content should I add to my collection to show?

There is nothing like the smell of Collectivism/Socialism falling in LATAM in the morning.

I pray nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a has boots on the ground.

You are preaching to the choir.

I went “all in” in 2020, about 37 seconds after a miner friend flipped me from gold.

Got your back. Beers are always on me.

Money is a fundamental precursor to civilization. Are you surprised civilization is breaking down? Check the quality of the money….

How long would you allow a burglar to enter your home and steal 7-10% of your stuff? This is what politicians due via fiat currency. They steal what you worked for. Opt out. Buy #Bitcoin. No more stealing.

I just want to preserve the purchasing power of the money I earned. If the Cantillon-Class wants to make that illegal, then I will become a criminal. Buy #Bitcoin.

The two most vulnerable elements of humanity today is the “mind” and the “individual”.

Like drugs to a long-standing drug addict, Keynesian economic theory (inflation) has devastated humanity.

Source: Fraud Coin: 1000 years with Inflation As A Policy. By Rune Ostgard

Honest question. What is a “good” target net income (as a percentage) for a small business with $750K in gross revenue?

Update: I talked to Luke this morning for about 40mins. He called me.

Luke apologized. We are working together on a resolution that we both agreed to.

The next 24 hours will be the test. If Luke follows through with his self-imposed tasks list, we will all be better off.

To his credit, Luke was polite, sincere, rational, and accepted full responsibility. This made it easier for me to subdue my extreme disappointment.

I am on it. I will find and hold nostr:nprofile1qqsqhpgj6zessn3kp4kjvg5849x32z6m0shs2pn9sg8dg5pmu6r7emcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcehqhr2 accountable. This whole chapter is feeling more and more like pure theft/fraud by Luke.

I will post as I learn more. I will increase pressure until Luke does what is proper: produce a movie or refund the funds. My fear is Luke Broyles is just another fraud like SBF, Craig Wright, Alex Mashinsky, etc. Sad but seems likely to be coming true. Luke is hiding now.

Who has given @luke_broyles money for production of his movie “The Case for Bitcoin” that he never produced?

I did, but now I feel like Luke took advantage of me and took the money then ran away.

Luke claimed @Breedlove22 contributed $2500.

Zero communication from Luke since giving him $4,000.

I ran into Luke at Plan B in San Salvador in Feb 2025.

He was very nervous with no clear explanation. I explained just be honest with me. No real response or deliverable on the movie.

Now, I am realizing, that money is gone and no movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dDydV-SOoE

No good deed goes unpunished. I have been extremely patient with Luke.

If you are a friend of Luke, I ask you please encourage him to contact me. I want a movie or my money back. Period.

Is there any additional information out there exposing this seeming fraudulent solicitation from Luke?

Embarrassing for me, but I live and learn: trust no one.

I do know Like is working for #TheBitcoinAdvisor network by @PeterBTCAdviser. Not a good image for Peter who I respect immensely. Maybe Peter has some insight into Luke?

People do not want to talk about money for only one of two reasons:

Reason 1: they fear they do not have enough money (as self-compared to others around them);

Reason 2: they fear they have a lot of money (as self-compared to others around them) and someone will come steal it.

Milestone crossed in my Bitcoin journey. My wife has been indifferent to bitcoin in general.

I am a full-throttle Bitcoiner.

Yesterday for fun, I set up a #SoloSatoshi #Bitaxe home miner.

Within minutes my wife began asking good questions about bitcoin miners.

This morning she tells me she wants to buy her own Bitaxe miners and set up lottery miners.

Investing is deliberately made complicated to obfuscate the fact all fiat currencies are stealing your purchasing power/wealth through monetary debasement. Most RIA do not even understand this. Yet, they take a piece of the action.