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John Balkam
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CMO at Sovreign | Bartender at PubKey DC

We're going to bring down Big Tech with Freedom Tech.

We're going to reclaim our health and our sovereignty.

2025 and beyond is looking so bright 🌞

#Bitcoin #Nostr

Replying to Avatar Max DeMarco

Great note. Also, every time you show up in my feed I think that Mac DeMarco the musician has joined Nostr lol

Replying to Avatar Erik Cason

Going all in on Bitcoin was the most important decision of my life. Not for the money it would become, nor for the purpose and meaning that it would deliver to me, but because it was a decision that was truly mine.

The whole world and everyone in it has ideas of who you are suppose to be, and most of the time we conform with that in some way or another. While I did not know it at the time, I knew in my heart of hearts that Bitcoin not only had a chance to save me from a life of mind-numbing pointless work, and nihilistic existence; but more than that, it allowed for me to believe in what I saw for myself, and my own understand of it before what everyone else was telling me. It let me stand up for myself against a world that just wanted to use me and keep me in the suppressed, small role it had relegated to me. Bitcoin allowed for me to decide something else against this system that could not see the light and love that I really am.

This decision came from my own strong conviction within myself that I knew from the deepest levels within me. Even though it seemed crazy, irrational, and like it wouldn’t work to everyone else; just like most major decisions that can change your life for the better, I knew it was what I had to do for myself. There are no other people who can make these kind of decisions for you, and that is why they are them in their lives and you are you in your life. Only you can make the decision for yourself about how your life is going to be, where you are going to put your energy and how you are going to save yourself against a world that wants to exploit you like a machine, and give you worthless paper in exchange for it. You can choose something else now, but that decision is on you alone.

While I cannot promise that you’ll get rich from Bitcoin, or even that it will be a profitable decision with your timing of the markets, you will learn to have a new kind of conviction and faith in yourself which is a kind of wealth in its own right. You will learn that you can decide to take a risk on your own thoughts and decisions, and that is worth something in and of itself.

Just some food for thought going into 2025.

No doubt about it.

Making a decision and maintaining conviction in that decision is life affirming.

I am a different, better person after choosing Bitcoin. It's amazing what one important decision can do for your life experience.

So let me know if I understand cashu/Ecash:

A user sends sats via lightning to a mint.

The mint sends Ecash to the user that is 1:1 valued against the sats sent to the mint.

User can now send peer to peer Ecash to anyone with an Ecash wallet.

Or user can redeem sats for Ecash at anytime.

What did I miss?

I just created and loaded my first eCash wallet. Woah this is cool 🤓

#Bitcoin

Merry Christmas, Bitcoiners 🎄

Replying to Avatar Marty Bent

nostr:npub1du6sgl90wse0cz44fg50a4kg9ea4sgctlxps90ccx58lw8ssgv9qhjyf3c and I did our best to orange pill the WAR MODE guys from first principles. I think we successfully transitioned Billy and Spud from precoiners to proper coiners in less than 3 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yRMwvPLdxk

Nice rip fellas 🫡

#Bitcoin gave me hope. Hope led to right action. Right action has led to a better life.

There is no better feeling than improving your own life. And doing so in an ethical way.

I may not know you, and you may not know me, but if you are a Bitcoiner and a Nostrich, I fuck with you. We're on the same team.

#Bitcoin #Nostr

Hard money, easy life.

Easy money, hard life.

A twist on the @naval saying:

Hard choices, easy life.

Easy choices, hard life.

#Bitcoin

Let the mainstream media, BlackRock, MSTR, and the US Government tell normies that #Bitcoin is just digital gold. Let them try to convince people that it doesn't make sense as a medium of exchange.

We'll just keep zapping people and doing our thing to build the Bitcoin Standard. We'll keep building and utilizing Cashu and Lightning. Unbothered by the talking heads.

Let the noise play out. The signal is here on #Nostr.

DEEP DOWN I DON'T THINK ANYONE WANTS SOMEONE ELSE TO SAVE THEM.

I THINK WE ALL WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SAVE OURSELVES.