The fiat system will always invent increasingly elaborate products to stop you from doing the basics:

Stacking sats in self-custody.

I'll say it again for people in the back that didn't hear it.

We're all here because we recognize what's wrong with legacy social communication.

Nostr is an open protocol. There is no correct path forward. There are only user choices.

You can also tell me to go fuck myself if you don't believe me or like what I said.

That's the beauty of all of this.

Keep building.

The Iranian Government shuts down the fiat onramp to crypto exchanges in a hopeless attempt to stem currency collapse.

The Iranian Rial is tanking and has fallen to a new historical low of 800K:1 USD

YTD, it has depreciated by 37% against the USD.

The government had placed various limits on purchases of USD, so people switched to crypto and stablecoins to protect their life savings.

But in their latest move, the government has just closed IRR onramps to crypto exchanges (which as expected has led to an even larger currency fall).

The story of currency collapse unfolds the same way every time.

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.

Which one?

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The game is buying and waiting. Remember, the hardest part is not buying, but waiting.

IF YOU THINK THE GUYS WHO INVENTED PAYPAL ARE GOING TO SAVE US YOU ARE RETARDED.

FREEDOM IS NOT GRANTED. IT IS TAKEN AND DEFENDED.

This is the easiest hack for more #Bitcoin that I know

Been stacking like crazy on all of my Christmas shopping, & with the wife on a 2nd card now we’ve doubled down on @fold_app

Boosts are awesome for the holidays!

(And yes that’s .3 BTC just for using their debit card and gift cards… literally)

BitcoinAudible.com/fold if you aren’t doing this yet.