Thomas Wolfe’s book published in 1940 was ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ which prompted me not to go anywhere anymore in case I couldn’t get back.
#Mendocino 
Most people are rightfully skeptical about #bitcoin , but once you spend enough time learning what it is, why and how to hold your own private keys and how you can trustlessly verify your coins by running a full node on a basic computer, you mind is completely blown. 
It’s what #Bitcoin doesn’t have that makes it iron clad:
No cash flow, no liabilities, no leverage, no CEO, board of directors or management team, no marketing department, no central server or single point of failure.
Once you grasp this, you start understanding Bitcoin. 
"#Bitcoin is the
First
Global
Private (meaning no government intervention)
Rules-based
Digital
Monetary system that the world has ever known. It is a VERY big idea."
@CathieDWood, Founder & CEO of @ARKInvest.
Thanks to @natbrunell for this quote. 
My daily walk (which I have time for about twice a week.)
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#Bitcoin is a fortress of energy with huge utility guarding massive value built on four pillars:
1. The rule set written in code.
2. Users transacting with wallets.
3. The miners using energy to create blocks of transactions.
4. The nodes decentralizing the ledger. 
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Interesting. So can you give a more concrete example of how Alice or Bob might be incentivized to cheat each other while building a software program in the first place? This would help me understand the use case for running this program on the blockchain.
“Oh my goodness! I’d never invest in that bit-crypto thing. I like to know my money’s safely in treasuries or the bank.” 
I know this is controversial but I don’t have any thoughts. 
If you’re in #Mendocino and interested in #bitcoin DM me. We’ll meet for coffee (my treat) I’ll help you download a wallet and give you your first sats (fractions of a bitcoin.)
Help make #bitcoin our local currency. 
Imagine a world of horse-powered transportation. Buggies and wagons are everywhere. Horses to be fed and poop to be picked up. But in this world there also exist solar powered, electric cars that get the job done 1K% more efficiently. But so far only 1% of people use the car. 
“Hello, neighbor. Have you heard about the word of god today?”
“No I haven’t. Have YOU heard about #bitcoin ?” 
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We’re moving to #bitcoin country. 
I thought it was a web app? Doesn’t the latest version appear automatically? (I use it daily.)
Well, I sure do love my hometown. And I had this idea of #bitcoin as a local/global currency that would draw international attention. But of late I’ve been realizing this is a s-l-o-w process.
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Today I had coffee with a neighbor. He lives here but works for one of the big Silicon Valley tech firms. His specialty is encryption. He ‘understands’ Bitcoin but he doesn’t ’get it’ with Bitcoin. For him Bitcoin is a novelty, a clever use of technology.
My meeting today taught me something which is hard to articulate but it’s something like one of those visual puzzles. With bitcoin you either see the glass or the faces (I’m not sure which one bitcoin is in this analogy.)
Ultimately adoption of bitcoin is slow. You have to have a low time preference. People find bitcoin when they’re ready. 
Glad you’re back up and running on Android. That whole “you can’t use the word orange” business was a bit Orwellian.
