MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH -

I really must clean my windows at some point. When the light hits them in the morning and afternoon it looks like I just don’t care about the old place anymore.

#Bitcoin #Mendocino

SMALL TOWN LIVING -

I’m taking my grandson and his friend to the movies today.

#Bitcoin #Mendocino

I have friends and I care about them and I see the ship is slowly sinking and I just want to let them know “hey, guys…this ship, it’s slowly sinking.” And they laugh at me but I say “there is a lifeboat. There’s room for you too.” And they just say “oh you and your #bitcoin .”

Bunking the unbunked.

The world rages ahead into an unknowable future...

But that doesn’t stop us from keeping our small town values, guarding our privacy, maintaining our sovereignty and keeping close to nature.

#Mendocino #bitcoin

At first I didn’t notice:

- the additives in my food

- that my doctor kept prescribing pills and wanting to see me every three months

- the things I bought not lasting very long

- the media I consumed targeting my outrage

- my money slowly losing purchasing power

Then I did.

If you end up living a quiet life in a cabin in the redwoods you’ve either successfully quit your fiat job, commuting in traffic and living in the rat race…

…or you’ve been a complete failure at your fiat job, commuting in traffic and living in the rat race.

“I didn’t know that about the national debt causing inflation. Interesting…

…so did you catch the game last night?”

If you had $1000 in 1971 with an annual inflation rate of 2%, your purchasing power by 2024 would be about $525. However inflation today is much higher.

While it appears ‘prices’ are going up in reality it’s the purchasing power of our dollars that’s going down.

The dollar:

- Infinite supply

- Controlled by banks

- Requires government trust

- Days for transaction settlement

- Centralized

- Inflationary

#Bitcoin

- Limited supply

- Self-custody

- Trustless

- Instant settlement

- Decentralized

- Deflationary

#Bitcoin #Mendocino

#Mendocino was/is a cash-centric economy. Many businesses used to/do only accept cash. But technological pressure is nudging Mendocino towards payment platforms with central authorities.

#Bitcoin  will/does offer options for peer-to-peer, private transactions with no middlemen.

Bitcoiners - camp on my property one mile from the town of Mendocino along California’s Highway 1.

https://orangepill.app.link/Richard

#Bitcoin ‘s lack of physicality, the fact you can’t hold it in your hand, is hard for some people to accept…until perhaps they look more closely at fiat currency and realize its most physical form is plastic and paper backed by $34.7T of debt.

What’s backing #bitcoin ? (Rhetorical question/answer) What’s backing gold?

Gold takes work to produce and is scarce. Bitcoin also takes work to produce and is scarcer than gold.

Neither are ‘backed’ by anything except perhaps the laws of physics.

#Bitcoin is a ledger. A very big ledger. A comprehensive ledger. Anyone can hold a copy of this ledger but no one can manipulate its entries. You can keep a copy of this ledger too but you don’t have to to use #BTC . It’s this ledger that keeps your bitcoin, your money, safe.

Did catch the game last night?

What’s for dinner?

Individuals, central banks, families, nation states and small coastal towns can all avoid ongoing fiat inflation with #bitcoin , the alternative financial system.

#Mendocino