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There’s a great evil lurking

They poison their prey with

Porn

Alcohol

Debt

Taxation

Sports

Interest

Replying to Avatar Jeff Booth

GM from beautiful Colombia.

With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.

(*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group)

According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.

Why is that important:

Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards. Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.

In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.

#bitcoin has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power. Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day.

That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.

It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.

What a time to be alive.

GM 🌞

Throughout history, the common denominator is greed - playing by their own made up rules which is cheating as you articulated so well. Study bitcoin, study money, study yourself.

Entertainment is the middle class noose. It always has been for thousands of years and always will be.

Entertainment is a distraction from learning about money while your time and energy in the form of fiat is slowly siphoned away from you.

After your tank is nearly empty, you’re left with a lack of self worth; everything in life is like a tidal wave.

Study money. Study bitcoin.

Fuck the system. Opt out. It’s the only way

GM Nostr

With the recent news of #freeross it’s hard not to think about the importance of gratitude

This morning I’m grateful for my amazing wife who has supported me in our bitcoin journey which ultimately led to our financial independence.

It’s important to understand our circumstances could change at any minute albeit a health issue or in Ross’s case, lose of freedom.

Gratitude is powerful and free.

I agree with you. But on Nostr tho, it just hits different with me. I think it’s b/c the normies are all fretting on siloed platforms and have no clue what Nostr is. Basically, we’re early and it’s exciting

Nostr is the best. Like

Bitcoin, it is “us”

Repost, like, & share 🤙

I just crushed 100 followers ✅

Next up is 1,000 followers 🤞🏼

Zapping emotionally strong & smart humans on a decentralized open source platform using relays to transmit data globally is the shit.

1,000 next. LFG ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Over the past year I’ve been going down the rabbit hole…..and all I can say is it’s been fkd for hundreds of years, maybe longer. It really caught my attention in 1963. I heard rumors about 9/11 too which made me inquisitive since I was directly involved in GWOT. I had / have a lot of questions to this day.

As a combat veteran of four deployments and almost 25 years of honorable service and a bitcoiner, I promote peace.

In this news article, boots on ground in Syria and Iraq are for Israel. This isn’t talked about on mainstream media, but it’s a big deal.

Trump is moving in the right direction with his new advisor on “offshore balancing” the US involvement in the Middle East since 9/11 and pressuring Israel.

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/trumps-appointee-for-pentagon-middle-east-adviser-has-called-for-pressure-on-israel/2025/01/23/

Nostr is great. Quality content, emotionally stable human beings.

Plus we get to zap each other ⚡️

Her work is definitely interesting and I’m proud to have read most of it. I’ve learned a lot from her. She’s in her own vacuum and needs some bitcoin maxi love

Exactly. I just can’t believe all the emotional nonsense. Lift weights, go for a run, buy bitcoin, and gtfo X. A bunch of babies 👶🏼

I was reminded on a Nostr thread today by nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe that it’s not

Them against us

It’s just us.

People are losing their minds over Trumps crypto EO and cabinet picks

Listen to Jeff. It’s just US. Everything dies against bitcoin.

Stack, hodl, and learn.