What is national divorce happens and we balkanize?

Money money vaccine money

Reverse engineer and jab me dear with your poison mRNA

Profit from my loved ones souls

You f’ing murdering corrupt arseholes !

Rot in Jail Fauci !

NEVER FORGET

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.

I hate being all in on the US, but the only other place I'd go is Italy and it's just as much of a shit show if not more.

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#BTC 🎄

So what do you make of this safe harbor bullshit they gave us three days to understand and use? As far as I can tell if any of us comply with any of this it's going to give them precedence to do the same shit they do with regular taxes: surveil, target, punish.

I'm not going to say something hyperbolic but this isn't just a "keep quiet and wait" situation anymore.

We absolutely can not roll over to this. Any of us to any of it.

They could also issue a search warrant. Kick in your door. Imprison you. Harass your family. I hear your sentiment but I think you underestimate what they will do for monetary control. They have waged wars for this. They will not just "Oh well, guess we can't do nothin."

They will make our lives miserable if they don't get what we want.

We have to make their job impossible, not inconvenient.

DO

NOT

COMPLY

FUCK

THE

IRS

So I brought up nostr to my cousins today…

They all looked at me like I was nuts after they looked it up…

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️

-THE ISLAND LIFE-

In 2005, a glass company installed a bulletproof glass advertising panel at a bus stop in Vancouver, Canada, containing $3 million.

The challenge was simple: if anyone managed to break the glass, they could keep the money. Despite numerous attempts, no one succeeded.

Credits Goes to the respective

Author ✍️/ Photographer📸

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I suspect few people in the world have interacted with more individuals who lost bitcoin than I have.

I answered support tickets for a non-custodial web wallet that, at the time, was the most popular in the world.

I'm talking about 100,000+ tickets over five years, many from users who lost access to their funds. Not just tiny amounts, mind you.

Sometimes hundreds of bitcoin.

My inability to help them still weighs on me.

We added warnings and info about the importance of backups. It's not that I could have done more. The nature of the old Blockchain(.)info wallet made that impossible.

The bottom line is personal responsibility demands extraordinary effort, and not everyone is up for the challenge.

Lost password? Sorry, I can't help.

Lost seed phrase? Sorry, I can't help.

Funds stolen by a phishing site? *Sigh*

What troubles me most isn't the sadness I felt from doing this daily for so many years. No, eventually you grow numb to it.

That's what truly hurt.

I imagine this is a lesser version of what people in the medical field have to do to cope with their jobs - learning to stop caring so much.

It takes a toll on your humanity if you live this way for too long.

I could have stayed in that job. Stacked more sats. It made sense, financially. I'd have a lot more bitcoin today if I did.

Instead, I left, choosing to be with my family and focus on self improvement.

Anyone who has worked during the early years of a startup will understand how incredibly burnt out you are once you finally step away. It took me years to push through that.

But I still think about those users.

The ones who made all the mistakes of the past that you, the bitcoiners of today, would learn from.

Almost seven years have passed since I left, and I'm no longer numb to their pain. I feel sadness for them again.

And I'm grateful for that.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas, and take some time to reflect on the things that truly matter in this life. 🧡✌️