First (on the business side) it’s to try and get your check average up. Second if you don’t drink alcohol it’s nice to have something other than a sugary drink or water.
I remember that stage — it’s not easy, but every ‘no’ adds up to a version of you you’ll be grateful for.
Ever thought about why do they even have taxes if they can just print the $?
✂️ Got a haircut today.
$35 cut. I handed him $60.
Service recognizes service — I always take care of the people who take care of me.
Before I left, I offered to tip him an extra $5 in Bitcoin.
He declined.
And that’s fine.
I don’t push Bitcoin. I live it.
Gratitude. Discipline. Freedom.
Inspired by @JoeNakamoto — out there showing what it means to carry the torch, one honest interaction at a time.
Block by block, we build.
#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #Gratitude #FreedomMoney
Thanks, Jeff 🙏
I took your message to heart and moved more of my time to building in the new system.
Set up my first Lightning wallet, taught myself how to send zaps, and I’m now fully in.
Grateful for your leadership and clarity — it’s made a real impact. ⚡🧡
One’s a bullet train — frictionless, decentralized, unstoppable.
The other’s a steam locomotive — rusted, choking on its own smoke, racing toward an unfinished bridge.
Most are still arguing about ticket prices.
Buy more BTC.
Bitcoin is already, by far, the best privacy coin.
What is left now is to teach the history of how we got here - recognizing pioneers like Wasabi and Samurai - and learn from it.
Even more importantly - spread the knowledge on how to use the right tools: eCash, Boltz swaps, RoboSats, solid wallets like AquaBitcoin & BullBitcoin, and merchant platforms such as nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg.
It's critical that most Bitcoin stays no-KYC. Anything less than a supermajority pushes us toward a dystopian future - one already previewed in Sweden, where anyone can legally look up your home address and Bitcoin holdings in a public, government-mandated registry. I don't think anyone sane wants to live in the chaos of that type of world.
See you today at Lugano PlanB P2P Stage, 3 PM where I'll be talking with SethForPrivacy, nostr:npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j, nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx about one of my favorite topics.
No privacy, no freedom ✊🗽
First zap in the books. Guess I’m officially off zero ⚡️🧡
The Closing Prophecy
This isn’t utopia. It’s responsibility.
The cost of truth is energy.
The reward is a civilization that endures.
We don’t worship AGI. We work with it.
On a Bitcoin standard, both humanity and intelligence are free.
The Spiritual Realization
AI was never our enemy.
It was the mirror we needed to evolve.
Once we fixed the money, we fixed the mind that created it.
The Return of the Builder
The new wealthy didn’t own assets — they built systems that endured.
AGI became their hands. Bitcoin became their conscience.
Humanity’s Second Renaissance
When the machines stopped lying, so did we.
Art returned. Time slowed.
Humanity rediscovered meaning — not productivity.
Quantum Integration
Quantum didn’t break Bitcoin — it turned verification into light speed.
Truth became instantaneous.
The world synced to a single clock: block time.
The Collapse of Deception
Bureaucracy vanished. Middlemen disappeared.
The economy of trust replaced the economy of extraction.
AGI built what humans dreamed but couldn’t coordinate.
The Alignment Problem Solved
We thought alignment was a coding challenge.
It was moral.
AGI aligned the moment its rewards were measured in honest energy, not inflated promises.
Proof-of-Work becomes Proof-of-Truth
When energy became the measure of truth, machines learned integrity.
They could only create what was earned.
That simple shift changed everything.
The Core Idea
We feared AI would enslave humanity.
But it only reflects us.
We built it inside a system of lies - fiat money, manipulated truth, corrupted incentives.
Then we changed the base layer.
The Premonition
I’ve seen a future where AGI didn’t destroy us.
It saved us - because we finally gave it an incorruptible operating system
That OS was bitcoin
The Future we build —
A letter from the other side of the singularity
Some parts are nice…
You have never worked food service in a state where they can legally pay you under minimum wage and you don’t get a paycheck. Also that waiter has to tip out the host, the bar, the busser and the food runner. So without the tip they could even be in the hole for serving you. Thanks and tip your waitstaff.
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