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I told my mother about bitcoin for years and she was like “yeah, cool, nah.” She’s in her 70s.

And then I was like “The HRF eg @gladstein is doing cool shit for human rights with bitcoin.”

And once I showed her some examples, she was like “holy shit” and joined their newsletter and is like 110% onboard with their mission. She reads their newsletters more than me now, and asks me questions about them, so I have to catch up on them to answer her stuff.

She still doesn’t own Bitcoin but is like, reading every HRF email and asking me about them and totally onboard.

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Don’t tell yourself you have to do something, or that you should be doing something.

Because then when you aren’t you will feel negative and give up.

Tell yourself instead…

My preference is _________ and when I do ________ I feel better.

“My preference is to sleep 8 hours and when I do I feel better, but if I don’t I’ll be fine too.”

“My preference is to eat less and when I do I feel better, but my freind is in town and they want to go out.”

This helps you reframe away from black and white thinking and shift more into preference and acceptance.

Humans are imperfectly made, give yourself wiggle room to do the right thing most of the time but never all of the time.

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Launched a new Strike Referral Program

When you refer a friend to Strike and they buy bitcoin, you both get $500 (or €500) in stacking with no fees.

No limits on the program. You can theoretically stack without any fees forever if you’re an orange pilling machine.

Coolest part about this effort is it was driven entirely by you all. We try and be one of the most customer focused companies in the world. It’s something I realized after founding Strike: listening to customers is the most important thing anyone could be doing at all

times.

We wouldn’t have come up with this concept without that feedback and relationship with you all. Pretty clever to get no fees for you and your friends/family.

Let me know if you have any issues or feedback. Bunch more features and products coming out over the coming weeks 🫡

Before I started my company the people closest to me told me it was never going to work and I should go to law school.

I started it anyway. It was successful.

When I first bought bitcoin everyone laughed at me.

I bought more. No one laughs anymore.

When I got married my father in law told me I was being too aggressive saving money and I needed to lighten up and enjoy life or the marriage wasn’t going to work.

He got divorced 2 years later, I am still happily married.

After the birth of my second child, my wife had a serious complication and the doctor told us we’d never have more kids.

We had two more. The same doctor delivered them.

The things other people say/believe are almost always about themselves and their own hang ups and insecurities. You can safely ignore them.

Happiness is an empty weight room. 🧡💪

You get self esteem by doing things that are worthy of esteem and then telling no one.

New PR in the gym? Tell no one.

Just made a million dollars? Tell no one.

Have an amazing sex life? Tell no one.

Promotion at work? Tell no one.

Lost 50lbs? Tell no one.

People might notice some of these things or changes you’ve made and that’s ok.

Don’t be weird about it. If they comment say thank you and keep going.

The reason you tell no one is so that you can switch your reference point from external to internal.

Let others see the results. Don’t announce them.

Anything you have that is enviable others will brag for you.

Peter Schiff: “#Bitcoin needs a bailout.”

While #Gold is just a fucking flat line compared.

I’m seriously considering just pausing our home construction so I can buy sats then starting it back in a few months… how foolish is that? #Bitcoin

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Bidets rule.

Europe and Japan you win this round.

My butthole has never been so clean.

And so it is…