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Replying to Avatar Forever Laura

We traveled “in bitcoin” before it was a thing.

Me and Rikki started “Bitcoin Explorers“ in El Salvador in 2021, then kept moving: Central America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa. And I’m not saying this to flex. I’m saying it because the timeline is the timeline. The content exist. The story speaks for itself.

Now. El Salvador was an engagement cheat code (and everyone knows it).

The uncomfortable truth: when we posted El Salvador content, everything grew faster. Like… four times as fast.

My tweets got reposted by Bukele. I got 4000 followers in a day for this picture you see here.

Our videos about El Salvador hit 10k views while being shot like amateurs (because we were amateurs). We weren’t filmmakers. We weren’t a production studio. We were just there, documenting what we were seeing with the tools we had in the most honest possible way.

If we wanted, we could’ve turned that into a visibility machine.

We didn’t.

Because we didn’t want the easy path. We didn’t want to go where everyone goes just because it performs. We didn’t want to become a tourism brochure for an algorithm or even worse, a government.

And eventually we had to admit something most people won’t say out loud: realistic reportage takes time, money, and resources. We didn’t have enough of them to keep doing it the way we wanted...properly.

So we stepped back. I found other jobs I'm super happy with and my voice remained independent.

Now let me ask you something. genuinely.

Why do you think so many Bitcoin creators focus on El Salvador? Why do you think so many creators post about it like it’s the only place on Earth where Bitcoin exists?

Because it’s simple:

- Post a beach breakfast and you get quadruple the reposts of a normal post.

- Post a critique? You risk getting dogpiled, losing followers, losing access, losing 'opportunities.

That’s the part people don’t post.

And yes: there are people in the space who will make it personal, who will lean on social pressure, who will remind you that stepping out of line has a cost. I’ve seen and heard enough to know the incentives are real even if nobody wants to say it clearly.

The saddest part is who ends up paying for this illusion: not the insiders. Not the people doing the reposting. Not people who threaten you over tweets.

It’s the people at home:

- liking

- retweeting

- booking flights

- buying tickets

- chasing a “ Bitcoin paradise” that mostly exists in social media posts apart from a few exceptions and small communities

A lot of content creators aren’t documenting reality. They’re documenting what the algorithm and their paycheck rewards.

And at that point… what’s the difference between them and the journalists they love to hate?

Same dynamic:

- follow the narrative

- repeat what powerful people want amplified

- avoid the messy parts

- monetize the attention

Different ecosystem. Same playbook.

We didn’t want to be that. We could’ve milked it. We didn’t. Not because we’re morally superior, spare me that story.

Because it didn’t fit who we are, and it didn’t fit what we wanted to build long-term.

If I’m going to talk about Bitcoin “in the world,” I want it to be real:

- not just the pretty parts

- not just the safe parts

- not just the parts that get you reposted by the right accounts

Reality is complicated. Adoption is uneven. People are people. Politics are politics. Incentives are incentives.

And if your content never shows the trade-offs, the friction, the contradictions… then you’re not educating anyone. You’re doing marketing.

❤️ If you’re new here, read this twice: Bitcoin doesn’t need fairy tales. It needs adults.

It needs people who can handle nuance without turning it into a loyalty test.

So next time you see a creator post a perfect “Bitcoin country” shot, ask yourself:

- What are they not showing?

- What can’t they say without losing access?

- What gets rewarded here. and what gets punished?

The algorithm isn’t truth. It’s the incentive map. And most creators are just following it like obedient little tourists.

Is Strike also down because of the Cloudfare outage?

Replying to Avatar CARLA⚡️

😂😂😂😂😂😂

I’ll take a McDouble SAT burger, Large SAT fries and a Lemonade Lightning Drink please. To go. Thanks.

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Celebrating Bitcoin Day with a Bitcoin Burger

Beef and Bitcoin is a winning combo

Happy Bitcoin WhitePaper Day

It turns 17 today so get at least 17$ worth of Bitcoin today

Do that every year in celebration; variations of the price for the birthday

“If fixing money can fix the world than broken money breaks the world there’s no in between your money is either sound enough to support prosperity or it’s sick enough to support an ugly ugly ugly world”

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With each new ATH in Bitcoin the more the dollar looks more and more useless.

The more you save in Bitcoin the more useful and valuable you become.

To the victor goes to the Stackers

Cheers

Replying to Avatar Himel

Kirk disrespected King on multiple occasions.

Everybody in this picture, maybe outside of Lincoln, would disassociate from Kirk; especially King and Jesus.

The disrespect of putting him in league with King and Jesus is sadly expected

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I’ll say it: you know who was else a father??

George Floyd; and guess what happened to him?? He got memes made of him and mocked for yrs. He still gets mocked now.

So it’s ironic that the crowd that meme him and mocked him are crying foul over what’s being said about Charlie

Pure snowflake energy; stop crying like a bitch and accept the same energy that was put out there. You got stuff skin right? Stop complaining- own it.

Absolutely- I’m not a fan of Charlie; I don’t agree with 75% of the things he’s said. And that should be defended too

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That message is sovereignty, freedom, staying humble and stacking SATs. And zapping ⚡️

“Governments and currencies are inextricably linked today because governments established a monopoly on second-layer money and use it to their own benefit, starting with the Bank of Amsterdam in 1609.”

-Layered Money

It’s why we have Bitcoin- to opt out and exit these second layer crappy money and into first layer sovereign money

Sometimes it gets wild to look at a crowd of people at the store, a concert, a beach, a school and even at the job that they don’t know or understand Bitcoin. In the large crowds, as a Bitcoiner, you’ll be the odd man out because people either don’t know or don’t care, or both scenarios, about the financial system. It’s as if they’re fine with the rat race and think “well this is what life is about- working till I’m old and just die”. Sadly- a large amount of those people can’t be reached in terms of Bitcoin but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people in the crowd who would be open to hearing about Bitcoin. Sometimes all it takes is a spark- and the orange pilling begins. Just like how it was a spark for us. That what gives me some hope as well in the world- the like-minded individuals who have and understand this new financial system of sovereignty and freedom and happiness.

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Thanks nostr:nprofile1qqs9nshptttmcz6uj7uy8ze8vwjugz0lw64esk447868cj7d6f0xargpz4mhxue69uhhwmm59eek7anzd96zu6r0wd6qz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmny5a4gz3 for throwing the event.

“Any bill issuer can default, leaving the holder of second-layer money (the paper money that’s suppose to back the first layer like gold or silver) with a worthless piece of paper.”

This “Layered Money” book is breaking things down and opening up more perspectives on what’s going on in the financial system that hold Bitcoin is more and more a lifeline, life boat, and new money that’s is super important.

Always a beautiful time to hit the park for an evening walk

Make sure to put in the work

“Throughout the ages, currencies have ceased to exist because of one rudimentary fact: governments are unable to resist the temptation to create free money for themselves.”

From the book “Layered Money”

A powerful quote because we’ve seen this playout with damaging results in different countries. It’s why we see, with Bitcoin, the people this happened to in those countries found: sovereignty, peace of mind, healing and a new sound money system that’s digital, scarce, easily transferable and transmit-able that they can call their own.

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