I don't know why you think any of our opinions matter to the decisions that the US govt & US treasury makes.

I'm pretty sure they know they're letting in a Trojan horse & they also think that they can contain it.

I know it's going to be good for Bitcoin.

Mir - I can't see your profile information. My client can't find the event/note that has it.

Can you modify your profile slightly & then save it again? That should trigger your client to resend the profile info.

Beautiful metaphor.

Beliefs & definitions form the operating system on which everything else runs.

He's clearly not happy with you then.

Going to give it a miss mate.

Maybe next month of you're nice to Jeebus.

Hicks made a similar observation.

https://video.nostr.build/f1e997cea4cbc7a0f199518383af0ba7b05f5c9b0a70c28b0a41a63133fcc810.mp4

I loosely label this kinds of experience as a 'dark night of the soul' experience.

A collapsing of the self & a surrendering to the All that is.

You'd be surprised by how many Bitcoiners have had similar experiences. What they experienced & what they took from them differs but it's too common to be a coincidence.

Everything in our physical reality is downstream of our beliefs & definitions.

Everything we perceive is filtered through the lens of our beliefs & definitions.

The smarter we are, the more rooted in physical reality we become. The clever man has a greater capacity to understand the infinite but is also simultaneously presented with a much greater illusion in the physical.

It's much harder for the clever man to escape his own mind, to escape the matrix that he created.

Did it taste nutty?

So the best thing is perhaps not turning it on?

It's not a bad idea to run your compromised phone & have a seperate device that you can use privately.

That's how I eventually weaned myself from apple devices.

You made this?

The length of the summer days really spins me out.

So long.

Legend!

Spend some time with Aussies & you'll think your Duchess Bohemia.

🤣

Haha 🤣

Prefect for a Bitcoiner Campout though 🤙

Unlike an open Telegram channel?

For some reason adding the ground beef changed it so that I didn't miss the pastry. Egg pie without pastry just isn't the same.

Mad props for making the pastry yourself - I'm more concerned about seed oil than carbs these days. I'm forever a fan of butter.

It's always nice to see you on Nostr Bek.

🤙🫂

Yes - that episode has been a long time coming 🤣

For perspective, my target price back in 2020 was $400k USD. 5 years later & we still haven't hit it.

The finance hurdle that you're experiencing now is my biggest one. Yes I can probably scrape together enough to get the land now but I couldn't afford to stock it with cows & then run at a loss for years. I've been patient but not for quite long enough it seems.

My gut feel is that things are accelerating. I'll soon be presented with a series of opportunities that I didn't expect that will be both challenging & scary. My job is to spot them when they present themselves & to jump right in. This is kind of how my life moves now 🤯

Loved the backing music! Very sophisticated.

In Australia we have a saying "real men don't each quiche". It's usually followed by something like "but I'll have a serve of your egg pie please".

Seeing your lovely egg pie reminded me of a carnivore recipe I used to make but haven't in years.

Cheeseburger egg pie

It's pretty much the same as yours but without the pastry, with ground beef & a lot more cheese/cream cheese. I like it topped with a ketchup & American (yellow?) mustard.

We say don't trust, verify but I'm increasingly being shown the opposite.

Some things I need to get my hands dirty with & get down into the weedy detail with. Other things I'm finding that it's better to trust others that I resonate with.

Astrology is a prime example. I think it's significant purely because the dark occult controllers think it is. I suspect it has some value for me but not enough to overcome the enormous effort in learning what is essentially another language & way of thinking. nostr:nprofile1qqsxnpmae3tg6ct08yuhxvegqpdtuetvcx7y88q63plt8haww07z3dspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7t78fre is my nostr astrologist (polymathematician) by the way.

There are just too many topics that excite me right now to dive down them all. I suspect many people are in a similar position this late in the cycles.

I'm grateful to have found people like yourself that I can tap into & connect with.

Man - I enjoyed that episode more than any of your others & I can't quite pick why.

What I initially felt (and continued to feel) was that you'd find the prefect house for your lifestyle but that you'd lose it because of it being a poor financial investment. I'm not giving you a green light to go emotional but let go the need for it to be a great investment. It's a very different situation to your other (negative) RE investment.

What I need to tell you is that it's OK if your home is a poor investment. Bitcoin is your primary investment & if you can keep some or most of it, it will balance your home's less than amazing performance. If you pass up the perfect house, you'll kick yourself later.

I didn't want to sell my house until late 2022. I suggested to my wife that we sell up, put everything in storage & go travel the world. She couldn't let the house go unfortunately. Luckily I had in 2020 I drawn down heavily on our mortgage & invested it in magic internet money. I'm sure she would have left me if that had all gone pear shaped. It's on a beautiful piece of land & has the house where we raised or children. I'm learning to become comfortable with holding it but I'm yet to pay off the mortgage.

I really loved hearing this part of your story & where you've landed. I personally would never want to live in Victoria again, let alone buy a place but that's just me. I hope you solve the financing issue without risking or selling too much Bitcoin. Your support network sounds amazing, particularly your finance guy.

I'm really impressed by how far you've come since I first met you. Well done mate 🤙

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I really didn't want install clubhouse again or complain that you're using it.

Keen to hear this

Beliefs & definitions (which are a similar) are everything to your experience here in the physical realm.

My long held belief that 'everything is always working out for me' has got me through some tough situations.

Up until very recently I didn't believe in the existence of evil. It wasn't until I redefined the word that I could see & identify evil action. It was the associated judgement/weaponization that came with the word that I disliked.

I hope this helps:

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I don't think anyone's told him Nostr has no character limit.

I'd like to just to just see it again.

To live it as a passive observer so that I can understand those deep wounds I've now largely suppressed & forgotten.

Compassion for the little Brisket is how I've healed many of my traumas. I still feel like some memories are still being suppressed.

There's no going back 🫂

So the period in between is a bit of a limbo as we head to the second?

Kinda of like being in the eye of a cyclone?

Turning points.

I felt similar at around the same time & likely for similar reasons.

It's a new day today & everything feels lighter. I feel like the shift has happened now & we now get to choose.

I'm willing to entertain the idea that it was related to the eclipse.

I choose 💚

Men can't comprehend needing TP to piss.

We understand the need for quality TP though 🤣

I didn't know who he was until he died but I think you nailed what we should take from his passing.

I'm a little concerned that the anger that is being felt will result in more violence. Violence just causes more violence.

I hope as you do, that it inspires more dialogue & for people to speak up for their principles & ideas.

🫂

But Influencer Rich, have you seen those Bollinger bands?

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Is true

Yes but you have a valuable perspective to provide that isn't always so graphic.

I wouldn't be surprised if you received a few mutes after that one.

Tradeoffs...

It's pretty graphic & unusual to see from you.

Probably should have hidden it from casual scrolling

It appears like this in Amethyst.

There were a few npubs that weren't on my radar. Thanks for putting them on it. 🙏

Can you see this man?

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It's an interesting observation & not an information gathering technique I was aware of.

The need to correct everyone & everything is a trait of autists.

I've let a lot of this need go by adopting the mantra "take nothing personally". I care a lot less about what people think & say about me now. The desire for correctness is still there, it's just not so acute. I can catch myself before I hit send & sometimes before I open my mouth.

💚

GM

You linked out to primal again

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Jeez that's a big bugger!

I 100℅ agree with this sentiment & position.

It extends not just to new features but also "fixing" existing features. I don't like how BIPs are used to articulate & propose both new features as well as fixes/maintenance.

I'm glad someone is talking about this. In my mind taproot was a lesson in being more careful about what is prioritised & the unintended consequences that any change introduces.

As a Bitcoin user (node runner), the only use case that I think is worth pursuing is onchain privacy.

I guess that makes you an OG.

Survived 2 full cycles.