Government worker who runs afoul with the system he is supposed to protect but eventually finds freedom.

Just woke up from a weird dream where I was at a Bitcoin/Nostr event that involved a strange obstacle course/scavenger hunt. Lightning was featured, along with Nostr POW not for payments, but access tokens to reach a new area. We were riding tron like bikes around a course and there were grafitti artists using proof of work to move around a large cube and spray colors to make art like a mashup between Onosendai and that website that let you paint pixels on a canvas image paying sats.

Countdown has 5h 10m

I think I’m gonna get a t shirt for conference season that says “UTXHOE”

comment if you think this is a good idea. zap if you think it’s a bad idea.

I set up a timer

There's no need to doubt that creating Bitcoin was politically motivated. This isn't just some stone cold tech.

I find it hard to think of a project that is more political than Bitcoin

I disagree wholeheartedly. It has nothing to do with fiat.

It has everything to do with the exact opposite - learning from the history of monetary freedom - meaning - the right to use the money we like best.

The Romance of Bitcoin

Bitcoin really is the greatest romantic story of all playing out right in front of us, and hardly anyone notices just how extraordinary epic it is.

The story of a lone man with a love for humanity that is so great that he would choose to sacrifice not only the greatest fortune that has ever been created, but that the very substance of who he is—his identity itself—all just to give us the choice to be free. It is an inspiring epic that ask for each of us to rise to the task of what it would mean to truly love humanity and allow for the choice of such a freedom to come from only us, rather to live in the world of fiat darkness where the agency and power of man is something to be feared and caged in.

Now having been given the tools of personal liberation and self-soverginty, Satoshi loved us all enough to ask us the question if we also love ourselves enough to take on the task of what it means to enact the liberation that can only come from us through the empowerment of bitcoin. It ask from each of us not only to engage in the action of self-care in such a dramatic and empowering way that not only does it transform our existence from the plainness of everyday life that is the lackluster mechanization of everyday, but to show the world as an example of what such a love for all human would look like enacted in the day-to-day. It is not a life of the robust power and dictation of the state recreated anew, but a new form-of-life to free all people everywhere for the rest of time from such restrictions towards what it would really mean to be free.

Bitcoin is not about getting rich, making money, or even creating self-soverginty for ourselves; but is about loving the whole of humanity with such passion and conviction that not only will I be free, but so will everyone who truly understands what the love of bitcoin really is. A love for the freedom of humanity and infinite agency that comes from the soul of each and every individual who is now allowed to hold their wealth outside and beyond the view of any agency, body, ideal, or state in order to be something for each of us on its own. It is a love that can only actualize with the love, respect, and dignity that comes with understanding what the deepest purpose of bitcoin truly is. It is the secret that all Bitcoiners know and hold in their hearts, and it is from this dream of a better world and what the love of one another is, that we can truly change what is happening to our world together. No only for our people, but for the space that can only be reserved for the future ones that are loved before the arrive. This is so we may bow to them with reverence, dignity, and grace to say, “We have save this for you, and for only you.”

This romance for the human species and the kind of power and agency that we can each find within ourselves as a locus of control against a world that seeks to control everything is messianic insofar that it truly has the power to change everything. Only from the black of night that is the darkness of fiat, and the seeming end of man as a creature of infinite creativity, power, and agency; do we find the means to once again become the people that only we are capable of.

And as will all great romantic stories, the drama and tragedy that tells this tale of the most epic and extreme circumstances. For if bitcoin is not to succeed in this mission to liberate humanity from the bondage of debt slavery, financial surveillance, infinite fiat printing; that we will surrender the very fabric of what it means to be human to a dead and calculating machine of statism and its endless demand to control everything. It will only be love, love in the greatest, most astounding, bombastic envisioning that the world has ever seen that will save us from what is coming.

The electrification of consciousness that comes from bitcoin allows for the jumpstarting of sincere thinking not just as a form of logic, but as a means of achieving the ethics of what love is. This understanding of the praxis of love as a form of life allows for people to come to understand and see what fiat money really is under the imperialism of statism, and what that has cost us all. How dearly we have paid for this kind of money, this form of life, and this kind of economic machine that is not only divorced from the true care of all people everywhere, but has worked against them in such a way that very few can see the possibility of an exit at all.

This is why love and the understanding of what it is beyond a mere feeling and into an ethical praxis is of the greatest and most astounding purpose of bitcoin. It demonstrates that there is no price, no fiat value, no economic quantification towards what the freedom of the individual can truly mean. For man is not a cog in a machine from which his worth can be calculated, as a soul is not an engine with inputs and outputs, but is the infinite mysterious empowerment which secretly resides within each of us, and from which any person may achieve infinity. Together, we can choose to create a new world, one that is free from the rot and despair of fiat money and what it has robbed us of; but only if we choose the most radical form of love that chooses to vanquish the power and control of money from the hands of others, and back into our own.

Every cycle all I hear is, "Waahhh, scaling 😭"

Cry harder.

If an ancient civilization invented time travel and accidentally eliminated themselves when going back in time we would never know they existed because they didn't anymore.

It's not enough

GOOD MORNING

the more you're given

the more you have to give

mute your ego and serve

let others climb

let others celebrate

let others call you a fool

listen and serve

let them vilify you

let them misunderstand you

let them hide your contributions

it doesn't matter

let it go

let it happen

let it hurt

in the end it will all pass

you broke before

so many times

did you forget how you arrived here?

beyond pain and suffering

worrying about tomorrow

and how you will afford the future

for yourself and those you love

the more you're given

the more you have to give

serve