we can build it. we have the technology

Got a new barista friend.

I tip my baristas in #bitcoin .

Set him up his Blink wallet.

Say hi to him at alish@blink.sv

meme #nostrmeme

#Zap it, Feels good man

🙅‍♂️🙅💁‍♀️💁🙋🙋‍♀️🧏‍♀️🧏🤦🤦‍♀️

THE BURNOUT IS REAL

ITS OK TO TAKE A BREAK

(MAYBE)

Saying things in as few words as possible is the soul of wit.

Hello nostr, comment if you see this!

Okay hear me out, don’t come at me for ignorance.

But I’m teaching the last class today for BTC Isla (before they officially graduate next week) and in the last chapter it talks about bitcoin being a revolution and how it its paving the way for a more equitable and decentralized future.

The word “equitable” keeps come back because how can it be equal if it rewards early adapters? And of those early adapters most if not all had access to a computer back in the early days.

It isn’t equal to those in poverty though, that have no such resources.

Why is it that the poor always get the short end of the stick?

What do I mean by that? Well the less you have the harder it is for you to succeed, yet the more you have, easier it is for you to reach the top.

In 2018 I broke my rental lease to live in the back of a van to save money on rent & buy more Bitcoin.🏡

With Bitcoin below $5,000 AUD, I simply couldn't justify paying $300AUD a week for rent.🇦🇺

After being homeless at age 17 in 2014, this felt like a serious regression at the time, to go back to being homeless.🛌

EVERYONE called me crazy.

I even dropped out of university in 2018, & started my own business, just to have more time to study Bitcoin.📚

6 years later & the tables have turned, Bitcoin is at $97,529 AUD & I'm homeless once again.😂🌎💻

Moral of the story:

🔴Fortune favors the bold

🔴Don't be afraid to take calculated risks

🔴You can ALWAYS find extra pennies to buy Bitcoin

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, buy more Bitcoin, you're probably wildly short on the greatest asymmetric opportunity in our species timeline.

Wife’s going out this week to a Writers’ conference.

Alone With The Kids is way scarier and funnier than Home Alone 😅

100 sats = 1 bit

1,000,000 bits = 1 #bitcoin

#grief #parenting #writing

My middle child passed away a little over 2 years ago. He was 18 years old. Among many other hardships and tragedies in my life this pain is sharply unique. In some ways I've been coping well, in other ways not so much.

I am a reader and a writer. Words, language, and stories are nearly as dear to my wellbeing as food and water.

I have been writing less and less over the last couple years.

Sometimes my feelings of grief and outrage and near-relentless sorrow well up and I can breathe into the pain and make room for it and let it flow through me and out. Some of the feelings are knotted tight, coiled into nooks and caves in my inner being. I think the only way I can release or incorporate these trapped feelings is by sharing and being seen.

Whenever I try to choose a memorial piece that my child’s bones will be incorporated into, I feel as though I will shatter, as though the next breath, or the one after that will begin the cracks that will spread irreversibly through me. I know this is not true. Still, I stopped looking at memorial art.

I believe I need to share my experiences, both for my own health and for the possibility that my words could positively affect someone who needs to hear them. I kept putting it off because I wanted the right words, the right timing, the right platform, the right schedule, the right persona. Because it is my learned inclination to be reserved and private and to keep most of my Self hidden most of the time.

This morning I cried suddenly, missing his smile, his laugh, his hug. I knew it was time and I promised myself that I would write AND SHARE something TODAY, and here it is.

#suicide #mentalhealth