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Jesus' friend, husband to @AnnSofiNovelist, father, ENTP, author, former teacher/tutor/professor in South Korea/China/ Saudi Arabia. My books provide a path to personal freedom if you dare to walk it, at http://FikaTimeBooks.com. Writing a 5th book called, "How to Build Deeply Authentic Relationships with Yourself and People." I'm also a highly skilled English language teacher/tutor, accepting more clients (30,000 sats per hour), with a Master of Arts in TESOL. 한국, 한국어, 그리고 한국사람을 정말 사랑해요. Author of four books. Book(s) available for sats and fiat through http://FikaTimeBooks.com - How to Become Extremely Intelligent - Benefits of Bitcoin - Beneficios del Bitcoin, Spanish translation - Fördelarna med Bitcoin, Swedish translation The Nature of Reality Abundance: Your Path Out of Poverty To support my work, on-chain... bc1qdy0h8ulkzma08zs45pg9zusy8qqcuu058zuce4

So this happened to #Bitcoin.

Here's to 5,000,000.00

February 25th, 2024, a high signal interview with Michael Saylor on history, technology, Bitcoin, and extreme success.

https://youtu.be/qBPtUf50XVg?si=_ebOcTsChpPe6tFr

Grok means to deeply and intuitively understand and grasp.

Good question!

Two of the best ways to learn are to perform it or teach it.

There are many ways to distinguish between types of people.

Man, woman.

Introverted, extroverted.

Individualist, collectivist.

Truth speakers, lie speakers.

Utilitarians, cooperators.

Intuitives, sensors.

But perhaps the most important way of distinguishing between people is those who believe they are God, and those who know they are not God. A large amount of decisions a person makes in life flow from whether they believe they are God, or not. Because the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.

But in another sense, what a person believes about themselves as to whether or not they are God is an important headwaters for the kind of wisdom that will flow from them.

A signal that a person believes they are God is their lack of gratitude, because if a person believes they are God then there is no Great Causer outside of themselves to thank. But if a person believes they are not God, then it's more likely they develop a habit of gratitude because then there is a Great Causer outside of themselves, bigger than themselves to thank for the gift of life and all things.

If you become someone who groks you are not God, and then grok God himself, you will become someone who signals humility and openness to other people, and will therefore attract people like yourself to yourself and will then find the community your heart needs because the relationships you find with those humble, open people will be real.

Believing you are God can only lead to pain, because resistance to reality always produces pain and suffering and because your choices will flow from that deep lie. Then you will attract other God complex afflicted individuals, which will lead to loneliness because relationships based on pride and dishonesty are not real.

Fundamentally, you get to select which kind of person to become.

https://void.cat/d/2L3uQQvjSX7g3akk9gEe9L.webp

Happy wife happy life is a marriage destroying lie.

Soft problems left unaddressed lead to hard outcomes.

Some people are arguing the moral use case of money, but that presumes one group can stop another group from using money, but they can't. That's essentially the same as arguing, "Speech is bad because some people say bad things." It's not an argument against money. It's an argument against freedom and for bondage.

But the reality is, no person can fundamentally decide a different person can or can't use money, and if they think they can do that they are revealing they think of themselves as God. But not even God himself makes that argument.

There is a lot of signal in this interview. I highly recommend it.

#Bitcoin is transforming the #energy industry, and that's no exaggeration.

https://youtu.be/OYn_WMdd-HQ?si=fAihzW-SIyt0WLiz

My Cash App glitched and said Bitcoin was a million dollars and had shot up 2000%. But someday that will become a reality!

It starts rough, but this is one of the highest signal podcast episodes I've heard in a long time. I highly recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/live/0MjZVo20Qtc?si=GRsDsgQ0r7XinHdA&t=242

Fun, authentic people are more interesting than serious, shallow people.

You are influenced by people, so do you want to be like the people influencing you?

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I am thrilled to share my new essay

"Stranded: How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy and Expanding Financial Freedom in Africa"

I was profoundly moved by what I saw on a recent trip to Kenya and Malawi.

If this essay can show you even 1% of what inspired me, that's a win… here’s an overview:

We begin in Bondo, a small town in Malawi, a country where only 11% of the population has access to electricity.

The nation suffers 6-8 hours of blackouts a day, but the power in Bondo is consistent because of Bitcoin mining.

The town got its first electricity in 2016, and now is expanding its grid, thanks to Bitcoin, which is buying 100% of the electricity that the micro-hydro stations cannot sell, and giving precious capital to the power company so it can expand operations.

At night, demand dwindles, and in remote places like Bondo, there’s no one else to buy the consistent hydro power.

Enter Bitcoin, powered by internet services like Starlink. A datacenter from Gridless now saves the wasted energy and is powering the community forward.

The big realization: virtually all power generation, especially in rural places, wastes energy.

Bitcoin fixes this.

We are told Bitcoin is a waste of energy but the truth is the opposite.

NOT Bitcoin mining is a waste of energy.

And the kicker: Bitcoin miners create heat.

This heat will be used for productive uses.

General heating in cold climates, and in a place like Bondo? Drying tea, fruit, or cocoa.

Profit from mining won’t just be profit - cost, it will be (profit + profit from externality) - cost.

For context: Malawi is a country that just suffered an IMF-led 44% currency devaluation.

Already one of the poorest nations in the world, where most people save in cash, now citizens can only afford 56% of what they could a few months ago. Per the IMF, more devaluation is on the way.

The kwacha is a disastrous wage technology. Once again, enter Bitcoin, a vastly superior savings mechanism.

The first Bitcoin meetup is happening in the Malawi’s capital this month. We are very early with adoption in this region—2020 in El Salvador terms—but this adoption will turn from a trickle into a torrent.

Up north in Kenya, Gridless has geothermal mines, too. I visited one.

It’s a remarkable site: a humming hut on the site of a lake with a Starlink on top, eating all of the electricity that a water pump does not use: perfectly solarpunk.

Kenya is the world’s largest exporter of cut flowers. There are tons of sites like this, generating power for irrigation, all over the country. All of them waste energy.

Geothermal is beautifully consistent, but the demand is not. Bitcoin fixes this.

Gridless operations like these are generally profitable within the first two years. Now there's biomass, where the company has just launched data centers at sugar and sisal processing factories which before couldn't find buyers for excess electricity.

But now Bitcoin is buying.

This sounds great so far…

But for the hundreds of millions of Africans who don’t have internet access, how are they supposed to benefit?

Enter KG, whose company Machankura provides Bitcoin access to people with no internet.

This is done through USSD — a SMS-type protocol.

The user texts a number, then gets a decision tree, and can send, receive, barter, and purchase a variety of things, all without data.

This is a custodial service for now — but KG and team have plan to make SIM cards signing devices and even Lightning touch points so that people can self-custody and be their own bank without the internet.

A true civilizational leap forward.

Critical: there are 700 million women in Africa, but very very few use Bitcoin.

Marcel Lorraine aims to change that.

A Kenyan entrepreneur who has fearlessly helping schools in Kibera, two years ago she launched Bitcoin Dada, a program to educate women and girls about Bitcoin.

Marcel runs classes every week, with several cohorts per year.

The task is huge but she insists on pushing forward.

She argues Bitcoin can give macro freedom for communities and countries, yes, but also micro freedom at home for women who traditionally take a back seat in finance.

Finally: independence from dependence is a key concept

Femi Longe, director of BTrust Builders, is trying to make that happen.

He’s running a program to train African developers and help them contribute to Bitcoin, to take careers in the industry or become contributors to core.

As Jack Dorsey says, if Bitcoin is going to be used around the world, it has to be made around the world.

Femi refuses to accept a future like today, where cars are made in the West and bought by Africans.

The Bitcoin infrastructure needs to be made in Africa.

The way these pieces could fit together is astonishing.

Unlike in the West, where adoption might mean centralized pools and ETFs, in Africa adoption will mean off-grid mining and potentially millions of self-custodying users, powered by SIM cards.

Africans need Bitcoin, yes.

But Bitcoin needs Africa.

That was blazing clear from my visit last month.

At the end of the day, who is going to help bring electricity and high-quality currency — the building blocks of progress — to hundreds of millions of Africans?

Bill Gates? The UN? The World Bank?

No, they won’t.

But Bitcoin might.

Read the full story at Bitcoin Magazine:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/check-your-financial-privilege/stranded-bitcoin-saving-wasted-energy-in-africa?new

Hearing is not understanding.