You zapped several of my posts minutes before I responded about Bitcoin not fixing everything, then unfollowed. This was our first and only conversation. Those are the facts. Nostr is a permanent record. Save your gaslighting. Have a good one.

And just like that, I was unfollowed by this new follower/pleb for saying Bitcoin doesn't fix everything - proving my exact point about identity and attachment. Bitcoin is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it's what we choose to do with it that creates value. The tool itself isn't the solution - our mindful choices and actions are.

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I don't subscribe to the Bitcoin fixes everything narrative, but I get your point. As a mindfulness based, tech/digital minimalist productivity coach, I know well that it's our perceived identity, needs, and habits that are the root cause. We're driven by core human needs for certainty, significance, and connection, but modern tech platforms have hijacked these natural drives with engineered dopamine loops. The real solution isn't a different currency - it's intentionally designing our environment and habits to align with our actual values, while being mindful of how digital tools shape our behavior and attention.

It takes a special kind of stupid to govern a state with incredible natural resources, industry, the largest tech sector in the world, near perfect weather, mountains, oceans, shipping, tourism, and high taxes and still manage to have horrible public infrastructure.

California has some… special politicians.

> Americanism: Using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.

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> — Robert Quillen

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Going all in on Bitcoin was the most important decision of my life. Not for the money it would become, nor for the purpose and meaning that it would deliver to me, but because it was a decision that was truly mine.

The whole world and everyone in it has ideas of who you are suppose to be, and most of the time we conform with that in some way or another. While I did not know it at the time, I knew in my heart of hearts that Bitcoin not only had a chance to save me from a life of mind-numbing pointless work, and nihilistic existence; but more than that, it allowed for me to believe in what I saw for myself, and my own understand of it before what everyone else was telling me. It let me stand up for myself against a world that just wanted to use me and keep me in the suppressed, small role it had relegated to me. Bitcoin allowed for me to decide something else against this system that could not see the light and love that I really am.

This decision came from my own strong conviction within myself that I knew from the deepest levels within me. Even though it seemed crazy, irrational, and like it wouldn’t work to everyone else; just like most major decisions that can change your life for the better, I knew it was what I had to do for myself. There are no other people who can make these kind of decisions for you, and that is why they are them in their lives and you are you in your life. Only you can make the decision for yourself about how your life is going to be, where you are going to put your energy and how you are going to save yourself against a world that wants to exploit you like a machine, and give you worthless paper in exchange for it. You can choose something else now, but that decision is on you alone.

While I cannot promise that you’ll get rich from Bitcoin, or even that it will be a profitable decision with your timing of the markets, you will learn to have a new kind of conviction and faith in yourself which is a kind of wealth in its own right. You will learn that you can decide to take a risk on your own thoughts and decisions, and that is worth something in and of itself.

Just some food for thought going into 2025.

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1. Head down.

2. Work hard.

3. Stack sats.

4. Glory to God.

It's just funny to me that people still believe mask-on Elon. The guy is a scammer anyone with eyes can see it.

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Better yet, go back to Facebook so Zuck's banhammer can protect you from my words before you have to activate a neuron

Sometimes people get offended by mutes on nostr.

I don’t look to see who has me muted and I don’t care. That’s their business. If they don’t want to see my posts in their feed that’s completely fine.

My advice? Even though the info is public, don’t go searching for who has you muted.

Just interact with the accounts you like and post the things you think are worthy of being posted.

You’re not entitled to have others see your posts.

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