Every time I read someone’s post about their mom or dad passing it guts me.

It’s a wake up call every single time. I’m picturing a guy’s face clear as day who shared here more than a year ago.

There’s nothing you can say back.

And at the same time you want to say everything. You have this sense of gratitude, responsibility, sadness and all you can do is say “sorry for your loss”.

I owe every single person who ever shared the deepest sense of gratitude that I got when they were at their lowest.

What an unusual feeling of selfishness and guilt.

I’ll never come close to explaining this feeling. It feels like the rawest human connection of love to someone you don’t know and that’s why it’s impossible to explain.

I had a beautiful thought a year ago and it feels real today so I hope it comes through in a way that is intended which is with the utmost honor and gratitude:

That was both of you sharing that message.

And it was the just the beginning of a timeless connection that can move mountains.

The connection is still there and you’re still working together. The connection will always be there and I hope this note helps you smile on it one day because it’s definitely worth smiling about.

Thank you both and may God bless your paths to meet again.

The urgency to adopt Nostr is relaxed compared to Bitcoin.

Nostr is earlier on its path and Bitcoin is an end in itself, while Nostr is a means to that end. However, if you are trying to build an audience for yourself or a business, the opportunity is massive.

Being a first mover has always been an advantage on new social platforms. If you were early to Instagram, you had fewer photographers to compete with than you do now. Being early to TikTok and making a single viral video changed people's lives.

But, for every successful new platform, there were many failures. If you built a following on Myspace or Vine, you better have connected with your followers somewhere else. If you didn't, all you were left with when those platforms died, was some good, old-fashioned character building.

The beauty of Nostr is that every kind of social media will eventually come there. Like iterations, most will fail, but this time you don't lose your connections when they do. The barrier and risk to trying new things is minimal.

Building a following on Nostr is the only way to have an owned social audience. It is the only audience that is completely portable. You don't need to fight for the same handle across apps. You don't need to convince people to follow you in ten different places. At scale, your Nostr followers follow you once and enjoy your content in whatever format they prefer.

Being early on Nostr is being early to every future app built on the protocol. Instead of getting a head start on one platform, you're getting a head start on all of them.

The opportunity is enormous.

SOOO DEEEP! #SQ

Bitcoiners are the new capital allocators.

We’re living in a brand new world—nothing will ever be the same again. What made sense before was just habit: the consistent, daily reinforcement that Keynesian dollars could get you things. More fiat meant more stuff.

But those assumptions were built on sand.

Now, with perfect money, capital allocation among Bitcoiners follows a different logic. It’s grounded in real economics—Austrian economics—with a focus on hurdle rates, opportunity cost, and long-term value.

Just like Bitcoiners found each other by following reason to its conclusion, their investment choices often arrive at similar endpoints. But there’s a twist: perfect money creates a paradox. When your money appreciates exponentially for doing nothing, it becomes harder to justify spending or investing it at all.

That’s the challenge: if Bitcoiners don’t actively defend the medium of exchange property, they risk losing the very status that made them the capital allocators in the first place.

Before Bitcoin can become the default medium of exchange, it has to reach critical mass. But its strength—unparalleled appreciation—makes spending it feel irrational in the short term. The opportunity cost is too high. That disincentivizes everyday usage, which stalls progress toward mass adoption.

Bitcoiners face a choice: delay spending and preserve gains—or spend with purpose to build the future. That’s why Bitcoin capital allocation has to expand beyond ROI. The hurdle rates vary: some investments are about returns, others about aesthetics, ecosystem growth, or purpose.

Using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange doesn’t make short-term ROI sense. But it’s a long-term, purpose-driven decision. The real return? Staying in control of capital allocation. Cementing Bitcoin’s role as not just a store of value, but a currency in motion. Until that happens, fiat still wins by default—easy to earn, easy to spend.

So let’s show the world what Bitcoiners can do. Back the people, brands, and companies willing to build on Bitcoin. Prove that Bitcoiners don’t just spend—they allocate with conviction. We can mint new brands overnight simply by choosing where we spend.

That’s how we stay the capital allocators.

And right now, there is no higher ROI than securing Bitcoin’s place as the medium of exchange through a thriving circular economy.