Without Bitcoin, the only significant freedom movements on the internet would be Tor/VPNs and Torrents/Piracy.

The internet will penetrate every single pore of human civilization. Every single aspect of life.

The stakes are immense, the mission is monumental. Open-source is the only option we have.

people will spend bitcoin more over time

businesses that make bitcoin standard living easier accelerate the process

not concerned but also accelerate

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.

“You can just do things” is one of my favorite meme phrases that I see out there.

Back around my senior year of high school, I consciously decided to shift to that mindset. I went from kind of operating within rules, and trying to leave a light touch around me, to being more assertive and creative about what I want to do. It was kind of a quiet “I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me” vibe shift.

At the time I think the terminology I filtered it through was Sagan’s pale blue dot. Like, everything that has ever been done is on this crazy little ball spinning through space. So it’s okay to just do things, to take chances, to think outside of the box. Because the box itself is already actually kind of crazy.

And then in the mid-2010s, like around 2016, I did kind of a checkup on how I’m doing, and felt that while I had used that strategy well, I wasn’t thinking big enough. I had primarily used that strategy to climb up the ranks in the engineering world, with the goal of making things better for myself and my colleagues/division; I would just do things and be the person who pushed to say “yes” a lot and it had worked out really well.

But for my next phase, I felt I needed to “just do things” outside of an organizational structure as well.

So I started my namesake website. I previously had a small anon website on stock investing which I was able to sell to some publisher and that gave me experience, but this one would be different. It would have my face on it.

Any sort of content creator starts by being a little crazy. It starts with the improbable concept that you could create written or audio or visual content that thousands or millions of people will actually want to see and get value out of, in the sea of endless content that already exists.

But it starts somewhere. With just doing things. My view was that I would do my best, leverage the experience that I had, and give it my honest shot.

Never looked back since. It’s been a wild journey.

LFG 🚀

Exactly that.

No chasing clout. No filtered likes.

Just raw presence, true value, and the guts to build without a map

Just ask questions and be curious and you will thrive beyond your imagination.

Don’t say shit when you don’t know what you’re talking about because you’ll conflate feeling smart with the fact that 99.9% of people just won’t tell you the truth to your face. They are terrified of that potential conflict.

And then one day when you’re older you will go through a horrific ego death when you meet that person who tells you the truth to your face.

The longer it takes to go through this ego death the less likely you are able to recover from it. You see that you don’t have any real friends and you don’t have the cognitive faculties to process what kind of person you just met that told you the truth.

You can spot these people clear as day. They shoot the messenger instead of facing the ego death that has been building. Then they go into attack mode because they feel an existential threat coming for them.

So yeah just be curious and ask questions so you avoid this situation. It’s ugly.

Good morning, #nostriches!

I actually enjoy most of working at Home Depot. Helping customers NOT burn their house down (x3) and finding them products that make both parts of a husband/wife combo happy (color and width of flooring for her, price and material for him) is challenging but also a fun puzzle.

I am enjoying getting customers to talk about their projects, figuring out solutions (that often involve them doing less or going elsewhere for solutions, since, well, I'm not gonna only sell stuff at HD if it isn't a good fit for the customer), and hopefully having them leave as a happy return customer is really satisfying.

I don't mind stocking shelves.

I'm still learning the wild variety of systems that HD has. The hardware is kinda crappy, or, if it worked consistently, would be brilliant. It reminds me of how crappy most nostr clients are with the Inconsistency that is very obvious to real users.

#gm #goodmorning #plebchain #grownostr #retail #retailsales #homedepot #fiatmining

If you’re in Vancouver, or know someone in Vancouver, this is an important vote for #Bitcoin. City elections don’t get large turnouts and Mayor Ken Sim needs these seats to move his bitcoin mandate forward.

April 1st - 5th

JUST IN: 🇪🇺 The European Central Bank announced it will begin integrating Bitcoin into its reserve assets, citing 'evolving financial realities.' Sources say Christine Lagarde called it 'a prudent hedge against uncertainty.'

May I trouble you to help me decide on a name for a new service?

I'm torn between ...

1) ParmaSwap

2) ParmaSync

What it is - A ParmaDrive machine does nightly backups to another ParmaDrive, and vice versa, adding geographical storage redundancy for two people, without needing a cloud service, and no fees. Extra people can be added too.

better tools are helpful but it’s entirely up to the individual to work harder.

there is always a way to accomplish your goals with what you have available to you now and i wasted many years of my life thinking lack of money was in the way of my success.

really I was just being lazy and wasting away dreaming instead of working.

lack of capital is what i could easily blame my failures on instead of the reality of not creating enough.

if I was well funded when I started would MADEX be 1000000% better.,. if I was rich now would I be able to do more ?

that’s what i guiltily think to myself.

but is it true ? i know it’s not. money only amplifies what’s already there.

it doesn’t fix anything for you on its own. it doesn’t give you talent, taste, skills, it doesn’t make your problems go away.

it’s the process of earning wealth that will grant the ability to use it productively and keep it.

everything is hard. if you want to build ferrari engines, you start by suffering at the local mechanics.

the journey is the destination.

from a quick search, starter leather working tools are the same and cheaper than starter painting sets.

if you want better tools you have to earn the right to use them and it’s the strength of our will to “find a way” that drives us around obstacles.

What are the best tools to combine various LLMs in a pipeline? Feed the output of one as the input of the other?

I have Decided to quit Nostr for good this time. As I have been here I have had many experiences, ones that I feel have helped shape my life as a whole, many new ideas and ideologies. But I realize that they are wrong, the morals and values of the people here are wrong. And I can no longer be a part of something I feel is wrong. Technology should be owned by large entities and controlled by the government, that’s how it’s been and how it always should be. Your data should be stored on corporate servers, not private relays and media servers.

✨ Extremely proud to announce that we'll be implementing fiat Cashu nutzaps for BlueSky!

The board said we can't call it nutzaps though.

GM