Story time:

6 years ago my mother in law was left penniless in a surprise divorce at age 67.

My father in law (piece of shit) had left her with nothing and planned to dump her on social security.

She was working as a pre school teacher making $14 an hour.

We had to move fast.

Father in law literally shotgun divorced her.

Showed up at the doorstep with a notary and manipulated an emotionally fragile woman into a binding legal agreement.

I was pissed.

I showed up a few hours later with a series of financial plans.

And with tears still streaming down her face in the kitchen of her tiny apartment, she picked one.

I gave her 3 options.

1. Aggressive

2. Extremely aggressive

3. Dave Ramsey rice and beans

She chose number 3.

Over the next 4 years she rode her bike to work everyday. Watered down her lemonade. Spent nothing on herself. Walked dogs for extra income. Took weekend shifts at the preschool. Showed up early. Stayed late and against all odds was able to save 12k a year on a salary of only 27k.

I set up a couple retirement accounts for her and whenever she would scratch $1,000 together she would give it to me and I would smash buy GBTC or MSTR.

My mother in law has never invested a day in her life and I didn’t want the news or some boomer friend to freak her out, so my wife and I just tell her she’s invested in “the market” 😂

When Bitcoin (the market) is doing good, we tell her and when it’s not we just… don’t tell her lol

So she’s effectively shielded from the emotional volatility of hodling. Which makes her a very good hodler.

Fast forward to today.

I helped her retire from the preschool. She is now living with us and helping look after her grandchildren.

She went from being near suicidal. My wife and I were legitimately concerned about her mental health. To a happy healthy and vibrant grandmother.

And as of yesterday she crossed 500k in retirement accounts.

I expect she’ll be a millionaire soon.

She can now comfortably retire with dignity.

This is not something that would have been possible without Bitcoin.

As cool as it is to see people like @saylor make billions of dollars these are the stories I live for.

The average person fixing their life with bitcoin.

It’s so fucking beautiful man.

Life’s good.

Story time:

6 years ago my mother in law was left penniless in a surprise divorce at age 67.

My father in law (piece of shit) had left her with nothing and planned to dump her on social security.

She was working as a pre school teacher making $14 an hour.

We had to move fast.

Father in law literally shotgun divorced her.

Showed up at the doorstep with a notary and manipulated an emotionally fragile woman into a binding legal agreement.

I was pissed.

I showed up a few hours later with a series of financial plans.

And with tears still streaming down her face in the kitchen of her tiny apartment, she picked one.

I gave her 3 options.

1. Aggressive

2. Extremely aggressive

3. Dave Ramsey rice and beans

She chose number 3.

Over the next 4 years she rode her bike to work everyday. Watered down her lemonade. Spent nothing on herself. Walked dogs for extra income. Took weekend shifts at the preschool. Showed up early. Stayed late and against all odds was able to save 12k a year on a salary of only 27k.

I set up a couple retirement accounts for her and whenever she would scratch $1,000 together she would give it to me and I would smash buy GBTC or MSTR.

My mother in law has never invested a day in her life and I didn’t want the news or some boomer friend to freak her out, so my wife and I just tell her she’s invested in “the market” 😂

When Bitcoin (the market) is doing good, we tell her and when it’s not we just… don’t tell her lol

So she’s effectively shielded from the emotional volatility of hodling. Which makes her a very good hodler.

Fast forward to today.

I helped her retire from the preschool. She is now living with us and helping look after her grandchildren.

She went from being near suicidal. My wife and I were legitimately concerned about her mental health. To a happy healthy and vibrant grandmother.

And as of yesterday she crossed 500k in retirement accounts.

I expect she’ll be a millionaire soon.

She can now comfortably retire with dignity.

This is not something that would have been possible without Bitcoin.

As cool as it is to see people like @saylor make billions of dollars these are the stories I live for.

The average person fixing their life with bitcoin.

It’s so fucking beautiful man.

Life’s good.

I feel ya, ideally that’s what I would want to do. My wife however is on the other side so I’m trying to find a consensus here.

Hey parents, what should I know about the dtp vaccine?

Bitcoin protects you against inflation AND tyrants, but only if you self custody.

Here’s the thing about the bitcoin-Trump-govt-takeover doomers…

First, Trump doesn’t care about bitcoin or crypto that much. The argument always seems to be some big conspiracy to make a CBDC and use the bitcoin rocket to expand their reach and dominate all the KYC paper bitcoin and trap everyone in it, etc etc.

But it’s only us who put bitcoin at the center of our “plans.” They are “playing with it” because it’s this tiny side project that has been making money. Thats it. Trump is interested because there are voters he can appeal to. There is SO much honesty in the “and whatever else you are playing with” comment. He doesn’t care about any of this, and neither do the overwhelming majority of them.

It’s a bunch of opportunists that see growing numbers and so they buy an exchange, they try to dominate this and that market, etc. it’s nothing new.

Look at the stupid shitcoins they keep issuing. You think these are brilliantly laid plans? They could barely sell anything of their latest scam.

And of course when considering the exploiters of the old system, they will have more capital to dominate the new, but this doesn’t change in any way the fundamental incentive shift that occurs within the Bitcoin model.

Fiat has a corruption loophole, Bitcoin plugs that loophole.

Quit declaring failure before things even get off the ground. And quit framing Bitcoin’s importance through OUR lens instead of theirs. They don’t have that.

This is where “stay humble” shows up in practice, imo. We aren’t the most important thing in their world. We are winning and just need to put our head down and build solutions to TODAY’s problems, not throw our hands up in surrender or put all our concern in some elaborate, long term “probably going to happen” master plan.

Thats just my 2 sats

Tuddle twins cartoon series on YouTube.

Your welcome.

As we move through another cycle of people and new wave of “experts” coming to understand #Bitcoin, I want to shout out the cypherpunks, the freedom fighters and #Bitcoiners who were far ahead of me in understanding, advocating and building to this protocol.

Names may be forgotten, but your impact on moving us forward never will.

Deepest Gratitude 🧡💜🙏

It’s all politics and those in #btc or have #bitcoin and refuse to recognize that #politics **Are** people are missing a huge opportunity.

Example: after Jan 6 : I **knew** Indiana would get hit first for abortion rights. Why? Cause that sellout veteran Senator Todd Young lacks character. He didn’t want to pass the #PACTACT either that benefited #veterans But I’ve met him in person so I’ve known for years he’s a **YES MAN** who will sell out to the highest bidder.

So if you have a state House of Representatives that are mainly RED ( because it was stacked ) cause humans don’t work locally … this happens. Hence why I say to work locally ALL THE TIME.

Sure you can argue the morality all you want but when people **BUY** their seats 💺 & don’t do anything about rape victims

At one time Indiana had over 5000 untested rape kits ..: we have to pick our battles.

🛎️These two are fundamentally incompatible view points; there's no reconciling them.

Multiple issues. I just cut the snakes down at the local level before they grow larger. Does that make sense to you?

Was there an “October Surprise” this election?

#asknostr

Hello World

Speaking with #american #USA #women … we don’t want to be made into forced decisions. We read Project 2025 & it’s not good for most anyone.

Once they overturned Roe Vs Wade & most men didn’t respect women’s right to choose … it angered many of us. Why are men’s rights always the first priority?

IF American 🇺🇸 men cared about women the ERA would have passed. FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️ it’s been more than 100 years.

And #fren I don’t fear the right. I’ve seen the results of toxicity firsthand and up close. So kindly & respectfully: just don’t.

I just spent 20 minutes with my 2 year old boy, pushing a plastic dump truck back and forth across the floor, and he was having an amount of fun that should borderline be illegal. 🤣🤣

That was all, just pushing a dump truck. After 20 minutes he got up and ran off. I thought he was done… returned 30 seconds later with his trash truck too 🤣

Reconsider the strategic reserve

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

lol thanks I’ve been sick af so my response time is slow.