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Erik Cason
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I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy. Cofounder Vora.io https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty

How much do you think you really self-censor before you post something?

I often will write out something, and then edit it a few times and ultimately delete it, for no real particular reason. Perhaps it’s from a deeper subconscious fear of being cancelled or having your account destroyed by whatever fiat service you are posting from. That is now something that cannot happen here.

It blows my mind that these smooth brains can’t even contempt the possibility of these tools being expropriated and turned against them to make sure every human on the planet knows what an absolute piece of shit this guy is. I hope when everyone really knows, every single person will refuse to interact with him economically, and he will die of starvation. The hubris of these fuckfaces is amazing.

Replying to Avatar ₿en Wehrman

"If a man is scared of carbohydrates, he is weak and fearful, and you shouldn't date him!"

Like who the fuck listens to anyone on a social media app for dating advice because of what food they eat? JFC this whole thing is totally out of hand. Happy these dipshits are too stupid to figure out what an NSEC is to ruin this place.

I sometimes think about the totality of how many people throughout human history have gotten totally fucked by their governments and had to flee their homes and communities with nothing more than what they had on them.

What has been the economic cost of this, what is the cost of always living in a state of fear that it will happen again?

While it can happen, at least with bitcoin you can keep some of your property beyond the violent expropriations of any government. The value of such a thing cannot be understood by dollars or purchasing power, but only through the cost of life and what real economy security means to someone who has seen just the smallest amount of the horrors of the genocides of the 20th century.

I have a deep fear of moving because I don’t wanna feel like I build this little paradise just to walk away in a few years.

Indeed, however if you get something from the 60s out in the sticks like me, most likely it was one drunk guy who finished most of the project with, “fuck it, it’s good enough”.

Damned either way.

I have a real love-hate relationship with owning an older home. There are constant projects and repairs to be done, which are not only costly but a real time sink. On the other hand, I really enjoy feeling capable and learning from each project and acquiring new knowledge. It’s just a real bitch in between the start and finish of the project where I don’t know what I’m doing and I can lose motivation because I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing and can’t do it.

It’s a good metaphor for most things in life. Going through the chasm to completion is almost always the hardest part.

This is the only reason I’m not totally fucked financial.

I’m kinda retarded, but I’m at least dumb enough to understand that the best and brightest are building and working on bitcoin, and all I have to do to get ‘equity’ on that project *forever* is hodl bitcoin.

Political neutrality in a world where all has become politicized is the most political of all things.

I’ve done a lot of incredible stupid and poorly thought out things in my life. Sometimes I run into folks that for whatever reason it was, I have to take some ownership of some pretty embarrassing things that I did.

While it fucking sucks, it’s better to clean up the fuck ups rather than let them languish and become gangrenous.

Replying to Avatar Matt

I've seen some opinions on Bitcoiners getting wealthier by providing no value. I can't speak for everyone, but here's how I am getting wealthier by providing no value:

I go into my emergency medicine job and get verbally and physically abused (called names, hit, choked, threatened), serve an ever increasing number of patients with resource increases that don't keep up, do things that fundamentally change who I am in ways that can't be undone (work on dead babies with parents screaming in my ears), get exposed to dangerous pathogens frequently, work nights so someone is there to respond to your emergency (changing this because the pay isn't worth it), act as a social worker because that's my job now apparently, pick up extra shifts to fund my investments, and spend a lot of time maintaining my education and licensing.

Outside of that, I've spent literally thousands of hours studying a variety of topics covering the financial system, government, all sorts of investment topics, technology, philosophy, and other areas.

After all of that, I landed on Bitcoin and chose to store my extra wealth there. It's paying off.

I think some people are just fucking envious. I could have spent my time hating people who figured something out before me. Fortunately, I spent thousands of my hours learning from them instead.

Most of my focus and work in 2025 will be on providing value for those who also value freedom and Bitcoin. #Nostr and #Bitcoin are the way.

Anyone saying people like me produce nothing can fuck right off. I produced value and stored it in Bitcoin and all Bitcoin has done is what it was supposed to do. Full disclosure: a very tiny portion of my stack was bought out of spite using stimi money during Covid. I've since v4v'ed way more than that to devs and producers in this space.

It seems like people are called geniuses for doing this with anything else (Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc), but people who do it with Bitcoin are somehow different. It's all built on an internal image of what people will value in the future and betting on that thing. It turns out that people already value Bitcoin. You really don't have to be a genius to take a look around and conclude that the world needs Bitcoin. The fucking up and right chart can be understood by any simpleton.

Envy is evil and destroys people.

TBH I agree with the statement ‘Bitcoiners get wealthy by providing no value’ because that is how a neutral money is suppose to work.

Now what is important is that bitcoin, unlike any other form of money, isn’t bias towards any fiat political system that inherently supports war, theft, and extortion on the grandest of scale. Of which pretty much everyone is captured by.

Bitcoiners get wealthy because they use a system of law that steals from no one, supports no wars, and has a fair and open distribution based on computational energy. It turns out that these features alone make it the greatest investment ever simply because it provides value to no individual; but to how the whole system functions, unlike all fiat monies and investments.

I saw that and it’s looks awesome, but I’m out on the west coast so it’s a bit far out for me.

I had a deer problem, until last summer I came home from vacation and there was a dead deer strung up on the inside fence. A cougar had been waiting for it to go into the orchard before ambushing it, letting the fence give it the upper hand.

There’s also a huge black bear that seems to use the orchard down the way as his own personal spot, which would also keep them away.

While I have a big orchard (about 50 trees) I haven’t had a large garden in the last few years. After this last trip to the grocery store however, I really realized how much I’m getting fucked on subpar produce and products that I can grow and make much better for myself.

I plan on doing a larger garden next year, adding about a dozen chickens (got two nice coops and a good area for a chicken run) and maybe three or four goats if I’m feeling ambitious.

I know it’ll make traveling much more impractical and add about an hour more of chores each day, but I’m sick of making the trip to the store and losing so much on something that I’ve done much better before.

I feel like the goats and the chickens will be the real game changers. I’ll need to up my preserving and fermentation game, which isn’t bad, I just need to do more of it.

Replying to Avatar Bitcoin Mechanic

This one hurt nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev

(I tired making the zap splits all go to Guy instead of me. Guilt free meme theft - only on Nostr!)

STOP ATTACKING MY DREAMS!!!

My first reaction is anger, and then once I think about it for a moment and realize it has nothing to do with me, it just becomes pity and contempt for being so small.

To all those who make shitty negative comments that don’t add anything:

It must suck to be you and feel so much hatred in your heart.

I truly feel sorry for you and hope the grace of God will find you one day.