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johnkvallis
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Came for the Revolution, Stayed for the Revelation

Merry Christmas friends.

God is so great.

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My heart is overflowing with gratitude for the Lord’s gifts. Merry Christmas fam 🧡🙏🍻🎄

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Replying to Avatar UNCLE ROCKSTAR

The best way to find your true self is to serve something greater than yourself.

Every morning, I reflect on where I'm currently at, knowing I'll dearly miss these times when they are over. During the day, I'm preparing for the near future by coding, testing, and playing with tech. For a developer, there is no time like when you are fully focused and excited about what you're contributing to. I honestly can't wait for deployment and release.

And then at night, when the parties start... my God. This is what Uncle has been training for his whole life. There is something genius about destroying and losing yourself without limits.

The people around me are the biggest part of the experience. It's fulfilling to work with those I genuinely respect for their skills and what they bring to the table. And when you party with people that have known you for your whole life and still love you... it impossible not to be in a good place.

Bitcoin has had a profound impact by curating my surroundings. It has both connected and disconnected me from individuals. It has given me specific goals, forcing me to do things I wouldn't otherwise do. Sometimes it was extremely challenging, as my entire being was rebelling against taking certain actions. However, upon reflection, I realized there was no choice.

Either I serve as committed, or I don't. And serving has brought me here. To moments like this, where I feel compelled to capture the enjoyment and gratitude I feel and share it as a beacon for others.

Serve Bitcoin, and it will serve you. ✊🗽

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Bitcoin is hawk tuah money.

I was moved to tears several times at Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira.

The quality, sincerity, generosity, kindness, respect, and encouragement which characterize the interactions I had is on a level I’ve never before witnessed or experienced.

All those people, with a shared passion and dedication for the mission, humbled by all which it represents, interacting with each other as fundamentally equal, but experientially and intellectually unique, creates the best possible foundation for friendship, for mutual understanding, for helping and supporting each other, or for just hanging out and basking in the shared experience, and whatever forces are generating it.

It’s become such a consistent occurrence (though more pronounced each time) that it’s easy to forget just how special it is.

Bitcoin (only) conferences aren’t ‘industry events’, they are little wormholes to the future that flash open for a few days so people can feel what things are like when we orient and express our actions around such a form of truth - as represented in, accessed through, and propagated by, bitcoin.

‘Number go up’ is great and necessary, and none of this would happen without it, but it’s a ‘means’, not an ‘ends’.

What is experienced between people when they are so humbled by the truth, and so lifted and liberated by its presence, is the true nexus of creative inspiration, from which all that is good and beautiful may spring. That is the true ‘ends’, which we might simply understand to be alignment with the generative force we call ‘love’, and the products thereof.

Not the phony, wishy-washy, ‘everyone can be right’ kind of ‘love’, but the one which allows for argument and debate, honest feedback and opinion, while remaining grounded in a paramount aim that is movement toward Truth, which subordinates any divisive differences to this, ultimately uniting, shared objective.

Anyways, Bitcoin Atlantis just reminded me how incredible what’s happening here really is, and how much of a pleasure and honour it is to be sharing it with you (you know who you are).

Thank you.

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