HODLing is a psychological battle with yourself. How much pain and scorn can you handle from the normie world? What is your pain tolerance for sustaining your HODLer conviction through big 50% or even 80% drawdowns?

Are you willing to think independently and ignore TradFi influencers who preach about being allocated to govt bonds or stock indexes or trying to be a property mogul?

If you do it correctly, you are richly rewarded for HODLing over time - both financially and mentally. If you do it poorly, you risk selling during the drawdowns or hard times.

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#Amethyst rocks I got banned from X

Hello can anyone hear me?

I can zap, but can't get zapped. Oh well, it's better to give than to receive. 🚬☕️🍩🤣

I turn 52 today 🥳

As a gift to myself I want to share the following with you:

We are smack in the middle of a war of ideas, and I'll tell you why this is good.

The battle is between us - the people - and the political class.

And winning requires that we constantly learn new, actionable ideas.

However, this isn't just an imperative.

Once we throw ourselves into the battle, we develop a passion for it.

You may have experienced it yourself:

Meeting new people and sharing and developing new ideas together with them is wonderful.

You discover that when positive, creative people get together, 1 + 1 is never 2.

When we meet, physically or digitally or we just read each others' writings, we often identify ideas that the other person didn't have before, enabling us to create new knowledge and more understanding together.

And sometimes, when you and I combine our ideas, we develop things that the world hasn't seen or heard before.

It might not be a gigantic innovation, and normally it's just a very, very small thing.

But it's our joint appreciation of the process itself that is so immensely rewarding.

Because we realize that 1 + 1 in the social and intellectual domain more often than not is 3, 10, 1000 a million or more.

Magical is the only way to describe this process, which is reserved to us alone, the humankind.

When this happens, you also realize that there isn't any limit to what we can achieve with more knowledge and understanding.

Immersing me in this form of social interaction gives me a constant dopamin rush.

I'm addicted.

Don't you ever force me into rehab.

Have a nice day ❤️

Fiat brains: "But Bitcoin has no real utility."

Me: "#Bitcoin is decentralized, secure, neutral, permissionless, energy money."

Fiat brains: "Yeah, but what does it DO?"

Me: "lol"

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🤝

Good morning.

If you’re not a dev, or widely-followed voice, or you haven’t been through enough cycles to be a Bitcoin philanthropist yet, but you still want to contribute to Nostr and be a positive force for its growth…

Show up. Post, engage.

Zap and repost the bangers.

Be a part of this.

Everyone can add to this protocol’s development, whether that’s technical, social, financial, or influential. We’re fucking doing it.

Onward 🫡