Honey or maple syrup?

Both arrived today! My Bitcoin mining journey continues.

I just don't see how you can look at where we started and where we are and not be amazed how much progress has been made in 15 years. It's also unfair because a lot of the 15 years was spent actually building the technology to make the network usable. I'm absolutely shocked at how much better things are now vs when I bought into the Bitcoin philosophy four years ago.

All of this without a centralized authority guiding development is truly amazing. We are farther ahead than I expected. By years.

Obvious to some, most people don’t even know what money is let alone what makes good or bad money.

Honestly, at this point, I don’t know how to reach people anymore. In the West, there’s also the added difficulty that every transaction can be taxed additionally (depending on the jurisdiction).

It’s already hard enough to reach Muslims. For us, there’s an additional argument: the absolute prohibition of Riba (usury) and the strong recommendation to deal with sound money, which is not based on debt-driven creation out of thin air. The independence from banks or other fiat payment service providers, with whom Muslims often have more issues than other groups, is even a nice bonus on top of that.

That’s why I’ve also set up a directory listing merchants and service providers who accept Bitcoin. But the situation is the same there: it’s quiet.

As a freelancer, I’ve worked twice for direct Bitcoin payment, but that’s still the exception.

We could get all the environmentalists on board if they only understood that the biggest environmental problem is caused by our fiat system. Inflated money -> high time preference -> shorter-lived products -> more waste. But the green intellectuals just don’t get it.

Anyone who complains about societal degeneration, the decay of cultural life and fine arts, and the decline of families would be helped in the same way in the long term.

So, I don’t have an answer to your questions, and I think the right attitude can only come from the individuals and their sense of morality. Maybe most people aren’t aware of how much immorality and suffering is caused by our fiat system. Maybe the pain just isn’t enough, and people have become too desensitized.

15 years is not much, how long has the fiat economy taken to build hmmm?

I want to understand where the seemingly arbitrary time frames come from.

"It's been 15 years. We should have completely fixed everything by now..."

Who says 15 years is long enough? I just don't get why right now is the time that certain things should be reality. The current rails predate many humans on the planet. Fiat predates all of us. Gold predates some civilizations as a money.

YouTube predates Bitcoin. Lol I remember YT not existing and I'm only 31. Most people didn't carry cell phones when I was a child. But yes, we should have already completely fixed money and broken governments with Bitcoin. In 15 years. What we have right now is astonishing for such a short period.

Because Bitcoiners are still waiting for higher fiat price

36 hrs in on a 48 hr fast.

IF makes good practice.

Hitting PRs while fasting is interesting.

Whats the longest you’ve fasted for?

How do you like to break a long fast?

Anyone on Crowd Health? Worth it?

I think it’s time to kill the “dIgItAl GoLd” narrative.

I’m very easy actually