First listen for the first run of the year.
Timeless.
Relevant.
If you know...
Centralized Lives Create Weak Humans
Centralized money creates dependency.
Centralized thinking creates fragility.
If you need:
• validation
• permission
• guarantees
You’re not sovereign.
You’re managed.
Bitcoin doesn’t babysit.
Neither does reality.
If you're looking forward to revolution, you're not ready for what's coming.
We act because it's necessary.
And hate that we must.
I'll keep pulling on the towpath.
You keep floating on the river.
Yeah, until the day is done.
Keep on keeping on the low road,
Chesapeake and Ohio.
Because on the higher ground you will find
Elephant Riders to the northwest bring news from father.
Looking like it's always closing,
the Salty Dog is always open.
Here, I got an I.O.U.
Clickity clack clack, clickity clack clack,
Baltimore and Ohio,
Clickity clack clack, clickity clack clack,
roll on, roll on.
On our way to Washington where work is done by men with gavels,
I heard a sound that just about removed me from my filly's saddle.
Just outside of Antietam, where once there was a mighty battle,
I heard the rhythm of the hammers beating the rail lines together.
Elephant Riders to the northwest bring news from father.
Don't be eating all the hard tack.
Between we two there's half a small sack.
Still, we got miles to.
Giddy up pony, Giddy up pony,
Camptown Race is five miles long.
Giddy up pony, Giddy up pony,
ride on, ride on.
On our way to Washington where work is done by men with gavels,
I heard a sound that just about removed me from my filly's saddle.
Just outside of Antietam, where once there was a mighty battle,
I heard the rhythm of the hammers beating the rail lines together.
Elephant Riders to the northwest bring news from father.
Elephant Riders to the northwest bring news of battle.
Freedom Is Not a Human Right.
This will upset people.
Freedom is not guaranteed.
It is earned, defended, and maintained.
Bitcoin doesn’t expose inequality.
It exposes excuses.
Freedom doesn’t include everyone.
It filters relentlessly.
Most people fail the filter and blame the system.
Bitcoin just stops the pretending.
Bitcoin reveals how inconsistent most people are over time.
People say, “I wish I got into Bitcoin earlier.”
No.
You wish you had the discipline earlier.
You had the information.
You lacked the conviction.
Bitcoin doesn’t reward intelligence.
It rewards commitment over time.
That’s why most people miss it.
Let’s be honest.
Most people don’t want freedom.
They want comfort with the aesthetic of independence.
Freedom requires:
• Self-control
• Delayed gratification
• Personal accountability
Bitcoin doesn’t offer safety nets.
It offers fairness.
If that scares you, stop pretending you want sovereignty.
Justice comes for everyone eventually. In this life or the next.
Perhaps the longer it takes, the more severe it will be.
Human energy → human freedom.
Align your time and effort with what truly matters.
Proof of Work > Proof of Talk.
Let your actions be the ledger.
For the initiated.
Your environment is your social consensus layer.
Surround yourself with people who elevate your energy.
Unless Bitcoin miners can emit infrared, hashrate heated Finnish sauna.
Human Energy is the original currency
It is the one resource every human possesses, yet few truly understand how powerful it is.
Every decision we make is an allocation.
Every habit we cultivate is an investment. Every distraction is a leak.
Bitcoin gives us a powerful metaphor for how human lives unfold:
Energy + Intention = Value.
Just as Bitcoin converts electricity into digital scarcity, humans convert discipline, focus, and purpose into outcomes that shape our lives and the world around us.
Our daily “proof of work” isn’t logged on a blockchain.
It’s logged in the people we serve, the problems we solve, and the character we build.
When we direct our energy intentionally, everything compounds.
When we disperse it through distraction, everything fragments.
Your energy is your most foundational asset.
How you spend it determines who you become.
Discussion Topic:
What gives Bitcoin value?
Bitcoiners are absolutely the most mission focused, purpose driven I have ever known.
The nostr:nprofile1qqsgpf4x2am7hn5l0kwqaln352u6hvqx72ds0udflcqe0sed2d4f0cspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcxrdmer Veterans Day Telehash is complete. And Bitcoiners showed up.
THANK YOU
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Nashville will never be the same.
Very good to know. Thanks for starting my day off right learning something new 💪
That's a great question and I wish I had an answer. What I do know is when I attempted to upload a large video using Primal it wouldn't allow it without an upgrade.
When I used Amethyst it worked.
Thus concludes my technical analysis.
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If you call yourself a conspiracy theorist, and don't listen to Clutch, your tinfoil hat is just for show.
Destined to be the most high speed low drag event of the year.
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Brilliant discussion. nostr:npub160t5zfxalddaccdc7xx30sentwa5lrr3rq4rtm38x99ynf8t0vwsvzyjc9 is the coolest of all the @bitcoinveterans
https://fountain.fm/episode/d4ZwIkQqH1LLwlDBHNHy
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Brilliant discussion. nostr:npub160t5zfxalddaccdc7xx30sentwa5lrr3rq4rtm38x99ynf8t0vwsvzyjc9 is the coolest of all the @bitcoinveterans
https://fountain.fm/episode/d4ZwIkQqH1LLwlDBHNHy
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#Amethyst
1000 plus relays
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I'm thinking more of individual productivity and less reproductively.
Exercise
Look at the blue sky
Do something to increase your level of freedom and improve the lives of those you love.
Then do it again.
Just building something.