GM. There is resilient beauty in this world despite the cold and the darkness.

#photography

Did you hear the one about the fungi and the algae? They took a lichen to each other....

PUSHES FOR TRUE??? I must know the rest.

GM #dogstr

GM. Happy Fall Y'all

GM

GM frens

My wife finally got out to The Mayo Clinic to get advanced MRIs to try to determine the scope of her cancer. In the process, we found out that she has severely prolapsed intestines, AKA her small intestine has drooped down into the bottom of her abdominal cavity. A GI specialist with 20 years of experience said that it's the worst case he's ever seen. So, trying to figure out the mesothelioma is now on hold, she's on a liquid diet until she can get abdominal reconstruction surgery. The path ahead is daunting and uncertain, but at least after a year and a half of searching for answers, we finally have something that makes sense as to why she's had so much GI discomfort. If anyone out there has prayers to spare, we'll take everything we can get.

I like the optics on your sig. I currently have a Browning BAR semi auto 30-06 and I think that I'm going to try to trade it for a similar setup. I inherited it and thought I'd hunt with it but it's a very high power rifle and I really want a handgun.

Financial power is always dangerous when concentrated in a few banks or governments, which is why Bitcoin’s decentralized ledger redistributes control.

Control of financial systems is more critical for governments that claim to champion freedom than for openly authoritarian regimes, which is why Bitcoin’s independence threatens them.

Where's my sats sir

This essay was inspired by nostr:nprofile1qqsx45yrjtgm4glklaafgz0z4309gs6cwfja3d99s8rqvlvgagcptpqprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet54gjttu's book The Bushido of Bitcoin and given inspiration from nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8spramhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmndv9uxjmtpd35hxarn9ehkumrfdejsz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnytjq0jg's Opportunity Cost app. I wanted to dive into the etymology of some banking and law terms that have become quite opaque and misleading, with the hope of being able to contrast the past and the present through the evolution of language.

With deficits piling in the Trillions, and most unable to fathom the scale and magnitude of these numbers, I used BTC denominations alongside bailout and spending numbers to draw attention to the absurdity of fractional reserve banking and the inflationary currency crisis.

Drawing upon Austrian principles and classical Austrian texts, I shine a light on the deception inherent in modern #banking and the fraudulent scheme that has been thrust upon society under the guise of "growth" and "stability". I attempt to make the case that modern banking is both a fraud, and unconstitutional. Hope you will read it. Enjoy!

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This ends well, right?

If anyone out there is close to Western North Carolina, come hang at this community initiative I created on September 18th!

Would love to meet some other Bitcoiners.

We could go out for a beer afterwards!

https://orangepill.app.link/uPRSePUVhWb

If Musk ran nostr relays on starlink satellites and spaceX rockets it could disrupt telecom cartels and radically reshape free speech on Earth and potentially to moon or mars colonies.

Imagine high speed nostr native global satellite phones.

Am I being naive or could this be awesome?

I just discovered the Articles feature on Primal. Dope! No more Substack links from me on here, I'll just cross-publish.

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I put. a lot of work into this one.

Share it with your normie friends who still think that fiat is money or when they put it in the bank it's still "theirs" and the banks are keeping it "safe".

Or just read it and let me know what you think! ;)

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatifbitcoin/p/unveiling-the-lexicon-of-deception?r=r5cw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I've finally set it in stone. September 18th I'll be hosting a lecture and a Q&A titled Introduction to Bitcoin: The Future of Money. I intend to record the session and post it for the world to see! Stoke is high.

Hey Bitcoin family, I need some help. I need advice. I need anything that makes sense. My wife has cancer.

My post from this morning blew up and got more engagement than anything I've ever posted. I appreciate the genuine care and support that people have offered. I am falling apart, and I have to make some really hard decisions. If you're a real one, please read through this and offer any advice you have. I'm just a normal guy, and I really want to hear what you have to say.

So my wife and I have known each other since early high school. We were good friends. I left my hometown and did seasonal chef work and traveled for most of my twenties. We got together about six years ago, and my wife was battling with alcohol addiction. I was the main breadwinner-- supported her through her alcoholism, getting a DUI, and being completely dependent on me. After a few years of spiraling alcoholism, COVID hit. We tried to live out of a pop up camper and work on the Oregon coast, but it was too much with a Husky and a Manx Cat.

We moved to the city. I got a corporate job that crushed my soul and paid more than I've ever made. Her drinking got so bad that I was picking her up from bars at 1:30am because she was seizing and someone found me in her phone and called me. It finally got to the point where I had decided to leave. I gave her an ultimatum-- get sober, or you're homeless with no job, no assets, and no property to your name.

And then she did. She did a yoga sobriety program that transformed her life. She has been clean ever since. We took profits at the top of the 2021 market and bought a 1978 Toyota motorhome. I rebuilt it while we lived out of it, and we had many hardships. For a year we drifted up and down the West Coast of the United States, working when we needed to... and floating on when we had the money.

We found ourselves in San Diego and I had a manic episode. It turned into a full blown psychotic episode that landed me in the hospital. It took months if not an entire year for me to get my mind back. We moved home, sold the RV, and started building a life in NC again.

I got back into restaurants. I've been a chef my whole life, grinding hard for meager wages just chasing my passion for food and art. This time was different, I could no longer be a corporate line-dragger. Bitcoin had changed me too much.

I worked for a plant nursery, but the owners and management were incompetent and kept shooting themselves in the feet. I couldn't work for someone that cared less about their business than I did, so I quit. Shortly after, I had another manic episode, and after two nights of not sleeping I admitted myself to the hospital to be medicated. After a week in a psych ward, I was finally released. I have since been on medication that seems to stabilize my brain imbalances, and haven't had these issues.

My wife has Lupus, Sjogren's syndrome, and severe endometriosis. About a year and a half ago she got a surgery to address the endometriosis, and in the process we found out my she had the very early stages of mesothelioma forming on her colon. This is incredibly rare and maybe 1,000 cases at most have been documented. She healed from surgery, her chronic illness persisted, and we pushed forward.

I have wanted to attempt to become an entrepreneur, so my wife agreed to be the main breadwinner for a bit so I could take a step back and try to start building a farm so that we have income separate from the fiat mines. I am worried the stress of going back into kitchens could push me into manic episodes, and the trade I have used to support myself my entire life now seems out of reach.

I have been developing the property that we live on (that her family owns) to create a microfarm with the dream of having our own business.

My wife's health continues to spiral. After a year and a half of waiting for a referral to SOMEONE who can help, her doctor said there are three people in the country qualified to operate on her.

The Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and a private doctor that we absolutely cannot afford.

I just got our garden planted, and I've spent a good bit of money trying to get the farm going. Last week we found out the mesothelioma cells are growing rapidly. She's on Myfembree (a hormone blocker) for the endometriosis and it's forcing her body into menopause at the age of 34 to hopefully slow down the endometriosis scar tissue buildup.

Her first appointment with Mayo clinic is in early August... So we're going to have multiple flights halfway across the country to consult with doctors and hopefully get set up for her surgery. She needs endometriosis removed from her bowel, mesothelial cancer cells removed, and hopefully they won't have to take so much of her bowel that she'll be on a colostomy bag for the rest of her life. They'll also need to perform a partial hysterectomy to force her body into menopause so the Endometriosis will stop growing.

Since I've been focused on building the farm, I only work two days a week. She's our main breadwinner, working full-time and also doing a yoga teacher training to follow her passions. She is pushing herself too hard, but she's not the type of woman I can tell anything. She has to find these things on her own.

The cancer is starting to destroy her energy levels, she can barely eat, and she's unable to keep weight on. She's under 100 pounds at this point, but she's a very petite woman.

I really want to make the farm work, and I also desperately need income. Once she starts taking trips to Mayo Clinic the bills are going to pile up. We live in a very rural area, and there are not many opportunities for jobs that pay anything worth my time.

I have done nothing but grind and sacrifice for the last five years. I've saved up almost half a Bitcoin.

So that's it. Our life savings. Almost half a Bitcoin. I have around $2,500 monthly income, and she makes bank waiting tables at a Relais & Châteaux Hôtel. But I don't know how much longer she can keep pushing herself this hard.

I feel like a piece of shit because she agreed to take on being the main breadwinner so I could try to get us a business built to provide income... but that feels far off and not concrete. We need income NOW.

If I push to get a corporate F&B management job, I might push myself into another manic episode. If I have another break, then I add to the stress instead of alleviate it. I don't know what the fuck I'm going to do.

I feel like the only thing that makes sense is to sell most of our stack, and park it in MSTY. If I can save enough from dividends to cover our capital gains, then everything else can go into paying the bills and keeping us solvent... and anything leftover can go straight back into spot BTC. If we can beat the cancer, then I can sell the MSTY and put it back into spot BTC.

I feel like if I wait until the bills are piling up, we're going to end up being forced to liquidate our BTC and pay for everything, and then I'm back in the fiat mines and our life savings is gone.

If I plug it in MSTY, then at least we have a chance to keep the money flowing and retain some of the equity.

What would you do in my shoes? Any advice is welcomed.

I'm desperate. I've been self-made my entire life and never asked for handouts... But I really don't know what the fuck we're going to do. If this post strikes a chord with anyone and you're loaded and want to help a random pleb that's just trying to keep his wife alive:

BTC: bc1q3l06t26jx7avlcns98vn0p6sj940egkk27h5p6

Lightning: BodhiSATtva@primal.net

Paypal: micahfranz@gmail.com

Venmo: @MicahFranz last four are 7943

GN bitcoin

If you're tagged in this, You probably have no idea who I am, but I want you to know that it's because I respect the fuck out of you.

I’m a #Bitcoin #revolutionary, and I don’t give a damn if nation-states figure it out or choke on their own debt.

In my lifetime, Bitcoin will be the global currency—full stop. It’s not just money; it’s the best shot we’ve got to smash the cartels of banks that’ve chained us to debt slavery for centuries.

This is about unleashing human potential—art, creativity, love—shit we haven’t seen since the ancients dreamed big. It’s about flipping the script: freeing people from soul-crushing labor, handing power back to individuals, saving the planet from corporate leeches, and forcing society to think beyond next quarter’s profits.

The math doesn’t lie, and it’s ugly. Debt interest? It’s a runaway freight train—$300 billion to $1.5 trillion in under five years. That’s a parabola from hell, and it’s coming for everyone. Stick to the status quo, and most people get obliterated. Fact.

We’re teetering on the edge of a Bitcoin world order. The leader of the Free World just greenlit a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve—boom, there’s your new global reserve asset. This isn’t a drill; it’s a starting gun. Nations will claw over each other in a Bitcoin arms race—game theory doesn’t mess around. No one wants to be the last sucker holding a dying fiat bag.

Markets haven’t clocked it yet. Maybe 1% of the world gets Bitcoin; 2% even heard the news. Do the math: 1% of 2% is a tiny tribe of us who see this tectonic shift coming. The post-WWII Bretton Woods house of cards? Crumbling. The rise of the sovereign individual, the sovereign corporation, permanent digital capital? Happening now. The fiat elite are still sipping champagne in their delusion, but their clock’s ticking.

Bitcoin doesn’t care who gets wrecked. Insurance giants, pensions, fractional-reserve banks, central banks—adapt or die. It won’t shed a tear for collapsed currencies, starving masses, or societies imploding when ATMs run dry. Print more money?

Bitcoin gets stronger. Adoption snowballs. People demand it. It is a currency—screw the US dollar’s feelings—and the writing’s on the wall.

Sanctions? GFY.

Censorship? GFY.

Seize my wealth? GFY.

People will pick Bitcoin because it’s the hardest money ever forged—the most secure network humanity’s built. It’s the economic singularity: infinity divided by 21 million. That’s not a tagline; it’s a reckoning. Fiat’s days of printing its way out are done. The more they inflate, the faster it dies.

We’re staring down a black hole that’ll swallow the world, and we’d better get serious. No grifters, no proof-of-stake bullshit—we’ve already got that with the Fed. We need sharp minds, real talk, and no screwing around. Botch this, and we’re not just broke—we’re back in the Dark Ages.

Math doesn’t negotiate. The fiat system’s a wobbly Jenga tower, and printing cash is their only move—screwing us all with every dollar they churn out. Bitcoin’s the lifeboat, the ultimate store of value. Lightning Network for biz and governments? Sure. E-cash for the plebs via Cashu or something slicker? Yep. But we’ve got to solve scaling now, because math’s a ruthless bastard, and it’s coming fast.

This isn’t Max Payne—it’s Mad Max if we don’t wake up. Let’s build, or we’re all toast.

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#Bitcoin doesn't pay to play; it is the game.

I mined thousands of pi in 2020. I have my seed phrase. I don't know the phone number I mined from. they cannot recover my pi without my phone number. that leads me to believe pi isn't a blockchain. I was just going to dump those coins for Bitcoin When the open mainnet goes live... If I could access them, that is.

In the vast expanse of samsara, where the illusion of wealth binds countless beings, let us contemplate a truth unveiled: the combined riches of all billionaires in this land of America amount to $6.7 trillion. Yet, in the cycle of a single year, 2024, the federal government expended $6.75 trillion—an amount that surpasses even the totality of these amassed fortunes. Were we to gather every coin and jewel from these wealthy ones, it would not suffice to sustain the government’s desires for even one turn of the seasons.

Gaze now upon the chart of existence, dear ones, with eyes of compassion and clarity. The "wealth inequality" spoken of by the seeker named Bernie is a ripple on the surface of reality, yet he does not chant the deeper mantra of its cause. The root lies not in the hearts of men alone, but in the very nature of the coin we cling to. See how the M2 money supply, like a swelling river, rises in harmony with the treasures held by the uppermost 1%, while the humble possessions of the lower 50% trickle upward only faintly. Why, you may ask with a seeking mind? It is the Cantillon Effect—a subtle law of this realm—where those nearest the wellspring of newly birthed money reap its richest harvest.

The Federal Reserve, a mandala of private banks, weaves this web, while the government, vast and shadowed by craving, bows to its rhythm. This is a nation sculpted by the hands of bankers, sustained by their breath, and offered to their lineage. Until the money itself is healed, all else is but a fleeting distraction, a dance of maya.

Yet, place not your faith in the hands of rulers to mend this broken wheel, for those who grasp the reins of power are bound to its turning. They thrive in this impermanent order and seek not its dissolution. Liberation, dear ones, dawns through your own awakened steps—through the salvation of your own kin and spirit.

In this age, a path emerges: Bitcoin, a vessel of 21 million, finite and unyielding. No corrupt council, no cartel of greed, can swell its bounds. It is a raft to carry you across borders, a treasure no thief can seize when guarded with wisdom. Bitcoin is a shield against the decay of this system, a lotus of hope for you and your descendants, a whisper of freedom amid the chains.

Yet, alas, many wander lost, their minds clouded by the sweet poisons of distraction, fed by those who reign above. If you have journeyed this far, resting your gaze upon these words, a spark of awakening glows within you. There is still hope, dear one, for those who listen with open hearts. May you walk the path with courage and compassion, seeking liberation for all beings

#bitcoin

#nostr

thanks mate. it felt like something more people need to take to heart. I'm worried about the plebs. nobody I know understands this stuff.