The only one of those that I'm close to is buying my first house, which I did at age 33, but I never would have been able to that without #Bitcoin.
If those are really the averages for Americans, then I definitely have a *lot* to be thankful for. ๐
Just now, I was reading "A Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin" by Matthew Kratter, and came across this version at the beginning of chapter 5:
Yep. Once again, people are trying to compare products to protocols. I love Guy's (or maybe it was from someone's article he once read? ๐ค) analogy about cars and traffic laws:
Cars are products. If you can afford many of them, and you don't know which one will perform the best, go ahead and diversify! You'll end up winning one way or another.
Traffic laws are protocols. If you try to follow US traffic laws at one moment and UK traffic laws at another moment, all for the sake of "diversification"...๐ฌ Good luck surviving!
Blockbuster and Netflix were/are companies that sell entertainment products. Bitcoin and crypto are protocols for money; it's just that one of them works as intended, and all the others just don't.
As Michael Saylor would say, being in the 13% "isn't conviction, it's rational thinking for yourself."
Good morning, Nostriches. We're all a bit like Moses, leading the masses to the Promised Land, but not privileged to go there ourselves. We may be blessed to see it from afar, but we're heading to a better future for our great-grandchilden and beyond, not for ourselves.
LฬถFฬถGฬถ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐
I hope you all had a happy #Passover, Nostriches. ๐
Good morning, Nostriches. Here are the 10 Commandments of Bitcoin (well, not "commandments"; more like proverbs).
๐ญ: There is no second best
๐ฎ: Trusted third parties are security holes
๐ฏ: Taxation is theft
๐ฐ: Take time for fasting and meditation
๐ฑ: Build the future: raise a family
๐ฒ: Make war unaffordable
๐ณ: Lower your time preference
๐ด: Not your keys, not your coins
๐ต: Don't trust; verify
๐ญ๐ฌ: Stay humble, stack sats
LฬถFฬถGฬถ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐
#Passover
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป, by #[0]
"...whereas Madisonโs document is vague about the definition of its lofty, โ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ,โ Satoshiโs paper actually provides a mechanism for all peers to form ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐ผ๐ป!" -Tomer Strolight
"๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ; ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ." -๐๐ผ๐ฑ
A compilation of grifters and some outright scammers calling for 10K bitcoin or lower.
I try not to pay attention to the price, but sometimes my schadenfreude gets the better of me. ๐
Good morning, Nostriches. We're leaving Egypt, and on our way to the Promised Land.
LฬถFฬถGฬถ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐
#Passover
Thank you, Satoshi, for the higher price on my birthday. ๐
Good morning, Nostriches. Turn away from fiat in all its forms. It's a false god -- no more than a golden calf -- which will be destroyed and take you down with it, if you've connected yourself to it.
LฬถFฬถGฬถ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐
#Passover
What that bunny has seen cannot be unseen...
The message of Resurrection Day (a.k.a. #Easter) is all about the greatest good overcoming the greatest evil. It's a true story of evil apparently triumphing over good for a time, only for good to rise from the ashes and dominate forever after.
We're living through another story like that right now. Bitcoin keeps dying and CBDCs are on the way, but Bitcoin keeps coming back, and CBDCs and those pushing them will fail, as all evil always does eventually. So no matter what happens, keep the faith, and hodl on.
#Easter
He is risen! He is risen!
Tell it out with joyful voice.
He has burst his three daysโ prison;
Let the whole wide earth rejoice.
Death is conquered; man is free.
Christ has won the victory.
Come with high and holy hymning;
Chant our Lordโs triumphant lay.
Not one darksome cloud is dimming
Yonder glorious morning ray,
Breaking oโer the purple east,
Symbol of our #Easter feast.
He is risen! He is risen!
He hath opened heavenโs gate.
We are free from sinโs dark prison,
Risen to a holier state.
And a brighter Easter beam
On our longing eyes shall stream.
-Cecil Frances Alexander
No, it's infinitely more important than the Genesis Block. Literally. The starting point of the Bitcoin Timechain was unarguably the most significant event initiated by mortal human beings, but #Easter marks the day when Infinity Himself completed the sacrifice that allows us to inherit all that He has. Without it, the Genesis Block and even a world fully on the Bitcoin standard would be ultimately meaningless.
Good morning, Nostriches. Yeshua broke the bands of sin and death, and paved the way for you to come to Him and our Father, and become like Them.
Happy #Easter! ๐
~2000 years ago, some people went to sleep on this night, feeling very depressed, discouraged, and defeated. But the following morning, everything changed. #Easter
If you're having a bad time, hodl on: because you never know what blessings tomorrow could bring.
Good night, Nostriches. ๐ค
Good morning, Nostriches. Take refuge from the modern version of the plagues of Egypt in the modern version of Goshen.
LฬถFฬถGฬถ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐
#Passover