Back in a simpler time, deaths like these would have been from school shootings, car accidents, and suicides. But not so, these days.
These children were murdered by big pharma.
Yes, but we're also fighting demons of all kinds. Money is what allows for all good and evil to have any influence in this world, and #Bitcoin is removing evil's ability to influence money itself as a system of control upon the good. It's literally starving the Beast, and suffocating all demons.
What a time to be alive.
I use Amethyst, so I can still use the Like button as a way of saying "I see you." I also use it when I want to acknowledge that I like something, but not enough to want to give any sats for it.
Mine is actually the golden ratio, a.k.a. phi, or 1.61803399...
But 20999999.9769 is up there, too. 😉
👆 This.
"All #Bitcoin has to do to win, is survive."
-Guy Swann
Sure. The graph represents the number of transactions waiting to be confirmed by the Bitcoin network at any given time. The higher it goes, the longer the line of pending transactions. The colors represent the different fee rates that each sender is paying to the miners, and the pending transactions are organized with the highest fee rates on top. Whenever a new block is found, the miners take a giant "chomp" out of the top (though they're free to include lower-fee transactions, too), so they can get the fees from the highest-paying transactions.
So, lately, there have been more pending transactions that have been getting confirmed than new transactions coming in, so the line has been getting shorter, and the minimum fee rate to get into the next block is going down. I believe that, eventually, the list of pending transactions will never go to zero, but for now, it's looking like even the transactions with a fee rate of 1 sat/vbyte will get confirmed, and we'll once again have some blocks that aren't entirely full.
I've been spending more time with my wife and children, been helping to build the community around the NOAH app, as well as expanding my in-person Bitcoin meetup, Bitcoin Chatt, while improving my health and sense of self worth, and stacking more sats.
So, I'd say that's a resounding
The Third Great Awakening? 😏
The love of fiat is the root of all evil because loving fiat means turning against your neighbor.
The love of #Bitcoin is the root of all good because loving #Bitcoin means loving your neighbor.
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I started off failing, by masking-up even before anyone else did. Fortunately, I had already gone down the vaccine rabbit hole, so I determined early on that I would never get a covid vaccine, but I immediately gave in to fear, believing that covid was going to be immensely disastrous in its death toll (and being silly enough to believe that a mask would protect me or others, even if the virus was as bad as I feared).
Thankfully, I got a little sick in April 2020 (it wasn't "covid"), and while my employer wanted me to stay home for a couple weeks "just in case", I was able to use that time to learn the truth and repent of how I had been. And while very few of the "nazis waiting for orders" will likewise repent, it's always possible that, at any time, any of them could. Though, admittedly, the likelihood of that drops more with every passing day.
"Teach your children about the birds, the bees, and the private keys."
-Andreas Antonopoulos
All great points! Though I don't quite agree that the way I described shitcoins applies to fiat. Yes, they all basically have identical qualities, but my point was simply that I only use fiat because I'm forced to use fiat by those who refuse to accept anything else. The moment that lack if choice goes away, I'll gladly pay with sats.
You made an excellent point with your question at the end, though. So, I think it demonstrates that being a Bitcoiner isn't about how much of your wealth is in Bitcoin and/or something else, but it's about 𝘸𝘩𝘺 your wealth is in Bitcoin and/or something else.
For example, I held bcash for a while after the 2017 hardfork, not because I thought bcash had a future or because I was waiting for it to pump so I could sell it for more bitcoin. No, it was simply because I didn't know how to get rid of it! 😂 I sold it as soon as I learned how, and while I was grateful for the extra sats, that wasn't my intent in holding it in the first place. I only held it for a time because the hardfork made it unavoidable! And then I sold it because I believe it's a rotten and immoral project to its core, and I didn't care for whatever price I ended up selling it at.
Likewise, if someone owns Bitcoin and also stock in a company that they really believe in and want to support, or land that they one day want to build a house on, or fiat that they plan to spend on food and bills soon, or anything else, I don't think that makes them any less of a Bitcoiner. But, if they own any of those things and very little bitcoin because they're speculating that those things are safe and Bitcoin is risky, then they're ultimately bearish on Bitcoin, and are therefore not what I would call a Bitcoiner. The same goes for if they only hold a crypto out of speculation and diversification, hoping to dump on others later to get more sats.
So, all these ramblings of mine (thanks for reading it all, by the way) are to say that we really can't determine whether someone is a Bitcoiner or not based on external characteristics like what they hold in their portfolio. It's entirely a personal matter of one's heart and intentions for what they own, and since it's impossible to know exactly what's in someone's heart, I think it's wrong for any of us to judge anyone based alone on what they own.
I saw you say that you're trying to get rid of your shitcoins now, which is good, but here's a classic meme that answers your question, too.
Since fiat is still a unit of account, I don't think this applies to those who own bitcoin and fiat. I sometimes hold a little bit of fiat only because I'm about to spend it on bills, and the rest I'll put into bitcoin. But shitcoins are not units of account, mediums of exchange, or stores of value; they are only used for gambling and finding a greater fool.
On Bread, Bitcoin, and Paradigms
I was reading and discussing John 6:22-65 with my family earlier this evening, and we discussed the importance of being willing to change our paradigm, and not just accepting new knowledge. In that story, Yeshua says that the people are only seeking Him because they want more bread to eat, and He responds by telling them that He's there to give them so much more than just bread. They go back and forth about this for a while, until Yeshua boldly tells them who He is, and what He really came for, and many of His followers leave Him, probably thinking He's insane.
Like trying to fill old wine skins with new wine, these people couldn't accept what He was trying to give them. A modern analogy might be someone trying to install a new operating system on a computer within the framework of an already-existent operating system, as if it was merely a file to be downloaded. But to truly understand Yeshua -- and also Bitcoin -- one first needs to completely change their mental operating system, their paradigm.
In Bitcoin, this is seen when someone gets into it with the intent to get rich. Like those who thought the purpose of the Messiah was to fill their stomachs, there are many who have thought and still think that the purpose of Bitcoin is to get more fiat. But, if we're humble enough change our mental operating system, and see Bitcoin through a whole new paradigm, then we will learn this profound truth: Any amount of perfectly limited, self-sovereign money, properly owned, is enough to immediately make anyone rich in the only ways that matter, regardless of what it's currently trading for.
The real purpose of the Messiah is to free us from our own limiting paradigms; the real purpose of Bitcoin is the same.