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Jason Hodlers ๐Ÿชข
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Follower of The Way, Jesus Christ. His words are not only found in the Bible. Creator of @npub1fdc5nr47gx8pcz9cppyat9fx0gc9hv48nke7pf78drx7rpqw28ksqgx779. Christian, homeschooling father of 6, & Bitcoin maximalist.

My wife is not an internet person. At least, not as much as me.

I only want it on 4/20 because it's a Saturday, and my meetup always meets on the 3rd Saturday of each month anyway, so our next meetup can double as a halving party.

If not for that, any other day would do. The 19th would be fine for the reason you mentioned, or the 21st because it's a 21.

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Well said. nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs has turned a lot of us into lions here. Keep it up bro. ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿผ

Thanks, but my point was that if you're a lion, it's only because you wanted to become one badly enough that when sacrifices were required of you in order to rise up as a lion, you didn't back down.

nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs called you to rise up and be the lion you always wanted to be, anyway. When we try to train those who, deep down, prefer to be sheep, and convince them to live like lions, it always ends like the story HODL shared, if not worse.

We should tell others about Bitcoin and other good things, but I'm realizing we should never try to convince them when they don't want to be convinced. We'll either fail spectacularly, or succeed in setting them up to fail spectacularly.

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A story that illustrates why I will never orange pill anyone ever again.

2015- Attempt to orange pill friend multiple times. No dice. Totally uninterested.

2019- He asks me if now is a good time to get into bitcoin. โ€œItโ€™s always a good timeโ€. I set him up with a HW wallet and tell him DCA and chill.

2019- Friend calls me a few months later, he wants to put the down payment money for his house into bitcoin, but heโ€™s nervous. I say no worries I will backstop your investment. Whatโ€™re friends for?! I want you to succeed. He now has a no risk investment. Financed by me.

2020: Friend is doing well. Has been stacking hard and has 2 coins. A great stack for his income.

2021: He starts watching cringey YouTube videos about shitcoin trading. Gets into a private telegram, trades his 2 bitcoin into 4 and then gets rug pulled and loses everything.

2021: Heโ€™s near suicidal, very dark times. He doesnโ€™t tell me anything because he knows I warned him about trading and thinks Iโ€™ll be disappointed in him. Finally he tells me. I help him get a personal loan so he can take advantage of the remainder of the bull run. He sells at 55k and manages to break even. Heโ€™s not up but heโ€™s got his house money back.

2023: Weโ€™re out drinking with some other friends from high school. He expresses some jealousy towards me in a semi awkward fashion. โ€œEvery time I see this dude (me) I think about bitcoin.โ€

2024: I meet up with him so the kids can play at the park. Vibe is off. Lots of insecurity and tension. Theyโ€™re going on a trip to San Diego and I ask if they might go to the zoo while there. โ€œI canโ€™t afford that. Thatโ€™s for rich people like youโ€. Odd interaction, but I shake it off.

2024: A few weeks later he gets drunk and hits on my wife via text messages. She shows me immediately and I confront him. Heโ€™s like โ€œsorry bro I was drunk I didnโ€™t mean itโ€. I tell him off and make clear this is the last time we will ever speak.

No good deed goes unpunished. I could not have been nicer to this dude and more helpful along the way and he is fully consumed by envy towards me.

Unfortunate.

We can't wake the sleeping sheep. We can only search for our fellow lions.

People will become the one (sheep or lion) that they truly want to be. Something I need to learn is that there's nothing I can do to train a sheep to become a lion. Either they'll want it badly enough to be a lion without my help, or they'll always be comfortable with simply being a sheep.

That has been and will likely continue to be a very difficult lesson for me to learn. ๐Ÿ˜”

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#Bitcoin has parallels to the books of the Torah:

๐—š๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€: Bitcoin's first block, found on 3 January 2009, is called the "Genesis Block".

๐—˜๐˜…๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐˜€: Bitcoin is our exit strategy from the slavery of modern Egypt.

๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€: Bitcoin runs on a protocol that must be followed, without exception.

๐—ก๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€: A census of all sats is taken every ~10 minutes, to make sure that the protocol is being followed.

๐——๐—ฒ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—บ๐˜†: Bitcoin has a "Second Law" (hodl; don't trust, verify; there is no second best; etc) that is enforced by its social layer.

How Nephi said "HFSP" in ~545 BC:

"And you that will not partake of the goodness of God, and respect the words of the Jews, and also my words, and the words which shall proceed forth out of the mouth of the Lamb of God, behold, I bid you an everlasting farewell, for these words shall condemn you at the last day."

I'm sure there will be another one.

When we drop down to $90K, or something.

Yep. As my parents told me when I got married: "So far, you've only been *practicing* dating. But now, you can start dating each other for real."

Still...well done! There needs to be a special Nostr badge for those who have been banned.

As many of you know, I'm a father of 5 (4 boys followed by 1 girl, between the ages of 9 and 16), but I'd like to announce that we have ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ bitcoiner on the way! ๐Ÿคฏ And we're having ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ boy! ๐ŸŽ‰

I've actually known since mid-July that we had a baby on the way, but wanted to wait to tell anyone until we knew whether we're going to have a boy or a girl. My wife and I weren't able to take the time to find out until yesterday, though.

Our son is due to be born around block 825350, so watch for an announcement from me of his birth around that block (our other kids tended to be born early, so it'll likely be before then).

The future is bright, orange, and filled with many new little bitcoiners! ๐Ÿงก

(๐˜š๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ: ๐˜ผ๐™ก๐™ก ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ! ๐˜š๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ...๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ด. ๐Ÿ˜)

Ever since last September, when I first announced that I was having a 6th child, I changed my Lightning address on Nostr to thegabybaby@walletano.com, so all the sats zapped to me would actually go to my youngest son, Gabriel. I don't plan to change that any time soon.

He's clearly very happy with his stack! ๐Ÿ˜

Thank you all, from both of us! ๐Ÿงก

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https://v.nostr.build/POOPZ.mp4

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