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Jon
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Software engineer, gardener and sadly fiat miner living in Wales. Bitcoin advocate

I've always worried that I wouldn't have enough money. I grew up in a poor household in the 90s and it's always been in my head. It drove me to where I am but I can probably leave go now. It's deep rooted though.

Is any location data stripped from the image before upload?

I can't even figure out how to install it or where it is

Every time anyone asks me to do anything I start from no. Then we can work from there.

Replying to Avatar The Bird

TLDR: no more smart watch data harvesting back to basics this year. nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5klqft7 is right smart watches are just another tracker and data collector harvesting your info to sell.

So for Christmas my present was the new version of a Casio protrek watch. I had tried a Garmin the previous year. While the functionality is great it just isn't my thing.

I've been working on improving my privacy practices and it was just another tracking beacon with an account tied to it. I didn't put all the demographic information into the account correctly or at all. Still it collected data on me for a year.

Needless to say back to an analog/digital dumb watch for me. Main thing I wanted it for was the barometer and compass function. I can just estimate the rest of the information I got from it.

https://believeintherun.com/gps-run-tracking-privacy-policies/

Gave my Fitbit up about 4 years ago as I didn't want to be tracked. I'm using a 20yr old Seiko kinetic instead. Can't fault it.

Replying to Avatar HODL

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

I know someone who cycles to work as often as they can. When they do they take the savings from driving and buy #bitcoin

They call it bikecoin 😁

How do you install this #olas thing then?

So cold tonight I'm wearing a jumper in bed #Wales

He was probably the gateway drug to FIRE for a lot of people, me included.

Ultimately it led me to bitcoin and here. It's a shame he hasn't changed with the times.

Next he'll be saying the 60/40 portfolio is still a good idea.

It's a cold crisp day. The sun is shining, the wood smoke is in the air and the kids are as bad shit crazy as always.

20 months in. The wife felt terrible and I felt perfect

If you're over 40 with children, take every opportunity to lie down and have a rest. Preferably with a cup of tea.

I quite enjoy the feeling when I read about someone who is an "influencer" and I have no idea who they are.

Is there a #bitcoin miner that uses about 1kwh?