If Bitcoin was a cult it would be the only one in the world where its members would be invited to think for themselves and not trust any other members.
“Bitcoin is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It’s a get-rich-slow, stay-rich, build-civilization-back-up-right scheme.”
- SA
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I ask myself this a lot. One thing is for sure, I will be known as a builder.
Bitcoin Is the First Monetary Asset That Rewards Stillness
Why Every Other Asset Is a Trap for the Restless Mind
Let’s get something out of the way:
You were raised to be a dopamine rat.
You were conditioned to scroll, to spend, to react.
The system taught you that your value is measured by how fast you chase the next thing, the next bag, the next trade.
They turned you into a high-frequency peasant, trading your time for tokens in a simulation of wealth.
And now you’re wondering why you feel anxious holding Bitcoin?
Let’s talk about it.
🍬 The Marshmallow Experiment Wasn’t About Candy, It Was About Fiat
In the 1970s, psychologists at Stanford conducted the now-famous Marshmallow Experiment.
They sat little kids in a room, placed a marshmallow on the table, and said:
“If you don’t eat this marshmallow for 15 minutes, we’ll give you TWO.”
Half the kids ate the marshmallow. The other half waited.
Decades later, the ones who waited had better life outcomes:
Higher SAT scores. Lower divorce rates. Better jobs.
Why? Because they understood delayed gratification.
They understood time preference - the idea that not consuming today opens the door to exponential gains tomorrow.
But you? You’re out here panicking when Bitcoin drops 8% on a Tuesday.
🕰️ Fiat Trains You to Have a High Time Preference
The fiat system demands your attention.
Why?
Because fiat is engineered to lose value over time.
Your dollars melt like ice cubes, so the game becomes:
“Spend them fast. Invest them fast. Turn them into something else before they evaporate.”
It’s why the average investor can’t hold anything longer than 3 months.
Why they chase the next AI token, the next meme stock, the next gambling narrative.
They are not investing. They are escaping decay.
Fiat erodes your wealth AND it erodes your psychology.
You become a stimulus-response animal.
A Pavlovian trader.
A monkey with a brokerage account.
🧘♂️ Bitcoin Is the First Asset That Says: Be Still.
You don’t have to trade it.
You don’t have to check the price.
You don’t have to flip options, read earnings, or decode Powell's stuttering.
You just… hold.
And the longer you do nothing, the more your purchasing power increases.
That’s it. That’s the whole game.
Bitcoin rewards the stoic. The patient. The philosopher.
It’s the only asset in the world where stillness is alpha.
Compare that to fiat:
Save fiat? You lose.
Hold fiat-denominated bonds? You bleed.
Sit in cash? You’re punished for “not being productive.”
Bitcoin inverts the whole psychology. It says:
“The world is sick. Step outside of it. Let time work for you instead of against you.”
This isn’t about “getting rich.”
It’s about getting free.
It’s about rewiring your mind to reject the velocity of consumption and embrace the geometry of capital truth.
Properly understood, Bitcoin is a temporal discipline device.
A meditation on value. A rejection of compulsion. A masterclass in stillness.
And if that makes you uncomfortable, good.
It means you're still detoxing from a life lived inside the fiat casino.
#Growstr
Lol
Woahhhh this just blew my mind.
Man, I'm having fun on Nostr today 🤙
You're not thinking too far ahead: https://www.solosatoshi.com/product/solarbit/
There are currently only three reasons not to generate block templates yourself:
1. You don't run your own node and don't want to start.
2. You don't like OCEAN for some reason, such as preferring FPPS payouts rather than only getting paid when the pool finds a block.
3. You don't want to run Knots as your Bitcoin node implementation.
Woah, that is cool. I had not seen this yet. Man things are moving fast.
Knots makes sense to me and I had never really considered that seeing as Bitcoin core was the more common option.. but the deeper I dig the more I understand why. Competition is good, having choices is important, values and incentives need to align as we all hunt for the truth.
It sounds like with DATUM there is no excuse to not make your own blocks now or rely on someone else to. And I agree, I feel mining and node running go hand-in-hand at this point. Obviously the lotto mining is a tough sell, that's where OCEAN comes in. It's all coming together. In the future it may be common for Nodes and miners to come packaged together. And then I'd love to see a way to plug in renewable energy tech to these devices. A bitaxe branded solar panel or hydro/wind turbine perhaps. 🤔 Maybe I'm thinking too far ahead
Ok that makes sense. I'm still learning.
I interpret these typical economic opinions (which we've all heard over the years) WAY differently than I used to.. until they have experienced pain and killed their ego, their opinion means nothing to me.
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What is the incentive for making my own block? Is I am earning small rewards daily, does it matter that I have the ability to make my own block?