Eye 👀 test

What number do you see ?

Never give up on something you can’t go a day without thinking about…..

That thought doesn’t haunt you by accident

It’s not random

It’s not weakness

It’s not you being unable to let go

It’s a signal

If it shows up when you wake up

If it whispers when you’re tired

If it comes back when you fail, when you doubt yourself, when everything says quit

That’s not obsession

That’s alignment

The world will tell you to be realistic

To settle

To tone it down

To choose comfort over conviction

But the things that change your life are never quiet

They don’t politely disappear when things get hard

They STAY

They PUSH

They demand more of YOU

Giving up on that dream won’t bring you peace

It will only trade the pain of effort for the pain of regret

So KEEP GOING

even when progress is invisible

even when you feel behind

even when no one is clapping

Because the truth is simple & brutal……

If you can’t stop thinking about it, it’s not done with you yet.

& maybe just maybe

you’re not obsessed

You’re called

🌊 SURF 'N TURF 🏝️

-THE ISLAND LIFE-

Bronze bust of Ptolemy Apion, 1st century BC, from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. He was an Egyptian ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty. He was the last ruler of Cyrenaica. Son of Ptolemy VIll and a concubine, he ascended the throne of Cyrenaica upon his father's

death. According to their will, Apion, who did not marry and had no children, left the kingdom as a legacy to the Roman Republic upon his death (96 BC).

National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

The Ptolemaic Kingdom or Ptolemaic Empire was an Ancient Greek polity based in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. It was founded in 305 BC by the Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter, a companion of Alexander the Great, and ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty until the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC. Reigning for nearly three centuries, the Ptolemies were the longest and final dynasty of ancient Egypt, heralding a distinctly new era for religious and cultural syncretism between Greek and Egyptian culture.

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Bull Run Reflections as bitcoin nears $100k

Once you understand Bitcoin, you feel compelled to help others learn about it.

Rewind to the last bull run in 2020, and I felt guilty for not trying harder to help more people understand the coin. 🧵

Four years later, as we enter this new bull run, I’m far more at ease.

My conscience is clear:

All my friends know me as being into #Bitcoin (the ones who are left, lol).

My local haunts—cafés, surf shops—tease me about being "Mr. Bitcoin" (I always ask to pay in Bitcoin).

The side of my family that talks to me about Bitcoin now saves in Bitcoin.

I’ve spent the last 4 years advocating for Bitcoin:

BBC

Newspapers

YouTube

TikTok

Conferences

Even street corners!

Even my girlfriend’s friends (who I’ve never met) know me as "the Bitcoin guy."

They used to tease her about it on Instagram... now? Not so much.

I know my content has inspired others to:

Start Bitcoin communities

Save in Bitcoin

Win arguments against skeptics

Try new Bitcoin tools

Lighten their mood and remind them Bitcoin is the right path for humanity.

None of this is great for my OpSec, of course.

But that’s part of being a public advocate in a privacy-focused space.

On that note: I don’t own any Bitcoin. Bollocks! I lost it all... time to start stacking again today. 😉

Sadly, and maybe you’ve experienced this too, Bitcoin has strained some friendships.

I don’t know why it grinds people so much, but it does.

I hope those people eventually come around. And when they do, I hope I have the grace to be compassionate and humble.

I choose to advocate for Bitcoin because it’s our best tool to fight authoritarianism and central banking incompetence.

It’s the tool for empowerment.

Whether you’re:

Financially hamstrung in Cuba

Cut off in Senegal

Left behind in remote Peruvian villages

Sidelined in South Africa

Or fed up with the status quo in the UK...

Bitcoin is the answer.

And now, as the mirage of $100k draws closer, I have zero guilt. My conscience is clearer still.

I know I’ve done everything I can to promote Bitcoin.

And it feels good.

But the best part?

I've had so much fun. It's been a bloody trip.

I've seen the world. I've made some amazing, life long friends.

So cheers to you all, my friends.

It's been a joy, a rollercoaster and an honour to get to one hundred together.

Because remember, number go up = Freedom go up.

So here's to the next cycle and to building a bright orange future for the world 🧡 🌍

TL;DR

Every opportunity to advocate for Bitcoin, I’ve taken. Made friends. Feels good.

Call me old fashioned, but I think the U.S. should stop funding endless wars around the world that result in the deaths of millions of people and only serve to enrich corrupt politicians, the Military Industrial Complex, and bankers.

Buy $200 worth of #Bitcoin each week and everyone tells you how risky it is.

Spend $200 each week for a bottle of alcohol in a club and people will give you fist bumps and tell you how good of a friend you are.

Society programs you to be poor. You gotta find your own way.

Prediction for the next year in #Bitcoin:

• We will have a healthy pullback from this short run

• People w/ BDS will tweet "See! It CrAsHeS!"

• It'll calm down, start a slow climb, & then rocket up again

• BDS-ers will scream "BuBbLE!!" for the 173rd time

• It'll have a healthy pullback

• Rinse and repeat as #Bitcoin climbs into the multiple hundreds of thousands

• BDS-ers will get increasingly insane and frantic, "IT DOES NOTHING!" "NO UTILITY!" "THIS IS SO DANGEROUS TO OUR ECONOMY!" "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!"

• There will finally be another very needed and prolonged correction down to a level about twice the previous ATH

• As we find a stable price in the low to mid $100K, the BDS-ers will claim victory and constantly say "I told you so."

• Bitcoiners will keep building, keep stacking sats, keep using it as their money, and keep watching things get cheaper as priced in #Bitcoin

... and in another couple of years we will do this all over again... AGAIN... just adding another zero to the price.

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Do we all agree that X is now state-"owned" media again?

Story time:

6 years ago my mother in law was left penniless in a surprise divorce at age 67.

My father in law (piece of shit) had left her with nothing and planned to dump her on social security.

She was working as a pre school teacher making $14 an hour.

We had to move fast.

Father in law literally shotgun divorced her.

Showed up at the doorstep with a notary and manipulated an emotionally fragile woman into a binding legal agreement.

I was pissed.

I showed up a few hours later with a series of financial plans.

And with tears still streaming down her face in the kitchen of her tiny apartment, she picked one.

I gave her 3 options.

1. Aggressive

2. Extremely aggressive

3. Dave Ramsey rice and beans

She chose number 3.

Over the next 4 years she rode her bike to work everyday. Watered down her lemonade. Spent nothing on herself. Walked dogs for extra income. Took weekend shifts at the preschool. Showed up early. Stayed late and against all odds was able to save 12k a year on a salary of only 27k.

I set up a couple retirement accounts for her and whenever she would scratch $1,000 together she would give it to me and I would smash buy GBTC or MSTR.

My mother in law has never invested a day in her life and I didn’t want the news or some boomer friend to freak her out, so my wife and I just tell her she’s invested in “the market” 😂

When Bitcoin (the market) is doing good, we tell her and when it’s not we just… don’t tell her lol

So she’s effectively shielded from the emotional volatility of hodling. Which makes her a very good hodler.

Fast forward to today.

I helped her retire from the preschool. She is now living with us and helping look after her grandchildren.

She went from being near suicidal. My wife and I were legitimately concerned about her mental health. To a happy healthy and vibrant grandmother.

And as of yesterday she crossed 500k in retirement accounts.

I expect she’ll be a millionaire soon.

She can now comfortably retire with dignity.

This is not something that would have been possible without Bitcoin.

As cool as it is to see people like @saylor make billions of dollars these are the stories I live for.

The average person fixing their life with bitcoin.

It’s so fucking beautiful man.

Life’s good.

My home has fallen to 18 #Bitcoin

The free market and deflation leading to abundance.

How quickly after $90k does the coin hit $100k? Price is right rules. Whole days only. First to guess a number gets that number. Winner gets 21000 sats

If you’re a man who’s struggling with low self esteem let me tell you going to therapy isn’t going to help.

The only way to fix it is to do things worthy of esteem.

We aren’t women.

Talking about our problems isn’t the solution.

Go do things in the world.

You will feel better about yourself.

Reconsider the strategic reserve