Bitcoin ruins your perception of money

Going to an all inclusive resort soon. Took out $200 in USD for tips. Forty 5 dollar bills.

They are just pieces of paper. It’s basically pretend money. Coupons for little activities you can do in certain parts of the world .

10 years ago I would have been nervous holding that much value in my hands at once. Nowadays I can’t stop looking at the paper it’s printed on.

A funny thought.

Team Nah, I don’t want to zap my battery

iPhone does have a nice feature where it can stop charging when you hit a determined battery percent to prevent overcharging

Lego needs to release a line of “base kits” with basic blocks and a few specialized pieces , no instructions included

The idea being to provide a foundation level of blocks that your imagination can run wild with. This isn’t possible today unless you visit a legoland store which are few and far between.

Until the Samurai guys get pardoned, the US cannot be the “crypto capital of the world”

It’ll come back for sure 😂

The narrative has gotten so insane lately. Reminds me of the metaverse discourse in 2021-2022. “Every business meeting will be in the metaverse in 6 months”. Yeah, ok.

A bunch of people who have virtually zero real experience understanding about QC making wildly audacious claims

They are trying to shake you out

They make quantum computing sound vague and confusing with no clear path to a solution

They are trying to shake you out

They are blowing the spam discussion so wildly out of proportion, going on and on about CP on the blockchain

They are trying to shake you out

They are pointing your focus in a million different directions

They are trying to shake you out

They are constructing narratives that make you question what you know to be true

They are trying to shake you out

They are offering you ETFs, leveraged stocks, and treasury companies for a “safer” way to get Bitcoin exposure

They are trying to shake you out

They are trying , and succeeding

Don’t let them win

When Bitcoin hits 100 million you should sell a coin to fund your magnum opus feature film . I know you have one you’ve been sitting on

Trump’s speech was horrible

And whoever was running the mixing board behind his mic wasn’t doing him any favors by letting him clip it out while he screamed into it

The best part about doing barbell squats with 90% of your body weight for reps is the insanely intense soreness and pain in your legs whenever you stand up and or walk anywhere for the next three days

Blows my mind that there are still so many “it’s going to zero” Bitcoin haters out there for absolutely no reason

Next time someone says this to me I want to scream in their face.

Why is it going to zero? What is the basis for your claim? What will that look like? Describe to me the events that will set in motion to trigger nearly $2 trillion to flee bitcoin and move somewhere else.

Elaborate on the scenario in which the 9th most valuable asset by market cap on existence somehow goes from number 9 to zero. Go on! How long does that take? Do we all somehow wake up tomorrow and find it’s nuked to 0 overnight?

Do you know something I don’t know? Do you know something that some of the smartest minds on the planet somehow haven’t realized?

For sake of argument, let’s say it somehow does hit zero. How long does it stay there? Forever? It never goes above $0.00 ever again? What happens to the miners across the globe? How will they react? Will they just shrug their shoulders, turn off the miners, and walk away forever? What happens to the transactions currently awaiting the next block? What happens to the small businesses using as money right at this moment?

What happens if bitcoin is worth $0, and I decide to go out and buy as many as I can for $0.01?

Let me take a guess as to what lead you to believe that moronic idea; Your ego is hurt. You are jealous. You see thousands of people buying bitcoin, holding it for years, and seeing their net worth skyrocket, with seemingly no effort involved. Meanwhile , you stick to what you thought was good investment advice you for 20 , maybe 30 years ago, and avoid anything that’s perceived as marginally “risky”.

Maybe you even heard about bitcoin when it was only a few hundred dollars. “Not for me” , you thought, “too risky. Too complicated.”

You think you missed the proverbial boat. Hearing the word “bitcoin” reminds you of all the other times you ‘failed’ in life; all the other risks you didn’t take, all the other adventures you missed out on, all because you were too afraid. You have almost a gut reaction when you hear it come up. Minimize it. Deny it. Criticize it , without basis or any relevant knowledge. Don’t let others jump on the boat you missed out on. If you can’t get on it, why should they?

I think THAT scenario is 10,000x more likely than Bitcoin suddenly going to “zero”.

They’re still on X trying to figure out what Ethereum does

I need an app that I can give my parents as a method of encrypted messaging in the event that AI is trying to spoof me and phish them for money

Any Nostr based apps that fit that use case?

Does this mean I am no longer an average pleb? And I going to make it one day because I just did things? nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u

Man that would kinda suck for us non-OG stackers but yeah, might as well stick around if that’s the case

You open Nostr

You see vlogs and vlogs and more vlogs

You don’t close Nostr

As if we needed another reason to ignore this grade-A rage-bait grifter

You are missing out. A healthy group of life long bros is essential for every man . It does take a certain degree of deep bonding experiences to get there , which are harder to come by as you get holder

I literally have no more cash available to buy more bitcoin

Dammit

The normies are starting to notice, you guys

“So your average bitcoin cost basis is over $120k?”

“Yes Dave”

“And now you want to sell all your bitcoin because the price is in the 90s?”

“That is correct Dave”

“And you’re asking me when is a good time to buy back in?”

“When 58k?”

Does this mean Bitcoin will be cringe one day?

This is genuinely how some people buy bitcoin and it’s hilarious

I’m getting a little sick of strangers telling me their life stories if I’m being honest

They make non-Bitcoin themed podcasts ?

Got tickets to see the Rush reunion tour, I’m fucking hyped

Knowledge is sometimes a curse. I often find myself at the supermarket contemplating the “old world” that no longer exists , but we still live in, and the “new world” that is being born , of which we have yet to witness the full scope.

Nowhere is this stark difference in realities more evident than a supermarket or grocery store

Just today I saw:

-An elderly women (in her 70s easily) working as a cashier. Likely a prosperous career path when she was a teenager, I wonder if she works today out of boredom in retirement and a desire to leave the house, or out of necessity for survival, unable to live solely off her savings any longer, and without enough viable skills to compete in today’s job market

-A woman with young children clipping coupons for basic necessities. She battles fiat debasement every single day without knowing it, and may be just barely scraping by as it is, possibly unaware of just how much worse it could get

-An elderly man, also in his 70s , feeding a stack of tickets into a lottery machine. Perhaps living off a fixed income, this man is literally feeding his lifeblood into a gambling addiction. Maybe he’s a multi millionaire and can afford to do so, but is it more likely he’s also barely scraping by, and is feeding his limited and dwindling savings back to the beast that has already taken so much from him?

When I see these people, day after day, week after week, in my local store alone, I am reminded of the hundreds of millions of people just like them in my country, not to mention the billions like them around the world.

I don’t look upon these people with pity, or with disdain , thinking they are “uneducated” or “misinformed”. Quite the opposite . My heart goes out to them. I fear in my souls for them.

As the world sheds its skin of the old systems and institutions these people grew up in, and as technology beyond comprehension unveils itself daily , how will these people be affected? Their jobs, their loved ones, their safety, their mental sanity, their sense of meaning; all of these things will be on the table of uncertainty in the coming decades.

As bitcoiners , we find truth and purpose in our convictions through study and critical thinking . Even if we are dead wrong about the thesis of Bitcoin, the conditions from which it was born still exist; They are history, They already happened. So even if bitcoin as we know it fails, the endgame of the conditions of its creation will still happen, one way or another.

Not to mention AI, robotics , super computing , drone technology , and the digital panopticon of government surveillance; all breaking down our doors and barging their way into our society as we speak.

So when I’m at the store checking out with Apple Pay, using a credit card that rewards me with bitcoin and automatically withdraws to my ColdCard at a certain threshold, I no longer take pride in knowing that I am ahead of the curve.

A small part of me feels shame in knowing so many people are at risk of being left so far behind.

What’s the best way to buy non KYC bitcoin ? Doesn’t using bank transfers still involve a KYC process?

Most people hating against AI are so blatantly uneducated about what it actually is that their opinion is totally irrelevant