Fuck platforms that harvest attention, censor dissent, and sell human behavior to the highest bidder. Fuck governments that promise representation and deliver war and surveillance. Fuck central banks that debase time, steal labor through inflation, and call it “monetary policy.”

This isn’t dysfunction, it’s design. Power concentrates, corruption follows, and the cost is paid by all of us.

We don’t need new rulers. We need systems with no masters. Open protocols instead of gatekeepers. Math instead of trust. Consent instead of coercion.

#Nostr breaks the chokehold on speech.

#Bitcoin breaks the monopoly on money.

They are not the endgame, they’re the opening move.

The future is permissionless.

The future is sovereign.

The future routes around abuse.

Build. Exit. Opt out. Let centralized institutions rot under the weight of their own irrelevance. FUCK THEM! Decentralise everything.

GM.

Remember, as a bitcoiner you are going to be called crazy, by people who are working as hard as they possibly can to earn and save in a mandated medium of exchange that was literally designed to lose purchasing power over time.

Never forget that you are the sane one and over time your actions will speak louder than words.

Bitcoin is inevitable, carry on being the signal!

Quantum computing is bitcoins y2k bug moment

GM

Most countries have a sovereign wealth fund to store, grow and use their wealth for the good of the country.

The UK decided to create a sovereign debt fund 😂

Only TWO words matter in #Bitcoin!

SELF CUSTODY

ANYTHING else is counterparty risk that will go to 0. The sooner people understand this, the sooner they stop wasting time and losing their money.

After 11 years I can tell you unfortunately hodling only gets harder as you go

It’s pretty clear that X is designed to parasitically feed on negative emotions in short loops that are thematically linked.

It’s the eyeball dopamine feedback loop glitching out on the horror show max infinite. It’s like the rubbernecking at a grisly car accident had a freak baby with your nightmares about your own insecurities sprinkled with a few cat videos.

There’s this slow rot that is gangrenous to the whole thing. I think more and more folks are getting how unhealthy it is, and it’s not ‘social media’ fault—people want to connect and know what is going on in the world—but traditional social media models are designed for manipulation and control from the get go. The big tech companies don’t give a shit about our experiences, they only care about their bottom line which they make through advertising.

The good news is there is something new on the horizon and Nostr is likely the substructure of whatever that is. I’ll be glad when old social media dies from necrotizing sepsis.

Let me be clear: anyone who opposes Bitcoin is going against monetary freedom and individual sovereignty. Money is not just a means of payment; it is an emergent social phenomenon that must be defended from central control. In the current political and geopolitical moment, you have to know how to choose your side. Mine is that of sound money, decentralization, and personal liberty. Long live Bitcoin.

I can’t help but feel that all of this is divine providence.

It was always meant to be us.

More and more I truly feel I’m willing to do what’s required of me. Whatever that may be.

I’m not sure intelligence matters as much as moral clarity.

And as Bitcoiners we have that.

Bitcoin Is Where We Draw the Line

In a time where hell has been unleashed on earth through the internet - porn, doom scrolling, black pills, psyops, fake news, AI slop, propaganda, and more - up shows Bitcoin to deliver on the prophecy of the early Internet pioneers: Leaderless, decentralized, censorship resistant, unstoppable.

It anchors information to real world energy and effort, bridging the divide that saw digital offerings hoover up the value of physical efforts, and thereby turning our physical selves into data profiles whose purpose is to be harvested and exploited by algorithms meant to ensnare us through recommendation engine algorithms and fleece us through advertising we are psychologically unable to resist.

Bitcoin severs these and more undesirable interdependencies.

Entrepreneurs don’t need VCs who will contort their business for an exploitive exit. They need bitcoin, which will help them achieve their long term goals and reward entrepreneurs who don’t betray or exploit their clientele.

Workers, or to put it more clearly, those who provide their time, energy and creativity to an enterprise they don’t own, don’t need 401ks and IRAs, which lock up their money until retirement. They need Bitcoin which gives them sovereignty over their wealth, to spend or save when they choose.

Shareholders don’t need public markets to cash out. They need Bitcoin dividends to reward them with durable value for building durable value.

Cities don’t need taxation to maintain local public infrastructure. They need Bitcoin to attract entrepreneurs, workers, companies and shareholders who want to build value locally and globally for the long term and to live in a thriving, hopeful and valuable community.

Bitcoin will be the line in the sand drawn to say “this stops here”, whether it’s a physical boundary or a temporal one (“this stops now”). It ends the processes that fuel and feed corrupt bureaucrats, politicians, regulators , businessmen and all the parasites who add difficulty to the healthy functioning of the human race. It restores healthy functions that thrive when freedom reigns: Functions like genuine entrepreneurship; hard honest work in the service of real demands; well capitalized profitable companies; peaceful, largely crime free cities.

When people and businesses can transact freely, their incentives align to create sustainable value and ever-improving quality of life through innovation that consumers value and frequent.

When bureaucrats, lawmakers, politicians and regulators interfere with that free transacting, the incentives instead align with using regulation and law as a weapon against producers, outcompeting them by binding them in red tape instead of by offering a superior product at better prices. Bitcoin ends this.

If justice is no longer the business of government (because it is distracted in unjustly rigging the market to benefit the businesses that help it get elected) people and businesses lose the incentive to act justly.

But thanks to Bitcoin, no longer do you have to look around and shrug your shoulders saying “what can anyone do?” about the mounting problems civilization faces.

Now you can do something yourself. You can draw a line around yourself, your family, your household, your business, your idea, your passion - your life.

Yours again. Yours at last. To begin anew with all your hopes and desires restored. To pursue your real dreams, not some frivolous pursuit that marketers and celebrities have sold you. A dream where you love what you do, who you do it with, who you do it for, in common purpose with those who share or value your dream.

Dream on dreamer. And make your dreams come true by making a choice that makes dreamers’ dreams come true - by taking the freedom to get obstructions and naysayers out of the way and taking on the responsibility and work to master your craft so that you can build that which you dream of.

Most people (even many "Bitcoiners") still don’t understand what they own. If they did, BTC would already be $1M+.

It’s not a trade.

It’s not a casino chip.

It’s the hardest money ever created.

Trade it like a meme stock → wreck your stack.

Hold it like money → escape the system that steals from you 24/7.

Not your keys, not your coins.

Why voluntarily stay in a system designed to drain you?

You haven't had Rick from England on your podcasts for a long time. Is he okay?

Apologies in advance, I really wanted to be all tits and beer today but apparently "The Russians are Invading Denmark" !!!

🇺🇸🇪🇺 EUROPE CREATES A CRISIS TO FORCE USA INTO HELPING!

In August the US administration informed Europe that they will pull back their forces from Baltic countries in Europe.

Europe freaked out and started their Russia fake false flags:

1) Russia jammed Ursula von der Leyen’s plane

2) Russian drone struck a Polish house

3) Russian jets flew over Estonia

4) Drones over Denmark now

Their only chance is to get USA back into full force support, so they will stop at nothing and fake their way into escalation.

Promise to go back to tits and beer now 😜💜🚒🇬🇧😎

Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).

There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."

As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.

"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.

Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.

Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.

To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.

...which brings me to nostr.

A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)

But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)

It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.

Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.

A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?

Because it's not healthy, that's why.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.

But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.

It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

What’s the one thing holding back Bitcoin adoption that nobody wants to admit? 👀

As society becomes more productive and technologically advanced, money is *supposed* to grow in value.

This is literally the mechanism by which the fruits of all our labor are shared. By all the things we need and want becoming more affordable.

If everything is getting more expensive while technology is advancing, someone is stealing from you.

Ah yes, financial freedom:

• 13% trusting exchanges

• 4% trusting ETFs

• 2.69% actually holding Bitcoin

The revolution is safe, folks.

Clearly everyone read the manual.

#Bitcoin #SelfCustody #ClownWorld

stay humble and stack sats 🫡