GM #nostr family. ☕️

Don’t feed the system that feeds off of you.

For those not on Twitter anymore, a little update on Real Bedford.

Today was the most nuts game, we were losing 5-3 and had a player sent off. This is normally certain defeat, yet some how we managed to pull two goals back and get a draw.

Meanwhile, our rivals for the league were winning 1-0 and conceded a goal at the death. From looking like they would gain three points on us, we remained on level points. So we are four points clear.

If we win the league again, we will be only the third side in the history of English football to win three leagues in a row, nobody has done four.

Tomorrow our women play Norwich. The women are also top of the league, if they win it that will be back to back promotions.

Football is nuts, it throws the most crazy scenarios at you…but here in Bedford something special is happening.

Thank you to all who have supported this journey. This crazy idea of a Bitcoin football club is working.

Peace and love 🧡

The UK has quite literally gone insane…

The message I want to get through to people is this.

The whole world changes if you change.

I don’t mean this in some hippy dippy we are the world / do unto others /start with the man in the mirror / golden rule way.

I mean it literally. Your experience of the world will change if and when you change.

Don’t do it for others, do it for you.

It will lead to a better subjective experience of life for you.

A bigger life, a better life.

It starts with a different story in your head.

Replace the bullshit one you’re currently telling yourself with a better one and watch the world shift around you.

Repeat the new story often.

Replace and repeat.

That’s it.

It’s that simple.

I find it really hard to hodl my fiat for paying bills when what I really want to do is just buy bitcoin

Do you get paid in bitcoin?!

GM from beautiful Colombia.

With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.

(*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group)

According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.

Why is that important:

Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards. Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.

In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.

#bitcoin has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power. Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day.

That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.

It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.

What a time to be alive.

If #bitcoin stays decentralized and secure, it is imposing the first global free market the world has ever seen.

Productivity gains flow to broadly to society in free markets through deflation.

Everyone gets richer every year and competition to provide value increases driving a cycle of unprecedented prosperity.

But, if you are pricing #Bitcoin in USD, you are still in the system of extraction and centralization which must centralize faster through the extraction of the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices.

The two systems are incompatible!!

And…It is a confusing topic because we have no reference for what a global free market looks like……so many people will get rug pulled (eventually) by not choosing self custody and running nodes. Instead trusting institutions and a paper derivative of their #bitcoin.

Why: because it will appear they are getting wealthy (in USD) Protecting the decentralization and security by running nodes and being constantly vigilant for new attack vectors will seem like a stretch! For most people pressing the easy button in an ETF or other centralized entity will seem like the right thing to do which ensures faster centralizing.

That centralized system of extraction MUST eventually attack Bitcoin or fail.

This may be a long time out. Ie - if I was on the other side of the fight - I would make my system as easy to integrate to bitcoin as possible and use the natural biases of humans against them. Ease of use, trust in institutions, time, etc so they didn’t “need” to worry about self custody and understanding how the protocol works.

Those on building on #Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, Ecash and spending their time contributing on this open protocol and teaching others are on the front edge of the greatest change the world has ever seen. From extraction to cooperation.

Stay vigilant, stay focused, run a node, and tune out the madness of the system of extraction trying to drag you back into its centralized structure.

For the opportunity to exist, It had to be this way!

We are so early.

I’ve had a real chip on my shoulder lately and been feeling pissed off about a lot of things (personally and otherwise).

And even in that, I thank God every day for bitcoin. Like, fuck the money part, I just am so grateful that there is something they cannot control, they cannot kill, they cannot stop. That even as captured, as played, and as controlled all of the dialog around it is; they cannot have my bitcoin, and they cannot stop me from transacting with whom I choose and they cannot break cryptography from the very functions that are its nature.

The crypto sycophant shit is disgusting and vile; and it’s also an essential component of Bitcoin’s development. Nothing provides a better smoke screen for how important bitcoin is than the crypto bros and their active destruction the entire financial system with their debased garbage, outright scams, and criminal conduct. When the smoke clears, and all of that garbage shows itself for just what it is; bitcoin will still be plugging along, block by block, bit by bit.

And even more, Bitcoin gives me a reason to have hope. Hope that even with as fucked up as everything is, no one can’t make more bitcoin, no one can stop the network, and no one will control it. That hope is the smallest of light in a world of utter darkness; and yet it is in the darkest of nights that such a light can shine the brightest.

Thanks BBG. What's actually going on in the UK? Bit of a rhetorical question I suppose. I'm hoping I can get some answers here, because it's literally impossible to filter out all the noise of the main media sites, TV, Radio etc etc. Hope we can all stick together and think of a plan for whatever is going to happen beyond the next few years. Thank god for Bitcoin!

Hi from Cornwall UK.

I work in the NHS as a nurse - clinical lead in mental health crisis.

I got some bitcoin in 2017 then sold it again, not knowing what it was...arghhh!.

Only realised this summer, so got a load during the 58k days. It was a video on YouTube with Peter Schiff (gold) VS Raoul Pal (Bitcoin) that got me to look into bitcoin further.

I've got 2.5 jobs; nursing, parenting and most of the rest of the time learning about bitcoin. I would like to find a career in the bitcoin realms, I'm so excited about what it all means, as we all know - so much more than just 'number go up''.

I'm waiting for the freedom technology to do it's thing to allow me more time for family and surfing. That's it really! Please say hi and I'm particularly interested in other NHS workers and their views on the pension VS bitcoin.

The concept of Staying Humble and Stacking Sats (h/t @ODELL ) and living on a Bitcoin Standard is a simple and peaceful existence.

And, historically-speaking, it is also quite profitable.

Anyone can do it. Just:

1. Head down.

2. Work hard.

3. Spend less than you earn.

4. Stack sats.

Trying to time the market--with its massive associated tax implications--is a stressful life.

As a seasoned fund manager, I generally get the timing right and end up with a little more bitcoin. But sometimes I get it wrong.

And sometimes I lie awake at night, stressed out and wondering if I made the right trade (by size and by timing) on behalf of my clients.

A (very) small number of people can outperform bitcoin in the long run, but 99% cannot... including (probably) me.

For these reasons I recommend that everyone just stays humble and stacks sats, as @ODELL has succinctly devised.