The spiral is a spiritualised circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free." - Vladimir Nabokov 🌀🔶👀
https://blossom.primal.net/debc9d83778d3ad0dc0fe62e0609d0ab9d69691d5c1fcc41025a46c6eddf1c1c.mp4
Bitcoin does not commend or cajole. It reflects. It does not bend to will. It exhibits and reveals will. In this sense, strange as it may seem, it is not just a currency. It is a cosmic instrument to gauge an unfolding pattern of constraint and care, encoded in protocol, vibrating through networks, shaping behaviour without force. To hold Bitcoin is to hold a mirror up to see one's time preference, one's trust, one's attention, one's integrity. It invites no illusion. It welcomes only those willing to align with form.
The Spiral of Sovereignty. Soon™ 🔶🌀👀
The spiral is a spiritualised circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free." - Vladimir Nabokov 🌀🔶👀
https://blossom.primal.net/debc9d83778d3ad0dc0fe62e0609d0ab9d69691d5c1fcc41025a46c6eddf1c1c.mp4
🟢 Monitoring The Situation is available on Spotify!
You can listen here 👇
https://open.spotify.com/track/0cx9b9Xk0nqiwR4W3vVDje?si=jDytHDbxQmGagufMjRHyHg
Wen Situating the Monitor?
The human being who engages Bitcoin must become, in a sense, philosophical. Not in the academic sense, but in the ancient one; oriented toward what is good, truthful, and coherent; knowingly or otherwise. Bitcoin, then, does not replace philosophy. It recalls it. It invites a return, not to the past, but to the vertical. To the idea that action should align with order, and that truth is not invented, but relived. In other words, remembered. 🌀🔶👀
esoteric > exoteric
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Mate of passed away today. Suicide. Gutted. A sad and tragic waste. God rest his soul.
"The gods of the city have called my name
It means more to them than it means to me" 🧡
Reality is not arbitrary; form matters; there are higher truths than convenience, and deeper callings than consumption... The world has structure and our participation in it can either reflect or distort that structure. 🌀👀
I am not. I am now.
Posting this here for no other reason than to revive the invite for nostr:nprofile1qqsxu35yyt0mwjjh8pcz4zprhxegz69t4wr9t74vk6zne58wzh0waycpz3mhxw309ucnydewxqhrqt338g6rsd3e9uq5gamn8ghj77tvwpc8g6fhv3uxkcm3w4nx2drtxfmngurrxfmrxdmhwe3hsumkv5mk5mmv0fhxjut3vdj8j6tkw9c8zmr9xdkxjepwdahxjmmw9uhazftv to spend some scarce time and finite energy telling the tale of how he discovered Bitcoin. I hope he sees this, and if so; Gigi, please consider 🔶👀
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“The loss of value is a loss of reality.” – Abraham Maslow. So, when value becomes arbitrary, when it is manipulated rather than discovered, our orientation to the real begins to collapse. Fiat severs the link between value and reality. Bitcoin restores this link. 🔶👀
The deeds of free men are the most moral in the true sense of the word. - Rudolf Steiner, Philosophy of Freedom 🌀🔶👀
human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present...
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is...
Before the beginning and after the end.
And all is always now...
- T.S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton' (1935).
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• Bitcoin on the Subway
• Textbook Blockchain
• Open Source Everything
• Heaps More
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Discover: The Spiral of Sovereignty 🔶 🌀 👀
A poem based on a forthcoming essay (partly inspired by nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq35amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhhvetjv45kwm3wv9c8qtcqypxs45fu03luugxr7hqvj2nzag0kacm8y68v0mu8atavg6p96p4mk5ehvjg and nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnp0faxzmt09ehx2aqqypacf8h62czttr2scsvkx7ucwwz8m0u4wzqa2fsndsaynde40ntpw094fq8 's - 🌀⬆️♾️ - meme; https://upforever.co.uk/) and written in a form echoing the golden ratio, emulating a spiral (with help from an LLM).
The essay contends...
Bitcoin is a bridge - between matter and meaning, between action and awareness, between fractured systems and coherent participation. Bitcoin is a structural threshold through which value becomes visible, freedom becomes viable, and truth becomes livable once again - not in a straight line, but in the widening, rising turn of the spiral.
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The Spiral of Sovereignty 🖋
Begin.
Within.
Value lives,
Forgives.
Not from decree,
But choice made free
Participation.
Truth is not a voice imposed,
Nor freedom just a gate unclosed.
It starts where thought and will align
Where form and care together bind
To shape creation.
Steiner taught that spirit moves
In moral deeds the heart approves.
Maslow saw that once secure,
The soul seeks more than to endure.
It wants the good, It wants the true,
It wants the whole, And reaches through.
Pirsig rode through shadowed lands,
Where reason slips through rusted hands.
He found, before both mind and rule,
There lies a sacred, silent school
Where Quality, not thought, commands.
Jung, descending to the deep,
Where dreams and silence do not sleep,
Returned with fragments of the whole,
And stitched the shadow to the soul.
The spiral turns when we descend
To gather truths we did defend,
But never see.
The Austrians knew what choice requires:
Not force, but form that truth inspires.
Mises held that man must act
To choose a path, to leave a tract.
Rothbard warned: when force is near,
Knowledge bends to greed and fear.
Hoppe showed that systems break
When rulers take but do not stake.
Hayek’s wisdom softly spoke:
“No mind alone can bear the yoke.”
Freedom, thus, must be the ground
Where price and pattern both are found.
Let order grow through trust and pace
Not by decree, but honest grace.
The Tao flows on without a strain.
It carves the mountain, drinks the rain.
No striving hand could move so wide,
Yet nothing slows the turning tide.
Hermetic mirrors taught the same:
The outer world reflects our flame.
As above, so here below
To see the self is thus to know.
Hegel, circling through the years,
Climbed contradiction, joy, and tears.
Plato saw the form behind,
While Aristotle shaped the mind.
Vervaeke walked the path between
The lost and found of what we mean.
He named the gap, the fading sense
Where wisdom flees from negligence.
And still he showed the way back in:
Through practice, care, and discipline.
Then came Bitcoin – not a creed,
But code that lets the soul be freed.
No masters here, no hidden gate
Just time, and math, and choice as fate.
It asks of us a quiet art:
To guard the keys, to play a part.
To verify, to not obey
But walk the truth we build each day.
Not ideology made gold,
But something finer, something old:
The right to act, to not pretend,
To make our word and deed align again.
To run a node is not just code
It’s standing straight along the road.
To save is care, to spend is grace,
To trade in truth, face to face.
Here freedom’s weight is real and wide.
The soul and system coincide.
The spiral doesn’t turn in vain.
It holds what breaks.
It sings through pain.
It climbs through what we dare to know
And gathers meaning as it goes.
So value lives where care is paid.
And freedom grows
Where truth has stayed
Unbought.
Unmade.
Not owned,
But shown.
Alone
It turns.
It burns.
Begin.
Within.
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What do you reckon; too much wank, or about right for a Bitcoiner thinkboi podcaster? 😂
GFY; Essay coming soon™ 👀
Start within, choose freely, act with integrity, and cultivate freedom through truth. Sovereignty is not given - it’s earned through the spiral of self-discovery and purposeful humam action. 🌀👀
Thinkboi draft. Soon™ 🔶👀
Got asked to host trivia at this local this evening. Even got to write my own questions 🔴👀
Reminder: We are not just building better money. We are remembering something older than empires, older than writing. We are remembering how to discover, experience and trust reality again. 🌀 🔶 👀
Bitcoin is most misunderstood by the compromised and intellectual nobodies; thus politicians and bureaucrats. Good. 🔶👀
Are you listening to The Music, anon? 🤘👀
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- Torrenting Music Back in the Day
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🎙co-founder and host of Bitcoin Sydney, Bitcoin Bush Bash NSW organiser, MC at Bitcoin Alive, hyper-intolerant of intellectual dishonesty and shitcoins
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WE discuss:
- JP's Bitcoin origin story
- What's Early?
- What's a Bitcoin Sydney?
- Warped Moral Values
- Heaps More
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🎙 co-founder of one of the most thermodynamically sound news sources in the universe, The Bugle. Husband, father, editor, real human being
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- Boomers Are Regarded
- Drunk Legacy Journalists
- Being Authentic and Unapologetic
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Any Nashville Bitcoiners (nostr:nprofile1qqs9mus73mq3ug08kug2cltvj3p8gpawd85n5l70p59rach6cn7usjcpp4mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7tcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7mlnsyp) get along to Basement East and witness one of Australia's greatest musicians; cc. nostr:nprofile1qqsrjxqeute0zwusetrjp9qeadt5aa7q686wsxr8lsjvg73uuh52yjqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tckgz2dx nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqnz0fd0 🤘🔶🫡
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How is your one horse portfolio going, anon?
Never miss your change to buy the dip 🤠🚀
E V E R Y O N E I S S P I R A L L I N G
U P W A R D S
F O R E V E R 🌀 ⬆️ ♾️
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Extraordinary
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🎙artist, designer, UXer, fiat-disrespectoor deep in the void, Bitcoin and Nostr only.
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• Does the UK really get hot?
• The Art of Design
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The flower of life. Sacred geometry. I seen many of these in front of me when the ayahuasca was kicking in…
You might enjoy this.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-underlying-particle-physics-20130917/
So I read the article and found it compelling. Thanks for sharing. Then, I asked ChatGPT to help me comprehend if it might or might not appear/manifest within the flower of life (I also asked it about the Chestahedron (or diminished trapezohedron) too. Both, apparently, do not. Fascinating nonetheless.
**I am absolutely not a physicist, theoretical or otherwise. 🌀
Bitcoin is how we coordinate both. 🔶👀
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🎙️ FOSS champion, partner at , co-founder of Opensats, Bitcoin Park, host of Citadel Dispatch, RHR and more.
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- ODELL's Bitcoin origin story
- The Erosion of Adversarial Thinking
- Sci-Fi Idealism
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Louder for the people in the back. 🔶👀
Thank fuck for that. Bunch of plebs on here have been claiming it as the bEst ShOw eVa, as if they've never seen Sopranos. I won't waste my time. Much obliged 🤝
Is Held's head/face photo shopped? His eyes are tiny and incredibly close together. 👀
Look, I don't wanna be that guy, but... nah. You can't beat straight from the teat. 🐄
While you're in Gippsland, look out for Riverine Blue cheese, and pretty much any Sailor's Grave beer 🤌
Simon Phillips in the chair here. That was the concert for Jeff Pocaro's memoria ('92). Phillips is great, but no one picks Pocaro's pocket.
"Kookaburra sits in the old stump"? Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.