🔬 Your brain can watch itself think and improve. 🧠 #meditation

Neuroscience shows that the highest form of intelligence is not raw IQ or fast thinking. It is #metacognition. That means your ability to notice your own thoughts, question them, and adjust them in real time.

When you pause and ask why am I thinking this, your brain activates areas in the prefrontal cortex linked to self awareness and control. These regions help you spot mistakes, rethink assumptions, and choose better responses. Studies consistently show that people with strong metacognitive skills learn faster, solve problems more effectively, and adapt better under stress.

Think of it like a mirror inside your mind. Instead of being carried away by every thought, you can step back and observe it. You notice when your focus drifts. You catch emotional reactions before they take over. You recognize when confidence turns into overconfidence.

This skill is not something you are born with or without. Research shows it grows through reflection, feedback, and curiosity. Students who reflect on how they study perform better. Athletes who analyse their decisions improve faster. Even emotional resilience improves when you can label and examine your thoughts instead of fighting them.

For everyday life, this changes everything. Metacognition helps you break #habits that no longer serve you. It helps you learn from failure instead of repeating it. It turns mistakes into data instead of shame.

When you learn to “think about your thinking”, you stop being controlled by your mind. You start working with it. That is real #intelligence.

You can just play music on your podcast and the artists get paid in bitcoin.

we are looking into a credit card, specifically to utilize the line of credit we are launching, amongst other things

UK citizens are blocked from viewing a Ledger blog post explaining multi-sig, “due to new rules.”

Sparrow v2.3.0 released with:

Send to Silent Payments

Pay to DNS address

Min fee rate from server

I find this cancel-culture mob behavior pathetic. My phone’s blowing up with accusations from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

I’m in Costa Rica before an event, so here are a few quick facts straight from the source, for those interested:

Strike performed flawlessly through all of the recent market volatility. Zero downtime, 24/7 support, and the biggest day in our company’s history across all product lines yesterday. Thank you to every Bitcoiner who supports us.

Strike Lending continues to lead the market. We had zero margin calls today, and have never margin-called a customer, ever. Our loans open at 50% LTV, with customers averaging closer to 40%.

We’re building a reliable, trustworthy credit market on Bitcoin. The existence of bad or irresponsible actors doesn’t make the tool itself bad. Does a man using a hammer to harm others disqualify the one who uses it to build a home? Of course not.

Credit is a tool. Used responsibly, it empowers people. Used recklessly, it destroys them. That’s true of any financial system. Credit on Bitcoin can do so much good for the world, and we’re building it the right way: transparent, regulated, and built for Bitcoiners. In fact, we are actually in the middle of building a loan type where you can pay a premium to remove the possibility of ever getting liquidated. We hope to launch it in Q4! Imagine that, from the very people that are being accused of the opposite.

Anyways, do you really want me deciding what’s “good” or “bad” for everyone else? That’s not Bitcoin. Encouraging mob behavior against those actually building tools for financial freedom is backwards.

I’m used to this kind of noise, but our team has the best product velocity in the industry, they deserve none of it. Tag me and come at me if you want to spout nonsense.

If you don’t want to use our tools, don’t. I’ve never forced anyone to do anything. If you do, please use them responsibly, and if you have questions, reach out. We’ll always answer.

Now, I’m off to the event with the Strike team. Stay humble, stack sats, and build the future however you see fit (that's a lot of the point)