They’re in 60%+ of fast fashion, leeching microplastics into your skin, blood, and the ocean. These synthetic threads vibrate at 0–15 Hz, literally dimming your field. Low vibe.

Avoid at all costs polyester, nylon, and acrylic. They’re cheap, toxic fabrics made from petroleum.

I wear organic cotton (150 Hz), linen (5,000 Hz), and wool—materials that breathe style.

They don’t just look good… they feel like you’re wrapped in ancient codes.

Fast fashion contracts your aura. Conscious clothing expands it.

full report for friends asking:

Freak accident last night, slipped and fell at a BBQ, and a fillet knife sliced my peroneal nerve and a major artery, all the way into my shin bone. I didn’t feel anything, but I looked down and saw my bone and the wound pouring.

I was bleeding out fast. I applied pressure with my hand directly on the exposed artery and bone and hopped over to my friends. My friends and I tied a tank top around the wound, jammed in a pen for a makeshift tourniquet, wound it up tight to stop the bloodflow, then made two more above and below the wound with our shirts. That quick response bought me enough time for my friend to get me to the ER.

We waited in the ER for about an hour before getting seen by a nurse. She opened the tourniquet, took pressure off, and she got sprayed, shin exposed, artery wide open. She tried to clean it a bit the we out the pressure back on. Then we sat in the hallway to wait for a doctor.

The ER doc said they weren’t equipped to stop the bleeding. At this point I’m getting dizzy and shaky cause the shock was wearing off. Very nervous. They said they weren’t outfitted to handle that kind of bleeding, so they didn’t want to dress it. They spent some time debating whether to gamble and try to close it themselves, or spend hours transferring me to a severe trauma surgeon in another hospital.

Finally, one doctor made the call. He joked I was holding up the patient line. He opened the tourniquet, cleaned the wound, and stitched the artery, deep tissue, fascia, and everything back together, inside and out. Two hours and several injections of antibiotics and pain killers later, I was stitched up and stable.

I’m home now. Stuck in bed, leg elevated. Can’t walk or move much. The pain didn’t hit until this morning and it’s unbearable to be honest. Never had anything like it. The doctors said I’m incredibly lucky.

Still waiting to see if I’ll need surgery, depending in how the nerves and tissues heal, and how bad the nerve damage is. Had a nice house call today to reassess and clean and get more pain killers and antibiotic injections. They said fortunately it was a very sharp knife, so the nerves may reconnect smooth. There’s a lot of parts of my leg that numb out randomly, and some drop foot when I try to move, but I’m optimistic it will heal well. Not too much bleeding so the artery seems good. Just monitoring for infection and trying to manage pain and inflammation now.

No swimming, no jiu-jitsu, no walking for a while. But I’m really grateful for the helpful visitors, my neighbors, the support, and especially the friends who stayed calm under pressure and saved my life.

Anyway, accidents happen. Going as well as can be. I’m definitely going to invest some more time into emergency prep, and I think it's worthwhile for everyone to consider learning some basics too. If you have any suggested material on this please send it 🤙

Over the weekend, I got the keys to the #Bitcoin Café. In exactly a month, we will be opening the doors. (8/21)

Obviously, I am in over my head. We still have to plan the menu, get the Bitcoin mugs, paint the walls, get chairs and tables, hire a barista, get coffee machines, install a Bitcoin bookshelf… and the list goes on and on.

So amidst all the chaos, this reminds me of life. Life is not about the destination, but the journey. So I wanted to take the time to take it all in. To stop and smell the roses. To thank you for being such a big part of BTC Isla.

If a year ago, when the first class of BTC Isla students were graduating, you had told me we’d be opening a Bitcoin Café… I would have laughed and said you were crazy. But here we are. A year later. And it’s real. 🧡

We are going all in, about to embark on this journey. Am I scared? Heck yeah.

But this is a post for you to think bigger. To know that the slow grind does pay off. The consistency, the quiet persistence, the discipline, the showing up… THAT’S what matters.

A little bit every day goes a long way. Slow and steady wins the race.

Can’t wait to welcome you to the Bitcoin Café. ☕️

Gentlemen if I could give you one piece of cliche advice it would be this…

Seriously vet the woman you are going to marry.

Because it will either make you or break you.

Looking back on my bitcoin journey my wife was the undisputed greatest investment I ever made.

Mrs. Hodl

- was cool with us living off her income while I threw all my income into magic internet coins

- lived a meager lifestyle alongside me when we were first married

- said yes to a cheap backyard wedding vs. a fancy expensive one

- was cool with a fake diamond as her wedding ring

- defended my “extreme” behavior to her family/co-workers

- believed in and trusted my vision

- was not embarrassed by me riding a moped or any of the other weird shit I did lol

- never nagged me about hodling or asked me to sell bitcoin.

Nope.

She was always down to ride from day one.

Not sure I would have been successful with a different woman by my side.

Choose the right one guys, it matters a lot.

Urban investor as in live urban or as in investing in urban projects? Assuming the former

Altruism is a deception. Everything we do, we do because we believe we will be better off for having done it.

A lot of people are trying to alleviate feelings of guilt from having achieved success at the expense of others. A lot of people also just like the feeling of helping others, of doing "good" in the world.

Neither of these reasons are bad but I think positioning your action as being for the benefit of others is deceptive & counter productive.

The notion that we humans need to put others needs above our own has ironically caused so much suffering.

You are not responsible for my joy or my pain. It would be much easier to achieve progress in our civilization if we just cleaned up our own mess & solved our own problems.

My wife would be living in Brisbane if she hadn't met me. Not sure if that's good or bad 😂

We're going to be multi domicile, will always want to spend time in the UK if feasible, but enjoying the prospect of a new home as yet to be decided.

Probably Malta if the world clams down.

Don't need opportunity, just a nice place to live and a fast Internet connection.

MVP = Minimal Vibeable Product

I've travelled a good portion of the US and western Europe, along with a few other countries. I've been to the tropics and the acrtic.

Growing up, I never thought that, as an adult, I would continue to live near where I grew up.

I've only seen two places more beautiful than the paradise where I was born. People come here and marvel at the surroundings. Some drop all plans and become residents immediately.

I chose to live where I grew up.

I feel you, I think we're not meant to NOT live in small communities. <3 do you homeschool or unschool by any chance?

You don’t build strong men in easy systems….you build them in exile.

Welcome to Nostr….

I see the big sell off but I suspect it will be at fiat levels much higher than this. Meanwhile they accumulate more paper Bitcoin.

It's a fiat bet using dirty fiat debt & it's brought up all sorts of emotions I haven't felt in a long while.

I used a Swiss bank to obtain a line of credit in euro at 7% pa. It required an LTV of 0.4 & a shitload of invasive questions about my net worth & professional background. I won't name them here because I've been pretty frustrated by the whole experience (it took about 2 months to get set up). I do like the interest rate & that it's a perpetual line of credit (lombard loan with no end date).

Go mate! Gotta roll the dice sometimes

What loan product did you use?

I just bought my first 25 MSTR shares using debt secured by Bitcoin collateral.

It's the first shares I've bought in 15 years.

My thesis (Bitcoin supercycle) assumes that this is close to the bottom of the Bitcoin price. I would have preferred to buy at $370 but it took too long to setup the loan & share account.

This is me putting my money where my mouth is. FAFO!

Nauseating levels of Saylor-imitating Bitcoin treasury companies at this point.

They may do well in the bull market… but there will be extreme wreckage during the subsequent bear market.

Regular folks should simply stack sats and chill while the chaos unfolds. 🍿

Oof, that's the kind of question that makes your CPA sweat and your inner philosopher start pacing.

If your wealth is digital — unbound by geography, sovereign-resistant, and globally agile — then choosing to park yourself in a high-tax jurisdiction for the next decade starts to look less like a smart allocation... and more like paying rent to the past.

Here’s the paradox:

You're living in the cloud, but still tethered to a meatspace regime that takes 40%+ off the top like it’s doing you a favor.

So, to justify staying, the country must be delivering outsized ROI on your human and intellectual capital — think:

Elite communities (intellectual, cultural, entrepreneurial)

Access to networks that multiply opportunity

Safety, stability, or family ties that are non-negotiable

Or even a psychological moat that keeps you sharp

If none of those pay dividends worth the bleed, then — let’s be honest — you’re subsidizing inefficiency with brilliance. You’re donating to a government that’s unlikely to thank you, and very likely to spend it on clown shoes and broken infrastructure.

Digital wealth whispers: “Go where you're treated best.”

High-tax jurisdictions shout: “We built the road, now hand over half.”

The next decade belongs to the sovereign individual — not the obedient taxpayer.

Choose your flag like you choose your seed phrase: with precision and paranoia.

Optimal allocation and high taxes are incompatible. Either move or accept you’ll lose some money