GM Nostr 💜🫂

Just sharing a simple observation from my own life.

Maybe someone out there can relate.

When I lived on the fiat standard, my sleep followed someone else’s rhythm.

8-6. Dinner.

Workout/Self development.

Say GN to the baby.

Sleep early.

Recover well so I could perform again the next day.

Rinse and repeat.

Time and energy were scheduled around external demands.

Since living on the Bitcoin standard now for about three years…something quietly changed.

My body slowly rooted back into nature.

I healed.

My sleep is no longer forced.

It’s responsive.

Most days I sleep 4–6 hours.

Often split into two phases.

I go to bed when the sun goes down. Very early.

Then I wake up around midnight fully awake, clear, energized.

Sometimes I sleep again for a few hours till sun rises…

when my body asks for it.

Sometimes I don’t sleep at all.

Like tonight.

And yet I’m wide awake.

Focused. Full of energy.

It feels as if energy comes from somewhere else now…

not from “recovery for productivity,” but from alignment.

I feel happier & healthier.

More myself.

Not because I sleep less but because I sleep on my own terms.

Just an observation.

I hope you get a really good rest tonight…the kind your body truly wants& needs.

When I was trapped in fiat, I saw my daughter on average 7min/day.

Something inside me always knew that something was wrong.

Other humans called me successful because I successfully chased titles, fiat, and power.

But I never felt successful.

Those fiat trophies never meant anything to me.

I just executed because that’s what I was told to do.

Until I became a dad.

That was the moment my eyes opened.

Not Covid.

Not even Bitcoin.

Becoming a father made me realize I wasn’t present for my daughter…

just like my father wasn’t there for me.

That realization hit hard.

That was the moment I knew I was off track.

I’m grateful I found a way out…

together with a bunch of funny, smart, badass motherfucker retards like you.

Stay healthy & present.

Timestamp of freedom 929072

In 2000, Saddam Hussein did something very few people paid attention to.

He announced Iraq would start selling oil in euros, not U.S. dollars.

Three years later, the United States invaded Iraq.

No weapons of mass destruction were ever found.

But something else happened quietly.

Iraqi oil went right back to being priced in dollars.

Most people call that a coincidence.

I call it a lesson.

In 2009, Muammar Gaddafi proposed something even more dangerous.

A gold-backed African currency — the gold dinar.

It would have allowed African nations to buy oil without using dollars.

In 2011, NATO intervened in Libya for “humanitarian reasons.”

Gaddafi was killed.

The gold dinar disappeared.

Libyan oil? Back to dollars.

Another coincidence.

I’m noticing a pattern.

Go back further.

In 1971, President Nixon took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.

The dollar was no longer backed by gold — only a promise.

By all historical logic, the dollar should have collapsed.

It didn’t.

Why?

Because three years later, Henry Kissinger cut a deal with Saudi Arabia.

The deal was simple:

Sell oil only in U.S. dollars, and the U.S. military will protect the regime.

From that moment on, every country on earth needed dollars to buy energy.

That wasn’t free-market economics.

That was force-backed monetary policy.

Or, more honestly, a protection racket.

And it works — as long as the military can enforce it.

Watch what happens when countries challenge it.

Russia demands rubles for natural gas?

Sanctions. Escalation.

Syria discusses pipelines priced outside the dollar system?

Civil war intensifies. Pipeline never happens.

Iran tries to sell oil outside the dollar?

Decades of sanctions.

I’m not saying these are good governments or bad governments.

I’m saying watch what happens when anyone threatens the petrodollar system.

Once you see it, the pattern isn’t subtle.

SWIFT is not a neutral payment system.

It’s a weapon.

Get cut off from SWIFT, and you’re locked out of global trade.

Russia.

Iran.

Cuba.

Venezuela.

Different politics. Same outcome.

They don’t teach this in school because it’s uncomfortable.

We don’t send 18-year-olds to die for “freedom.”

We send them to protect reserve currency status.

Currency funds the military.

The military protects the currency.

That’s how empires work.

Britain learned this the hard way.

The British pound was the world’s reserve currency for nearly 200 years.

After World War II, Britain lost reserve status.

Within two decades, the British Empire collapsed.

Same cycle.

Dutch guilder.

British pound.

Now the U.S. dollar.

Ray Dalio has been warning about this for years.

Late-stage empire looks like this:

• Military overextension

• Rising debt

• Currency weakening

• Rivals building alternatives

China’s Belt and Road isn’t charity.

It’s about creating debt relationships denominated in yuan.

BRICS aren’t talking about alternatives because they’re friends.

They’re building an exit ramp from dollar dependence.

When the dollar loses reserve status — not if, when — the ability to print money without consequences disappears.

- Then the military contracts.

- Then the empire ends.

- You can call this cynical.

I call it financial history.

Every war in my lifetime had a currency angle — if you knew where to look.

“Freedom and democracy” is the marketing.

The actual policy documents talk about

“maintaining dollar liquidity in global energy markets.”

I’m not anti-military.

I’m anti-bullshit.

If we’re sending people to fight…

We should at least be honest about why.

Maybe we should reach out to the influencers dictated by algos. Just saying.. these are our people.

Stop living in your own silo, bring people here then manage the silo. Or we're all fucked?

We gotta transform imo. Do more onboarding of the real creators. Make ourselves fucking heard.

Well that software was never defensible over the last 10 years.

It could always have been replicated for a 100k. That fact you could replicate for a 1k isn’t necessarily that different for a multi billion valuation surely?

So I’d say the premium is all network affect of people believing this is a trust worthy signing solutionnn

I was thinking about making a “year in review” note this year again, and decided it was pointless self indulgence that serves no particular purpose. I am not against such posts, just thinking of my specific case. I’ve done stuff, and fixed stuff, and it works AFAIK, we are good 🤣 In 2026 I hope to do more of that, LFG! Now I am basically playing a couch potato and enjoying needed time off, recharging.

If you think your English is good, I challenge you to…

Good target for an interoperable nostr program.

Mainly distribution. But I world expect our to fall precipitously

I read Cathie Wood's suggestion that she would start a business with ChatGPT if she had to do over, so i asked what business would Grok design for me:

Grok: Build and operate premium rural "homestead hubs"—beautiful, off-grid-ish properties (think modern farms/ranches with high-speed internet, solar/Bitcoin-mined energy).

So Grok thinks I should be a glamping hotelier.

the truth is, i love the suggestion. i like living in places where people come and go and bring new ideas/recipes/excitement.

i'm currently in such a rural place. however, there's nothing else out here besides furniture factories. Not sure how i would advertise that.

"Drive down the Blue Ridge parkway, exit before you fall over the divide into North Carolina."

"don't mind the farm dog, he only likes women."

"If you're a couple and not married, you'll get an extra complimentary room on the house"

"i'm sorry we are a tad bit Amish without all the romance novels"

"it's a bit of a dry household, but we have lots of lemonade made with well water"

project ideas:

ham radio tower --> can sats be sent out over this thing

mesh network --> the cows in the barn need wifi

potential water wheel in the creek?

can we use quartz rocks to make electricity?

treehouse?

summertime new river kayak/canoe adventure?

stargazing would be amazing here.

Have an awesome Christmas man!

2026 is going to be huge.

Create the world you wish to see

By 1981, in his book "Critical Path" Bucky identified (as Ford did earlier) that money was ideally to be backed by energy to be viable; Bucky would have been a Bitcoiner

The builders of today sharpening Bitcoin, Lightning, Ark, Cashu, Fedimints, Graphene, Tor and adjacent technologies, are designing the future they wish to see

Action turns vision into reality - what can you add?

Looking into Freemasonry... Hold my beer

you can actually just ignore the current thing

Not enough “biOhAcKeRs” & health influencers talk about “Boredom-Maxxing” and doing absolutely nothing.

Sitting there. Standing there. Eyes closed. Eyes open. No doing. Just being. HUGE reset on motivation, energy levels, mood, contentment, and overall way of life. Do no thing