Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective. Two systems separated by millennia - united by natural law, discipline, responsibility, and action over intention. View article →

@Satoshi's Cock made a comment on @Stacker News that propelled me to put into words something that's been lingering in my mind for a while... @nostrrocket I mentioned something about this to you on our call. Would also love to hear thoughts from @RedTailHawk, @Daniel Prince & others who feel like they have some ideas on this topic. #education #homeschooling

My boss (me) is really fed up with my bullshit at this point. #memestr

In World War II, my great-grandfathers had a choice: either fight on the side of the Soviet Union or on the side of Nazi Germany. The definition of a lose-lose situation, and of the illusion of choice. I see this as the equivalent of the “left vs right” dichotomy worldwide. Coke vs. Pepsi. Same system, same poison.

8 years ago, Kontext (then still an anonymous rapper) embarked on a mission to become a professional in the music industry. The single "100%" was the first fruit of that labor. 2 years, 5 singles and 2 mixtapes later, success was nowhere in sight and amidst traveling and doing fiat jobs like farming, pedicabbing and cleaning in Australia, both inspiration and motivation waned and music was put on the backburner until the second attempt in 2022 (spoiler alert: also ended up in failure). #tunestr #opensourceculture

I've been thinking a lot about the Fourth Turning lately as well as the Bitcoin halving cycles. What if Bitcoin also has cycles within cycles? What if the fourth halving is the fourth turning of Bitcoin? An era of crisis: a civil war, diminishing returns, the lack of interest from pre-coiners, Epstein & quantum FUD, a war between cypherpunk and State / Wall Street principles, an empty mempool, a sense of disillusionment within the community, etc. Will #Bitcoin emerge victorious and enter a new "high" era in 2028? Or are the naysayers finally right and this is the beginning of the end for the digital asset?

A few shots of me presenting my book and ideas. Or in other words, doing what I can to shine light on "the primacy of beauty, the centrality of goodness, and the ultimacy of truth" as D. C. Schindler would put it. The job ain't easy, but somebody's gotta do it.

Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" OUT THERE 🫡 #memestr

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It’s not that the warrior is unafraid. It’s that he proceeds despite the fear. That’s the essential difference between recklessness and courage.

TIL #etymology

#NOSTR #VLOG VOLUME 9: "WHY THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR" #vlogstr

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I’m in an abusive relationship I would like to escape That relationship is between me and the State

So I've been going over my Dharma Marga calendar in conjunction with evolutionary astrology with the help of ChatGPT and honestly its mindblowing how accurate these things are. #astrology #dharma

Seen on ig... felt compelled to fix it 😅 #memestr

New short essay now up on #nostr and @Stacker News only! cc/ @Jake Woodhouse View article →

Check it out: Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, is said to have envisioned a society in which all people lived according to reason, without law courts, temples, or currencies divided by city-states, in his now-lost book Republic. That bit of information just blew my mind. If that's not an utterly anarcho-capitalist #Bitcoin idea, then I don't know what is. And he wrote it 2000+ years ago! BTW I'm close to finishing my essay on the convergence of Bitcoin and #Stoicism. If there's anyone out there who has been genuinely looking forward to that piece, I apologize for the wait from the bottom of my heart. I have been letting you down - as well as myself - and I am painfully aware of that. I have two very good reasons for the delay though: 1) The parallels run much deeper than I thought (I had no idea Zeno was basically an anarchist) and the essay, instead of being 2000-3000 words like I originally thought, is looking more like 7000+ words. 2) I have simply been not at my best. Unmotivated, tired, undisciplined. Completely my own shortcomings. All that being said, I go to war against myself every day. I put pen to paper every day, even when nothing noteworthy comes out of it (or sometimes it feels like it's too much to even put out there). But, as I said, the essay is very close to being finished. If you want a preliminary idea into what it will be about, you can listen to this episode of the @Bitcoin Art Magazine Podcast with @Asanoha from December, where among other things discussed, I read most of the draft I had written at the time:

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The Kontext Experience • Bitcoin Art Podcast Ep. 8 w/ Asanoha & Kontext • Listen on Fountain

A conversation between Asanoha from Bitcoin Art Magazine and Kontext. We talk about SATOSH.EE, the Bitcoin Wall Calendar, a little bit about my phi...

Time may take your good looks, misfortune may take your wealth, an accident may take your loved ones and external conditions may take your health, but you will always have philosophy, you will always have your personality - your personal reality.