#NOSTR #VLOG VOLUME 11: "YOU ARE NOT UNLUCKY. YOU ARE BEING SPIRITUALLY ATTACKED" #vlogstr

It was an honor and a great pleasure to chat with @Discovering Bitcoin 🔶👀 https://fountain.fm/episode/Y17YcPUUS5ChNVP6P4zQ We covered important bits of my Bitcoin journey, some of the key insights that led me to write Unified Creation Energy Theory, the dangers of becoming too bullish on hope and on Bitcoin, and the struggles of manifesting creative potential into economic feasibility. Perhaps we should do a round 2 at some point though, as there was a lot we didn't touch upon, some more Bitcoin-related, some a little less: - Taking out a loan (like many of us, I had 0 savings) to buy Bitcoin (and other "crypto") in 2017 and getting seriously lucky with timing - The origins of Kontext as a nym and an anonymous rapper, and my first proper attempt at taking it to a professional level around 2018-2020 - Becoming super bullish and way too complacent in 2021, buying into the idea of never selling (but continuously borrowing fiat against my coins) - Losing most of my stack in the beginning of 2022 as the market turned - Partly as a result of that - and partly from realizing I’m no good as an altcoin trader - becoming a BTC maxi that same year - Doxxing myself and getting on social media, largely inspired by the network effects of Bitcoin and trying to emulate that in my own life - Taking a second serious shot at becoming a rapper in Australia in 2022 - Realizing that Bitcoin mimics the nature of reality itself - which was the key insight to starting to write Unified Creation Energy Theory - Ego inflation while writing Unified Creation Energy Theory in early 2023 - Multiple ego deaths, in different forms, before and after that - Starting to work on a Bitcoin-based gift card business in an effort to provide more straightforward, tangible value to people, as opposed to the much more subjective value of music and writing, as it slowly dawned upon me that those were not going to bring me instant fame, glory, or riches - Listening to an audiobook version of Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" on a roadtrip through Australia in 2023 and realizing I had been writing something very similar in my own journals - Making the decision to publish my own collection of writings in 2024 and launching @A Stoic Resurrection in an effort to prime myself for the publication while building a potential audience - Finally launching the gift card business @SATOSH.EE at the end of 2024 (what was supposed to take 6 months turned out to be 1.5 years), with high hopes and expectations, but struggling to gain traction, customers and/or investors - Launching @Open Source Culture as a division of Satoshee Strategy, with the intention of supporting open-source work in a wider array of domains in addition to code, while creating synergy between a for-profit company and a non-profit initiative - Publishing a collection of my "notes to self" in the form of a hardcover book ("A Stoic Resurrection: Notes from the Journal of a Modern Stoic") in mid-2025 alongside an expanded collection of self-designed merch on kontext.store - Much like my music, essays, and SATOSH.EE, the book and merch store launch still didn't result in commercial success (yet) All in all, the journey is a continuous process of death and rebirth, of walking a tightrope between ambition and humility. A mission of faith and resilience, bringing the ego into the service of the spirit. There are no guarantees, no promises, and no safety nets. Ultimately, what matters is Proof of Work in spreading Love & Freedom. Onward.

Ice Cube still got them BARS 🔥 "Knowing, it's mind controlling First you start scrolling, then you start trolling Yeah, what you know about a prison? Ain't no rhythm in this algorithm" #tunestr

You want to serve? Well, do you want to serve because you truly and honestly want to help others; be in service of others? Or do you want to serve because you want to feel important, you want to matter; be in service of the ego? That’s an important distinction. In the first case, you are acting out of grace and compassion; in the second, you are acting out of pride and greed. It’s virtue vs. sin. Heaven vs. hell. Unconditional vs. conditional love.

The devil’s trying to discourage you? Turn the tables on him. Make it abundantly clear, both in your thoughts and actions, that as long as you live, you will never give up, you will never succumb to the pull of the underworld and that the only one who has any authority over your mind, body and soul is God himself, and no one else. Your demon’s trying to wear you out? Wear him out with your relentless striving for virtue, love, truth and God. Show him that inside that fragile, fallible, aging physical body is an eternal, indestructible soul whose light can never be put out, dimmed, nor denied. That you have found and embraced the Divine within you, and that only a fool would take a stand against the infinite.

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Why is it that your best meme ideas come when you've been awake for 36+ hours and could REALLY use some sleep?

#NOSTR #VLOG VOLUME 10: "IT IS A MEASURE OF GOOD HEALTH TO BE ILL-ADJUSTED TO A PROFOUNDLY SICK SOCIETY" #vlogstr

Yeah 1913 was bad and 1971 even worse, but the real downfall started whenever we stopped writing love letters.

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Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert. Were they abandoned by God? No. They were being forged and reformed. Strength, be it physical, mental, or spiritual, does not emerge from nothingness. It is grown by resistance, and the repetition in trying to overcome it. It is birthed in the juxtaposition of one’s will against one’s reality, in the friction between being and becoming. The descent into the underworld is not a detour, it is an essential part of the process. It is the burning away of the overgrowth and the debris; the unmasking and falling away of the untrue, the excess, the parts of you that are unworthy of the journey. It is the germination phase of the seed planted within you - cold, dark, and lonely, but essential, nevertheless.

The stress, depression, and anxiety are inflicted upon us involuntarily. We don’t want to feel like shit, we don’t want to feel hopeless - but we do. This is an exercise in mental resilience for the warrior. The ordinary person either numbs themselves, dissociates, or succumbs to the emotion and identifies with it. The warrior recognizes this as a challenge to overcome and an opportunity to grow. Life puts us through these tests because we do not - we avoid “negativity” like the plague. But if you're a warrior out on the battlefield, then negativity, stress, and anxiety are your environment. If you do not know how to navigate that terrain, you’re bound to lose - or get lost.

“Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone.” ― Alan Watts

7 years ago: An ode to springtime... #tunestr

Never being bored = never using your imagination Never using it = losing it Allow yourself to be bored. More importantly, allow your kids to be bored. This is how to train the muscle of coming up with something from nothing.

Hope y'all are having a great weekend! 🌞 Here's some organic house to chill, dance, or do yoga to: #tunestr