A year from now you may wish you had started today. --Karen Lamb As I was reading some positive quotes to start my day, this one stuck out to me in the context of #Bitcoin.

Individuals Want More Purchasing Power, Not More Money. This was a subheading in an article I was reading on @zerohedge. When you stop and think about it, it makes complete sense, especially when you think about this in terms of places that have experienced hyperinflation [ Weimar Republic (Germany, 1921-1923); Nicaragua (1980s); Sudan (1989-1992); Zimbabwe (2000-2008), etc]. The last thing the citizens of these countries wanted was more money, they just wanted more purchasing power. You can read the full article here:

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Another fun sunset picture from my collection.

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The sunsets this time of the year are beautiful.

Another great concept from The Bitcoin Standard by @Saifedean Ammous "As money is acquired not for its own properties, but to be exchanged for other goods and services, its purchasing power is important, not its absolute quantity".

The Bitcoin Standard

Today is a great day to plant the seeds of #Bitcoin into the fertile minds of those around you. We must plant more #Bitcoin seeds, and remove the weeds of the #fiat money propagandist in our societal garden. Plant away.....

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If the government truly believes in equality, shouldn't every citizen be allowed to print their own fiat money with their home printer? When you stop and think about it, the only difference between government printing fiat money at will vs citizens printing fiat money at will, is the government looses control of it's citizens. However, the value of the fiat money is the same whether government, or the citizens, print the fiat money at will: it's a piece of paper backed by nothing that can be created at any moment. #Fiat #Control #Government

Copy and pasted from post on X as I don't see the author is on #Nostr, yet.... If you don't want to read the transcript below, watch the video. https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1838665564648280274 Excellent speech by dr. Marty Makary: "I'm trained in gastrointestinal surgery. My group at Johns Hopkins does more pancreatic cancer surgery than any hospital in the United States. But at no point in the last 20 years has anyone stopped to ask, why has pancreatic cancer doubled over those 20 years? Who's working on that? Who's looking into it? We are so busy in our health care system billing and coding and paying each other and every stakeholder has their gigantic lobby in Washington D.C. and everybody's making a lot of money except for one stakeholder, the American citizen. They are financing this giant expense of health care system through their paycheck deduction for health insurance and the Medicare exercise tax as we go down this path of billing and coding and medicating. And can we be real for a second? We have poisoned our food supply, engineered highly addictive chemicals that we put into our food. We spray it with pesticides that kill pests. What do you think they do to our gut lining and our microbiome? And then they come in sick. The GI tract is reacting. It's not an acute inflammatory storm. It's a low grade chronic inflammation. And it makes people feel sick and that inflammation permeates and drives so many of our chronic diseases that we didn't see half a century ago. Who's working on it? Who's looking into this? Who's talking about it? Our health care system is playing whack-a-mole on the back end and we are not talking about the root causes of our chronic disease epidemic. We can't see the forest from the trees sometimes. We're so busy in these short visits, billing and coding. We've done a terrible thing to doctors. We've told them put your head down, focus on billing and coding. We're gonna measure you by your throughput. And good job, you did a nice job. We have all these numbers to show for it. Well, the country is getting sicker. We cannot keep going down this path. We have the most over-medicated, sickest population in the world. And no one is talking about the root causes. The Pima Indians are the perfect example. Here is a group where the obesity diabetes rate was less than 1%. The land in New Mexico and Arizona had its rivers supplied, diverted by ranchers and settlers, and the land and the soil was destroyed. The government, recognizing this tremendous injustice, started to send free government food, but it wasn't organic kale and fruit and vegetables, it was processed and junk food. Instantly, the Pima Indians developed an obesity, diabetes rate of 90 percent. And what did the United States government do? What did our health care system do? The NIH dispatches its researchers to draw the blood of the Pima Indians to look for a gene that predisposes them to obesity and diabetes. What are our leaders doing? The H in NIH is supposed to stand for health. Where are they spending their money on food as medicine and looking at the estrogen binding properties of pesticides that are driving our fertility rates down? They're funding research in Wuhan, China, and they're funding research on a new food compass to replace the misinformation they put out with the food pyramid, telling us lucky charms is healthier than steak. Somebody has got to speak up. Maybe we need to talk about school lunch programs not just putting every kid on obesity drugs like Ozempic. Maybe we need to talk about treating diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at everybody. Maybe we need to talk about environmental exposures that cause cancer, not just the chemo to treat it. We've gotta talk about food as medicine and research these areas. 20% of our nation's kids are on medication. And as you heard, half are obese or overweight. Are they more disobedient than children in Japan or have we poisoned the food supply? Is this a chronic disease epidemic that has been a direct result of what adults have done to children? We like to blame people for their diseases, but maybe we need to look inward. We see all these shiny objects thrown at us. Politicians talk about, oh, we've got a new healthcare proposal. Medicare can now negotiate the prices of ten generic drugs. Don't be fooled. These are things in the periphery. It's not to say they don't have merits, but the proposed program savings in year one by their own description is six billion dollars. In a four point five trillion dollar economy that's expanding at eight percent per year in the commercial sector, that's a two hundred billion dollar expansion, we save six billion dollars. The best way to lower drug costs in the United States are to stop taking drugs we don't need."

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Good morning! Busy day ahead, but starting this morning with a cup of coffee ☕ and some time exploring the freedom loving folks using #Nostr Make it a great day!

I'm calling it a good night.

Good morning to all those liberty loving individuals who are working to make our world a better place.

Time to call it. 🥱 GN

THE BITCOIN STANDARD Unsound Money and Perpetual War "Second, government having access to a print press allows it to continue fighting until it completely destroys the value of its currency, and not just until it runs out of money".

The Bitcoin Standard

Breakfast of Champions: Homemade spinach and herb sourdough bread topped with avocado, pepperoni, fresh tomato and jalapeño from the garden, and some cheddar cheese 😋

GM! Happy Friday! Does anyone else receive this "compliment" from their family and friends?

The moment when Oprah checks the clock to see how much more of Kamala's ramblings she must endure. #RambleOn

Great summary from this article: “As major traditional finance players like BlackRock increasingly embrace Bitcoin, its reputation and adoption will likely accelerate, bringing it further into the mainstream”.

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