The first phase of waking up is extremely lonely. You have your old social circle but new opinions. You stop seeing eye-to-eye with people you used to always agreed with. You wonder if you’re the crazy “conspiracy theorist.” Then, you meet new people that reassure you that you are not, in fact, crazy. This doesn’t mean you have to abandon your old friends, but after you wake up, you also need new likeminded friends to keep you on the right path.

it’s incredibly frustrating that the conservative pundits compare the federal deficit to a business or household in debt. This false equivalency gives false hope that the debt can be resolved with fiscal conservatism. Sure, you shouldn’t look to Congress as your models for personal finance, but “reckless spending” is not the core driver of the federal debt. The US is 37 trillion in debt because when you issue the reserve currency, you need to supply the world with your currency, and therefore, run structural trade deficits. NO POLITICIAN WILL FIX THIS. ONLY A NEUTRAL RESERVE ASSET WILL FIX THIS.

Just learned that only 7-8% of the American colonists rebelled against Britain. This is a reminder that we don’t need a majority. An intolerant minority can and will change the world.

Normies prefer certain slavery to uncertain freedom.

The price of bitcoin is your ego.

For every one podcast on BTC security, you will find ten podcasts on BTC price predictions. Should be the other way around.

Most influential books on my life. ECONOMICS/GOVERNMENT The Mystery of Banking - Murray Rothbard What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Murray Rothbard Democracy: The God that Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe The Market for Liberty - Morris Tannehill Anatomy of the State - Murray Rothbard The Most Dangerous Superstition - Larken Rose A Spontaneous Order - Chase Rachels The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson PHILOSOPHY On Duties - Cicero Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Letters from a Stoic - Seneca Discourses - Epictetus Lectures and Sayings - Musconius Rufus Everything written by Taleb The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson Psychology of Totalitarianism -Matthias Desmet HISTORY The Creature from Jekyll Island - G Edward Griffin The Fourth Turning - William Strauss FICTION 1984 - George Orwell Animal Farm - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Mandibles - Lionel Shriver BITCOIN The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous The Fiat Standard -Saifedean Ammous

EU power outages remind me of why I think going off-grid should be on the long-term “to-do” list of every bitcoiner. You can have your node and your self-custody setup, but if the State cuts the power cord (intentionally or unintentionally) and you have no alternative source of power, you’re screwed. Sure, the equipment is expensive and requires a lot of learning, but everyone should be gearing towards this, one step at a time, imo.

If you are a specialist in violence, and your targets have their wealth in multi-sig, your business is going to fail. This is why all governments will die.

World-changing technologies are rare. World-changing protocols are even rarer. World-changing monetary protocols only occur a few times in the history of the world. Nobody is bullish enough.

It’s amazing how many people are afraid to buy bitcoin because we are near all-time highs. They’re thinking “what goes up must come down.” They are still trying to time the market and sell back into dollars.

People absolutely lost their minds over DOGE, and it wasn’t enough to put a dent in the deficit, let alone the debt. Your fairy tale of the US resolving its debt burden needs to die. It’s insolvent and never getting paid back. The ship is sinking. Opt out or you’re going to go down with it.

The world still has not grasped the implications of quantum physics. The nature of reality is not Newtonian. The nature of reality is one based on frequencies, periodicities, and feedback loops.

Every “-ism” is just an excuse to steal other people’s stuff. Socialism. Communism. Statism. Nationalism. Globalism. It doesn’t matter. They’re all the same - they just differ in who gets the exclusive privilege of stealing. Reject them all. Embrace freedom and individual sovereignty. Everything else is a lie.

Bitcoin provides a trustworthiness filter in all domains. There are tens of thousands of doctors, lawyers, accountants, writers etc, but those who are Bitcoiners have proven that they are courageous and open-minded. The “do you understand Bitcoin?” filter is an effective method to distill the infinite voices down to a select few that habitually think from first principles.

Lone-coiners are leaving a lot on the table. When you interact with other bitcoiners, even just online, you bounce ideas off one another and everyone’s understanding grows.

When you’re going up, you feel comfortable believing that the adults have everything under control. Then you become the adult and you realize that nobody has any idea what’s going on and this whole thing is on auto-pilot.