GM.

Again, guys: politics = pro wrestling. Wrestlers don’t climb up to the top of the steel cage without knowing where they’re supposed to land. Politicians don’t audit Fort Knox without knowing how much gold is in it. Something tells me there’s going to be just enough gold to buy ~20% of the Bitcoin network. If you want entertainment, watch the news. If you want to know who wins, watch the markets.

GM. Nice, easy morning. This is about 20 minutes before all the new guys start their shift and get in my way.

Another example of how fiat ruins everything: Last week, worked in with this kid while he was using the Hack Squat. Noticed his form was shit. Asked him a couple questions that revealed he didn’t understand the first principles behind training quads. Took a few minutes to explain them, trying to get him to the point where he could use the knowledge on all his quad movements. This week, he comes up to me right away. Thanks me profusely; explains how sore he was the next day and how much my explanation helped him and how it carried over into other movements. Called it game changing advice. The gym is top tier and full of competitive bodybuilders and coaches. I drive an hour to use certain pieces when I can. But he said no one’s freely offered that level of explanation before I did. Reported that he’s only ever been solicited by guys looking to add him to their $300+ per month coaching rosters. I can rag on modern gym culture all day. It’s a shadow of what it once was and there are numerous culprits. Cell phones, social media, universal inclusivity, the decline in the presence of highly masculine men, etc are all contributing factors. But fiat underlies all of them and is centrally responsible for gatekeeping information that was once freely shared between men. Fiat interdicts iron sharpening iron. It forces the men who have figured out how to become bigger and stronger to put a monetary premium on information that could lead to the men around them - and thus the world around them - becoming better. It turns meatheads into salesmen who learn scripts to overcome rejection rather than freely and openly building tribes of strong men around them. Bitcoin affords me the ability to help others without concern of compensation. If I want to see gym culture improve, the best way is to represent the kind of culture I’d like to be a part of. That culture is one that’s generative, open-source and kind at its base layer.

“What I find most remarkable about them was the foresight to be able to identify the role that they played in all this. It was all new to them. They didn’t have all this history behind them that we do. They were the ones who had to write the history. And they somehow were able to recognize that they were tasked with being the stewards of a world they themselves would never actually get to see. “It’s kind of heartbreaking in that sense. They sacrificed the rewards of their courage and conviction for us. They must have been so tempted to do something - to do anything at all. But they had the foresight to know their purpose was to HODL and teach our mothers and our fathers the importance of what they would inherit and hope and pray that they’d continue the legacy they’d begun. “They were right when everyone else told them they were wrong. I can only imagine how hard it was to have the conviction they had without any of the evidence we all take for granted today. And when the world that everyone else thought would never change collapsed, they didn’t even gloat. They didn’t even really celebrate. They could have done anything they wanted with the wealth they rightly earned and instead they held most of it. They held it for us. They were wealthy people who lived normal lives so that we could build the world we wanted with the money they passed down to us.” - my grandson in 2073 talking about me and the other Bitcoiners alive today.

Now that we have Bitcoin, it seems the fiat system is dependent on its own destruction in its attempt to continue existing. The old system is voluntarily destroying itself by following its own rules. It cannot stop. Its demise is inevitable.