I always underestimate how rare curiosity is. Reading is the new rebellion.

Custom S19 single board home miner setup for a friend. Heat + air filter + Bitcoin. Only pulling 656 watts. (Friend picked out the box) Designed by @stacker.

Testing new Arctic Fans for a heat setup present for a friend this winter. 🔥 They’re much quieter than stock and Noctua. Good call @stacker.

Touching rocks today 🤙

The audiobook for Future Proof: The Intersection of Bitcoin and Longevity is finally live! 🎧 The narration is sooo good. I hired a professional. I did not read it. Listen 👉

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Getting ready to fire up my S19j Pro (120V conversion) again for heat this winter. With solar panels and batteries being dirt cheap right now, I’m rigging together a setup that should pay for itself over the next 6 months + provide off-grid backup power. Sovereign money. Sovereign heat. Sovereign energy. 🤝

Because I need a new rabbit hole…

On my Nextdoor: Is someone launching bitcoins?! 🤣

Being mad at Bitcoin because someone you don’t like likes it… is like being mad at electricity because someone you don’t like uses it. Bitcoin is neutral. Bitcoin is a tool. Time spent ignoring it is time spent falling behind.

Bitcoin + a gym membership + nature + good friends = my pillars of happiness. If you’re feeling depressed, check if one of these is missing.

I miss when Bitcoin was about changing the world. I understand the speculative attack is part of adoption/moving from fiat to a bitcoinized world. But most of these bitcoin treasury companies are doing financial engineering instead of providing actual value to the world (no, I don’t think financial engineering is value creation). Bitcoin incentivizes work and value creation. Fiat distorts value and rewards those closest to the money printer. These treasury companies are close to the money printer. Taking free money and turning it into value without actually doing any work. Does anyone actually feel good about themselves working for a bitcoin treasury company? It feels…ick to me. There are better ways to advance Bitcoin and Bitcoin education without jumping on the treasury bandwagon.

In my lifetime, I’ve had over a hundred teachers. Out of those hundred, only a few were great. Some were well-meaning, but most were trapped in a system that rewards memorization, conformity, and yesterday’s thinking. Only one taught me skills that actually prepared me for the future. I remember a math teacher in 2005 telling us to memorize formulas because “you won’t always have a calculator in your pocket.” Three years later, we all started carrying supercomputers in our pockets. That moment sums up my entire education. Outdated. Reactive. A wasted opportunity. We were taught how to memorize, not how to think. No questioning. No critical thought. No sense of how any of it would apply to our future. Take notes, memorize, take the test. Next. Then it was gone. Zero connection to the material. Zero reason to care. The problem isn’t that teachers don’t care. Most are thrown into impossible circumstances. One person is asked to teach twenty or thirty unique minds, each with different strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles. It can be done, but it’s rare. The truth is our education model was designed for an industrial age that no longer exists. The Cost of Stagnation The results speak for themselves. Studies show that more than half of American adults read below a sixth grade level. That means millions of people struggle to engage with complex information, weigh nuance, or think critically about the world around them. If education is supposed to prepare us for life, we have to ask: life when? The world of the past, or the one we’re walking into? Education should prepare us for the future. Yet academia often prepares students perfectly for yesterday. When I earned my Personal Trainer certification earlier this year (2025), I saw how outdated the material was. Nutrition guidelines, exercise science, even how to measure blood pressure were all a decade behind the curve. The same thing happened in college, where we were trained on outdated tape cameras and editing methods that had already been replaced by new technology. My first job out of school didn’t even exist when I chose my major. How can students plan their futures when the system can’t even see six months ahead? What students really need are timeless skills: critical thinking, adaptability, creativity, and problem-solving. Skills that prepare them for any future, not just the past. That’s why AI matters. Personalized, adaptive, and infinitely scalable, it can do what a single teacher in a crowded classroom never could. The truth is most traditional teaching jobs may not exist in the future. AI will be the one curating lessons, adapting to each student, and tracking progress in real time. The role of the human teacher will shift to what machines can’t replicate: guiding, mentoring, and inspiring. And learning doesn’t have to end at graduation. Real education should encompass a lifetime. One model is ending, but a better one is waiting to be built. Read the full article: https://www.erinemalone.com/post/the-education-system-is-broken-the-future-of-learning-is-ai Subscribe for free. 🤙

GM ☕️ I’ll never understand how people can sit on a couch all day, multiple days a week watching dudes in tights run around on the grass pushing each other around. You can’t find a better use of your limited time?

I’ve written two books now, and the hardest part of the process is trying to get people to read (before or after it’s published). Bitcoiners are generally better at this, but friends/family/people in my everyday life…nothing. Won’t even start reading. Why do you think this is? I have some theories, but I’d love to hear your hot takes.

GM ☕️ Schrodinger’s node: Put your node in a box. Tell yourself it is both filtering and not filtering anything. Never check it.

When I was in 7th grade, a teacher had us design a new invention. I sketched a washer-dryer combo. Today, I bought one. So that’s cool. Ok carry on.

Bitcoin is experiential. You learn it by using it. I crafted this video from my article "Bitcoin is Experiential." Watch on YouTube: Read: https://www.erinemalone.com/post/bitcoin-is-experiential I’ll be posting more Bitcoin educational videos on here and on @21millionfilms YouTube. Let me know what you think!