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John Balkam
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CMO at Sovreign | Bartender at PubKey DC
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John Balkam 1 year ago
The Simple Ingredients for a Good Life - Sound Money - Whole Foods - Clean Water - Safe Home - Quality Sleep - Lots of Movement - Lots of Laughter - Lots of Love - Music - Dancing - Singing - Play - Gratitude
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John Balkam 1 year ago
We've been inundated with so many lies for so long, that the truth seems too good to be true.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Life in America: You're born. They start poisoning you, robbing you, and lying to you, and then you die. And a small group of people get filthy rich in the process. It's a Death Economy. We must end the Death Economy and build a Life Economy.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
The delusional, conceited intellectual thinks to themselves, "if everyone else would just think more like me, all of my ideas would be proven correct." We have FAR too many intellectuals like this in society at the moment. (Cough, Paul Krugman) And their arrogance is suffocating for the rest of us. What we need is more people with the mindset of the engineer or the entrepreneur. The realistic entrepreneur thinks, "I have a theory on how to fix a perceived problem, let me test it out and see if it is truly a problem and if my theory can fix it." When an engineer or entrepreneur discovers through experimentation that their theory is false, they tweak it until they get closer to the truth. And they keep going until they get to the bottom of things. If there was one thing I wish I could teach every young person in the world, it would be entrepreneurial thinking. Thinking this way gives you a strong grounding in reality, and prevents you from falling into the traps of just being an self-important intellectual. God help us when the intellectuals start to brute force their awful ideas onto society, even when it's clear and obvious that they don't work. Oh, wait, they've already been doing this for decades.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
We are going to stack our enemies into submission. Never underestimate a stacker 🫡 #Bitcoin
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Running bitcoin 🫡 (Downloading the full blockchain and running a full node for the first time.) Onward. #Bitcoin
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John Balkam 1 year ago
I have been building up my freedom tech stack. Smartphone & Laptop - Above Phone & Abovebook Looking into @Sovran Systems and @Start9 to be able to have sovereignty over all of my data. Slowly but surely, I'll move all of my life from the fiat tech stack (Google) to the freedom tech stack. It may take a while, but I want to move my small business to the freedom tech stack as well. It will take a good amount of convincing my employees, but it feels like the only way to survive the rest of this decade.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Bitcoiners and Nostriches are my heroes. I love you guys. 🫂 #Bitcoin #Nostr
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Being a Bitcoiner is like playing a game of chicken with the central bankers. When the central bankers print a bunch of money, the Bitcoiners get filthy rich. When they raise interest rates and suck liquidity out of the system, Bitcoiners become "poor" in fiat terms. However, if the central bankers tighten for too long, their whole credit based Ponzi scheme falls apart. Who's gonna flinch first? Not the psychopaths who've been staying humble and stacking sats for years 🫡 We know that the central bankers are con artists. We know that their system is broken. It's only a matter of time before the central bankers swerve off the road and crash into the ravine. #Bitcoin
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John Balkam 1 year ago
These next several months will be a doozy. Grateful to have this network to rely on for information you don't get anywhere else 🫡