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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
Who else just likes to vibe by themselves, listen to some sweet jams, and just smile and laugh about this crazy wild ride that we call human life? Or is that just me? ๐Ÿ˜…โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Reading is how we understand ourselves and our past. Once we understand ourselves and our past experiences, we can set a course for a desired future. Why did I behave the way I did? Why was I such an idiot? Or why was I able to drum up that courage at the right time? Read the right book at the right time and everything will click into place like a missing puzzle piece in a puzzle. The clarity that comes in reading something true and relevant is an incredible experience. I honestly would probably be dead or in a mental institution without books. Reading the right books during difficult times in my life has helped me weather every storm. Thank God for books ๐Ÿ’™ Shout out to all the great authors on this platform.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Learned this on a retreat I went on in high school and it's stuck with me to this day: "Every experience of love in your life is an experience of God." If you want to be close to God, pay close attention to the love in your heart and in others' hearts. I believe Christ talked about building the kingdom of heaven here on Earth. And as I understand it, the way that we do that is to be as loving as possible. That's what we're all here to do. Christ did not teach us to adhere to any specific religion. He did not teach us to be loyal citizens to any government. He taught us to love. And when we love, we become one with God.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Being bearish on #Bitcoin at this point is a clear sign of mental illness.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Fishing for quotations that changed your entire perspective on the world. I'll start: "Every accusation is a confession." What did it for you all?
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John Balkam 1 year ago
I am beginning to think that we can cure almost any human ailment with: - Sunlight Exposure - Sleep - Herbal Teas & Medicine It's entirely possible that we don't need a large healthcare or pharmaceutical industry AT ALL. Of course emergency rooms and surgery would still be important and available. But a lot of our public health issues could probably be solved with dead simple, inexpensive fixes. Of course, it always comes down to the habits and willpower of every individual, but when I compare my experience with the healthcare system in the US compared with open source healing knowledge online, it is striking how much better I feel following the decentralized health information. I hope to NEVER take another prescription drug again. There seem to be herbal remedies to almost everything. Failing that, there's getting tons of sun and tons of sleep. Two of natures greatest healers for the human body and mind. So dead simple, yet incredibly effective. And getting off the damn blue lit screens at the same time. Along with decentralizing money and communications, I believe one of the biggest movements we can undertake going forward is decentralizing health and medicine. Life can get so much better for so many people if we let health and medicine flourish outside the fiat system.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Mike Benz on Rogan. LFG. The guy is brilliant.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
I promise I will eventually post more fun, light-hearted notes about life and my other interests, but right now we're in the trenches and we've got fight our way to a #Bitcoin standard ๐Ÿซก
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Bitcoin's critics say that it is used by criminals, terrorists, and money launderers. Bitcoiners say that the biggest criminals, terrorists, and money launderers in the world are the bankers and politicians who enable the fiat monetary system. I can live with evil people using #Bitcoin. I can't abide by evil, corrupt people forcing me to use their broken money.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
We can't expect everyone to be saints, just for the sake of being virtuous. Most people are driven by incentives. We need to incentivize individuals to be virtuous if we want to have a mostly virtuous society. Enter #Bitcoin. A hard money that is hard to confiscate and impossible to inflate. Bitcoin incentivizes the average holder to be virtuous. That is, to be productive, save their money, lower their time preference, and build up their purchasing power over time. With Bitcoin we can incentivize virtuous behavior. And we can stamp out the institutionalized corruption of individuals and groups that comes with a fiat money paradigm. Clown world dissolves slowly but surely. Bitcoin does not force you to become a saint, but it does incentivize you to become a better version of yourself.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Isn't it lovely how normal everything seems to be as we move to the brink of nuclear war? Very few seem to realize what's going on. Very few seem to care.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
All I want for my birthday (Sunday) is $100,000 #Bitcoin
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Perpetual monetary inflation means fewer and fewer people can afford to live a decent life over time. Every valuable good and service keeps getting more expensive over time. Perpetual monetary deflation (towards a final, fixed supply) means more and more people can afford to live a decent life over time. Every valuable good and service keeps getting less expensive over time. Shout out to @Jeff Booth and his book "The Price of Tomorrow." This is a complete inversion of the Keynesian, fiat mindset. And probably why so many folks are struggling to understand #Bitcoin. We were all brainwashed by the Keynesians. The only progress that we really need to measure is how many people on the planet can afford to live a decent life. It should be 100%, and with global sound money, there is no reason why we can't get there.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Two words: Decentralize. Everything. #Bitcoin #Nostr
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John Balkam 1 year ago
I think we are going to look back on the COVID Plandemic at the end of the decade as a mass murder event and one of the most egregious crimes against humanity in history. We are going to need perp walks. Let's start with Anthony Fauci. The CEOs of Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J next. Along with the head of the WHO. And damages paid out to people who have experienced vaccine injuries and families who suffered sudden deaths of loved ones. Truly horrifying the evidence that is coming to light. See the Danny Jones podcasts with Kruse and McKernan to get a sense of what I'm talking about.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
With fiat money as the base layer to the global economy, we've gotten a Death Economy. With #bitcoin as the base layer to the global economy, we will build a Life Economy. From lies, deceit, and mass violence as the base layer to truth, freedom, and widespread abundance as the base layer.
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