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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
#Bitcoin gave me hope. Hope led to right action. Right action has led to a better life. There is no better feeling than improving your own life. And doing so in an ethical way.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
I may not know you, and you may not know me, but if you are a Bitcoiner and a Nostrich, I fuck with you. We're on the same team. #Bitcoin #Nostr
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Hard money, easy life. Easy money, hard life. A twist on the @naval saying: Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life. #Bitcoin
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Let the mainstream media, BlackRock, MSTR, and the US Government tell normies that #Bitcoin is just digital gold. Let them try to convince people that it doesn't make sense as a medium of exchange. We'll just keep zapping people and doing our thing to build the Bitcoin Standard. We'll keep building and utilizing Cashu and Lightning. Unbothered by the talking heads. Let the noise play out. The signal is here on #Nostr.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
"There are two seasons: Winter and Baseball season." Can't wait for Baseball to be back.
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John Balkam 1 year ago
Fuck it, time to rewatch Harry Potter 5, 6, and 7 again ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿซก
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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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