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John Balkam
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John Balkam 1 month ago
@Jeff Booth really nails it when says, "There is no us versus them. There is only us." It's a devastating truth that through the fiat system, we are all paying for our own destruction. Epstein network? We paid for it. Forever wars? We paid for it. Technocractic dystopia? We paid for it. It's all on us. We allowed it to go on and paid for it through taxation and inflation over decades. The only thing we can do is take responsibility and remove our time, energy, and resources from the extractive Death Economy. No more finger pointing unless it is at the mirror. Opt out. I know most if not all of you on here are with me.
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John Balkam 1 month ago
Things have been really weird since March 2020. Six years of accelerating weirdness. πŸ«¨πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«πŸ€―
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John Balkam 1 month ago
The Trump Admin has done two regime changes in two months so far this year. What have YOU gotten done in 2026?!
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John Balkam 1 month ago
The fiat system is optimized for the extreme taker. Bitcoin is optimized for the extreme giver. For the giver, the world seemed completely upside down until they discovered Bitcoin. For the taker, they scream at the top of their lungs that Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme because they cannot afford for Fiat to be exposed as the real scam.
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John Balkam 1 month ago
I don't think you really get Bitcoin until you realize the banksters are complete criminal fraudsters, aided and abetted by criminals in the government. Its a very tough pill to swallow, and most aren't willing to take it. Yet.
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John Balkam 1 month ago
Hughes and Hellebuyck will never have to pay for a beer at PubKey πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²πŸ₯‡
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John Balkam 1 month ago
Time is not a river. Time is a heartbeat. 🀯
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John Balkam 1 month ago
Saylor said something on the MSTR earnings call that was hilarious and that sounded like something Yogi Berra would say: "It's a good thing we have time, otherwise everything would happen all at once."
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John Balkam 1 month ago
If you're too afraid of a little contact, get off the fucking field and sit on the bench. Let the real dogs play and tear each other apart to see who wins. #Bitcoin image
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John Balkam 1 month ago
We don't need to make the world "smarter." We need to make the world more beautiful. We need to make the world more peaceful. We need to make the world more just. That's why I'm dedicating my professional life to driving Bitcoin adoption and not very interested in AI adoption. Intelligence without wisdom is dangerous. Wisdom says stick to Bitcoin 🧑
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John Balkam 2 months ago
People will wake up one day and ask themselves: Why did I pretend to work for that fake company just to earn fake money to impress fake people that I pretended to care about?
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John Balkam 2 months ago
Epstein really was Pandora's Box. Everyone in "elite" circles. And I mean EVERYONE was exposed. Government. Finance. Banking. Technology. Business. Hollywood. They are all criminals. Clintons. Trumps. Musk. Thiel. Hoffman. Dimon. Etc. Republicans and Democrats. They're going to try and build AI dystopia to cover it all up, but it's too late. They are FUCKED.
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John Balkam 2 months ago
Volatility does not change the fact that the banks are insolvent and the governments are insolvent. There's too much debt and too few dollars. Hold scarce assets in self-custody. Survive.
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John Balkam 2 months ago
It's hard to orange pill people because it's hard to get them to accept the fact that the biggest institutions in the world, that are supposed to be protecting them, are in fact stealing from them. That said, I think as every day goes by, more and more people are waking up to the corruption and fuckery. The zeitgeist is shifting towards the narrative Bitcoiners have been yelling into the void about for years. Patience everyone. The world is waking up, gradually then suddenly. Our time is coming.
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John Balkam 2 months ago
It's weird to say this, but I think Bitcoiners are forming a new nation. The first ever digitally native nation. I mean that in the sense that the United States of America used to be a nation. England used to be a nation, etc. Globalization essentially dissolved those nations of people. The States still exist but the nations are going extinct. In the internet age, people don't believe in the old idea of belonging to a nation based on blood and soil. Why sacrifice for the people in my country if they don't share my values? Why sacrifice for the people in my country if they aren't reciprocating my efforts? They are just taking from me. This sucks. Ironically, the answer to globalization was to form the first truly global nation based on internet protocols, not geography. Bitcoiners can meet each other all over the world and click almost immediately. It is like you are meeting someone you've known for a long time when you meet a fellow Bitcoiner. Because you know you've had shared experiences and you have shared values. You've been reading and watching the same things. That's what a nation of people is supposed to feel like. A big family. This is not to say that Bitcoiners will create a state a la Balaji's Network State thesis. Bitcoiners tend to despise government. I find it hard to imagine that we would voluntarily build a Networked Nation State. It is a remarkable story, nevertheless. A tribe, a nation, that is forming across the globe, connected by a single open source software program. (And now a second one, in Nostr). Perhaps other nations will form digitally in the coming decades. But I find it hard to believe that they will be as strong and as powerful as Bitcoin Nation.
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John Balkam 2 months ago
My game theoritic mind thinks that the US will ultimately rug pull the world on gold, and pivot to Bitcoin. Why go to all this trouble with the SBR, with the close relationship with Tether? Why go to the trouble of doing GENIUS & CLARITY? The US knows it's in deep shit. The US knows it's rivals have a shit ton of gold. Everyone is rushing out of paper into commodities. Those gotdam commies in China are heavy on gold but light on Bitcoin. Why not stick it to those bastards and say, 'hey, nice shiny rock you got there. We're about to play checkmate on you assholes with digital gold. Fuck you." πŸ™πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
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