Imagine a small town overlooking the Pacific surrounded by thousands of acres of forest, where you know your neighbors, leave your house unlocked day and night, find local farmers who’ll sell you fresh food and where bitcoin is the local currency. I’d move there in a heartbeat.

FLASHBACK: July 2017 during Janet Yellen’s congressional testimony…

Summer on the coast…

₿itcoin Mendocino

Bitcoin surpassed Amazon once again to become the 5th largest asset in the world.

“Repeat after me: There is no list.”

Inflation is not ‘prices’ going up, it’s the purchasing power of the currency going down. Imagine a 12 inch ruler that shrinks by 1/8 inch each year. Over time you need more rulers to cover the same distance.

₿ Mendocino

Back in the ‘90s we used to have our own local currency called seed. We could use bitcoin right now as a local currency and keep value within our community. ₿itcoin Mendocino

The bitcoin exchange rate on 4th of July 🇺🇸 2025: $109,433 2024: $58,659 2023: $31,051 2022: $19,750 2021: $34,973 2020: $9,084 2019: $11,764 2018: $6,579 2017: $2,598 2016: $670 2015: $257 2014: $637 2013: $77 2012: $7 2011: $15 2010: $0.01 2009: $0

What if you discovered you're an NPC living in a financial simulation, working daily for a currency printed into existence by governments and forced to pay taxes with it? Wouldn't you want to escape?

Prompt for the AI: Write a short social media post (100 words or less) about living in a small, rural coastal town like Mendocino, California, and the surreal experience of using AI to create this post. Highlight the contrast between the traditional, old-world lifestyle of the town and the cutting-edge technology of AI, keeping the tone upbeat, conversational, and reflective of the blend of past and future.

Just a friendly reminder - don’t store your private keys at home.

I used to think taxes were like death; inevitable. Now I think they’re like theft.

How do you create digital scarcity?

WHAT IF… …we had no federal, state or local taxes and governments had to fund themselves solely through mining bitcoin? Dreaming on.