The reason people look for “assets” that protect their purchasing power is because they can’t save using the dollar.

Strongly believe our parents are the last humans who will ever retire. They know it. You know it. And it's because the math is fundamentally broken. Life expectancy up. Birth rates down. Pension funds gambling on 8% returns while bonds pay 2%. Every government running the same Ponzi hoping they're not in charge when the music stops. But also, and here's where it gets darker, we don't want retirement anymore. IMO when people say "I want to retire early" I think what they really mean is that they want optionality. The "dream" isn't to stop working at 65 it's to stop taking orders at 35. So when Bitcoiners say "Bitcoin is my retirement plan" I don't think they really mean a literal retirement plan because retirement isn't a thing anymore. It's an escape velocity plan. You don't need enough to never work. You need enough to never need to work. The 401k is a museum piece. The pension is a fairy tale. We're all going to work until we die OR build something that works while we sleep. - Fernando Nikolic

Once you understand that the global financial system operates on currency (and not money) controlled by a handful of powerful central bankers, a lot of inequality, social upheaval and political division begins to make sense.

Fire can be used to burn your house to the ground or heat it. Digital technology can be used to control you or set you free.

When you purchase something with a credit or debit card, there is a corporation in the middle of that transaction watching what you are buying. But with bitcoin, your transactions are person-to-person - private and secure, just like cash.

Question(s): In Core 30 are the settings to adjust OP_RETURN size being removed? Are these settings in Core 30 set at max size for OP_RETURN by default with no way to dial them down?

I’m realizing the message to share with people is less about bitcoin and more about how inflation steals from everyone in a surreptitious way and how this erodes individual sovereignty and undermines society. After that conversation it’s time to talk about bitcoin.

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You can message me and I’ll explain it to you for free…or these top international universities now teach courses on bitcoin: • University of Cambridge - Distributed Ledger Technologies: Foundations and Applications • University of Oxford - Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme • Harvard University - Blockchain and Money • MIT - Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology • Stanford University - Bitcoin and Blockchain Technologies • University College London - Blockchain Technology and Business Applications • University of California, Berkeley - Blockchain Fundamentals • Princeton University - Bitcoin Technology and Economics

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Iif you buy and send a gift card to someone, they'll be taken through the process of creating a Fold account, gaining access to their bitcoin balance wallet, and exposed to all the other features for stacking sats. Once redeemed, those funds can be withdrawn to self-custody or stay in their bitcoin balance with Fold.

You work for 8 hours to live 4 You work for 5 days to barely enjoy 2 You work for 10 hours to eat in 15 minutes You work for 50 weeks to have 2 weeks of freedom You work for 40 years to still struggle to retire Next time you ask yourself, "should I take the risk?" Instead ask..."Will I regret not trying?"

Wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr says: "Sooooo bitcoin is at an all time high today…safe to say we still happy with our decision.” (to be paid in bitcoin.)

Alcohol used to be much cleaner. You could drink it all night and then wake up and feel great. Go to work, stack hay bales, feed horses, etc. But now you have a few drinks at night and you’re wiped out the next day. What the hell are they putting in alcohol these days?

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.