25 years ago you could put $500 in your pocket, drive anywhere in America, rent an apartment with no background check, and start over. $500 today is a month of groceries if you're lucky. The mainstream media wants you to think inflation is like the weather. Some atmospheric phenomenon that just happens. In reality, it's authorized, institutionalized, bipartisan theft. And the people closest to the printer don't feel it. Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching America turn into a giant carnival. Everything is temporary and transactional, without roots or community. Millennials were lucky, in an odd way, to come of age during the financial crisis. They watched Ron Paul in real time and grasped the Austrian economic framework as the bailouts played out. The wealth transfer unfolded with some families devastated while others thrived. Gen Z didn't get that education as they came of age in the aftermath. However, they certainly feel it. The sense of dispossession is completely justified. But feeling the problem and understanding the problem are two different things. The solution is there for them to find when they are ready, as Bitcoin exists and is battle-tested. The intellectual framework for understanding exactly what was done to them and exactly how to protect themselves is freely available. But it requires the hard work of sitting down and actually learning something difficult when you're already exhausted from a rigged economy. It asks people to better themselves at the exact moment they have the least energy to do it. A person with savings has options and leverage. The people running this system don't want you to have either. Sound money gives you both, and that's why they fight it so hard. Study bitcoin.

If governments can ‘print’ their own currencies, they can pay arms manufacturers, foot soldiers, and contractors endlessly to wage endless wars. If the world operated with sound money, endless wars wouldn’t be financeable. Study Bitcoin.

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Everyone talks about innovation in California like it’s only a Silicon Valley or Hollywood thing. Meanwhile up here in Mendocino (California’s last slither of frontier) I keep meeting people who are bubbling with ideas. Up here the rules are few and the vistas wide. Creativity feels freer. Are you an innovator?

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Surveillance does not need to arrest everyone. It only needs to make everyone feel arrestable. Privacy is the right to develop a self without permission, to think without a handler, to associate without being cataloged. That is why power attacks privacy first. When privacy dies, liberty follows.

The national debt just hit $39T. More dollars in circulation = each one buys less. That’s inflation. That’s why prices are rising. (That and foreign entanglements.)

Small town living.

SQUARE TO AUTO-ENABLE BITCOIN PAYMENTS FOR MILLIONS OF SELLERS Square will auto-enable Bitcoin payments for all eligible sellers starting March 30, 2026, according to an updated Terms of Service notice sent to users. The change means millions of businesses using Square could soon begin accepting Bitcoin by default, rather than opting in manually. The rollout is part of Block’s broader push to integrate Bitcoin payments across its ecosystem, leveraging the Lightning Network for fast, low-cost transactions. Sellers will still have the option to disable the feature or automatically convert Bitcoin to USD at the point of sale. With Square powering millions of merchants globally, this marks a major step toward making Bitcoin a standard payment method in everyday commerce.

I used to bring up bitcoin in conversations so that I could try and convince people about it… …now when I bring up bitcoin it’s to hear what people have to say about it.

When the world is burning Bitcoin is the best way to opt out You don't have to participate

We have something rare here in Mendocino — a tight community where people know each other. Don’t let surveillance destroy that. Opt out of the digital panopticon.

Everyone who discovers and takes the time to understand Bitcoin has the same story — They found Bitcoin. It rewired how they think about money, time, work, freedom, and life. They tried to explain it to the people they love who looked at them like they'd joined a cult. So they stopped talking about it. "I tried to tell family and friends about Bitcoin, but they all thought I was involved in a scam or a cult. I needed some legit Bitcoin people in my life…and I found them. I went to two meetups with a bunch of cool, interesting, and intelligent people I never would have known otherwise. We all make our own Bitcoin journey, but none of us need make it alone."

33 years ago today, Eric Hughes published the Cypherpunk Manifesto. "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age." A sentence from 1993 that hits harder every year. Bitcoin is the most powerful tool to emerge from this movement. Cypherpunks write code. 🧡

“Bitcoin is punk rock money.” Bitcoin started as a pure, permissionless counterculture, in the same vein as early punk, hip-hop, or folk. These were movements that began in the margins, dismissed and mocked by the mainstream because they didn't fit the established mold. But if a counterculture is successful, it rarely stays niche. Over time, the ethos tends to bleed into the broader world. The Ramones started playing tiny dive bars like CBGB's and today, their influence is even felt in modern pop. Bitcoin is following that exact trajectory. As it moves toward global adoption, it’s carrying the values that birthed it, from self-sovereignty and resistance to decentralized control and individual freedom, and embedding them into the global financial architecture. If hyperbitcoinization is to occur, most people who eventually use Bitcoin may never even hear the word "cypherpunk." They won't necessarily know the history of the early days, but the underlying ethos will be transmitted anyway. Gradually, behavior starts to shift because better money naturally leads to better decisions, and better decisions lead to better lives. Not every Bitcoin user will be a hardcore ideologue. Bitcoin just needs them to be incentivized to use a superior tool. The culture is built into the code, and as the money spreads, the revolution happens on a deeper level.

A man deposits $10,000 in a bank. The bank thanks him and records the deposit on its balance sheet. But not where you might expect. For the bank, that $10,000 is actually a liability – because technically it belongs to the customer and might have to be returned. So the bank does what banks do. It lends $9,000 of that money to someone buying a car. Now something interesting happens. The $9,000 loan appears on the bank’s books as an asset – because someone now owes the bank money. So the same $10,000 is doing two jobs at once. The depositor believes he has $10,000 safely in the bank. The borrower now has $9,000 to spend. That $9,000 gets deposited somewhere else. The next bank lends $8,100. That gets deposited again. Then $7,290 gets lent out. Soon the original $10,000 has quietly turned into tens of thousands of dollars of loans scattered across the economy. Everyone believes they have money. Depositors see balances in their accounts. Borrowers have the money they spent. Banks show healthy assets on their balance sheets because people owe them money. And here’s the best part. Banks charge interest on all those loans – maybe 7%. But the depositor who supplied the original money might earn only 0.5% on their savings account. So banks collect interest on money that mostly wasn’t theirs to begin with – and keep the difference. With bitcoin, banks are no longer able to take advantage of customers. With bitcoin you are your own bank.

Most people think inflation is just "prices going up." There's actually a hidden order to how new money moves through the economy. Your position in that order determines whether you win or lose. It's called the Cantillon Effect. Here's how it works... When new money enters the system, it doesn't land equally in everyone's pocket. It flows from the source outward, losing purchasing power at every step. Level 1 — Banks & Financial Institutions: They get the money first. Before prices adjust. Before anyone else even knows it exists. They deploy it immediately into assets. Level 2 — Large Corporations & Contractors: They borrow cheap, expand fast, and lock in favorable terms before the market reprices. Level 3 — Asset Prices Reprice: Real estate. Equities. Hard assets. The early recipients have already bought in. Now prices rise for everyone else. Level 4 — Consumer Prices Catch Up: Your grocery bill. Your gas. Your rent. Costs climb while your paycheck holds still. Level 5 — Wages Adjust Last: By the time wages catch up, the purchasing power is already gone. You're running a race where the finish line keeps moving. This is the inflation tax most people never discuss. Structural, predictable, and baked into every fiat monetary system in history. The Cantillon Effect requires two things: new money and a centralized party with the power to issue it. Bitcoin has neither. Its supply is fixed, its issuance is governed by protocol, and no institution gets preferential access. Every participant operates on the same terms. Sound money neutralizes the Cantillon Effect. Bitcoin is the soundest money ever created.

Live light: ditch the clutter, dodge the surveillance. A quiet house, no smart fridge — freedom isn’t in gadgets, it’s in what you don’t own.

Jeffrey who?

Bitcoin isn’t an investment. It’s not a stock. It’s not something that needs government approval. Treating Bitcoin like a speculative asset misses the point entirely. It’s about freedom. Self-custody. And breaking the state’s monopoly on money. If you're trading it like a stock, you're not seeing the real picture. Study it. Own it. Be free.