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Great little article for friends who still don’t understand and who say, “…but we already have digital money” — simply because they see their numbers in a bank account that’s online. 🤣🥴🤪
https://socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/programmable-money-questions/


https://youtu.be/_IDyhSs0vlE
Great conversation.
Video description:
Liz Truss, former UK Prime Minister and author of Ten Years to Save the West, joins Jez at the Bitcoin: A Competitive Advantage conference to talk about money, power and why Britain is falling behind. She reflects on her early support for Bitcoin in 2018, her time at the Treasury and what it revealed about who really controls economic policy in the UK.
Timestamps:
00:00 Why Liz Truss Backed Bitcoin In 2018
01:00 Inside The Treasury And Fear Of New Ideas
03:00 Discovering Bitcoin And Seeing UK Decline
04:00 Poorer Than Mississippi And A Bigger State
06:00 Who Really Controls Britain’s Money And Data
10:00 Why The Establishment Fears Bitcoin And Loves CBDCs
14:00 Becoming Prime Minister And Hitting The Wall
16:00 Inside The Mini Budget And The Market Chaos
19:00 When The Bank Of England Outranks The Prime Minister
23:00 Can Britain Ever Have A Bitcoin Strategy
24:00 Changing The Law And Changing The System
27:00 What’s Next For Liz Truss And The Movement
https://youtu.be/6fgFyQEWiK4
Video description:
Could Bitcoin end wars? Saifedean Ammous thinks so, linking fiat to endless conflict. He details how WWI birthed global fiat malware, allowing governments to print for destruction without accountability. Gold once curbed this, but Bitcoin's mobility and resistance to capture offer true escape.
Chapters:
00:28 Fiat's WWI Genesis
02:30 Gold Standard Suspension
05:00 Fiat Enables Endless Wars
07:30 Hard Money Shortens Conflicts
10:00 Central Banks Capture Gold
12:30 Bitcoin vs Gold Mobility
15:00 Bitcoin Rug Pulls Governments
17:30 Gold Bug Thought Experiment
20:00 Bitcoin's Uncapturable Peace
22:30 Fiat Malware History
25:00 Bitcoin Ends War Cycle
26:57 Closing
Self Improvement Advent Calendar 2024 - Day 5. This video & free download, is a great way to countdown the days until the holiday festivities https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/advent-2016-day-5/


#213 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes
Wisdom On The Web
Really get a sense of where you are spending your hours and where you could pay more attention. I cannot strongly enough, emphasize the value of clarity of vision. Our goals need to be sourced in a larger vision of what we want our life to be about. This provides much needed leverage. (Link is below) https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/spending-your-hours/
Life Power Tip
You will likely have heard the story of the baby elephant being tied up a certain distance from a stake in the ground, and in adulthood it still lives with the belief that, that’s as far as it can go. Alternatively, the circus fleas kept in a lidded container and who jump no higher, even after the lid is removed, because they are so used to hitting their heads on the container lid! Lastly, the frog put into cool water that is gradually heated to boiling. The frog, not noticing the gradual temperature change, stays to be cooked. Are you living parts of your life, similar to any of those examples?
Action
Sit under a large, leafy tree and daydream.
Challenge
Notice your posture at varying intervals during the day, and improve it consciously.
Quote
The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the more important things. -Brian Tracy
Clearing
Know your highest priorities, so you are not dragged by others’ agendas.
Question
What do you need to ‘know’ next?
Affirmation
I choose to feel that I am special.
Uplifting Extra
Here's a wonderful and free quiz and video workshop where you can play with your guardian angels. The quiz reveals who your guarding angels are. Then, on the results page, you can choose a time and day that works (one is starting shortly) to receive powerful Angel Transformation in the popular workshop. In that workshop, you will experience a genuine healing and receive an important message from your helpers. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/guardian-angel-quiz/
Enjoy today’s video too! https://youtu.be/EwRB_l2XgiE
To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”.


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This Hacker Nightlight Looks Harmless But Records Every Device on Your Wi-Fi, plus so much more…
https://youtu.be/2QqvbR7AkBE
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https://youtu.be/7omuPt42Ep8
Thanks nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3yamnwvaz7tm0venxx6rpd9hzuur4vgd32wk4 & nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kqdylxj3
CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
03:15 – Chaos & Sentiment
04:33 – Liquidity Crunch
07:03 – Bitcoin Fundamentals
08:50 – Cash App & MOE
11:23 – Geopolitics & Bitcoin Rails
18:41 – Free-Market Opportunity
21:36 – Exiting Fiat
25:03 – SAT IRR & Value
27:17 – Boat Story
29:34 – Leaving Canada
33:21 – El Salvador Insight
48:56 – AI, Education & Capacity
51:18 – Global Bitcoin Leadership
52:59 – US Policy & Open Source
56:00 – Privacy, Tools & Resistance
01:11:39 – Fedi Privacy & Messaging
01:14:08 – AI Risks & Sovereignty
01:17:42 – Repetition & Understanding
01:24:26 – Zero-Sum to Infinite Game
01:24:53 – Closing Reflections
https://youtu.be/E-vaVtYBqVQ
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:28 Free Market Is Deflation
03:32 Bitcoin is Repricing Everything
13:42 What if Bitcoin Fails?
18:56 Measuring Bitcoin in USD
22:30 Ignoring FUD
25:26 Bukele is Making a Difference
31:50Time & Energy in BTC
35:27 The Free Market
38:06 Bitcoin Fixes This
41:30 We All Win
44:05 Self Custody and 45% IRR
46:52 Does Elon Musk Understand Bitcoin?
49:17 Find Jeff
https://youtu.be/O8QnATZCer0
Video description:
In this episode, the Bitcoin Beach Team sits down with nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9thwden5te0dehhxarjv4kxjar9wvhx7un8evhvq0 Jeff Booth inside the National Palace El Salvador to dig into a question a lot of people are asking in private. Is El Salvador still Bitcoin country, or did Bukele get captured by the IMF. Jeff shares how he ended up invited by the President, why he first thought he was being used as a marketing prop, and what actually happened during a long conversation on Bitcoin, freedom money, and what it means for a small country trying to escape a global control system.
We walk through the IMF and El Salvador story from Jeff’s perspective. He explains why a former failed state turned to Bitcoin to escape fiat money and its hidden taxes, yet still decided to take an IMF loan. Jeff shares Bukele’s “rat and cheese” analogy, and why the real goal is Salvadorans holding their own keys, running nodes, and building a circular economy in Bitcoin instead of staying stuck in the old system. He also talks about what he saw on the ground, from gang crackdowns and falling crime, to how the historic center now feels safer and more vibrant, and what that means for tourism in El Salvador.
From there, we zoom out into the deeper human side. Jeff explains how understanding Bitcoin forces an existential crisis, especially for wealthy people and NGOs who thought they were helping, while actually reinforcing a broken fiat money system. We get into game theory, why most people will cheat if they think they will not get caught, and why the principled minority who run nodes and hold their own keys matter so much. Jeff lays out a simple way to think about moving your time into the Bitcoin economy, starting with a small percentage, then growing it until your life reflects an honest market instead of a control system built on inflation and debt.
We close with why Jeff walked away from a huge Twitter audience to spend his time on Nostr, how he thinks about living in alignment in public, and what he is building with Ego Death Capital. He shares how they use Bitcoin as the hurdle rate, why he believes Bitcoin native startups will massively outperform as the old world gets repriced, and how founders in places like El Salvador can collect more Bitcoin by creating real value for real people.
-Bitcoin Beach Team
Browse through this quick guide to learn more about the episode:
00:00 - Why does Jeff Booth say Bukele understands the global Bitcoin game and the IMF “rat and cheese” trap?
01:52 - What first brought Jeff Booth to El Salvador and why were Bitcoiners questioning if it is still Bitcoin country?
02:55 - How did the invitation from Bukele’s office change Jeff’s thinking about El Salvador’s Bitcoin strategy?
04:02 - Why did Jeff want to look Bukele in the eye before trusting the El Salvador Bitcoin experiment?
10:08 - Does Bukele feel the Bitcoin experiment is working and how does he balance IMF money with a Bitcoin vision?
13:57 - How different does San Salvador feel today compared to the gang violence years before Bitcoin and Bukele’s crackdown?
18:42 - Why does understanding Bitcoin create an existential crisis for wealthy people, NGOs, and the old system?
24:36 - Why will El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment fail if it does not move toward a smaller government and real free markets?
28:58 - How does Jeff Booth think about the timeline for Bitcoin adoption and what it means to “already live in that future”?
32:18 - Why did Jeff leave Twitter for Nostr and how does that choice connect to his values around Bitcoin and decentralization?
34:47 - How does Ego Death Capital invest in Bitcoin native companies using Bitcoin as the hurdle rate for returns?
#212 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes
Wisdom On The Web
Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen By Mary Schmich – Wear Sunscreen or the Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay actually called Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997. (Link is below) https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/everybodys-free/
Life Power Tip
Life is not a practice game. When will you live your life, the one you choose for yourself? If you are waiting for something, what are you waiting for? What if “that thing” you are waiting for never happens?
Action
Sit quietly with your own thoughts for 30 minutes.
Challenge
Notice when you react and notice when you respond. Feel the difference.
Quote
Each forward step enhances the value of your first! -Thea Westra
Clearing
Know your financial situation and do a budget.
Question
What do you need to give to yourself so that you can give more to others?
Affirmation
I choose to live a unique life of my own.
Uplifting Extra
Even small, incremental forward steps will contribute immensely to the whole journey toward a desired end result. Forward Steps is all about providing you with small snippets that act as a catalyst for your next idea or action. Watch this video and read the short story then instantly put aside any procrastination and excuses for doing nothing at all, simply because you think your actions might only be a tiny drop in your bucket. (Link is below) https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/incremental-forward-steps-for-big-results/
Enjoy today’s video too! https://youtu.be/h3lT2ayoQxc
To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”.


Self Improvement Advent Calendar 2024 - Day 4. This video & free download, is a great way to countdown the days until the holiday festivities https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/advent-2016-day-4/


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Watching https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9110902/ Good movie.