El Salvador demonstrating yet again that it is Bitcoin Country, while US President-elect Trump indicates that the U.S. is poised to become Shitcoin Country.

Welcome to Nostr, @Ian Carroll! ✊

The Trump agenda.

Mood

Great article and framing of the significance of Nostr by @Frank Corva. Now, you know what to do Nostriches. Zap this man! View quoted note →

El Salvador’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (6024.18 BTC as of today) now amounts to roughly 0.00095000 BTC per capita based on its population of .~6,300,000. They continue to grow this per capita holding every single day. In order catch up to El Salvador's per capita BTC reserves, these countries would need to hold the following BTC in their own Strategic Bitcoin Reserves as of today (the vast majority haven’t yet started an SBR). These numbers will continue to grow every day as El Salvador's per capita BTC holdings grow. 🇮🇳 1,384,896 BTC 🇨🇳 1,346,727 BTC 🇺🇸 329,000 BTC 🇳🇬 221,045 BTC 🇧🇷 201,809 BTC 🇷🇺 137,579 BTC 🇲🇽124,865 BTC 🇯🇵 117,237 BTC 🇩🇪 80,083 BTC 🇬🇧 65,889 BTC 🇿🇦 61,179 BTC 🇫🇷 63,273 BTC 🇨🇦 37,950 BTC 🇦🇺 25,508 BTC 🇨🇭 8,498 BTC There are only 21,000,000 BTC to be had...ever. Countries for whom the 💡 goes on and realize that BTC is gradually becoming the base layer of the future global economy will be competing not only with each other for BTC, but with the world's 8 billion individuals, as well as companies, investment funds, unions, community organizations, and a myriad of other groups around the world. Sometimes the profound reality of "scarcity" can just smack you in the face. It is very likely that most, or possibly all of these very large (many very wealthy) countries will never possess the per capita wealth of El Salvador measured in BTC. It boggles the mind what this will mean in the future that is taking shape right now. Most importantly though, if YOU are reading this, it means that YOU have the possibility of holding your own BTC and doing so while the vast majority of national and sub-national governments, companies, and other groups are still asleep or have not learned enough about Bitcoin (BTC) to take it as seriously as they should (and will, eventually). The most beautiful thing about Bitcoin, I believe, is that almost everyone on the planet has the ability to hold it and use BTC. That includes youth in the most remote parts of the world, for example; individuals who are excluded from the wealth of the current world in so many ways. It is absolutely remarkable that as governments, companies, and other groups slowly begin to tune into the transformational value of Bitcoin, individuals have already been at this for 16 years. More than 55% of the total available supply of BTC right now -- roughly 19,800,000 BTC out of the 21M that will ever be available -- are held by individuals. This is power to the people in action. Let's keep it that way! Stack sats, stay humble. ✊🧡

One of my first jobs, short-lived as I was quickly replaced by Hamlin.

Oh my! 🤣🤣🤣

Happy Genesis (Block) Day!

Mood

My Dec 31 / Jan 1 have been deliberately unceremonious. To bed at 10pm, up at 5am and to the gym. Done, with a 30 minute meditation to cap it off. The framework for my 2025 is set. Wishing you all a year of peace, health, and fulfillment.

Just spent the better part of my last evening of this year at an all-ages NYE Party, laying on my back in the middle of a living room de-bunking Modern Monetary Theory for a group of recent Stephanie Kelton acolytes, while my 7 year old performed flying body slams on me from the living room sofa. Pretty emblematic of my 2024 overall, to be honest. Off to bed I go shortly, to rise early and take 2025 by the horns. Wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and fulfilling new year!

Hope y’all have a great New Year’s Eve and start to 2025. My plans for the night are all firmed up! Early rise on Jan 1st and to the gym, to set a tone for the year ahead.

The future is Bitcoin The future is Nostr Just think about how magical, how special it is that you are using both at this early stage in the game.

Done!

A little piece of fiction that I wrote a while back, loosely based on experiences many of us can relate to. Happy to share it here as my first Nostr Read (hopefully the link works).

Sojourns in the digital future

So wrong, yet so right.

Joyeux ___!

A nice visual of the global market caps of #Bitcoin and #gold. How long will it take for Bitcoin to surpass gold’s market cap? My guess is by 2029.

My hope is that the amount of Bitcoin held by individuals will never drop below 50% of the total supply of BTC.