I refuse to stop being a thought criminal. The thought criminal is the person who shows up daily to share unfiltered thoughts, encourage others to reclaim their own minds, and create spaces where clarity is possible. It’s someone who understands that in an age of managed anxiety and algorithmic negativity, genuine encouragement is dangerous because it reminds people they’re still capable of sovereignty over their own thinking. The thought criminal doesn’t reject society. They reject the specific machinery designed to capture minds while calling it connection, suppress dissent while calling it safety, and eliminate independent thought while calling it progress.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Here in the Purpleverse, speaking plainly, thinking clearly, and encouraging others to do the same is a small act of defiance against the warped reality we see everyday. The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

The last time we came out of a government shutdown, we surged 300%. Stack accordingly.

It took 15 years of “failure” to build Bitcoin. You’re not behind. You’re exactly where you need to be. 1989: DigiCash. Dead by 1998. 1997: Hashcash. Not money. 1998: B-money. Never launched. 1998: Bit gold. Almost there. Cypherpunks chased the impossible for 15 years…money no government controls, no corporation censors, no authority corrupts. They kept building through every failure. October 31, 2008. Satoshi didn’t invent anything new. Satoshi synthesized 15 years of “failures” into one breakthrough. The double spend problem, solved. Math. Code. Incentives. Your setbacks aren’t stopping you. They’re teaching you. The timeline is longer than you think. The answer is closer than it feels. Keep building. The world needs what you’re working on.

Friendship, in its highest form, is a crucible. A true friend is not a reflection of your image but a reminder of your becoming. Real friends do not feed your ego. They guard your soul. They care about your aim more than your reach, and they speak when you drift from your center. That is the kind of friendship worth building here. One that values truth over comfort and accountability over applause. Real community is not built by always agreeing. It is built by honesty.

Freedom of expression means nothing if it is always for sale.

The strength of a Marine is not found in command but in conviction. Decentralization was born in the rifleman long before it was written in code. Freedom is never granted. It is maintained through proof of work in combat and in consensus. Semper Fidelis. Semper Decentralis. View article →

The downstream effects matter more than the number. When people control their own value, they can build, trade, and cooperate without institutional gatekeepers extracting rents at every layer. That’s not getting rich. That’s recovering economic freedom that’s been slowly stripped away. The purchasing power is a symptom, not the point.

Your mission as a Bitcoin operator is simple…survive long enough for the system to exhaust itself. Stack sats. Run a node. Self custody your keys. Maintain operational security. Don’t get caught up in the noise. Don’t break discipline chasing shitcoins or leverage trading or promises of 100x returns. That’s how operators get separated from their unit and picked off. The mission is survival, accumulation, and transmission of knowledge to the next wave of recruits. Gm and PV

“We are no longer citizens, we are subjects. And we are no longer processing information, we are being processed by it.” — Edward Snowden Nostr is the reverse. When speech cannot be deplatformed, you stop being a subject of someone else’s terms of service. This isn’t just a protocol. It’s the infrastructure for citizenship in digital space.

Scale is often mistaken for significance. The most consequential shifts in human coordination, from the printing press to public key cryptography, began with small groups aligned around first principles. We’re not building for today’s metrics. We’re building infrastructure for future optionality. Generations will inherit the tools we build now.

Cultural transformation begins not with grand gestures but with faithful consistency. A man who openly lives his convictions shapes more than his own life. This Lord’s Day, I will spend ninety minutes in corporate worship, reminded that reforming society starts with reforming ourselves. When personal conviction endures beyond momentary enthusiasm, we earn the authority to lead our households well. Fathers who shepherd their families with biblical intentionality create ripples that expand across generations. The path to cultural renewal is neither quick nor glamorous. It runs through church doors every Sunday and through dining room tables every evening. It requires men willing to accept responsibility rather than abdicate it. If you want to see society change, start here…worship consistently, lead your home courageously, and trust that God works through ordinary faithfulness more powerfully than through spectacular gestures.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

FROM FIREFIGHTS TO FIRST PRINCIPLES: Why tactical doctrine and Austrian economics share the same DNA Most people don’t see it, but the mindset that keeps you alive in close quarters combat is identical to what makes Bitcoin inevitable. In gunfighting you learn that decentralization of decision making saves lives. Every operator must act autonomously when comms fail. There’s no central command calling shots when bullets fly. Sound familiar? Bitcoin isn’t a financial innovation. It’s a tactical doctrine for human coordination under adversarial conditions. The philosophy is ancient. Augustine understood that centralized power concentrates corruption. Hayek proved central planning fails because knowledge is distributed. Your squad leader knew it before reading either. The best systems assume betrayal, prepare for failure, and empower the individual operator. Proof of Work is just another way of saying “actions over words” like every infantry guy lives by. Private keys are the philosophical heir to “don’t tread on me.” The mempool is fog of war made visible. They trained us to think in terms of redundancy, verification, trustless coordination, and individual sovereignty under fire. Satoshi just wrote the field manual for money. The rabbit hole isn’t technical. It’s theological. It asks the oldest question about who gets to control the means of human cooperation. Every trigger pull demanded an answer to that question. Every block does too.

Jam on! My “Genesis Block” album grows on. All about Bitcoin and Nostr. View quoted note →

The fundamentals of Nostr are straightforward…share your thoughts freely, build genuine connections through real dialogue, amplify voices, and support good content with zaps. The protocol works when we participate actively rather than passively. Every person here contributes something distinct to the conversation. The collective gets stronger as individuals show up authentically. So take what you have to offer today and put it out there. That’s how we build something worth being part of.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Gm and PV