Nostr is the digital, global, Galt’s Gulch! This is the platform where the producers of the world connect. Thanks to Nostr, the hard money phoenix rises from the fiat, clown world ashes, stronger and faster.

I’m an enthusiast Bitcoin educator and for sometime I thought my future was in educating students about Bitcoin in schools … because children are the future. However, as so often happens in life, things don’t always turn up as you expect them to. So instead, I’m being regularly invited to present Bitcoin education to HNW retirees. This has been an interesting and rewarding turn of events. And what I’ve discovered is this. 1. This audience actually have the life experience and financial backing to do something significant with the information I present them. 2. When I educate a HNW retiree, they are very often also parents and grandparents and thus the curiosity and enthusiasm I share with them for Bitcoin as an emergent, integrity based, global monetary protocol, doesn’t stop with them… I’m often effectively, network effect, Orange Pilling and entire family of 3 generations with each and every retiree. It’s a very cool process to watch unfold and I feel completely blessed to have been pulled in this direction. 🙏

My son wants to know if Cryptosporidium is the parasite you catch from touching shitcoins? 🤣

After diving down the Bitcoin rabbit hole and re-emerging with a new paradigm it took me a while to be able to step back into my old paradigm and see things through my old eyes and through the eyes of my pre-Bitcoin friends and family who thought of Bitcoin as an investment similar to company shares. When I did, I laughed out loud at how ridiculous I must look through their paradigm. Imagine if you told everyone you were going to travel locally, interstate or internationally to meet up with a bunch of strangers who, almost instantly, become some of your favourite people on the planet, to discuss BHP shares for hours/days on end and have the best time EVER doing it. Once I had that moment of understanding it gave me the empathy and patience to explain to pre-Bitcoiners that Bitcoin is not an investment. Bitcoin is a base layer shift in the protocol of inter-human communication. What is Bitcoin communicating? Value.

This Monologue of the Tramp from Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” is the best description of what socialism, in practice, does to a person’s soul, that I’ve ever come across. Viktor Frankl touches on this in, “A Man’s Search for Meaning”. In an abstract manner this same phenomenon is explained in Bruce Lipton’s “Biology of Belief” and again in Richard Dawkins, “The Selfish Gene”

The Explanation Project Wiki

The Story of the Twentieth Century Motor Company (told by Jeff Allen, the tramp on Dagny's train)

His voice rose: "Oh God, who is--" and broke off. "-- John Galt?" she asked. "Yes," he said, and shook his head as if to dispel some vision, "only ...

My 2 cents is, it’s extremely rare to encounter “bad” people only bad incentives and bad environments/systems. Rand does a great job of not telling, but “showing” how this phenomenon can play out in a ‘real’ world context. This is why Bitcoin. Bitcoin aligns human nature with the greater good by creating a level playing field, fixed rules, and extending time preferences from days/weeks/months to 4 year cycles/decades/generations and beyond.

Beware the narcissists you are following.

My favourite book on Bitcoin. Thanks @Jeff Booth View quoted note →

It’s feels so good! I just muted 2 Nostr accounts. The first for posting a food image, that wasn’t steak. The 2nd for posting an image of kittens.

This is EPIC! Nice work! View quoted note →

Chinese Proverb: “when the winds of change blow some people build walls and some build windmills”

Today was a good day to NOT be sitting on the fence still wondering IF you should buy Bitcoin. The answer is YES.

Some say Bitcoin is an IQ test… I say Bitcoin is an adaptability test. Darwinian IQ. Bitcoin wins because non-Bitcoiners eventually starve.

“When in doubt, zoom out”