Was walking barefoot in the park today and bumped into a longtime acquaintance who has long been a snide Bitcoin sceptic. He revelled in pointing out every Bitcoin dip in the last bear cycle, knowing we’d bought at previous cycle ATHs. He noticed my bare feet and said in his snide tone … “oh, so you’re one of those people” I smiled and happily replied, “Yes, healthy and rich! Go figure…” I’m still smiling!

Has Bitcoin just become, thy enemy of my enemy, is my friend, for the BRICS alliance? Has getting out from under the global financial dictator (U.S.A.) become more important than holding onto dictator powers in their own nations?

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.

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.