Incredibly humbled by time this week. Watching your oldest lead the way, charging up the mountains of Yosemite, his younger siblings and parents in tow. This once quiet, timid and awkward kid has grown to become a strong, independent stoic…who frequently reminds his old man to enjoy the moment. Full circle.

The guy who convinced me to fall down the rabbit hole in '2020, just tried to convince me to "peel off 10% and throw it around in eth, other projects and small treasury co's to catch a quick 10xer." Feels like a mid-short term top signal....we need a controlled burn.

"Move billions of dollars across the globe at the speed of light."

Bitcoin is providing the freedom to invest more time into that which matters. One doesn’t need to be a founder, ceo, inventor, influencer, etc. Seek hard meaningful work, build a family, thank God, and make bitcoin the financial ₿edrock….purpose and fulfillment will follow.

Sunday thought between workout sets. Decentralized AI will be the critical breakthrough which allows a sovereign man to become immortal. Uploading your personal AI to new biology will be possible/probable. AI and DNA sequencing will be the norm. The new immortal you will be the merging of biology and digital simulation.

GM! Today is a gift. Like the morning mist, it will disappear and be but a distant memory a week, month or years from now. Unless this day is embraced, seized and exploited it will pass like so many thousands of unremarkable days in your past….take the gift of time, exercise your agency and alter the trajectory of the future you!

tuning out the noise, stacking sats. my future grandchildren will read about covid, the great trade wars, bretton woods 2.0, & macro turmoil from the comfort of the citadel I've created for them.

4 years, 1 month ….all in. Is this the lambos and ₿itties part of the cycle, or meh?

Logging in to nostr after a 300 round practice session at the gun range feels like a virtual teleport back to the late 1770's...a decentralized world, where speech/ideas were protected by the individual's ability to defend them from tyranny. While the centralized vacuum of power doesn't wear a crown anymore, its tentacles reach deep into every aspect of our lives...most notably our virtual lives. Nostr and Bitcoin represent for me, unarmed resistance to the violent tendency of power to centralize, coerce, influence and steal. Solo mining, node running, transacting and educating keeps the Bitcoin Network alive and growing. In your opinion, aside from coding to improve user experience, what does NOSTR need to increase its user base?

Automatic tip request for every over the counter transaction is bad enough, but now I need to select how many bags I want to purchase to carry my purchase? Fiat can’t die fast enough.

Solo mining is yet another floor down the bottomless ₿itcoin rabbit hole. Thank you @Solosatoshi.com 🇺🇸 for the Bitaxe giveaway. Stay humble, stack sats, add hash.

Winter beach hunting for shark teeth and arrowheads with my youngest and pup. There’s never a bad time to walk the beach….salt air, sand and the surf makes time seem to stand still.

Bitcoin went from .10 cents to 69k without the suits, etfs, regulatory stablecoin framework, “crypto czar”, etc. It will continue along its path with or without shitcoining DC brass. They’ll either expedite macro game theory with some sort of strategic acquisition or bend the knee later as the debt and dollar circle the drain.

For those who retired from a fiat job, living on a BTC standard. Few questions: - when did you know the time was right? - what conservative % drawdown rate do you use….is the 4% rule reasonable or too conservative given yoy BTC returns? -do you use other strategies within retirement/brokerage using equities - selling covered calls, dividend stonks, to generate income? -retirement from fiat means less to no more stacking sats….how did this sit with you mentally (big hurdle for me.) Weighing options and would love to hear from those (publicly or privately) who were a cycle or two earlier than me and have pulled the plug on traditional fiat employment.

We elected a sleazy salesman as president and are upset about $TRUMP coin. Nobody should be surprised. Is he better for the US than the alternative..yes. Is the next 4 yrs going to be a grift-fest, yes. Does the fiscal and monetary crisis on deck still lead to a mammoth printing of $’s….a resounding YES! Trump wont save us, $Bitcoin will.

So glad Bitcoin didn't miss the street's quarterly EV delivery expectations....whew! I just checked my node, and Bitcoin still doesn't care what the experts think. 2024 was the year that the public started to question inflation and central banking. 2025 may very well mark the year where the public starts to question why they've been pouring their hard earned capital into public equities where they have no inside track on production, profits (or losses), projects, risks, etc. Blindly throwing money into stocks seems to be the riskiest of plays to me.

Banger of a sunset last night to cap a great weekend.

We spend a lot of time thinking about a better, decentralized future with #Bitcoin as the backbone of a low time preference society.…one where art, science, tech and culture are improved by a different incentive structure. This road will be bumpy with unforeseen chaos at times. It also may move slower than what you expect. A simple reminder to enjoy the moments between now and then…TODAY is all that is guaranteed!

4-5 am is when all the important pondering occurs. Coffee thought: divide each day into meaningful moments and dwell infinitely in each of them. The smile of a loved one, a good song on radio, the budding trees of early spring can be held onto with effort. Dont let the chaos of your past, future and present mind rob you of the now. GM to the early bird US ESTers on #Nostrz. WAGMI ⚡️ ⚡️

Aortic Surgery and #Bitcoin everyday!!!