I’m watching my son teach himself programing with an AI tutor with a computer I got him for Christmas. He’s started doing this all on his own without my encouragement. I’m so proud right now. GN frens.

It’s pretty funny that whenever I read any of my own work, I sincerely think to myself, “How the fuck did I think of or figure any of this out?” It’s quite strange and phantasmagoric how all of my philisophical work has come to me, and continues to come to me. Bitcoin is this muse that has overtake me and appropreated me for its own cause, and I am little more than its servant now. I have almost no control over it, and the work I produce are these sort of cathartic experiences that come through the angst of questioning under the rubric of bitcoin where I just vomit out these strange, though accurate philosophical treatises. It is the strangest of experiences.

25 years since Y2K was suppose to wreak the internet. Weird to think about how that was a quarter century ago and how different we all were, and the world itself was.

2050: “Yeah, I got my dad’s Nostr account after he passed away and all his shitposting in the 2020s got him enough zaps for us to buy this ranch in the free territory Cascadia, but that was only after The Collapse was well under way in the 2030s…”

Going all in on Bitcoin was the most important decision of my life. Not for the money it would become, nor for the purpose and meaning that it would deliver to me, but because it was a decision that was truly mine. The whole world and everyone in it has ideas of who you are suppose to be, and most of the time we conform with that in some way or another. While I did not know it at the time, I knew in my heart of hearts that Bitcoin not only had a chance to save me from a life of mind-numbing pointless work, and nihilistic existence; but more than that, it allowed for me to believe in what I saw for myself, and my own understand of it before what everyone else was telling me. It let me stand up for myself against a world that just wanted to use me and keep me in the suppressed, small role it had relegated to me. Bitcoin allowed for me to decide something else against this system that could not see the light and love that I really am. This decision came from my own strong conviction within myself that I knew from the deepest levels within me. Even though it seemed crazy, irrational, and like it wouldn’t work to everyone else; just like most major decisions that can change your life for the better, I knew it was what I had to do for myself. There are no other people who can make these kind of decisions for you, and that is why they are them in their lives and you are you in your life. Only you can make the decision for yourself about how your life is going to be, where you are going to put your energy and how you are going to save yourself against a world that wants to exploit you like a machine, and give you worthless paper in exchange for it. You can choose something else now, but that decision is on you alone. While I cannot promise that you’ll get rich from Bitcoin, or even that it will be a profitable decision with your timing of the markets, you will learn to have a new kind of conviction and faith in yourself which is a kind of wealth in its own right. You will learn that you can decide to take a risk on your own thoughts and decisions, and that is worth something in and of itself. Just some food for thought going into 2025.

I am convinced that the ‘Time’ part of Heidegger's “Being and Time’ is Bitcoin. It is Bitcoin because all of these pieces that work together within Bitcoin to create it as what it is, are bound up with temporality itself and connects us, as inner-worldly beings with other inner-worldly beings to overcome objective present reality to create a new world from our own resoluteness through logic itself. It’s super fucked and going to take me the better part of a decade to parse and explain, but I am convinced that is what is going on and why Bitcoin is such a monumental event. Because Bitcoin is The seminal Event of Philosophy where Beyng unveils itself as a logical concourse of how inner-worldly beings may organize themselves within that logic against the barbaric violence that has consummated all of human history until now. Bitcoin ruptures and abrogates that organizational violence for a new kind of organization that forbids such violence and within that overturns the ordering of the human condition, which itself involves the deepest contemplations of the human condition in our day and age. It resoundingly ask the question of the meaning of life in modernity with an answer that cannot be said, but understood with a precision and fidelity that is beyond our spoken language and into another kind of communication that can rescue us from the human condition of history until now. Enjoy your little dose of my crazy for the day.

These are what I’m usually hunting for; golden chanterelles. Usually cleaner than whites and has a bit of an apricot taste to the white chanterelle. My personal favorite way to have them is to pickle them, which seems strange, but it’s pretty great.

These are my mushroom hunting assistants. They are a bit derpy, but they are good at patrolling for bears and lions.

Can you see the mushrooms in this picture?

It feels fucking crazy that we are a half decade away from when the COVID crazy shit started and that nothing has been the same since.

GM MC!

Happy to see you have a canary on your website @ODELL I wish more bitcoiners active in the space had these.

The only problem with Nostr is it’s too nice here… I feel like this is more my home, community, and people; which is wonderful and a space I really needed, but I need a bit more of a fight. I’m considering returning to X in 2025 so I can keep fighting the retards and do my part to help get more people on the lifeboat of Bitcoin and Nostr before it’s too late. I know it’s bad for my health, but so are all wars.

In less that 15 years a handful of nerds changed the world of finance and money with Bitcoin. Economics is always upstream of politics, so expect the next 15 years of politics to be shaped by Bitcoin as well.

Hyperbitcoinization and hyperinflation are the same thing.

Bitcoin ownership is a bit like gun ownership. It’s pretty simple and straightforward, but if you don’t know what you are doing and have unsafe practices you can absolutely destroy yourself. Also you NEED to know how both of them work to protect yourself. You cannot rely on others to hold your keys to save you, just like you cannot rely on others to hold a firearm to save you. View quoted note →