Giovanni Incasa

The freedom you seek is in the dips you avoid.

I spent 3 years buying Bitcoin like my life depended on it. Every paycheck went straight to sats. Then I did something that felt completely wrong. I spent $5,000 worth of my Bitcoin to invest in myself. And that decision changed everything. I was driving around Italy as a medical technician. Helping people with their medical aids. The job was fine. But I felt this pull. Like I was meant for more. That's when Bitcoin found me. I started doing two things: Writing on Twitter every day. And DCAing into BTC. The bear market was brutal. But I was convicted. Every paycheck I'd stack more sats. While everyone panicked about the price dropping I was accumulating like crazy. I made real sacrifices. Less dinners out. Fewer nights with friends. I went all in. Because I thought I'd found my escape route. But here's the trap I fell into (and I see so many people in it right now): The more I stacked Bitcoin the more passive I became. I started treating it like a lottery ticket. Just wait for number to go up. Then life gets better. I was waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen. One day I asked myself a different question. What if I took the Bitcoin I was about to buy and invested it in myself instead? I wanted to escape the average life. Writing was the skill that could get me there. But I hadn't landed a single client yet. So I did something that felt insane. I spent $5,000 in Bitcoin on Dakota Robertson's writing program. It was the strangest feeling. For 3 years every dollar went to one place. Bitcoin. I'd been neglecting the most important asset. Myself. But something shifted the moment I made that payment. I discovered what it feels like to be strategically stressed. And guess what happened? One month later I landed a $3,000 client. Two weeks after that another one. Four weeks later another one. That $5,000 investment? Over 200% ROI in 2 months. Not because Bitcoin went up. Because I made something happen. Now I've invested $6,000 in another program. Because I finally understood something. Bitcoin's price isn't in your control. Your ability to learn skills and earn more money? That's 100% in your control. And that's infinitely more valuable. When you buy Bitcoin you're hoping for external forces to work in your favor. When you invest in yourself you're creating the forces that work in your favor. One is passive. One is active. One is waiting. One is making. I'm not saying don't buy Bitcoin. I did it for 3 years. I'm still doing it. But I see too many people stacking sats while their skills stagnate. Hoping price goes up while their income stays flat. That's not a strategy. That's a prayer. The best investment isn't Bitcoin OR yourself. It's Bitcoin AND yourself. Stack sats. But stack skills even harder. Build your escape route with both hands.

The cognitive load of traditional investing is exhausting. Bitcoin eliminated that completely for me. Now instead of analyzing 20 assets, I focus on one thing: Building.

The moment you truly understand Bitcoin is the moment you stop worrying about its price. Because you realize the dollar is what's volatile. Bitcoin is just measuring the collapse in slow motion.

Bitcoin doesn't make sense, Until it does. Then you realize you weren't learning about Bitcoin. You were unlearning everything you were taught about money, value, and trust. That's why "just reading about it" never works. The rabbit hole rewires you.

If more men lifted weights and more women wore dresses the world would be a better place.

Hodling Bitcoin in cold storage is STILL criminally underrated.

The hardest part about understanding Bitcoin isn't the technology. It's accepting that everything you were taught about money was wrong. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. That's why Bitcoin conversations feel like deprogramming sessions.

The best investment isn't Bitcoin. It's becoming someone who can always stack more Bitcoin. • Learn to write. • Learn to build. • Learn to sell. Because markets crash. But valuable skills compound forever.

I used to spend hours researching investment strategies. Now I spend those hours building. Bitcoin solved money. And that freed my mind to solve everything else.