What a time to be alive. 1.35x and most of the year felt like a crab walk. Buckle up.

@Blue Collar Bitcoin Thanks Josh and Dan for your contribution to the Bitcoin space, your amazing guests, entertaining and educational content, and the dick jokes. As a former first responder and long time student of economics and finance, I really appreciate hearing from real guys in the trenches that “get” it. Best of luck with the ‘cast and helping guys protect their pensions.

“The State's ultimate advantage lies in what's known as the ratchet effect—a social mechanism used to diminish individual freedoms during crises by implementing supposedly temporary measures of authority that frequently persist long after the crisis has passed. This technique serves as the blueprint for unchecked growth in State power.”

Last morning in hunting camp 2023. Back to the fiat world after this morning’s session. I wish I could live out here.

A Whiskey Jack hanging out with me in deer camp, waiting for scraps.

Sample of my homemade MRE ration pak. 175g. Reconstitutes in 90 minutes in a pot of water while you’re out hiking. Get back to camp, add enclosed flavor packet and simmer for 10 minutes. Feeds two nicely.

This week’s #proofofwork