Lance from Ordermoon on the podcast. Recorded in Bansko, Bulgaria. We discuss how bitcoin is the ONLY way to avoid the threat of CBDCs, the strategies he’s found successful for onboarding merchants to accept bitcoin and why so many feel an urge to break free from the fiat system. Full episode available on YouTube and podcast players:

GM Nostr! It’s so much fun to send generational wealth across the internet to random people.

I studied contentious Chinese politics in college, and I learned a few very insightful things. For one, it is a myth that the Chinese government (CCP) does not allow dissent online. If you live in China, you are more than welcome to type away on the keyboards and voice your discontent into the abyss of the Internet. But the minute you start to form an organization with the intention to take action that is when the hammer of tyranny comes down. For example, there is an organization called Falun Gong which practices meditation and breathing exercises and was/still is brutally victimized, including, forcing its members to have organ transplants and other horrific acts of torture. This organization has a strong, formal communication structure where one person can disseminate information to 100 million members. It is the system of communication and formalized action-oriented structure that threatens the CCP. The United States government is not much different. We are sold the narrative that we have freedom, we can “vote” or call our congressman, but in reality nothing fundamentally changes. Wars go on, inflation rises and life gets harder for the average person. If we want to truly resist, we need to take action outside of social media. That’s largely why I am so bullish on building circular economies and bitcoin communities. Us bitcoiners have aligned values and a relatively consistent vision for the future. We want to be free and we are actually doing something about it. But HODLing, like typing on the keyboards and into our smartphones is not going to be enough. The government wants us to HODL. They want us to give up our bitcoin for a fiat loan or for some “yield.” This is a long game and they know exactly what they’re doing. Michael Saylor is either in on it or wildly naive. I was hopeful that the new Trump presidency would bring about even a little bit of positive change. But I was wrong. I’m now of the mindset the change will not happen without courageous individuals taking action.

Being a critical thinker alienated me from many of my childhood friends, especially when I was speaking out against Covid with the propaganda machine was in full force. Now I feel sorry for every person who called me a grandma killer or excluded me from their social circles. I held the line and didn’t get the jab, they did. Unlike them, I don’t have to worry about developing some sort of weird blood clot or turbo cancer as a result. Salute to those who held the line, and to those who got it, but now see through the bullshit. There will be another crisis and we will be tested again. Stay ready.

We don’t stack for today, we stack for the future. @dmtrmrfv had a great take on this idea and I made a meme based on it!

Pomodoro technique is a cheat code. Chopping wood between bouts of editing. What a combo.

When you’re fit, you can eat something unhealthy and it doesn’t really affect you. When you’re wealthy, you can spend money and it doesn’t really affect you. But getting fit and getting wealthy requires discipline. Few understand this and that’s why few are wealthy and fit.

Back home and back on the mountain bike. Life is good!

@Jake Woodhouse huge thanks for sharing @Guy Swann series on “The Great Taking.” I can verify Jake’s statement that this is a MUST LISTEN. I also think this is a great entry point for people who do not understand bitcoin to get their heads around what’s coming and why it’s so important. As I’ve said for the last year, the hardest days for bitcoiners are ahead. We have not won. The enemy is preparing for an assault on a scale we’ve never seen before. We will be tested. We will have to be courageous. Bitcoin in self custody will be illegal. We will have to decide if we ill comply or become criminals. Most bitcoiners will turn their bitcoin in to the government. Only a small fraction of us will fight. The stakes have never been higher. It’s time to build. Bitcoin is important but it’s not the only factor critical to our survival. We must also build skills, self-sustaining communities, farms and communication networks. A decentralized system has an advantage over the centralized one, but it will not be easy. Part 1:

Bitcoin Audible • Read_882 - The Great Taking [P1] • Listen on Fountain

My girlfriend is buying a car and the selling party request requested a cashiers check. I just sat in traffic, stood in line only to find out that the “instantaneous” Zelle transfer hadn’t settle after more than 30 minutes. Wasn’t able to get the full cashiers check and banks close until Monday. Was hoping to buy the car tomorrow. Banking is such a joke. We are going to win.

Bitcoin Walk Seattle. Stack sats and stack friends.

My friend’s grandpa was a farmer and has a great saying which I subscribe to: “An hour in the morning is worth two at night.” Get shit done early then you can relax. GM Nostr ✌️

Back home and editing in the sunshine. Stacking kettle bell reps while listening to my interview with @Lance about how @npub1a0gc...dw7g is driving grassroots bitcoin adoption in Bulgaria 🇧🇬