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THE Bitcoin origin stories podcast; how did you discover Bitcoin? - the pleb preferred lowest time preference podcast in the game. proud supplier of x1 #40HPW. writer. spiral enjoyer.βš•οΈπŸŒ€ 🎧 discoveringbtc@fountain.fm ⚑️ discoveringbitcoin@primal.net 🟣 primal.net/discoveringbitcoin
Bitcoin is more than money. It is a metaphysical structure that restores coherence at scale, between freedom, value and truth, through moral architecture and participatory form. Bitcoin is formless form. πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€
The songs, 'Are You Ready' and 'Arms Wide Open' by Creed are about the same thing. πŸ€˜πŸ‘€
"A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line." - C.S. Lewis In a world of shifting narratives and liquid value, Bitcoin behaves strangely. It is not fluid, it is fixed. It does not flatter, it demands. It does not promise progress, it enforces form. Its halving cycle evokes a kind of cosmic rhythm. Its protocol encodes a moral shape; transparency without surveillance, scarcity without violence, sovereignty without domination. πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€
Discover Episode 131 feat. @Ben Justman🍷- Colorado winegrower, pocket-steak inventor, massive Creed fan πŸ€˜πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€ 🎧 https://fountain.fm/episode/dH1GmHvpAsP6M9tuvte9 WE discuss: β€’ Ben's Bitcoin origin story β€’ Low Time Preference Wine β€’ Fine Wine meets Hard Money β€’ Bitcoiners are Perfect Customers β€’ Heaps More YUGE thanks to Ben for sharing some scarce⏳ and finiteβš‘οΈπŸ™ SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: Follow! Zap Sats! ⚑️ via #value4value: discoveringbtc@fountain.fm via P2P: discoveringbtc@fountain.fm If you dig the show, please zap sats in support! 🫑 Look out for Episode 132, soon! πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€ image
The spiral is a spiritualised circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free." - Vladimir Nabokov πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€
The human being who engages Bitcoin must become, in a sense, philosophical. Not in the academic sense, but in the ancient one; oriented toward what is good, truthful, and coherent; knowingly or otherwise. Bitcoin, then, does not replace philosophy. It recalls it. It invites a return, not to the past, but to the vertical. To the idea that action should align with order, and that truth is not invented, but relived. In other words, remembered. πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€
Mate of passed away today. Suicide. Gutted. A sad and tragic waste. God rest his soul. "The gods of the city have called my name It means more to them than it means to me" 🧑
Reality is not arbitrary; form matters; there are higher truths than convenience, and deeper callings than consumption... The world has structure and our participation in it can either reflect or distort that structure. πŸŒ€πŸ‘€
Posting this here for no other reason than to revive the invite for @Gigi to spend some scarce time and finite energy telling the tale of how he discovered Bitcoin. I hope he sees this, and if so; Gigi, please consider πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€
β€œThe loss of value is a loss of reality.” – Abraham Maslow. So, when value becomes arbitrary, when it is manipulated rather than discovered, our orientation to the real begins to collapse. Fiat severs the link between value and reality. Bitcoin restores this link. πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€
What does hyperbitcoinization sound like? πŸ€” This, basically πŸ‘‡πŸ€˜
The deeds of free men are the most moral in the true sense of the word. - Rudolf Steiner, Philosophy of Freedom πŸŒ€πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€ image
human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present... At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is... Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now... - T.S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton' (1935).
Discover Episode 130 - Discovering #Bitcoin with @satsie πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ πŸ‡±πŸ‡Ή πŸŽ™stay at home mom (mum), working on bitcoin dev & education, such as sweet zines 🎧 https://fountain.fm/episode/ISV9Dte9aKtduhTTVwoj WE discuss: β€’ Satsie's Bitcoin origin story β€’ Bitcoin on the Subway β€’ Textbook Blockchain β€’ Open Source Everything β€’ Heaps More YUGE thanks to Satsie for sharing some scarce⏳and finiteβš‘οΈπŸ™ SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: Zap Sats! ⚑️ via #value4value: discoveringbtc@fountain.fm via @geyserfund: via P2P: maroonkangaroo4@primal.net If you dig the show, please zap sats in support! 🫑 Look out for Episode 131, soon! πŸ”ΆπŸ‘€ image
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