"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own . . .”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.5.4–5
Bitcoin-Centered Interpretation: The Citadel of Self-Custody
The first principle of the Bitcoin Stoic is to draw a hard line between what is external and what is internal. The decrees of central banks, the panics of the legacy market, the pronouncements of regulators—these are externals, beyond our control. They are noise. Our good and evil are not found in the market’s fluctuations, but in the choices that are truly our own. The choice to hold your own keys is the first and most fundamental of these. It is the act of defining the walls of your sovereign citadel. Inside, you have control. Outside, you have only influence. Do not mistake the two.
GM ☕️ ☀️
Only a few hours until the final episode of Stranger Things
Does anyone use
@Iris as their Nostr client?
I like the Cashu Wallet integration
But still prefer
@primalI have just renewed my Primal subscription, but it is saying my name is not available and I cant find a user with that name? Am I missing something?
GM! #coffeechain
Let give a different node software a go before I bite the bullet and get new hardware
And with that, GN #nostr 🌙 💤
Let’s support
@OpenSecret with Mutiny+
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Her dedication is out of this world!
April 27th
TURN IT INSIDE OUT
“Turn it inside out and see what it is like—what it becomes like when old, sick, or prostituting itself. How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.21
April 23rd
THE MIND IS ALL YOURS
“You have been formed of three parts—body, breath, and mind. Of these, the first two are yours insofar as they are only in your care. The third alone is truly yours.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.3
Second episode is out 👌
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DON’T LET YOUR ATTENTION SLIDE
“When you let your attention slide for a bit, don’t think you will get back a grip on it whenever you wish—instead, bear in mind that because of today’s mistake everything that follows will be necessarily worse. . . . Is it possible to be free from error? Not by any means, but it is possible to be a person always stretching to avoid error. For we must be content to at least escape a few mistakes by never letting our attention slide.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.12.1; 19
Very interesting watch, I have shared this to others… Everyone on here should be aware of the Federal Reserve
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My sister’s wedding day… Couldn’t ask for better weather
April 15th
PAY YOUR TAXES
“Nothing will ever befall me that I will receive with gloom or a bad disposition. I will pay my taxes gladly. Now, all the things which cause complaint or dread are like the taxes of life—things from which, my dear Lucilius, you should never hope for exemption or seek escape.”
—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 96.2
April 14th
BECOMING AN EXPERT IN WHAT MATTERS
“Believe me, it’s better to produce the balance-sheet
of your own life than that of the grain market.”
—SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 18.3b
That’s 3x days of First Aid done for 3x years ✅
