It’s 2026 and Bitcoin is $64,000. What a gift. If you’re looking for your entry point, this is it.

At a birthday party last night, I met a financial planner that wouldn’t stop asking people how they were “optimizing with AI.” Someone mentioned that I wrote a book on bitcoin and AI. Her to me: I hate Bitcoin. I wouldn’t recommend it. I own a little bit in fidelity retirement etf. Don’t buy it right now. It’s failing. Incredible.

New guide for White Pocket, Arizona on A Photographer’s Guide to the Galaxy:

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A Photographer’s Guide to the Galaxy | Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona

The ideal outcome is people study Bitcoin, hold their own keys, run nodes, support the Bitcoin ecosystem etc. With that said, I hope STRC becomes a gateway drug to real Bitcoin education. The next wave of bitcoiners may need a different entry point to finally get it.

Pre 2020, I would run into someone maybe once every few weeks where I thought, “Wow, how have they made it this far in life?” Now it's a daily occurrence.

I turned my random thought tonight into an article: https://www.erinemalone.com/post/what-if-america-loses-the-race-to-the-bitcoin-standard

The TV show For All Mankind is fascinating because it asks one simple question: What if the U.S. lost the race to the moon? In that alternate timeline, the Soviet Union gets there first. The U.S. is humiliated. The space race accelerates rapidly. By 1994, humanity is on Mars. By 2012, they’re heading to Titan. Competition changed the timeline. It makes me wonder if Bitcoin follows the same pattern. Maybe the U.S. adopting a Bitcoin standard first would be like the moon landing in our timeline. A huge symbolic victory, a burst of momentum, then complacency. The mission fades. The urgency disappears. Eventually, we come back to it, but only after losing decades. But what if a rival adopts a Bitcoin standard first? What if the country Americans fear most starts moving away from the dollar, accumulating Bitcoin, mining with stranded energy, settling trade outside the fiat system, and building a parallel sound money future? The game theory would heat up. Humans move faster when survival is on the line. The Soviet Union reaching the moon first would have forced America to compete harder, innovate faster, and push humanity further. Maybe the U.S. needs the same thing with Bitcoin. We’ll get there eventually, but immediate competition could compress the timeline. Competition forces everyone to wake up. The race is no longer to the moon. The race is to the Bitcoin standard. The country that figures it out first wins the future.

In 2014, I got to make a shot for shot recreation of the beginning of Star Wars: A New Hope for a winery's Halloween party. One of the most fun projects I've been a part of. https://www.erinemalone.com/post/do-or-do-not-there-is-no-try-the-making-of-a-star-wars-short

For as complex as Bitcoin is, it really simplifies everything. Doing a deep dive into Bitcoin means you start to understand the root cause of so many issues in society: Humans controlling the money supply. The money printer temptation no one in history has been able to resist. We’ve built a world of systems. Systems of dysfunctional complexity. Our financial system. Our healthcare system. Our political system. Too many moving parts. Too many acronyms. Too complex to understand, too complex to question. Bitcoin unlocks the complexity. It allows you to zoom out, to opt out of the outrage of the day, and focus on the mission. 100 hours can unlock everything. 100 hours can pull back the curtain.

GM ☕️ May the fourth be with you.

Being a Bitcoiner is calling bullshit on the entire system.

A marathon for humanity is already in progress. Some are still asking, “Why are you running?” “What race is this?” Saylor is on mile 24.

Absolutely insane. Why aren’t there more people panic buying bitcoin?! Is it because they don’t understand the 21 million? 7,600 bitcoin bought by Saylor in ONE day. He bought 14,000 bitcoin last week. Only 450 are mined each day…

Ice cream cones bought directly from my Bitcoin Lightning node: zero fees 1.6 seconds final settlement zero fees to the merchant Merchant set up their Bitcoin payments with Square and are keeping 100% of their Bitcoin. The auto-enabling feature can’t come soon enough. This is the future. @ZEUS

Every sat saved is a small act of rebellion. A vote against a system that debases your money, steals your time, and funds the perpetual war machine.

When Bitcoin is doing Bitcoin things, go out in nature 🧘‍♀️. Shot this last week.

Using free sunlight to power a S19 Bitcoin miner to dry my dog after his bath. He loves it. It’s been warm this fall in Northern California so I haven’t been able to mine for heat yet…until today 😂 @stacker