GM. I just had a minor personal epiphany this morning, help me think through it anon. I have spent some time recently reviewing the past decade of my life to see how the choices I've made have led me to where I am today, specifically with my career and finances. What I realized is that beginning to stack Bitcoin was the most significant and pivotal point in this era of my life. Not because NGU, but for another reason entirely. Pre-BTC I was simply trading my time for fake promises. Some people call this "work". However, until I was actually taking my energy and effort, then converting that into something backed by proof of work, then and only then was I for the first time working. Hear me out here. You can spend time working physically hard, but so long as you are doing that for a promise that another man can print, the value of that work is meaningless and null to you. The only way you can preserve your work and value over time, is BTC, we all know this. So, when I look at my past working life as a young man, I don't call it work or a job. I would refer to it as a period where I traded my valuable time for something that would eventually hold no value. This sounds like servitude to a degree when you think about it. The first time I began working was when I began holding small incremental amounts of Bitcoin, which is enforced by proof of work. To put it in a shoddy illustration, think about the Notre Dame Cathedral, or any other of that era. It took nearly 200 years to build. Imagine if the men working on it were given sand to form the stones by hand, and every time they made a completed of blocks, as soon as it rained, they were washed away. This is the fiat equivalent of building Notre Dame. Now consider how the men who built the cathedral were bounded by nature and proof of work. They used limestone that was verifiably proven by nature to last centuries, and these materials could only be harnessed and deployed through true effort. That is what saving in Bitcoin is equivalent to. So the men building with sand, were "working" but the value was toiling away. The men building with stone were WORKING and that value was preserved for centuries. I admit I was a fiat normie and wasted nearly a decade of my life trading valuable time for nothing. Who else would recognize that, admit it and move on to sound money? Those who are humble enough to study and understand Bitcoin. Bitcoin may just be the ultimate ego test.

GM. I just had a minor personal epiphany this morning, help me think through it anon. I have spent some time recently reviewing the past decade of my life to see how the choices I've made have led me to where I am today, specifically with my career and finances. What I realized is that beginning to stack Bitcoin was the most significant and pivotal point in this era of my life. Not because NGU, but for another reason entirely. Pre-BTC I was simply trading my time for fake promises. Some people call this "work". However, until I was actually taking my energy and effort, then converting that into something backed by proof of work, then and only then was I for the first time working. Hear me out here. You can spend time working physically hard, but so long as you are doing that for a promise that another man can print, the value of that work is meaningless and null to you. The only way you can preserve your work and value over time, is BTC, we all know this. So, when I look at my past working life as a young man, I don't call it work or a job. I would refer to it as a period where I traded my valuable time for something that would eventually hold no value. This sounds like servitude to a degree when you think about it. The first time I began working was when I began holding small incremental amounts of Bitcoin, which is enforced by proof of work. To put it in a shoddy illustration, think about the Notre Dame Cathedral, or any other of that era. It took nearly 200 years to build. Imagine if the men working on it were given sand to form the stones by hand, and every time they made a completed of blocks, as soon as it rained, they were washed away. This is the fiat equivalent of building Notre Dame. Now consider how the men who built the cathedral were bounded by nature and proof of work. They used limestone that was verifiably proven by nature to last centuries, and these materials could only be harnessed and deployed through true effort. That is what saving in Bitcoin is equivalent to. So the men building with sand, were "working" but the value was toiling away. The men building with stone were WORKING and that value was preserved for centuries. I admit I was a fiat normie and wasted nearly a decade of my life trading valuable time for nothing. Who else would recognize that, admit it and move on to sound money? Those who are humble enough to study and understand Bitcoin. Bitcoin may just be the ultimate ego test.

Nostr isn't special on its own, we should have had decentralized form of free communication all along. Its the npubs on Nostr that make it something truly great.

I've been on the road a bit. When we travel I always carry something. This trip it was a Sig P365XL, with a spare magazine holding 15 rounds of Hornady 147 grain hollow points. Tucked inside the waistband with a NSR Tactical holster. For a knife just a small Kershaw folder. Your responsibility to be ready for the fight never ends.

What hardware are you using to backup your home server or bitcoin node? I need at least a 4tb ssd or HDD. Looking for something good, probably a couple of them.

Our largest expense isn't housing, or groceries, or healthcare. It's government. I implore younger generations to understand that taxes do not have to be compulsory (or exist at all). This belief has led us to the mess we are in today.