Your Friendly Neighborhood Bitcoiner

Bitcoin’s dual identity—freedom money vs. pristine collateral—isn’t a flaw.

It’s the bridge between two worlds. And every new holder, cypherpunk or suit‑coiner, pushes it closer to inevitability.

The only thing more authoritarian than Trump is the Federal Reserve itself.

Just ask the rest of the world. The fate of the entire global economy rests downstream of the decisions made by 12 Americans in a boardroom.

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Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer

If we cannot bear being with ourselves, how is it that we ask another to do that for us? In fact, the capacity to be with ourselves, as we really are, finite, imperfect and deeply flawed, will prove not only to be the cure for loneliness but our secret gift to others as well.~James Hollis

Why you should start questioning the value of the U.S. dollar

No, You Don’t Actually Have a Right to a Bank Account

“I have money in the bank.”

Spoiler alert:
1. It’s not in the bank
2. It’s not yours
3. It’s not money

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Why is Maxwell in jail if there’s no evidence that she was human trafficking to & for anyone? 🤔

Overheard on classical music radio station:

"A great piece of classical music can be beautiful, moving, and haunting. Your car should only be two of these.

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10/10. No notes.

Fiat is an imperial measure of value.
Bitcoin is the metric system of value.

Looking at one's own shadow is not only disagreeable, it is no fun. . . but it has a great advantage: the more one knows about one's own wickedness, the more one is able to protect oneself against other people. In some sense the evil within oneself recognizes evil outside.~Marie-Louise von Franz

Walter Cronkite, who anchored the CBS Evening News for more than two decades:

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”

Fear is a gift. Fear points you precisely in the direction you must go.

Fear + Action = Courage

Don’t worry.

Bitcoin is going to break everything that is already broken.

Who needs the journey when you can go straight to the destination instead—with Chat GPT?

Look at this amazing sign. #NoKings #butterfly

Currency defacement is a crime.
Currency debasement is a crime against humanity.

Is there any precedent in the US for this kind of widespread law enforcement masking? I'm not aware of any period where US law enforcement officials wore masks, other than the lone ranger, of course. Masking has always been associated with police states. I think the masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls. We see this during protests. We see this in Ice raids. And we see this in the excessive secrecy in which law enforcement has increasingly operated since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Mike German, an ex-FBI agent who used to go undercover in white supremacist groups, shares his views on law enforcement wearing face coverings in an interview about ICE.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Invincible strength like this is utterly contagious.

The word "myth" comes from the ancient word "mythos" meaning word. Both 'logos' and 'mythos' mean 'word'. While logos refers to rational thinking, mythos describes poetic or intuitive thinking.~Mariann Burke, 𝘙𝘦-𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺: 𝘈 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧

𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗠𝗢𝗬𝗘𝗥𝗦: So what you’re saying is, if there are not dragons out there, and there may not be at any one moment.
𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗛 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗟: The real dragon is in you.
𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗠𝗢𝗬𝗘𝗥𝗦: And what is that real dragon?
𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗛 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗟: That’s your ego, holding you in.
~𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩

It doesn’t matter if you vote for a donkey or an elephant.

Our political system is still a fucking zoo.

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” ~ Doris Lessing

Maybe she got bitten by a radioactive brainworm?

🦉

Bitcoin is hope.
Everything else is cope.