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Imagine if my wife and I were champion Olympic sprinters. It would be a foolish to expect our 12 year old son to perform like a 23 year Olympic champion even if he had the best genetic pedigree ever.

Don’t rush bitcoin.

, you and your family are loved and being prayed for/thought of.

Over 600 people who care about you and have benefitted from your work have stopped to like/comment since yesterday evening.

You’re not alone.

God loves you so much that He will often orchestrate circumstances that exhaust your resources (intelligence, power, etc) so that you will call out to Him and find Him faithful.

“For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.” - 2 Corinthians 1:8-9

Son #1 repping

(and growing up way too fast).

The TGFB Conference is coming to Texas.

Join us in Fort Worth, TX on April 9th, 2026.

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Building on this beautiful observation, one of the lies of our modern technological age is that the great telos of our lives is individual self-actualization. This drives us to long to escape any constraints which would keep us from experiencing our desires coming to pass or challenge our autonomy (self-rule).

Threats to this autonomous world order are treated as hostile, even though all of us would acknowledge if asked that we are ignorant of many subjects and frequently want things that we later come to discover would have been disastrous for us and/or those closest to us.

Despite how reflexively right these desires seem, they completely conflict with every significant aspect of our existence: we didn’t choose to be born, to whom to be born, or when to be born. We don’t volitionally keep our hearts beating, our brains working, our kidneys working, our lungs pumping, gall bladder gall bladdering, or maintain any of a host of other bodily functions.

We are born helpless. Unlike most mammals who are able to move around and live somewhat independently shortly after birth, we are completely reliant on the kindness of parents or others for everything for years.

All of this is meant to communicate to us that life and existence are not open-ended investments in our own vanity startups. They are an inheritance designed to be received and stewarded for the glory and purposes of the Giver of every good and perfect gift, including the gifts of working organs, bodies, minds, and lives. Stewardship and ownership are very different, and ought to produce different attitudes.

But this isn’t designed to be the relationship between a slave and a cruel master. How do we know? What kind of master is this God? He’s a father so kind that his only begotten son was willing to leave His side to justify His Father’s name and reputation by dying for his enemies and raising from the dead, adopting them into His family as fellow heirs, sharing His life so that they might see and know His goodness in the same way that he, the only righteous Son, knows him.

“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

So Kickstarter told us on Friday that we had two days left. What they actually meant was 2 days and 23 hours.

So you have 8 hours left to spread the word and continue to get chances to win $250 in Bitcoin, and then we’ll announce the winner tomorrow!

🚨$250 Bitcoin Giveaway! 🚨

There are only 2 days left on our Kickstarter campaign and we want to go out with a bang.

Every RT of this post will receive 3 entries to win $250 in Bitcoin, and any reward pledge gives you10 more entries!

We wrote a Bitcoin kids book as a covert orange pilling tool (it never mentions "the B word").

There are only 6 days left on the Kickstarter campaign and we're only 14% away from our goal.

Grab your copy and help spread the word before time runs out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book

I have a Bitcoin parody song written and need to find someone to sing it.

I need a higher pitched guys voice. Any recommendations,

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I’d say this settles it,

.

Nobody “gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve” because no one is owed Bitcoin.

All of life is grace.

"What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" - 1 Cortinthians 4:7

MOAZG > MOAB

Bitcoin is a blood transfusion.

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One easily justifiable temptation when working on creative projects is to operate out of fear in looking at similar projects and treat them as threats in a zero-sum game: “If ‘they’ win, then I lose.”

But not @lindeymagee. She just published a gorgeous Bitcoin kids book of her own, and immediately upon seeing our Kickstarter campaign and forthcoming kids book, she reserved a copy and was full-throatedly supportive.

Grateful for your support and encouragement, Lindey.

I promised that once we passed 50% I would share another excerpt from the book (after sharing the beginning of the book in the Kickstarter trailer).

We’re just shy of 55% funded, so here it is:

“With nowhere to go, and no one to care Jace and Jack lived atop the mount as a pair. Each day as the duo to the beach condescended (to catch fish upon which their well-being depended) they passed neighbors pontificating philosoph-icially They listened, nodded, and “Mhmm’-ed” artificially. Heading back home they heard it all in reverse. And the fragrance of fish made it five percent worse.”

Keeping on plugging along!

Thanks to everybody who has contributed and/or shared the project.

Secure your copy at tou.tgfb.com.

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It will be so obvious in hindsight.

Gradually, then suddenly.

There’s a famous story about Mark Twain. For all his brilliance, he was known to be harsh with his wife, and he would use his brilliance to respond harshly to her in creative ways. One day she had just had it, and repeated one of the things that he had said to her back to him.

Twain looked at her with a wry smile and said, “You know the words, but you don’t know the tune.”

Noah Gundersen knows the words and the tune. He meant every word that came out his mouth in this song. I’ve probably watched it 100 times, and I’m no less amazed now than the first time I saw it.

Written by 🇺🇸s without AI. ✅ Illustrated by an 🇺🇸 w/out AI. ✅

Everyone has an umbrella.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book

The Orange Umbrella Kickstarter is live!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book

What if Pixar and Dr. Seuss wrote an orange-tinted story that never mentioned "the B word"?

You'd get The Orange Umbrella.

Let the covert orange-pilling commence...tomorrow. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tgfb/the-orange-umbrella-book

I have a uniform.

I wear almost exclusively black denim jeans.

gets black denim shirts.

Gonna need to snag one to go full Cash.

Touch grass.

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Imagine a couple decides to “open” their marriage. They start having sex with dozens of couples, and a year later they end up divorcing. When asked if they had any regrets, the wife replies, “No; if our love was real and meant to last it would have been able to endure anything.”

When you take something that was intended to operate under certain constraints and endure certain types of challenges to certain ends and willfully neglect it by normalizing a prolonged level of abuse that’s totally outside the pale, you can’t throw up your hands and blame marriage as an institution. The blame lies fully with those who surrendered their reason in the name of “open-mindedness” and “tolerance.”

But enough about Canada and Bitcoin Core.

Virginia Giuffre didn’t kill herself.

If you’re flying, say no to the facial recognition scans when they check your ticket prior to passing through the TSA checkpoint.

They won’t tell you that you have the option, but you do. Make sure not to stand in front of the camera.

Rights: Use them or lose them.

If you’re going to be in Idaho on Monday evening,

and I would love to see you. https://i.nostr.build/7q9tvjZoRMnvX4Q3.png

We also have a limited number of deeply discounted tickets for open source devs. If that’s you or if you’d like to sponsor a dev, shoot me a DM.

No photos and the address is only sent to ticket purchasers.

If you’re going to be in Vegas for the

conference and are looking for a place to network with Bitcoiners and eat delicious meat and enjoy @BenJustman's wine, then this is for you. Only 100 tickets total. Special guests will be present (including @jimmysong,) and LE swag will be issued. For the next 48 hours you can get 15% off your ticket by paying via the @Zaprite link here: https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_UWRVWSEvd6

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What if it’s true—so simple, so clear, That Love shaped the world and divinely drew near? What if a carpenter, the Weaver of time, Split history’s veil with a promise and sign?

What if He walked on the water that day? What if He rose, and the stone rolled away? What if the whispers of faith in the heart Aren’t just illusions but truth from the start?

What if the answer to questions we’ve all filed Isn’t countered triumphally but born in a child? What if the kingdom belongs to the meek, Not to the strong or the clever who seek?

What if the simplest answer is best— That life is a gift, and its Giver our rest? What if the weight of our doubting and pride Fades like the night in the dawn’s golden tide?

What if God’s glory, not riches alone, Is the wealth meant to drive the world’s men to roam?

What if, like children, faith is the reprieve, And we doubted the doubts we often perceive? What if old Occam was right all along— And a child’s simple faith sings the truest of songs?

What if it’s true, from the Old to the New And the King that was promised is now calling to you?

, please confirm.

They’re going to use #zaps.

GM

Thanks to the translation skills of our friend and Swiss member of parliament

, the German version of ‘The Gospel According To Bitcoin’ will be dropping soon featuring incredible cover art from

and the design talents of

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We’re at the point in the psyop parade where if someone told me pandas were actually just silly humans in panda suits, I’d be 100% in.

I understand this reasoning to a degree, but I can’t disagree more strongly. Possessing generational wealth gives one the ability to be generationally generous. Obviously there is danger in giving any one person or entity massive amounts of wealth, but I am fully confident that a Bitcoin whale could break down their wealth between Bitcoin non-profits, other charitable institutions, and children/friends/family in such a way as to provide a massive blessing to many.