In a world of sharks, we must choose to be trout.
“Be a trout instead. Endeavor to go upstream into the tributaries and find clear, pure waters. Create upstream, and then what you create will affect the whole system.”
- Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care
Mick
Husband and father of 3 boys under 5. PNW native loving life in the South. Convert to Christianity. Love exploring self-sovereignty, theology and philosophy
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Melted down a bunch of sterling silver this weekend at the shop. Ended up with this 17 oz. bar
#silver
12/13/2025, 5 engagements
"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully"
- Thomas Carlyle
12/7/2025, 1 engagement
This was true yesterday, it's true today and it will be true tomorrow
12/6/2025, 2 engagements
If you find yourself excusing genocide and pedophilia, you can be sure that you have absolutely no moral compass.
#freepalestine #epstein
11/15/2025, 2 engagements
This account is quickly becoming nothing more than sharing quotes from Modern Chains lol. Can't recommend this enough to Bitcoiners or to any one who cherishes freedom.
book is a game-changer. More from chapter 1:
“Frederick Douglas, who endured actual chattel slavery, cautioned that if one man’s liberty is stolen, everyone’s freedom stands in peril” (14)
“To understand the reality of modern bondage, we must first recognize that slavery’s essence lies not in its outward trappings, but in its universal form: the coerced extraction of productive energy. Whether achieved by physical force or through convoluted financial mechanisms, the moral wrong remains the same. Again, we are not equating every method of enslavement or minimizing past atrocities; rather, we set its matter aside to highlight its form. Slavery persists wherever a person’s energy, physically, intellectually, or financially, is coercively appropriated, destroying their human dignity, and used to enrich another” (15)
“Modern slavery’s most pervasive weapon is the manipulation of the money supply. To be clear, not all price increases are immoral. Natural inflation can arise from extreme market disruptions: disasters, wars, or sudden changes in supply and demand. That is not our focus. The true menace is the deliberate expansion of the money supply: a grinding force of artificial inflation, engineered into our economic system by man’s hand. Consider that over the last forty-five years, the Federal Reserve has artificially expanded the overall money supply by a staggering 13,581%. This expansion, marketed as ‘stimulus,’ ‘growth,’ or ‘quantitative easing,’ diminished the purchasing power of every existing dollar” (23)
“Every new conjured dollar dilutes purchasing power, effectively transferring wealth from the many to those few who create and receive the money first” (23)
“Frederick Douglass famously observed the psychological divide that sustained slavery: the stratification between house slaves, those permitted relative comfort, and field slaves, those toiling under the lash. House slaves, enjoying proximity to power, better food, softer beds, and an occasional taste from the master’s table, saw themselves as separate from those working in the fields. This illusion of privilege bound them more tightly than chains ever could. It bred loyalty, not to justice or freedom, but to their masters and the system itself. Fearful of losing their fragile comforts, they resisted rebellion, preferring servitude with benefits over the uncertainty of true liberation” (25-26)
11/14/2025, 12 engagements
More absolute BARS from
book Modern Chains. Hands down the best bitcoin / monetary system book out there. The depth is incredible. He gets to the heart of the fact that our fiat system is a literal form of enslavement:
"Although, today's outward trappings differ radically from chattel slavery, the same principle endures: same form different matter. What once bound human beings with iron shackles now ensnares them through currencies, contracts and credit systems. You are already ensnared in this system. Our acceptance of this monetary order arises less from any well-grounded argument and more from unreflective habit: a quiet assumption that 'this is how this must be.' In reality, nothing about it is inevitable. Modern financial strain is not a byproduct of fiscal mismanagement or political incompetence, but the consequence of moral deprivation: economic enslavement" (13)
11/11/2025, 7 engagements
"Silence in the face of evil, is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act"
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Martyr and theological warrior
This is one of my favorite follows on Nostr. Whether its wearing a cool Bitcoin shirt or having beautiful Bitcoin art at your house when you have people over, it’s by far one of the best ways for conversation about BTC to get started
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11/2/2025, 2 engagements
The local news came on after a football game I was watching and it was the first time in years I paid any attention to it. I couldn’t believe the amount of pure propaganda and fear mongering I heard in the first 15 minutes.
The fact that a single person watches any of these local news channels is a testament to how dumb the average American has become lol.
11/2/2025, 3 engagements
I never recommend books before I finish reading them, but I have to make an exception for
and his book Modern Chains. Only through the introduction (!!) and outside the Bible I think will be the most important book I’ve ever read to date. “Number go up” bitcoiners won’t be interested because they overlook the much more important moral and ethical foundations. However, the real ones will be thoroughly enriched through this book.
I’ve never heard anyone make the moral and ethical case against our monetary system in clearer words that resonated in my bones. Couple short excerpts below from just the first 10 pages:
“A person recognizes moral truth long before the mind untangles technical nuance” (!!)
“Calling our system ‘broken’ surrenders moral clarity and obscures the deeper reality: the system functions precisely as designed, to dominate and extract human effort. The only things genuinely broken are the people it consumes and discards”
“The ethics of money is not secondary: it takes precedence. Economics explains the ‘what,’ while morality defines the ‘why.’ Morality is primary: it takes precedence, comes first. Morality is the soil in which economic seeds are planted, and the quality of that soil determines the quality of the fruit”
“We will avoid dense data sets and intricate financial models; instead, we will pull back the curtain on a fundamental issue; if a system forcibly extracts our productivity, then no amount of economic theory can redeem it”
“Superficial analysis of economics alone cannot excavate the deeper moral foundation; for that we need a philosophical shovel”
“Debasing the money debases human dignity; it stifles our freedom, and as this book will show, freedom is far more than a political ideal; it is the bedrock of our humanity”
10/31/2025, 11 engagements
One of the many signs that western culture is broken is that people equate owning animals with raising children. Dog “moms” and cat “dads” gotta be one of the most backwards things I’ve ever seen.
Grew up with dogs and love (some) dogs. But putting kids and canines anywhere near a similar realm shows how much western culture needs to be totally rebuilt.
Pet idolatry has to end and sane people need to push back.
10/30/2025, 19 engagements
“A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank”
- Ron Paul
Most people who complain about capitalism have no idea that what most of us have lived under our entire lives is pure Keynesianism, which is essentially soft communism. Love being part of the fight to bring back sound money for the sake of human flourishing.
#capitalism #communism #soundmoney
10/25/2025, 5 engagements
We need a modern Dostoevsky
10/23/2025, 6 engagements
NOSTR CIRCULAR ECONOMY EXAMPLE #7692: My wife and I recently sold our house to cash out because of concerns about the housing market in the near-term (before they run the printers and inflate everything away again in the medium-term after the dip). We're renting for the next year and working with
and his team at HODL House (www.hodl-house.com) on the most personalized, low time preference home design process imaginable.
These guys are phenomenal architects in their own right but because they are Bitcoiners they also don't think like fiat-shaped model home builders who are throwing up thick cardboard walls from 1 of 6 soulless model home options that they selected from. Just go to their site and look at his essays on his architecture and Bitcoin journey and tell me that you can find an architect that is more passionate about their work!! Their deliverables are beautiful and their process is so unique and human-focused.
But more than highlighting the great work of HODL House, this is an example of the power of nostr in building free, circular economies. Let me walk you through what I mean. I found these guys once I got on nostr and was listening to an interview on the Bitcoin Business podcast with the guys
, while getting paid by
1 sat for every 10 mins of listening. Bryan and I both happened to live in ATL so I found him on
and we connected from there with him and his team. When it was time to pay the invoice I of course paid him directly in Bitcoin from my phone as I was cooling down after a run. Could not have been easier. No credit card fees, no inputting bank information or having to ask him the last four digits of his phone number so that I could send him a payment over Venmo (so invasive and retarded lol). No reporting anything to my bank. Just direct peer to peer exchange of value.
These are the EXACT TYPE OF USE CASES WE NEED TO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT. I've tried, with much less success than I expected, to sell people on Bitcoin over the years. This is probably a combination of me being way too overwhlemingly passionate about it and just poorly explaining what are some very hard concepts to grasp especially for technically low IQ people like myself. BUT PEOPLE DO NOT NEED TO UNDERSTAND BITCOIN TO SEE IT'S POWER. And there has never been a better place to demonstrate the power of Bitcoin than on nostr. For a majority of people, we need to shift so much more of our attention to nostr adoption and retention than we do on Bitcoin philosophy, at least as a starting point.
Similar to
I came to Bitcoin from a purely theological and philosophical perspective and it is the much better foundation to become a Bitcoin maxi (not interested in retarded debates about how we define that). But most people aren't interested in that. But now BECAUSE OF NOSTR we don't need to choose between either appealing to NGU or appealing to the ethical / philosophical side. We can instead just provide INSANELY powerful use cases for Bitcoin adoption as a medium of exchange. And once you do that, it's game over.
Really thankful to
and so many others that reinforced this into my brain over and over on podcasts. The first time I came to nostr I flamed out in about two days. It was only because you guys relentlessly pushed nostr on Bitcoin podcasts that I was already listening to that I came back with a totally different understanding. With that understanding I was able to put in enough effort to persevere through some of the difficulties to get to a place where I could see the power. Now, because I definitely can't contribute as a developer, I want to contribute to nostr adoption and retention in any way I can. To somehow channel the lessons learned to get plebs foot in the door here.
Even in the last month I've seen more traction with family and friends on nostr as I've clumsily fumbled through explaining it, than I saw in the last three years of excellent, reasonable arguments about Bitcoin lol. So please feel free to add any ideas for how best to do that in the comments. A substack or something? I don't know. Trying to crowdsource for the nostr revolution tho so please help out with any ideas that might spark something for me!
SIDENOTE: So tired of how much I see petty spats between gold bugs / NGU Bitcoin maxis when we really need to focus way more on broadening the SOUND MONEY umbrella. I got into Bitcoin primarily because I hate the government and the fiat system that supports it. I hate the wars and I hate the overwhelming brokenness that we're inheriting that has caused so many of my friends to kill themselves or overdose.
I care WAY MORE about destroying fiat than I do about whatever dollar value is tied to BTC or about some philosophical allegiance I'm supposed to have about what percentage of Bitcoin I need to hold to be considered a maxi. I love Bitcoin. I believe BTC will become the largest asset in the world by a long shot, long-term. It has properties that gold cannot match. But that doesn't mean that there is no place for precious metals or that precious metals and especially precious metals derivatives won't outperform in the short run. It also doesn't mean that there aren't productive businesses in which we part with our Bitcoin as an investment in that business (should go without saying).
That said, I think the best businesses to invest in the next couple years will be gold and silver miners. Nothing to sell and I don't gain anything by anyone investing in these companies as I'm just a normal shareholder. But I WANT ALL THE HOMIES TO GET RICH. And I especially want people who love freedom to take advantage of asymmetric opportunities so that we can then take those returns and funnel them back into Bitcoin and the nostr ecosystem. Same with all my fam. I literally bought some of my extended family members shares in these companies, told them about it and said I'm not giving this to you for 18 months, but watch what this does in the meantime.
I'm investing a majority of the excess cash from the sale of our home for the next year in companies like Americas Gold & Silver ($USAS), Santacruz Silver Mining ($SCZMF) and 1911 Gold ($AUMBF). Do your own research and do your own math. I'm a business owner, so I watch margins closely. Watch these Q3 earnings and look at the macro picture of where gold and silver are going and use common sense on what that means for these mining stocks that are being valued as if gold is going to collapse back to $2000 and silver to $25.
To anyone who understands elementary school level business basics - think about a company like Americas Gold and Silver. Their market cap is $1.2B but they are a currently operating mines in Idaho and Mexico with great existing infrastructure sitting on 226 MILLION OUNCES OF SILVER. They announced this week that as a zero-cost by product of their mining operations they are the ONLY ANTIMONY (ESSENTIAL CRITICAL MINERAL) PRODUCER IN THE US. They also produce copper as a byproduct and other very valuable metals. But most importantly listen to the first couple minutes of the CEO who himself is a former miner as a case study of WHAT A LEADER OF A COMPANY SHOULD LOOK LIKE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzSpaHSEv0c&t=947s)
Opportunity to make generational money the next couple years. Take advantage and recycle it all back in here.
Thank you for attending my manic TED Talk / borderling manifesto lol.
10/18/2025, 2 engagements
Music often captures the mood better than any other medium. Every word of this song resonates. The right v. left divide is much less important than the sovereign v. slave master divide. As
has said, we need to not only emphasize the sovereign individual but the SOVEREIGN COLLECTIVE. There is real strength in numbers and networks. Nostr is a beautiful demonstration of this principle in action. Love this place.
“We've got to get stronger Stronger as a people We've got to get smarter Smarter as a unit And watch out for our children Because they are our future Appreciate our women Because they bear our fruits, yeah-yeah
My sister, my brother My sister, my brother…”
BJ The Chicago Kid - “The People”
10/16/2025, 2 engagements
Twitter sucks so bad lol. My whole feed is full of people losing their minds over some young dudes throwing around racial slurs in a private group chat.
None of those people who are “disgusted” and outraged have said a single word about all the innocent men, women and children who are being starved and murdered in Gaza. No comment on the documented rape and torture of Palestinian hostages or any number of blatant atrocities Israel is committing.
Bibi Mileikowsky (Satanyahu is fake name) said he was gonna give Elon the call and boy did Elon get in line fast. What’s funny is you realize how controlled the narrative is when you see almost zero pro-Israel content on decentralized apps like this.
#twitter #freespeech #freepalestine #endzionism
10/15/2025, 5 engagements
PHENOMENAL conversation fellas. Gonna buy the book now
I too came to Bitcoin through theology / philosophy. Strongest foundation you can have for long-term adoption when it’s an ethical position and not NGU.
Became Christian and learned all about non-violent stream within Christianity > Learned about military industrial complex > Role fiat played in that > Sound money / gold bug > Bitcoin adoption.
https://fountain.fm/episode/GbE7Us559aG9FBNLAQFM
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10/14/2025, 14 engagements
Long story, but had the most amazing conversation with a boomer last night. He’s a conservationist (in the healthy sense, not a purple haired environmentalist) who is helping to bring back mining to a beat up former logging and mining town called Libby, MT where I’ve got some family.
For over an hour he talked about how much his generation had destroyed this country and how he wanted to make things right for his grandkids. He was the most alpha, masculine man, yet was almost in tears talking about how much hope he sees in young people who aren’t willing to repeat all these same mistakes that his generation made.
I slam American boomers a lot because they have to be one of the most selfish, propagandized generations in the history of the world. Yet, it should go without saying that doesn’t mean every single one of them. I want to do a better job highlighting these exceptions because the connection we made was so energizing and filled me with so much hope.
One general takeaway is that I love people who aren’t afraid to criticize their own tribe (and themselves). When I meet a boomer who can’t stand what boomers have done, or a Jew who hates Zionism, etc. those are people who I have THE MOST respect for.
Life is so beautiful but I know Satan wants me to constantly focus on exclusively criticizing, tearing down, etc. There is a need for that when it comes to fighting the powers and authorities and not being indifferent to evil. However, there is even more of a need for that sharp resistance to be supported at a foundational level by a relentless and faithful hope for the future.
#boomers #churchstr
10/14/2025, 3 engagements
Pattern recognition becoming increasingly important skill if you want to cut through propaganda and get to the truth
10/13/2025, 4 engagements
“Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified”
10/13/2025, 1 engagement
“The only people who don’t see the non-violence in Jesus are Christians”
All glory, praise and honor to the Prince of Peace!
All Bitcoiners should be paying attention to what is happening in the silver market right now. It is literally history in the making.
For decades banks have manipulated the silver market and they are on their very last leg throwing absolutely everything they can to keep the price down. Silver will break out and crush these manipulators and that is a massive victory for reality and a major L for the banks.
#silver #backwardation
10/11/2025, 7 engagements
When I was a pleb, I often use to respect people in positions of power because they had power.
Can honestly say that I now only respect those who use their power for good. Power for the sake of power means absolutely nothing to me.
10/11/2025, 6 engagements
Love my Palestinian brothers and sisters. Some of the most courageous people on the planet.
The whole world is only beginning our fight against Zionism. Palestine will be free.
#freepalestine #endzionism
10/11/2025, 2 engagements
Beautiful conversation
and
Everything about this conversation resonated. Especially loved that idea of the SOVEREIGN COLLECTIVE. Never heard this term but man did it hit.
Realized as I listened that having kids AND becoming a Bitcoiner at the same time really shifted my perspective in profound ways. I went from largely wanting to help individuals in my circle flourish (still true) to truly wanting the entire world to flourish. I also had a lot of shifts to a more holistic eschatology at the same time, which was a major contributor as well.
Sometimes a new term or concept can make feelings that are deeply held, but hard to articulate a lot more concise and concrete. That’s exactly what the term sovereign collective did for me.
Love that this pod is hilarious and yet still able to dive into some of the deepest, most important topics in generative ways. That’s a great combination to set you up for living life the fullest.
https://fountain.fm/episode/wDgIrYWzEreIHUA202Kl
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10/9/2025, 19 engagements