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Money is our time and energy in abstract form.

Our time and energy.

Money is literally us.

All other definitions lack depth and turn the question “What is Money?” into something to be intellectualized and understood, not felt.

The question concerning money isn’t an intellectual one. It is a soulful one.

We spend finite time on this planet. Do you believe anyone should be able to take your time and energy without your permission?

That is the question that must be wrestled with before waxing intellectual about money.

"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work."

Finished it. So insightful.

In terms of personal impact, I’d list it with

‘s book and

‘s Cryptosovereignty.

For anybody thinking in the “Jeff Booth corner” of Bitcoin, I highly recommend it. And to anyone else for that matter.

“End the Fed” is virtue signaling at its finest.

It can’t be “ended” and it can’t be killed. It dies much older than we expected on a ventilator gasping for air from beneath a pile of worthless paper money; after immense pain has been inflicted on its subjects.

What we can do is move outside of its blast radius and live a peaceful life, and that’s good enough.

“End the Fed” is a psyop; a slogan that keeps people shouting at the system from inside the system.

Pretty much sums it up.

To decree paper money into existence and then institutionalize pseudoscience that props it up is some real devil shit.

The system has you scrambling to make money while it literally makes money.

Anybody aware of any unique research on why music is such a transcendental thing?

It’s always bewildered me how it’s this thing that everybody connects with deeply without any work or thought. It has the same effect no matter where you are in your life’s journey. Like it’s hardwired into our being somehow.

I hope this makes sense. It’s hard for me to even articulate my question, which I guess further confirms what I’m asking.

Like Satoshi, we’re all just passing through Bitcoin.

Abundance on this earth literally cannot be achieved without Bitcoin.

It is no coincidence that abundance, fiat’s death, and Bitcoin’s emergence are happening simultaneously.

Such an amazing moment.

It doesn’t sound sexy or have the motivating element that blaming an evil person or institution might, but there really is no “they”. Particularly in today’s digital age where cryptography and privacy tools allow the individual to meaningfully defend themselves from the collective.

The change is purely within each of us.

Whether our inward attention is on our own flawed selves and our ability to take agency. Whether our outward attention is given to honest systems that produce the world we want to see. And if we’re using the tools available.

That’s it. The dying wish of a control system that emerged before our lifetime is that we don’t realize that.

and if the answer is yes, ask yourself again for safe measure 🤙🏻

I’m a good ways into The Belief Machine and it is exceptional. I found this book exactly when I was meant to find it; it’s really landing.

thank you for sharing this with the world 🙏🏻

And having your newborn nap in your arms while you read a great book is just the best feeling. Grateful 🙏🏻

We’re considering homeschooling our son because we don’t want his framework for the world grown from a control system.

By control system I mean..

The State being a vessel to impose monetary theft via the military industrial complex and now the technocratic surveillance state; the education system being designed so you never question the system and mindlessly comply with whatever function is needed of you.

My son will not inherit an allegiance to the State, be benchmarked by credentialed authorities, or herded into consumerism and debt.

What took me 33 years to (mostly) unlearn, won’t even register for him. I’m so excited to see his life unfold in that world.

Money is the essence of politics. How much is collected, how much is printed, and how it gets distributed.

That makes Bitcoin the most political act we can engage in. A rejection of their money and plundering entirely. Their politics mean nothing to us because they can’t take it, they can’t print it, and can’t redistribute it.

Our political regime is one of individual sovereignty where we run code that cannot break its oath to us, so long as we run it.

The conditioning for a Digital 9/11 is happening right now; laying the groundwork to usher the masses into digital concentration camps. It’s likely the event will have a financial twist that sneaks in a bailout and onboards everyone to some variation of a CBDC. Because that will be necessary to keep the fiat game going.

And in the fog of war, many will think they were “helping” just like the horrors of the 20th century.

The widely parroted idea of transitioning from a Fiat Standard to a Bitcoin Standard is a psyop; an idea that only exists when applying fiat control system beliefs to Bitcoin.

Once you adopt Bitcoin as a sovereign individual, the idea of a “Standard” is vaporized.

“Standard” is language used by control systems to manage the Overton window and, in this case, keep serfs waiting for permission to be free.

The exponential nature of technological progress kills fiat money and replaces it with a technocratic control grid that selectively grants abundance to those who serve the beast.

But I won’t be serving the beast, I’ll be starving it. Starving it of my money, information, and identity from within a cryptographic citadel.

Ironic that most modern conveniences that are “free” do not make you free at all. In fact, they do the opposite. That’s the hidden cost.

Benevolent people in a malevolent system caused the horrors of the 20th century and will do the same in the 21st century, just digitally. And like the 20th century, all the horrors will be “legal”.

Conversely, individuals contributing their time and energy to systems of freedom and abundance will create the bloom of the 21st century. These actions will most certainly be deemed “illegal”.

At the bottom of the Bitcoin rabbit hole is the gift of just Being.

Free of the State’s mind control, fiat’s invisible shackles, and the need for others to understand your newfound perspective.

Just Being with people you love and doing things that bring you joy. Surrounded by amazing technology but not controlled by it.

A total dissolution of the modern fiat illusion.

I just had such a cool moment.

Months ago when Square rolled out BTC payments, I asked one of my favorite shops if they could take BTC. After 3 failed attempts where they couldn’t figure it out, I stopped asking.

Today I walk in and hear “Hey! We accept Bitcoin now! Wanna try it? I know you mentioned it before.”

The payment worked flawlessly and the cashier’s face lit up at how easy it was. Their first BTC payment. I said nothing more because the whole exchange spoke for itself.

This is what adoption looks like.

Thanks

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Listening to Mamdani on Theo’s pod this morning. The path is inevitable.

They’re coming for all the wealth and anybody who objects to government control of everything.

Then the right will go all out fascist in response.

Both sides will be correct from their perspective because neither has questioned the fiat foundation from which the zero-sum game originates. Because all of their thoughts originate from the system designed to never be questioned.

Anonymous drone swarms deploy to destroy state surveillance cameras.

In response, the state deploys defense drone swarms to protect the surveillance apparatus.

Robotic domestic warfare.

I can’t stop thinking about this chain of events and how soon it may happen. Crazy times ahead.

The collapse cannot be stopped. Only survived.

They never seem to mention that fourth function..

Try every psyop imaginable to get people into KYC Paper Bitcoin.

Then pump it to the moon. (they have to print into something or everything collapses)

Then fork it into one world gov’t coin.

Buckle up!

Tokenization is just the elites’ way for retail to hold the bag while an insolvent system gets marked to market.

Every infringement on our rights to protect us can and will be used to harm us.

Modern education has one singular goal.

Infantilize the masses by schooling them into their mid 20s where the only benchmark is to obey authority. Then right as the frontal lobe is hardened, release them into paper chain enslavement with no capacity to ever question anything.

Whether an explicit conspiracy or emergent from fiat incentives, it doesn’t matter. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Asking questions and actually listening to the answer is a superpower.

When someone says what they think, being able to ask them why they think that and listen without projecting your own beliefs onto them is what allows the truth to reveal itself.

It’s a very freeing and peaceful feeling.

The system that profits from war, steals our money and brainwashes us wants us to think that..

If we didn’t go to war we would be at war.

If they didn’t control the money we would be poor.

If they didn’t control the education we would be stupid.

Perhaps if we opt out of the system, the invisible problems the system is supposed to solve would be just that.

Invisible.

Boomers complaining about the younger generation wanting to get everything for free or take from other people is so ironic.

The boomers’ home values and stock portfolios were given for free and taken from the unborn generations following them through fiat.

Both sides thinking they aren’t causing the problem while both sides live inside a system where someone must be stolen from.

Creating a crescendo that destabilizes everything.

Insanity.

You can’t make the world better from a system with theft at the foundation.