The older I get the more I realize most of life is just about standing on principles. We just so happen to live in a morally bankrupt society. Most people don’t have the framework religion historically provided. That forces them to build their own set of values from the ground up, which is extremely hard and takes a lot of work. God is dead, Nietzsche, blah blah blah… This explains why bitcoin is cult adjacent. Because it provides a principled set of values (hard money, PoW, transparency, etc.) to people who are desperately craving it and have not yet found that in the traditional spiritual realm. Or in some cases (like mine), bitcoin brings you deeper on your spiritual journey. Ironically, this is exactly the type of stuff that makes us sound completely crazy to the average person 😂 But here we are

#asknostr does anyone here know anything about Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan? It almost seems too good to be true. Looks like it could be the next Dubai or Singapore. Also they’re using a gold backed currency + BTC? Is this the future?? https://gmc.bt/

This album never gets old. Definitely Kanye’s magnum opus

May I ask what you and thoughts are on Mallers working with Tether on XXI? It’s seems pretty obvious Strike will eventually roll up into that structure. And even if it doesn’t, does that not create some ideological conflict? I get the world is messy and I’m not casting judgement, there just seems to be hypocrisy in the bitcoin space about this kind of stuff and I want to see clearly.

I can know with 100% certainty I’m using the right address and still get stressed about this lol

Most people cannot honestly ask themselves the simple question “Could I be wrong?” That question alone has gotten me this far in life.

There seems to be a lot of media about Satoshi’s identity popping up all at once. It’s a fascinating mystery even to someone who doesn’t care about bitcoin but it makes me wonder why now all of a sudden 🤔🤔 Could be pure coincidence, could be something else.

Softwar

For context, meant to post this a couple weeks ago. I looked at the speaker list for bitcoin 2026 and they must have just added Afroman and hadn’t updated the website yet. But it was just too perfect. If you told me in 2000s when I was bumping Crazy Rap and Because I Got High that Afroman would be a real life patriot for freedom of speech I would have laughed. Trolling TF out of cops and then winning in court gives me a semblance of hope. Dude is an American hero.

epigenetics is definitely real. A lot of research id starting to be done in this space

This is a pretty solid framework. I was once in group 3. Textbook hero child. I wanted to prove to the world I was worthy so I went balls to the wall in everything I did. Chasing the dragon. But it’s a pressure cooker. Eventually I ran that tank all the way to E, burned out, and then collapsed under the weight I was trying to carry (or actually avoid). That moved me to group one. Being stuck in an almost catatonic state of fear and being overwhelmed by the world. I couldn’t handle it. Slowing moving into group two. It’s a long and painful process but thats where real proof of work shows.

It’s really challenging, borderline impossible, to understand this stuff without some base level knowledge of economics (Austrian vs Keynesian, what is money?, etc.). You have to learn algebra before you can learn calculus. The Fiat Standard is what she needs to read but Saif’s writing comes across as arrogant and preachy to the uninitiated. With that said, I find “The Price of Tomorrow” by Jeff Booth to be the most accessible book that isn’t shoving bitcoin down your throat. An underwhelming “basic” answer but I don’t see another way. Everyone has to go on their own journey