jacob.phelps
Jacob Phelps

https://www.strongwealth.net/bitcoiner

Apprentice of Jesus Christ | Husband & father | Financial planner for bitcoiners

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2025-08-08 13:10:14 UTC

One of the largest misconceptions I used to have and now see in so many people is just how little you need to have financial optionality.
We have had a black & white view where either you’re earning or you’re not (ie retirement) so ingrained in us it’s hard to see something else.
Even the more modern idea of financial independence doesn’t capture things correctly. FI is basically just rewrapped retirement, a new shiny word to make it sound better.
Optionality doesn’t mean that you can be done working, or earning income, but it does mean that you can drastically change what the rhythm looks like, at least for a period (years).
This is also why the liquidity penalty of retirement accounts just is not worth it IMO. All you’re doing is putting golden handcuffs on yourself.
Bitcoin accelerates this mindset even more as we can have a somewhat reasonable expectation that whatever liquid assets we have won’t be susceptible to debasement across a long enough time period. But holding it in this FO arrangement has its issues. Pure and simple hodling likely isn’t ideal.
We’re all so worried that we won’t have enough or can’t get rich as fast as we want, but what if we reframe it to, you have optionality and that optionality is true riches, not the number on the screen.

2025-01-19 20:43:01 UTC

Even if we are entirely despised in the eyes of men, let us rejoice that we are honored in the sight of God.

2025-01-19 18:23:13 UTC

Seems like there is a huge opportunity for small-midsize mining operations to bring decentralization back to network hash rate with the ease of access to hosted mining providers now

2024-10-05 01:21:18 UTC

Mountain adventure tomorrow. I am definitely in the have and not need camp.
https://m.primal.net/LLaL.jpg

2024-10-04 14:41:19 UTC

God who created you without your cooperation will not save you without your cooperation.

2024-09-14 18:22:58 UTC

Found a local farm that will accept bitcoin for bulk free range chicken this morning at the farmers market

2024-09-13 02:22:17 UTC

“But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from him who takes away your cloak do not withhold your coat as well. Give to every one who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return;* and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.” - Luke 6:27-38

2024-09-13 02:02:59 UTC

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>insert thank you jif here<

2024-09-13 01:29:48 UTC

A regime of (proper) mewing and mastic gum will give you a jawline in no time.

2024-09-13 00:57:15 UTC

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I like the NO more than the STR but both are pretty cool

2024-09-12 23:54:32 UTC

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ILY2

2024-09-07 13:11:46 UTC

The holy cross on Mount of the Holy Cross. Jesus loves you.
https://m.primal.net/KiDR.jpg

2024-09-05 19:24:54 UTC

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Definitely don’t put lava lamps on it either
https://m.primal.net/KfqH.jpg

2024-09-05 16:11:56 UTC

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Into *actual* BTC lol yes agree. I have other BTC related plans for these monies too

2024-09-05 15:57:24 UTC

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It’s more freeing than I expected it to be.
Will probably utilize them again at some point in the future but they just don’t make sense right now.

2024-09-05 15:54:49 UTC

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Why won’t it respond for a few months?

2024-09-05 15:48:10 UTC

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Don’t know if your child is the same. But my boy loves being outside to the point that if he is upset and we can’t calm him down we take him out there and let him run around. Really drives this touch grass point home.

2024-09-05 15:40:04 UTC

Distributed all of our IRA money out yesterday. Couldn't stand holding the ETF any longer, it's cold storage or nothing for us. Taxes & penalties be damned, we value liquidity and sovereignty more.

2024-09-05 15:31:33 UTC

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You just did talk to one! 😄

2024-09-05 15:30:22 UTC

We're blending the worlds of traditional financial advice with bitcoin consulting because you deserve an advisor who is at least as orange pilled as you are.
https://m.primal.net/Kfdd.jpg

2024-09-05 15:19:07 UTC

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You're talking with the wrong financial advisor then!

2024-09-05 12:37:48 UTC

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GM
https://m.primal.net/KfSl.jpg

2024-09-03 13:12:47 UTC

Reminder that you actually do have enough sats. You have exactly the amount you are supposed to have at this point in time.

2024-09-03 13:04:19 UTC

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I mean I don’t know how long it takes you to poop but that’s at least a 10 poop read imo

2024-09-03 12:57:37 UTC

My wife tells me the first thing my son does when he wakes up in the morning is to start asking for me. That’s just about the best thing ever.

2024-09-03 12:34:55 UTC

GM
Jesus loves you
https://m.primal.net/KcHc.jpg

2024-09-03 12:29:48 UTC

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Not much has changed since then
https://m.primal.net/KcHH.jpg

2024-09-02 23:44:37 UTC

If you aren’t owning your bitcoin within a trust you are doing yourself a disservice.
More privacy, more granular control, less fees.

2024-09-02 13:37:59 UTC

Looking forward to being back out here soon
https://m.primal.net/KaYU.jpg

2024-09-02 13:13:01 UTC

What is the best fall movie and why is it Planes, Trains & Automobiles?

2024-09-02 04:25:25 UTC

Watching the tops of the trees flow like ocean waves. Standing in awe of my creator.
God is beauty, God is truth, God is love.
https://m.primal.net/KZtV.jpg

2024-08-30 13:47:55 UTC

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They smell better, are lower maintenance, when paired with drought resistant grasses are great with little water, clover is a nitrogen fixer so they actually feed the soil instead of only taking from it like traditional grass lawns that require fertilizer, they flower so you can help feed the bees, just to name a few reasons.

2024-08-30 13:07:12 UTC

Majority clover yards are superior to any others
https://m.primal.net/KVKK.jpg

2024-08-27 21:22:20 UTC

The older I get the more I turn into Forrest Gump with my running.
"I just felt like running"
It's the best

2024-08-27 21:10:52 UTC

A wonderful reminder for those of us who believe Bitcoin can create a better future.
Ch. 28, The Screwtape Letters
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather. You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment with which we teach them to respond to it—all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing out a soul by attrition.
If, on the other hand, the middle years prove prosperous, our position is even stronger. Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build up in him a sense of being really at home in earth, which is just what we want. You will notice that the young are generally less unwilling to die than the middle-aged and the old.
The truth is that the Enemy (God), having oddly destined these mere animals to life in His own eternal world, has guarded them pretty effectively from the danger of feeling at home anywhere else. That is why we must often wish long life to our patients; seventy years is not a day too much for the difficult task of unravelling their souls from Heaven and building up a firm attachment to the earth.
While they are young we find them always shooting off at a tangent. Even if we contrive to keep them ignorant of explicit religion, the incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry-the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon—are always blowing our whole structure away. They will not apply themselves steadily to worldly advancement, prudent connections, and the policy of safety first. So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or 'science or psychology, or what not. Real worldliness is a work of time-assisted, of course, by pride, for we teach them to describe the creeping death as good sense or Maturity or Experience. Experience, in the peculiar sense we teach them to give it, is, by the by, a most useful word. A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where Virtue is concerned 'Experience is the mother of illusion'; but thanks to a change in Fashion, and also, of course, to the Historical Point of View, we have largely rendered this book useless.
https://image.nostr.build/ecb2cb767159b402b36512e017abf43c48b74bee4000ef4dd79ebebec425d3b2.jpg

2024-08-27 14:03:12 UTC

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As a financial advisor, I don’t think you have enough Also Bitcoin but in turquoise for this to be called diversified.

2024-08-27 13:51:20 UTC

Many are talking about inheritance of Bitcoin these days.
What many aren’t talking about is that the commonly used inheritance solutions only convey possession NOT legal title.
So your Bitcoin still gets to go through the public probate process 🙃. That’s no bueno.

2024-08-27 12:22:38 UTC

GM
https://m.primal.net/KPeJ.jpg

2024-08-25 23:05:18 UTC

One life goal I have is to live a life that requires a dinner bell

2024-08-22 15:40:51 UTC

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Is there any reason for it?

2024-08-22 15:26:05 UTC

Having access to this 20 mins from the house is truly a blessing
https://m.primal.net/KIFR.jpg

2024-08-22 14:36:05 UTC

Recently got linen bed sheets and I can’t believe it took us this long to use them. So much better!

2024-08-22 12:51:17 UTC

Is it not crazy that the rallying cry for pro-choice advocates is “my body, my choice”, which is the the complete inversion of what Christ promised us when he said “this is my body given for you”.
Evil proves Christ as Lord. They can’t help but mock him.

2024-08-22 03:31:43 UTC

Into your hands Lord, I commend my spirit.

2024-08-21 15:04:38 UTC

Many problems arise from the fact that many people refuse to admit that humans are inherently religious beings. We all subscribe to doctrine and dogma even if it’s not formal.

2024-08-21 03:33:52 UTC

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If your discount rate is anything other than historical bitcoin CAGR, you’re doing it wrong.

2024-08-21 03:24:35 UTC

The more I look at it, the more sense it's making to get some hosted miners up and running. Depending on your forward assumptions, mining can outperform buy & hold by a long shot.
Also thinking through how an "infinite banking"-esque debt structure could be utilized for acquisition.
https://image.nostr.build/75beee6fae98e25a0be0532f8d2fb3fac48a03cb23a029917716e7570be73926.png

2024-08-21 03:14:24 UTC

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Right, I’m sure it’s due to the containment levels of treated water, but it still blows my mind a bit.
Really not dissimilar from the nourishment we put in our own bodies, tho.

2024-08-21 01:45:53 UTC

Have you ever noticed how much more healthy & alive plants & vegetation looks after it rains versus when you have to water it with sprinklers?

2024-08-16 12:59:10 UTC

Man is it beautiful to start to see a vision come together

2024-08-13 17:50:10 UTC

Who needs a sauna when you can run in the heat & humidity

2024-08-12 22:34:34 UTC

Your financial advisor isn’t serving you as well as they should.
https://m.primal.net/JxiV.jpg

2024-08-12 18:34:31 UTC

There is definitely something to this whole baking soda prior to a hard workout. Felt like I had unlimited energy during my intervals.

2024-08-12 18:09:40 UTC

Increasingly convinced that most running shorts are a scam.
Unless you’re running for a long time (1+ hrs) or it’s very humid/raining.
I’ve been running in $15 cotton shorts for all my runs this summer and have yet to have negative side effects.

2024-08-12 18:03:34 UTC

We’re going to be the first financial advising firm to adopt sovereign tools for clients.
Self hosted & encrypted communication.
Use our Bitcoin node instead of running your own.
File share direct to device via Syncthing.
Maybe even spin up a nostr relay specifically for clients for broader comms.

2024-08-12 17:06:03 UTC

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Same goes for echo chamber. The underlying assumption is that those you surround yourself with who hold these same biases are inherently wrong.

2024-08-12 14:27:09 UTC

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How does unemployment tie into the Sahm Rule?

2024-08-12 04:02:01 UTC

We know that God gives us free will and he does so through love (which he himself is) by the ascension of his son, Jesus Christ.
Before ascending back to heaven, Jesus tells us that it is better for us that he should leave. Why is that?
Because by ascending, he not only then can send his Holy Spirit down upon the apostles, which is now our inheritance, he then allows us to live by and in faith.
If Jesus were to remain on earth then we would not live by faith. We would live by force. If God dwelt among us and that was known, all would eventually have no choice but to surrender to him. That is not free will, that is slavery.
God does not desire us to be his slaves, but his sons.
By ascending, he shows that he grants us free will to choose him and he does this because he loves us.
You cannot love someone whom you force to love you, as that is not love. Love must be freely given & received.
In the ascension Jesus gives us a glimpse of the essence of love.
Once we, freely, make the choice to love God, he grants us an outpouring of his love via the Holy Spirit.
It is better for us that this happens, instead of Christ being here, because him ascending back to heaven is the only way in which we are able to then live as Christ desires us to.

2024-08-12 00:33:43 UTC

The most exciting thing about Bitcoin is that in can allow for life that is rightly ordered between leisure, useful work & useless work.

2024-08-11 12:50:51 UTC

Go to mass today. Jesus is really present there & he really does want you to go.

2024-08-11 12:41:55 UTC

I don’t think it’s possible to explain the freedom that comes from get on zero until you actually make the leap and do it

2024-08-11 12:27:54 UTC

The primary reason physical training of some sort is so impactful for the Christian is that the training mimics what it’s like to follow Christ so well.
In training, there are few low days, even fewer high days, but there’s a ton of nothing days. Not high, not low, just go out and do it.
We can use the same mindset used throughout this training to (correctly) continue turning towards God when, for the most part, it feels like nothing.
Of course in reality it’s not nothing, in training or holiness, but that only becomes clear after years of leaning into the nothing.

2024-08-10 20:12:06 UTC

More & more I am seeing the benefit of hard work for hard works sake and nothing else.
Hard work with and end in mind other than the work itself is centered on that other thing.
Hard work as its own end forces one to live in the present and nothing else. And in that is where God is found.

2024-08-10 17:47:44 UTC

Can we all agree that hardback books look way better without their covers on?
https://m.primal.net/JvBo.jpg

2024-08-10 15:28:27 UTC

Every time I spin up a new node, or resync an existing one, I’m reminded of just how awesome Bitcoin is.

2024-08-10 00:02:17 UTC

Excited for this read
https://m.primal.net/JuHl.jpg

2024-08-09 17:06:15 UTC

Anyone have an opinion on Framework computer as compared to System76?

2024-08-09 13:10:44 UTC

Most financial advisors: either sell your bitcoin or be prepared to lose it, it’s funny money.
Us: sure, we’ll help you set up a collaborative custody wallet and hold a key. You don’t want to run a node? No problem, use ours. You want to start mining? Great, we have several partners that can get you up & running. Yes, we’ll talk through the trade offs of No KYC vs KYC stacks. What should you do if you’ve got a huge stack? We’ll talk through estate & tax strategies to help you.

2024-08-09 13:03:04 UTC

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Might be better for your physical health (still debatable). Definitely worse for your mental & spiritual health.

2024-08-09 01:56:53 UTC

Show me the ratio of:
Your Annual Expenses
———————————
Your Bitcoin stack
When you took the leap of faith or went all in on your idea.
And I’ll tell you how bullish you are on Bitcoin.

2024-08-09 01:51:30 UTC

Infinite banking - but instead of a whole life policy you have a Bitcoin backed LOC & you use the LOC to finance miners. Repay loan with miner profit.

2024-08-08 23:24:15 UTC

I just love something about a simple Timex watch.
https://m.primal.net/Jsuj.jpg

2024-08-08 21:31:02 UTC

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Weed is a shittier shit coin than alcohol tho

2024-08-08 18:14:07 UTC

The best thing about being extremely fit at some point in your life is that it establishes a high anchor point to which you’ll continue to compare yourself. It forces you to desire being great & not just good enough.

2024-08-06 15:23:48 UTC

Hey nostr. Long time no see. Who are the best follows on here now??

2023-04-02 12:33:23 UTC

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Gm #[1]
#[0]

2023-03-23 16:20:14 UTC

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Oof yeah i couldn't imagine that. I'm off work for a few weeks and my wife isn't going back to work thankfully. Kudos to you both for that though!

2023-03-23 16:18:45 UTC

Exploring the adult playground today
https://i.imgur.com/vXpsgFX.jpg

2023-03-22 14:14:09 UTC

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Thank you & congrats on the soon to be!

2023-03-22 04:07:02 UTC

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I have learned more about baby poop then I ever thought possible already 😂

2023-03-22 03:55:34 UTC

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Yup definitely feeling the sleep deprevation already lol. I know so much is on my wife right now just because he only breast feeds, but doing the best I can to help otherwise.
Good to know on the weird things, already have been googling enough lol.
For a long time I wasn't sure I wanted children and now I already wouldn't have it any other way. It is wonderful & amazing!

2023-03-22 03:46:27 UTC

Yo where my #nostrrunners at?
Most pure form of sport 🤝🏼 most pure social network

2023-03-22 03:44:54 UTC

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Thank you!

2023-03-22 03:44:23 UTC

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Lol heck yeah!!

2023-03-22 03:43:28 UTC

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Same to you, it's been a ride so far & I'm loving it. Any advice that helped you??

2023-03-22 03:42:08 UTC

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Never totally finished with them, but will always take the opportunity to do some here 😀

2023-03-22 03:41:19 UTC

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Thank you! Life's gotten a wee more interesting for me. Had my first child a week ago!

2023-03-22 03:39:32 UTC

It's been a minute nostrfam. How y'all doin?
https://i.imgur.com/QncX6OA.jpg

2023-03-01 23:55:13 UTC

My simple running goals
- Run up big mountains
- Stay jacked
Everything else is gravy
https://i.imgur.com/KbhJTMu.jpg

2023-02-25 17:31:02 UTC

Double bagger today!
⛰️ Mt. Cutler - 7,218 ft
⛰️ Mt. Muscoco - 8,019 ft
Legs & lungs feeling strong 💪🏼
https://i.imgur.com/u1CFWMd.png

2023-02-24 17:28:02 UTC

It says a lot about a person who, when faced with new evidence, changes their mind. That sort of humbleness is something I very much respect.
Our baby doctor did this recently and I gained a ton of respect for her!

2023-02-24 01:52:10 UTC

Nostrman, why aren't you in the mountains more?
https://i.imgur.com/5CuE05l.jpg

2023-02-23 00:45:43 UTC

The obsession with dividend & income stocks/funds on fintwit is fiat AF

2023-02-22 18:00:31 UTC

If you use exercise as a band aid for an otherwise unhealthy lifestyle
I implore you to instead put that energy towards first improving your lifestyle
And then, only if needed, continue to exercise
A healthful lifestyle should remove most need to exercise

2023-02-21 12:34:10 UTC

I want to surround myself with men who value & implement personal proof of work.

2023-02-20 17:27:59 UTC

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Followid

2023-02-20 17:26:05 UTC

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The irony of "Truth" social must be lost on them.

2023-02-20 17:10:32 UTC

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Thank you Mr. Bird!

2023-02-20 17:00:12 UTC

Nostr should be a creators paradise.
The amount of friction removed in the create content -> get paid process compared to existing solutions is amazing!

2023-02-20 16:49:38 UTC

Grateful every day that I get to run in these beautiful mountains.
https://i.imgur.com/nvtRZKP.jpg