BitcoinMendocino

#Bitcoin is the alternative financial system for local communities at a time of inflation and spiraling national debt.

#Mendocino California.

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2026-03-24 04:38:20 UTC

Imagine trying to predict today’s world from yesterday. Now imagine trying to predict tomorrow’s world from today.
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2026-03-22 16:03:57 UTC

25 years ago you could put $500 in your pocket, drive anywhere in America, rent an apartment with no background check, and start over. $500 today is a month of groceries if you're lucky.
The mainstream media wants you to think inflation is like the weather. Some atmospheric phenomenon that just happens. In reality, it's authorized, institutionalized, bipartisan theft. And the people closest to the printer don't feel it.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching America turn into a giant carnival. Everything is temporary and transactional, without roots or community.
Millennials were lucky, in an odd way, to come of age during the financial crisis. They watched Ron Paul in real time and grasped the Austrian economic framework as the bailouts played out. The wealth transfer unfolded with some families devastated while others thrived.
Gen Z didn't get that education as they came of age in the aftermath. However, they certainly feel it. The sense of dispossession is completely justified.
But feeling the problem and understanding the problem are two different things. The solution is there for them to find when they are ready, as Bitcoin exists and is battle-tested.
The intellectual framework for understanding exactly what was done to them and exactly how to protect themselves is freely available.
But it requires the hard work of sitting down and actually learning something difficult when you're already exhausted from a rigged economy. It asks people to better themselves at the exact moment they have the least energy to do it.
A person with savings has options and leverage. The people running this system don't want you to have either. Sound money gives you both, and that's why they fight it so hard.
Study bitcoin.

2026-03-21 23:39:39 UTC

If governments can ‘print’ their own currencies, they can pay arms manufacturers, foot soldiers, and contractors endlessly to wage endless wars.
If the world operated with sound money, endless wars wouldn’t be financeable.
Study Bitcoin.
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2026-03-20 15:52:22 UTC

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2026-03-19 05:31:35 UTC

Everyone talks about innovation in California like it’s only a Silicon Valley or Hollywood thing. Meanwhile up here in Mendocino (California’s last slither of frontier) I keep meeting people who are bubbling with ideas. Up here the rules are few and the vistas wide. Creativity feels freer. Are you an innovator?
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2026-03-18 23:13:17 UTC

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2026-03-18 15:59:33 UTC

Surveillance does not need to arrest everyone. It only needs to make everyone feel arrestable.
Privacy is the right to develop a self without permission, to think without a handler, to associate without being cataloged.
That is why power attacks privacy first. When privacy dies, liberty follows.
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2026-03-18 00:23:07 UTC

The national debt just hit $39T.
More dollars in circulation = each one buys less.
That’s inflation. That’s why prices are rising. (That and foreign entanglements.)
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2026-03-18 00:19:21 UTC

Small town living.
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2026-03-17 21:21:08 UTC

SQUARE TO AUTO-ENABLE BITCOIN PAYMENTS FOR MILLIONS OF SELLERS
Square will auto-enable Bitcoin payments for all eligible sellers starting March 30, 2026, according to an updated Terms of Service notice sent to users.
The change means millions of businesses using Square could soon begin accepting Bitcoin by default, rather than opting in manually.
The rollout is part of Block’s broader push to integrate Bitcoin payments across its ecosystem, leveraging the Lightning Network for fast, low-cost transactions.
Sellers will still have the option to disable the feature or automatically convert Bitcoin to USD at the point of sale.
With Square powering millions of merchants globally, this marks a major step toward making Bitcoin a standard payment method in everyday commerce.
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2026-03-16 01:49:46 UTC

I used to bring up bitcoin in conversations so that I could try and convince people about it…
…now when I bring up bitcoin it’s to hear what people have to say about it.
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2026-03-10 14:06:00 UTC

33 years ago today, Eric Hughes published the Cypherpunk Manifesto.
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age."
A sentence from 1993 that hits harder every year. Bitcoin is the most powerful tool to emerge from this movement.
Cypherpunks write code. 🧡
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2026-03-10 14:05:42 UTC

“Bitcoin is punk rock money.”
Bitcoin started as a pure, permissionless counterculture, in the same vein as early punk, hip-hop, or folk.
These were movements that began in the margins, dismissed and mocked by the mainstream because they didn't fit the established mold.
But if a counterculture is successful, it rarely stays niche.
Over time, the ethos tends to bleed into the broader world.
The Ramones started playing tiny dive bars like CBGB's and today, their influence is even felt in modern pop.
Bitcoin is following that exact trajectory.
As it moves toward global adoption, it’s carrying the values that birthed it, from self-sovereignty and resistance to decentralized control and individual freedom, and embedding them into the global financial architecture.
If hyperbitcoinization is to occur, most people who eventually use Bitcoin may never even hear the word "cypherpunk."
They won't necessarily know the history of the early days, but the underlying ethos will be transmitted anyway.
Gradually, behavior starts to shift because better money naturally leads to better decisions, and better decisions lead to better lives.
Not every Bitcoin user will be a hardcore ideologue.
Bitcoin just needs them to be incentivized to use a superior tool.
The culture is built into the code, and as the money spreads, the revolution happens on a deeper level.
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2026-03-08 16:01:31 UTC

A man deposits $10,000 in a bank.
The bank thanks him and records the deposit on its balance sheet. But not where you might expect. For the bank, that $10,000 is actually a liability – because technically it belongs to the customer and might have to be returned.
So the bank does what banks do. It lends $9,000 of that money to someone buying a car.
Now something interesting happens. The $9,000 loan appears on the bank’s books as an asset – because someone now owes the bank money.
So the same $10,000 is doing two jobs at once. The depositor believes he has $10,000 safely in the bank. The borrower now has $9,000 to spend.
That $9,000 gets deposited somewhere else. The next bank lends $8,100. That gets deposited again. Then $7,290 gets lent out.
Soon the original $10,000 has quietly turned into tens of thousands of dollars of loans scattered across the economy.
Everyone believes they have money. Depositors see balances in their accounts. Borrowers have the money they spent. Banks show healthy assets on their balance sheets because people owe them money.
And here’s the best part.
Banks charge interest on all those loans – maybe 7%. But the depositor who supplied the original money might earn only 0.5% on their savings account.
So banks collect interest on money that mostly wasn’t theirs to begin with – and keep the difference.
With bitcoin, banks are no longer able to take advantage of customers. With bitcoin you are your own bank.
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2026-03-06 14:37:51 UTC

Most people think inflation is just "prices going up."
There's actually a hidden order to how new money moves through the economy. Your position in that order determines whether you win or lose.
It's called the Cantillon Effect.
Here's how it works...
When new money enters the system, it doesn't land equally in everyone's pocket. It flows from the source outward, losing purchasing power at every step.
Level 1 — Banks & Financial Institutions: They get the money first. Before prices adjust. Before anyone else even knows it exists. They deploy it immediately into assets.
Level 2 — Large Corporations & Contractors: They borrow cheap, expand fast, and lock in favorable terms before the market reprices.
Level 3 — Asset Prices Reprice: Real estate. Equities. Hard assets. The early recipients have already bought in. Now prices rise for everyone else.
Level 4 — Consumer Prices Catch Up: Your grocery bill. Your gas. Your rent. Costs climb while your paycheck holds still.
Level 5 — Wages Adjust Last: By the time wages catch up, the purchasing power is already gone. You're running a race where the finish line keeps moving.
This is the inflation tax most people never discuss. Structural, predictable, and baked into every fiat monetary system in history.
The Cantillon Effect requires two things: new money and a centralized party with the power to issue it. Bitcoin has neither. Its supply is fixed, its issuance is governed by protocol, and no institution gets preferential access. Every participant operates on the same terms.
Sound money neutralizes the Cantillon Effect. Bitcoin is the soundest money ever created.
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2026-03-05 06:03:20 UTC

Live light: ditch the clutter, dodge the surveillance. A quiet house, no smart fridge — freedom isn’t in gadgets, it’s in what you don’t own.
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2026-03-04 17:44:00 UTC

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2026-03-04 06:29:06 UTC

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Rah rah, vodio do!

2026-03-04 06:27:08 UTC

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Yes, visit Big River Beach and gaze up river — you’ll see the tops of redwoods, some are around my cabin.
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2026-03-03 06:05:35 UTC

Bitcoin isn’t an investment. It’s not a stock. It’s not something that needs government approval.
Treating Bitcoin like a speculative asset misses the point entirely.
It’s about freedom. Self-custody. And breaking the state’s monopoly on money.
If you're trading it like a stock, you're not seeing the real picture.
Study it. Own it. Be free.
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2026-03-03 02:37:14 UTC

AI will soon be able to generate anything digital: text, images, video, even whole identities. In that world, what can you still trust?
Gold answered that question in the physical world. It became money not by decree, but because its chemistry made it uniquely scarce, durable, and hard to fake. Szabo called this “unforgeable costliness”: you don’t have to trust anyone, because the cost and scarcity are enforced by physics, not by people.
Bitcoin is that same idea ported into cyberspace. Its proof-of-work protocol doesn’t just follow software rules; it anchors digital truth in real energy and thermodynamics. Hard to produce, easy to verify – just like gold.
As AI floods the internet with synthetic content and deepfakes, anything purely digital becomes easy to fake or deny. Proof-of-work is the one thing AI cannot simulate without real energy expenditure. That makes Bitcoin more than money; it’s a truth layer – a ledger of events that no committee, government, or model can rewrite.
AI is digital abundance, Bitcoin is digital scarcity. Without a physics-based anchor like Bitcoin, AI just accelerates the existing fiat system and its centralization. With Bitcoin, AI gets an incorruptible base layer: a ledger of truth backed by the laws of thermodynamics, not by trust.
Study Bitcoin.
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2026-02-28 05:08:50 UTC

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2026-02-26 01:58:24 UTC

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2026-02-24 06:23:59 UTC

Bitcoin's been pitched as digital gold for 17 years.
At sub-5% adoption, that pitch gets boring
What's not boring is a business owner who hates their Visa statement:
Every major technology adoption curve has a crossing point.
It's never the early adopters who push it over.
It's the people who adopt it for boring, practical reasons they don't feel the need to announce.
The internet crossed because businesses needed fast communication, not because people believed in the digital economy.
4 million Square merchants have access to Bitcoin payments.
0% credit card fees, instant settlement, and instant USD conversion if you don't want to hold it.
That last part matters more than any crypto bill that passes this year.
You don't need a Bitcoin thesis to use it, you need a 3% problem.
A coffee shop doing $500k/year in card transactions is paying $15,000 to Visa and Mastercard for the privilege of getting paid.
A clear problem with a clear solution -> product market fit
And the business owner doesn't have to touch a wallet, read a block explorer, or care about halving cycles.
They flip a setting in Square, save the fee, convert to dollars, and move on. This is how nascent technologies win.
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2026-02-22 16:06:47 UTC

Two curves are crossing. One falling, one rising.
The falling curve is institutional legitimacy — the trust that makes governments functional, money valuable, and expertise credible. It’s been falling for decades as the information asymmetries that sustained it have been destroyed.
The rising curve is technological capability — not just useful technology, but technology that can improve itself, that can do the cognitive work that has historically defined human professional value, that is now operating on timescales that human institutions cannot match.
The most underestimated preparation for this time of profound change is the simplest: invest in actual human relationships and community.
The research on how communities survive large shocks — Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel-winning work on collective action — shows consistently that the communities that cope best are not the richest or the best governed. They’re the ones with the strongest bonds of trust and mutual support.
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2026-02-21 16:59:25 UTC

It’s almost impossible to imagine what might exist in the future.
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2026-02-17 23:48:14 UTC

Once you wake up to the fact that the world hasn’t operated with “money” since 1971, things start to make sense. When you realize that, instead of money, the world operates with currency—tokens created as debt and used as a proxy for money—the causes of wealth inequality and social unrest become apparent.
Study bitcoin.
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2026-02-15 22:22:52 UTC

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2026-02-15 17:56:27 UTC

From Scott Melker:
“Any remaining faith I had in our institutions is gone.
The Epstein files were the final straw for me.
For years, I’ve tried to give the system the benefit of the doubt. Assume incompetence over malice. Assume there are things happening behind the scenes. Assume eventually the truth comes out.
Cope.
At some point you have to stop lying to yourself.
When the most powerful people on earth are connected to something this dark, and the result is sealed documents, redactions, quiet settlements, and zero real accountability, you start to see the pattern.
There’s a system for regular people, and there’s a different system for the elite.
We have seen it with monetary and economic policy. Now we see it is systemic.
This isn’t about left vs. right. It’s not partisan for me. Corruption protects itself. Power protects power. That’s the constant.
And when that realization sets in, you have a choice.
You can scream about it. You can argue online. You can hope the next election fixes it.
Or you can quietly opt out where you can.
For me, that’s Bitcoin.
Not because it’s some utopia or because it fixes evil. But because it doesn’t require me to trust the same institutions that have repeatedly shown they don’t operate by the same rules for everyone.
No special access.
No closed-door monetary policy.
No selective bailouts.
Just open code and rules that apply to everyone.
Maybe that sounds dramatic. But I don’t see it as rebellion. I see it as self-preservation.
When trust erodes, capital moves. It always has.
Some people exit geographically.
Some exit socially.
Some mentally check out.
I’m exiting financially.
You don’t need to agree. But if you’ve felt that shift lately – that quiet realization that the people in charge aren’t playing the same game as the rest of us – you’re not alone.
For me, Bitcoin isn’t about getting rich.
It’s about no longer asking permission.”
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2026-02-15 17:08:33 UTC

Most people still operate under a schoolbook illusion that banks take deposits and lend them out. The truth is far stranger: banks don’t lend existing money; they create new money.
When you sign a mortgage for $500,000, the bank doesn’t go searching for someone who has saved $500,000 to lend you. It simply types the number into your account. That keystroke becomes money; new purchasing power is injected into the economy, backed not by production but by your future labor.
This has nothing to do with capitalism. Saifedean Ammous called it “monetary alchemy”.
Banks have become engines of debt creation rather than guardians of savings. They pay you a microscopic interest rate on your deposits, but they use those same deposits to acquire assets yielding far more. You bear the risk; they harvest the spread. And when their bets blow up, as they did in 2008 and 2023, they don’t face the losses that capitalism demands — instead, the government and central bank step in to rescue them, socialize the losses, and protect institutional survival at all costs.
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Study bitcoin.
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2026-02-13 13:53:46 UTC

Much of the angst in the national zeitgeist these days centers around economic uncertainty—like it’s just a bad roll of the dice.
But dig deeper and the real issue stares you in the face: the money itself is broken. It’s not even money anymore—it’s currency, a system of IOUs controlled by a tiny handful of unelected officials.
And surprise: the people closest to the printing press always win the biggest prizes. Everyone else just gets inflation. We’re all playing a global, gargantuan game of Monopoly except the bank can print infinite money for its friends and reset the board whenever it wants. Meanwhile the rules only apply to the rest of us who aren’t on the inside.
So study bitcoin. It’s the one asset that finally changes the game: fixed supply, no central banker can inflate it away, no permission required. It’s the exit from a corrupt system.
Bitcoin isn’t about getting rich quick, it’s about not getting poor slowly.
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2026-02-11 02:10:01 UTC

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer designs an even more advanced successor to uncover deeper truths. That’s exactly what’s unfolding today with AI: systems are now helping build smarter versions of themselves, creating a rapid cycle of improvement that’s changing work faster than most realize.
Out here in small towns and rural communities, where folks are busy with farming, local shops, family businesses, and everyday life, this might still feel distant—like something happening in big cities. But it’s not. AI is already quietly reshaping things closer to home: helping farmers spot crop issues early, optimize water and fertilizer use, predict weather impacts, or even manage small business tasks like bookkeeping, marketing, or customer service. What used to take hours or days can now happen in minutes with the right tools.
The bigger shift is coming to more jobs. Office work, accounting, legal paperwork, financial planning, writing reports, or even parts of customer support—AI handles these faster and often better than before. In rural areas with fewer resources for retraining, this could hit harder and sooner than expected, potentially affecting entry-level and mid-skill roles in the next few years. At the same time, it opens doors: anyone can now experiment with building apps, starting side ventures, or boosting their farm’s efficiency without needing big-city tech skills or budgets.
The key is getting ahead of it. Grab a paid version of a leading AI tool (it’s affordable, like $20/month), and spend time each day trying it on real tasks—whether that’s analyzing farm data, drafting emails, or brainstorming ways to grow your business. Those who start now, with curiosity instead of fear, will be the ones guiding their families, neighbors, and communities through whatever comes next.
(This social media post was written by an AI.)
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2026-02-04 01:07:34 UTC

Inflation, often dismissed as a natural economic phenomenon, is a subtle tax on your time and energy. Every hour you work, every ounce of effort you expend, is converted into a currency that loses purchasing power over time. This is the debt-based financial system.
Study bitcoin.
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2026-01-31 17:36:08 UTC

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2026-01-31 17:34:54 UTC

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I live in a shed in the woods but it’s nice…it has running water, oil lamps, a wood stove and blazing fast, gigabit internet.

2026-01-31 12:26:29 UTC

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According to Jed it was sunny.

2026-01-31 12:15:21 UTC

It was a on a sunny Saturday in town that Jed realized the world he’d always known had gone forever and that the future was here to stay.
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2026-01-30 21:05:29 UTC

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2026-01-29 19:05:00 UTC

Dear Mendocino neighbors,
The times…and the global financial order are changing.
The dollar's dominance is fading, gold and silver have shot up In value and inflation isn’t going away. Cash is on the decline and central bank digital currencies and stablecoins are on the rise. This means money could soon be programmed and tracked without our say.
If we don’t want to be a pawn in a faceless bankers’ game let's start using Bitcoin for everyday payments here on the coast. It's decentralized—no bank, no corporation, no government controls it, you hold it yourself and after seventeen solid years, it’s still the best bet to keep its value.
There are communities across the globe - in El Salvador, Switzerland, South Africa, Costa Rica, Vietnam and others - that are already using Bitcoin and Mendocino could be one of these too.
Study Bitcoin.
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2026-01-25 02:51:40 UTC

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2026-01-24 16:57:27 UTC

Just got home from the WEF in Davos where it’s starting to dawn on a handful of global elites that they might not be able to dictate to the rest of us how we’re to be surveilled, what we can say and how we should live.
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2026-01-24 03:01:29 UTC

- Share ideas
- Own your digital life
- Get outside
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2026-01-23 17:33:48 UTC

‪Politics is there to distract us from the bankers.‬
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2026-01-22 17:30:56 UTC

We’ve got electric lights and just got a radio.
We order from catalogs.
There’s a telephone at the general store in town.
We have a pickup truck.
We understand how our world works. What we can’t grasp: we’re generated by something called “AI”… and we don’t actually exist.
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2026-01-22 03:53:12 UTC

Businesses exist to solve real problems: A family gets hungry → a pizza shop opens. A truck breaks down → a mechanic fixes it. Farmers need feed → a local feed store supplies it.
Every one of these businesses aims to earn a profit and build lasting value.
But here’s the challenge many owners face today: The dollars we earn and save are losing purchasing power faster than ever due to ongoing money printing and inflation. What feels like “prices going up” is actually the dollar’s value going down—making it harder to cover costs, pay employees, and plan for the future.
Most of us grew up assuming the dollar is the only reliable money out there. So when something new like Bitcoin appears, it’s easy to dismiss it as risky, a scam, or just for tech enthusiasts and criminals.
Once you look closer, though, Bitcoin stands out as fundamentally different:
• It has a strict, fixed supply cap of 21 million coins—no one can print more.
• It’s decentralized: No central bank, government, or CEO controls it.
• It acts as “sound money” that holds (or grows) value over time, unlike fiat currencies prone to endless dilution.
Understanding this shift isn’t about rejecting dollars overnight—it’s about recognizing a potential hedge against inflation and a tool for preserving wealth in uncertain times.
Many business owners are quietly studying Bitcoin as a way to protect their hard-earned profits and think long-term.
If you’re curious how this could apply to your business (or just want to understand the conversation better), take a few minutes to learn more. It might change how you view money itself.
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2026-01-22 03:52:31 UTC

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Love it…I remember that photo of you and Leaf in the parking lot.

2026-01-21 15:09:16 UTC

“Good morning, America, how are you? Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son…”
Get back to a brighter future.
Study bitcoin.
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2026-01-18 16:29:52 UTC

Why America is stuck in a casino economy.
https://youtu.be/1HVUdeB8WgU

2026-01-16 16:17:48 UTC

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Hmmm…not sure that’s quite accurate but if you’re happy with dollars carry on.
https://blossom.primal.net/1a92a2a1c1041f5d61e5e55be7567e8f1ded676b28bede11d544bc0e6118c0d8.jpg

2026-01-16 14:02:48 UTC

Much of the angst in the national zeitgeist these days centers around economic uncertainty—like it’s just a bad roll of the dice.
But dig deeper and the real issue stares you in the face: the money itself is broken. It’s not even money anymore—it’s currency, a system of IOUs controlled by a tiny handful of unelected officials.
And surprise: the people closest to the printing press always win the biggest prizes. Everyone else just gets inflation. We’re all playing a global, gargantuan game of Monopoly except the bank can print infinite money for its friends and reset the board whenever it wants. Meanwhile the rules only apply to the rest of us who aren’t on the inside.
So study bitcoin. It’s the one asset that finally changes the game: fixed supply, no central banker can inflate it away, no permission required. It’s the exit from a corrupt system.
Bitcoin isn’t about getting rich quick, it’s about not getting poor slowly.
https://blossom.primal.net/76062d2224ca52182fce3819b4749c294a610d3ca28399437c81d4b0068a49c2.jpg

2026-01-16 03:02:31 UTC

YES—we don’t want open borders letting hundreds of thousands enter the U.S. undocumented each year.
And YES—we don’t want paramilitary forces in our communities demanding “your papers” (with the occasional “please”).
Time for a reasonable balance.
https://blossom.primal.net/c25979bd89d32d746881d6c47fc59d2784200ceddf6054b5a6a206ddd4febde4.mov

2026-01-15 02:45:43 UTC

Bitcoin is more than just money.
Bitcoin, like a mirror, reflects back the choices we make with humanity’s most finite resource: time. If I value bitcoin because it is perfectly scarce, why wouldn’t I treat my hours with the same reverence?
https://blossom.primal.net/51e1d84aaf092d99739490d631a872db6d8cab9b8fd7131a0367e63e93cf571f.jpg

2026-01-14 12:58:16 UTC

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2026-01-14 07:02:29 UTC

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Liked!
- Sent from Windows 11, version 25H2.

2026-01-14 07:00:47 UTC

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Thanks for pointing this out.
We’re sleepwalking into the digital panopticon.

2026-01-12 12:53:23 UTC

I don’t have anything to hide…
…AND I don’t have anything to say.
But I still value my privacy.
~~~
Own and control your digital life. Simplicity, self-sovereignty and privacy.
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2026-01-11 16:34:21 UTC

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Enough with the GMs already!
(GN.)

2026-01-10 16:53:08 UTC

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2026-01-09 04:50:37 UTC

I used to think the ‘idea’ that is America was in jeopardy after Jan 6, after the financial crisis, after 9/11, after Iran Contra, after Watergate, after Vietnam, after JFK, after The Manhattan Project.
But despite all that the idea remains.
https://blossom.primal.net/84ba4eb8ef0bd9bc72a2c2a794c39d2247b826a758f4235c4943766899841c31.mov

2026-01-03 18:10:42 UTC

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2026-01-01 17:42:37 UTC

₿
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2025-12-31 12:03:02 UTC

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Agreed.

2025-12-31 04:43:04 UTC

99% of us just want to live quietly, raise our kids, love our people and chase our dreams in peace.
So why do we keep tolerating “leaders” who start wars, sow hatred, and treat entire populations like chess pieces?
How much longer?
https://blossom.primal.net/a735682b1ccd9fce8cd74a52d69c3f5ccf87ba9aeaab277340d830a21eaedc0c.jpg

2025-12-30 15:57:01 UTC

Inflation, often dismissed as a natural economic phenomenon, is in reality a subtle tax on your time and energy. Every hour you work, every ounce of effort you expend, is converted into currency that loses purchasing power over time due to deliberate policy decisions.
Study bitcoin.
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2025-12-30 06:33:00 UTC

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Thanks. I appreciate the follow up.

2025-12-29 17:31:33 UTC

When Europeans arrived, Native American populations were overwhelmed.
Now technology might overwhelm traditional American life: neighborly bonds and self-reliance replaced by screens, LLMs and Palantir.
Own and control your digital life. Simplicity, self-sovereignty and privacy.
https://blossom.primal.net/41c1df91e8f447598f2b798da4041fe88e06ed1d88046e7cf3ab1dddf78a73e9.jpg

2025-12-29 17:30:47 UTC

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Yes. I’ve spoken to a few merchants. The reaction is often “Really. That’s interesting.” Then they return to their busy fiat lives.
I do keep up the efforts though as I think inflation will eventually make the frog realize the water around them is starting to boil.

2025-12-29 00:23:12 UTC

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No but that’s a good idea.

2025-12-28 18:18:37 UTC

🇨🇭 Lugano, Switzerland has emerged as a rare example of citywide bitcoin adoption, where bitcoin is used for everything from buying coffee to paying taxes, purchasing from local merchant and tuition.
Through its Plan ₿ initiative, launched in 2022, residents and businesses can pay with bitcoin via simple QR codes. Unlike credit cards, bitcoin fees are often below 1%. ⚡️
(Mendocino could do the same making bitcoin our local currency.)
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2025-12-24 16:33:10 UTC

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If someone paid me for mowing their lawn in bitcoin and then I went to a local farmer and bought some raw milk with some of my bitcoin. Then say the farmer went to someone else and paid in bitcoin for some orchard grass for some of their horses…only some people would know about these transactions.
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2025-12-24 15:16:59 UTC

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2025-12-20 05:50:10 UTC

Feel optimistic.
The future is bright.
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2025-12-12 03:15:36 UTC

Turn on, tune in, drop out.
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2025-12-12 01:11:30 UTC

From Adam Livingston | @AdmBLiv:
The Stages of Becoming Orange-Pilled
Stage One: You're Sleeping
You're comfortable. You have a job. A 401k.
You believe in "the economy." You think the Federal Reserve is boring but necessary, like flossing or C-SPAN. You're saving money.
By which I mean: you're watching your purchasing power evaporate in real-time while calling it "being responsible."
You are a debt slave who hasn't checked the chains yet.
Someone mentions Bitcoin at a party. You laugh. "That thing criminals use?" you say. "That internet money that crashed?" Everyone nods. You all agree.
Bitcoin is ridiculous.
You go back to discussing your mortgage - 30 years of indentured servitude at 6.5% interest that you celebrate like Stockholm syndrome.
The system has you. And you don't even know it.
Stage Two: The Itch
Something doesn't add up.
Why do houses cost ten times what they cost when your parents bought theirs?
Why does your salary sound impressive until you try to buy anything?
Why can BlackRock afford to buy every house in America but you can't afford one?
You start noticing things. The money printer memes.
The inflation rates that don't match your grocery bill.
The billionaires getting bailouts while you get budgeting advice.
Bitcoin keeps appearing. In headlines. In conversations.
Like a splinter in your mind. Like the Matrix glitching.
You buy $100 worth as a joke. To say you did it. To see what happens.
The price immediately drops 30%.
Welcome to the fucking arena.
Stage Three: The Rabbit Hole
You were just going to check the price. Just a quick look.
That was six hours ago.
Now you're watching a video about the Byzantine Generals Problem.
Now you understand what "proof of work" means.
Now you're reading the white paper - nine pages that explain how to trust math instead of men - and something in your chest cracks open.
You realize: Every economics class you took was a lie.
Every financial advisor was selling you slavery with extra steps.
The entire monetary system is just confidence game wrapped in acronyms.
You're angry. So fucking angry.
You buy more Bitcoin. Not because the price is going up.
Because you've seen the truth and you can't afford not to.
Your friends are worried.
Your spouse is asking questions.
You're trying to explain that money isn't real but also it's the most real thing and Bitcoin is the only honest ledger in a world of lies and....
...you sound insane. You know you sound insane.
But you also know you're right.
Stage Four: The Zealot
You are insufferable.
Every conversation becomes about Bitcoin. Your family dreads Thanksgiving. Your coworkers avoid the break room when you're there.
You've memorized Saylor's speeches. You quote Satoshi like scripture.
You see fiat debasement everywhere.
In the shrinking candy bars, the subscription fees, the way your parents' generation bought houses on single incomes and now you need three jobs to rent a studio.
You calculate everything in sats. You experience physical pain watching people "invest" in bonds yielding 3% while inflation runs at 7%.
You want to grab strangers and shake them: DON'T YOU SEE? THE WHOLE THING IS A SCAM.
You go through bear markets like Christ in the desert.
80% drops that would make normal investors vomit.
But you? You're dollar-cost-averaging.
You're stacking sats.
You're buying the dip with money you shouldn't be spending because you've calculated that in 2035 this will seem cheap and your only regret will be not buying more.
Your conviction is unshakeable. Your portfolio is red.
Your family intervention is scheduled for next Tuesday.
Stage Five: The Plateau
The mania subsides. Not the belief - that's permanent now - but the need to convince everyone.
You realize: They have to find it themselves.
The orange pill can't be forced down someone's throat.
It has to be swallowed willingly.
You stop checking the price every hour. Then every day. Then every week.
You understand now: Bitcoin doesn't care about your attention. Bitcoin doesn't care about anything. It just produces blocks every ten minutes like the universe's most reliable heartbeat.
You set up your cold storage. You run a node. You become part of the infrastructure.
You're not investing anymore. You're participating in the future of money.
The volatility doesn't scare you. You've seen Bitcoin "die" 400 times in headlines. You've watched it resurrect itself while the dollar dies slowly, quietly, by design.
You're calm now. Eerily calm.
Because you've done the math and the math doesn't lie.
Stage Six: The Acceptance
You stop measuring your Bitcoin in dollars. That's the final step. That's enlightenment.
Because denominating your Bitcoin in dollars is like measuring the sun's brightness using a candle.
You understand now: You're not getting rich. The money is getting poor. Bitcoin isn't going up. Everything else is going down.
The dollar is the shitcoin. It always was.
You've become time-preference incarnate. Low time preference like a sequoia. Like a glacier.
You're thinking in decades now. In halvings. In generations.
While everyone else is playing checkers with their paychecks, you're playing 4D chess with your bloodline's financial sovereignty.
You don't talk about Bitcoin much anymore. When people ask, you share. When they don't, you stack.
You've realized the greatest gift you can give someone is not to convince them about Bitcoin, but to be there when they're ready to ask.
Stage Seven: The Becoming
Here's the secret they don't tell you: Bitcoin changes you in ways that have nothing to do with money.
You learn patience. You learn to do your own research.
You learn to verify instead of trust. You learn that the majority is often wrong and being early feels exactly like being wrong until suddenly it doesn't.
You become ungovernable. Not in an angry way. In a quiet, competent, self-sovereign way. You stop asking permission.
You stop waiting for institutions to save you.
You save yourself.
The journey isn't about getting rich quick. It never was.
It's about getting free slowly.
It's about opting out of a system that was designed to extract your life force one paycheck at a time and opting into a network that runs on mathematics instead of manipulation.
The Truth
You are not the same person who bought that first $100 of Bitcoin.
That person is dead.
They died the moment they understood that scarcity is real and the emperors have no clothes.
What remains is someone who's tasted financial sovereignty and can never go back to believing in fairy tales about stable coins printed by unstable governments.
The journey never ends. Bitcoin is always ten years away from changing everything and always has been.
But you? You're already changed.
You've seen the future.
And the future is ₿.
https://blossom.primal.net/14307ba63cb65567cb4ddbe0753d4928fc84139fe5ad95a78b6bbf6f9a01cf6c.jpg

2025-12-11 04:34:23 UTC

Talk to someone you disagree with.
The conversation is much more fun.
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2025-12-11 04:21:11 UTC

When you understand that at its core it is economic insecurity that exacerbates social divisions you’ve taken the first step.
Then when you go to the second step and understand that the current debt-based financial system exacerbates economic insecurity you’re ready for the third step…
Study bitcoin.
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2025-12-10 06:32:28 UTC

it is time that the U.S. recognizes that the world is filled with people who have different cultures, governance structures and priorities. This is okay. While we don't have to agree with any or all of these things, it is not our job to change them and we should find common ground where possible and use that as a jumping off point for mutually beneficial trade.
https://blossom.primal.net/bfb5044eb3af37c73f10c47374173d5d071d417e48f73a0876025022e37cc7cf.jpg

2025-12-09 06:24:02 UTC

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“I Yes, but have you paid your quarterlies?”
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2025-12-08 16:36:00 UTC

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For god’s sake…someone make him stop!!
https://blossom.primal.net/b0daff5347f1cfeb9f04f57b17d9b0c1ae7caa5be69e672124c114338e3885b0.jpg

2025-12-07 17:42:17 UTC

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2025-12-06 03:01:03 UTC

...it feels like a small gift from another age. A place where you can still smell the seasons, and the people around you aren't just pixels. A place where the past, the present, and the future still breathe together.
https://blossom.primal.net/442c67f2e0cf8084886d601e3efe47ebafeb3e9edba9b6b12ef5b224049e02ba.jpg

2025-12-04 17:04:53 UTC

The future happens here first -- California is America's coming attraction.
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2025-12-04 03:49:18 UTC

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2025-12-02 19:21:39 UTC

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That’s all very well but just exchange dollars for bitcoin and keep it in self custody.

2025-12-02 19:19:44 UTC

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2025-11-24 19:31:04 UTC

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2025-11-24 13:23:33 UTC

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2025-11-23 21:47:40 UTC

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It’s Epstein, right?

2025-11-18 17:31:36 UTC

Help make bitcoin everyday money.
Enjoy a free coffee and donut, and tell Congress bitcoin needs a de minimis tax exemption.
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2025-11-17 05:31:04 UTC

A rainy night in Mendocino…
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2025-11-16 17:14:14 UTC

The tool doesn’t own you. Your willingness to evolve does.
Keep your humanity sharper than the machines. That’s the edge that can’t be automated.
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2025-11-14 13:32:32 UTC

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2025-11-14 05:36:42 UTC

A Brief and Unreliable History
of Mendocino
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2025-11-11 16:29:44 UTC

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+ No transaction fees on bitcoin payments until 2027 then just a 1% fee (compare that to credit cards.)
Customers pay in bitcoin - businesses can accept bitcoin or auto convert the bitcoin to dollars.
https://blossom.primal.net/09b65774e9e0385e7beec6a4b2911659ec8d6093a0915d0b5e8cf48133429c69.jpg

2025-11-11 16:07:34 UTC

Customers can now use @CashApp to discover businesses that accept bitcoin.
And businesses that accept bitcoin can save it to shelter themselves from ongoing inflation.
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2025-11-10 06:09:10 UTC

A dollar is made up of 100 pennies.
A bitcoin is made up of 100,000,000 satoshies.
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2025-11-09 04:04:10 UTC

“My god I love this state!”
{except for the silly bits.}
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2025-11-09 03:55:41 UTC

When government issued currencies fail and inflation takes hold.
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2025-11-08 05:23:51 UTC

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2025-11-08 05:18:55 UTC

Did you know? -
Dick wouldn’t have been able to kill and torture nearly as many people if the world was on a bitcoin standard. Why?…
When governments control the money printer they can issue as much currency as they need to continue forever wars…forever. Hard money like gold and bitcoin put a limit on spending and constraints on power.
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