jkpgamer
Kevin

I have a genuine question for bitcoiners out there, with the caveat that I myself am a bitcoiners:
What would have to happen to invalidate the #Bitcoin thesis?
In other words, is there a point where you go, "I was wrong. It's done."

2023-04-19 17:54:12

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They made this into a board game. If you've not played you should check it out... It's insanely fun with friends.
Best part about it, if one person makes it to the finish the whole group wins. Hardly ever happens though 😂😂😂

2023-04-17 13:40:02

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They should just stop eating avocado toast and make coffee at home instead of going to Starbucks. 😂😂😂

2023-04-16 22:00:57

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So glad I learned my lesson last cycle, before a full #Bitcoin was out of my reach.

2023-04-16 07:36:17

For any Orthodox christians out there:
Cristos Anesti!
Christ is risen!

2023-04-15 23:48:43

Me and my wife were so close to tipping our waitress this evening in #Bitcoin... She says she's got a surgery for her dog to pay for, which I can respect. But she had tons of questions for us... Asked us to come back and see her and we'd talk about it again. At least she's open to it.

2023-04-15 01:45:34

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Is there anyone home?

2023-04-14 21:57:20

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I tell this to my family every year. They refuse. So I say cash, which I immediately turn into sats.

2023-04-14 14:40:58

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Absolutely... It would solve a block in 2,500 years. Always a chance though. That's why I mine in a pool with my ASICs.
What a story if it actually solved a block though.

2023-04-14 13:12:48

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https://damus.io/note12k4kpu7e6d8dfx0ukmhehlsxpawzj4twdw6vxjytlh6av42vrcusc9amzw

2023-04-14 13:10:40

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That's not the picture I posted... Oh well

2023-04-14 13:07:29

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I https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_66a42dff4b52d51492d4650299bb18da56f48b3a2a3a15b02a7f659272fa9ac0.jpeg
I believe in miracles 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

2023-04-13 13:42:33

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Legend

2023-04-13 03:21:24

Just booked me and my wife's five year anniversary trip to El Zonte!
Hoping we can see everything we need to see to exit the USA and move.
Want to live our lives on the #Bitcoin standard and stop worrying about the bullshit Fed policies

2023-04-13 01:17:08

Thought I'd share my #Bitcoin journey:
I found Bitcoin through Stefan Molyneux. He's a philosopher that was banned from YouTube during the Trump era. But he's a free market Austrian economics capitalist. Back then he debated Peter Schiff about gold vs Bitcoin.
I bought in back in 2015. Transferred my coins to a core wallet. Encrypted that wallet without ever writing down my seed phrase... AND forgot the password. My wife likes to say, "your younger self outsmarted your future self."
What's worse is I was holding some coins for my best friend on that wallet.
I worked my ass off and made my friend whole as that's my fault. I bought more in the 2017 bull run but I wasn't very successful back then and to be honest I was so disheartened from my previous experience that I ignored it until 2020.
Back in the 2021 bull run I dabbled in alts. I had bought 1 ETH for $400, but I couldn't bring myself to buy any more.
2022 I went back through the content of Bitcoiners to remember why #Bitcoin had appealed to me so much in the first place. I converted EVERYTHING back to BTC. Got myself a better hardware wallet. Made sure I have my seed phrase in a better place.
Now I've orange pilled a bunch of my friends. The only one in my family I've been able to convince is my mother.
While I ignored #Bitcoin because of my own foolishness... I'm glad I found my way back.
Thank you for reading!

2023-04-13 00:57:40

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This is why #Bitcoin has so many attack vectors. I'm trying to live by #[3] 's idea of figuring out what people's pain points are and show how Bitcoin solves that. I'm still an amateur though

2023-04-12 21:08:14

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I had to walk my mom through it over the phone. Rewarding when she did it herself the next time

2023-04-12 01:28:48

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It's so interesting to me... I've never drank. Couldn't find anything I liked and I've gone so long NOT drinking alcohol I won't start now. But it's so funny to me how media/tv/movies always talk about peer pressure into alcohol or drugs. I've literally never met any alcohol drinker that didn't respect my preference to not drink. Probably because I never lectured them. You respect my choices, I respect yours.

2023-04-11 23:48:34

#[0] thanks for your video about how to eat carnivore on fast food in a pinch. Really saved me and the wife yesterday. Appreciate your work sir!

2023-04-11 21:52:25

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Corn: no not that corn

2023-04-11 21:50:17

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They wouldn't... Because it requires critical thinking

2023-04-11 21:48:31

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Hey! Peter Schiff fits all three!

2023-04-11 19:24:10

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I can understand that. People in first world countries that criticize a network that's literally saving people in third world countries. People are able to transport their wealth and get out and you want to stop that and call it useless? Monstrous.

2023-04-11 17:06:40

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That's amazing!

2023-04-11 03:09:55

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So... Double check my math... But if it compounds 2% every year. Doesn't that mean gold's supply doubles every 36 years... Approximately?

2023-04-11 01:59:14

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Science is just a term co-opted by the state now.
Love her or hate her, Ayn Rand predicted how fiat money would twist science in Atlas shrugged. Crazy to see it play out IRL.

2023-04-10 20:13:33

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But will they buy the planet, or wait till you can buy the solar system?

2023-04-10 18:22:24

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_53b659253b9a0138ce992a4664239070b22c6a940d14a788b0ca2c728a600bc3.jpg
Someone sent me this about fiat. Credit to @MitchellHODL on Twitter.
Gave me a good chuckle.

2023-04-10 18:06:04

#woscustomaddressgiveaway
Tried multiple lightning wallets. Wallet of Satoshi is the easiest to onboard new people. I've orange pilled friends by having them set up WoS and sending them sats. My handle has been the same since high school and it would be great to have it there too.
Current: olderhockey09@walletofsatoshi.com
New: jkpgamer@walletofsatoshi.com

2023-04-10 18:00:53

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Relationships are not hard when you share values. Started asking all the hard questions up front. Now happily married for five years.

2023-04-10 01:21:27

I just can't with Twitter anymore. I'm tired of seeing the gold bugs and state sponsored cucks talk about how #Bitcoin is going to zero. It's not even worth arguing anymore. People can't be saved if they don't want to be saved. I'll just focus on #nostr and keep stacking.

2023-04-09 13:54:43

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Spending time with the wife and great friends. Talking about how Bitcoin is changing our lives for the better. Possibly going to move to El Salvador to get away from the fiat regime

2023-04-08 13:05:47

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I would add... Once you experience life on the Bitcoin standard, you realize how depressing it was in the fiat world

2023-04-08 02:31:55

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Dude that drawing is fantastic!
I also gave up watching around there. I've read the books and couldn't take it anymore

2023-04-08 02:29:33

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Agreed... Feels like beating my head against a wall. BUT the feeling when you orange pill someone and they get it... Man it makes it so worth it

2023-04-07 22:47:21

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Ugh... Love your insights.
My boss bought a Tesla from all the hype, after a year the battery is already 5-10% less efficient. Glad he bought one and now I don't have to 😂

2023-04-07 22:40:42

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_5bc3a2cf975df3d059534a5ecdbd2d42ee772d71e18faa71269011a8ddf0fd4a.jpg
Decided to try for a miracle and solo mine a block. Probably won't happen but if it ever does...

2023-04-07 13:16:59

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Agreed... But it's fixing a lot of the hormonal problems my wife has had all her life. Worth it to see her in better health than I've ever seen her :)

2023-04-07 13:07:46

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Me and my wife are switching to carnivore, but we've had to do it slowly... Eliminating all carbs except rice and tortillas. Then eliminated tortillas. Next week finally eliminating rice. Took 4 months of detox. It's crazy man

2023-04-06 19:30:04

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There would still be debt. You could still take out loans. The goal would be to provide so much value with a new product that you make enough to cover your debt OR a company that figured out a way to reduce the cost of a product could borrow to start up and undercut the competition, therefore, capturing all that value to pay back to the lender.
Lending, borrowing, paying off, and defaulting all existed before the current system. To take Jeff's argument, people are so ingrained in this system and the wacky numbers that it's hard to see the other system.

2023-04-06 19:22:41

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Someone had asked what's one of the things a #Bitcoin world will bring about that is most important to you:
My answer is a serious reduction in the work week. As technology brings prices closer to cost, your cost of living goes way down, which means more time spent with family, friends, and hobbies. Will be an amazing world where everyone only has to work a few hours a week for the necessities and open up time for creativity and invention of things we can't even dream.

2023-04-06 01:28:55

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Makes me wish I had a musical brain. I tried to learn bass six years ago... Wasn't terrible, but after six months of just trying to train myself, I realized I just can't think in that way. I can write a programming symphony in the automation world, but can't wrap my head around music. So I'm back to just listening and enjoying what I can't understand.

2023-04-05 21:58:33

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It's seriously sad to watch... Because I agree with him on almost everything else... But he's so invested in yellow rock mining companies there's no way he'll change his tune until it's way late in the adoption curve.
He won't even take his own advice of putting 5% in, just in case. At least not publicly

2023-04-05 18:45:00

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I get into arguments all the time because my wife and I won't be putting our kids in public schools. Part of why I married her was because she was the only one I could find that legitimately wanted to homeschool her kids. Couldn't put a ring on her fast enough

2023-04-05 18:43:09

I was finally able to get my latest purchase of #Bitcoin off of the exchange and reached my stack goals.
Now that goal post is moving and I'm behind again, but honestly after losing my initial coins because I outsmarted myself, I'm just happy to hit my goal

2023-04-04 23:20:55

#[0] you know what's crazy to think about with your charts? As much as we talk about stacking to a whole coin... Is how people will talk about stacking 1 million satoshis in the future.
It's such a wild thought.
Also, how much intelligence and productivity will be unlocked when you no longer need professional investors that have dedicated their lives to understanding the Fiat system. I use your horse trainer metaphor to help people understand my point.
The future with #Bitcoin looks so bright!

2023-04-04 13:22:21

I was able to successfully orange pill a salesman that the company I work for does business with. He didn't understand how Bitcoin is used as payment. Had him download WoS, zapped him some sats and it blew his mind. Sent him a link to "The Bitcoin Standard" and he devoured it in four days.
I usually get so much pushback I love it when I get a win!

2023-04-04 13:05:25

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Very interesting read. From my own understanding of Jason's argument about abstract power, so much power was given to governments that gold may have ended where we are no matter what. Because so much abstract power is given to governments, they centralize as much as possible.
As for your skepticism I completely understand. I too am wary of governments stockpiling Bitcoin and potentially cutting citizens off from ever being able to acquire some themselves, however, trying to get in Jason's headspace: he truly believes this is a war mechanism/tool. If he's correct, then everything must be abandoned for the new tool in order to come out on top. You don't commit resources to making swords when cannons arrive.
I'm also skeptical of the military aspect of Bitcoin. He doesn't have any practical use cases for why the government would be hashing in his book so far... I'm barely into chapter 5. Although I've also seen him allude to the fact that he has practical applications/reasoning but because he's a US Patriot he doesn't want to give those out for other countries to get ahead.
All in all time will tell what the truth is... All it has really done for me is drive me to stack sats more.
I think the apology is very noble. We all get caught in our own heads at times. And looking to his thesis again, I do think he's right about one thing at least: software being influenced by the creators own bias. Just because the creator describes the software as one thing, doesn't necessarily mean that's the ONLY thing it can do. We see this in writing all the time where the author doesn't even understand the full implications/symbolism of his/her own work.
Appreciate your point of view it's given me more to think about. :)

2023-03-16 14:16:33

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True... Which is why the trades (electrician, plumber, etc.) Still use this system. It's not perfect but I'm almost through to my journeyman electrician's license currently. Learned more the last four years as an apprentice than I ever did in school.

2023-03-16 14:08:54

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Hahaha... It's funny that people come up with new Descartes theories every few years. "How do you know you're not a brain in a tank" was the OG argument. There's no null hypothesis. And to that end, if we are all just lines of code and you believe that, then there's no point in arguing other than to paralyze your opponent.

2023-03-05 23:12:08

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Glad to have you sir! Look forward to the same quality posts here that you do on Twitter 😀

2023-03-04 04:49:12

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This reminds me of the Croesus_BTC/Jessie Myers article about the yuppie elite dismissing Bitcoin. They have an inherent trust of the system. They don't even question it, and believe on some level that it can work.
Won't recognize it until the last bricks are crashing around them.

2023-03-03 02:34:24

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Hahaha... My first zap was definitely a "who did that? That's awesome!" Moment

2023-02-28 15:55:20

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Unfortunately, have to look at both sides and come up with something in the middle. Most of the time just have to avoid altogether