erikcason
Erik Cason

Cryptosovereignty.org

I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy.

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty

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2024-09-03 04:03:26

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It’s the power of the panopticon and what it means to live under constant surveillance.

2024-09-03 03:59:08

The more I think about Nostr the more it blows my mind.
I can just say whatever crazy shit I want and there’s like no guardrails or mods—it’s just out there, and people will actually see it.
No one appreciates just how powerful this is, how important it is, monumental even.
It creates a totally new possibility for the social web, which is really something else entirely. It’s the possibility of a new world in which people own their data; their information. No longer to be exploited, or owned, people can really say whatever they want.
And that is truly extraordinary.

2024-09-02 17:33:40

Sadly, some of my older family members are extremely NPC. After a lifetime of MSM brainwashing and the total destruction of thought from it, all they can really do when faced with difficult realities is exclamation, “That’s a conspiracy theory!” And shove their head in the sand, never to look at it again.
I use to think I was obligated to have them ‘get it’ but I now realize they’ll never get it, and that’s ok. I’ve met great people throughout my life who do get it and wanna rap deep with me about these topics. They really value getting to share in those conversations, and want to join the party to be a playable character in the world.
Not everyone is capable of being a playable character, and that doesn’t make them bad or wrong; it just limits what is possible with them. I now focus on just keeping things with them as ‘normal’ as I can and considering that allows for things be stable and easy for everyone else in the family and that works well.

2024-09-01 21:31:30

I love September as it’s the month that I’m so rich in apples and pears that I get to seek out the ripest, juiciest, tastiest fruit that there are.

2024-08-30 21:54:11

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That’ll be epic. Enjoy brother!

2024-08-29 15:12:48

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Change clients and see what the difference gives you.

2024-08-29 03:44:18

There is a real lack of understanding in just how fucked up the algos are, and how much power we gain in not being manipulated by them. We could be using the internet to do something extraordinary, and instead it is being used primarily to sell us shit and keep us scared. The whole of humanity is being fed lies and distortions through centralized social media that is designed to keep everyone asleep and unaware of their real power.
Now that there is no longer gatekeepers to what can be said to a global audience we have the power to shape a real unadulterated narrative; also known as the truth. The power of censorship to have molded a false global narrative is one of the pillars of the power structure that keep people divided over petty and impractical differences that can now be shown for what they are: manipulation tactics through the algos to keep everyone disempowered. We now have the ability to reclaim our voices in a way that no one can stomp out. What is to come and the changes that are to be ushered in will surprise all of us in the most remarkable of ways.

2024-08-28 17:16:26

I’m excited for corporate shills to make their way to Nostr so I can talk epic amounts of shit about their shitty corporation and there is nothing they can do about it.

2024-08-28 15:44:22

Most people don’t understand risk because they have spent their entire lives living in a gilded cages serving their masters as good little slaves who don’t have to be concerned where the yield comes from.

2024-08-26 21:36:27

I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with.
I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine.
I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!!
Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you.
Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet.
We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy.
My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance.
I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.

2024-08-26 02:34:09

I can’t believe these morons are actually going to try to fight math and think they are going to win.

2024-08-25 20:39:57

There seems to be a zeitgeist of understanding that we have firmly entered the, “then they fight you” phase.
We have one shot to save the internet as a free and open platform for all people everywhere; or to collapse into it become the most powerful propaganda and brainwashing tool ever created.
Now is the time to prepare, because there will not be another shot later.

2024-08-24 20:58:31

I feel bad for guys that are pretty creepy. It’s not like they have good (or any) awareness around their creepiness, and usually leave women within their proximity feeling the ick from their creepy vibes which they don’t realize they are putting out. The real shame is that it evokes so much shame, guilt and denial that there’s no way to really talk with them about it in a constructive way. Almost nobody wants to be creepy, but ironically creepies tend to have the least amount of awareness that makes them all the more creepy. It’s really sad to see once you realize the creepy aspect is then really wanting connection and incapable of it because of their creepy vibes.

2024-08-21 22:11:29

My family has three lazy free-loading cats who contribute nothing to the household, and believe they are entitled to food, housing, and medical services.
I call them meowist.

2024-08-21 21:24:48

Damn, the public library is the frontlines of the Maoist revolution. All of the displayed books are super woke. Sad to see it become politicized like all other public spaces.

2024-08-20 19:59:30

Proprietary AI is designed to dumb you down and modify your understanding of language on a whole through the linguistic application IngSoc through communist techniques and technologies.
It is designed to make you forget words and synonymize them with words of their choosing so you can no longer understand the complexity and nuance of communication.

2024-08-20 16:34:19

Now that bitcoin is pegged at $58k we can start working on the real stablecoin project which is 1 BTC = to 1 BTC.

2024-08-20 00:24:52

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I’ve seen them live three time and each show was phenomenal!

2024-08-17 22:23:43

I always feel very far left on the bell curve when doing home improvement projects, but by the end I feel like I am to the right of the bell curve once again.
Lesson: I tend to feel retarded until the project is completed.

2024-08-16 23:13:11

Nothing makes customers feel more cared about than talking to an AI bot about how one’s problem is not being worked on or cared about.
JFC I hate corporate bureaucracy even more than government bureaucracy.

2024-08-15 19:56:12

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Yes, and the state is their primary parent

2024-08-15 19:42:36

The sad truth is that most people have spent their entire lives being conditioned to simply obey, and to resist thinking.
Doesn’t matter what or who it is: stoplights, signs, announcements, strangers, someone ‘official’ looking, or just another human; most people just want someone or something to listen to so they don’t have to take responsibility to think for themselves. Thinking demands responsibility, the capacity to be correct or incorrect, the existential angst of what it means to decide on the nature of things, and what it means if you are right or wrong.
We have been trained most of our lives to eschew this responsibility and allow for others to tell us ‘what is right’ without considering for a moment if these are people we should listen to, or if they even have the cognitive capacity to actually think, rather than just do what they are told.

2024-08-15 19:35:23

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Point of clarification: USG did put both German and Italian Americans in camps like the Japanese, but it was more targeted and not wholesale like the Americans of Japanese decent.

2024-08-12 01:17:14

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This would become my new career.

2024-08-11 18:29:41

Own your content, or be owned by your content—there is no in between.
#note15ct…efhh

2024-08-09 18:35:56

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What is something that you would like to say about your field that is taboo, and leaves you afraid that if you say it, you could be cancelled? Such as suspicions about say using opioids in injury recovery, or a surgical procedure that you generally think is over prescribed? Thanks for your participation here!

2024-08-07 23:14:45

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Nothing is stating down…

2024-08-07 23:08:25

Oh man, I’ve been super sick all day, throwing up, body chills and aches—this sucks.

2024-08-05 01:53:16

I bought and build a sauna for myself and it is as glorious as I thought it would be.

2024-08-02 00:34:10

I had a professor for a few upper division international relations classes, and he opened the first class I had with him stating,
“If there is one thing I want you to take away from this class, it’s this:
The CIA is unequivocally the most incompetent and corrupt organization in the entire USG.”
The CIA did not make bitcoin, sorry psyops bros.

2024-07-31 13:09:56

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I don’t think pulling out works that way…

2024-07-31 13:08:21

I’m gonna give X a break for the next month and focus my social media intake only on nostr.
I feel like I already know it’s going to be a healthier choice, but I really want to compare what it’s like, as I’m pretty sure X and all the other SM companies are harvesting our data to elicit emotions that are designed to make us feel unfulfilled and craving more doomscrolling.

2024-07-26 17:11:37

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You’re right, that is why libertarians have no power. They still think voting matters and can change this, when it only extends it.
The monetary and financial systems must be burned down, and there is no politician or political party that can do that, only us.

2024-07-26 16:52:18

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Back at ya Hans

2024-07-25 15:56:54

Tomorrow from 10 to 11am I’ll be signing copies of my book Cryptosovereignty at the bitcoin conference and on a panel later in the day with discussing inscriptions @ 1:30 on the genesis stage.
Hope to see y’all there!

2024-07-24 16:02:42

I’m thinking more and more about writing essays on “forbidden topics” under a pseudonym mostly because it’s want to dive into these taboo discussions and see if I can put my finger on the nerve of why exactly they are forbidden and cannot be openly spoken about.

2024-07-24 02:32:45

Feeling really blessed to be a bitcoiner and getting to participate in building this zeitgeist with all of you.
If we are right, what we do here will go down as one of the key moments in human history and what it means ‘To Be’ human in our technological age.

2024-07-24 01:17:31

I honestly don’t think there is anything more nourishing for my soul and the fortitude towards what we are building together than getting to hang out with bitcoiners in the flesh.

2024-07-23 18:20:29

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Yep, just got high and let it out, lol. Hope to see you soon, give your family my love!

2024-07-23 14:00:38

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Yeah let me know if you’re around today or tomorrow to grab a drink. Jung is cool, I just haven’t read much of him so my understanding of him is limited.

2024-07-23 13:59:37

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🙌 hit me up when you’re here and we’ll link up

2024-07-23 03:50:05

Hit me up if you’re up n Nashville and wanna kick it!

2024-07-23 00:09:16

We will live through the messianic age and watch changes come to the whole of man that we thought were lost to the ages and were irrecoverable.
Our hearts will remember what our minds cannot comprehend, so our bodies may become ours once again so our souls may find the right path.
It is a path that is our destiny; if only we are to strive for it and take upon the providence that is a secret only for us. The Door is open, but it is only you who may enter it and no one else.

2024-07-15 17:48:52

GM! Been checked out for a while to just enjoy the spectacular beauty of my own personal life and to simply take it all in for a bit.
The Infinite of the universe loves us to no bounds or limits—it simply needs our attention to hear its whispers that are the secrets of the universe.

2024-06-11 14:49:20

A positive satsflow business is the holy grail of business models.

2024-06-11 06:05:57

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Yolo on the Prague barber—I always get my haircut when I travel and I’m always impressed.

2024-06-10 16:00:13

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“Only a fascist would say that” says the NPC.

2024-06-10 12:24:51

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Yep, I’ll be there ;)

2024-06-10 02:52:14

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Back at you. Give the fam my love ❤️.

2024-06-10 01:47:34

I recently had a big shift in my life that has me feel like I am back from the dead. A second chance as what I had been building for a decade, and then proceeded to fuck-up because I was too stupid to see and value what I had been working on. I was sloppy and thoughtless about much of my approach to life and let that suck me into my own self-aggrandizing bullshit. In short, I was pretty childish about what I was doing as I thought I had made it.
A year and a half later, someway somehow, I got the smallest of shots to fix it. It was a massive risk that I had to stake really everything I had built on. But in that moment when I had to make a move, to do or die; I took a deep breath and took everything in that moment. I knew what it was, what risk I needed to take, and what the cost would be if I had miscalculated. But I knew, as knew more than anything in my soul that I would make it—but only with that risk being taken. It honestly felt like one of the most badass moment of my life because I really showed up for myself with no doubts, lack, or hesitation.
I crave moments like that in my life. They define the peaks and troughs of life, and are the most intense character building moments of my life. It is to choose to be the man in the arena, marred with the blood, sweat, and tear that only those who step into the arena will ever know. It is vastly more rewarding and fulfilling than any life with the cold and timid soul who choose a safe life where nothing is ever at risk.

2024-06-10 01:25:27

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Well-tenderized :/

2024-06-08 02:21:24

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Love this artist.

2024-06-07 21:01:23

I often forget that if you are reading this and on nostr, you are part of an extraordinary high signal group that understands on some level WTF is going on.
Don’t get dismayed by the haters, detractors, doofuses, and dumbasses. Building this tool and other parts of the sovereign tech stack will be one of the keys to keeping humanity free in the future. Keep building frens.

2024-06-06 02:00:47

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It’s a safety lock that you have to press in and then rotate, because without we would immediately set fire to ourselves.

2024-06-05 23:36:30

God tried to let me know it was too big today. My hubris wouldn’t let me let go, so he let me break some ribs instead.
That’ll teach me.

2024-06-05 03:39:24

Hit me up if you’ll be in Prague the week before the conference and wanna hang.

2024-06-04 03:42:53

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Everyone has to get there dick slammed in a door their first bear market—it’s like touching the stove but worse. Everyone need the lesson so they don’t fuck it up the second time around.

2024-06-04 03:35:42

The irony of nostr is that it lack the same addictive qualities of inferior centralized social media services. It really is a better user experience in terms of content and quality by way of curating one’s feed. But the lack of the ‘surprise’ of brain-cycle content makes the drugs of social media less potent.

2024-05-22 16:26:48

GM Frens.
Glory to the day.
https://m.primal.net/IKFH.jpg

2024-04-29 17:41:19

One shitty kid ruins it for the rest of the kids.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk on early childhood education.

2024-04-29 01:24:12

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I got it in the lip like that once, swollenness face for a few days.

2024-04-15 03:32:35

Me after casually meeting someone for the first time.
#note1l03…3u3w

2024-04-15 02:41:39

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https://open.spotify.com/track/3xskCzncqCqOL1v2aAg7Pv?si=zAThKQquSDegfY-pnWGiew

2024-04-15 02:38:32

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I can agree with most of this. It also imparts the real responsibility we have to distribute, decimate, and decentralize all of this technology with the greatest of care. I really think this is our one shot to get this right.

2024-04-11 22:24:27

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It’s called rape by checkmark.

2024-04-11 19:07:03

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Lmao, yeah that is always helpful.

2024-04-11 18:05:50

It’s hard to understand or understate just how deep the trauma of living in modernity carries. To be born generations after The Death of God and the closure of any forms of life outside or beyond the mechanization of economics, is to acknowledge the very real, deep, and painful truth that we have been betrayed by our parents and left worse off then they were. It is the deepest and most painful betrayal as we were suppose to be give a life for ourselves and a future of our own, which they sacrificed for their own greed and avarice which had doomed most people to a life just beyond poverty. It is sickening to know that things are worse for our generation than it was for our parents and that they not only betrayed us economically, but politically and spiritually as well. It is a lot to take in when you really look at it, and it is painful to see how we were betrayed.

2024-04-10 00:46:48

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It’s all / everything

2024-04-10 00:07:27

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More effective in capturing eyeballs and the brain cycle

2024-04-09 23:56:45

Man, twitter just fucking blows and pretty much is just showing me snuff, porn, and memes that make me hate humanity (but love animals).
I probably should just delete that shit and move on with my life in a meaningful capacity.

2024-04-09 18:49:53

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This looks legit, glad to see you are expanding what you are working on 🤣

2024-04-08 17:58:02

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Because the state cultivates, encourages, and integrates corporatism into itself and directly sponsors competition against small-scale producers specifically to destroy them as it’s easier to control and sponsor corporations rather than people. So imho the state is to blame, rather than corporations which are doing what comes naturally to them.

2024-04-06 17:49:32

The state hates you and wants you to live in fear and terror so they can control your entire life. From cradle to grave the state demands being involved in every facet of life in order to create the greatest robbery that could ever be conceived: to rob you of your divinity and direct relationship with the divine to believe that you are nothing more than matter. Just another cog of flesh. They don’t want you to remember that you don’t need their permission or anyone else’s but your own. They don’t want you to remember the truth that you hold in your secret heart of heart that you’ve always know; but you’ve been brainwashed since birth to forget and suppress beyond all other forms of knowledge. That you are a divine empowered being who can change the world and need no one’s permission to do that.

2024-04-05 18:12:48

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Meh, this is far from a pop concert, a lot closer to something like burning man.

2024-04-05 17:29:09

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Fuck yeah, we’ll make it happen

2024-04-05 17:25:38

One of the funniest things about going to music festivals is that they are clearly spiritual and religious rituals that have been lobotomized of their base meaning. Yet somehow have still reactualized themselves in modernity with this secret encrypted at their heart and still offer people the same benediction that prior religious festivals before have offered—mainly a path of transcendence awakening through the combination of drugs, community, and celebration. While debased and inverted from its previous means, in the transcendental awakening it provides, it unveils why the secrets of this initiation are held in such a way, and why such an experience must be offered in such a way.

2024-03-27 22:11:05

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That’s a great term that I’m going to appropriate. 🙏

2024-03-27 22:10:15

Whoops! Mixed up the cigarettes and spliffs this morning.
Guess it’s gonna be one of those days.

2024-03-27 09:10:04

The Romance of Bitcoin
Bitcoin really is the greatest romantic story of all playing out right in front of us, and hardly anyone notices just how extraordinary epic it is.
The story of a lone man with a love for humanity that is so great that he would choose to sacrifice not only the greatest fortune that has ever been created, but that the very substance of who he is—his identity itself—all just to give us the choice to be free. It is an inspiring epic that ask for each of us to rise to the task of what it would mean to truly love humanity and allow for the choice of such a freedom to come from only us, rather to live in the world of fiat darkness where the agency and power of man is something to be feared and caged in.
Now having been given the tools of personal liberation and self-soverginty, Satoshi loved us all enough to ask us the question if we also love ourselves enough to take on the task of what it means to enact the liberation that can only come from us through the empowerment of bitcoin. It ask from each of us not only to engage in the action of self-care in such a dramatic and empowering way that not only does it transform our existence from the plainness of everyday life that is the lackluster mechanization of everyday, but to show the world as an example of what such a love for all human would look like enacted in the day-to-day. It is not a life of the robust power and dictation of the state recreated anew, but a new form-of-life to free all people everywhere for the rest of time from such restrictions towards what it would really mean to be free.
Bitcoin is not about getting rich, making money, or even creating self-soverginty for ourselves; but is about loving the whole of humanity with such passion and conviction that not only will I be free, but so will everyone who truly understands what the love of bitcoin really is. A love for the freedom of humanity and infinite agency that comes from the soul of each and every individual who is now allowed to hold their wealth outside and beyond the view of any agency, body, ideal, or state in order to be something for each of us on its own. It is a love that can only actualize with the love, respect, and dignity that comes with understanding what the deepest purpose of bitcoin truly is. It is the secret that all Bitcoiners know and hold in their hearts, and it is from this dream of a better world and what the love of one another is, that we can truly change what is happening to our world together. No only for our people, but for the space that can only be reserved for the future ones that are loved before the arrive. This is so we may bow to them with reverence, dignity, and grace to say, “We have save this for you, and for only you.”
This romance for the human species and the kind of power and agency that we can each find within ourselves as a locus of control against a world that seeks to control everything is messianic insofar that it truly has the power to change everything. Only from the black of night that is the darkness of fiat, and the seeming end of man as a creature of infinite creativity, power, and agency; do we find the means to once again become the people that only we are capable of.
And as will all great romantic stories, the drama and tragedy that tells this tale of the most epic and extreme circumstances. For if bitcoin is not to succeed in this mission to liberate humanity from the bondage of debt slavery, financial surveillance, infinite fiat printing; that we will surrender the very fabric of what it means to be human to a dead and calculating machine of statism and its endless demand to control everything. It will only be love, love in the greatest, most astounding, bombastic envisioning that the world has ever seen that will save us from what is coming.
The electrification of consciousness that comes from bitcoin allows for the jumpstarting of sincere thinking not just as a form of logic, but as a means of achieving the ethics of what love is. This understanding of the praxis of love as a form of life allows for people to come to understand and see what fiat money really is under the imperialism of statism, and what that has cost us all. How dearly we have paid for this kind of money, this form of life, and this kind of economic machine that is not only divorced from the true care of all people everywhere, but has worked against them in such a way that very few can see the possibility of an exit at all.
This is why love and the understanding of what it is beyond a mere feeling and into an ethical praxis is of the greatest and most astounding purpose of bitcoin. It demonstrates that there is no price, no fiat value, no economic quantification towards what the freedom of the individual can truly mean. For man is not a cog in a machine from which his worth can be calculated, as a soul is not an engine with inputs and outputs, but is the infinite mysterious empowerment which secretly resides within each of us, and from which any person may achieve infinity. Together, we can choose to create a new world, one that is free from the rot and despair of fiat money and what it has robbed us of; but only if we choose the most radical form of love that chooses to vanquish the power and control of money from the hands of others, and back into our own.

2024-03-22 00:59:43

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But, but my history professor and all of the movies have shown me otherwise!

2024-03-22 00:58:37

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Didn’t you see Mr. BBQ’s necklace? Seems like the new imperialist government is doing exactly what they want.

2024-03-20 21:26:53

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The first time I read him it was a random book my aunt had on her bookshelf that she got somewhere and didn’t know about it. I overflow with joy at each new line I read knowing that there had been intelligent people before me who saw and understood the state for what it was. What a glorious joy such a discovery was for me!

2024-03-20 21:24:44

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Take your pick

2024-03-20 21:24:24

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The people who can legally use violence against me

2024-03-20 21:10:58

I just hate so much that government agencies empower people that are arguably mentally handicapped to have power over me.
I just wanna be left alone.

2024-03-19 02:30:47

Small farmers will lead the next wave of bitcoin adoption.
They have been the only group I’ve consistently orangepilled because they understand the value proposition of a money that cannot be seized and is deflationary by its nature. #note1pwz…emlt

2024-03-12 00:29:28

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❤️

2024-03-11 11:57:25

GM $72k

2024-03-02 09:33:47

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You did your part, no need to send the sats, but I appreciate the thought.

2024-02-29 09:33:09

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Gonna see you at Bitcoin Alive next month?

2024-02-29 09:22:46

Soon I will be with my people ❤️
The trauma of being in clownworld with normies and NPCs for the last month makes it all the sweeter too.

2024-02-29 09:17:54

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You will be missed!

2024-02-29 09:15:56

Alright 3.5 more hours crammed in a sky tube and then I’m done for the week.

2024-02-28 21:06:19

See y’all in Madeira tomorrow!

2024-02-28 20:55:13

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And @npub154z…unck

2024-02-28 20:54:31

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People are going to exploit the absolute shit out of them and make a killing doing it.

2024-02-28 20:52:55

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I mean, at least over at CB we totally did fuck it up, like a bunch of times. I sometimes stand in awe of just how much bitcoin we accidentally destroyed with absolutely dumbass ideas.

2024-02-28 20:38:28

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@npub1qex…82qk is probably the only person I can think of who has handled greater volumes of bitcoin than me.

2024-02-28 20:36:16

I sometimes stand baffled at thinking about how many bitcoins passed through my hands as a support manager at coinbase from 2013- 2017.

2024-02-28 20:34:03

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I cherish the camaraderie we share in having been through all of those personal struggles we share, even though we didn’t know each other at the time and the solidarity we also shared in having been in the trenches together early on, again, even though we didn’t know each other then. Even though we were on different fronts, in different theaters of war, all the struggles were the same.
Feels good to be on this side of the struggle now and to know we are winning.