BenJustman
Ben Justman🍷

PeonyLaneWine.com

#Bitcoin Natural Winemaker🍷
6+ Bottles Ship FREE

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Last Notes

2025-05-18 02:24:24

Did my first ever podcast 3 yrs ago.
What a wild ride 🍷
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2025-05-18 00:28:45

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That's Arby's bro

2025-05-18 00:27:59

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Sned it

2025-05-18 00:27:52

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Sned sats

2025-05-18 00:21:26

Headed to Steak n' Shake, y'all want anything?

2025-05-17 12:32:37

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🤣

2025-05-16 20:05:33

Mass Adoption of Bitcoin as a percent of Global Capital is going to happen much faster than as a percent of the population.
Most people will "Miss Out"

2025-05-16 18:50:47

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DOUBLE DIGITS

2025-05-14 23:48:22

When did this 4th Turning begin?
9/11
Great Financial Crisis

2025-05-14 16:46:14

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You're surrounded by the good stuff!

2025-05-14 14:14:51

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They wanna find your boat accident treasure

2025-05-14 00:02:15

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Can't wait for you to enjoy it!

2025-05-13 22:32:58

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2025-05-13 00:11:51

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Read the first sentence of that last paragraph like 10 more times

2025-05-12 20:36:38

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You're fired

2025-05-12 20:10:45

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Yeah that insider -> announcement jump was blatant

2025-05-12 16:38:12

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2025-05-11 15:29:19

Next time @nprofile…3lp8 tells you he's Bitcoin only, don't believe him. I traded him 🍷 4 🧼 like a week ago.
Incredible product.
Mom loved it as a gift.
Well done, sir. 🫡
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2025-05-11 14:17:48

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Or for the bad
This just happens to be a good example

2025-05-11 14:07:22

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Are you open to having a discussion or are you going to continue with this close mindedness?
If you think alcohol is so bad why would you interact with someone who makes it? I must be the devil in your eyes. Why are you spending time talking to the devil?

2025-05-11 14:05:43

A small group of people can reshape an entire system.
Nassim Taleb coined the term Intransigent Minority to describe the
phenomenon.
When the cost of acquiring that group is low, the rest of the population is indifferent, and that group is stubborn enough to stand on what they believe, the system bends.
His go-to example is kosher food.
Fewer than 0.5% of Americans follow kosher rules, yet a huge portion of the grocery store is certified. Observant Jews won’t touch non-kosher food, but most people don’t think twice about it. So if you run a factory, it’s easier to make everything kosher than split your product line. One group has strict requirements. The other is flexible. That’s enough to tip the entire system.
I’m seeing something similar with bitcoin businesses. The pressure here isn’t negative or rooted in avoidance. It’s completely positive.
What I do see is a sharp rise in demand for products and services from companies that accept bitcoin alongside the dollar. Whether bitcoiners use it as a medium of exchange or not, it’s clear that having that option is good for business.
This pattern has been clear to me ever since bitcoiners started buying my wine, but my scale is small. Since then, I’ve watched everything from cottage producers to large ranching operations benefit from the same magnetic pull. Steak n’ Shake, with over 450 locations, is just the next evolution.
If a bitcoiner is getting a burger, Steak n’ Shake just jumped to the top of their list. They’ve already gained the attention of a group that punches above its weight. Time will tell how much we impact their business.
Bitcoiners’ impact doesn’t come from protest. It shows up as positive reinforcement. The Magnetic Minority rewards alignment and that reward is scaling.
Taleb gave us the template.
We’re writing our own story.
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2025-05-10 19:33:05

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I've also heard that most economists are retarded 😉🤝

2025-05-10 19:32:31

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Good Wine increases in value over time generally. Very few bottles will ever keep up with Bitcoin tho

2025-05-10 17:00:55

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Also isn't that the current incentive already?

2025-05-10 17:00:19

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More in this early phase of adoption than in the future tho

2025-05-10 16:38:31

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You can't live in a Bitcoin

2025-05-10 16:37:39

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Thank you sir

2025-05-10 15:55:46

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It's easy to think you're getting off the fiat hamster wheel to steady ground, but really you're getting off the hamster wheel and stepping onto one of those moving sidewalks.
From there, walk, run or stay put and you'll keep moving forward

2025-05-10 15:40:10

I thought wine was supposed to get more valuable with age.
Everything in my cellar is losing value fast.
Even as the bottles improve with age and each vintage gets more scarce, they lose value.
Bitcoin is eating my lunch.
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Just in the last month, my wine is down 26% and I don't see this stopping any time soon.
Once I understood this dynamic, that my wine is going to be devalued in bitcoin terms forever, I had two choices:
1) Reinvest back into my business to grow faster than bitcoin.
2) Sell wine for bitcoin and let that grow for me
In some ways I'm lucky that scaling up a winery is so hard. I age red wine for 2 years before I sell it and there's no real way to speed that process up. How could I possibly justify an attempt to outgrow bitcoin? My choice was easy.
For CPG businesses that cycle inventory faster, the decision isn’t as clear.
How do you make the case for bitcoin to someone beating its historical CAGR by reinvesting into their business? They're killing it, but long term, do they really expect to outpace bitcoin?
The pressure to scale constantly disappeared when I realized I didn’t have to grow just to survive. Just putting some of your sales in bitcoin lets it do a lot of the growing for you.
Growth is a fine goal, but chasing it just to stay afloat wears entrepreneurs down. They trade sleep, family-time, and sanity in the hopes that they can keep up.
Bitcoin can carry the growth pressure so you don't have to. Build the business you actually want, and let bitcoin carry the rest.

2025-05-09 04:13:53

Today was a damn good day.
GN
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2025-05-09 04:11:59

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Bitcoin scaling just scaled faster than adoption. Not worried

2025-05-09 03:40:47

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Bitcoin offers the unique ability to stay small and thrive. Seeking endless growth and size is the Fiat directive

2025-05-09 01:10:40

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LFG congratulations!

2025-05-09 01:10:18

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Oof typo
PeonyLaneWine.com

2025-05-09 01:10:05

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Peontlanewine.com

2025-05-09 00:30:28

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That's a great spot to be man!
Enjoy the process

2025-05-09 00:18:08

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SOCIAL PRESSURE INTENSIFIES
FOLLOW THE CROWD

2025-05-09 00:13:29

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We all have our journey. Know what you want your destination to look like. You're gonna win. 🤝

2025-05-09 00:08:46

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*mcshane just leand forward in his Nosting chair
It's on

2025-05-09 00:07:17

Laser eyes are so last cycle.
Update your PFP Anon.
Orange Ties.
Follow the Crowd
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2025-05-08 20:47:54

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2025-05-08 15:06:47

One counterintuitive bad thing about Bitcoin is that it is a far better investment than land.
Real estate prices are inflated by decades of fiat games. Cheap debt. Tax advantages. Mortgages stretched across generations. This early state of bitcoin makes it massively cheaper in comparison.
So yes. If we are talking pure returns, real estate is a shitcoin. Buy Bitcoin.
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But here’s where it stops making sense. I see plenty of Bitcoiners who've already won. They've seen massive gains and are financially free in ways that we all dream of. Yet they still live in cities boxed into apartment buildings and subdivisions. They still live inside the system they claim to see through.
Admittedly, I have my own bias here. I grew up on a farm and will never totally feel comfortable living a city life in a way that many people do. But I also fell for the same trap during my 8 years in cities and didn’t appreciate what I had growing up until I came back.
When you’re in the city and think about moving to a small town, you worry about what you will miss. The events. The bars. The endless options. I was afraid of that too and moving home felt like giving something up.
But once I was out, I realized none of it mattered. You stop chasing plans and start actually living.
Many Bitcoiners talk about citadels. About someday buying land. About someday living differently. I get it. Making the leap is expensive. I wouldn’t have been able to do it if my dad hadn’t made it his life’s mission to buy the farm where I was raised. What feels misguided is having that financial option and still choosing to live and raise your kids in their world.
You get eighteen years with them. That’s basically it.
Do you really want those years spent in apartments and crowded parks? Wouldn’t you rather have them outside? On land they can know. In a place they can return to with their kids?
At a certain point, you have to stop looking at your gains as numbers on a screen. You need to turn them into something real. Put down roots. Give your kids a place to know. Buy The Family Land

2025-05-07 21:55:37

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2025-05-07 19:59:24

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Another thing I think about is: "All men are created equal" doesn't mean their outcomes will be.
🤝

2025-05-07 19:25:54

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If you think my "hate" is directed at weak people, you've missed the point.
Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome

2025-05-07 16:39:05

Weak people are easier to rule.
Make them believe weakness is a virtue, that everyone else is like them and that becoming strong is abnormal. You'll never have an uprising.
The Chinese glorified the peasant farmer. The Soviets glorified the factory worker. Americans are glorifying the marginalized consumer.
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It's okay to be fat. It's okay to be sick. It's okay to feel powerless.
DEI points the finger at the strong white man as the problem.
The solution: rules to uplift minority races and increasing state benefits for the poor. A double edged sword of increasing dependency where both your upward mobility and daily sustenance are reliant on the state.
The more dependent people become, the more power shifts upward. Demoralized citizens will continue to vote for more handouts and will never bite the hand that feeds.
The only way forward is to opt out.
Build strength. Build resilience. Build a strong family and community. Do not use their money. Starve them. Ignore them. Let their system rot.

2025-05-07 15:38:47

Can you name the first 4 presidents?
Only 7% of Americans can.
No cheating.

2025-05-07 14:03:46

Enjoy the calm before the storm
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2025-05-07 03:30:04

Would this creep you out?
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2025-05-07 02:20:48

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Wouldn't wanna trust anyone that touches crypto or rehypothicates or has that crazy interest rate so options are zero rn

2025-05-07 02:10:40

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12% is crazy high

2025-05-07 01:42:11

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Hear that

2025-05-07 01:42:00

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So only in the bear?

2025-05-07 01:41:40

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Its peaking TM

2025-05-07 01:27:19

Would you rather sell Bitcoin when you think its peaking this yr (it's not) or take a loan on it?

2025-05-07 01:17:53

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Holy fuck
Instant save
🤣🤣🤣

2025-05-07 00:13:32

*Bitcoin Goes up 1.5%*
Everybody on Twitter:
BUCKLE UP

2025-05-06 22:51:18

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2025-05-06 21:36:44

The only business sector that will never adopt Bitcoin is Rug manufacturing.

2025-05-06 18:42:26

*Life Free or Die Intensifies*

2025-05-05 19:34:17

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There's a buy five Get one free that I'm about to remove from the site

2025-05-05 17:08:20

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2025-05-05 16:36:24

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Best bill of all time?

2025-05-05 16:34:27

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Well done. Just learned how to pick them correctly this year

2025-05-05 16:19:39

Zooming Out: How Winemaking Prepared Me for Bitcoin
Starting Peony Lane meant leaning into something most people see as a downside.
Waiting.
Making red wine is slow.
You invest into grapes, barrels, and labor, then wait two years before selling a single bottle.
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Most people hate that part.
For me, it was the opportunity.
The waiting gave me time to focus on what actually matters: making good wine.
Since I didn’t have a product to sell yet, all I could do was learn.
People act like it’s wild I learned so quickly while working full-time, but nothing motivates you like dumping your life savings into something and having to figure it out.
One year in, I had a big test.
You only get to make wine once a year.
When that second fall came, I'd never sold a single bottle, but I had to decide how much wine to make.
So I guessed.
I figured I’d make a little more than the year before.
Worst case, the wine would sit and get better with time. No harm in that.
That became the rhythm.
Not scaling up felt like more of a risk than scaling up too much.
I never wanted to run out of wine to sell.
And if I ever made too much, I’d just make less the next year. Simple.
What I couldn’t do was go back and make more if I ran out.
Eventually, that thinking becomes second nature.
You stop looking at each vintage in isolation.
Your baseline shifts to thinking two or three years ahead.
When I found Bitcoin, the low time preference mindset clicked immediately.
You can’t chase every short-term move.
You have to zoom out.
You trust that time and patience will reward conviction because you know the underlying product is sound.
(Which, to be honest, is more than I could say about my wine back then.)
So I went all in on Bitcoin at both tops of the 2021 cycle.
It felt more risky to not buy bitcoin in the moment than the downside potential of being able to buy cheaper bitcoin in the future.
If you can wait long enough, time heals all.

2025-05-05 13:59:45

"Why does you pee always stink in the Spring?"
Me:
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2025-05-05 13:52:06

Imagine still choosing to live in 🤡 🌎
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2025-05-05 13:38:12

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Not attacking you.
Is there a reason or scenario in your head that would stop Nostr development?

2025-05-05 04:21:44

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What's the point of this question? What are you getting at?

2025-05-05 04:20:14

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Bro just out here making up sick words like it's no big deal

2025-05-05 02:35:14

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I bet Bitcoin merchants or something like that would be found more in search than artizans

2025-05-05 02:04:43

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🤣🤣🤣

2025-05-04 21:09:33

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2025-05-04 00:15:38

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My GF just got so into sewing and I couldn't be more happy. Well married sir, I hope to do the same

2025-05-03 23:50:47

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LFG. Your wiffe is awesome.
You're doing the right thing! Wine is a lot about waiting. Pop that cork and let it sit open for a while too before drinking it when you do

2025-05-03 23:08:29

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With blocks?

2025-05-03 23:08:01

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Waiting on $100k?

2025-05-03 23:07:41

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Thank you. Im sure I stole it from someone

2025-05-03 20:36:34

The invention of Bitcoin marked the discovery of absolute scarcity? 👀
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2025-05-03 19:23:08

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2025-05-03 17:28:06

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I wish I could try it for the first time again
Enjoy!

2025-05-03 16:52:05

Where were you at the bottom of the bear market? I was making this.
Things are good now
And so is the wine 🍷🫡
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2025-05-03 16:29:13

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Actually 🤣

2025-05-03 14:08:13

People I know IRL are finding out that I use the Internet
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2025-05-03 02:27:00

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So like swap the red peady flower icon for peony lane in the circle?

2025-05-02 23:38:42

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The woman in that photo wants to go HIGHER

2025-05-02 23:27:33

Y'all like my new labels?🍷
(On the right)
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2025-05-02 23:26:48

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Is it showing you all of them in your feed on whatever client you use?
I kinda started reposting them as a joke to see how far it would go

2025-05-02 23:26:05

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Not EMF blocking tho

2025-05-02 23:11:54

EMF PROTECTIVE CLOTHING EXISTS👀
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2025-05-02 23:00:07

Is anyone developing men's underwear with a EMF blocking ball pouch?

2025-05-02 15:32:10

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Soak Quest is so fire dude

2025-05-02 14:53:57

Bitcoin attracts people from every walk of life
The only real barrier to entry is curiosity.
Curious people tend to be successful, so when you gather a bunch of curious people together, you get humbled fast.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve met a random Bitcoiner only to realize they were way ahead of me.
Smarter. More Successful in business.
Or just figured this all out 10 years before I did.
I have been in countless conversations thinking, "Who the fuck am I? I’ve done nothing compared to this person, but for some reason they want to talk to me?"
There's always a bitcoiner thats better than you at everything.
For Example:
Skiing has always been my thing.
I am really fucking good and I rarely get to ski with people who push my limits. Being the best in my crew has been a source of ego for me for a long time.
A few years ago, I went to the Bitcoin Ski Summit and as we broke into groups and the first one was labeled, “If you’re the best skier on the mountain, join this one.”
I jumped right in.
It was a powder day at Jackson Hole. I wasn't about to be polite waiting on some Jerry to go find their lost ski.
The last person to join the group was some dude without a helmet.
Jerry-ville for sure.
Turns out the dude was an Olympic skier and I couldn't keep up even going 100%. Best Day Ever and I was honored when he defied the authorities to smuggle a bottle of my wine home to Canada.
They say firewood warms you twice.
Well, Bitcoin humbles you twice.
First, by showing you the world does not work the way you thought.
Then, by surrounding you with casually incredible people.
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2025-05-02 02:37:45

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I had a Canadian alcohol lawyer like ok into it for me even before Tariffs stuff.
You government reeeeally doesn't want me to

2025-05-02 01:56:25

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2 yrs ago

2025-05-02 00:44:38

Did Casa adding Eth compatibility mark the local top of the eth/BTC market?

2025-05-01 22:37:21

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2025-05-01 18:15:45

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Just individuals on specific topics. I don't have any good aggregation place to point you

2025-05-01 17:55:11

I don't have an educated take on any of the development drama currently going on and there are many like me.
To those working on this, please dont fuck up bitcoin, our lives depend on it.

2025-04-30 21:41:09

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Just roll with me here
It's Communism working great in smaller groups, when you can opt out when when fully surrounded by capitalism
So not really communism, but kinda