Jared
Jared Townley

https://youtube.com/@bitcoinreformationpodcast

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2024-09-25 10:54:25

Because I am bullish on #Bitcoin, I am also bullish on what it can do for advancing the mission and vision of #Jesus - is this backwards? No, ministry requires money

2024-09-24 11:58:34

Stoked for this afternoon. Going to make the case for #Bitcoin as a reserve asset for #churches and #nonprofits on the #BitcoinReformationPodcast

2024-09-23 00:21:58

@npub1k7v…c04l or any #Christian in #Bitcoin, we’re recording this week on #BitcoinReformationPodcast why churches and nonprofits should adopt bitcoin as a reserve asset - do you have any experience responding to people’s concerns? Are they typical? What do people need to hear from three pastors about Bitcoin?

2024-09-17 12:04:37

When #God gives you clarity in thought and soul, there is joy and peace

2024-09-15 11:19:59

#GM This is the day the Lord has made! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

2024-09-14 01:14:41

What would #Jesus think of #Bitcoin? We talked about it here: https://youtu.be/OckgACBnohw

2024-09-11 15:32:55

As a #leader, one of the most difficult tasks is having the hard conversations every leader before you has failed to have

2024-09-11 11:02:53

The book of Acts ends in a strange place. It feels incomplete. The trial in Rome, the Early Church’s history, and the expansion of the Gospel seems missing. Maybe that’s the point - we live in the post-acts world where we as followers of #Jesus are meant to continue the story to take the Gospel to the every person, tribe, and people.

2024-09-10 01:22:04

Awareness of our vulnerability and mortality is… an invitation to be faithful; to try always to stand where we are supposed to be standing, in warmth, love, duty, and enjoyment — Rolheiser “Sacred Fire”

2024-09-08 10:10:40

Even Felix in Acts 25, can’t verify Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. While in the #Bitcoin world we verify and do not trust, in the Christian world, we trust by faith alone in the one true God

2024-09-07 14:56:56

GM #BitcoinRunners
https://m.primal.net/KiJH.jpg

2024-09-07 11:02:51

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How was the onboarding for people you communicate with? Do they think you’re crazy or paranoid?

2024-09-07 09:58:09

Luther: "We are not impressed when our opponents are offended and shout that no good will come of the preaching of the Gospel.... We who believe see the enormous and innumerable benefits and results of the Gospel, even though outwardly and temporarily we are oppressed by many evils, despised, despoiled, slandered, condemned... put to death, and inwardly crushed by the consciousness of our sin and vexed by demons. For we are alive in Christ, in whom and through whom we are kings and lords over sin, death, the flesh, the world, hell, and every evil.... Therefore the doctrine of justification must be learned diligently; it alone can strengthen us against those endless offenses and comfort us in all trials and persecutions" — AE 26:452-53
Luther wrote this in the 1500s. I wonder why so many followers of Jesus have lost this amount of confidence in their faith. Now, it seems we believe we must fight as though the battle is not won.

2024-09-06 16:47:30

Convince me I need to start using #Signal #Keet or some other encrypted messaging platform

2024-09-06 15:00:21

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Some churches do use TheGivingBlock. Stories I’ve heard have all been about a sort of grassroots adoption - that true change happens when people within congregations request their church to become a Bitcoin church and do the education

2024-09-06 14:11:35

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I will say, that is the exact opposite of my experience! Where I have been, people care about investments, budget, and spending, but typically for preservation sake and not a growth mindset. In these situations, the problem would be “that’s too volatile” or “that wouldn’t be good stewarding because we need to preserve what we have and not gamble”

2024-09-06 10:30:23

Imagine the amount of ministry potential for a #church that adopts #bitcoin (on any level - from % saving to full Bitcoin standard)
#Ministry requires resources. People. Buildings. Food. Training. Goods. Time. Etc.
Adopting Bitcoin becomes a multiplying empowering force much like a person coming to a pastor saying, “I have 100k, what ministry idea do you have?”
How many more people would be touched by the good news of Jesus?

2024-09-05 16:43:47

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This is most certainly true.
The lack of desiring to follow Jesus through suffering comes from the prevalence of moralistic therapeutic deism, especially in the North American Church.
Great article on that here: https://www.1517.org/articles/moralistic-therapeutic-deism

2024-09-05 15:10:35

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How do you balance this with Psalms of lament? Indeed, Paul says we rejoice in our sufferings, but even Jesus prayed in the garden for the path to change and cried out in despair on the cross

2024-09-05 11:51:47

This is one way #Bitcoin forces you to have a healthy relationship with wealth. It is not about watching the price every day and instead about storing wealth over a long period of time
#note1seh…fgjl

2024-09-04 21:22:30

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When you don’t know how to zap and send more than one 😂

2024-09-04 10:57:07

GM. Even Paul makes an oath when it is good for the sake of his neighbor (Acts 21:17-26)

2024-09-04 10:55:41

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As Luther says in the Large Catechism about the 1st Commandment: “What does “to have a god” mean, or what is God? Answer: A “god” is the term for that to which we are to look for all good and in which we are to find refuge in all need. Therefore, to have a god is nothing else than to trust and believe in that one with your whole heart. As I have often said, it is the trust and faith of the heart alone that make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust are right, then your God is the true one. Conversely, where your trust is false and wrong, there you do not have the true God. For these two belong together, faith and God. Anything on which your heart relies and depends, I say, that is really your God.”
A god is something or someone you trust to give you good things.

2024-09-03 20:05:31

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This is somewhat true - nations and currencies do not have a soul, etc. but that does mean every technology, currency, or government is morally neutral. Certain currencies, like Bitcoin, incentivize very different living and morality than does any fiat currency.

2024-09-03 20:02:20

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You get me. Now, I don’t even get stressed when someone tells me they lost something, it’s only a matter of how long until it shows up.

2024-09-03 18:42:48

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If only we could truly “be good” on our own - part of what we discuss is how until the world is free of sin, we will never live as perfect, loving, caring creatures

2024-09-03 17:23:14

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This is the short of lens we think you @npub1k7v…c04l put on when you say “Better Money for a Better World”

2024-09-03 17:21:38

Does the popular #Bitcoin phrase “Fix the Money, Fix the World” carry weight in a #Christian context? In the most recent #BitcoinReformation Podcast, we take up how and where this phrase falls short. This will challenge Christians and Bitcoiners alike.
https://youtu.be/KXAqARHptF0

2024-09-03 13:57:23

Dropped our daughter off for her first day of preschool today. It is unreal she is already old enough for preschool. The limited time we have to shape, form, and love her is why I #Bitcoin
Fiat incentivizes me to focus on spending my available time to “get more” but Bitcoin frees me to focus on my God-Given responsibility as a father

2024-09-03 01:14:47

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We haven’t quite been around very long and are still building our base! Check us out wherever you get podcasts

2024-09-02 13:59:13

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Said in another way, “A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough” — Paul

2024-09-01 23:38:08

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Luther writes a surprisingly large amount about economics and inflation. He even has peculiar reasoning for why/how much Christians should save without falling into storing up treasures on earth.
We plan to cover Luther’s view of economics in an episode on the Bitcoin Reformation Podcast some day.

2024-09-01 20:53:39

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Just like the Jesus movement. It begins with few and multiplies unto the end of the earth

2024-09-01 18:24:25

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Fair! As long as your paper won’t burn or get wet, you’re probably good. As with most #Bitcoin things, it’s all about how much risk you’re comfortable to take

2024-09-01 17:08:38

This is why #Bitcoin is #resistancemoney and why most Western Citizens will miss the powerful utility Bitcoin offers to people
#note1mnl…2h7q

2024-09-01 16:06:04

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It looks pretty functional to me! What concerns do you see?

2024-09-01 11:00:13

I consider finding objects and possessions my wife has misplaced a superpower I have

2024-08-31 23:59:08

There is real beauty in watching your parents read books to your children at bedtime

2024-08-31 14:07:53

What the Goonies has to do with #Bitcoin! Join us at the Bitcoin Reformation Podcast https://youtube.com/shorts/kpwUWCG_CBY

2024-08-31 11:19:04

The power of network effects & especially the power of decentralized network effects
#note1an8…p9xh

2024-08-31 10:14:08

In the most recent #Time article about #ElSalvador, #Bitcoin, & #Bukele, I believe we see the power of Bitcoin outside of financial gain. It is not about number go up or preserving capital, but it is solely and purely about the network effect and devoted user base of Bitcoin itself. This is an idea @npub14mc…frlx has coined as the “Bitcoin Cheat Code” and for every first mover, there is significant advantage. When will a church? Significant nonprofit? Standard non-tech business adopt a the “cheat code”?
“To market his vision of a new El Salvador, Bukele still needed a modern pitch. In September 2021, he made the nation the first to use Bitcoin as legal tender, earning global headlines and the attention of the growing cryptocurrency community…Advisers admit it was a PR stunt. ‘We call it the Great Rebranding. It was genius,’ says Damian Merlo, a Miami-based lobbyist. ‘We could have paid millions to a PR firm to rebrand El Salvador. Instead, we just adopted Bitcoin.’”

2024-08-30 19:59:00

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If you haven’t yet, I would also check out Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” and also “Technopoly”.
AOtD feels like a prophetic book written well before its time. Technopoly takes a very negative approach to technology but I believe #Bitcoin has the healthy incentives he dislikes about other tech

2024-08-30 19:14:13

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I believe the nature of a bitcoiner at the point is tinkerer and experimenter - its participating for the sake of participation not because I’m going to realistically mine a solo block

2024-08-30 15:59:24

Can you share links here? https://youtube.com/shorts/NWf_ubBgud0?si=72XrrNVG4Zpe6Wjh

2024-08-30 11:16:15

https://hodlr.swiss may be the most beautiful #Bitcoin seed phrase storage device I’ve ever seen

2024-08-30 10:38:42

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It’s a good day to be a Bitcoiner

2024-08-30 10:38:02

2024-08-30 09:44:19

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Stay humble and stack sats.

2024-08-30 00:27:25

As someone who cannot mine profitably (electricity is 0.15/KwH) this is a way to mine without costing an arm and a leg for equipment or electricity #bitcoin #note1mml…xedx

2024-08-29 18:26:21

Anyone else have difficulty/can you help setting up their @npub1agh…mhct Nostr Relay and @npub12vk…pugg? Seems it only works on @npub18m7…q955! Primal won’t accept something that doesn’t start with mss

2024-08-29 13:10:59

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The real important pivot has come

2024-08-29 10:51:54

Evangelizing #Bitcoin so often feels like evangelizing #Jesus. Not every analogy, problem it solves, or use case is helpful or applicable to every person. Instead, you have to know the individual and what they desire most

2024-08-29 09:37:58

2024-08-28 19:43:17

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It’s a good day to be a Bitcoiner

2024-08-28 19:41:43

I may add a layer to this. In the received world from the Creator, we have nothing. Yet, what we have been given by the Creator can be taken from us.
#note1a7t…rnkg

2024-08-28 17:13:49

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Touché. Yet, how do we align Jesus’ words about rendering to Cesar what is Cesar’s?

2024-08-28 13:59:34

Would #Jesus have found #Bitcoin compelling? The answer lies somewhere between would he have an opinion at all or would he be concerned about what it produces in his followers?
On one hand, Jesus talks all about money, the love of money, and how for his followers, it is not their savior.
On the other hand, Jesus is all for the justice, fairness, and equality that Bitcoin represents.

2024-08-27 12:19:23

What if the next wave of adoption of #Bitcoin is not about number go up, but about the world in which Bitcoin brings?