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2025-03-28 17:47:17

What is the best wat to livestream on Nostr?

2025-02-15 11:15:59

BFM126: “Bitcoin Changed Everything I Knew About Money” - with former Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith⚡️
We discuss the biggest myths about investing, why most portfolios are broken, how debt traps professionals, student debt, why saving is and investing isn’t optional, and how Bitcoin changes everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7fOZVFfLI

2025-02-08 16:30:01

Over the past year, I’ve interviewed 100+ people about Bitcoin.
What I’ve learned goes far beyond price action. Bitcoin is reshaping how people think about money, freedom, and even life itself.
Here are the 7 biggest insights from these conversations 🧵👇
1/ Bitcoin changes YOU first
People who go deep into Bitcoin experience a shift in mindset. They move from short-term thinking to long-term planning. They stop chasing consumerism and start focusing on self-sufficiency.
2/ Bitcoin is a “mind virus”
Once you understand Bitcoin’s principles—absolute scarcity, decentralization, self-sovereignty—you can’t unsee it. It rewires how you view the financial system.
Many guests described going from skeptical to obsessed almost overnight.
3/ Bitcoin exposes the flaws in the fiat money system
Governments print money endlessly, diluting your savings. Bitcoin flips this: its supply is capped at 21M coins.
Fiat money is based on trust. Bitcoin is based on math. Which do you think is more reliable?
4/ Bitcoin changes how you consume
Before Bitcoin, many guests admitted they bought things impulsively. After Bitcoin, they stopped wasting money on junk and started prioritizing saving.
Bitcoiners often talk about “stacking sats” instead of buying things they don’t need.
5/ Bitcoin isn’t just money—it’s a worldview
Many people described Bitcoin as more than a financial tool. It’s a movement toward decentralization, fairness, and self-sovereignty:
"Being in Bitcoin feels like being part of a parallel world, one that actually makes sense."
6/ Bitcoin gives you true ownership
Most people think the money in their bank is theirs. It’s not. Banks can freeze accounts, limit withdrawals, or fail entirely. Bitcoin lets you hold your own wealth, outside the system. It gives you a way out of third party control.
7/ Learning Bitcoin requires an ego death
Bitcoin forces you to question everything you thought you knew about money. Many guests said it was humbling to realize how little they understood.
"It's a financial awakening that forces deep self-reflection."
To conclude:
Bitcoin is not just superior money.
✅It’s a mindset shift.
✅It’s a challenge to the status quo.
✅It’s a gateway to long-term thinking.
If you’re still on the fence about Bitcoin, ask yourself:
What if everything I was taught about money is wrong?
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And if you want to dive deeper, check out my podcast Bitcoin for Millennials where we discuss these ideas and more:
📺 https://youtube.com/@bramk
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https://bitcoinformillennials.com
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2025-01-17 20:29:48

Understanding and adopting #Bitcoin is a continuous psychological test titled:
“Can I still trust myself and my judgement?”

2025-01-03 11:19:37

"The proper allocation to Bitcoin is 100%. Any other asset you can use to save your rewarded time and energy in is inferior"
- another 🔥 clip from my conversation with @CJKonstantinos
📺 Full episode: https://youtu.be/xKfrbTgWmpE
https://m.primal.net/NQIU.mp4

2024-12-30 10:50:06

“You would have to believe that BTC is literally the most important invention in the history of man by a margin so large it is insane, to the point that it is more valuable alone than all other inventions combined to believe the upper end of this range.”
Correct.
https://m.primal.net/NLSg.png

2024-12-26 17:03:48

BFM111: “A debt-based system cannot coexist with exponential AI productivity.” with @npub1s05…eyhe⚡️
I asked Jeff over 20 questions that my followers submitted!
We go deep on Bitcoin’s role in repricing the world, decentralized systems, protocol adoption, AI, deflation, abundance, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1TSDjDgaY

2024-12-19 22:38:24

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GEORGE IS A BEAST

2024-11-29 18:50:07

1 Liter, 1 Meter, 1 Kilogram, 1 Bitcoin

2024-11-27 22:48:07

Almost $100.000 for one Bitcoin and yet I feel nothing.
Thought my 2013-self would be more excited.

2024-11-14 12:14:35

The crazy thing about Bitcoin is that so much of what it encourages is common sense and incredibly rational.

2024-11-13 13:41:43

I just published my first #Bitcoin paper!
"Bitcoin: The Standard Measurement for Human Productivity" explores how Bitcoin can serve as the ideal metric for measuring and rewarding our finite energy and time.
🔗 Read the full paper on @npub1sk7…jraw - shout-out to @npub1guh…6hjy for the opportunity to publish this!
https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-the-standard-measurement-for-human-productivity/

2024-10-30 15:28:47

'#Bitcoin for Millennials' 095 with @npub1k7v…c04l drops tomorrow!⚡️
A SUPER DENSE conversation covering macro, finance, ETF influence, price cycles, why Bitcoin is not risky, and prepping for a major rally🚀
Get notified🔔
📺 http://youtube.com/@bramk⁠⁠
🎧 http://bitcoinformillennials.com
https://m.primal.net/LnFl.mp4

2024-10-29 22:13:29

Top 3 most bullish clip on #Bitcoin that I have seen in 11 years
https://m.primal.net/LmSw.mov

2024-10-29 19:17:51

My podcast with @npub15vz…k4um is live! ⚡️
I’m grateful for the opportunity to share my thoughts around money, spirituality and #Bitcoin on a platform like this 🙏
Hope you enjoy it 🧡
https://youtu.be/e6ry7ru_Qro?si=KYLQADRg1v4766sM

2024-10-29 11:19:08

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🙏🙏🙏

2024-10-29 10:21:54

Adopting #Bitcoin changes your life philosophy and world views
https://m.primal.net/Llog.jpg

2024-10-14 21:17:48

The internet digitized information
Facebook digitized social connections
YouTube digitized education
Amazon digitized retail
Netflix digitized entertainment
Spotify digitized music
AI is digitizing the workforce
#Bitcoin is digitizing the money

2024-10-14 16:40:58

@npub1lel…kvyz check your email! :)

2024-10-08 10:04:02

#Bitcoin produces an economic constant in an economic marketplace that lacks a constant.
https://m.primal.net/LOiE.jpg

2024-10-07 16:16:46

BFM088: “Holy sh*t! It’s a protocol for Money on the Internet?!” with @npub1cf3…x7gk⚡️
We discuss Bitcoin challenging the status quo, how it gives property rights to 7 Billion people, fighting for financial freedom, and why Bitcoin is the unstoppable money protocol.
https://youtu.be/_xWkNzN26Iw

2024-10-04 14:13:49

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Wow that is amazing to hear! Hope you are able to help your friend get further on the Bitcoin path :) happy that this episode was valuable to you!

2024-10-03 22:01:54

This #bitcoin newcomer is considering selling his stack because the price went down after Iran’s strike (and gold went up).
What would you tell him?
(I will share this post with him)
https://m.primal.net/LKRi.jpg

2024-10-02 21:10:39

You spend your finite energy in time for a reward you lend out to a bank who doesn’t hold it but just shows you the IOU number in your banking app, until they don’t.
Your money is not real.
Study #Bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/LJAH.jpg

2024-09-25 21:55:05

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Brother I got you.
I just finished this short paper. Not published yet. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YyS0w6bJtoedXqS9u4MF4BaIEWzpR_105wXQMC8FpBQ/edit

2024-09-25 21:50:06

The “value” that #bitcoin produces and offers to the world is that it is a constant in the economic marketplace.
Its promise is to NEVER CHANGE.
The rules now = the rules forever.
Why?
So participants in that marketplace can trade equitably, which incentivizes them to provide real value.
That improves the quality of the products and makes prices go down.
This incentivizes to keep on improving.
And so on.
Fueling a marketplace with money that constantly loses value over time leads to lower quality because that is what that money incentivizes.
It makes the future more unpredictable.
This makes people consumers. Not builders.
Builders make us progress and innovate.
Which makes prices go down and living standards go up.
Scarce constant money = abundance in everything else.
Study #bitcoin
s/o to Jesse Myers for sharpening my thoughts today 🙏
We recorded a 90-minute podcast today.
It was GOOD 👌

2024-09-20 09:45:40

Traditional banks do not like #bitcoin as an alternative money system because they rely on the fiat money system to stay alive.
Banks that do like #Bitcoin understand that the fiat money ponzi they are profiting from will implode at some point so they adopt this parallel money system for when it does. https://image.nostr.build/ded96f14b644077280b98502c760f845b27677104552ead8db623c58750b5aaf.jpg

2024-09-20 08:50:51

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These people want less people. Just unalive yourself if you really bout that life (see what I did there? ;))

2024-09-20 08:43:40

How are all the degrowth proponents still alive?
Typical ‘talk but no walk’.

2024-09-19 10:19:25

Inflation is a tax you never agreed to pay.
As long as you keep using fiat money the prices you pay for goods and services will go up forever 📈
That’s because fiat money can only survive if prices go UP, while you want them to go DOWN.
Move to #bitcoin and all prices fall.

2024-09-18 13:07:32

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Yes imo that is part of the (ego) test.
Is the outcome of my research really corrext?
Why do I doubt myself?

2024-09-18 08:18:37

Understanding #Bitcoin is a psychological test titled “Can I still tryst myself and my judgement?”

2024-09-17 19:02:05

A story in 4 parts https://image.nostr.build/6129551ef68c0841d3debd386c57810a672c3f81dafade3c95b56822b7c9be6f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bbdb3cae07673a84ca3209493f57ba35fda5c6ac5d5e84a1a4ecd064ac706ec2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/23284d80cf9974ac534a99d8c2daceba403ab439580f4a2baac56d735e2862ee.jpg https://image.nostr.build/544b6415e25a7887e88456efa043bc1bb65b1757d705d03456a4867d779d5aeb.jpg

2024-09-16 09:38:16

Your money is programmaticaly devalued.
Your pension is non-existent.
Your banking app amount is a number in a database.
Food prices keep going up.
You can’t afford a home.
You’re 35 with a roommate.
You can’t afford a child.
But #bitcoin is a scam because the TV says so.

2024-09-15 09:05:37

Everything else besides fixing our money is a distraction.
Good money = good incentives.
Bad money = bad incentives.
IT IS REALLY SIMPLE.
Bad incentives drive:
Funding war
Deteriorating education
Treating > Curing/Preventing health issues
Fake food
Government overreach

2024-09-10 18:08:47

“The digital scarcity of bitcoin is not virtual. It arises out of real, physical limits. The rules of #Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment do not simulate physical laws, they are brought into existence because of physical laws.
Bitcoin is a digital item in a digital environment, brought about and kept alive by physical processes. It is the combination of the physical with the digital that gives Bitcoin its power: a digital commodity that can be sent around at the speed of light, inexorably linked to the physical laws of our universe.” -
@npub1der…xzpc
🔗 https://dergigi.com/2022/10/02/bitcoin-is-digital-scarcity

2024-09-10 18:07:17

What’s the true cost of trusting the current financial system?
Why is #Bitcoin the ultimate tool against money printing?
Why is decentralization the ultimate defense?
"The system is taking advantage of you while you are trained to trust it." -
Sina G.
BFM080 is out now ⚡️
https://youtu.be/KJX5H65l1jY?si=pRYu4SnSes58F9K6

2024-09-01 07:39:29

The Bitcoin protocol is the base layer of free speech.

2024-08-30 22:01:58

If Elon Musk donates Starlink to humanity, people could pay whatever they want for free global decentralized internet access.
Freedom to interact withy anyone should be for everyone.
Add in decentralized communication with #NOSTR and decentralized money with #bitcoin
And we’re free. https://image.nostr.build/dd577f363a58d88a6991fff30061e65a8ee7791e43d4e4dac217a844fbb1c1a3.jpg

2024-08-30 21:54:17

Another example of #Bitcoin being a mind virus.
NO ONE CAN IGNORE INFLATION.
You will have to adopt because the money printing will not stop.
Because they can’t stop.
Just accept it, vote for another money by moving to it, then just chill.
It’s pretty enjoyable over here. https://image.nostr.build/a761aad7e35c7cf3ebe86abe6cbb8172b1b2726d7ad3534864402da539118cbe.jpg

2024-08-30 19:56:54

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Followed

2024-08-29 09:58:48

“I am happy my money is secured in the bank"
1. It’s not yours (you have a claim on it)
2. It's not IN the bank (like Scrooge McDuck’s safe)
3. It's “stored" in a centralized database (that can fail)
4. It’s not money (you can’t save in it)
5. It’s not even real (no ties to the physical world)
Study #Bitcoin

2024-08-28 23:25:44

Anyone calling themselves a “#bitcoin expert” on Linkedin is not, a Bitcoin expert.
No one is a Bitcoin expert.

2024-08-26 21:25:48

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Perhaps - it’s hard to guess

2024-08-26 21:12:32

I think max 100,000 people understand how big the discovery of #Bitcoin is.

2024-08-19 07:58:15

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Will do!

2024-08-18 21:23:47

BFM073: Escape inflation with #Bitcoin - with Sam Lyman⚡️
We discuss Bitcoin's appeal to millennials facing inflation, its strategic reserve asset potential, changing political attitudes, game theory, and Bitcoin's store of value superiority.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9fm6WNXxE8

2024-08-14 12:45:06

BFM072: From War Refugee to #Bitcoin Advocate - with Yugocana⚡️
We discuss Filip's war experience, love over conflict, Bitcoin’s role as sound money, personal freedom, individual enlightenment, and the collective push for a better future.
https://youtu.be/fQmX4Ll8z2g

2024-08-07 08:51:51

#Bitcoin is not a hedge.
It is something totally new.
It is hard to understand from within the fiat money paradigm.
It promises that its monetary policy is stable, predictable, and verified every 10 minutes.
That's directly opposite the fiat money paradigm.
With HUGE implications.
The only way to grok it is to study it.
What you have been told about money is NOT what it actually is and how it actually works.
You are trading your finite time and energy for a reward that can infinitely be created by people who do not care about your individual wants or needs.
THAT IS THE DUMBEST TRADE YOU COULD EVER MAKE.
I did not like that realization either.
But it's the truth.
Don't ignore the truth.
Take your time to study.
Take your time to challenge yourself.
The reward?
You will be in charge of your future again. https://image.nostr.build/ae61bbdfccb0de00b59de008a39e642c57f21cbfe15981797ae9dbe78b0372c7.jpg

2024-08-04 20:00:38

It makes me happy to think that once digital IDs and CBDCs are here, everything will return to normal and everyone will behave decent again.

2024-08-01 09:34:09

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Happy to connect!

2024-07-30 17:04:25

BFM068: Escape the fiat illusion with #Bitcoin - with Anastasia⚡️
We discuss reality, spiritual journeys, consciousness, manifestation, the ego, self-awareness, acceptance, energetic dialogue, and Bitcoin's impact on clarity and personal growth.
https://youtu.be/TyXm-JbUfao?si=yqvkVResjb50Drvw

2024-07-29 20:23:24

#Bitcoin enhances your optimism and makes you skeptical of anything that threatens that optimism (which is mostly coming from the fiat money world).

2024-07-28 20:58:45

Who is going to Pacific Bitcoin in October?

2024-07-23 18:24:11

Should I buy #bitcoin now or wait for a dip? https://image.nostr.build/d0d142eaadd0896ed29c5909a2d641e4e8c615ddfc3bf719e6c40db9ee8fb02a.jpg

2024-07-19 18:37:31

Increased understanding of, need, and demand for #Bitcoin , will never result in a bigger supply of it.
That is why it is something to be studied.

2024-07-19 07:27:37

If you aren’t curious, what’s the point?

2024-07-19 06:59:19

The most important technological discovery you should study and adopt (in 23 seconds) ⚡️ https://video.nostr.build/f1f9168d2415e51740e207822abbd15927e17e5226a785826f22d4134d32942b.mp4

2024-07-19 06:55:04

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🧡

2024-07-13 12:03:23

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Haha

2024-07-05 12:44:20

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Thanks for sharing I appreciate it!

2024-07-05 07:23:56

Stay solvent, stack sats.

2024-07-05 07:23:26

BFM061: #Bitcoin is the #SP500 for millennials with Keith Laska⚡️
We discuss Bitcoin's potential for peace, the builder mindset, patience in investing, mainstream adoption, low time preference significance, and Bitcoin as the Millennials' S&P 500.
https://youtu.be/bnx1fzMjX4Q?si=wDuy_c13nwgjMN0b

2024-06-11 21:35:13

Most investment and finance professionals have NO CLUE about #Bitcoin yet.
Bitcoin is the only asset in the world than can trade freely 24/7/365. The price represents the understanding of the people who hold it.
You sell? You don’t understand it.
You gamble with shorts and longs? You don’t understand it.
BUY IT AND SIT ON YOUR HANDS.
#bitcoin has no top because fiat money has no bottom.
You don’t need to take any risk.
Your current fiat money is programmatically debased and Bitcoin is the best money ever discovered. People will gravitate towards it.
THIS EXACT PROCESS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.
MULTIPLE TIMES.
Remember the Dutch Guilder as the World Reserve Currency?
Me neither.
Sit on your hands. Enjoy life. https://image.nostr.build/bd8e1337d8d3c977364fccfee7cd757671b531a2196c33498433439f9b2f6cad.jpg

2024-05-29 11:44:16

Episode 50 of my podcast is live!
#Bitcoin is a Catalyst for Spiritual Renaissance with Max Keiser⚡️🎉
We discuss the spiritual path of Bitcoin, turning greed to altruism, its transparency and scarcity, and Bitcoin's rise as a challenge to central banks and fiat money.
https://youtu.be/QDZT9lYRNUE?si=8W3nvZ9ViMBUAEgp

2024-05-16 20:53:56

11 years in #Bitcoin. I still think this is the real deal.
You have to start paying attention 👀
I know that sounds romanticized. “Yeah yeah, we can change something.”
Yes! We actually can. And it is surprisingly easy.
Here's the only thing you need to do: move your money out of the system they control.
Yes, it is that simple.
Why? Because they cannot control the other, better, system.
Bitcoin is decentralized, meaning nobody can control it. That's why you can trust it.
You can verify this for yourself.
It takes just a tiny bit of courage to decide to not let other people control your life.
Think for yourself. You will be fine.
Trust the universe. Trust yourself.

2024-05-06 07:43:33

Hey @npub1der…xzpc ! I translated “Dear Crypto & Fiat Bros” into Dutch 🙏 > bitcoinisgeencrypto.com

2024-04-03 10:17:44

7.5M blog posts (ideas!) are published each day
How is the fact that Wall Street adopted a protocol for money that was released as an idea on a random obscure internet forum 15 years ago, not your biggest signal?🚨🔥
Bankers adopting #bitcoin out of greed is their capitulation. https://video.nostr.build/f503811b23b0ffbd48051fdfbe216d907fdf5c83486e1629733e3ec1cab8ff82.mp4

2024-04-02 11:44:09

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Hope this year!

2024-04-02 11:40:42

#Bitcoin is a mind virus.
Once you understand that more and more people are trading in their broken government money for perfectly engineered decentralized digital money, you will be forced to study it.
You can study it voluntarily now though.
Way better feeling :) 🧡 https://video.nostr.build/fc4d8db83c87891cbe8b2e086c7e992b030604696be95779cd12b02f1a7bae38.mp4

2024-04-01 14:08:32

This looks like a joke, except it is not ;)
I calculated the avg home selling prices in The Netherlands 🇳🇱🏡 over the past 10yrs in € and in #bitcoin - guess which money makes homes more affordable?
€ prices 📈 87.80%
₿ prices 📉 -97.85%
Being pro fiat is delusional 🤷‍♂️ https://image.nostr.build/a8a1bbb059bd628c6943e2d443a88dde47e9015aee53e3eb9240b5d5541aa3fb.png

2024-03-13 19:37:34

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🤝

2024-03-07 21:38:50

What the expression “with #Bitcoin you follow rules instead of rulers” means:
Everyone voluntarily agrees to the transparent rules that everyone voluntarily agrees to.
Compared to:
Everyone MUST agree to the opaque rules that a small set of rulers have agreed to.
The result:
ALL THE USERS OF THE SYSTEM INCENTIVIZE ALL THE USERS OF THE SYSTEM TO KEEP THE SYSTEM OPEN, HONEST, DECENTRALIZED AND SECURE.
(And therefore it will never be gamed or ever die)

2024-03-05 14:17:24

#Bitcoin is a decentralized protocol and represents the discovery of digital scarcity.
“Crypto” is an attempt by startups to build some sort of technology where tokens fuel the use of a certain system.
They are not the same.

2024-03-04 18:09:22

In 2033 99% of ALL #bitcoin will have been mined.
The last 1% will be mined in the following 107 YEARS.
Welcome to the 10 year Bitcoin “gold rush” 🎉
Finite digital scarcity = the innovation

2024-02-24 19:11:42

#Bitcoin and its implications could only be discovered ONCE.
Every crypto trying to do it "better" is missing the entire point

2024-02-24 19:11:25

In essence, #bitcoin is a once-to-be-invented protocol.
A set of rules that you can follow to gain value from the system that is built upon this set of rules.
"This system" is a digital, worldwide, open-source, predictable, permissionless, trustless, and a-political network where monetary value can be stored and/or exchanged with any other user of the system, through time and space.
For the first time ever (and to never be invented twice).
If you do not follow its rules, you can not benefit from it.
So Bitcoin's protocol is everything and at the same time, it is... "just a protocol" that doesn't care what anybody thinks of it.
It's just working as intended.
You can join if you think it adds value to your life, or not.
Simple but profound.

2024-02-24 19:07:43

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Thanks for sharing!

2024-02-24 19:07:15

Loved this conversation I had with Jeff 🙏⤵️ #note1pgc…yxlq

2023-08-11 20:46:37

My #bitcoin podcast with @npub1st4…lv5p is live! 🙏 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dlVpk1iyRM

2023-07-24 15:36:58

I translated one of my favorite @npub1der…xzpc articles (https://dergigi.com/2022/11/19/dear-crypto-fiat-bros/) into Dutch 🙏🇳🇱
Hosting it on https://bitcoinisgeencrypto.com
(Dutch for “Bitcoin is not Crypto” :))

2023-07-19 21:55:23

TOMORROW IS YES DAY. But my 5-year old doesn’t know it yet.
I am going to say YES to everything he asks for.
But I won’t tell him that in the morning.
Then, I am going to do this for the rest of his life, once a year. And he will not know on which day.

2023-07-14 19:29:34

People who call themselves “progressive” but don’t understand or hate #bitcoin have no clue about what they believe in.

2023-07-13 12:12:34

I verified with a custom domain - can anyone see it? Figuring this all out 😆🧡

2023-07-13 11:36:07

When your friends say: "You're only telling me about #Bitcoin because you want it to go up."
https://nostr.build/av/5778444326fca48ec274e44fb49f39388b549a3d94fb40ccd977866b0eededd9.mp4
From my podcast with BTC Reserve ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEpge4bgStc

2023-07-13 11:28:23

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Thank you! Can you see my LN linked now?

2023-07-13 11:18:00

🚨 This is my coming out as a #bitcoin evangelist! ⚡️
After 10 years of studying Bitcoin, I wrote a short essay that is my attempt at getting people started on their Bitcoin journey. It takes less than 5 minutes to read ⤵
You have probably heard about Bitcoin. But why should you actually spend time understanding it?
To me, Bitcoin is not just another type of currency, it's a revolutionary form of "money energy" that transforms the way we think about and use money.
I encourage you to read on, share your thoughts, and feel free to share it with others if you find it useful.
Here we go ⬇️
Imagine this: you work (at a job or your venture), putting in the physical and mental energy needed to produce results. In return, you receive what we call “monetary energy”—your salary or profit💰
This, what we call “money”, can be used to purchase goods or services that also require energy to create and maintain. Essentially, money is a claim on energy. From the past - putting in your work energy - to the present - exchanging it for the product of someone else’s work energy.
However, the value of your money gradually decreases due to the printing of new money by Central Banks.
These centralized powers add new money energy to the system we use to exchange energy with each other.
Due to this, the total energy in this system gets inflated. Meaning you can now buy less with the same amount of money energy you own.
This newly added money energy was NOT earned by “putting in the work energy”.
But it’s worth the same as the money energy that you did put in work for.
How does that sound to you?
This is called the FIAT MONEY SYSTEM. And you are part of it. Actually, you are stuck in it.
It is a system from which you can not escape, but where baseless new energy is added by design, making the energy that you put in worth less and less over time, infinitely ♾
But wait! There is actually ONE escape possibility 🛟
It is called Bitcoin. A once in a lifetime invention that took 40 years of discoveries and experiments before it became a reality in 2009.
Visualize Bitcoin as a giant cube filled with energy. Energy that is counted in a unit of 1 (a Bitcoin or BTC), but which can be divided by 100.000.000 into tiny parts known as "Sats".
One sat represents 0.00000001 BTC, or 1 one-hundred-millionth of a bitcoin.
This is DIGITAL ENERGY MONEY that can be exchanged between all the single parts (users) that make up the giant cube. This is the Bitcoin Network.
This network, unlike the fiat money system, is decentralized and follows predetermined rules that are transparent to everyone. Anyone can join and stay as long as they play by these rules.
Because this DIGITAL ENERGY MONEY SYSTEM is decentralized, its rules can not be changed by any central power. Unlike what the Central Banks do in the fiat money system.
How the rules work out is already known.
The total supply of Bitcoin will only ever be 21.000.000 Bitcoin, and the amount of Bitcoin added to the network each year—known as block rewards—follows a predictable and public schedule that ends in 2140.
When all of the 21.000.000 Bitcoin Monetary Energy Units will have been created and added to the network (Mined), the energy in the network will become deflationary.
This will increase the value of the energy in the network as there is NO NEW ENERGY ADDED, but the amount of network users keeps growing.
It grows because it is the most transparent and secure (monetary) VALUE EXCHANGE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY ever built. It is engineered to be permissionless and borderless. It also has no religious affiliation and no political preference. It is therefore for everyone to use equally, by design.
IT PAYS ITS DUES IN PUBLIC by utilizing the ultimate mechanism to verify that ACTUAL WORK WAS DONE (Work Energy Input) to create the Money Energy that is being exchanged in the system.
This is called Proof-Of-Work.
ALL THE ENERGY IN THE SYSTEM WAS EQUALLY CREATED AND IS THEREFORE WORTH THE EXACT SAME.
ALL THE TIME.
Proof-Of-Work is powered by computers. They follow the set of coded rules and schedule to add new Bitcoins to the network while they secure the network at the same time.
These computers run on electricity. This is the Work Energy Input of the system.
Miners are incentivized to find the cheapest available energy so they can optimize their activities. In practice, this means using waste(d) energy. Energy that was produced but not used, and usually discarded.
Think about the excess capacity of solar and wind farms, hydropower plants, and even methane gas that is released by oil rigs. This infinite waste energy is captured and turned into a limited edition of digital energy money units.
Like turning dust into diamonds 💎
This is the incentive to innovate and optimize the network forever.
Within this system that is powered and secured by energy, anyone can exchange these energy units with whoever they want. Instantly, with zero friction, at an extremely low cost.
To illustrate, imagine moving $100M worth of anything for less than $2! I’ll Wait...
Every transaction in the network is documented and public to anyone.
This ledger of transactions is auditable 24/7/365. By anyone. No fake transactions. EVER.
This is something your Central Bank can’t (and won’t) ever do.
This is your alternative to the Baseless Fiat Monetary System.
Which sounds more appealing? In which system do you feel more empowered?
To shift from the Fiat Money System to the Digital Energy Money System (Bitcoin), simply move your monetary energy - your $/€/etc) - from the former to the latter.
See, you don’t buy Bitcoin, you SELL your fiat money and move what you already own into a provably better system.
Then, trust that the choice for a more transparent, secure, equal, open, fair, decentralized, energy-based digital money network is the right choice. For all of us.
Let’s escape together? 🛟🟠

2023-07-13 09:59:03

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Thanks. Working on that now :)

2023-07-13 09:49:15

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🫡

2023-07-13 09:36:14

Setting up my Nostr ⚡️