alanbwt
Alan ₿ Watts ⚡️

"This is it." #Bitcoin

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alanbwt@primal.net

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2025-05-22 22:23:14

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Deflation rewards saving, and thus, long-term planning. Compare the cathedrals built during the gold standard era to the uninspired buildings of the fiat era.

2025-05-22 00:42:51

#Bitcoin price discovery mode
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2025-05-21 15:07:18

How each new #Bitcoin ATH feels
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2025-05-20 20:45:54

#Bitcoin is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
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2025-05-18 23:42:02

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Me too. That is why I created this nym.

2025-05-18 23:33:21

“If you really see into this secret that the world doesn’t contain any serious threats in it because it’s all the basic you running up behind itself and saying boo to see if you can get yourself to jump out of your skin. If you see that, be cool. That’s the whole art of Zen, you know.”
— Alan Watts, Face Your Problems Head-On
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2025-05-18 23:05:06

Those who think Bitcoin has failed as a medium of exchange aren’t on #Nostr
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2025-05-16 21:37:58

Sats are the “cents” of Bitcoin.
Bits are the “dollars” of Bitcoin.
No changes necessary.
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2025-05-15 20:57:45

“Filters work.” — Matt Hill of @npub126n…e9ll
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2025-05-14 16:55:29

“The West” used to be known as Christendom. That is its core.
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2025-05-12 23:36:26

There is infinite potential fiat, yet there will never be more than 21M Bitcoin.
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2025-05-12 21:49:34

“This can become apparent if our minds are not constantly obsessed with verbiage, if, in other words, we can come to contemplating, seeing, feeling the actual world without putting names and labels on it. In other words, to see it directly rather than thinking about it.”
— Alan Watts, Ecological Awareness
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2025-05-12 18:46:39

How it feels to post about #Bitcoin as an anon for years
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2025-05-12 18:11:12

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs8yujy8htyj3wusqm2jfsl7gqcckhquudddgnsygmthq9mcatdk8stplfs4

2025-05-12 17:04:17

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Fair nuance. They are changing a longstanding mempool policy, however.

2025-05-11 13:58:13

Have a blessed Sunday.
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2025-05-10 23:54:53

Running Bitcoin Knots
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2025-05-09 18:49:04

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Possible it takes that long.
I’d say it’s more likely that once the tipping point has been reached, and mainstream advice is to hold Bitcoin instead of bonds, behavior of the masses will shift accordingly.

2025-05-09 18:28:17

Most “crypto” holders are indistinguishable from sports betters.
They hold a few memecoins they blindly hope will go to the moon, just as they hope their sports team will win their fantasy league. But beyond that, they don’t get it.
In time, they will. For pain is a great teacher. And fiat inflation is painful.

2025-05-09 15:17:32

The first American Pope, Leo XIV
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2025-05-09 01:18:11

Beef tallow is a gateway to Bitcoin.
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2025-05-08 15:06:51

Always find it amusing when Bitcoiners are critiqued for being “purists” or “idealists” as if that’s a bad thing.
Bitcoin would not exist without it.

2025-05-07 20:55:16

This is unacceptable.
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2025-05-07 18:49:29

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2025-05-07 15:27:25

“Why are you interested in Bitcoin?”
https://video.nostr.build/13c68624fd6a1cc7544ae95ad788d9b789cb4a48fb956b4683fefb39e94e5598.mp4

2025-05-06 17:09:09

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It’s the full node software that has the most traction other than Bitcoin Core.

2025-05-06 16:48:43

The Op_Return saga isn’t primarily about the technical implications.
It’s about Core pushing through a change without network consensus.
As a node runner, you can resist this overreach by not updating to the latest version, or by running Knots instead.

2025-05-05 21:22:37

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More diversity of full node software is good for Bitcoin. The fact that more people are using the latest version of Knots than the latest version of Core sends a message. I welcome other options to arise as well, though it’s nice to see Knots’ current momentum.

2025-05-05 21:06:30

Knots > Core
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2025-05-05 16:54:10

#Bitcoin is freedom. Fiat is slavery.
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2025-05-04 19:52:34

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Tillich defines God as “the ground of all being.” This is my favorite definition, though “the supreme self,” “the self of the world,” “the consciousness collective,” and “the void” all resonate as well.

2025-05-04 19:44:58

The part Protestantism got right is that it is better to read the Bible for yourself, and have your own direct relationship with God, rather than rely on the second-hand interpretations of others.
The part Protestantism got wrong is that, by stripping away the traditional, mystical, ritualistic elements, the experience becomes so watered down that it begins to feel secular, like going to jury duty rather than going to mass.
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2025-05-04 19:10:37

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You needn’t think of God as an external, visual man in the sky. God lives within each of us. Look within your self, not out there in the sky.

2025-05-04 18:51:25

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Sam Harris lol. The man doesn’t believe we have free will. So why do anything at all?

2025-05-04 18:05:14

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God is verifiable. Look within.
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2025-05-04 18:05:04

God is verifiable. Look within.
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2025-05-04 16:22:54

Interesting fact about this painting, Christ Leaving the Praetorium: Gustave Doré considered it “the work of his life.”
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2025-05-04 16:18:33

Being an atheist in your teens and 20s is a sign of healthy skepticism.
Continuing to be an atheist in your 30s and beyond is a sign of spiritual immaturity.

2025-05-03 20:04:31

Even Vitalik knows ETH is a poor man’s overly complex simulacrum of Bitcoin.
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2025-05-03 15:24:39

Ossify Bitcoin.
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2025-05-02 17:34:09

Bitcoin Knots may not be perfect, but it’s nice to see an alternative to Bitcoin Core gain traction. Decentralization of full node software is good for Bitcoin.

2025-05-02 16:59:06

#Bitcoin is going to infinity dollars.
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2025-05-01 16:15:31

Bitcoin is a monetary network. Not a poorly drawn cat jpeg storage network.
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2025-05-01 16:10:37

My full node is not your Google Drive.
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2025-05-01 15:29:22

Live a peaceful life.
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2025-05-01 15:24:13

Bitcoin Core serves Bitcoin, not the other way around.
We may live to see Bitcoin Core get dethroned by Bitcoin Knots, and it would be entirely warranted.
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2025-04-29 17:06:41

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2025-04-29 16:29:47

Bitcoin will set you free.
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2025-04-29 16:26:30

Save in Bitcoin. Focus on your craft. Live a peaceful life.
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2025-04-29 00:16:18

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Growing companies, mostly startups.

2025-04-28 19:53:01

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😆🤣

2025-04-28 19:11:20

How it feels to save in #Bitcoin and focus on your craft
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2025-04-28 19:10:12

Could be. I’ve heard wilder theories.
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2025-04-27 16:20:51

Have a blessed Sunday.
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2025-04-22 15:55:47

Once you figure out Bitcoin, it seems obvious that everybody else with a brain will figure it out minutes later, so you stack as hard as you possibly can, rush to withdraw your sats from the exchange, and hold your breath for the fiat system to collapse.
The funny thing is that most people do not figure it out right away. And the fiat system does not collapse right away.
Instead, the fiat system continues leaking purchasing power, as Bitcoin continues absorbing that purchasing power, gradually, gradually, until….
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2025-04-21 20:47:36

“The main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required”
— Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin Whitepaper
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2025-04-21 20:10:00

For perspective, Coinbase only holds ~9-10K Bitcoin total in its treasury.
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2025-04-21 14:32:10

Rest in peace, Papa Francisco.
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2025-04-20 17:46:47

Bitcoiners who are non-religious often say that it isn’t verifiable. They assume religious people are blindly trusting in what others say about God/Reality, rather than verifying it themselves.
While this is sometimes true, it needn’t be. Look within to verify God’s existence for yourself. Meditation, travel, psychedelics, and reading ancient texts can all help with this.
#note1qlk…5zzp

2025-04-20 17:24:59

#Bitcoin is a monetary system rather than a belief system. Still, it implies certain beliefs, such as objective truth, realized at the individual level, and made manifest at the collective level.
This is why many Bitcoiners experience a pull towards religiosity over time.
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2025-04-20 17:09:28

To find God, look within.

2025-04-20 15:23:40

People are returning to religion for the same reason they once left it: the dominant belief system is no longer convincing to them.
Cringe, fedora-wearing, Reddit-tier atheism à la Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, which presents the universe as “dumb, stupid” doesn’t resonate with modern man anymore. It feels empty now. So he seeks something deeper: the Truth. He seeks God.
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2025-04-20 14:57:34

Christianity is in a bull market. And it’s just getting started. Deus vult.
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2025-04-20 13:54:28

“He is risen.”
— Matthew 28:6 (KJV)
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2025-04-18 16:56:07

Christianity is the Schelling point of religion.
Judaism laid the foundation. Islam and Protestantism branched off. But the civilizational transformation following Jesus’s death has never been superseded.
Similarly, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is the Schelling point of high fiction.
Beowulf, King Arthur, and Der Ring des Nibelungen provided the mythic foundation. Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and Dungeons & Dragons spun off after. But none hit the mark quite so well as Tolkien’s legendarium.
And Bitcoin is the Schelling point of digital assets.
Hashcash, Digicash, and Bit Gold laid the groundwork. Countless altcoins branched off after 2009. But none have come close to Bitcoin’s civilizational impact.
In religion, myth, and money, there is no second best.
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2025-04-18 15:14:41

Interesting fact about this painting, which has a unique aerial perspective and omits nails, blood, and Jesus’ crown of thorns — Salvador Dali said it came to him in a dream.
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2025-04-18 13:50:49

“Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
— Luke 23:34 (KJV)
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2025-04-18 01:54:21

Thanks, Bitcoin.
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2025-04-17 21:33:03

“The idea of the universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody's disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of galaxies, and immense lightyear distances between them, and so on. So instead, it has become fashionable, and is nothing more than a fashion, to believe the universe is dumb, stupid, that intelligence, values, love, and fine feelings reside only within the bag of the human epidermis. And that outside that, the thing is simply a kind of a chaotic, stupid interaction of blind forces."
– Alan Watts, Tao of Philosophy
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2025-04-17 20:47:42

Coinbase could’ve been the biggest Bitcoin HODLer in the world. But they gave it up for scamcoin roulette.
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2025-04-17 17:14:46

“A new commandment I give unto you: That ye love one another; as I have loved you.”
— John 13:34–35 (KJV)
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2025-04-17 13:59:28

Ross is on #Nostr
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2025-04-17 00:09:52

How it feels to watch your transaction get confirmed in a block explorer
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2025-04-15 23:27:00

“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
— Alan Watts, Myth and Religion
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2025-04-15 18:04:34

Don’t chase yield. It’s a fool’s errand.

2025-04-13 14:22:07

Have a blessed Sunday.
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2025-04-09 17:53:07

Bitcoin is for anyone, but not everyone.
It’s for those with the desire and capacity to be sovereign individuals.
Not everyone meets those requirements, and that’s okay.

2025-04-09 17:31:31

It’s time.
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2025-04-09 15:16:39

Bretton Woods 2.0 is coming.
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2025-04-08 18:52:45

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“Too risky” for them to operate in the US under the Biden Admin’s Operation Chokepoint 2.0, which Trump ended.

2025-04-08 18:18:04

Excellent news.
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2025-04-08 16:21:47

To save in Bitcoin is to call the entire fiat system on its bluff.
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2025-04-07 15:55:23

Fiat end game.
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2025-04-07 15:40:00

We have reached the fiat end game.
Stay the course. Don’t lose your nerve. Save in Bitcoin. Focus on your craft.
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2025-04-06 02:49:11

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
— Aristotle, Metaphysics
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2025-04-05 03:42:06

A new record
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2025-04-04 03:35:37

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🤝

2025-04-04 02:37:02

At first, Bitcoin seems too risky to own. Then you realize it’s too risky not to.
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2025-04-03 23:38:18

“There are two ways of reaching the house next door. One is to travel all the way round the globe; the other is to walk a few feet.”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit
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2025-04-03 18:28:54

I sat = 1 sat
#note14h2…rgvu

2025-04-03 16:40:25

Quick guide to tariffs
1. Save in Bitcoin, focus on your craft.
2. Tariffs incentivize de-dollarization.
3. Dollar inflation accelerates—profit.
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2025-04-03 02:06:06

Bitcoin is.

2025-04-02 18:49:32

How it feels to own Bitcoin
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2025-03-30 14:10:17

Have a blessed Sunday.
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2025-03-29 16:37:46

“Hermits are people who pursue individuality to an extreme. They go off into complete solitude. And the most interesting thing you will find in the state of complete solitude, when you get really alone, you find that you are connected with everything.”
— Alan Watts, Worldly Religions
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2025-03-27 04:18:59

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2025-03-27 02:50:19

This is the way.
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2025-03-27 01:30:26

“Yes all of you are wrong”
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2025-03-27 01:21:02

Life as a Bitcoiner
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2025-03-26 19:36:44

Iconic photos of Alan Watts, Studio Gibli style
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