John Balkam

Author, Entrepreneur, Agent, Bitcoiner

Building The Life Economy

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Last Notes

2025-03-31 21:00:30

Western institutions that lost all credibility between 2014 - 2024:
Legacy Media
Governments
Healthcare
Academia
Medicine
Banking
Finance
Military
Law
The whole damn thing is being held together with glue sticks and bubble gum. I think most throughout society are still in denial though. Or sound asleep.
Clown world.

2025-02-28 15:33:46

How early Bitcoiners are similar to the early Christians:
- Misunderstood
- Hated for their beliefs
- Persecuted
- Steadfast believers
- Missionaries
- Wedded to the truth
- Willing to go to the ends of the Earth to spread their message
- Attempting to win over hearts and minds despite improbable odds
#Bitcoin

2025-02-27 14:01:59

If there's one thing I hope my generation changes about the world, it's that we stop profiting from waging war.
Becoming wealthy from destroying human life has got to be the most evil, disgusting way to enrich yourself.
We have the technology to achieve widespread abundance, but the endless warmongering and profiteering is holding us all back.

2025-02-21 13:16:37

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2025-01-25 19:07:26

Why am I posting relentlessly about destroying the global communist movement?
Because it is the most evil, anti-human ideology ever created by man. It is the mentality responsibile for some of the most horrific crimes against humanity in history.
We have to defeat communism for good to build a peaceful and prosperous world.
#Bitcoin #Nostr

2025-01-24 12:33:56

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Right? I was with him the whole way until the very end.

2024-12-31 15:32:07

We're going to bring down Big Tech with Freedom Tech.
We're going to reclaim our health and our sovereignty.
2025 and beyond is looking so bright 🌞
#Bitcoin #Nostr

2024-12-27 18:11:50

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eNuts

2024-12-27 18:06:14

So let me know if I understand cashu/Ecash:
A user sends sats via lightning to a mint.
The mint sends Ecash to the user that is 1:1 valued against the sats sent to the mint.
User can now send peer to peer Ecash to anyone with an Ecash wallet.
Or user can redeem sats for Ecash at anytime.
What did I miss?

2024-12-27 17:51:43

I just created and loaded my first eCash wallet. Woah this is cool 🤓
#Bitcoin

2024-12-14 01:18:28

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DEEP DOWN I DON'T THINK ANYONE WANTS SOMEONE ELSE TO SAVE THEM.
I THINK WE ALL WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO SAVE OURSELVES.

2024-12-10 12:46:46

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Indeed. This is why cigarettes often become money in prison. It's just a valuable, scarce good that is used to exchange for other goods.

2024-12-06 01:23:31

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The greatest topping of all time

2024-12-04 00:45:56

I am beginning to think that we can cure almost any human ailment with:
- Sunlight Exposure
- Sleep
- Herbal Teas & Medicine
It's entirely possible that we don't need a large healthcare or pharmaceutical industry AT ALL. Of course emergency rooms and surgery would still be important and available. But a lot of our public health issues could probably be solved with dead simple, inexpensive fixes.
Of course, it always comes down to the habits and willpower of every individual, but when I compare my experience with the healthcare system in the US compared with open source healing knowledge online, it is striking how much better I feel following the decentralized health information.
I hope to NEVER take another prescription drug again. There seem to be herbal remedies to almost everything. Failing that, there's getting tons of sun and tons of sleep. Two of natures greatest healers for the human body and mind. So dead simple, yet incredibly effective. And getting off the damn blue lit screens at the same time.
Along with decentralizing money and communications, I believe one of the biggest movements we can undertake going forward is decentralizing health and medicine. Life can get so much better for so many people if we let health and medicine flourish outside the fiat system.

2024-11-30 16:36:33

Bitcoin's critics say that it is used by criminals, terrorists, and money launderers.
Bitcoiners say that the biggest criminals, terrorists, and money launderers in the world are the bankers and politicians who enable the fiat monetary system.
I can live with evil people using #Bitcoin. I can't abide by evil, corrupt people forcing me to use their broken money.

2024-11-26 02:39:22

Isn't it lovely how normal everything seems to be as we move to the brink of nuclear war?
Very few seem to realize what's going on. Very few seem to care.

2024-11-13 03:03:38

It's the Capitalists
Trump
Vance
Musk
Vivek
Etc.
Versus the Communists
Xi
Obama
Newsom
Etc.
A global prizefight for all the marbles. The rest of this decade will be extraordinary.
Let's bury these fucking commies once and for all 🫡🇺🇸

2024-11-12 01:54:04

I'm class of '22, so I really took the orange pill in the middle of a shitty bear market. My first big conference was Pacific Bitcoin '22 while FTX was imploding.
The main feeling I have right now is satisfaction. And confidence. I feel glad that I trusted myself, did the work, built my conviction up, and stuck to my guns through highs and lows.
My ex-girlfriend thought I went crazy, my parents wrote Bitcoin off as a scam, my friends would hear me out but didn't take any action.
If it weren't for the plebs, I might've even bailed out before the real bull market.
But I didn't. I'm still here, and I'm NEVER FUCKING LEAVING. WE ARE STACKING FOR THE REST OF OUR DAYS. LFG 🫡
#Bitcoin

2024-11-06 13:54:05

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Okay to clarify, I am talking about the central banking cartel + corrupt government bureaucracy + corporatist co-conspirators.
G Edward Griffin pinpointed these folks as members of the Fabian Socialist Society.
Others call them "the Cabal" or "the Cult."
I called them global communists. We are probably splitting hairs here.
Whatever you call them, their reign needs to come to an end.

2024-11-06 13:36:17

Now it's time to go out and defeat the global communists and take our country back.
And we will use #Bitcoin and #Nostr as our sword and shield.
🫡

2024-11-06 12:17:39

Turns out the Dems strategy of calling everyone racists and Nazis if they didn't agree with their bat shit crazy worldview was ineffective.
Who woulda thought?

2024-11-06 11:07:55

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Very hopeful 🙏

2024-11-06 11:04:51

We're so fucking back 🇺🇸

2024-10-29 19:35:58

The great Jameis Winston, talking about #Bitcoin
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2024-10-28 01:49:43

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Incredible. I'm a Washington fan and that was one of the greatest moments I've ever witnessed as a fan

2024-10-21 18:33:16

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For better or worse, Saylor is a public figure, and he has to play that game. Meaning, he has to be an actor.
He has to say and do things that he may not actually agree with in his heart of hearts, because ultimately he's trying to cover his ass. Who knows what conversations he has had behind closed doors and with whom.
I was there at Pacific Bitcoin when he said, "There's no value in being a martyr. What you want to be is a winner."
Sometimes on the public stage, it is genuinely in your own best interest to fib a bit. Or to at least conceal your intentions.
I'm not sure if Saylor is doing this or not, but it is worth considering. By no means do I think Saylor is an enemy to the Bitcoin project. I think he is a brilliant engineer and tactician. He has to be very strategic in what he says in the public arena.

2024-10-21 15:19:56

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Here you go 🫡
https://t.co/dNBQavsZBd

2024-10-19 11:17:45

Do you think that these central bankers realize yet that we will literally die on this hill? We will put our lives on the line to destroy fiat central banking forever.
This is an existential battle, and we are going to win.
#Bitcoin

2024-10-19 11:14:27

This ECB paper is amazing. Now we know that they know that they're fucked.
#Bitcoin

2024-10-02 01:54:38

We're getting to the part in the movie where the Army of the Dead is marching on Winterfell. Where Sauron's Army is moving against Gondor.
Godspeed everyone 🫡
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2024-10-01 13:09:01

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I really enjoyed the whole series. If you enjoy Harry Porter, Game of Thrones, Hunger Games, and/or Star Wars, I think you'll enjoy Red Rising

2024-09-25 23:35:33

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Serious question, is making and hosting a relay relatively easy for non-technical noobs?

2024-09-25 11:56:17

It's frustrating to see my dear fellow humans fall into the same ideological traps that have been so common in history.
Nationalism
Racism
Sexism
Xenophobia
Anti-Semitism
Etc.
(To be fair, I see much more examples of these on X than on Nostr at the moment.)
Can we all agree that there are both wonderful people and horrible people in every race, religion, nation, gender, and creed?
Can we agree that we all have the capacity for good and evil? That there is a dark and a light side to every individual?
Blaming society wide issues on one group just exacerbates our problems. It solves exactly zero problems.
To dole out justice and right the ship, we need to pinpoint individuals who are responsible for doing harm, and we need to hold those individuals accountable for their actions.
It doesn't matter what the color of their skin is, or what religion they practice. It doesn't matter who they sleep with, or where they are from. An individual who purposely does harm to others needs to be punished and deterred from doing further harm.
Perhaps this is too tall an order right now, but one can only hope.
If El Salvador can do it, the United States can do it. The UK can do it. The EU can do it.
The "Free World" has a lot of work to do to live up to its title. For starters, perhaps we should drop all the awful ideological, tribal thinking.

2024-09-25 02:15:16

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Hello and welcome. Sayonara Amazon 👍

2024-09-25 01:13:47

The darkness of this world can be pretty overwhelming sometimes.
Has anyone else felt the heaviness of just living through recent times? That sense of dread about the violence, corruption, decadence, and evil that's becoming more apparent by the day?
Thank God we have the light of "a fire in cyberspace" to give us hope for a brighter future.
#Bitcoin

2024-09-24 19:47:32

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Keep studying. You grow in conviction the more you study Bitcoin.

2024-09-11 19:08:02

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I will say this, early on in my Bitcoin journey, I was intimidated about things like running my own node and holding my own keys.
The intimidation factor was mostly due to a lack of reps and a lack of information.
After continuing to learn and to tinker, I realized these things aren't that difficult!

2024-09-09 16:16:16

Are you not entertained?
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2024-09-04 00:27:46

The Trump DeFi platform is going to be an absolute shitshow. Better yet, a shitcoin show.
Never trust a politician. Ever! They are all a different flavor of shitcoiner.

2024-08-31 00:13:04

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Normies might get a little intimidated on here 😂

2024-08-29 14:46:15

Discovering #Bitcoin sucks you into a truth vortex that there's no coming back from.
All of a sudden, you realize the depth and the breadth of the lies all around you in society.
If something as fundamental as money is built on a tall pyramid of lies, what else is built on lies? Almost everything, it turns out.
This has been one of the most incredible things about Bitcoin for me: how it helped me see through the bullshit and get over my naivety.

2024-08-29 00:16:48

Listening to Mike Benz on Tucker...
Gotta get both of these gentlemen on #Nostr not sure how much longer they'll be able to speak on X and YouTube...

2024-08-23 22:56:06

Our pet rock is getting more popular I see #Bitcoin

2024-08-23 22:50:06

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As number goes up, aura goes up as well 🫡😂

2024-08-20 20:32:26

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Slippery slope

2024-08-20 12:14:01

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Good books

2024-08-20 12:13:52

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Sunshine

2024-08-20 12:00:16

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What would you add?

2024-08-20 11:59:23

The Simple Ingredients for a Good Life
- Sound Money
- Whole Foods
- Clean Water
- Safe Home
- Quality Sleep
- Lots of Movement
- Lots of Laughter
- Lots of Love
- Music
- Dancing
- Singing
- Play
- Gratitude

2024-08-19 11:16:28

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The food and the pharmaceuticals are poisonous.

2024-08-18 23:40:19

We've been inundated with so many lies for so long, that the truth seems too good to be true.

2024-08-18 22:38:23

Life in America:
You're born. They start poisoning you, robbing you, and lying to you, and then you die. And a small group of people get filthy rich in the process.
It's a Death Economy.
We must end the Death Economy and build a Life Economy.

2024-08-17 23:48:37

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I'm happy that I'm alive at the same time as you all 🫂

2024-08-17 14:21:24

The delusional, conceited intellectual thinks to themselves, "if everyone else would just think more like me, all of my ideas would be proven correct."
We have FAR too many intellectuals like this in society at the moment. (Cough, Paul Krugman) And their arrogance is suffocating for the rest of us.
What we need is more people with the mindset of the engineer or the entrepreneur.
The realistic entrepreneur thinks, "I have a theory on how to fix a perceived problem, let me test it out and see if it is truly a problem and if my theory can fix it." When an engineer or entrepreneur discovers through experimentation that their theory is false, they tweak it until they get closer to the truth. And they keep going until they get to the bottom of things.
If there was one thing I wish I could teach every young person in the world, it would be entrepreneurial thinking. Thinking this way gives you a strong grounding in reality, and prevents you from falling into the traps of just being an self-important intellectual.
God help us when the intellectuals start to brute force their awful ideas onto society, even when it's clear and obvious that they don't work. Oh, wait, they've already been doing this for decades.

2024-08-15 22:44:37

We are going to stack our enemies into submission.
Never underestimate a stacker 🫡
#Bitcoin

2024-08-11 16:38:30

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Just a laptop running Linux for now

2024-08-11 13:18:21

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Let's go!! 🤝

2024-08-11 13:17:53

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Yes. I've tried convincing the people I love most to at least study Bitcoin. Almost all have dismissed me without much thought.
Painful.
Seems they are too well off and/or too stubborn to have an open mind about it.

2024-08-11 13:09:30

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GM 🫡

2024-08-11 13:08:39

Running bitcoin 🫡
(Downloading the full blockchain and running a full node for the first time.)
Onward.
#Bitcoin

2024-08-10 02:02:27

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This is not a joke. This is not a drill.
🫡

2024-08-09 13:51:20

I have been building up my freedom tech stack.
Smartphone & Laptop - Above Phone & Abovebook
Looking into @npub1z3r…zmvf and @npub126n…e9ll to be able to have sovereignty over all of my data.
Slowly but surely, I'll move all of my life from the fiat tech stack (Google) to the freedom tech stack.
It may take a while, but I want to move my small business to the freedom tech stack as well. It will take a good amount of convincing my employees, but it feels like the only way to survive the rest of this decade.

2024-08-07 21:55:12

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Seriously, did not see this coming. Complete change.

2024-08-07 11:41:00

Bitcoiners and Nostriches are my heroes. I love you guys.
🫂
#Bitcoin #Nostr

2024-08-06 11:09:17

Being a Bitcoiner is like playing a game of chicken with the central bankers.
When the central bankers print a bunch of money, the Bitcoiners get filthy rich. When they raise interest rates and suck liquidity out of the system, Bitcoiners become "poor" in fiat terms. However, if the central bankers tighten for too long, their whole credit based Ponzi scheme falls apart.
Who's gonna flinch first?
Not the psychopaths who've been staying humble and stacking sats for years 🫡
We know that the central bankers are con artists.
We know that their system is broken.
It's only a matter of time before the central bankers swerve off the road and crash into the ravine.
#Bitcoin

2024-08-05 19:58:25

These next several months will be a doozy.
Grateful to have this network to rely on for information you don't get anywhere else 🫡

2024-08-03 13:26:43

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Yeah, why don't we leave women alone and stop telling them how they should live

2024-08-01 18:55:42

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Thanks for sharing.
I'm grateful for...
A healthy body and mind.
Meaningful work that helps me fill my day.
Beautiful relationships in my life.
Oh and Bitcoin!
🫂

2024-07-30 01:14:23

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Not saying it's good. It just happens. Wars are chaotic.

2024-07-30 01:09:52

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They say, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
It's a war. Strange bedfellows come together during war.

2024-07-29 00:46:29

Yeah, I think we're gonna win. #Bitcoin

2024-07-25 20:38:04

Money is not the root of all evil.
Corrupt money incentivizes human beings to enact evil deeds.
Remove the corrupt money, and the incentive to do evil dissipates.
All we are saying is we need incorruptible money for a better world.
#Bitcoin

2024-07-25 17:44:05

You can't have dignity during your human life without being able to own the fruits of your labor.
Private property is fundamental.
#Bitcoin

2024-07-17 15:01:08

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Yeah it was a mix of emotions. Among them, fear that the gloves are coming off and more violence is on it's way.
I would say the patriotic emotions were just a primal thing and coming from the incredible images that came out of the aftermath of the assassination attempt.
I still love the USA, even though my logical brain is telling me it is going south in this country, fast.

2024-07-17 14:19:20

The Trump shooting aroused a lot of patriotic emotions in me and many others.
Still, Trump ain't some savior. There is no one in American politics coming to save you and me.
I don't care what Trump says at the Bitcoin conference next week, I still abide by the principle, "don't trust, verify."
Anticipate a rug pull from Trump and his cronies, and be pleasantly surprised if it doesn't end up coming to fruition.
Just my 2 sats.
#Bitcoin

2024-07-14 15:50:54

It's a war between good, decent, honest people and the globalist, communist, satanist cult. And now everyone can see it.
It's light versus dark. Same as it ever was. And we're going to win.
#Bitcoin #Nostr

2024-07-01 20:04:31

I get it now.
People who hate the truth and hate freedom will always hate #Bitcoin. And there's no use trying to change their minds.
Best we can do is live the truth and live free. And let self-interest and game theory play out.

2024-06-28 01:19:58

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No, because we aren't going to pay taxes anymore.

2024-06-27 00:09:34

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It is a beautiful place to live, but there sure are some nasty people in these parts!
Good luck with the next chapter 🤝

2024-06-25 02:40:25

Do @npub1sn0…jdv9 next, USA.
DO IT.
🇺🇸

2024-06-25 01:23:51

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It's amazing how simple you can make things and get extraordinary results

2024-06-22 22:00:07

You can't solve problems created by the government from inside the government.
The only way is to build in parallel to the dysfunction.
#Bitcoin #Nostr

2024-06-21 20:20:42

"Do whatever you want as long as you don't impose it on anyone else" is a simple maxim that most people abide by in life.
The only people who won't abide by that maxim are power hungry government agents, politicians, bankers, financiers, and some technology businessmen.
What if we ignore ^ people? Better yet, what if we shame and shun these people?
The world gets 100% better overnight as soon as we exile the totalitarian psychopaths.

2024-06-17 22:09:48

Often times, it is better to live the truth than to speak the truth.

2024-06-15 21:51:52

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Building something special, without a doubt.

2024-06-14 20:15:15

Collectivism is a cancer.

2024-06-14 19:35:50

Reading this eye-opener. There's gotdamn commies hidden in plain sight all over our beautiful country. And they've been plotting to destroy America for decades. Politicians, media, intelligence, labor, Hollywood, and so on.
We're going to use #Bitcoin and #Nostr to defeat these people.
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2024-06-14 18:54:31

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Best money ever.

2024-06-10 00:47:53

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DON'T TRUST, VERIFY. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE.

2024-06-09 15:55:44

The Democratic Party should rebrand as the American Communist Party (ACP).
No more false advertising. That's against the law 😜

2024-06-09 15:47:52

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Always fade Krugman. ALWAYS.

2024-06-08 15:59:40

COMMUNISM IS A DEATH ECONOMY
Communism is an elaborate scam whereby a small group of charismatic "leaders" convince the masses that all their problems will be solved if all private property is eliminated. However, under communism, property does not get eliminated, it is all just confiscated by the state.
Therefore, under communism, all the property is owned by a small number of elites, and the proletariat lives in extreme poverty "for the greater good." Yeah, right.
Needless to say, communism is a brutal and horrific regime at scale. The atrocities committed by communist members of the USSR and the PRC in modern times are unforgivable, and yet, Marxist ideals are still held in a positive light today in some parts of society.
Perhaps communism is acceptable at a small scale, say, at the family level. One family that shares all of its property with one another and doesn't bother to worry about who owns what is not going to commit atrocities. Even one small community of 50-100 people could probably get away with organizing itself using communist principles.
Where communism becomes a serious problem is when a government attempts to scale it to the masses.
Private property is foundational to civilization. Can we take anyone seriously who legitimately believes that individuals do not deserve to keep the property that they earn through their labor?
Communism, and its close cousin, Socialism, do not work because they are uncivilized. They are systems that require large scale theft and violence to work. No government theft or violence, no Communism or Socialism.
So, by now it should be clear that we can bury these destructive concepts in the 20th century where they belong, right?
For whatever reason, these concepts are still popular. Perhaps it is because we are so accustomed to the death economy, where governments steal our property through taxation and inflation and then use the stolen resources to kill and maim foreign citizens in the name of "freedom and democracy." What a joke.
When you take a good hard look at the USA and the EU for that matter, and how our systems of government actually work, you see that we've become at least partially socialist countries, if not full-fledged communist.
While the USSR was overt and aggressive in its campaign to eliminate private property, the US and the EU are more settle in the way they steal from their populace. Instead of using violence and torture, our modern governments use a more potent weapon - central banking - to commit their sneaky grand theft.
We have all been feeling the weight of inflation in recent years. Have you ever asked yourself, "why do we experience monetary inflation?" Or "who or what is responsible for monetary inflation?"
The answer to those questions is very simple - we experience inflation because our money is issued by a central bank (the Federal Reserve in the US and the European Central Bank in the EU). What is the cause behind inflation? The central bank has the power to create new money out of thin air, with no costs or strings attached. Money doesn't grow on trees. It is created with a few clicks of a mouse on a computer screen.
This is why we have inflation and inflation is a devious and shadowy form of theft. The government and the banks spend inordinate amounts of time trying to explain to us why inflation is good for us. "It helps us grow the economy!" they say.
This is simply not true. All inflation does is take purchasing power away from whoever holds the currency that's being inflated. Plain and simple. It may appear that we're all getting wealthier through inflation. After all, if our stock portfolios are going up and the value of our homes are increasing, we must be getting wealthier, right?
That may be true, if you own assets. When a currency gets inflated, everyone in the economy is forced to find ways to retain their purchasing power. It's a mad dash to compete for scarce, valuable assets before society's purchasing power gets wiped out by inflation.
If you are imprudent, over indebted, or simply don't earn enough money to be able to save and invest into assets, sorry, you lose. There's nothing we can do for you. You have to either accept your fate as a poor person, or join the rat race and climb your way up into the asset holding class.
One of the second order consequences of rampant inflation is that we slowly but surely get a communist system if money printing persists. With a central bank, the charismatic "leaders" don't have to use explicit violence and coercion to steal everyone's property. They can gradually make valuable property unaffordable for the vast majority by inflating the value of desirable assets sky high.
Look at society today, and a small group of "elites" owns most of the property in the form of stocks, real estate, and commodities. The vast majority are living paycheck to paycheck and can barely afford to live. Gee, how did this happen?
Let's face it, we were hoodwinked. We've been scammed. The government, the financial institutions, and the large corporations own us now. They own everything. And they are telling us that by 2030, we will "own nothing, and be happy." Sounds an awful lot like the communist ethos, doesn't it?
Sure enough, the death economy has brought us to our knees. Backdoor communism is the law of the land these days, unless we fight back. But how?
First, we have to stand up to these sociopathic bullies. But a violent revolution will never work. We have to fight back on the economic and ideologic battlefields.
Second, we must harness and master the greatest form of property in human history: #Bitcoin.
When used properly, Bitcoin is unconfiscatable digital property. It is money that can't be inflated or stolen by the government or the central banks.
Forget about the current price in your local currency for a second, and ask yourself, "how valuable is property that no one can steal from me, to me?"
For a lot of us, the answer will be: virtually priceless. Why would we sell property in cyberspace that bad actors can't possibly take from us?
If central banks are the ultimate weapon for communist totalitarians, Bitcoin is the ultimate weapon for freedom fighters who would rather die than live as a slave in a communist system.
We need Bitcoin to finally break free. We need Bitcoin to teach the world that private property is important for human life to flourish on Earth. We need Bitcoin to bury the evil, destructive allure of communism.
Communism is a death economy system. And it must be destroyed for life to improve on Earth.

2024-06-07 08:37:38

If they're lying to us about one thing, what's the probability that they're lying to us about other things?
If they're lying to us about multiple things, what's the probability that they're lying to us about EVERYTHING?

2024-06-06 21:34:00

The Cold War never reallllly ended.
The Communism vs Capitalism battle has raged on worldwide, even after the fall of the USSR.
As a matter of fact, lots of Communists have been living and working in the US for a long time. Trying to destroy capitalism from inside the US. Some KGB officers and agents even infiltrated our government. (Read JFK and the Unspeakable by Douglass).
I believe we are going to experience an endgame of sorts in this battle during our lifetime, and it's going to be epic.
The folks who are often referred to as "the globalists," would probably be better defined as "the global communists." They want a One World Government, where you will "own nothing and be happy." Sounds a bit like global communism, no?
Naturally, the vast majority of people around the world don't want global communism, so these rats have been pretending to be pro-capitalist and patriotic in the US and EU (and other nations), while they work to slowly but surely introduce communist policies through the legal system.
It seems like we are seeing pushback and wins across the world against the Global Communists. El Salvador being a great example.
And assuming more and more people start to wake up to the reality of this situation, I believe we will secure a massive victory over the commies. #Bitcoin is the weapon that overwhelms the communists biggest weapon, the global central banking system.
A sign that we've defeated the global communists for good is when we shut down the Federal Reserve and the EU Central Bank. When that weapon is taken away, how will the communists be able to fight? They won't be able to. They will be neutered and powerless, and they will surrender.

2024-06-06 00:52:08

#askNostr
I am a small business owner and am thinking about creating an affinity group or association for other Bitcoiner small business owners.
a) Would you be interested in joining if I started said group?
b) What name appeals to you for such a group among:
Small Business Bitcoin Alliance
Mom & Pop Bitcoiners
Small Business Bitcoiners
Freedom Tech for Small Business
Sovereign Small Business
Many thanks 🙏

2024-06-05 19:59:11

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Yeah. That's the goal 🤝🫡

2024-05-28 17:44:42

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Hey welcome to DC! Let me know if you would like any recs for your visit.

2024-05-28 17:42:15

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He acts like the government perishing from the face of the Earth is a bad thing

2024-05-25 15:36:44

Well, here goes nothing.
THE DEATH OF "THE DEATH ECONOMY" & THE BIRTH OF "THE LIFE ECONOMY"
What we are experiencing right now is the long, slow death of the "death economy." Outlined in John Perkins' remarkable book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, the death economy has pillaged the world. The rich have become fewer and richer while the number of poor have increased and become poorer.
The four pillars of the death economy, as Perkins outlined, are:
- Fear
- Debt
- Anxiety over Insufficiency, and
- Divide and Conquer
While it's an uncomfortable truth, it is true that the political, religious, financial, economic, and media leaders of the past century have lorded over society using these nefarious and demoralizing tactics.
The seat of the global empire of the death economy has been the United States of America since the end of WWII. While Americans can take credit for many positive developments for humanity in the time our country has played this role on the global stage, we cannot overlook the dark and evil side of our country.
In his book, Perkins detailed that, "the death economy is driven by the goal that was promoted by a group of economists in the 1970s and 1980s, including Nobel Prize winners Friedrich von Hayek (1974) and Milton Friedman (1976), and can be summarized as 'the only responsibility of business is to maximize short-term owner profits, regardless of the social and environmental costs."
The consequences of this attitude is that the world has been conquered by a small group of people that Perkins calls "the corporatacracy."
What we do next will define our country's legacy.
The opportunity is here to replace the death economy with something more just, fair, and peaceful. The life economy.
If the life economy is the inverse of the death economy, it would be reasonable to suggest that the four pillars of the life economy would be:
- Courage and Love
- Sound Money
- Security in Abundance, and
- Unite and Collaborate
We have all of the tools and knowledge that we need to build this new world. But it will take a critical mass of individuals who will step up and build the life economy with an unshakable commitment to these principles.
Just imagine if the world economy operated with abundance, freedom, and love at it's core instead of lack, debt slavery, and fear.
That's what I intend to fight for in launching this project. I want to live in a world running the software of the life economy. God willing, my children and grandchildren will inherit this world from you and me. It will be a long, hard fight, but we can overcome the death economy and create the life economy.
Let's begin.
#Bitcoin #Nostr

2024-05-24 17:54:27

Why Bitcoin?
Because if we don't stand up to fiat governments, banks, and financial institutions they will take everything from us.
We are standing up to totalitarians, that's why #Bitcoin