Just gave a 35-min online talk + Q&A to 115 financial regulators from countries including US, UK, Australia, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Uganda (over 20 nations in total) about Bitcoin In the audience was the director of the central bank of paraguay, deputy director of the central bank of pakistan. director of the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) for Brazil, deputy director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and many divisional heads. A big focus for the talk was how Bitcoin is financial inclusion technology for the world's 1.4Billion unbanked, and how it is financial freedom technology for human rights activists around the world. Strongly featured the work of Alex Gladstein and HRF, the work of Bitcoin mining companies who are helping bring people out of energy poverty, while stabilizing the grid and improving energy security and affordability, and the work of the Digital Assets Research Institute who've quantified how Bitcoin has been used as re-locatable re-settlement money for 329,000 refugees. Most had not seen any of the data I'd shared, and were eager to see the real world data that backed up these stories - which thanks to the people and entities mentioned above, we have a lot of. Probably nothing.

No breath, no life. That’s obvious. But … Know breath, know life - that is less obvious to people (yet equally true). Yes, just as whether you are breathing defines whether you are alive How you are breathing defines how you life You can be eating right, exercising right, even meditating regularly. But if you have not learnt how to optimize your own breathing, you have not yet learnt how to optimize life itself. I was fortunate enough to discover this by accident at age 30. A friend suggested I went along to a breathing course. Like a smart-alec I thought “I already know how to breathe, what’s the point?” but I went anyway out of curiosity. What followed showed me that I knew how to breathe to survive, but not to thrive. And as a result, I was needlessly living with a lot of more stresses and a lot less freedom than I could have been I was so amazed by the difference I felt, I decided then I wanted to teach it to others, so they didn’t have to wait as long as I did to find out how to optimize the conditions for life itself. If you’re curious (you're a Bitcoiner, of course you are!) to find out more firsthand, the next step is DYOR. No, not by reading a book: by experiencing it. Your breath is an asset that everyone can self-custody without permission. But it does initially take a little training to use it optimally. So DYOR step entails coming along to an intro session which I’m running (online) this Friday 7pm PDT. You’ll pick up a simple technique you can use to calm the mind during the day, more knowledge about the breath, and clear next steps if you want to deepen the extent to which you optimize your breath and therefore your life. Anyone can come. Just drop me a message or comment below. I will then send you the link, and you can get started in applying this to your life.

10 Reasons Bitcoin is like Meditation 1. "Experience precedes judgement": Both can look allusive from the outside; both reward those who decide to experience before they judge 2. They increase freedom: Bitcoin increases freedom on the material plane of existence. Meditation increases freedom in your own mind 3. They reward low time preference: Some new health-fad is to meditation as memecoin is to Bitcoin: in each, patience and sidestepping self-serving hype is rewarded 4. Deep is the rabbit hole: After 1000s of hours, dedicated practitioners still feel like beginners 5. Proof of Work: True mastery in meditation or Bitcoin economics demands genuine time and effort. Shortcuts are illusions 6. Portable: Your mind is like your keys: Essential, portable, and accessible globally 24/7. 7. Never Too Late: With Bitcoin and meditation, the perfect time to start getting exposure is now 8. They magnify self-sovereignty: Both inner sovereignty & outer sovereignty share deep roots: stack sats and stillness 9. Network Effect: Gains strength and value as more people join in 10. Volatility Resilience: The longer you do each, the more resilient and strong you become in the face of volatility (of price/ outside events) (price in Bitcoin's case, outside events in meditation's case) I run a meditation session almost every Friday 7pm Pacific Time, online (for Bitcoiners) * 20 mins for the meditation session, then you can drop off, or stick around to ask questions * Anonymous/ pseudonymous guests welcome * Drop a comment or message me if you'd like to join the party