Jason Hodlers

Good morning, and happy #Thanksgiving! 🦃 Here are 21 things that I'm grateful for this year, in no particular order: 1. God 2. My wife 3. My children 4. Bitcoin 5. @Bitcoin Chatt 6. My home 7. The Bible 8. The Book of Mormon 9. My new church community (Calvary Chapel! 🙌) 10. Satoshi Nakamoto 11. Bitcoin Knots 12. Nostr 13. Hiking trails 14. Stars 15. Music 16. Podcasts 17. Prayer 18. My chickens 19. Healthy food 20. That no one was hurt from the recent car accident I was in 21. Life What are YOU thankful for? Let me know 👇

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to run Knots. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on Core, that they will fight to protect it."

"We will never see Bitcoin below $100k agai—"

This speech from @Neal at a recent meetup in San Antonio is absolute 🔥! It starts at 0:35, and ends around 40 minutes in, and is then followed by Q&A. Main point: In our orange pilling, we should lead with a moral case FOR Bitcoin and AGAINST fiat, before getting into economic details. Bitcoin's moral superiority is 100% verifiable and 0% speculative, so it's moral implications should be our primary focus.

Opt out of fiat; switch to Bitcoin. Not to end all fiat, but to keep it out of your life. Opt out of Core; switch to Knots. Not to end all spam, but to keep it out of your mempool. If enough of us opt out, then fiat/spam will die, but that's knot the point. It never was.

The more I try to build a Bitcoin circular economy in the #Chattanooga TN area, the more the metronome gets stuck on the right side of this picture.

Pre-1971, the Fed could print money, but only when a precedent made it palatable for the public (e.g.: war, after propaganda). But then Nixon removed that filter, which didn't work anyway, and the rest is history. Do we really want the equivalent of that for spam in Bitcoin?

As of today, no one has heard from Satoshi for 14 years (I'm not counting the suspicious "I am not Dorian Nakamoto" message). What do you think he's been up to all this time? Wrong answers only.