Today we started fixing up the old barn. Don’t tell the county; they’ll probably say we need to get a permit.

Change - like when the telegraph and railroads showed up, when electricity lit up cities. Everyone is anxious. Everyone is living online in their own version of reality. Meanwhile I just stick to what I know and hope our community doesn’t become an Instagram backdrop.

Strongly believe our parents are the last humans who will ever retire. They know it. You know it. And it's because the math is fundamentally broken. Life expectancy up. Birth rates down. Pension funds gambling on 8% returns while bonds pay 2%. Every government running the same Ponzi hoping they're not in charge when the music stops. But also, and here's where it gets darker, we don't want retirement anymore. IMO when people say "I want to retire early" I think what they really mean is that they want optionality. The "dream" isn't to stop working at 65 it's to stop taking orders at 35. So when Bitcoiners say "Bitcoin is my retirement plan" I don't think they really mean a literal retirement plan because retirement isn't a thing anymore. It's an escape velocity plan. You don't need enough to never work. You need enough to never need to work. The 401k is a museum piece. The pension is a fairy tale. We're all going to work until we die OR build something that works while we sleep. - Fernando Nikolic

Once you understand that the global financial system operates on currency (and not money) controlled by a handful of powerful central bankers, a lot of inequality, social upheaval and political division begins to make sense.

Fire can be used to burn your house to the ground or heat it. Digital technology can be used to control you or set you free.

When you purchase something with a credit or debit card, there is a corporation in the middle of that transaction watching what you are buying. But with bitcoin, your transactions are person-to-person - private and secure, just like cash.

Question(s): In Core 30 are the settings to adjust OP_RETURN size being removed? Are these settings in Core 30 set at max size for OP_RETURN by default with no way to dial them down?

I’m realizing the message to share with people is less about bitcoin and more about how inflation steals from everyone in a surreptitious way and how this erodes individual sovereignty and undermines society. After that conversation it’s time to talk about bitcoin.

(Head west!)