A brief bitcoin story.

When I first started, I was just making tallow soap as a hobby. I looked around, and found all the different products that people buy on a regular basis that are nothing but poison, and completely given the green light by our government. So I started making my own for my family, and friends.

I started watching hour, after hour of YouTube videos, and was finally able to get it right, after many failures. And there were a lot.

I had never really considered making it a business to start with, just as a hobby that I had really started to enjoy doing. It was fun creating something with my own hands.

I had already been a bitcoiner for a few years, but I had been stuck in the belief of only NGU. I was still, for lack of a better term, a fiat maxi. I was only taking into consideration the amount of wealth I could achieve with owning bitcoin. I hadn’t went down the rabbit hole far enough, and probably still haven’t. We all have much to learn.

As most of us, I watch hours of Bitcoin content each and every day, and for the most part, only interact with bitcoiners on social media. I began to see people accepting bitcoin as payment, as actually using bitcoin as money. Which it was meant to be from the very beginning.

All you have to do, is look at the title of the White Paper.

“Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”

After finally having what I would call an epiphany, I wanted to start earning bitcoin. Not fiat. Bitcoin only.

Since very few employers outside of the bitcoin ecosystem pay in bitcoin, and because I’m quite limited on my understanding of tech, I had to come up with an idea to start earning bitcoin on my own.

Eventually, the light bulb in my head turned on, and I started as Soapminer on Nostr. And only accepted bitcoin.

At first, it was nothing more than a side hustle. I would get a few customers a week, nothing that would sustain a small business full time. However, that would change quickly.

I found that people actually loved the quality of the soap we produce. It was, to my ecstatic joy, a great success. Everyone spread the message of how much they liked our soap, and how it made them feel better than the slop they got off the shelf at the grocery store. I began to gain more, and more customers. To the point, that I had to start my own site to keep track of everything in a more centralized way. Soapminer.com was born.

I also found that bitcoiners are the most loyal customers a business can have. If you provide a quality product, develop a solid reputation, and have a good moral character, they will keep coming back to you for your products. You will create a retention rate unheard of in the fiat world. I am truly appreciative of this, and to all that are my patrons.

Soapminer is now a full fledged small business, and I now work full time on it. It keeps growing, and the bitcoin ecosystem keeps growing. More, and more businesses are now accepting bitcoin, and one day, they will require it in order to do business.

You see, while Soapminer was started to provide handmade tallow soap, keep people from using poisonous chemicals to bathe in, and earn more bitcoin. It also has another mission.

To help move the Overton Window.

It is my contention, that when you normalize using bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange, it gains more, and more adoption, thereby increasing it’s value, thereby increasing it’s adoption. Until it has mass adoption.

I am still quite small, and probably won’t be the catalyst that moves the Overton Window, but I’m going to do my small part to assist move the bitcoin ecosystem forward, to make bitcoin a Medium of Exchange, and make the world a better place.

Because if we can fix the money, we can fix the world.