Agreed. I'm speaking generally. We are team hard money vs fiat. Gold bugs just like an inferior version of hard money that got us into this mess.

Happy for the gold bugs. We’re on the same team, but some understand going back to the gold standard means the same fractional reserve system playing on repeat forever, and others realize that bitcoin is the only path forward. I’m willing to wait.

Gold and silver pump when the world looks backward.

Bitcoin pumps when the world looks forward.

Let them have rocks.

Legislation is public like open source software, but closed to contributors. The result is predictable.

-loopholes and “bugs” everywhere
-plenty of time to map exploits
-almost no way for ordinary people to patch them

This is how you get things like the fraud in Minnesota

If you’re not using ChatGPT to troll your family you’re missing out

This video is what inspired this post and got me thinking on the topic. I have a teenager and a toddler. It would have been nice for someone to explain this to me when I was younger. Certainly no regrets, though.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UknXb1SaS8M

Young men will read a 300-page book on how to act busy,
act disinterested,
act detached,
act like they don’t care

instead of just getting busy and becoming someone worth being attracted to.

Most of that old dating advice boils down to this:
-Don’t chase.
-Don’t be needy.
-Have your own life.
-Have something else going on.

All good advice for the most part.

Those traits aren’t attractive because they’re performed.

They’re attractive because they’re what naturally emerge when a man is actually working toward something meaningful.

Purpose creates distance.
Work creates busyness.
Competence creates confidence.

No acting required.

Books like those popularized by Tucker Max showed men how to simulate those signals.

And to be fair, they work to a certain extent.

Of course, Tucker himself has since moved on to a very different message and is living his best life with a beautiful family!

What’s interesting now is the shift.

Two very influential, very different men come to mind.

@AlexHormozi
and
@Cobratate
are leading many young men towards a better path in their own ways.

Building.
Creating.
Discipline.
Legacy.
Proof of work.

So the point was never to ignore women or learn tricks.
It was to build something real. The traits people try to fake naturally emerge from real work.

And yes, I’m unapologetically tying this to Bitcoin.

Fiat fakes the signal.
Bitcoin is proof-of-work.

Choose your standard.

I think this marks the first time I refer to someone as a "young adult" being firmly outside that demographic. Next stop, boomer

There are so many young men in the world today focused on signaling value instead of creating it.

The latter is much harder yet infinitely more rewarding.

Bitcoin adoption won’t scale through ideology alone.

It scales when incentives align. When businesses use Bitcoin rewards to grow, they indirectly drive real consumer adoption.

Rewards work because they fit existing behavior.

While it would be amazing if more people paid with Bitcoin (and they will eventually), we don't necessarily need them to right this moment.

Bitcoin can simply be a benefit of shopping at a particular business, not a decision.

I wrote a short piece expanding on this idea, focused on earning Bitcoin through everyday spending instead of buying or spending it directly. At @nprofile1q... we've explored and implemented both, but one is a much simpler path to "adoption"

https://oshi.tech/blog/oshi-featured-in-bitcoin-news-a-rewards-first-path-to-bitcoin-adoption

The first Bitcoin faucets gave Bitcoin away so people could tinker and learn, driven largely by altruism

The next generation of faucets will be businesses offering Bitcoin rewards because it sets them apart, builds loyalty, and drives long-term customer value.

@nevent1qvz...

No but perhaps we will collaborate in the near future 👀