I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy. https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty
Erik Cason @erikcason - 5h
This highlights my point all the more. If you are securing your own seeds and you are leaving them on paper, and not putting them on high temperature steel, or using multisig with multiple backups, it’s just as bad as storing your guns insecurely.
Erik Cason @erikcason - 18h
Bitcoin ownership is a bit like gun ownership. It’s pretty simple and straightforward, but if you don’t know what you are doing and have unsafe practices you can absolutely destroy yourself. Also you NEED to know how both of them work to protect yourself. You cannot rely on others to hold your keys to save you, just like you cannot rely on others to hold a firearm to save you. nostr:note1fekdfprgh79qd5nqfzdm6vcew6swd4xxx6n4qju9pvd62nfhezasrtn9ez
Erik Cason @erikcason - 1d
Here’s one of the bigger chanterelles I found today:
I’ll get a shot of them next time I’m out
Taught myself like most skills I have. Took me about five years to learn to be confident and comfortable with what I was picking, but once you have it down for certain types it becomes much easier. Really you just need to know what are the deadly poisonous ones, the look alike, and which ones are easy to know. I probably know about 2 dozen eatable types around my area and the handful of poisonous ones too. The pysop is just retards eating things they don’t feel confident about.
I feel so lucky that I can spend the whole day out in the forest with my dogs finding all sorts of delightful mushroom gifts. It just feels so peaceful and right to be out there tromping around and being in the elements of nature.
Erik Cason @erikcason - 4d
I feel rage in my body when people act like paying taxes is some kind of ethical obligation. I usually flip out and list off each illegal US bombing campaign and asking after each one if that was ethical. nostr:note1y8h78fgl50m49j6ctjfntrzsnty9gl2tlxt738r4ujg5ad5hj5dqzxtf3u
Erik Cason @erikcason - 6d
Not only does it work, it’s been than the current model which is inherently based on exploiting artist for their value. V4V opens a whole new world of creativity where artist can truly produce for their fans alone, and get larger and more robust earnings than ever before. nostr:note1v807qe7gujxafzuaqcgzqhluch8fu0wfcv5l6t09t3wz4mz32tuq27xwwv
Was like that for me the first four years—lonely times I tell ya.
There is for sure. I spent the last two years traveling to dozens of countries meeting hundreds if not thousands of bitcoiners to tap about the spiritual aspects of it, and I can confidently say there is a very real spiritual awakening that is compelled by this. That’s a large part of the presentation in my book as well.
It’s an investment in global decentralized law itself: the most important investment for any being that seeks to be part of a global civilization.
I have a really hard time taking anyone seriously who talks about personal or spiritual empowerment, but then scoffs at the idea of bitcoin. You can’t change the world if you’re using slave credits to try to do that, and in fact I’m suspicious that you’re really in it just to make more slave credits.
Erik Cason @erikcason - 8d
I’m always impressed and surprised at how much my physiological attunement matters to how I’m feel. I was feeling pretty down earlier today, and forced myself to go out mushroom hunting. After about an hour, I was really surprised at how much better I was feeling. Getting that blood flowing and getting your mind off of whatever it may be spinning on is really important to take care of yourself. I just wanted to say that for anyone feeling down to encourage them to get out of the house and do something to take care of their body and the mind will likely follow suit. GN.
Erik Cason @erikcason - 9d
Will someone please build a sub stack on Nostr just so we can call is sub.zap?
This hits hard and personal my friend. I struggle with imposter syndrome as well, along with feeling like I’m not doing enough. Your work is important and keep contributing as you can, it’s all a positive sum and it’s ok when you need to step away and care for yourself.
Erik Cason @erikcason - 11d
I disagree with Roger on some of his points about bitcoin, but I like him as a person, his values and have great empathy for him and his persecution.
Erik Cason @erikcason - 13d
I am really, really thankful for Bitcoin, and more importantly Bitcoiners. You people have really inspired me to be my best, and to know that we all have a great and extraordinary task before us that we are manifesting into reality. It is all becoming true, and with Bitcoiners we are going to right the wrongs of our world that are rooted in the lies and corruption that are fiat. Together we are going to free our people from this impossible problem that has been so graciously and serendipitously solved by Satoshi. I thank all of you for helping me know that I have a mission and purpose in this world, and it is with all of you who share in this great quest that is to liberate other being into the sovereignty that Bitcoin provides and teaches to all of us.
Erik Cason @erikcason - 15d
They were naive, but also we needed to go through the cycle of its commercialization to see how awful and abusive it was to create a generation of people who are cynical enough about it to see it for the reality it is. We needed something like bitcoin to allow for market exchange outside of the state to create development without state identity imho.
What excites me the most about Nostr is that we now have a protocol from which we can build literal killer apps. The internet was suppose to be free, and only over the last 30 years did it become walled off and enslaved to corporate and government interesting alike. I want to see us build each and every FOSS app possible to compete with and destroy the corporate apps, as our data is ours, and it should no longer be free for the raping and pillaging for fiat companies, with fiat interest, and fiat lords who are more than happy to sell you out to whomever they please. I’m here to watch the old internet die as much as I’m here to watch the new one we are birthing together.
More and more I believe bitcoin to really be a spiritual calling to each of us individually, to demand of ourselves and our communities to truly self-reflect on what it means to be spiritual beings, and what it means to dignify one another with a money that is absolutely scarce and cannot be stolen from one another. Each of us who know and understand what this technology is are to show our people what it really means so that we may birth a new age of love and prosperity for all, simply by righting the wrongs that fiat money has created in the world. It is a most glorious and noble cause to which I am repeatedly humbled by the task that my greatest responsibility is to simply speak this truth into the world, as each of you are also to do. nostr:note13yduup9eexd999hjq6xwh23v80nt4atke2glgg5550j6z0029p2s9lq5j9
