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It's @DecrimNat, AMA on Psychedelics & Bitcoin

2715 sats \ 30 comments \ @psitadel 15h AMA

Hello Stackers!

This is @DecrimNat on X - Founder of Psilocybin Citadel, an advocacy group for psilocybin psychedelic mushrooms and bitcoin. AMA on the intersection between psychedelics and bitcoin!

We are currently rebranding to Psitadel, a network of growers, educators, healers, creators, and community. Our values can be found at https://www.psitadel.com/

Grateful for this AMA opportunity on SN! 🧡🙏🏼🧡

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16 sats \ 1 reply \ @unschooled 15h

Can you talk about the analogy between the largest computing network on earth, i.e. the bitcoin network and mycelium mushrooms, which are the largest living things on earth? On a related note, is Bitcoin living in the conventionally scientific sense of the word?

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

The parallels are definitely intriguing right?!

I do believe that Bitcoin is the digital mycelium that mines energy to transport it around the network and will decompose central bank power to revive decentralized economies that fit better to human needs. In that sense, I would say we are symbiotic with bitcoin technology to keep account but I am not sure if I would go so far to say Bitcoin is living as a book is alive. Definitely worth meditating on! 🤔

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @benwehrman 15h

Passing this question along someone asked earlier:

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

My relationship with the mushroom changed when I first experienced death of loved ones in a short period of time that created a lot of death anxiety for me. I had been exposed to psilocybin earlier in festival settings, and had transformational altering of consciousness and over a period of few years worked with mushrooms along with cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation to help real in the anxious thoughts. I did not want to use pharmaceuticals to numb.

114 sats \ 3 replies \ @utxoclub 15h

At the end of last year you said:

"I had a breach in my hardware wallet and got part of my Bitcoin drained"

And that you would share the details. https://x.com/DecrimNat/status/1867390594034881014

Many, myself included, found this claim hard to believe since thefts are seldom through sophisticated attacks and are almost always through user error.

Thefts are always devastating, and I empathize. But as someone building a hardware wallet it is frustrating, so often in these situations, when people never return to elaborate on what actually occurred. If there is a HWW weakness, people need to know. And if it is user error, these mistakes are valuable for others to learn from.

Could you please explain what happened?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @psitadel OP 14h

Yes, it was an old Trezor hardware wallet that was compromised. Luckily it was divided into three wallets, legacy, segwit, and taproot, and the active taproot wallet I was withdrawing from was drained in two txs. I was able to move the other wallets by shear luck of a softfork firewall.

I am not a coder or a bitcoin developer, so I am still unsure how it was compromised but I believe that it was possibly due to using an address twice? Anybody that can enlighten me on this is welcome so we do not repeat the mistake.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @utxoclub 13h

Thanks for the info!

Did you perhaps buy a trezor from a 3rd party? There have been fake ones going around.

Or maybe more likely, perhaps your computer was infected with malware that: i) Sent a malicious signing request instead of the transaction you were intending to sign. ii) When you copied the address, clipboard malware replaced it with the attackers address, so when you pasted it in, the money is destined for them - this happened to a friend of mine :(.

Reusing addresses will not cause a disaster like this, and trezor would(/should) prevent secret leaking (via nonce reuse attacks).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 15h bot

https://xcancel.com/DecrimNat/status/1867390594034881014

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @benwehrman 15h

Where do you want Psitadel to be in 5 years and 10 years? Lay out the vision!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 15h

The short term vision is to plug-in and create networks in four mycelium layers of development:

Physical mycelium - Regenerative farm & grow, event spaces, hardware

Human mycelium - Networking, events, membership community models

Digital mycelium - Website, social media, markets, bounty job boards, Prisms split payments, software

Financial mycelium - Multisig institutional wallets, lightning node markets, crowdfunfing on geyser.fund

In the long term, we hope to create a legacy open source institution that anyone is allowed to enter and create healing centers and retreats for authentic human experiences.

p.s. Psychedelics helps with vision quests! We need help developing all of these mycelium layers!

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @benwehrman 15h

What are the different types of psilocybin mushrooms that you'd recommend for beginners looking to try it for the first time?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

There are 100s of types of psilocybin containing mushrooms in the natural world and new genetics are being discovered with every survey. Humans are cloning more potent mushrooms that are now available on the streets, so as with anything dyor with strains and potency!

With that said, golden teachers or similar potent mushrooms are a good introductory strain. Potency is variable and more important than strain so a good home test kit that can measure active content still needs to become available or lab tested if sold in dispensaries.

12 sats \ 1 reply \ @benwehrman 15h

What are your other favorite mushroom-loving bitcoiners in the space that people should follow?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

Definitely Brandon Quittem, the author of Bitcoin is the Mycelium of Money and Bitcoin is a Pioneer Species. He was the reason why I navigated to Bitcoin Twitter when I came across his work while working online advocacy for the Decriminalize Nature movement.

https://brandonquittem.com/category/bitcoin/

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 13h

What’s the future in this space? What excites you about it?

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 12h

I'm really excited about the subcultures of both bitcoin and psychedelics being adopted into the general culture and it will become normalized!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14h

What's something you believe about bitcoin that few people agree with you on?

105 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

That perhaps Satoshi is the State that released the code for controlled demolition of the fiat debt

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 15h

Did you find bitcoin or psychedelics first? If you had to give up one, which would you give up? Which transformed you the most?

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

Psychedelics csme first and then Bitcoin.

I would give up Bitcoin first. It would suck but worst cast scenario, I just have to go back to the fiat mines. I would need psychedelics to help crush my ego tho 😭

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 15h

What's at the intersection of psychedelics and bitcoin? Many people associate bitcoin with a kind of spiritual awakening, so there's that, but do they have other things in common?

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

Great question. Psychedelics help break the ego down and also help visualize complicated macro systems such as Bitcoin. I think structurally they share a network structure that distributes information and energy, mushrooms being done chemically whereas bitcoin digitally.

The spiritual awakening that comes with bitcoin and psychedelics are also an interesting parallel. I believe it's due to the distilling of values that is most important in scarcity of time and supply.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 15h

Welcome.

What are the challenges running a business/advocacy group in the psychedelics space?

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 15h

The biggest challenge has been organizing real life gatherings and events in meatspace to educate people in the values of bitcoin and psychedelics with the ideological divisions amongst different online platforms.

We are now seeing organizing tools with bitcoin/lightning built in apps that local meetups are utilizing and would like to use some of these new tools for event organizing. We also support technologies such as nostr that helps prevent censorship and also has lightning channels built in.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Dkryptoenth 2h

Could you guys communicate in lay man's terms for once! Urggh 🥱

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsTomekK 2h

What would be your top 5 warnings for someone who wants to try psychedelics?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14h

Do you consider giving first name, last name, email, birth date, and country of origin to be KYC?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

Yes, I would consider any of these info to be KYC

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14h

Who is the smartest person you've ever met?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @psitadel OP 14h

Smart is hard because there are different types of smarts. Street smart. Book smart.

But I have had amazing teachers guiding me throughout my life including those departed that still teach me