The hardest thing I have ever done.... was finally accepting that I did not have to maintain relationships with those in my life who had hurt me the deepest. Specifically my parents...

It took a lot of really hard work to build up the mental lattice and strength to finally put an end to those cycles of abuse....but I gotta say....it really feels good to be on the other side of those relationships :)

Danny is working hard to put "What Bitcoin Did?" back on top.... and I thought this interview with Lepard was on point!

While I am a little concerned that his book might be more of the same, I do like his take on things and am sure it will be a good read :)

This is a great post @siggy47

You do a really good job making the case for Bitcoin....almost like a lawyer might do :)

Bitcoin is a seperate system from anything humanity has encountered - and as more people come to understand this and build upon it....it is going to continue to grow more and more valuable and become more and more ingrained into our daily living...until it becomes the system everything is based upon and we are writing history books about the dark ages under FIAT systems

Bitcoin is so much more....to so many....talking in absolutes is difficult when it puts "baby in the corner" - lol

What about it being an open, secure, decentralized, protocol bounded by energy.... I mean it is pretty hard to say that has to only be a ledger?

I USE THE FORCE :)

That is an extremely interesting article for sure...I can't imagine not imagining talking to myself :)

I wonder if some other part of the brain is activated or if they simply talk out loud and "role play" responses to themselves?

So many questions....thanks for another Rabbit Hole of learning courtesy of all of you and Bitcoin!!! I love you (and sometimes hate you) all!

It immediately fills me with frustration and sadness - Bitcoin is appropriate for everyone wishing to step outside the FIAT rails in a decentralized, secure and soveriegn manner.

If you are passing it on to someone else, or simply "sticking it to the man" and removing it from the world upon your passing....it is appropriate :) Also if you plan on living more than a couple years it could be a very beneficial decision.

I think I could make an argument that Bitcoin is appropriate for everyone, at anytime and in anyplace....but I am a little wierd!

I remember getting an Optimus Prime transformer and thinking that was pretty cool....

I also remember seeing my parents putting the christmas gifts under the tree while my brothers and sisters were waiting in the car to go to church....(I can picture this moment like it happened yesterday)....I felt as if I had the rug pulled out from under me...because obviously I did....

My parents had been lying to me, while waiting to bring me to a place were people preach about truth, honesty, integrity.... LOL

This was definately the greatest "Gift" I could have received looking back on it but back then....it was just to much to reconcile

Having a life enriched by your flaws - is really just acknowledgment of your life...

If you go through life believing you are flawed then we need to talk....

Yet....

If you go through life thinking you have no flaws - you need to talk to yourself :)

I do not think you should be anything other than yourself....if you feel like "polishing" a professional facade is worthwhile then you do that, if not-then don't....either way is perfectly ok and perfectly acceptable.

The "key" in my thinking is to not "lose" yourself in that "polished" version? The "game" is hard to change from the bottom up - I look for so many changes happening as Bitcoin progresses that this question becomes moot over time :)

I am no longer shocked when a "Bitcoiner" becomes "successful" and ends up crashing and burning....

I wish they didn't get so caught in their own ego and could stay on the path of providing value permanently -

When I look into the future I am trying to build on Bitcoin - I guess I see a different goal than simply accumulating all the Bitcoin I can....and I see it more as a record of value exchanged and less as an "asset or commodity" to hoard or HODL...

I don't think I am crazy here - but I would rather be known for having provided more value to more people than for having "acquired" more value than others -

I don't think most people see it this way yet? I think many politicians and many getting into Bitcoin look at it as something else still.

Thank you - I will remember that as well for next time (I am fashionably late to the party) :)

I found this to be a really well written newsletter - from a systems/network perspective Lyn is spot on....

The question no-one can answer is what value will be added to the network before it is lost in FIAT land

I even searched and came up with nothing....note to self-search multiple terms vs taking the results of the first one and running with it :)

Thanks -

Again only at 44:50 through it here....but I could have probably skipped much of what I have listened to (struck me as lots of talk about price and inflation)...though it is kind of fun listening to Jack set try and wrangle the other cats :)

I feel I am to far in to not listen to the rest but - sheesh.... I hope the rest isn't all about inflation this, inflation that....and I bought in way back when and sold again....

Space - no doubt about it....