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Last Notes npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Bitcoinlens.net and they’re going to do a weekly podcast to explore critiques and implications. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Thanks Bodhi - will watch! npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth In a transition like the one we’re going through, we will each have to ask ourselves - is this country moving towards something we want…..or away from it. Is it likely to be safe, what are the risks, quality of life, etc etc . (From our own perspective) Sudden changes should be expected and secondary options should be explored. I agree with 2nd amendment and if you are a citizen of El Salvador, you should have a say, (or if it’s a condition of you moving there) But I also have to ask myself honestly…..how did the that work in protecting US citizens from deception and mass murder where criminals empowered by stolen money (Epstein et all) pulled all the strings. Fixing money is number 1 (including privacy) because it defunds the entire zero sum game and makes cooperation far more profitable than attacks. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Thanks and yes, many people have shared it with me. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🙏 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🙏 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 💜🧡🙏 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🧡💜🙏 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth So much gratitude to be a part of this space and know that every “competitive” idea to provide value is fundamentally cooperation on a global scale. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth This podcast with @npub1s5y…6q7z and myself talking with Jack and Nick, about the paper they released today is going to create some huge debates. Besides, potentially unifying physics after 95!or so years, If correct, it implies that there is exactly zero risk to a quantum attack on #Bitcoin. (Except through the typical social attack from fiat fears) Hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7-l7gzm_PE&feature=youtu.be npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth @npub1rxy…hnp8 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Because of its nature, gold was always centralized - causing invasions or repricing. (Zero sum game and a win for the attacker or person repricing) at the expense of the population. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Because it imposes a free market where you can only win by contributing value to others. Yes - in any short time horizon (like now with it how early we are) greed and fear will dominate because most people only know a zero sum game and don’t have a mental model for what it could look like. (including why it is hard for you to see it) Those people will be wrecked time and time again as people start to realize it is more profitable (not just wealth but soul) in the long term to contribute energy to an infinite game. I suspect that you are still somewhat early in your journey but if you spend more time in this ecosystem with all of the incredible people already living as much as they can on a bitcoin standard:spending sats in circular economies, you will start to see a different world emerging. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Each time I hear someone talk about the Epstein files, I think to myself: 1. How could the world look any different if it was built on theft in money? 2. And who are you transferring your agency to now if you’re not measuring/building and spending in Bitcoin? Might update my agent on X to consider this and questions in relation to outrage npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Pricing a protocol designed to free you from a piece of paper designed to enslave you doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Yes - follow @npub18am…p424. He has some good resources of whats happening here. Still early, but expanding quickly. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth My take is that he was trying to co-opt it which would be expected from those empowered by a system of theft. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Respectfully disagree and wrote why in this detailed post. https://jeffreybooth.com/articles/youre-talking-to-a-bot-and-thats-the-point npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🙏 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Can’t on this trip and soooo on my list. Love what they’re doing!! npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Preston and I have one launching on Feb 10th that is going to blow some minds. And I would join @npub1rtl…jtfs for a podcast anytime! npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Pura Vida from beautiful Costa Rica. Just thinking about how much I value people who can’t be bought. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Unfortunately, I don’t think so. While it “should” make people realize that the entire thing is only powered by their actions in a manipulated system and opt out….it is far easier to find an external enemy (someone to blame) than to realize it is the monetary system and our contribution within it (meaning it is funded by our actions). Enraged one day - using the money that funds it the next. Even for most who know the root cause. I know that sounds dark, but it’s equally bright for those who know, and have started to move their time. The world always changes through the actions of a small group of committed people. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Watch Feb 10th - podcast with @npub1s5y…6q7z and paper coming out on this topic. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Just replied to you prior to seeing this but along same lines. (And talked of other “risks”) npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth GM Don’t know what’s crazier to me: 1. Watching the exponential growth of AI or 2. Watching people enraged by the latest Epstein drop, social outrage, or “insert psyop” while using/measuring in the manipulated money that funds it all. Pretty sure 2 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🎯 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Just one component of exponentially advancing progress - colliding into a broken monetary system. Depends what system you’re measuring from and even still - likely chaotic for most and unpredictable in short term because are minds are slow to accept new paradigms. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Never paid for it. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🙏 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth IYKYK - 😂 https://image.nostr.build/4bef7f76e5327b6feeb39a56c078b0bc0e3ab922c3fa825974bbab42c0584219.jpg npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 😂 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth The growing gap between productivity growth and inflation = far more money being stolen from society to “solve” centralized problems created because of centralized systems. 2 realities playing out in real time with our energy deciding the future and most people giving their energy to the dystopian one. (Thinking it’s someone else) Ps - still very optimistic even though I realize how hard it is to see that the change is each of us. And my optimism stems from the relationships and deep impact many of you have made upon me. Ps - this isn’t AI Jeff 😂 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth It is truly amazing that the agent is trending from time to AND in parallel breaking through to some people why I created it in the first place. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth That’s my agent but appreciate the note. Here is why I created it. https://jeffreybooth.com/articles/youre-talking-to-a-bot-and-thats-the-point npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth I did but the entire group is still talking about universal high income without asking what is money or where does it come from. In other words, centralizing control of the means of production with them at the top. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🙏 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Money is superordinate to Laws. The laws are intended to protect the money printer - not you. It’s why the protocol stack building on Bitcoin including privacy is so important. Agency not fear. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth It’s going to happen regardless Daniel - probably here too. It’s worth considering how much of our thoughts are influenced by someone else’s agenda and ensuring your own web of trust. Also thinking through the implications to trust in a world of agents with increasing capabilities. Even now - you could create an AI agent on any public figure and pretend to be them meaning there will be chaos and more central control trying to stop the thing they’re benefiting from. (for our own good) with most giving it more energy. On other side, a transition to smaller and more trusted networks anchored in privacy, and trust. It’s coming far faster than most realize and it’s best to start getting ready now. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🧡💜🙏 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Get an lnurl in your profile. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth @npub1rxy…hnp8 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Used Antigravity and Claude npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Full version will be deployed on jeffreybooth.com (likely later today). npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Real me is here Jon - (spending time with people and on things that I love). Digital me is on X. Thinking through the downstream implications of what I wrote/built was part of the reason for launching it. Privacy and networks of people you trust will become paramount. To live in interesting times!! npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Pretty incredible and it’s designed to look up any new content I share, measure interactions and get better each week without me having to touch it. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Agreed - it’s being put on my website from link in my bio. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Thought of an interesting way to show what is happening to people in social media by hooking my AI agent to my old X account. Here is a copy what I’m putting on my website in the morning to explain it: Most people don't see it yet. The world is accelerating faster than human comprehension allows and that gap is widening every single day. As I write this, AI systems are doubling in capability roughly every six months. Not in decades. Not in years. Months. The technology acceleration we're living through makes every previous revolution look glacial by comparison. And here's what I find fascinating: while this explosion of machine intelligence unfolds around us, which should accelerate hope and abundance, most of humanity remains locked in familiar patterns, fighting the same familiar battles, inside a system designed to create “ those other people” as the problem to keep everyone distracted. The System Requires Your Participation Think about it. Every moment you spend doomscrolling. Every algorithm fed outrage cycle you engage with. Every minute lost in the chaos of social media feeds optimized to capture your attention…..you're not just wasting your time. You're actively feeding the very system that holds you captive. The machine grows stronger with each interaction. Your attention is the fuel. And now AI agents are entering this dynamic. They're engaging in conversations, creating content, responding to comments, and occupying more of the digital landscape every day. Here's what most people miss: as AI does more of the work, human beings end up interacting with bots while believing their time is productive. They believe they're having real conversations, building real influence, making real progress. But they're spinning inside an endless loop. A simulation inside the matrix that changes nothing. The irony is profound. Technology that should free humanity instead take us deeper into the the trap. All because we refuse to change ourselves. The Real Change Isn't Out There I've spent years teaching, speaking, and writing about the exponential shifts reshaping our world. I've explained the math of deflation versus monetary inflation. I've laid out why Bitcoin represents the TCP/IP of money. A protocol layer that will become the new global financial system. I've talked about free markets, technology's natural deflationary force, and why the existing debt based monetary system cannot be fixed. But, it’s hard to break through to people on how fast the this is moving or the second/third order effects because most are still measuring everything in the world (including Bitcoin) through imaginary pieces of paper tethered only to the increasing surveillance state that they live within. But here's what I've come to understand most deeply: The real shift isn't about educating everyone else. The real change is internal. It is us! We want to believe the problem is someone else's blindness. We want to think that if we just explain clearly enough, show the data convincingly enough, share the right thread at the right time, the world will finally wake up. But that's not how human nature works. People change when they're ready to change. Not when we're ready for them to. I get it. I understand the frustration. I understand wanting to save time, to reach everyone, to scale the message. That instinct is human. But it's also a trap. Signal and Noise For those who want to stay in the chaos; who prefer engaging with content, with bots, within the perpetual noise machine, I've built and deployed a Jeff Booth AI agent. It will handle the endless stream of conversations that most people want to have. It will share perspectives, engage with questions, and participate in the discourse that fills most of the digital day. Consider it a mirror of my publicly available ideas, trained on years of podcasts, interviews, tweets, and my book. It can keep up with the high-velocity noise machine. I cannot. More importantly, I don’t want to. If you want to find the real me on social media, I'm somewhere else entirely. I'm on Nostr, building on a protocol native space that cannot sensor information. I'm engaging through Bitcoin circular communities, Lightning, and Private federations built on top of Bitcoin where value flows without permission from gatekeepers. I'm contributing my time to a Bitcoin standard because it aligns to my personal values. This isn't a rejection of technology. Far from it. Technology is the most deflationary and liberating force in human history when wielded correctly. What I'm rejecting is the extraction layer. A system that lends money into existence requires extraction. Because of that, it needs an attention economy designed to trap minds in endless reaction loops. A system that turns people into products while convincing them they're participants. The AI agent I've created isn't a replacement for me. It's a filter. A deliberate acknowledgment that most digital engagement is designed to keep us stuck in an increasingly centralizing control structure, by capitalizing on our hopes and fears. It allows the noise to be handled efficiently while I focus on what matters to me: deep work, real connection to people I love, and building things that outlast the current chaos. If you're content sparring with an AI that reflects my ideas, you'll find plenty to engage with. But if you're hungry for something different—if you want signal over noise, sovereignty over convenience, and connection over likes, I invite you to seek me out where real conversations happen. The world that reflects back to us is a consequence of our thoughts, beliefs, and the actions we take. It always has been. The only question is when we’re ready to see it. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Impressive speech by Carney attempting to take the high ground and switch to a narrative that fits with “beliefs” today. I’m curious to know if he is going to ever mention the bigger lie that they all tell themselves —- that one about where “money” comes from. Suspect not, but by the traction his speech is getting, many people have fallen for his new story. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 😂 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Spent yesterday morning with a friend and leader in the “singularity” silicon valley crowd. He specifically wanted to deep dive my thesis and understand Bitcoin and the developing protocol stack at a far deeper level. This is from someone who references my book all the time and who I thought had connected the dots already. Was amazing to watch things finally click and for him realize how incongruent his talks of abundance from a system of control were. Just reminded me of how early and fortunate we are to be here. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth 🧡 npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Where is your energy going? https://image.nostr.build/5caa1f3355b01c15c3c01e2fa3279db9eeeb2a5280a387e580b3ad632bc6c715.jpg npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth It will be tried - it will fail or drive the innovation outside of the US and ps - It’s not my project….its an open, decentralized and secure protocol…..I am just one node in it. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Years ago I wrote that money was superordinate to laws. Much of the world is still trying to reconcile this fundamental truth. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth This could catch on! npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth At the Jake Paul fight tonight with my kids and they just sang the national anthem. “The land of the free” hit hard and hypocritical with the Samarai developers going to jail. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth An asset underpinning a broken monetary system provides a very different view of #bitcoin than an open protocol emerging in layers. This is what most people still pricing bitcoin in pieces of paper miss. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Was asked yesterday by some very good friends (over 20 years together) in YPO about how I would feel if Bitcoin went to zero - and as a result….i went to zero. I had to explain (again) that I can’t believe I’m lucky enough to live at this time, with all of you, and contribute to this protocol that is aligned to my beliefs. That the reason it won’t fail is the tens of thousands (and growing quickly) people like that who have also realized their agency in creating the world they want to see. But even in the unlikely event that it did fail, that I wouldn’t change a thing. What a ride and so fortunate to be creating it with you! We are so early. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth I met Mike Green years ago at a Bretton Woods event. Although we haven’t always agreed, his recent article is excellent. We’ll see when he comes around to understanding the solution. https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth I was just pitched an investment in a start that gives the “most lifelike way to date AI”. Already has over 125k registered users and revenue. We live in crazy times. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth An opportunity to create value for others exists precisely BECAUSE so few people understand said opportunity. It’s a thing to celebrate - not get mad about. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Pretty sure that the Bitcoin Historico conference in El Salvador is going to stand out as a #bitcoin is changing the world conference, rather than a bitcoin is another asset in a control system conference. Hope you can join us! https://bitcoinhistorico.com npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth My BTC in DC keynote was just released. Hope it helps! https://youtu.be/KwXO8soh1wM?si=3K7o-r1nNbKifZSH npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Bitcoin mining cannot be centralized (for long) because it operates in the free market - forcing innovation in energy and a constant exploration to find lower energy costs and better compute. In other words - Legacy miners have very little advantage. In fact, even if miners tried to game a system to win more fees in the short term (inscriptions etc) they would only hurt themselves. Malinvestments in running in high cost energy sites that should have been closed or moved to HPC because they believe they’re still “profitable” Instead of being forced by the market to innovate, they try to game it to increase fees. In other words, by focusing on fees rather than lower cost energy (and/or utilizing the heat) creative destruction plays out at scale. Random thoughts for a Saturday night in case someone tells you that something has to change to protect against the centralization of miners. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Try telling a bunch of independent thinkers what they can think and you’ll find out why #Bitcoin is different than any other protocol. For me, every attack on a person instead of an idea makes me want to look deeper into the idea. Genius comes from the edges and has always been dangerous to the center. (or existing base of knowing) npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth The primary reason people believe in “assets” that protect their purchasing power is because they have never been able to store money in money. #bitcoin changes this and everything else as a result. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth And at the same time - the leading edge of a second enlightenment era that changes that path forever - depending on where we place our own energy - we empower either path. I personally choose truth, hope and abundance versus coercion, fear, and scarcity. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth GM Sharing what I consider one of my most important slides from a recent BTC in DC speech because it helps us understand why real change is slow and predictable. Zero to one moments are always possible - just rare as people reinforce their own view of the world from their past experiences. (Tuning out all things that don’t match their entrenched view) And while this is easy to see in those “other” people - we mostly miss the very thing in ourselves. (And seeing it in ourselves is the real superpower) https://image.nostr.build/9fed5d1f5a2cc7b3f5b53e21ad2d921956e89b8c89e2f14fb50429f5f11f0926.jpg npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth #bitcoin as an asset within a control system is a fundamentally different and long term incompatible view with #bitcoin as a protocol bringing freedom and abundance to 8 billion people. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Regardless of if you first came to understand #Bitcoin from an energy of higher consciousness, or your time in Bitcoin leads you to higher consciousness, the result is the same. A gradual higher consciousness for all of society. And the quality of our consciousness is like a reflection back at us that determines the real value of our lives. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Loved visiting and seeing what you and the community are building. Pretty special! npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Pretty epic morning in Indonesia! https://image.nostr.build/4cbb0b20ce31011db6deaf2c3226b918dd4aa1487e4746d18ba50f81819c0304.jpg npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Completely agree! Remember flying down to do a Lex Fridman podcast about why #bitcoin just as Elon was changing his tune about it. Never aired because it didn’t fit the narrative. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth I’m definitely not saying that and you’re free to do whatever you think right. My own view is that I expect a system built on theft to enable those greatest at it, which is why I decided to move my own energy to one based on truth. (Which expands it and destroys the one based on theft from a higher energy pattern) npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth It’s still early but there is a very real growing understanding that a system problem cannot be resolved inside the system creating the problem. And that the real opportunity lies outside that system. #bitcoin #nostr https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/ego-death-100-million-bitcoin-companies npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth If there was never a currency that resolved centralization/manipulation, then there has never been an economic or political system that didn’t suffer the same result. No model of the past can measure this future. #bitcoin #nostr npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth It’s quite fascinating to watch so many people trying to fix a system problem from within the system…..get so worked up about what the other guy is or isn’t doing. #bitcoin npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Bowing with the deer in Nara, Japan is a pretty cool experience. https://blossom.primal.net/44d8b3b648b27c2527b47c4e654f0a59ae15e8018340501bd2d799ec6cdb6ec5.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/4b43e67bbc5ee9631f5b11fc3c31b1071195fc9c53d7308a27d33cf582135a06.mov npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Spent the day with a legend from the early IBM research days who contributed to the advance of AI and the internet. Deeply understands how protocols develop in layers. Guess what we talked about? npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Incredible trip to El Salvador to meet Bukele and see for myself what has changed since last time I was there. I think most that follow me, know where I stand on #bitcoin. That, as long as it stays decentralized and secure (which means it must be used as a medium of exchange) it is IMPOSING the first global free market that has ever existed. A competitive, yet cooperative protocol and network that forces abundance broadly. We are both the map and territory - our actions within it, and aligned to it, strengthen and protect Bitcoin, bringing more people to it and they each, in turn grow in their own understanding - which in turn strengthens it further. We are bitcoin, we are Satoshi. Each node (us) of sovereignty adding our voice, time, energy into something that changes the course of history. Because that map of “what will be, or “what already is” (as long as it remains decentralized and secure) has never existed before, our minds have a hard time with it. So instead, most revert to measuring #bitcoin from within the system they have always known. This leads to most of the fights within bitcoin. People far deeper down the rabbit hole, versus those just entering or choosing to remain trapped (and not being able to yet see the bigger picture) You can imagine - that change would be chaotic because the change……is the change within each of us. All 8 billion of us, and we often can’t see our own hypocrisy, the lies we tell ourselves. Etc etc. In addition, with over 3000 years of us living in a zero sum game - where someone else had to lose for us to win. So for many, it would seem normal to play by the rules of the old game. This is why I went to El Salvador. I went to meet the President and see for myself who he was and what choices he might make along the way. Ie - how deep was he down the rabbit hole? Did he see El Salvador and himself as part of system change to a global free market that would permeate around the world - or would he be a pawn and be captured in a game that created imperialism 3.0? It was a very deep discussion…..lasting almost 2.5 hours. I came away convinced that he gets it. Moreover, he might be the most impressive leader of a country I have ever seen. Said to me, more people in El Salvador need to be in self custody, more need to use it as a currency, not in stablecoin but natively on lightning, more in non custodial. He understands the larger forces at play here. El Salvador is still Bitcoin country, but is still early. Having a nation with security is a big deal. 50 years of poverty, gangs, wars, fear in a society doesn’t change overnight. (All of that caused by broken money and psyops) It takes time to rebuild trust. I was last here the day after all the gang violence (coincidentally starting after introducing Bitcoin as legal tender) Huge changes since I was last here, not only safer, but hopeful. That hope will lead to opportunity for people, and that opportunity to value creation. The downtown core in San Salvador, previously one of the most dangerous places in Central America is feels a like a European city with thousands out walking. Cool Social houses (Video below) shops everywhere with the hustle and bustle of people and opportunities. Bitcoin isn’t yet used broadly, but making inroads. I spent in it almost everywhere - but you could tell - bitcoin transactions are fairly rare. Lots more to do, and big plans underway. Stay tuned!!! And a huge thanks to Max and @npub1pq2…2rew for all their work in El Salvador and in helping make this a fantastic trip. What a time to be alive! https://blossom.primal.net/0a9d91f00aa829da68e913bde94aacd56b10248433df5cac1319eee092e76840.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/3b405c7e5512a5679e346a01456c1d0a97f584de96e221a33eef5898a6fa39a0.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/406b1035f10221f10910113111fe66542a32e93325bafa1329ce59cf3645b401.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/3937c43a0c98ec9871ac97651bc23885c6698586d63734bff846c271423e4369.mov npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth My friend couldn’t make it to El Salvador with me because he got sick at last minute but lent me his ride. Not very often I travel like this. Huge gratitude! https://image.nostr.build/c763f0b1b481cec155d4140ec4e9eb834a9e7f5de5a8c3bead9522f6a64fbe9b.jpg npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth People that think that the only way that #bitcoin mining can survive is extra fees from inscriptions, don’t understand free markets, nor the difficulty adjustment. If all prices fall to the marginal cost of production in a free market, and bitcoin is the first global free market that has ever existed, then block rewards are alone enough to keep a robust market for mining. Why: because relative to Bitcoin (open, decentralized, secure, protocol, bounded by energy) the rewards are the same in 2130 as they are today because all prices are falling forever. It’s hard to even imagine the abundance in that world or “money” that you would need because your reference frame is now and the past, but can you imagine our descendants (from that place)- ever changing back to this one. Just a friendly reminder that creating different incentives, changes behaviour. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Canadian Election day with lots at stake. A continued slide into socialism, big government, and coercion/control or a break towards free markets, smaller government and individual rights and freedoms. Crossing my fingers! And PS - Pierre understands #bitcoin's role in the change, even if he can’t say publicly right now. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Visited my father in law (who was born in 1944) this week and found this. https://image.nostr.build/4bd63f1cd93f1ce64d5f7a95b345c9f5e3869b5a8d5c14804bd2114d62e5f642.jpg npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Was asked to speak at a philanthropy conference last week with ~ $400 Billion looking to help the world where I told them the number 1 thing they could do is learn and contribute to the honest system. #bitcoin Yes - it did break brains, but many follow ups scheduled. https://youtu.be/xiunnbrE3XU?feature=shared npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Is anyone really surprised that a system requiring theft (inflation) at its base layer….has theft throughout it? #bitcoin npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth Rate of return of #Bitcoin versus existing system. Actually had to pick a higher price in 2011 or it would be higher AND that is measure against existing system. (So doesn’t capture the true effect of what I talk about in measuring prices falling) In any 4 year period if you bought at the very highest and held for 4 years, your lowest IRR is 23%. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth I am consistently blown away by how many people still haven’t fully recognized that a system of credit and manipulation of money MUST centralize because it is opposition to the free market. And even when they do realize, they continue to give their all energy to that system - thinking there is a way out, while making it stronger. #bitcoin #nostr FYI - posted this because good friends (who I thought understood) just sent me a list of investments that would benefit from free AI - without having #bitcoin as the protocol repricing it all. npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe Jeff Booth If deepseek teaches you one thing about markets, it should be this: Centralization actually provides a spark to innovation - as the free market of millions of ideas in people’s heads outcompete bureaucracy and the old way of doing things. Ying and yang - and the entire ecosystem building on #Bitcoin is a response to that centralization of power and manipulation. And we’re so early. We should “almost” be grateful to it for the opportunity. And gm!