John Balkam / John Balkam is on Nostr

CMO at Sovreign | Bartender at PubKey DC

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2026-03-31 23:15:01 UTC

I'm itching to zap right now. Tell me about something you're looking forward to the rest of this year.

2026-03-13 23:05:15 UTC

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This week The Economist also posted a video claiming that Bitcoin isn't "cool anymore" because it's available in tradfi wrappers like ETFs now.
Let it rip.
#nevent1q…m7lu

2026-03-13 23:01:26 UTC

The clownish former Prime Minister of the UK comparing Satoahi to Charizard and Pikachu is a major bottom signal

2026-02-04 22:04:11 UTC

We don't need to make the world "smarter."
We need to make the world more beautiful. We need to make the world more peaceful. We need to make the world more just.
That's why I'm dedicating my professional life to driving Bitcoin adoption and not very interested in AI adoption.
Intelligence without wisdom is dangerous. Wisdom says stick to Bitcoin 🧡

2026-01-31 01:11:06 UTC

Epstein really was Pandora's Box.
Everyone in "elite" circles. And I mean EVERYONE was exposed. Government. Finance. Banking. Technology. Business. Hollywood.
They are all criminals. Clintons. Trumps. Musk. Thiel. Hoffman. Dimon. Etc. Republicans and Democrats. They're going to try and build AI dystopia to cover it all up, but it's too late.
They are FUCKED.

2026-01-30 22:04:56 UTC

It's hard to orange pill people because it's hard to get them to accept the fact that the biggest institutions in the world, that are supposed to be protecting them, are in fact stealing from them.
That said, I think as every day goes by, more and more people are waking up to the corruption and fuckery. The zeitgeist is shifting towards the narrative Bitcoiners have been yelling into the void about for years.
Patience everyone. The world is waking up, gradually then suddenly. Our time is coming.

2026-01-15 16:03:05 UTC

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Thanks lemme investigate

2025-12-29 22:04:48 UTC

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Read that one via eBook 🤝

2024-10-21 18:33:16 UTC

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For better or worse, Saylor is a public figure, and he has to play that game. Meaning, he has to be an actor.
He has to say and do things that he may not actually agree with in his heart of hearts, because ultimately he's trying to cover his ass. Who knows what conversations he has had behind closed doors and with whom.
I was there at Pacific Bitcoin when he said, "There's no value in being a martyr. What you want to be is a winner."
Sometimes on the public stage, it is genuinely in your own best interest to fib a bit. Or to at least conceal your intentions.
I'm not sure if Saylor is doing this or not, but it is worth considering. By no means do I think Saylor is an enemy to the Bitcoin project. I think he is a brilliant engineer and tactician. He has to be very strategic in what he says in the public arena.

2024-08-17 14:21:24 UTC

The delusional, conceited intellectual thinks to themselves, "if everyone else would just think more like me, all of my ideas would be proven correct."
We have FAR too many intellectuals like this in society at the moment. (Cough, Paul Krugman) And their arrogance is suffocating for the rest of us.
What we need is more people with the mindset of the engineer or the entrepreneur.
The realistic entrepreneur thinks, "I have a theory on how to fix a perceived problem, let me test it out and see if it is truly a problem and if my theory can fix it." When an engineer or entrepreneur discovers through experimentation that their theory is false, they tweak it until they get closer to the truth. And they keep going until they get to the bottom of things.
If there was one thing I wish I could teach every young person in the world, it would be entrepreneurial thinking. Thinking this way gives you a strong grounding in reality, and prevents you from falling into the traps of just being an self-important intellectual.
God help us when the intellectuals start to brute force their awful ideas onto society, even when it's clear and obvious that they don't work. Oh, wait, they've already been doing this for decades.