Walking the ancient path with modern tools ✨ Freedom is spiritual 🕊️ Bitcoin is sacred ₿ You are not alone 🫂
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Last Notes npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Bitcoin is decoupling from bitcoin...the network is going to pot and the money doesn't care. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://blossom.primal.net/0c19bc2ebda583d4a40fb9b654f08f4c101227c92db03b201182bc9d4d7abc6e.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://youtu.be/hB9gh9Cs5j8?is=3GW6COspHRk_14-T npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB "God" is in everything and everyone, we are life itself, everything is perfect ✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://consensus.health/ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Or we can't get out of this with the consciousness with which created it. It's an inside job ✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Really!? https://blossom.primal.net/f46d2c41b7d767988a38b992499120f6e2144076e5aba8003a43351ffc6cd071.mp4 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB They are the ones who stole it. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Go in the hot springs! 💦 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB @nprofile…566r I watched your video today and then the older one. we're all part of this human collective experience and we all make mistakes, @nprofile…vysa , me and even you so please dont kick a man when he's down he is likely goimg through as much hell as the victims. And I don't think its helpful to conflate the hack and BIP110 which are 2 entirely unrelated issues, its a painful lesson. Bitcoin humbles us. Love and healing to all, peace is our true nature, make love not war. 💛✨ https://blossom.primal.net/2011d322750c92325316a638def1b83c445fef8dee32e246f6560f36e48923dd.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/1637459ea94a216731fee1b5e7ff582a8d6a0176c2225e9996146c3c6e7393d8.mp4 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB I legitimately felt tipsy after 2 non alcoholic beers last night 🙃 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://blossom.primal.net/07a2d84dec0970addc9703e292971d96e9ffcd70e05e0d6897660a796e77cd20.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Me and my older brother back in the day ✌ https://blossom.primal.net/17e85e583864426d5f2a7ce976caf5c06e4c70382d994dc47b9acbb9b719f8b5.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://blossom.primal.net/cf48a90a403711b1adb6a59438a68d2c8bf7543fdb3439f95187bccdec760df4.png npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB If making Bitcoin money is a war, the real battle on the streets with education and merchant adiption. Real pow npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://blossom.primal.net/49b19d168c5b44883b91845463473e91712a5b665640188af2164d4344d7a7c1.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Let fear be your compass 🙏✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Antanop against BIP110 https://blossom.primal.net/8205f2948838970de20bd24d2f9733a232e7044d6fe8a8a0e3727d0afdaef206.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://blossom.primal.net/43e7cd64de33729b7aef23f1a2d43d01a98c23e0de3cfc57cdf3b112207afd67.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://youtu.be/jy7SnHgW69c?is=DIVigaQPlKC_jttq npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB The best way to support Bitcoin as money is to use Bitcoin as money. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX1GIhOhkAE never gets old 😆 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy7SnHgW69c npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Turn everything off, cold facecloth over your eyes, chamomile tea and slow gentle deep breaths npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB This is a well measured response, Im running knots BIP110 but find myself gradually moving towards this way of thinking 👆 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://blossom.primal.net/46462cdfeb72e29594b5e512963ec7dd21d3918e25c5033487a005bcef872bc0.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Its funny that you dont have to be above a certain age to buy a digital device or a phone, and you dont have to be above a certain age to buy internet or airtime vouchers yet these new age restrictions are being introduced online in the name of child safety. It almost seems like its like its not about protecting protecting the children 🤔 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Thank you for your kind words, they very much landed and were gratefully received 🙏💛 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Good luck to you, I honestly wish every sucess to everyone who wants to set out on a more sovereign path and if you are comfortable with that route and the risks then all good. Its not personal Im just fundamentally against these loans and fancy financial products like ETF's, stonks etc. Its only my take on it but I feel once you put your Bitcoin in a multisig where you dont control all the keys its no longer your bitcoin and you move back to the permisioned trust model. From my limited understanding I also think its centralising, kycing and tying up more bitcoin which could be circulating/spent and keeps the fiat game we are supposed to defunding alive. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB I was saying this at a talk on Bitcoin yesterday and 2 separate people said to me but Michael Saylor said we should never sell our Bitcoin 😬 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Did they put the Argentina rugby team on by mistake 😲 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Could be the unconscious shaddow and your awareness is the key, respond instead of react, feel it and let it go. You got this ✌✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Hey, Great work 🙏I had many thoughts about writing a similar book and I am meeting Igor next week... Im also South Portugal for next few weeks if you want to meet up I sent you a connectiin on Club Orange. 💛✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB BIP 110 - its interestimg to stop and think how incentives for Bitcoin may differ for the likes of an influential, powerful bit still owned by the system fiat Billionaire vs the average plebs/noderunners. Intention is everything ✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Are you not entertained! npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB I guess it really depends on the newbie, like how awake are they, do they have a spiritual side and awareness we are eternal beings, the I (ego) is an illusion and everything is energy, or more in the mind financial investment, make more money and but more stuff etc. Different strokes for different folks 😇 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB After witnessing the packed room of clapping seals while Mchael Saylor was on stage I started to think deeper about bitcoin conferences... I arrived later to the BTC Prague conference, I think it was around midday. I walked a few km's from my appartment, so I headed straight to the refreshments outside the main door. When I asked to pay in sats the lady was surprised, she told me it would be her first Bitcoin transaction. I thought this is unusual, Im here ay Europes biggest bitcoin conference and I am the first one to pay in bitcoin right outside the door...Anyway I proceeded to settle in lightning using my Bullbitcoin wallet but to my transaction failed. We tried several times and several other wallets but we could not get it paid! The kind lady at the stall with the delicious homemade food and drinks offered to get help from the company that supplied the terminals to look at it and I set off inside to find the Bull Bitcoin stand to also ask for help. I went inside to the corporate area I was overwhelmed it was like going back in time to the conferences I used to work at in the Uk 25 years ago. Bright lights, flashy stands and constant talking without feelimg the life I had escaped. Still on my mission to buy a bottle of water, I found the Bull stand and spoke to the first guy, he paaaed me on to someone else and I waited patiently. Long story short they told me their wallet was not compatible with the terminals there. No sorry, no solutions and no signs of embaressment at the irony of it all. Unimpressed I head back to the refreshment stand and the guy from the terminals is there. We go through some of the other wallets and it fails and he doesnt understand why but kindly pays for my water himaelf and leaves. There is a lot more I am going to say about the whole experience but for now I akin these conferences to the covid protests. An echo chamber where masses gather to let off steam, worship heros ans feel the hopium before returning home to hodl and pay in fiat supporting the system they oppose. I just want to leave you with the thought of a packed room appluading Saylors financial products, trillions of wealth coming to bitcoin and me a few hundred metres away unable to use digital cash to buy a bottle of water and nobody really caring about that. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Nothing like an encounter with a snake to bring you into present moment awareness npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB I think the real success is to start small (on the side) and slow growth organically. Then no pressure paying off loans even the Bitcoin backed loans are risky so many get margin called and wrecked. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Thank goodness thats that settled then. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Coordinated fear campaign of the big money suitcoiner sponsored Bitcoin influencers against BIP110. The BIP110 parasite cleanse is already starting the purge. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then bitcoin wins npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgb6OuyBMU npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Yes but that could be down to him numbing himself with drugs and alchohol, every emotion and feeling is valid. If you are not feeling, your not living. The only way out is through. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Doing whats hard makes your life easy, doing whats easy makes your life hard. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Recent sentiment, NOSTR is finished because adoption and engagement is nothing compared to our glorious Twiiter. My opinion, good news because when NOSTR also becomes another meaningless toxic cesspool I will be gone just like I left centralised (anti)social media ten years ago - and never looked back. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Great post, really feeling this. In terms of XRP or shipcoins in general to me its just proof that we dont get out of this with the conciousness that got us into it. To me Bitcoin offers something far deeper and transformational even beyoynd maths and cryptography and more into the creator energy of life and evolution itself. Normally once I have said my piece on Bitcoin the XRP guys go unusually quiet, I guess they either think im mad or they or they are quietly thinking their life choices, like you say each to their own life will unfold exactly as its meant to in its own divine timing. Be well. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Original thinking is acarce npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB People talking without speaking And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB DNA life is written with four letters: A, T, C and G. Every living organism unfolds from this simple four-letter alphabet. Ancient traditions taught that creation itself emerged through vibration, number and the Word. Hebrew, Sanskrit and other sacred languages were seen not merely as communication, but as architectures of reality. Gematria hints that numbers carry meaning beneath words. When "Bitcoin" is rendered into Hebrew, many calculate its value as 213. Search for 213 in esoteric circles and you'll often find it described as "God's Code." Coincidence? Maybe Or perhaps Bitcoin is another layer of the same universal language, a living protocol built not from carbon and DNA, but from cryptography and mathematics. DNA preserves biological truth and Bitcoin preserves economic truth. Both are decentralised, replicate, reject corruption through verification and both carry information faithfully through time. Nature discovered consensus billions of years ago. Bitcoin may simply be humanity's first attempt to mirror that principle in money. I always thought that if the universe is written in code, perhaps Bitcoin isn't an invention at all but a discovery ✨ https://blossom.primal.net/b507c4040b3106ac2d367d18d90d35c5c130520942ce8f7229b79d81425a1df3.png npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Better to live one day in the truth than a lifetime of lies. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. Running Knots BIP 110🙏✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB fiat incentives https://blossom.primal.net/c26f0caed2e639e08b951a8b17f2da7a8b448f37e86648a5befdf388a3e427ef.webp npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB I love this! Great research and well laid out..100% agree with the thesis, Top work 💛✨Thiank you npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://blossom.primal.net/32835b6821ad22f5d78aa4142f1acd13be50c359a848f75735b4292351e56e47.mp4 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB There are no days of the week. That schedule creates the"weakened" npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKHpUS1cAs npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://blossom.primal.net/3caa144a70343d6f6646206dcf65aa9a82f5d1b195ef3d685c2f871f0481caa2.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB GM https://blossom.primal.net/eb786bfabe1acb3c3e3191ce6cf82d87cdeb47526bccecdbe1a4400b5ad85a37.png npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB The thing I find is that when people count they are abstaining, like battling the mind using willpower to deprive themselves of something. Its good to set goals but if you can stay present you realise you already have everything and alchohol can only take away from that so you in fact you are the opposite of deprived 🙃 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://youtu.be/j5DDX4hnCCs?si=FkxKyxiFZX3nNwmT npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB We save most of our shaddow for our closest relationships, hmmm how true...watch the life mirror and see how relationships change as YOU change inside ✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB GM https://blossom.primal.net/c74c651e5b8a6a8c64d4d9c1ba5e768ad98fec6306d4ba6230be5bcbcefb4de8.mp4 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Bitcoin cracks me up sometimes.. One minute people are worried that Bitcoin is going to zero because they're looking at today's price compared to what they paid. The next minute they're worrying about the tax bill they'll owe when Bitcoin reaches millions because they bought KYC coins. Our minds are good at living in imaginary futures, both bullish and bearish. The best thing we can do is breathe deeply, stay present, keep learning, and remember why we got into Bitcoin in the first place. The future will take care of itself. 🌿₿ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Thank you, Jeff Bezos. Your heavily funded, loss-making growth strategy helped crush my organic growth local independent business years ago .Looking back, I'm strangely grateful. It pushed me to question the system, rethink money, and ultimately discover Bitcoin. Sometimes what feels like a defeat turns out to be the beginning of a much better path. ₿ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB I completely agree that Nostr is needed. It solves real problems around censorship, deplatforming and digital sovereignty. It's one of the most exciting protocols we've built. To me, the remaining challenge isn't the protocol-it's the economic incentives. Decentralisation is a huge strength because it removes single points of control, but it can also make coordination and long-term sustainability more difficult. We see similar debates in Bitcoin. How do we create incentives that reward relay operators, client developers and builders while maintaining an open, permissionless network? Maybe it's relay subscriptions. Maybe it's small payments to publish or consume content. Maybe it's a better flow of zaps. I don't know the answer. But I do think Bitcoin gives us the tools to solve this. We just need to design incentive structures that make the network economically sustainable for everyone contributing to it and I believe the users will come. The protocol is incredible. we somehow just need to make sure the incentives are too. ₿ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB A simple observation... This supermarket has just installed a bottle and can return machine that pays people for recycling.Before this, many recyclable items still ended up in general waste, despite years of campaigns encouraging people to recycle. Now there's a direct economic incentive, and suddenly people are returning bottles and cans properly.It's a reminder that incentives matter. Love, compassion and community are essential, but a complex civilisation also depends on economic incentives that encourage cooperation between millions of people who don't know each other. That's why money matters. And that's why the quality of our money matters even more. Bitcoin isn't valuable simply because it's digital. It's valuable because it aligns incentives around scarcity, responsibility and long-term thinking, while allowing people to preserve the value of their time and energy. Human flourishing needs both: love to guide our values, and sound money to align our incentives. The two are not opposites -they're complementary. https://blossom.primal.net/146d378c7c0b19fabcffb637fe864343eb2a15e4bdc210493a11e768a72a3e54.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB 😂 were all Satoshi brother, we win not by fighting what we hate but protecting what we love running knots lets goooooo npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Thank you for all you guys do 🙏✨ keep Bitcoin money, rug the spammers and scammers, run knots BIP110 💪 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Yes it takes humility to realise not everything is perfect in Bitcoin and when mistakes are made or we can see destructive patterns emerging in Bitcoin its better to work together to take stock and put them right rather than blindly marching on as we did in fiat world. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB What they talk aboit in this second parr is "right on the money" https://youtu.be/nAY11qRBGcI?t=657&si=gUrhr1n7NGxokHEO npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Mullein is magic for chest infections ! npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB The pattern ✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Technical analysis of the downturn and the dip; Fear and anxiety caused by shallow breathimg, breathe deeply dear ones 🙏✨ npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB One thing that strikes me about the current BIP110 debate is how much the social dynamics remind me of COVID. Not because the subject matter is the same, but because the pattern feels familiar. You have a large number of recognised experts, influencers and institutions all pushing the same narrative. You have legitimate concerns and counterarguments that often go unanswered. And you have people raising those concerns being characterised as troublemakers, extremists, attackers or simply not understanding the issue. During COVID, many people weren't asking for blind trust in alternative views. They were simply asking for open debate, transparency and the right to question the prevailing narrative. Whether you agreed with them or not, questioning authority became enough to attract criticism. I see some of the same frustrations emerging here. For many of us, the issue isn't whether a particular developer, company or influencer is good or bad. The issue is that Bitcoin was designed specifically so that nobody's authority should be enough. Arguments should stand or fall on their merits. When concerns about incentives, funding, governance, adoption, miner behaviour or Bitcoin's use as money are raised, they should be addressed directly rather than dismissed because of who is asking them. That's why I respect the people who continue asking difficult questions. Not because they're necessarily right about everything, but because Bitcoin depends on open scrutiny and healthy skepticism. The answer isn't insults, tribalism or hero worship. The answer is to run a node, study the proposals, support decentralisation, verify claims for yourself and participate in the process. Bitcoin doesn't need followers. It needs sovereign individuals. If the debate around BIP110 has achieved anything positive, it's that more people are looking behind the curtain and asking how Bitcoin development is funded, how influence is exercised and whether the incentives still align with Bitcoin's original purpose. Those are questions worth asking, regardless of where you stand on the proposal. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB One thing that strikes me about the current BIP110 debate is how much the social dynamics remind me of COVID. Not because the subject matter is the same, but because the pattern feels familiar. You have a large number of recognised experts, influencers and institutions all pushing the same narrative. You have legitimate concerns and counterarguments that often go unanswered. And you have people raising those concerns being characterised as troublemakers, extremists, attackers or simply not understanding the issue. During COVID, many people weren't asking for blind trust in alternative views. They were simply asking for open debate, transparency and the right to question the prevailing narrative. Whether you agreed with them or not, questioning authority became enough to attract criticism. I see some of the same frustrations emerging here.For many of us, the issue isn't whether a particular developer, company or influencer is good or bad. The issue is that Bitcoin was designed specifically so that nobody's authority should be enough. Arguments should stand or fall on their merits. When concerns about incentives, funding, governance, adoption, miner behaviour or Bitcoin's use as money are raised, they should be addressed directly rather than dismissed because of who is asking them. That's why I respect the people who continue asking difficult questions. Not because they're necessarily right about everything, but because Bitcoin depends on open scrutiny and healthy skepticism. The answer isn't insults, tribalism or hero worship. The answer is to run a node, study the proposals, support decentralisation, verify claims for yourself and participate in the process.Bitcoin doesn't need followers. It needs sovereign individuals. If the debate around BIP110 has achieved anything positive, it's that more people are looking behind the curtain and asking how Bitcoin development is funded, how influence is exercised and whether the incentives still align with Bitcoin's original purpose. Those are questions worth asking, regardless of where you stand on the proposal. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Not me, I use Lumo for the privacy but I guess its some way behind the others. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://youtu.be/QkpSUEtypj8?si=5jh7gx8UA1jawhHh looking forward to attend one of his teachings in August, I wonder if I will be able to drop Bitcoin into the conversation 😊 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB https://youtu.be/0zumEoSKhcM?si=FrRO3rd1SQsv4In7 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Marcus Aurelius wrote his private journals, which eventually became Meditations, one of the most influential books ever written. I've spent the last few years writing my own collection of notes, insights, and completely unhinged ramblings many of them inspired by psychedelics, Bitcoin, and long periods of staring into the void. I can't promise they'll become a bestseller, but if anyone ever gets hold of them, there's a reasonable chance they'll be entertained. Worst case: confusion. Best case: wisdom. Time will tell. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Every Bitcoiner (and every being) should see this film, this was my hope for bitcoin that it would start to make real change on the ground for families and communities. This film encapsulated it beautifully. A real masterpiece thanks to Kyle and Myfirstbitcoin team for the bravery, dedication and skills to put this together SO MUCH love 💛✌I wish them great sucess, and if you feel the love Im sure you will find was to reward them and contribute in your own way 🙏 #nevent1q…m3fg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Last nights location, in preparation for the solstice sunrise and a solo mushroom ceremony today ✨🍄 https://blossom.primal.net/f7c5436b9e898be192221b4f9d78401540490a3bb8e551ad22ae172c17f83bab.mp4 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Wishing everyone a beautiful Solstice tomorrow. ☀️Long before clocks, calendars, and screens, our ancestors watched the skies. They gathered together on this day to honour the Sun, celebrate the abundance of life, and give thanks for another season of growth. The Solstice is a reminder that we are part of something much older and much greater than ourselves. Every breath we take, every meal we eat, every path we walk has been made possible by countless generations who came before us and by the Earth that continues to sustain us. Tomorrow's solstice is an opportunity to pause for a moment. To watch a sunrise or sunset. To feel the ground beneath your feet. To give thanks for being healthy and alive. To remember those who came before you. To appreciate the people you love. To reflect on what you have cultivated this year and what you wish to grow in the months ahead. The Sun reaches its highest point, and then begins its return. The lesson is timeless: all things move in cycles - including Bitcoin!. Growth and rest. Light and shadow. Beginning and ending. May we meet each season with gratitude, humility, and wonder. Happy Solstice. ☀️🌍 https://blossom.primal.net/25e73b927d3152ad251e519598aeadda23e5d23f9ebcf08634fc94b965ea7b1e.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB I wish I could articulate like Richard, hes a true wordsworth and the wisdom pours out in a way that everyone can digest 🙏✨ https://youtu.be/p6M88WpCDxw?si=Hb5dUMGEVq9nrD5B npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB At some point, the journey will ask you to face parts of yourself that you've spent years avoiding. Old wounds, fears, beliefs, patterns, attachments, and illusions can surface. What begins as a search for truth often becomes a process of letting go of who you thought you were. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Or know that yoiu are not any of those thoughts and let them all go like passing clouds 🙏 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Thanks 🙏 I will try this soon; npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB I was in the sea the other day and accidentally swallowed a gulp of seawater, it didnt taste as bad as I remembered 😊 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB POW https://blossom.primal.net/d03a9d677eab56cb0bb90e3ecb269c456389f0a3d5250948699386565689697f.jpg npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Thanks for being a fellow noderunner and thanks for inspiring me to open up a lightning channel again! Have you thought about mining on Ocean with rented hashrate? npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Thanks for sharing your thesis. It's always prudent, especially during periods of uncertainty, to examine the underlying challenges Bitcoin faces rather than simply looking at charts, price action, fear, or hope. I think you've identified some genuine tensions within the ecosystem. At the same time, it's worth remembering that Bitcoin has survived far greater threats when it was much smaller, more fragile, and less understood than it is today. For me, the key question is not whether Bitcoin survives. Bitcoin is not a person, a company, an ideology, or a movement. Bitcoin is open-source code, energy, mining, incentives, and a globally distributed network. As long as those fundamentals remain intact, Bitcoin isn't dying. The real question is whether our expectations survive. If Bitcoin is only a vehicle for getting "rich", then many people may be disappointed. But if Bitcoin is a tool for freedom, sovereignty, truth, and creating a better world, then it is still delivering on that promise today. When I look at Bitcoin's health, I ask simple questions: Is it still decentralized? Is it still permissionless? Can anyone still run a node? Can anyone still self-custody? Can anyone still transact without asking permission? The answer remains yes. The debates around developers, corporations, institutions, maximalists, ordinals, treasury companies, and influencers are ultimately human-level debates. They matter, but they are not Bitcoin itself. Perhaps the deeper question is whether we are each contributing enough. Have we let go of NGU? Are we educating? Building? Supporting others? Living the values we claim Bitcoin represents? Ultimately, Bitcoin's future will be shaped by human consciousness. As more people come to understand what Bitcoin is and why it matters, they will naturally reject short-term gimmicks, fear, and fiat thinking. Bitcoin will continue. The question is whether we will rise to become worthy custodians of the opportunity it offers. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB You can't get much easier than a bolt card npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Love the t-shirt 💪 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB "You do not suffer on account of the external world, but on account of that which you construct within your own mind.” Life is not always gentle, yet neither is it as cruel as the mind often imagines. The root of suffering lies not chiefly in what occurs outwardly, but in the way one perceives, interprets, and clings to it inwardly. The world outside is impersonal and indifferent; it is the mind whose memory outlasts the moment and whose imagination magnifies beyond the actual, that truly binds one in chains. Most often, pain does not arise from the event itself, but from the endless replays and elaborations one weaves afterward in thought. A fleeting glance becomes rejection; a casual word turns into a deep wound. When the mind is not illuminated by clear seeing (vipassanā), it enlarges shadows into mountains greater than the sorrow itself. Yet right within this very agitated heart is the place where freedom can be planted. By pausing, by simply observing, one comes to know: feelings are visitors, not masters. They arise, abide for a time, and pass away. It is one’s own choice to hold on or to release. When one lets go of these self-made illusions, the truth reveals itself: life is imperfect, yet it remains beautiful when there is no demand that it be otherwise. The Blessed One taught: “When the mind is not attached to anything, therein lies liberation.” Sometimes, a single deep breath is enough looking at things just as they are, without the coloring of fear or hurt and the heart grows lighter. And when the heart becomes light, the world, too, appears gentler. In truth, it is not the world that makes you suffer. It is you yourself not yet having sufficient mettā (loving-kindness) toward your own being to forgive the past, to place trust in the present moment, and to abide in quiet hope for what is yet to come. ☘️☘️ May this reflection bring calm and insight. Sukhaṃ hotu – may there be happiness. 🌿 npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB One of the deepest shifts in my journey as a parent came when I realised that my children are not mine.They came through me, but they do not belong to me.For many years, I thought love meant holding on,and shaping. Later, through experiencing something closer to unconditional love, I began to see it differently.I realised I couldn't truly love my own children more than any child. I may know them more intimately, share more memories with them, and feel a special connection to them, but the love itself has no boundaries.The way I see it now ouur role as parents or elders is not ownership. It is stewardship. We are blessed with the opportunity to guide, support, and nurture these incredible beings for a period of time, while remembering that they have their own path, their own lessons, and their own destiny. The greatest gift may not be holding on, but learning how to love deeply while letting them be fully themselves. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB One last thing I forgot to say........... I love you. npub1vcf0gtgsyn9z7d4t42z8966u2ffmym3k3yyu7qrzrpvvrcz78npq0v9lwl PilgrimB Unfortunately Bull wasnt compatible with the pos lightning terminals @ Prague and guys working on the Bull stand could not see the irony 😬