Nostr notes by discoveringbitcoin

Yes, or engage.

2026-05-08T00:27:58+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…7zt2
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Yes, or engage.

Start asking them in they've heard the good news. It's a ...

2026-05-07T23:20:05+02:00

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Start asking them in they've heard the good news. It's a great filter.

https://youtu.be/1jpBdsEKxpo

2026-05-07T23:07:00+02:00

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https://youtu.be/1jpBdsEKxpo

Grand 🤘🫡

2026-05-06T13:20:12+02:00

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Grand 🤘🫡

soak in this a while 🌀🧡 ...

2026-05-05T10:58:49+02:00

soak in this a while 🌀🧡

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2026-05-05T08:24:21+02:00

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Until you discover Bitcoin, it's hard to comprehend that the ...

2026-05-05T06:43:00+02:00

Until you discover Bitcoin, it's hard to comprehend that the map you have been operating from is drawn up by people with every incentive to redraw the terrain beneath it - over and over again - to suit themselves.

Discover Bitcoin 🔶 👀

Today, I have decided to write a book about discovering Bitcoin. ...

2026-05-05T02:31:54+02:00

Today, I have decided to write a book about discovering Bitcoin. Spread the word. 📙🌀

Please bear with me. 🔶👀

Money matters because value matters. Incentives matter because ...

2026-05-03T21:32:17+02:00

Money matters because value matters.
Incentives matter because value matters.
Time preference matters because value matters.

If the measure is broken and/or corrupted, then your relationship to value itself becomes confused.

Labour is confused.
Saving is confused.
Risk is confused.
Reward is confused.
The future is confused.

Everything still functions, more or less, but it does so under a haze. The categories blur. Distortions become normal. People adapt, call the adaptation maturity, and life goes on looking far more coherent than it actually is.

Discovering Bitcoin fixes this 🔶 👀

low-key kinda ashamed to own this, now ...

2026-05-03T01:29:29+02:00

low-key kinda ashamed to own this, now

Paco is one of the greats.

2026-05-03T00:24:11+02:00

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Paco is one of the greats.

Accurate

2026-05-03T00:23:18+02:00

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Accurate

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2026-04-30T23:13:13+02:00

Discover Episode 170 feat. Phundamentals (nprofile…5krg) - self-proclaimed reformed woke warrior, now deep, deep thinker of Bitcoin, multi-producer of podcasts and contributor to much more than x1 of #40HPW 🔶👀

WE discuss:
- Brian's Bitcoin origin story
- Waking up from Woke
- Magic Internet Math (feat. Rob1Ham (nprofile…y780))
- Phish is OK
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/hqEt4BIjDeGp5W2oHXZd

MASSIVE shout out to HardBlock (nprofile…7dx3) - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

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Everyone is broadcasting live from The Bitcoin Conference™ ...

2026-04-28T00:29:34+02:00

Everyone is broadcasting live from The Bitcoin Conference™ except Discovering Bitcoin.

Listen up: https://fountain.fm/show/jTsRqmf7XyzBhD0qifAr 🔶 👀

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2026-04-27T06:38:27+02:00

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Get some. Get clean. 🫧🛁🔶👀

nevent1q…y9rp

Get some. Get clean. 🫧🛁🔶👀 #nevent1q…y9rp

2026-04-27T06:15:18+02:00

Get some. Get clean. 🫧🛁🔶👀

quoting
nevent1q…y9rp
Get you nutrition rich #tallow soap from one place only! 💜
https://soap21.com/
#soap21 #australia #satsarethestandard #circulareconomy #sats #grownostr

Nice lead. Strange. Thanks mate. 🙏

2026-04-25T22:40:51+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…84tm
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Nice lead. Strange. Thanks mate. 🙏

Anon - can you see/hear episode 169 of Discovering Bitcoin on ...

2026-04-25T18:58:13+02:00

Anon - can you see/hear episode 169 of Discovering Bitcoin on fountain_app (nprofile…7u5r) or Podverse (nprofile…j0yt)? I can find it on Apple/Spotify/Podbean etc, but on the V4V apps, the RSS feed appears not to have updated yet (still)...

🎙️🔶👀🤔

Nope. Chill. Read and reread what I wrote. It is deliberate and ...

2026-04-24T22:31:55+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…0j5x
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Nope. Chill. Read and reread what I wrote. It is deliberate and explicit. No shade. Just a polite pleae to be more mindful 🍷🙏

Yes, per the detail of my reply: "I get the authentic ...

2026-04-24T22:12:18+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…xvfu
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Yes, per the detail of my reply:

"I get the authentic marketing play here, and that nuance doesn't resonate on a poster/meme...

... to claim (by association or otherwise) that 'natural wine' without caveats (implying all) is the best option and that they're (all) made without chemical intervention is false..."

Hence: "The real claim here is that a civilisation’s culture and therefore its agriculture runs downhill from the money"

Yes 🤝🧡

2026-04-24T22:04:04+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…v8np
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Yes 🤝🧡

Was (the big) episode 53 of The Good Stuff (@nprofile…r3z3 + ...

2026-04-24T06:37:09+02:00

Was (the big) episode 53 of The Good Stuff (PeteWinn (nprofile…r3z3) + andydavid (nprofile…qhxu)) , feat. jarradgrigg (nprofile…0yu5) produced by Alfred Hitchcock?

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2026-04-24T02:06:38+02:00

Discover Episode 169 feat. paulinthejungle (nprofile…v80x) - one of the happiest men alive, building primal (nprofile…uz3y) in the jungle (the mighty jungle)

WE discuss:
- Paul's Bitcoin origin story
- The Psychology of Work
- Bitcoin is Local Money
- Jungle Life
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/show/jTsRqmf7XyzBhD0qifAr

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MASSIVE shout out to HardBlock (nprofile…7dx3) - Bitcoin-Only since 2014 - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

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That 'Natural Wine' claim of being the 'cleanest wine ...

2026-04-24T01:59:48+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…0p6q
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That 'Natural Wine' claim of being the 'cleanest wine option' is just not true.

Many - and I mean many - natural wine producers don't own their vineyards, meaning (more often than not) they buy the fruit they use to make the wine from winegrowers who offer them the cheapest price. As always, at root, it's an economic issue. Some - and I mean few - wine producers will be aspirational and diligent enough to seek out organic/biodynamic fruit, and some - and I mean even fewer - will actually engage with the grower and help farm the vineyard with them. But this is the exception, rather than the rule.

I get the authentic marketing play here, and that nuance doesn't resonate on a poster/meme...

And I don't mean to throw any shade on you or your wines either - I wish I could taste them, but I can't (again, cos economic reasons - its costs more to ship the wine to me than it does to buy a case of it)...

But you must be so careful when making blanket claims like that. Otherwise, you're no better than the shills who market their wine as sUsTaiNabLE (and you can't spell sustainable without sus), when in fact they'll often use more synthetic-agrochemicals than most due (in-part) to their pre-existing/legacy industrial scale farming/viticultural methods.

TLDR: to claim (by association or otherwise) that 'natural wine' without caveats (implying all) is the best option and that they're (all) made without chemical intervention is false. Be better.

The real claim here is that a civilisation’s culture and therefore its agriculture runs downhill from the money…

Fix the money; fix the farming; fix the world. Discover Bitcoin and shake your winegrowers hand🍷 🔶 👀

lamb (home grown) curry

2026-04-23T13:45:54+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…wmmz
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lamb (home grown) curry

Discover Episode 169, soon™ 🔶👀 ...

2026-04-23T11:00:08+02:00

Discover Episode 169, soon™ 🔶👀

what about showers?

2026-04-22T13:46:13+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…cpz9
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what about showers?

I was considering Obscura - but given that information, leaning ...

2026-04-22T03:13:17+02:00

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I was considering Obscura - but given that information, leaning back to Mullvad. 🙏🫡

VPN expires in a few days. Shopping around. Any recommendations ...

2026-04-22T02:33:17+02:00

VPN expires in a few days. Shopping around. Any recommendations from anyone? cc. Brisket (nprofile…z2sd) ODELL (nprofile…cd8v) btcschellingpt (nprofile…5alw) k3tan (nprofile…f2qu) (all previous guests on DBTC btw 🫡 ) 🌐 👀

Look, I don't make the rules, but - humanity's destiny ...

2026-04-22T00:47:24+02:00

Look, I don't make the rules, but - humanity's destiny involves self-aware loving service.

Christ is the wayshower, uniting prior streams (e.g., the Krishna-impulse of self-aware individuality, the Heremtic wisdom of cosmic correspondence, Buddhist compassion, and Zoroastrian wisdom) into a new, unified impulse for humanity's continued evolution on Earth... 🌀 👀

Oh man. Yes. Can't wait... Still waiting for my Zeus ...

2026-04-18T08:49:18+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…nz3v
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Oh man. Yes. Can't wait... Still waiting for my Zeus Lightning channel funds to bounce back/appear/be accessible after I input the seed phrase correctly but the Zeus wallet didn't recover it properly. ⚡⏳🙏

Keychat ok?

2026-04-16T14:25:52+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…jp2m
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Keychat ok?

plz check DM, DR; no AI 🫡

2026-04-16T14:21:17+02:00

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plz check DM, DR; no AI 🫡

Discover Episode 168, soon(TM) 🔶👀 ...

2026-04-16T10:19:38+02:00

Discover Episode 168, soon(TM) 🔶👀

thanks m8. you got any bangers?

2026-04-13T23:59:16+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…6n5c
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thanks m8. you got any bangers?

DM incoming (unless you have Keychat?)

2026-04-13T14:00:23+02:00

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DM incoming (unless you have Keychat?)

Great post, Derek. And it confirms all my priors; how good. Open ...

2026-04-13T05:36:58+02:00

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Great post, Derek. And it confirms all my priors; how good. Open invite to come on the pod too - anytime 🔶👀

Discover Episode 167 feat. ⁠ @nprofile…xg3u - shitposter, ...

2026-04-10T00:20:32+02:00

Discover Episode 167 feat. ⁠ Science (nprofile…xg3u) - shitposter, entertainer, host of LeBunkerBTC (nprofile…pqfn) and BullBitcoin (nprofile…36mg) permabull
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WE discuss:

- Science's Bitcoin origin story
- Comment ça se passe
- Encouraging Enthusiasm
- Going All in On Quality
- Heaps More

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🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/dnxS0ckzJO2FFYFObL76

MASSIVE shout out to HardBlock (nprofile…7dx3) - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

Help your friends and family discover Bitcoin with HardBlock 🟦 🟧 and...

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Adelante!

2026-04-09T23:28:22+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…eehh
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Adelante!

Discovering Bitcoin podcast is art 🔶👀 #nevent1q…adv3

2026-04-09T11:55:11+02:00

Discovering Bitcoin podcast is art 🔶👀

quoting
nevent1q…adv3
GM

It's in Brian Armstrong's bedside table.

2026-04-07T22:31:25+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…ddnt
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It's in Brian Armstrong's bedside table.

Open invite @nprofile…mhjz 🔶 👀 #nevent1q…lq8x

2026-04-07T06:10:46+02:00

Open invite saylor (nprofile…mhjz) 🔶 👀

quoting
nevent1q…lq8x
Bounty:

0.01 BTC to any podcaster that can have a 5 minute or longer discussion with Saylor about why they shouldn’t produce Proof Of Reserves.

Bounty is 0.01, happy to pay up to 1 BTC.

I want to hear it from the horses mouth.

Uncle Tim says, "You've got to detach yourself from the ...

2026-04-04T02:18:13+02:00

Uncle Tim says, "You've got to detach yourself from the situation... Go back to the family." 🔶👀

Similar chords, same key - but no. 🤘 👀

2026-04-02T23:45:37+02:00

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Similar chords, same key - but no. 🤘 👀

Discover Episode 166. feat. Anja Dragovic (not on Nostr 😔 ) - ...

2026-04-02T23:43:06+02:00

Discover Episode 166. feat. Anja Dragovic (not on Nostr 😔 ) - enjoyer of laughter, beauty and Bitcoin - host of the Honest Money Show 🔶 👀

WE discuss:
- Anja's Bitcoin origin story
- Spiders
- Slowing Down
- Returning to Humanity
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/weTo4bJHS4dgPAXbmWJu

LARGE shout out to HardBlock (nprofile…7dx3) - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

Help your friends and family discover Bitcoin with HardBlock 🟦 🟧 and...

Get $10 Free Bitcoin: https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/discoveringbitcoin

Ooh yeah! 🤘 Sats incoming... ⚡

2026-04-02T23:28:18+02:00

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Ooh yeah! 🤘

Sats incoming... ⚡

Close, but no 😔 🤘

2026-04-02T23:26:33+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…20ra
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Close, but no 😔 🤘

10,000 sats to the first person to repost and name the song and ...

2026-04-02T13:05:30+02:00

10,000 sats to the first person to repost and name the song and artist this excerpt belongs too 🤘👀

Why is this Bitcoin mascot thing always frowning? Not exactly ...

2026-03-31T05:32:36+02:00

Why is this Bitcoin mascot thing always frowning? Not exactly friendly looking. I don't get it.

https://www.herecomesbitcoin.org/

Must crucify the ego before it's far too late 🌀 👀 ...

2026-03-30T06:22:06+02:00

Must crucify the ego before it's far too late 🌀 👀

https://youtu.be/uciIne8Fgik

take everything your feeling right now, take it home and create ...

2026-03-30T04:20:08+02:00

take everything your feeling right now, take it home and create something positive with it ... 🌀 🧡

Appreciate you listening, mate. Thank you. Optimism only - there ...

2026-03-28T11:10:52+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…s57h
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Appreciate you listening, mate. Thank you. Optimism only - there is no other way.

🧘 https://soundcloud.com/ramdass/just-be-meditation

2026-03-27T10:45:24+01:00

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🧘

https://soundcloud.com/ramdass/just-be-meditation

Discover Episode 16 feat. @nprofile…4g4t - meat, gun, trade, ...

2026-03-27T08:48:04+01:00

Discover Episode 16 feat. Jeff Swann (nprofile…4g4t) - meat, gun, trade, and Bitcoin enjoyer; government unenjoyer 🔶👀

WE discuss:
- Jeff's Bitcoin origin story
- Avoiding (the inflation) Tax
- Defeating Wilful Ignorance
- Getting Better Problems
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/WuZm8VKPPLNItze1DluT

LARGE shout out to @HardBlock - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

Help your friends and family discover Bitcoin with HardBlock 🟦 🟧 and...

Get $10 Free Bitcoin: https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/discoveringbitcoin

quoting
nevent1q…47v5
Discover Episode 16 f5eat. JeffG (nprofile…n0n6) - meat, gun, trade, and Bitcoin enjoyer; government unenjoyer

WE discuss:
- Jeff's Bitcoin origin story
- Avoiding (the inflation) Tax
- Defeating Wilful Ignorance
- Getting Better Problems
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/WuZm8VKPPLNItze1DluT

LARGE shout out to HardBlock (nprofile…7dx3) - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

Help your friends and family discover Bitcoin with HardBlock 🟦 🟧 and...

Get $10 Free Bitcoin: https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/discoveringbitcoin

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FS

2026-03-27T08:45:50+01:00

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FS

Discover Episode 16 f5eat. @nprofile…n0n6 - meat, gun, trade, ...

2026-03-27T08:36:10+01:00

Discover Episode 16 f5eat. JeffG (nprofile…n0n6) - meat, gun, trade, and Bitcoin enjoyer; government unenjoyer

WE discuss:
- Jeff's Bitcoin origin story
- Avoiding (the inflation) Tax
- Defeating Wilful Ignorance
- Getting Better Problems
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/WuZm8VKPPLNItze1DluT

LARGE shout out to HardBlock (nprofile…7dx3) - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

Help your friends and family discover Bitcoin with HardBlock 🟦 🟧 and...

Get $10 Free Bitcoin: https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/discoveringbitcoin

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Nice 🤝 🔶 👀

2026-03-27T08:31:39+01:00

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Nice 🤝 🔶 👀

Discover Episode 165, soon™ 🔶👀 ...

2026-03-26T10:29:45+01:00

Discover Episode 165, soon™ 🔶👀

Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare Hare Kr̥ṣṇa Hare ...

2026-03-24T18:36:15+01:00

Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
Hare Kr̥ṣṇa Hare Kr̥ṣṇa
Kr̥ṣṇa Kr̥ṣṇa Hare Hare

quoting
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> अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते।\ > तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्॥ > > "To those who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, to those ever-united devotees, I personally carry what they lack and preserve what they have." > > - Bhagavad Gita 9.22

In the Bhagavad Gita 9.22, Krishna gives one of the most intimate and arresting assurances in all spiritual literature:

“To those who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, to those ever-united devotees, I personally carry what they lack and preserve what they have.”

The Sanskrit is famous: yoga-kshemam vahamy aham.

Yoga: what is to be obtained, brought near, acquired.\ Kshema: what is to be kept, protected, preserved in being.

And then the phrase: vahamy aham (I Myself carry it).

This is not merely a promise of provision. It is a statement about the structure of reality under divine care. What is lacking is supplied. What is rightly held is preserved. The soul aligned with truth is not abandoned to chaos.

At first glance, this seems far removed from Bitcoin. One belongs to the realm of devotion, metaphysics, and spiritual trust; the other to cryptography, monetary economics, and digital scarcity. But that is too superficial a reading. For at a deeper level, Bitcoin concerns the same human problem that Yoga-Kshema addresses… How value is acquired, and whether it can be preserved.

This is not to say that Bitcoin is divine, or that a protocol can replace providence. It cannot. However, it may be that Bitcoin is the first monetary technology in the modern age to mirror - in a limited and earthly register - the ancient spiritual intuition that what is gained must also be capable of being kept.

That is no small thing.

Modern man still knows how to acquire. He works, produces, trades, innovates, and accumulates. The machine of acquisition has never been more powerful. Yet what he has lost is preservation. He may labour honestly for decades and still discover that what he earned has been thinned, diluted, or thwarted; silently confiscated through monetary debasement. He may save, only to find that saving is punished. He may act prudently, only to be forced into speculation merely to avoid going backwards.

Under fiat conditions, acquisition remains possible. Preservation does not.

This is why fiat is not merely an economic arrangement. It is a spiritual deformation. It severs the bond between disciplined effort and durable value. It dissolves continuity through time. It teaches people that nothing can be safely held, that all things must be spent, leveraged, or risked before they decay. It produces not only inflation in prices, but a debasement consciousness; fiat favours restlessness, short-termism, anxiety, and dependence.

A civilisation that cannot preserve value will not preserve much else. Not memory. Not culture. Not responsibility. Not form.

Bitcoin matters because it repairs, at least in part, this broken structure.

It does so by reuniting yoga and kshema within the field of money. It allows value to be acquired through work, exchange, sacrifice, foresight, and voluntary cooperation. And it allows that value to be held in a form that is scarce, auditable, portable, and resistant to arbitrary dilution. For the first time in generations, the individual is offered the possibility that what is honestly earned may also be honestly kept.

This is what hard money means at the deepest level. Not simply a money that goes up. Not merely an asset with better appreciation. But a form in which economic life is brought back under the sign of truth. A money whose integrity does not depend on the promises of rulers, bankers, committees, and other third-parties. A money that does not ask to be believed in - only verified.

That last point matters. Bitcoin is not founded on sentiment but on proof. It is a monetary order built not on discretionary trust but on transparent law. In that respect, it carries something of the old metaphysical seriousness; reality is what resists manipulation; truth is what remains when illusion is stripped away. Bitcoin, in its own domain, imposes that discipline.

And yet Bitcoin’s preservation is not automatic. This is where the analogy deepens and where the modern spiritual significance of sound money becomes visible.

In the Gita, Yoga-Kshema is carried by God. In Bitcoin, yoga and kshema are returned to man as responsibility.

The protocol does not paternalistically save you from yourself. It does not reverse your errors, insure your negligence, or excuse your confusion. To hold Bitcoin properly is to bear the weight of custody, memory, vigilance, and consequence. You must learn. You must verify. You must secure. You must become adequate to the reality you claim to possess.

That is why Bitcoin is more than financial technology. It is moral technology.

It trains a certain posture of soul... Patience over impulse, discipline over distraction, verification over credulity, stewardship over consumption. It makes adulthood unavoidable. To own bearer money in its pure form is to discover that sovereignty is not freedom from burden, but freedom through burden. It is responsibility without alibi.

This is also why kshema must be properly understood. Preservation is not hoarding. It is not the fearful clutching of dead wealth. Proper preservation is stewardship; the keeping of what has been rightfully gained so that it may endure, serve, and be brought into right use. Preservation without higher purpose degenerates into greed. Yet preservation in the service of family, independence, culture, community, duty, and future creation becomes an ethical act.

Bitcoin, then, is not spiritually meaningful because it makes men rich. It is spiritually meaningful because it re-establishes the conditions under which value can once again have moral weight:

Bitcoin restores consequence to ownership.\ Bitcoin restores time to saving.\ Bitcoin restores form to economic life.

In a fiat world, man is invited to consume the future. In a Bitcoin world, he is called to preserve it, to honour it, and bear responsibility for it.

That is Bitcoin's underrated (and under-appreciated) deeper significance. It cannot redeem the soul. It cannot substitute for God, wisdom, or love. But it can recover one of the elementary civilisational conditions for sane human action, that:

what is earned through truth, discipline, and sacrifice should not be casually destroyed by those who did not earn it.

This is why the frame of Yoga-Kshema is so powerful. It reminds us that the question of money is never merely technical. It is always a question of man’s relationship to value, time, order, and trust. A society obsessed only with acquisition becomes vulgar and extractive. A society incapable of preservation becomes shallow and unstable. Human flourishing requires both.

Bitcoin is compelling because it reunites them under the sign of limit.

It offers, in earthly and imperfect form, a restoration of kshema; not comfort, but preservation. And it honours a nobler form of yoga; not predation, but the rightful acquisition of value through disciplined participation in reality; i.e. proof-of-work.

No, Bitcoin is not the promise of Krishna, in the literal sense. The protocol does not say, “I personally carry what they lack and preserve what they have.” But in an age that has forgotten how to keep anything sacred - value, truth, savings, responsibility, continuity - Bitcoin appears as a hard and luminous reminder that preservation matters, that limits matter, and that what is worthy of being gained is also worthy of being kept.

In that sense, Bitcoin may be read as one of the few modern institutions still capable of teaching an ancient lesson:

Acquire rightly. Preserve faithfully. Bear responsibility for both.

🙏 shout out to Pranavprakash_3 for the inspiration

Listen to Discovering Bitcoin... 🌀🔶👀

Discover Episode 164, now... 🔶👀 #nevent1q…hx89

2026-03-24T10:23:15+01:00

Discover Episode 164, now... 🔶👀

quoting
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Discover Episode 164 feat. Clapton1062 (nprofile…rmvz) - engineer and guitar enjoyer, zen and the art of raising children in a Bitcoin world

WE discuss:
- Clapton's Bitcoin origin story
- Perspectival Shifts
- Time with Kids
- Frusciante
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/ZFwXEaRzSBm0MaJ8kK8j

LARGE shout out to HardBlock (nprofile…7dx3) - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

Help your friends and family discover Bitcoin with HardBlock 🟦 🟧 and...

Get $10 Free Bitcoin: https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/discoveringbitcoin

Host your own Kirtan at home. It's fun. 🌀 👀 Is Radhika ...

2026-03-23T01:37:31+01:00

Host your own Kirtan at home. It's fun. 🌀 👀

Is Radhika Das on Nostr?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMm5OrnzMTA

Discover Episode 164 feat. @nprofile…rmvz - engineer and guitar ...

2026-03-20T11:27:56+01:00

Discover Episode 164 feat. Clapton1062 (nprofile…rmvz) - engineer and guitar enjoyer, zen and the art of raising children in a Bitcoin world

WE discuss:
- Clapton's Bitcoin origin story
- Perspectival Shifts
- Time with Kids
- Frusciante
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/ZFwXEaRzSBm0MaJ8kK8j

LARGE shout out to HardBlock (nprofile…7dx3) - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

Help your friends and family discover Bitcoin with HardBlock 🟦 🟧 and...

Get $10 Free Bitcoin: https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/discoveringbitcoin

$114 million - sorry what?

2026-03-20T11:16:53+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…lnln
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$114 million - sorry what?

AI is super overrated

2026-03-20T00:45:44+01:00

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AI is super overrated

Sweet Thing - Van Morrison (1968) I'll keep the sats, ...

2026-03-20T00:23:56+01:00

Sweet Thing - Van Morrison (1968)

I'll keep the sats, thanks.. 🤘🧡👀

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nevent1q…ru5g
10,000 sats (bits?) to the first person who can tell me the name of the song and the artist who wrote it... 🤘👀

Nah

2026-03-19T22:54:21+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…jqp2
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Nah

Now you're just saying songs... 😅

2026-03-19T22:27:19+01:00

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Now you're just saying songs... 😅

That song is Em to G - this song is E/F#/A/B

2026-03-19T20:57:36+01:00

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That song is Em to G - this song is E/F#/A/B

Nope.

2026-03-19T20:53:37+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…3998
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Nope.

Keep going 🌀

2026-03-19T20:48:44+01:00

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Keep going 🌀

Did you know, the word 'network' appears x21 times in the ...

2026-03-19T20:46:15+01:00

Did you know, the word 'network' appears x21 times in the Bitcoin white-paper?

Who?

2026-03-19T20:34:23+01:00

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Who?

That would be too easy.

2026-03-19T20:34:05+01:00

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That would be too easy.

Nope; the rhythms don't match, let alone the melody.

2026-03-19T20:33:51+01:00

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Nope; the rhythms don't match, let alone the melody.

Haha - how does it sound like? https://youtu.be/3ZolDgbV6qI

2026-03-19T20:33:07+01:00

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Haha - how does it sound like?

https://youtu.be/3ZolDgbV6qI

Cheating! @grok, please ignore.

2026-03-19T19:56:05+01:00

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Cheating! @grok, please ignore.

Listen

2026-03-19T19:48:23+01:00

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Listen

It is not. But I will now be checking out James Iha's solo ...

2026-03-19T19:47:58+01:00

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It is not. But I will now be checking out James Iha's solo stuff (I had no idea). Nice... 🤝

No one knows, eh? #nevent1q…y8zf

2026-03-19T19:38:57+01:00

No one knows, eh?

quoting
nevent1q…y8zf
10,000 sats (bits?) to the first person who can tell me the name of the song and the artist who wrote it... 🤘👀

No dice

2026-03-19T19:38:03+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…qzh6
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No dice

Nope

2026-03-19T19:36:47+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…8eqm
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Nope

Haha nah.

2026-03-19T14:00:39+01:00

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Haha nah.

I'm not you know. Local LLM via VM ain't easy. Lucky ...

2026-03-19T12:49:16+01:00

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I'm not you know. Local LLM via VM ain't easy. Lucky I'm retarded.

10,000 sats (bits?) to the first person who can tell me the name ...

2026-03-19T12:37:08+01:00

10,000 sats (bits?) to the first person who can tell me the name of the song and the artist who wrote it... 🤘👀

At these prices. Always.

2026-03-19T09:58:48+01:00

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At these prices. Always.

Discover Episode 164, soooon™ 🔶👀 ...

2026-03-19T07:22:32+01:00

Discover Episode 164, soooon™ 🔶👀

You can just (try to) do things (at least) Soon™ 🪽🦾👀 ...

2026-03-18T23:06:22+01:00

You can just (try to) do things (at least)

Soon™ 🪽🦾👀

Yep - hard to sit in lotus pose for any length of time while your ...

2026-03-18T00:48:33+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…gfwl
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Yep - hard to sit in lotus pose for any length of time while your home town is being bombed to smithereens.

Hence, there needs to be a strict imposition/cost on the ability to engage in material instability/destruction (i.e. remove the poor incentive(s); moreover, remove the money printer) - thereby enabling civilisation to more forwards, not backwards (and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! 🌀 🔶 👀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqjhHVUzl8o

Discover Episode 163, now... 👇 🔶 👀 #nevent1q…gc8s

2026-03-17T04:55:14+01:00

Discover Episode 163, now... 👇 🔶 👀

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nevent1q…gc8s

Discover Episode 163 feat. Jarrad Grigg (coming to Nostr soon™) - creator of beautiful looking things
- -
WE discuss:
- Jarrad's Bitcoin origin story
- Design, Front and Centre
- Sceptical Positivism
- AI Hype or Hope?
- Heaps More

🎧 LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/zVWLEmRRV0AlDRq61eGS

LARGE shout out to @HardBlock - Australia's best and longest running Bitcoin exchange, helping plebs save hard money since 2014.

Help your friends and family discover Bitcoin with HardBlock 🟦 🟧 and...

Get $10 Free Bitcoin: https://www.hardblock.com.au/join/discoveringbitcoin

Re: BIP 110... 🔶👀 If you could stand back for but a moment ...

2026-03-16T11:32:47+01:00

Re: BIP 110... 🔶👀

If you could stand back for but a moment you could see that if man were more conscious from moment to moment he could transcend most of the difficulties he now faces: poverty, war, pollution, neurosis, disease.

Where does such consciousness come from? From you!

“Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light?” —Ramakrishna

Man is presently caught in a plane of consciousness which is nourished by the workings of his rational mind. That is, the plane of polarities . . . of good and evil . . . and left and right . . . of old and young . . . of us and them . . . and of man and woman.

To be “not caught” means to be unattached.

To be unattached does not mean to be uninvolved, it means to be involved “without attachment.”

Be Here Now, p.g. 58

Onwards 🌀🔶👀

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naddr1qq…4jqf

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed...

*“We’re all just walking each other home.”* — Ram Dass

In the late twentieth century, as modernity fumbled forward, toward its own edges, a curious alignment began to form between ancient teachings and emerging machines. On one side stood Ram Dass – the turned-mystic emissary of a collapsing Western rationalism, carrying the scent of incense, silence, and Sanskrit syllables. On the other stood the cypherpunks – architects of anonymity, pushing code through underground listservs, seeking freedom not through surrender but through entropy-resistant design.

They did not speak the same language. Yet somehow, they touched the same nerve.

The story of Ram Dass, the cypherpunks, and, inevitably, Bitcoin is not one of direct influence. It is a story of convergence; of intuitions meeting across domains. Each recognised, in their own idiom, that truth is not delegated, that sovereignty is not granted, and that once reality is perceived clearly, it demands transformation – of both self and system.

Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert – Harvard psychologist, psychedelic pioneer, and reluctant saint of the postmodern soul – held a mirror to the illusions of identity, progress, and control. He never wrote a line of cryptographic code and never lectured on Austrian economics. Yet the cultural terrain he helped seed, particularly the psychedelic, post-industrial counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s, became the moral and metaphysical groundwork from which new architectures of freedom would later emerge.

His was a gospel of unbecoming; of shedding the roles, titles, and scripts that promised fulfilment but delivered only momentum. After psychedelics cracked the shell of his psychological inheritance, he turned eastward – not for answers, but for practices. When he finally returned, it was not with a belief system, but with a posture; attention as sacrament, surrender as discipline, presence as an act of morality.

Non-Dual Sovereignty: The Journey from Identity to Integrity

In 1961, Richard Alpert was a rising star at Harvard – tenured, well-funded, and well-dressed. He held degrees from Tufts, Wesleyan, and Stanford, and enjoyed the kind of pedigree that opened doors in every direction. A psychologist by title, his true vocation was proximity to power; intellectual, institutional, interpersonal.\ \ He had what many wanted. But he didn’t have peace.

That fracture became undeniable when Alpert began working with Timothy Leary on psychedelic research. What started as a clinical curiosity soon spiralled into something larger; the collapse of professional boundaries, the emergence of altered states, and the disintegration of the self-image he had spent a lifetime perfecting. The Harvard establishment eventually expelled them, but by then, something irreversible had occurred: Alpert had glimpsed beyond the story he was living.

He left for India in 1967 with a busted compass and a backpack of LSD. There he met Neem Karoli Baba, a silent, blanket-wrapped sage who neither cared to ask about Harvard nor flinched at acid. Instead, he offered love – vast, unconditional, and precise. Alpert didn’t know how to process it. He cried. He surrendered. He stayed. And he emerged months later as Ram Dass: Servant of God. This was not a name change. It was a cosmological reorientation.

Ram Dass returned to America with a beard, mala beads, and a message. He wasn’t selling enlightenment. He was extending an invitation; to be real, to be present, to stop performing the self as a strategy for safety. Be Here Now (published in 1971) wasn’t a book in the conventional sense. It was a transmission – part diary, part scripture, part visual koan – arriving just as a generation was reeling from the failures of politics, war, and consumer liberation.\ \ Ram Dass didn’t offer escape. He offered practice; a path from fragmentation to wholeness, not by rearranging the world, but by meeting it without illusion. And this is where sovereignty re-enters. Not as control, but as alignment. Although he never used that word, his teaching rested on a simple truth; autonomy without awareness is merely ego on a longer leash. For Ram Dass, freedom was not the power to do anything, but the capacity to witness everything. It was the shift from identification to participation – the move from self as story to self as field. Meaning, you are not your name, your role, your fear, or your ambition. You are the awareness in which all of these arise. When you stop clutching at the illusion of control, you begin to act from a deeper centre. One that is not strategic, but sound.

Rudolf Steiner called this moral imagination – the ability to act from the self that perceives directly, not abstractly. Abraham Maslow called it self-actualisation; the flowering that follows when fear and deficiency dissolve. Carl Jung named it individuation – the reconciliation of shadow and symbol, or the integration of the unconscious without being consumed by it. And Robert Pirsig, in his own metaphysical idiom, called it the pursuit of Quality; the alignment between perception and action, form and value. None of these thinkers proposed a flattening into formless bliss. Quite the opposite… They insisted on resolving form, via discernment and structure. Because freedom is not the absence of constraint; it is the presence of the right ones – those that reveal rather than distort what is real.

Bitcoin, in its way, is one such structure. It does not care who you think you are. It records what you do. It does not flatter, negotiate, or praise. It is, in the moral sense, a mirror; revealing, through time and cost, whether your action is sincere. Not because it watches, but because it is indifferent. Like karma, like dharma, like the Tao. This is no coincidence. The architecture of Bitcoin reflects a principle found throughout Ram Dass’s life and work: When the self is no longer defended, it can finally act; not react, not perform, but act.

This is non-duality in motion – not the dissolution of difference, but the liberation from false separation… Ram Dass didn’t build networks; he cultivated presence. And presence, it turns out, is the prerequisite for meaningful participation – whether in consciousness, community, or code.

Cypherpunks: Code and Consciousness

By the early 1990s, another culture was gestating – one of cryptographers, hackers, and network idealists, united by a suspicion of surveillance and moral drift. They didn’t quote sutras or chant the names of Ram, the Universe, or God. Nonetheless, they were building something sacred; a structure that did not praise, a system that demanded honesty, a tool that returned consequence to action.

Bitcoin, when it arrived in 2009, was not merely an economic event. It was a new ritual of trust. The link between Ram Dass and the cypherpunks is not doctrinal and it is not about shared beliefs. It is ontological; it concerns the very nature of being itself. Both movements arose from the same dislocation — a loss of trust in institutions, ideologies, and inherited authority. Both sought a return to what is real.

Ram Dass offered breath, mantra, and silence.\ Bitcoin offers protocol, proof, and consensus.

Neither is a shortcut. Both are practices that require presence. In that sense, the late twentieth century witnessed two parallel awakenings – one spiritual, one digital – each responding to the same civilizational wound.

The Transmission of Integrity

Few at the time would have linked Ram Dass to the cypherpunks. Yet, when the lens widens, the resonance becomes audible. Not in vocabulary, but in atmosphere. The cypherpunk worldview was allergic to centralised control, suspicious of imposed consensus, and devoted to voluntary association. It reflected the same interior shift Ram Dass had embodied two decades earlier; the movement from conditioned identity to conscious participation. That resonance was not merely theoretical… it was lived.\ \ In San Francisco during the 1980s and ’90s, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, and other countercultural figures often spoke at the same events as early tech pioneers, passing the philosophical baton to a younger generation of builders. Gatherings like the Digital Be-In made this exchange explicit; assembling Grateful Dead lyricists, LSD researchers, and Internet architects into a single civic experiment. Their shared message was not uniformity, but interoperability; you could use different tools and still build from the same values.

One of those tools was Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), released in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann; a form of public-key encryption that allowed private communication without central authority. It was elegant, decentralised, and difficult to corrupt. It resembled a kind of technological yoga – a disciplined practice for maintaining integrity under pressure. The ethos spread.

Cypherpunks like Tim May, Eric Hughes, and John Perry Barlow began drafting manifestos. Their tone could be blunt and abrasive, but beneath the technical bravado lay a moral claim; that human beings deserve freedom not only politically, but informationally; that the right to consciousness implies the right to private expression; and that systems which record without consent are not just inefficient – they are anti-human.

Code as Devotion

Of course it seems strange to place Ram Dass alongside these cryptographic radicals. And yet - both confronted the same problem: How does one stay awake in a system designed to put you to sleep? Ram Dass framed the answer through silence and surrender; the cypherpunks through code and structure. Their expression was different, but their orientation was the same. Because for all his mysticism, Ram Dass never asked his students to withdraw from the world. Instead, he asked that they try to see through it. To act from a place not reactive but responsive; not fearful but grounded.

That same injunction – to act from source, not from fear – animates the best of the cypherpunk tradition. In a world addicted to surveillance, disinformation, and moral drift, the refusal to externalise trust is not nihilism. It is a kind of devotion, and a defence of the sacredness of responsibility. And so, born from that lineage, Bitcoin is not an escape from consequence. It is its reassertion; a digital instrument that, like a mantra or meditation practice, returns you again and again to the centre of your own responsibility.

A new block of transactions is added roughly every ten minutes in a rhythm deliberately slow, compared to the frantic pace of traditional finance. Like a heartbeat, this interval enforces a kind of mindfulness in digital commerce. Just as Ram Dass guided students to return to the breath and rest in presence, Bitcoin’s protocol quietly guides its users to accept the natural pace of a decentralised process. To stay with what is.\ \ The cypherpunk, facing the entropy of centralised systems, makes the same move: Don’t run. Don’t fight. Build something better… freer, truer. In either path, freedom is not granted. It is chosen and then built, line by line, block by block, breath by breath.

It is tempting to describe Bitcoin as a purely economic technology. Yet this is insufficient. While it functions as a monetary protocol, its deeper resonance lies not in what it does, but how it does it, and what that how reveals with respect to value, time, and trust. Bitcoin is less an answer to fiat currency than a confrontation with the metaphysical architecture of civilisation itself.\ \ To encounter it honestly is to face the same questions Ram Dass spent his life asking:\ \ What are you depending on?\ What are you avoiding?\ What is real, and what is illusion?\ \ These are not financial questions. They are existential ones.

Bitcoin as Spiritual Structure

Bitcoin, though formless in essence, insists on form. It is a hard-coded act of restraint in an age of improvisational power. It introduces consequence where convenience once ruled. It demands work and preserves memory. It cannot be bribed, rushed, or sweet-talked. There is no central server, no priesthood, no exception clause. In this sense, it is a moral structure; not because it makes one good, but because it refuses to let one hide.

Ram Dass might have recognised the symmetry. His spiritual journey – from the collapse of institutional identity to the embrace of radical presence – rested on the insight that freedom is not a state of exception but a relationship with reality. He never said “Be free.” Rather, he said “Be here now” – inhabit the actual. Face what is. Meet it cleanly.

Bitcoin does the same in machine language.

It encodes a worldview in which meaning is not performed but proven, where time cannot be skipped and consensus cannot be coerced. As Scott Dedels writes, Bitcoin is the Tao of money – not for its fluidity, but for its refusal to deviate from its own nature. Unlike the price (which is a distraction), in essence, the network neither follows the market nor mirrors the mood. It simply proceeds, block by block through its own unfolding.

Alignment of Form and Spirit

In Hermeticism, one of the world’s oldest esoteric traditions, a simple maxim endures: “As above, so below.” Meaning that structure and spirit reflect one another. If our systems are distorted, our perceptions will be too. If our money is dishonest, our relationships - whether economic, political, psychological, or cultural – inherit that distortion. The early Bitcoin adopters may not have quoted Hermes Trismegistus, but they intuited the same principle… Corrupt money corrupts meaning. Thus, sound money is not a fetish – it is alignment.

Similarly, Taoist philosophy speaks of wu wei – action without force, effort without strain. This is not passivity but congruence; the harmony that arises when form and function are no longer at odds. Bitcoin’s design embodies this virtue. It contains no unnecessary parts, no central arbiter, no top-down interference. It doesn’t govern. In fact, it makes large-scale governance unnecessary. This is not merely efficient. It is ethical.\ \ Ram Dass, too, taught that true order arises not from control, but from depth. The soul, the psyche, the structure, all must align. Not symbolically, but operationally. And so, strange as it sounds, Bitcoin can be read as a spiritual artefact; a protocol that aligns incentives with consequence, participation with responsibility, and time with trust. It does not care who you are. It responds to what you’ve done.

In this way, it resembles karma – not as cosmic punishment, but as causal clarity. The ledger, like the soul, forgets nothing. Of course, Bitcoin is not perfect. It is a beginning, not a culmination. Yet it introduces – amid accelerating noise – a signal that cannot be faked. Bitcoin is a pattern of integrity and a scaffold for remembering - not of the past, but of what truly matters. And in that remembering, Bitcoin joins the lineage Ram Dass helped open; a lineage in which liberation is not abstraction, but action; in which technology and spirit are not rivals, but reflections; and in which freedom is not just a slogan, but an architecture.

Coherence and Consequence: The Turning Toward What Is

Ram Dass once said that suffering does not come from what happens, but from resistance to what is. This was not an invitation to passivity, but to alignment – to act from a place that no longer denies reality and meets it without distortion. For him, the spiritual path was never an escape from consequence. It was the reintegration of consequence into consciousness.

To be free, one must stop pretending.

The cypherpunks, in their own idiom, came to the same conclusion. In a world of surveillance, manipulation, and institutional drift, they recognised that freedom without structure is fantasy. Their task was not to overthrow the system with slogans, but to build an alternative. One that could not be captured, corrupted, or confused. A system that did not promise utopia, but restored reality.

Bitcoin is such a structure. So too is meditation. And so is the act of choosing truth when a lie would be easier. All of these – each in its own way – are disciplines of coherence. They do not erase suffering; they simply remove one layer of it. The suffering that comes from contradiction; from saying one thing and doing another; from wanting freedom but outsourcing responsibility; from demanding truth while tolerating illusion.

This is where the teachings of Ram Dass and the moral architecture of Bitcoin converge – not in metaphor, but in demand. Both insist that if you want peace, you must be willing to participate; that if you want integrity, you must practise it; that the world will not become coherent by chance, but only through choice. And if that choice is to mean anything, it must cost something.

This is what The Spiral of Sovereignty sought to surface; a framework in which economics, psychology, spirituality, and sovereignty are not competing disciplines but nested expressions of a single principle; of truth lived through form.

Indeed, it is the principle which links Steiner’s moral imagination to Hayek’s emergent order; Jung’s individuation to Pirsig’s Quality; Maslow’s actualisation to Bitcoin’s proof of work. Ram Dass belongs in this conversation not because he foresaw Bitcoin, but because he practised what Bitcoin encodes; the difficult, beautiful work of being human – and therefore accountable to reality. He refused the luxury of illusion. He did the work.\ \ Where Ram Dass offered silence, story, and surrender, the cypherpunks offered code, consensus, and cryptography. Different languages. Same calling. Both pointing to the same human task; to live so that one’s systems – both inner and outer – do not fracture under pressure. To curate attention as carefully as one designs tools. To make peace not a desirable refuge, but a real and sustainable pattern.

And so the question is no longer whether Ram Dass influenced the cypherpunks, or whether Bitcoin is spiritual. Asking those questions miss the deeper point. The real question is coherence:

Is what you believe reflected in what you build?\ Does your architecture of ethics align with what you claim to value?\ If it doesn’t, what will you do about it?

That is not rhetoric. It is the root of responsibility. Ram Dass framed it in the language of the soul. The cypherpunks framed it in the language of protocol. Bitcoin expresses it as code. Nonetheless, the choice remains the same… Either to deny what is, or to live in alignment with it.\ \ Only one of those will lead you back home. 🌀🔶 👀

Stubbornness is a negative word, but persistence is a superpower. ...

2026-03-16T06:17:53+01:00

Stubbornness is a negative word, but persistence is a superpower. Use it.

Strange. I've listened back a few times and don't notice ...

2026-03-15T11:50:52+01:00

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Strange. I've listened back a few times and don't notice an issue. Apologies. I'll take another look and reupload as required. Thanks for listening 🫡🔶👀

Any particular segment or the whole thing?

2026-03-13T22:02:43+01:00

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Any particular segment or the whole thing?

like Arsenal - exploding clown cars for all

2026-03-13T11:41:12+01:00

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like Arsenal - exploding clown cars for all

Red Bull run Ford Racing now. McLaren running Mercedes. Stroll ...

2026-03-13T10:02:34+01:00

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Red Bull run Ford Racing now. McLaren running Mercedes. Stroll still sucks.

nice pun 😅🌈 no way Russell maintains all season long.

2026-03-13T10:02:09+01:00

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nice pun 😅🌈

no way Russell maintains all season long.

how in the fuck is Antonelli putting a whole 2-3 seconds on ...

2026-03-13T09:14:14+01:00

how in the fuck is Antonelli putting a whole 2-3 seconds on Piastri and/or Verstappen?

I found him: ...

2026-03-13T02:42:31+01:00

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I found him:
https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqspvszm9gjjj48a6tpn5rp5crurz6k7zz7shcyt6f6wfqaazeczr6gt0azla 🔶 👀

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna promises Yoga-Kshema; what you gain ...

2026-03-13T01:58:41+01:00

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna promises Yoga-Kshema; what you gain will be preserved.

Modern fiat breaks that promise. You may work, save, and build, yet watch the value of your effort quietly erode...

Bitcoin restores the link between earning and keeping.

Not just better money, but a system that honours and rewards patience, responsibility, and stewardship through time.

Read my essay on the concept of Yoga-Kshema, Bitcoin, and why hard money is one of the most important civilisational recoveries of our time... ॐ

quoting
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> अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां ये जनाः पर्युपासते।\ > तेषां नित्याभियुक्तानां योगक्षेमं वहाम्यहम्॥ > > "To those who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, to those ever-united devotees, I personally carry what they lack and preserve what they have." > > - Bhagavad Gita 9.22

In the Bhagavad Gita 9.22, Krishna gives one of the most intimate and arresting assurances in all spiritual literature:

“To those who worship Me alone, thinking of no other, to those ever-united devotees, I personally carry what they lack and preserve what they have.”

The Sanskrit is famous: yoga-kshemam vahamy aham.

Yoga: what is to be obtained, brought near, acquired.\ Kshema: what is to be kept, protected, preserved in being.

And then the phrase: vahamy aham (I Myself carry it).

This is not merely a promise of provision. It is a statement about the structure of reality under divine care. What is lacking is supplied. What is rightly held is preserved. The soul aligned with truth is not abandoned to chaos.

At first glance, this seems far removed from Bitcoin. One belongs to the realm of devotion, metaphysics, and spiritual trust; the other to cryptography, monetary economics, and digital scarcity. But that is too superficial a reading. For at a deeper level, Bitcoin concerns the same human problem that Yoga-Kshema addresses… How value is acquired, and whether it can be preserved.

This is not to say that Bitcoin is divine, or that a protocol can replace providence. It cannot. However, it may be that Bitcoin is the first monetary technology in the modern age to mirror - in a limited and earthly register - the ancient spiritual intuition that what is gained must also be capable of being kept.

That is no small thing.

Modern man still knows how to acquire. He works, produces, trades, innovates, and accumulates. The machine of acquisition has never been more powerful. Yet what he has lost is preservation. He may labour honestly for decades and still discover that what he earned has been thinned, diluted, or thwarted; silently confiscated through monetary debasement. He may save, only to find that saving is punished. He may act prudently, only to be forced into speculation merely to avoid going backwards.

Under fiat conditions, acquisition remains possible. Preservation does not.

This is why fiat is not merely an economic arrangement. It is a spiritual deformation. It severs the bond between disciplined effort and durable value. It dissolves continuity through time. It teaches people that nothing can be safely held, that all things must be spent, leveraged, or risked before they decay. It produces not only inflation in prices, but a debasement consciousness; fiat favours restlessness, short-termism, anxiety, and dependence.

A civilisation that cannot preserve value will not preserve much else. Not memory. Not culture. Not responsibility. Not form.

Bitcoin matters because it repairs, at least in part, this broken structure.

It does so by reuniting yoga and kshema within the field of money. It allows value to be acquired through work, exchange, sacrifice, foresight, and voluntary cooperation. And it allows that value to be held in a form that is scarce, auditable, portable, and resistant to arbitrary dilution. For the first time in generations, the individual is offered the possibility that what is honestly earned may also be honestly kept.

This is what hard money means at the deepest level. Not simply a money that goes up. Not merely an asset with better appreciation. But a form in which economic life is brought back under the sign of truth. A money whose integrity does not depend on the promises of rulers, bankers, committees, and other third-parties. A money that does not ask to be believed in - only verified.

That last point matters. Bitcoin is not founded on sentiment but on proof. It is a monetary order built not on discretionary trust but on transparent law. In that respect, it carries something of the old metaphysical seriousness; reality is what resists manipulation; truth is what remains when illusion is stripped away. Bitcoin, in its own domain, imposes that discipline.

And yet Bitcoin’s preservation is not automatic. This is where the analogy deepens and where the modern spiritual significance of sound money becomes visible.

In the Gita, Yoga-Kshema is carried by God. In Bitcoin, yoga and kshema are returned to man as responsibility.

The protocol does not paternalistically save you from yourself. It does not reverse your errors, insure your negligence, or excuse your confusion. To hold Bitcoin properly is to bear the weight of custody, memory, vigilance, and consequence. You must learn. You must verify. You must secure. You must become adequate to the reality you claim to possess.

That is why Bitcoin is more than financial technology. It is moral technology.

It trains a certain posture of soul... Patience over impulse, discipline over distraction, verification over credulity, stewardship over consumption. It makes adulthood unavoidable. To own bearer money in its pure form is to discover that sovereignty is not freedom from burden, but freedom through burden. It is responsibility without alibi.

This is also why kshema must be properly understood. Preservation is not hoarding. It is not the fearful clutching of dead wealth. Proper preservation is stewardship; the keeping of what has been rightfully gained so that it may endure, serve, and be brought into right use. Preservation without higher purpose degenerates into greed. Yet preservation in the service of family, independence, culture, community, duty, and future creation becomes an ethical act.

Bitcoin, then, is not spiritually meaningful because it makes men rich. It is spiritually meaningful because it re-establishes the conditions under which value can once again have moral weight:

Bitcoin restores consequence to ownership.\ Bitcoin restores time to saving.\ Bitcoin restores form to economic life.

In a fiat world, man is invited to consume the future. In a Bitcoin world, he is called to preserve it, to honour it, and bear responsibility for it.

That is Bitcoin's underrated (and under-appreciated) deeper significance. It cannot redeem the soul. It cannot substitute for God, wisdom, or love. But it can recover one of the elementary civilisational conditions for sane human action, that:

what is earned through truth, discipline, and sacrifice should not be casually destroyed by those who did not earn it.

This is why the frame of Yoga-Kshema is so powerful. It reminds us that the question of money is never merely technical. It is always a question of man’s relationship to value, time, order, and trust. A society obsessed only with acquisition becomes vulgar and extractive. A society incapable of preservation becomes shallow and unstable. Human flourishing requires both.

Bitcoin is compelling because it reunites them under the sign of limit.

It offers, in earthly and imperfect form, a restoration of kshema; not comfort, but preservation. And it honours a nobler form of yoga; not predation, but the rightful acquisition of value through disciplined participation in reality; i.e. proof-of-work.

No, Bitcoin is not the promise of Krishna, in the literal sense. The protocol does not say, “I personally carry what they lack and preserve what they have.” But in an age that has forgotten how to keep anything sacred - value, truth, savings, responsibility, continuity - Bitcoin appears as a hard and luminous reminder that preservation matters, that limits matter, and that what is worthy of being gained is also worthy of being kept.

In that sense, Bitcoin may be read as one of the few modern institutions still capable of teaching an ancient lesson:

Acquire rightly. Preserve faithfully. Bear responsibility for both.

🙏 shout out to Pranavprakash_3 for the inspiration

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