Letz Schwätz on Nostr: My journey to Bitcoin began as a search for an option to opt out of the current ...
My journey to Bitcoin began as a search for an option to opt out of the current system. Even if it would be just a little.
Living in Germany, self employed I experienced the slow encroachment of the government more and more into all aspects of life. With each nonsensical policy my eyes were steadily opening. Each inch pushing me from a centrist political view, into the boggy man zone, The new Overton window was manufactured to stifle dissent opinions towards the status quo.
My search has been ongoing, which brought me to my first learning station. Which was homesteading. But my situation and my refusal to take on FIAT debt, quickly showed my that this will not happen for me. As to do this full time, with animal stock and garden, is not feesable in a city, renting a flat.
But I learned anyway. And I adapted some self sufficiency steps that I implement as good and often as possible, like canning. Food storage, prep in general, water management etc.
Because I kept learning, I broaden my skills and read a lot of books.
Some were on the monetary system. And pertained to the Austrian school of thought.
Which lead me to the Mises institute and on a further search for more sovereignty.
Would it be possible to find something I could use in my situation, to at least somewhat, at sometimes to opt out?
I found Bitcoin.
Which swept me up. How exciting, the entire subject sounded.
But as the government reared its tyrannical head in 2020, I have become weary and untrusting. Would this be a gateway “drug” into this new digital gulag, the CBDC Gateway, is it a FED lead op. And many more questions arose.
I kept reading, watching podcasts. Learning about money in general.
I decided, there is only one way to find out- and that's through.
My reasoning was, if FIAT is nothing plus a piece of cotton paper and some coins, then so be it that I trust in something( to the naive and still not fully educated mind) similar minus the printed note.
Looking at El Salvador, it seems to work and is a system imitating bymedalisim, something we once had, that defined hard money.
Until, of course, the big steal took effect, but it was sold to the public as safe (a word so contorted that it hardly represents what it claims to be) and convenient ( the reason we the people fell for so many tyrannical political scams and let the second big steal occur regarding private companies and our data). "Give us your gold, and have this convenient note to do day to day trade. "
"The gold will be safe with us."
Until it wasn't. Government and private companies colluding, where have we heard that one before?
So I set myself up, purchased my first sats at an exchange. You see, I am untrusting, so buying off a peer to peer platform was not yet in my sight or mental capacity.
It was not a lot of sats, but enough to tinker with, Send to wallets, try lightning payments and zaps and so forth.
In my quest to have as much sovereignty as possible, I realized that the medium of purchase, the exchange, needs to go.
But it has set me up with a BTC Node, wallet connected, relays for Tor and Nostr, VPN knowledge, network security insights and much more.
My next steps will be to setup hardware wallets and using multi sig, which I hope to learn at my first BTC workshop this Saturday.
And managing the Lightning Node, with its channels and liquidity. Its setup but that's as far as I have come.
But the greatest step I want to achieve, is to muster up the courage to purchase peer to peer. Which would also help me escape the walls I erected around myself, in response to the 2020 reaction of governments and people.
And who knows, I might loose my bitterness towards people calling themselves "on the right side of history" along the way.
The journey is an exciting one, that opened up an entire new worldview. And I accidentally orange pilled 2 people on that path.
I cant wait to take my next steps.
Living in Germany, self employed I experienced the slow encroachment of the government more and more into all aspects of life. With each nonsensical policy my eyes were steadily opening. Each inch pushing me from a centrist political view, into the boggy man zone, The new Overton window was manufactured to stifle dissent opinions towards the status quo.
My search has been ongoing, which brought me to my first learning station. Which was homesteading. But my situation and my refusal to take on FIAT debt, quickly showed my that this will not happen for me. As to do this full time, with animal stock and garden, is not feesable in a city, renting a flat.
But I learned anyway. And I adapted some self sufficiency steps that I implement as good and often as possible, like canning. Food storage, prep in general, water management etc.
Because I kept learning, I broaden my skills and read a lot of books.
Some were on the monetary system. And pertained to the Austrian school of thought.
Which lead me to the Mises institute and on a further search for more sovereignty.
Would it be possible to find something I could use in my situation, to at least somewhat, at sometimes to opt out?
I found Bitcoin.
Which swept me up. How exciting, the entire subject sounded.
But as the government reared its tyrannical head in 2020, I have become weary and untrusting. Would this be a gateway “drug” into this new digital gulag, the CBDC Gateway, is it a FED lead op. And many more questions arose.
I kept reading, watching podcasts. Learning about money in general.
I decided, there is only one way to find out- and that's through.
My reasoning was, if FIAT is nothing plus a piece of cotton paper and some coins, then so be it that I trust in something( to the naive and still not fully educated mind) similar minus the printed note.
Looking at El Salvador, it seems to work and is a system imitating bymedalisim, something we once had, that defined hard money.
Until, of course, the big steal took effect, but it was sold to the public as safe (a word so contorted that it hardly represents what it claims to be) and convenient ( the reason we the people fell for so many tyrannical political scams and let the second big steal occur regarding private companies and our data). "Give us your gold, and have this convenient note to do day to day trade. "
"The gold will be safe with us."
Until it wasn't. Government and private companies colluding, where have we heard that one before?
So I set myself up, purchased my first sats at an exchange. You see, I am untrusting, so buying off a peer to peer platform was not yet in my sight or mental capacity.
It was not a lot of sats, but enough to tinker with, Send to wallets, try lightning payments and zaps and so forth.
In my quest to have as much sovereignty as possible, I realized that the medium of purchase, the exchange, needs to go.
But it has set me up with a BTC Node, wallet connected, relays for Tor and Nostr, VPN knowledge, network security insights and much more.
My next steps will be to setup hardware wallets and using multi sig, which I hope to learn at my first BTC workshop this Saturday.
And managing the Lightning Node, with its channels and liquidity. Its setup but that's as far as I have come.
But the greatest step I want to achieve, is to muster up the courage to purchase peer to peer. Which would also help me escape the walls I erected around myself, in response to the 2020 reaction of governments and people.
And who knows, I might loose my bitterness towards people calling themselves "on the right side of history" along the way.
The journey is an exciting one, that opened up an entire new worldview. And I accidentally orange pilled 2 people on that path.
I cant wait to take my next steps.