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quoting note1la5…ktxwStory time:
6 years ago my mother in law was left penniless in a surprise divorce at age 67.
My father in law (piece of shit) had left her with nothing and planned to dump her on social security.
She was working as a pre school teacher making $14 an hour.
We had to move fast.
Father in law literally shotgun divorced her.
Showed up at the doorstep with a notary and manipulated an emotionally fragile woman into a binding legal agreement.
I was pissed.
I showed up a few hours later with a series of financial plans.
And with tears still streaming down her face in the kitchen of her tiny apartment, she picked one.
I gave her 3 options.
1. Aggressive
2. Extremely aggressive
3. Dave Ramsey rice and beans
She chose number 3.
Over the next 4 years she rode her bike to work everyday. Watered down her lemonade. Spent nothing on herself. Walked dogs for extra income. Took weekend shifts at the preschool. Showed up early. Stayed late and against all odds was able to save 12k a year on a salary of only 27k.
I set up a couple retirement accounts for her and whenever she would scratch $1,000 together she would give it to me and I would smash buy GBTC or MSTR.
My mother in law has never invested a day in her life and I didn’t want the news or some boomer friend to freak her out, so my wife and I just tell her she’s invested in “the market” 😂
When Bitcoin (the market) is doing good, we tell her and when it’s not we just… don’t tell her lol
So she’s effectively shielded from the emotional volatility of hodling. Which makes her a very good hodler.
Fast forward to today.
I helped her retire from the preschool. She is now living with us and helping look after her grandchildren.
She went from being near suicidal. My wife and I were legitimately concerned about her mental health. To a happy healthy and vibrant grandmother.
And as of yesterday she crossed 500k in retirement accounts.
I expect she’ll be a millionaire soon.
She can now comfortably retire with dignity.
This is not something that would have been possible without Bitcoin.
As cool as it is to see people like @saylor make billions of dollars these are the stories I live for.
The average person fixing their life with bitcoin.
It’s so fucking beautiful man.
Life’s good.
quoting note17p9…9kltBitcoin at $90k, and I got to hear my baby's heartbeat today. Everything looks healthy 🙏. Today was a good day.
quoting note1dlx…hsyh5 years ago I found bitcoin, I was in the military feeling stuck, depressed and hopeless.
I started reading and listening to everything bitcoin related.
I bit the bullet and sold everything in my 401K, ended up paying $30K in taxes and everyone called me crazy and reckless.
I took all the money and was able to get multiple coins. I still dca to this day.
I’ve gotten out the military, I’m happy now. People no longer think I’m crazy. Maybe some still do.
I’m quitting my job today because I don’t enjoy it.
Bitcoin made all this possible.
It gave me freedom.
It gave me courage to pursue what I want and not be a slave to money.
Shoutout to preston (npub1s5y…6q7z) ODELL (npub1qny…95gx) HODL (npub1rtl…jtfs)
Y’all are my 🐐’s
#bitcoin
quoting note1nhf…yf5eMy dad ran a diner for 35+ years, and my mom spent 30+ years working an administrative job at a hospital. I grew up middle class, a child of Greek immigrants. My dad retired 2015, my mom 2019.
In 2013, I gave my mom some Bitcoin for money that I owed her. She said she'd hold. I made sure she would by keeping custody of it. 😂
They started DCAing small amounts of BTC in 2016 and never stopped. I have years worth of texts from my mom proudly proclaiming she bought the dip!
The few sats they managed to save outperformed my mom's 401k by miles. Now they live where they always wanted to, and just built an extension on their modest home. They wanted more room for when their grandkids visit. 🧡
It couldn't have happened without Bitcoin.
It feels good to know I was there for the people who took care of me.
quoting note14ke…udd3Happy ending.
Earlier today Environment America put up an article called "Bitcoin’s purposeless power problem" which was full of defunded claims about Bitcoin’s environmental impact.
They have now removed their article from their site after I wrote to them pointing out numerous factual errors, with citations and data.
quoting note1ml2…em2zHeads up! We're rebranding zap.store to Zapstore.
The premium domain renewal is too expensive, so I'm moving it to zapstore.dev for years to come. The middle dot is also confusing for pronounciation.
Website, relay, CDN will all be moving to the new domain in the next release, coming this week.
(Feel free to contact franzap (nprofile…ucf3) , elsat (nprofile…0sa3) or nielliesmons (nprofile…je4n) + out of band if you need confirmation)
Please share! 🫂
quoting note1ask…c8ctFiat dilutes everything...
quoting note1ezz…5lld🇺🇸
quoting note1fpl…drl0YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED HUMBLE AND STACKED SATS.
STILL CAN BUT SHOULD HAVE TOO.
quoting note1tgf…vg9r9 CLUES YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
GROUND ZERO: LONDON 🇬🇧
The headline in block 0 has a different wording than the version published online.
The phrasing matches the print edition, which was only available in England and Brussels on that day.
Either Satoshi was there, or someone sent him a photo (leaving a trace).
THE BELGIAN CONNECTION 🇧🇪
The 2nd citation in the whitepaper from 2008 didn’t exist online—it was only in print. It was given to attendees at a 1999 conference in Haasrode, Belgium.
This paper is from Benelux universities. It was even presented in 1999 at Stanford, but with a different reference list than the one replicated in the whitepaper (citations 3, 4, and 5).
HAL WAS RUNNING 🏃♂️
Hal Finney is a frequent suspect, but his family has strongly denied it.
On the morning of Saturday, 4/18/09, he was running a half marathon while Satoshi was exchanging emails (more than one, with questions and answers) with developer Mike Hearn.
THE LOS ANGELES IP 📍
Satoshi was in L.A. a week after the genesis block.
He always used Tor to hide his IP when online.
But in the beginning, Bitcoin didn’t have addresses. To send/receive, one’s IP was exposed. And on 1/10/09, Hal published a log showing Satoshi's IP.
THE FINAL CITATION 📜
The paper’s bibliography is outdated and brief.
Notably, the 8th citation stands out: a "book X" on probability theory, published in 1957.
Where did Satoshi find this book?
Why cite it, but make no mention of Chaum, Finney, or Szabo?
CARIBBEAN HOLIDAY 🏖️
Peter Thiel, PayPal magnate, suspects that Satoshi might have been among the 140 attendees at a financial cryptography conference held at the InterIslands Hotel in Anguilla, February 21-24, 2000.
E-gold was one of the event’s sponsors.
BRITISH "LOOSE" LANGUAGE 👅
Satoshi heavily used British expressions ("bloody hard," "defenCe," "grEy," "coloUr").
He used the European date format (dd/mm/yyyy).
He frequently referenced the Euro.
In some cases, he seemed to use a grammar checker.
He also put two spaces after periods.
WEALTHY FRIENDS 🤑
In the latest emails revealed by Martti Malmi, it’s clear that Satoshi had access to resources to fund the development of #BTC.
He claimed it was donations. So, there were people he was talking to about the project. Or it was his own money...
A PLANNED DEPARTURE 👋
The creator's disappearance may seem abrupt. Satoshi said goodbye as soon as he learned about Gavin A.'s discussions with the CIA.
But his departure was planned and gradual.
Satoshi gradually shut down his hashrate in 4 stages—when the network was already running on its own.
His self-declared birthday, 4/5/75, has digits that sum to 21 (5 + 4 + 7 + 5).
The date of block #1, 1/9/2009, also sums to 21 (9 + 1 + 2 + 9).
The halving happens every 210,000 blocks.
Until the 21 million #Bitcoin are exhausted, in 2140.