Poly market is not only more credible than the New York Times. It’s about 1000x more credible. Bitcoin is not only better money than fiat it’s about 1000x better. Nostr is not only more decentralized than x, it’s about 1000x more decentralized.

People think pride is a sin, but it depends. Pride from exalting the self, feeling superiority over others, claiming glory for oneself is absolutely sinful. But loving what god has entrusted to you? Valuing your role and responsibility is virtuous. I love when I meet people who tell me their kids are the best kids on earth. Same when I meet someone who is proud of their country, their marriage, their job. Etc… Loving things according to their proper place, loving god supremely, feeling gratitude for your roles and responsibilities is rightly ordered. It’s good to have pride in that sense.

I’m not often proud of myself or self satisfied in anyway, but one thing I am proud of is my fundamental American-ness. When people are like you’re an arrogant American I’m like “yes. Yes I am.” It actually makes me happy when they say that lol I am American to my core. I was raised on American principles by my father and grandfather who were both good Americans themselves. I’m not confused about what America is. I’m not confused about what an American is or what it means to be one. I have no real desire to learn much about my Irish or German roots. I have no desire to travel outside of America. I mean I have and I will if necessary but like why? You know? I love America. I’m a part of America. I want the best for America. I believe America is worth fighting for. My daughter asked me what it means to be an American and I told her it means you can do whatever the fuck you feel like as long as you’re not harming another person. That’s America. Freedom. Something no one can ever take away from you. No matter what some dweeb in Washington tells you. America is unruly. It’s restless. It’s chaotic. It’s beautiful. Like shockingly breathtakingly beautiful. Reverence for personal liberty. Suspicion of the government. Fear of regulation. Fear of other people’s good intentions. Comfort with disorder over control. America motherfucker. Loud brash chaotic hypocritical argumentative unruly contradictory half finished… I’m proud to be an American.

3 truths 1. We’re lucky to be alive right now 2. You can just do things 3. “In reading and understanding history, again and again it is apparent to me that so much of how the world becomes hinges upon the small and serendipitous, or coincidental and tragic actions of just a few men who recognize the zeitgeist of the times.” - @Erik Cason

This is how I see Europeans lol

My current expectation is that the Venezuelan bitcoin are going to be added to the U.S. strategic reserve. The pretext will be that they were ill gotten gains from avoiding sanctions thus making them criminal proceeds.