Halston

2025, the year I graduated. The year I also realized the papers I earned wasn’t the promise I was sold. The year I understood college was breeding me into an obedient employee. The year I decided I didn’t want to climb a corporate ladder to feed this greedy machine. The year I realized compliance was never my calling. The year I found a community that actually builds instead of waits; a community that isn’t just about money. The year I decided I don’t just want to observe this mission, but push it forward. The year I learned you don’t need permission or a title. The year I learned you can just do things. The year I felt God’s presence more clearly than ever before. To 2025, you were chaotic, uncomfortable, and unexpectedly life-changing.

Parents working two jobs. Students drowning in debt. Kids watching life get tighter every year. This is the human cost of 118% debt and a 6.2% deficit. You can’t outwork money that’s engineered to lose value, and when a system relies on debasement to function, the alternative must be incorruptible. @StayBolted

I always wanted to be a marine biologist as a kid. Most people today know I love Bitcoin, business, and finance…but almost nobody knows that my first real love was the ocean. This hoodie was from the first business I ever started, an ocean-protection merch brand I built in high school to merge my love for the ocean and entrepreneurship. But here’s the part that still hits me: I gave up on marine biology in 6th grade. At 12 years old, I decided I couldn’t do the thing I loved because the salary would never sustain a life. Twelve. Before you even know who you are, you’re already optimizing for survival instead of passion. That’s what fiat does. It forces people, kids, to make choices based on paychecks, not purpose. It pushes entire generations into careers they don’t love because debt is massive, everything is too expensive, and “follow your passion” has become a luxury. And this is why Bitcoin matters. Because a sound money future gives people room to choose work they care about. To stop trading their purpose for a paycheck. In another world, a sound-money world, maybe I’m a marine biologist. In this one, I’m building toward a future where the next 12 year old doesn’t have to give up what they love just to survive. That’s the beauty of Bitcoin.

I don’t want my kids growing up learning how to survive inflation. I want them learning how to build, create, and think independently. Bitcoin helps make that future possible.

Mandami won because people are struggling. When the economy breaks and people are priced out of their own city, they’ll vote for ANYTHING that looks like relief. The issue isn’t left vs right, it’s the money. The system. That’s why Bitcoin matters. NYC isn’t done. This city rebuilds itself again and again.