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Thank you my man! π
Honestly, the parallels run much deeper than I originally thought. Which made the research and writing more strenuous, but also all the more rewarding :)
Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective: #1442497
Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective explores the philosophical parallels between Bitcoin and Stoicism - two systems separated by millennia yet united by a shared commitment to natural law, incorruptibility, and the primacy of action over intention. Drawing parallels between Stoic concepts and Bitcoin's architecture, the essay argues that while Bitcoin is not itself a moral agent, its rule-based design reflects and reinforces Stoic principles in the realm of money.
I've skimmed through that post, not fully concentrated because there's a lot of references in there and I'd 1) feel like I'd need to go through the referenced materials in order to get a better overview 2) feel like I'm probably sort of on that page/mission/journey already
Re/ socializing, I'll copy/paste something I just put on nostr:
From a personal vantage point, the main thing I "got" from the education system was good friends, some of whom I'm still very close with to this day.
Also, there's a whole different dynamic to studying and coming up with things if there are likeminded people around you, interested and invested in the same things. You can bounce ideas off of each other, inspire each other, provide different perspectives, correct & criticize each other, there's an element of competition that may arise, etc.
I've worked on most of my interests in solitude my whole life. The flame of inspiration is much more likely to go out if it feels like a solo effort that makes no difference to anyone. But maybe that's just my ego and the craving to belong.
It used to be Estonian hip hop in general
Nowadays I'm not so sure, I'm less into Estonian hip hop & hip hop overall, BUT I'm still big into Bones (among a few other trap & hip hop artists)
But also organic house / ethnotronica
Who was yours btw, @plebpoet ?
Well... at some point we are going to have to establish a new type of academia. There has to be a way to do education that's antithetical to the fiat paradigm and I feel like there's a bunch of us bitcoiners & truth seekers out there that have gone deep enough with certain subjects who could really bring something useful to the table in that regard.
Homeschooling is a viable alternative & properly decentralized at that, sure, but it's also an inefficient way to go about (huge burden on the parents) + I feel like the missing aspect of socialization could potentially be its Achilles' heel.
Now the simple questions like... How? Where? And When? are unfortunately completely unclear to me at this present moment π
I've a line in a poem I wrote a while ago that goes:
there are no coincidences, there are only consequences
:)
I've since included my "personal brand" under that enterprise, mostly focused on my book (#1074789) and some love & freedom inspired merch (https://kontext.store/)
I am ... but it's a one-man show and it's not profitable (yet) :/
I did put the cart before the horse in some sense though, wanting to create a Bitcoin business, not just a business that accepts bitcoin.
I still believe in the core idea of the business (it can be done on purely fiat rails as well) and I've expanded the scope (in some ways, I've scaled my plans back in others) since launching it, but it's a difficult journey.
8 years ago, Kontext (then still an anonymous rapper) embarked on a mission to become a professional in the music industry. The single "100%" was the first fruit of that labor.
2 years, 5 singles and 2 mixtapes later, success was nowhere in sight and amidst traveling and doing fiat jobs like farming, pedicabbing and cleaning in Australia, both inspiration and motivation waned and music was put on the backburner until the second attempt in 2022 (spoiler alert: also ended up in failure).
Both the original and the instrumental versions of the track are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution licenses.
Kyrios or kurios (ΞΊΟΟΞΉΞΏΟ) is a Greek word that is usually translated as "lord" or "master." It appears roughly 7,000 times in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
However, the English word curious is not derived from the Greek word Kurios. The similarity between "curious" and "kurios" is phonetic only - a coincidental resemblance in sound, without any shared linguistic ancestry.
Nevertheless, I find this to be a very curious coincidence (pun intended). For it is through curiosity first and foremost that we can find our calling and align with our soul purpose. Kurios is what calls; curiosity is what orients. The direction of our attention often governs our destiny.
Video recorded:
Wangi Falls Loop, Northern Territory, Australia
24.10.2023
I've been thinking a lot about the Fourth Turning lately as well as the Bitcoin halving cycles.
What if Bitcoin also has cycles within cycles? What if the fourth halving is the fourth turning of Bitcoin? An era of crisis: a civil war, diminishing returns, the lack of interest from pre-coiners, Epstein & quantum FUD, a war between cypherpunk and State / Wall Street principles, an empty mempool, a sense of disillusionment within the community, etc.
Will Bitcoin emerge victorious and enter a new "high" era in 2028? Or are the naysayers finally right and this is the beginning of the end for the digital asset?
LOL @SHA256man
Happy Friday, stackers!