People say everything comes when it is meant to.
As I get older I find myself returning to that sentence more and more. It really does seem to be true. No matter how much you work on something it arrives exactly when it is supposed to.

The past year has probably been the most turbulent of my life. The student struggle in Serbia against a corrupt state and the mafia that has embedded itself within it cost 16 lives because of corruption. The students were the first to rise and I stood with them.

During that same period I was going through a transition toward living on a Bitcoin standard, which I still did not fully understand at the time. Yet everything seemed to align in a way that fighting a broken system naturally pulled me toward entering a much healthier one.

The student protests, organized through plenums and self organization, reminded me of the open source project Bitcoin where consensus is essential for development. The same principle applied to the student movement. Very quickly it became a struggle in which self organized groups across the country were doing the same thing and then the idea began to reach global proportions. It feels as if all over the world there is a real struggle of people against the state.

As someone employed at a university, very young, right after successful studies and a fast professional career with many projects in my own studio, I reached the position of assistant professor. And the struggle continues. To be clear the opponent is strong. There is selective justice. Violence on their side goes unpunished while ordinary people who raise their voice are punished, persecuted, even imprisoned.

This whole transition toward Bitcoin, although I had been accumulating it earlier but nowhere near as much as in the last year, together with learning what state money is, what Bitcoin is and what true freedom means, led me to think about a self sustainable life and a real circular economy. I keep asking myself whether I should leave my job, move somewhere outside this exhausting city, grow my own food and reduce my expenses to a minimum because in the city that is almost impossible. To start my own solar clean energy system, maybe use a miner for heating while mining real money. To work exclusively online within a decentralized system and change my life completely.

Somehow everything seems to be aligning.

These thoughts occupy my mind now. I actively work pro bono for the Bitcoin community in Serbia, trying to help others discover what Bitcoin truly is. Above all it represents freedom, independence and constant work on oneself for the sake of a better society. And perhaps most importantly it represents the preservation of generated energy that becomes more valuable over time.

You only have one life. Which path should you choose. With Bitcoin it feels like there is only one real path. In fiat there always seem to be many different roads but in the end they all lead to the same place constant debt and servitude.

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