46 sats \ 1 reply \ @globalmerchant 2 Sep \ on: Bridging the Freedom Gap bitcoin
A lot of thought, emotion, determination in your words. Briefly I share this hoping in might help some way somehow.
  1. I'm long term Bitcoin, ESPECIALLY in a circular use economy, rather than JUST "stack SATS". As an importer, exporter, wholesaler I've tried hard, really hard to get my friends, customers and suppliers to actually use Bitcoin, NOT just to buy a cup of coffee using a lightning wallet, but to use on our wholesale B2B transactions. NOT easy, 99% they are still addicted to ONLY using fiat.
  2. At 72 years old, I do not relate to guys in my age range, they have retired, I work in my business seven days a week, with that said I'm also active in our local Bitcoin dev group in Honolulu.
  3. Two of my websites accept Bitcoin using Open Node, interestingly only people OUTSIDE of the USA seem to be excited to actually use Bitcoin. And this is why I focus on people, companies that are 100% positive, active, forward thinking, optimistic. I've changed (read "dropped") a lot of those who are not in my similar thinking, at my age time is taken more seriously.
So I guess I'm trying to say that are many out there that think like you, but you haven't met them yet, they can bring other ideas, revenue, opportunities, just keep keep up the good fight.
Good Luck, God Bless Rich
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @rebel_nomad OP 2 Sep
Thanks! And yes, these things are the result of going through anything I remember back into even the early seventies in the light of 2020 :-)
I'll answer your well structure points as best I can:
  1. This is more of an investment and savings mindset, which of course is totally necessary for us to succeed! I do follow that myself, but in order to bridge this gap I need to train myself hard in seeing it all as a revenue stream. How would I act, and what revenue stream could I get going if I was left close to empty handed in the streets of Kathmandu or Cairo?
  2. I totally get that... I started splitting off from my age peers even well before I was 18 haha, and these days I feel that I have more in common with other species :-) That being said I do plan on doing the mother of all " what did I tell you!!??" soon, logged into the slave camp on LinkedIn yesterday. Left that late in 2020 leaving only "Bitcoin" for my header and "Did you get any?" as the main text haha... Also did my only ever public prediction ever in October 2019, telling them all that they should get metals & Bitcoin after the REPO market blew up...
So what all of this leads to is that at some point soon I think many of us will have a lot to do as organizers, almost as seers that got it right. At this particular juncture in history it might even be a good thing to be almost arrogant about it all, certainly pushing hard to get people over that hard bump they're struggling with!
  1. The world is a completely different beast outside of the US and Europistan... I do think that there is a huge market also inside these failing states, but as of now people for good reasons are very careful of touching the live rails, paying with traceable cryptos that is.
This will also be part of what I'll be doing, looking into how the Freedom Gap can be bridged in a global sense, forgetting about what was the free & prosperous West, all of that is of course gone now...
We will need a lot in the near future, its almost as if we all have to turn into remote viewers! ;-)
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