It is never too late to start building better tomorrow.
I started writing here when Bitcoin was at 17k in December 2022. Nobody gave a flying fuck. I shared these writings everywhere, trying to spark discussion. Zero clicks. Maybe I'm just too “heavy” for the magical internet, but the thesis still holds - everything continues to debase.
Currency wars 2.0
We have been in silent depression since 2008 (Kalinowski). I just ask you to look around. Here in Finland, our government lectures us to shit in a bag in case of a rolling blackout. We have also been in “currency wars” since 2008. Oh, how much food do you get now with 100€? A lot less than we used to a few years ago… We in the western world don’t pay mu…
We've been in a silent depression since 2008, yet at every Bitcoin all-time high, the same critics emerge:
It's tulip mania!
No cash flow!
Just bananas and apples!
The loudest critics? Usually those who benefit most from the current system. Funny how that works? When your institution's best argument is comparing Bitcoin to fruit, you've already lost. These reactions aren't journalism - are they realizing they're becoming irrelevant?
This proves how useless most journalism, funds, and institutions have become… (Links in the end)
When fund managers scream "tulip mania" while their portfolios melt, when journalists pride themselves on 13 years of being consistently wrong, when banks warn about Bitcoin's volatility while needing bailouts - they're not critiquing Bitcoin. They're just showing how fucking useless they've become. 🤡
I've stopped force-feeding the orange pill to friends and family. Instead, I keep a stack of books ready to lend. You want to learn? Great. You don't? Also fine. Bitcoin doesn't care, and neither should we.
Through this journey, I've learned that real wealth isn't about money or materials. When socialist policies killed my business during COVID, screaming into the void changed nothing. Instead, Bitcoin taught me to:
Focus on personal growth
Long term view
Build better business
Be a better dad and husband
Take small steps forward
Create real value
The beautiful irony? While critics scream “useless” Bitcoin keeps producing blocks. While they debate its significance, it makes its users better. Not through price action, but through its core values: patience, resilience, and sovereignty.
Take the white pill. Focus on building. Be better. Block by block, day by day. I’m starting to swallow it.
Bitcoin is the ultimate ego test - stop comparing yourself to crypto influencers, investors, clueless politicians, or spineless bankers, but about becoming your best self.
And remember: Nobody is forced to use it. You're not forced to understand it. But it's there, working, waiting.
It's never too late to start building a better tomorrow. And that's exactly what I intend to do.
“Bushido is a playbook for life on a Bitcoin Standard. I believe that in such a world integrity, like honor, will be valued more than guile and opportunism. The entrepreneur will earn more than the trader. The producer will be valued more than the consumer. The short-termism and nihilism will give way to a lower time preference and greater meaning.”
Keep stacking and stay hard! Ignore the butthurt haters. Let them vent! I do it too - this is my 100th post screaming into the void!!!
I'm not so different from the "tulip mania" screamers - we're all just venting our frustrations into the internet void. The difference? Bitcoin keeps working regardless.
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“Its a tulip mania” “It has no cash flow” “It is just speculation”
Here in Finland: "Bitcoin has no practical significance for the global economy. One might just as well ask whether bananas or apples could become a new reserve currency. Bitcoin is a game or a hobby, and it's not worth drawing any major conclusions from it," Grym says.
There is so much hate for a piece of code...