Life can be good on a bitcoin standard. If this vignette doesn’t inspire you, I’m not sure what will

Published July 3, 2025

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    00:03 You know, I have tried basically
    00:05 everything to get people to move over to
    00:07 a Bitcoin standard, to buy their first
    00:09 Bitcoin, if they own Bitcoin, to buy
    00:12 more Bitcoin because it’s so
    00:14 transformational in the impact it could
    00:16 have on your life is so material. So, I
    00:19 wanted to paint a picture of what life
    00:21 might be like on a Bitcoin standard. Uh,
    00:24 this is inspired by true events, but I’m
    00:26 not going to, you know, tell a specific
    00:28 story. I just want to paint a picture of
    00:31 what life on the Bitcoin standard could
    00:33 look like. And um and you know, maybe
    00:37 it’s inspiring to you. Maybe you’ll
    00:38 think, “Hey, some of that might be
    00:41 things that would be good for me or my
    00:43 family.” And that’d be great. Okay, so
    00:45 picture this. Um you wake up and you’re
    00:49 mostly caught up on your email. So you
    00:50 finalize details of a ski trip that
    00:53 otherwise you really couldn’t afford if
    00:54 you were not living on a Bitcoin
    00:56 standard. So, you know, that’s fun. uh
    00:58 you get you get all your work caught up,
    01:00 you’re ready to go, all of that. You you
    01:02 wrap up and you think, “Okay, it’s the
    01:04 end of the workday. You know,
    01:05 everybody’s settled, every the kids have
    01:07 their own activities going on. Uh I’m
    01:09 going to go watch a movie.” Uh so, you
    01:12 decide you’re going to go watch a movie.
    01:13 So, you get in your car, which drives
    01:15 you there because on a Bitcoin standard,
    01:17 you feel like you can afford a car that
    01:19 drives you there. Uh on a bit on a not
    01:21 Bitcoin standard, you couldn’t feel
    01:23 comfortable buying a car that buys you
    01:25 there. But on a Bitcoin standard, you
    01:27 feel good enough about your finances
    01:29 that you get in your car and your car
    01:31 drives you to the movie theater. So
    01:33 there you are. Walk into the movie
    01:34 theater, you got your tickets. Now the
    01:36 tickets are comparatively cheap. It’s
    01:38 like 11 bucks, but um you know, in the
    01:41 evening it’s like 17 bucks, but the
    01:43 Bitcoin you’re buying those tickets with
    01:44 cost you like a dollar. So, you know, it
    01:47 doesn’t matter that much. So you buy a
    01:49 ticket and you buy snacks. And of
    01:51 course, the snacks in 2025 US terms are
    01:54 ridiculous. $8, $11, you know, $16, I
    01:58 don’t know, ridiculous prices. But
    01:59 again, all of the Bitcoin that you use
    02:01 to buy or the US dollars you use to buy
    02:04 the Bitcoin when you bought it a couple,
    02:06 you know, two years, three years, or
    02:08 eight years ago, you know, you paid like
    02:10 a dollar or two or three for all the
    02:12 money you buy with snacks. So, you get
    02:15 your snacks. You know, at this point,
    02:17 again, you’re using Bitcoin that you’ve
    02:18 only spent a few dollars for. So it it
    02:20 feels like you’re shopping in 1950s
    02:23 price terms where everything’s just
    02:25 radically on sale. So anyway, you go you
    02:28 sit down in the movie and you know the
    02:30 movie scene opens and you know the the
    02:33 it opens over a picture of New York and
    02:35 you think, “Hey, I was just there.” You
    02:38 know, maybe you have a kid who wants to
    02:40 watch Yankees games and uh so you took
    02:43 your kid to go watch Yankees games in
    02:45 New York because you felt like you could
    02:47 afford that on a Bitcoin standard. And
    02:49 not that you couldn’t if you’re not on a
    02:51 Bitcoin standard, but it’s a lot more
    02:53 breathing room and a lot easier to
    02:56 afford it on a Bitcoin standard. So, you
    02:57 felt good about going to New York to
    02:59 watch a few Yankees games uh because on
    03:02 a Bitcoin standard, you felt like you
    03:03 could afford it and maybe otherwise you
    03:05 didn’t. So anyway, movie opens up, the
    03:08 uh the scene is is New York, you know,
    03:10 they do all their stuff in New York and
    03:12 then, you know, the scene changes and
    03:14 they’re going to Prague of all places.
    03:16 And you think, wait a second, I was just
    03:18 in Prague. You know, maybe your company
    03:20 sent you there. And maybe while you were
    03:22 in Prague, you decided to take one of
    03:24 your kids along. And that would have
    03:26 been a lot less affordable if you’re not
    03:28 on a Bitcoin standard. And maybe you
    03:30 want to give uh your your child a
    03:32 special experience going on a work trip
    03:35 with their father. So you fly business
    03:38 class so that your kid can enjoy the
    03:40 amazing, you know, first class
    03:42 experience of your own cubby and the
    03:44 seat that lays flat and all of that
    03:46 stuff. And you’re thinking the whole
    03:47 time, I can only afford this because I’m
    03:49 living on a Bitcoin standard. Otherwise,
    03:51 we we back in the back of the plane in
    03:54 coach because we just really couldn’t
    03:57 feel good about our finances doing this
    03:59 if unless we were on a Bitcoin standard.
    04:01 So anyway, there you go. And you know,
    04:04 you’re sitting down, you’re watching the
    04:05 movie, and you’re thinking, even though
    04:06 you’re the literally the only person in
    04:08 the theater, you like look around,
    04:10 there’s not another soul in the entire
    04:12 theater. You think, you know what, the
    04:14 seat next to my seat is actually
    04:16 perfectly centered in this in the
    04:17 theater. If I move one seat over, even
    04:20 though there’s not a single person in
    04:22 the entire theater, I risk somebody
    04:24 walking in halfway through saying, “Hey,
    04:25 that’s my seat.” And so, again, because
    04:28 you’re living on a Bitcoin standard, you
    04:30 the seat next to your seat because
    04:32 again, it’s $11, but you you the the
    04:34 Bitcoin you bought that’s going to pay
    04:36 for that $1 seat cost you like $1. And
    04:39 so, again, on a on a Bitcoin standard,
    04:41 you feel like I can afford that and
    04:44 avoid an awkward interaction with
    04:45 somebody who randomly buys the seat next
    04:47 to the seat. you’re sitting in. So, you
    04:49 buy a second seat and you move over one
    04:51 so that you’re perfectly situated in the
    04:53 theater all by yourself with everything
    04:56 just right and you eat your snacks which
    04:58 are heavily discounted. You sit in your
    04:60 second seat, which was heavily
    05:01 discounted, and you’re you feel like
    05:04 you’re caught up with what you got to do
    05:05 professionally again because you’ve got
    05:08 the breathing room financially to
    05:10 outsource what needs to be outsourced,
    05:12 to uh optimize what needs to be
    05:14 optimized in a world that would be hard
    05:17 to do that on finances that were not
    05:20 living on a Bitcoin standard. So anyway,
    05:22 you watch the movie, you know, it’s a
    05:23 new Keano Reeves, you know, movie that’s
    05:26 a knockoff of uh, you know, that’s a
    05:28 knockoff of the John Wick series.
    05:30 Anyway, you watch it, it’s pretty good.
    05:32 It’s fun. And, uh, you know, you get you
    05:34 walk out of the theater, you get back in
    05:36 your car, and your car drives you home
    05:39 because you have a car that on a Bitcoin
    05:41 standard, you feel like you can afford
    05:43 to to to be in a car that drives you
    05:45 home. And you also don’t feel like
    05:48 you’re having to sacrifice everything to
    05:49 do that. you still have the finances to
    05:52 change the world. You still have the
    05:53 finances to fund all of the nonprofits
    05:56 that you know you’ve historically funded
    05:59 and maybe you put your, you know,
    06:02 charitable giving funds in Bitcoin that
    06:04 you plan to give away long term and
    06:06 maybe those are higher than they’ve ever
    06:08 been. So, you’re funding stuff at a
    06:10 higher level financially. you know,
    06:12 Christian missions and church and uh
    06:15 nonprofits and all of the things you’re
    06:17 passionate and you care about, you’re
    06:18 funding those at a higher level than
    06:19 you’ve ever funded them before because
    06:21 you can because on a Bitcoin standard,
    06:24 you have the flexibility and freedom to
    06:26 do that that you’ve never had before.
    06:28 All of those things are powerful. All of
    06:30 those things involve living life with
    06:33 margin. Um having space in your life to
    06:37 do the things you want to do that
    06:38 improve the lives of you and your
    06:40 family. And you can do that because you
    06:43 made the decision to live on a Bitcoin
    06:46 standard and convert a large percentage
    06:49 or in my case 100% of your assets to
    06:52 Bitcoin and you’ve been patient enough
    06:54 that those assets have appreciated
    06:57 enough that you’ve got the breathing
    06:59 room to do all of the things I’m talking
    07:02 about on that video. So, I’m not going
    07:04 to tell you if that’s like a real story,
    07:06 if that like that just happened to me
    07:08 this week. I’m not going to go into
    07:10 that. I’m saying that is what life might
    07:12 be like on a Bitcoin standard. That is
    07:14 what financial freedom could look like.
    07:17 It could look like living in a world
    07:19 where your family loves you. You love
    07:21 your world. Uh your family, you love
    07:23 your professional world. All of that is
    07:26 you’re in a world where the human
    07:27 relationships are working. Um your
    07:30 finances are working. All of that is
    07:33 healthy. and you have the breathing room
    07:35 to do fun things, but also change the
    07:38 world and do things you’re passionate
    07:39 about and you care deeply about. And
    07:41 sometimes in in you’re in that when
    07:43 you’re in that world, you might be
    07:45 sitting in a car that’s driving itself
    07:47 thinking, I wish more people had that
    07:50 experience. And you might be inspired if
    07:54 you think, I wish more people had an
    07:56 experience that you have just had that
    07:58 you might record a video encouraging
    08:00 people to buy Bitcoin because it is the
    08:04 la the life raft because it is the
    08:06 escape belt to financial freedom because
    08:09 it is the back door of the financial
    08:11 system that lets you escape the
    08:14 insanity. And uh that’s what it is. And
    08:17 if you have the patience and the hard
    08:19 work to accumulate the wealth that can
    08:22 be stored in Bitcoin, Bitcoin can be
    08:24 very good to you with that wealth. Um,
    08:27 so that’s what life might look like,
    08:30 could look like, maybe does look like on
    08:33 a Bitcoin standard when you’re patient
    08:35 and you’re hardworking and you’ve
    08:36 accumulated assets and you’re living
    08:39 with a substantial or in my case all of
    08:42 your assets in Bitcoin. That’s what it
    08:44 might look like. Not saying it will. I’m
    08:46 not making any promises. I’m just saying
    08:48 that’s a real world picture of what it
    08:50 could be. And I hope that’s inspiring.
    08:53 You know, I hope people buy more Bitcoin
    08:55 because as amazing if Bitcoin is and as
    08:58 assured as I am that one day it’ll be
    09:01 worth substantially worth more than a
    09:03 million dollars. The whole world seems
    09:05 to be asleep. Nobody seems to be
    09:07 listening. Nobody seems to be paying
    09:08 attention. You know, Bitcoin jumps 4% in
    09:11 the last 24 hours. Everybody’s asleep.
    09:13 Everybody’s asleep at the switch.
    09:15 Nobody’s nobody seems to care. Um,
    09:17 Bitcoin’s going to go to a million
    09:19 dollars. It’s going to bore everybody to
    09:20 a million dollars. And at a million
    09:23 dollars of Bitcoin, everybody’s going to
    09:24 feel just like they do right now.
    09:26 They’re going to say, “Well, you know, I
    09:28 heard about it, but I, you know, didn’t
    09:29 take it seriously, didn’t look into it,
    09:31 and now it’s like a million a coin, so
    09:33 they’re feel going to feel like they
    09:34 were late.” Um, here we are at like 109.
    09:38 And all the people that feel the way
    09:40 they do right now at 109 are going to
    09:42 feel the exact same way. a million
    09:44 dollars of Bitcoin, they’re going to
    09:46 feel the exact same way at $3 million of
    09:48 Bitcoin. Here we are. So hopefully that
    09:51 story is inspiring. Um, I’m just trying
    09:54 everything. I’m trying I’m throwing
    09:56 spaghetti at the wall here. Trying every
    09:58 conceivable thing to get people to take
    10:00 Bitcoin seriously and to enable them to
    10:04 get the financial freedom that Bitcoin
    10:06 can can provide and the way it has
    10:09 provided for me and that it could
    10:11 provide for you. I’m just trying
    10:14 everything to get people off the fence,
    10:16 get them off of zero, and uh unleash the
    10:19 potential of financial freedom that
    10:21 Bitcoin provides in a way that literally
    10:23 nothing else in the world does right
    10:25 now. So, have a great evening everyone.
    10:27 Thanks,

**Originally recorded 7/2/25**

 

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