Part 3 - Chapter17 - Money
Sunday, August 17th, 2025, 10:39a.m., BTC =117K, BH = 910,480
“Money” is a phantasm for an abstract, vague, spiritual, and yet somewhat physical source of energy. That sentence is a little overwhelming. I will attempt to explain. Things of this world are both physical and spiritual. They are both but are on a spectrum. Praying to God is a mostly spiritual action. Better said, a prayer is almost purely spiritual. A rock is almost purely physical. Reading a book is more spiritual than physical. A tree is mostly physical. A dollar bill is a physical object with some spiritual essence. Money is more spiritual than physical. I think of Bitcoin as time and energy stored for future endeavors. Dollars are very much the same as far as the spiritual/physical aspect of them. The main difference is that Bitcoin offers a new and better spiritual storage system.
Money is subjective value. What you store your money in is important and getting more important with each day that passes. This is because of the systems. Fiat currencies are being exposed for what they are with each day that passes. Bitcoin holds up a mirror at the “Fiat” rail system. It is an ugly image that stares back. A “spiritually” ugly image is what bitcoin exposes. The people…
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…who control this system are really starting to panic about the new, better rail system of bitcoin.
The people who truly get what bitcoin is and does are conscious of a new paradigm. They see their financial lives through a whole new lens or paradigm. This happened to me in 2021 sometime around the Gamestop debacle. Once I went down the proverbial “Rabbit Hole,” I was never the same person. This was mostly a spiritual phenomena. I don’t want to confuse you when I say spiritual. This “spiritual” term I am using is not God centric. Spirits can be bad or good. The devil is a spiritual concept. Demonic energy is spiritual. I just mean that you can not measure it in a lab if it is spiritual. For instance, the love of my children is spiritual because you can not measure love in a lab.
Everything in the world has a duality to it. Bitcoin has a physical side to it as well. First, there are the computers that do the complicated math that makes the blockchain continue on. This is tied to the physical people who maintain all of these machines. Second, the physical energy that powers these machines is a tether that binds the spiritual to the physical. Another physical…
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…aspect is the phone or device that you read your balance and make transactions with. Bitcoin is a mostly spiritual network, but still has physical nuances to it.
The fact that sub-val/money is a mostly spiritual thing does not make it bad or good. I would argue that fiat currencies are more spiritually bad. If there were a spectrum for measuring spiritually bad versus spiritually good, then I would give fiat currencies a rating of 2 stars while giving Bitcoin 5 stars. The reasons are obvious if you have studied both systems.
The bitcoin system is only 16 years old. The fiat system is roughly a hundred years or so. Learning about the history of each takes time and effort, but it is worth it to do the work. Bitcoin makes you appreciate “proof of work.” Muscles are proof of work. They prove you have been putting in the time to improve your physique. Brain power is another form of doing the work. The brain can be improved upon by learning hard things. So, do the work. You will not regret it. Study Bitcoin! I am still learning about it. The benefits are massive. Study fiat as well. You will understand the problems in the old system and why Bitcoin is so important.
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