Spending Is The New Orange Pill
Spending Is The New Orange Pill
I went to a brewery that sells big juicy burgers and black non-alcoholic beer. I met the owner, paid over the lightning network, and sent a tip. Where did that tip go? I don’t know. I asked Miles Sutter on nostr. We’ll see what he says. I would it to go to the employees, at least I want them to have the option to get paid in sats. Some people Iknow have a lightning address with the Cash App. I don’t know why. Why can’t everyone have a lightning address? Andreas Antonopolis once said at some point bitcoin will just be in the background of every payment rail. People will use it and they won’t even know it. He called it the email of money. I didn’t understand computer networking back then as well as I do now, but Antonopolis compared bitcoin to TCP/IP. He said it wasn’t money on the Internet, it was The Internet of Money. That future Andreas talked about a decade ago is now here. In the early 90’s Adam Back discovered how to send email using a digital stamp to prevent email spam. Someone named Satoshi Nakamoto used this concept of a digital stamp to discover a new form of money. I’ve heard Lyn Alden compare nostr to email because yahoo mail and gmail are interoperable. It’s a great analogy, but guess what. Bitcoin also works like email. I can send anyone with a lightning address(that looks like an email address) money. They can choose to accept it as sats or fiat.
Since bitcoin can be used to send anyone money, even the fiat maxis, I decided to transform my lightning Tip Jar into a website that makes a QR code that someone can tape onto a tip jar. I am considering making it a tri-fold instead, but the concept works. I saw an electronic tip jar at the hotel I am staying at, but it looks like it was built like a corporate drone. Sign into Google. Give me your credit card and that secret number on the back of it. Tip Visa to tip this service worker making minimum wage.
Fiat Is Gambling
The Brewer still uses phrases like “Ex argh pee” instead of shitcoin, but I didn’t argue. We are in the late stages of fiat. We should expect people living on a fiat standard to gamble. They must, if the want to keep up with inflation on the fiat standard. He said his friend cashed out a bunch of this unmentionable DINO(Decentralized In Name Only) coin. I showed him a picture of an ad I took in Vegas. This is a gambling game people play for more dollars. That’s exactly how the centralized shitcoins market themselves. This is an actual digital billboard paid for by the same organization that brought you the 100% pre-mined, wanabee Central Bank API. This is clearly an electronic poker chip, right? They use the same lingo as the poker chip twirling people do.
“Didn’t fold.” This It looks like every other poker chip I’ve ever seen. It only has value in the shitcoin casino. My wife says I sound “judgy” because I tell people their favorite shitcoin is a poker chip. I don’t mean to sound this way. Human beings gamble. I’m no different. I spent a decade of my life playing poker every day. It wasn’t a glamorous life. I never played a major tournament like the World Series of Poker because I didn’t have the bankroll for events like that. I judge the scammers who shill CrYpTo to fleece unsuspecting suckers, but don’t hate the suckers, hate the rigged game. They think they will be able to one day cash this poker chip out for more fiat than they put in. About 95% of people can’t make serious money playing poker. Perhaps 1% of people can make money sports-betting. Crypto is probably somewhere in that range. Again, nobody buys dogecoin because they think it is the future of money. They buy it so they can get more of the present money in the future.
Might as well face it, we are living through late stage fiat debasement. People complain about the boomers because the boomers had better money. They started the 1971 fiat tournament with a big stack relative to the fiat ante just like the early stages of the World Series of Poker. In the early stages of a deep stack No Limit Hold Em Tournament, you can afford to sit around waiting for good hands and have a chance of winning. The Boomers could graduate high school, get a job at a grocery store and qualify for a mortgage in the early 1970’s. Now they cash fiat socialist security checks bigger than their 1970’s mortgage payment.
As the tournament progresses, the blinds and antes get higher and higher. As this happens, players are forced to take chances. You can’t sit around waiting for pocket aces when you only have enough chips for ten more hands. As the late Doyle Brunson once said, “you are forced to gamble.” This is the stage many fiat maxis find themselves in. They can’t put their money in a savings account and hope to save enough to fund the American dream anymore. Their digital dollars are not going so far. They can’t sit around waiting for a good job if they ever expect to afford a house.
You don’t need the federal reserve to tell you because you can feel it. You an see your credit card bills and the gas prices at the pump. The price of beef looks nothing like the CP Lies on the television. You go to the grocery store. They ask for donations to fund food banks on the loud speaker because more and more Americans are using them. I’m begining to see shortages in my stores. The stuff that is cheap flies off the shelf. This means prices must rise even more if we expect the shelves to stay filled.
You can’t even bury your head in the proverbial sand anymore. People are sticking stickers on the gas prices. Political rhetoric can only go so far. Math is math. A is A. 39 trillion cuck bucks worth of debt is 39 trillion cuck bucks. At some point, people will no longer want to buy government cuck-buck war bonds. They won’t want fiat to pay for tolls. Our opinion of the toll collectors does not matter. The honey badger don’t care.
Bonds are supposedly the “risk-free rate.” In Super System, Doyle Brunson said you don’t want to go out like “Broomcorn’s uncle”. Broomcorn was a tight player who refused to play anything other than premium hands. People like this in high ante, high-blind stages of a No Limit Hole Em Tournament get blinded out. That means the blinds and antes end up eating their entire stack, knocking them out of the poker tournament even if they play a conservative strategy. You don’t need to be an expert toothpick counter to see 5% bond yields won’t cover 33% gas price increases. If you’re buying bonds at this stage in the fiat tournament, you’re going to go out like Broomcorn’s uncle.
Bitcoin Is So Money
Bitcoin is money. That’s why I see spending sats as the new orange pill. To be honest, at least 90% of the Bitcoiners I meet in real life meetups are still stuck in the fiat Matrix, especially the ones that “Buy Bitcoin.” They still use USD as their unit of account. If they need liquidity, they don’t buy dollars. They “sell bitcoin.” It seems like a small, subtle difference, but it’s huge. This terminology is a tell-tell sign of someone still stuck on fiat. They have yet to grasp the concept that bitcoin is a peer-to-peer elctronic cash system, not a shitcoin casino controlled electronic casino chip system. In other words, Bitcoin is so money!
I can buy a cheeseburger with Bitcoin. I can’t buy a cheeseburger with a casino chip from the Venetian. Bars are full of people telling stories about their gambling winnings. Gamblers tend to tell tall tales, but that’s not what I’m doing. I’m paying for a cheeseburger with Internet Magic Money.
The DJ saw me pay with Magic Internet Money. The bartender, eating his lunch, saw me pay with bitcoin. I scanned a QR code and his boss gave me a cheeseburger and an alcohol free stout. I didn’t cash out casino chips for bullshit pay. I paid with Bitcoin because Bitcoin is money, not a casino chip. They root for the home team, bemoan gas prices, bitch about rising food cost, and wonder WTF happened to the electric bill. They are not looking at Campbell’s soup charts. They can feel something is not working, but they did not fold dollars.
I’m not a trader. I don’t scribble on charts. Don’t get me wrong. I had my shitcoin phase, but I’m not gambling anymore. I get paid in Bitcoin. I pay for stuff with bitcoin. I use it as cash money. My goal, although I don’t always meet it is to spend less bitcoin than I make. Your grandparents had a word for this: Saving. Scanning a QR code to pay with Visa is not saving. Visa is in the business of spending, not saving. They earn money whenever you spend and earn more when you don’t pay it back right away. This is what I want to show people, an alternative to credit card taxes and central banking policy that forces people to gamble.
Spending Bitcoin Is A New Paradigm
Most people are still stuck in the fiat Matrix, living lives of quiet desperation as Henry David Thoreau would say. This is what Jeff Booth talks about on the 40 hours of podcasts he does per week, but people who listen still have a hard time wrapping their heads around it. There’s too much cognitive dissonance. They still believe in “The System.” They think they can modernize The System with crapto and reverse transactions they don’t like with regulatory clarity. They see bitcoin as an investment that is too expensive so they invest in shitcoins because some fiat billionaire said some nice things about them or something.
It’s becoming clear that dollars are not the winning hand they thought, but they still lump Bitcoin with all the other crypto casino chips. When a hardcore bitcoin advocate walks into a room, that perception changes. I don’t tell tall tales. I don’t brag about winning cuck bucks with crypto bullshit. I pay with bitcoin. I vibe code software that allows anyone with a lightning address to get paid in bitcoin. I don’t talk about books by Ludwig Von Mises, scribble on price charts, or tell anyone who refuses to “buy bitoin” to have fun staying poor. I spend sats.
Spending sats is the new orange-pilling. This is not an investment. It’s better money. Sure sucks seeing your net worth afford 50% less than it once did again…again and again… This doesn’t change my mission though: Earn sats, spend sats, stack sats. It’s not sexy as Odell’s “Stay humble and stack sats,” but it’s the same concept. I wish my job and a bility to earn sats was less humble, but don’t we all?
Bitcoin is voting with your money. It’s a protest vote:
✅ 🧡Peer-To-Peer Electronic Cash
🟩 ❤️💙Money Printer Go Brrrrrr to pay for pandemics, forever wars, interest on the debt and give corporations power over every transaction.
I spend sats because spending sats is the new orange pill. I show people there is an alternative to state controlled war bond bucks used to fund the department of war and all the programs the doge dork couldn’t stop. As Lyn Alden says, “nothing stops this train”-Not even Elon. I know it’s probably not the best thing for my opsec, but I want people to learn how to use bitcoin before the train falls off a cliff.
This is really not inventment advice. It really is meant for educational purposes. The first time I bought a cheeseburger at Steak N Shake, some suit asked me about it. He was interested in meeting someone who started a “BTC treasury company” and was dumbfounded that he saw someone use Bitcoin to buy a burger. That’s exactly why I like doing it. It’s better to show people Bitcoin is money than spend 4 hours trying to summarize the last 40 hours of Bitcoin podcasts you uploaded to your bitcoin-geeky brain.
The investor saw bitcoin in a different light. The DJ got saw Bitcoin in a different way. The bartender saw the magic Internet money in action. I mentioned that I am working on a tip jar. It’s as easy as printing money. All I do is create a QR code out of text that looks like this. lightning:cashucards@getalby.com. THe brewer said it was a good idea so I built it.
I told the him I would make a website that helps people print their own lightning tip jar. The idea is to turn art into a sticker or trifold anyone with the Cash App or Strike can use. I have already made two of these tip jars manually, but this makes it easier. Here’s one I made that sends tips to Open Sats.
I am using Strike because most people want fiat. Strike allows them to accept tips as fiat if they so choose. Like Andreas said, bitcoin is the Internet of money. I’m just making it easy for people to share their email address. I don’t hold anyones keys or have any control of their money, I just drew some stuff and vibe coded software that turns your email address like lightning address into a QR code you can stick on a tip jar.
This is not financial advice of course. If five bucks is a lot of money to you and if your five bucks turns to $2.50 will cause you hardship, you should probably convert it to dirty fiat, but that’s none of my business. That’s why I’m not qualified to give financial advice, but I can use bitcoin tip jars to show people bitcoin is money.
If you would like to make your own bitcoin tip jar, please visit https://tip-jar.shakespeare.wtf/
Thanks for reading.
If you find my work valuable please consider giving value back in the form of time, talent, or treasure
Write a comment