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A 117 year old book written by 
three anonymous authors just 

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explained Bitcoin better than 
anything I've ever read. 

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And the crazy part is that it 
was published 100 years before 

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Bitcoin even existed. 
That sentence should make no 

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sense. 
But by the end of this episode, 

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I think you're going to agree 
with me, and I think you're 

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going to see Bitcoin in a 
different light than you've ever

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seen it before. 
Hey everyone, I'm Bram Gonstein,

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and this is Bitcoin for 
millennials. 

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In a previous episode, I talked 
about the trap, how Fiat money 

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hijacks your consciousness. 
And in this episode, I'll be 

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building on these initial ideas 
and mapping Bitcoin against the 

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seven fundamental laws of 
reality laid out in a book 

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called The Kibalia, published in
1908 by three anonymous authors 

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who called themselves The Tree 
Initiates. 

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No names, No publicity. 
They claim to be passing down 

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the teachings of Hermes 
Trismegistus. 

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The book lays out seven 
principles that supposedly 

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govern all of reality. 
Not some of it, but all of it. 

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And when I started mapping these
principles onto money, something

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clicked that I couldn't Unsee. 
If you're enjoying my content, 

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it would mean a lot to me if you
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Thanks a lot. 
Now let's dive in. 

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Principle one is mentalism. 
The all is mind, the universe is

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mental. 
The first principle says 

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everything begins in the mind. 
Reality is mental, and 

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consciousness precedes creation.
And money is the ultimate mental

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construct, right? 
A dollar bill is a piece of 

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paper. 
Your bank balance is electrons 

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arranged in a pattern on a third
party database. 

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The value exists entirely in the
shared mental space of everyone 

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who agrees to honour it. 
That's it. 

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There's nothing else underneath.
Now where it gets interesting is

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that central banks understand 
the principle of mentalism 

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better than anyone else. 
They call it managing 

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expectations. 
They know that if they change 

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what people believe about money,
they change its effective value.

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A single press conference from 
the Federal Reserve literally 

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moves trillions. 
Not because physical reality 

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change. 
Because the collective mental 

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state shifted. 
I call this dark mental alchemy,

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manipulating belief to 
manipulate value. 

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Now Bitcoin takes a completely 
different approach. 

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It says you do not have to 
believe anything. 

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You don't need to trust anyone's
words. 

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You just run a note, verify the 
supply, and check the code. 

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The mental construct of 
Bitcoin's value is grounded in 

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mathematical proof, not 
institutional promises. 

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It makes the hallucination 
honest, and that distinction 

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matters more than you think, 
because it connects directly to 

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the next principle. 
Principle 2 is about 

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correspondence. 
As above, so below. 

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As below, so above. 
This one says patterns repeat at

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every level. 
What happens at the top mirrors 

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at the bottom. 
What's true in one domain 

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corresponds to truth in another.
And when you apply this to 

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money, it hits hard, because 
when your monetary base is 

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corrupted, everything built on 
top of it corrupts. 

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Since President Nixon closed the
gold window in 1971, wages have 

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stagnated relative to 
productivity, wealth inequality 

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has exploded, and household debt
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Above all, social trust declined
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Corrupt the money, and the 
corruption ripples through every

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system that touches it, which is
everything. 

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Everything is downstream from 
the money. 

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Now flip that. 
Because Bitcoin's base layer is 

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radically transparent, every 
transaction is verifiable, and 

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rules apply equally to everyone.
There's no special access, 

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there's no cantaloupe advantage,
and there's no hidden 

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manipulation. 
And as above, so below, when the

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foundation is honest, all the 
systems built on top of it trend

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toward honesty. 
And people can still try to play

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manipulative games, but they 
won't get as far as with Fiat 

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money. 
And I think this is one of 

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Bitcoin's most underappreciated 
features. 

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People focus on the price, but 
the principle of correspondence 

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says the real revolution is what
happens to every system built on

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honest money. 
And that's basically 

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civilization itself. 
Now, those first two principles,

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Lady Foundation money is a 
mental construct, and that 

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construct shapes everything 
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But the next principle contains 
an insight that really reframed 

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how I see every financial rescue
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And once you hear it, you won't 
be able to watch the news the 

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same way, because principle tree
is about polarity. 

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Everything is dual, everything 
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pair of opposites. 
Like and unlike are the same. 

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Opposites are identical in 
nature, but different in degree.

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The Kabbalion says opposites 
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They're the same thing at 
different degrees. 

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Hot and cold are both 
temperatures. 

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Light and dark are both 
illumination. 

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Love and hate are both emotion. 
So field and Bitcoin aren't 

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different categories. 
They're both money at opposite 

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poles. 
Centrally controlled versus 

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decentralized, infinitely 
expandable versus absolutely 

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scarce, opaque versus 
transparent, trust based versus 

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verification based, Depreciating
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Same thing, different degree. 
And the real insight here is 

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that the bailout and the bubble 
are the same force. 

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Quantitative easing and currency
debasement are identical in 

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nature. 
The rescue and the crisis are 

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the same phenomenon at different
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Every time someone tells you we 
had to print money to save the 

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economy, the principle of 
polarity reveals that the saving

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and the destroying are the same 
act. 

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Viewed from different angles. 
Every bailout is a debasement. 

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Every rescue is a theft. 
Same force, different pole. 

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Now let that sink in for a 
second. 

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Because Bitcoin resolves this by
removing the spectrum entirely. 

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There is no dial, there's no 
discretion, there are no polls 

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to swing between 21,000,000 is 
21 million Bitcoin. 

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Whether the economy is booming 
or crashing, whether it's an 

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election year or not, whether 
Jerome Powell woke up or not, 

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whether the committee decides to
act or not. 

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The protocol doesn't have polls 
because it doesn't have 

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opinions. 
Now polarity shows you that the 

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so-called opposites are 
connected, but the next 

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principle makes you feel it, 
because this one explains why 

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your entire financial life feels
like chaos and why bitcoiners 

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seem to carry an entire 
different energy. 

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And Principle 4 is all about 
vibration. 

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The Kabbalion says nothing 
rests, everything moves and 

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everything vibrates. 
It says differences between 

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matter, energy and consciousness
come down to frequency, 

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different rates of vibration, 
and whoever understands 

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vibration has grasped the sector
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Think about money as a frequency
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Sound money that holds its value
is predictable. 

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That cannot be the best, and it 
sends a clean signal. 

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You can tune your life to it, 
you can plan against it, and it 

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creates A coherence. 
The signal of Fiat money is pure

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noise. 
And two, money supply expended 

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40% in two years during COVID 
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26.9% in February 2021 in the 
US, the highest ever recorded. 

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Every time the Federal Reserve 
meets the frequency shifts, 

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every press conference, every 
dot plot, every transitionary 

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becomes persistent. 
Is that recognizable? 

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I think so. 
Static noise. 

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You cannot build your life on 
noise. 

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Every time the Federal Reserve 
meets the frequency shifts, 

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every press conference, every 
dot plot, every transitionary 

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becoming a persistent flip. 
That is just static noise and 

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you cannot build your life on 
noise. 

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Bitcoin vibrates at a frequency 
set at its creation. 

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That has never changed. 
Every 10 minutes a block, every 

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210,000 blocks a having, and 
after the 2028 having, annual 

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inflation drops to about 0.39%, 
roughly 1/5 that of the rate of 

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gold. 
It's all known from now until 

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approximately the year 2140. 
I call this the fixed frequency,

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not monetary policy. 
It's monetary physics, a 

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reliable, predictable rhythm you
can attune your entire financial

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life to. 
And I think that's why 

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bitcoiners seem calmer about the
future. 

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They've tuned into a signal that
doesn't shift based on who's in 

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charge. 
While everyone else is trying to

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build on noise, they're building
on a frequency that was set in 

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stone 17 years ago and hasn't 
moved once. 

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If your Bitcoin double tomorrow,
would you feel good about how 

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it's secured right now? 
Most people haven't really 

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pressure tested that. 
And I get it. 

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Some people are comfortable 
taking full control of their own

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keys, but others want security 
without having to manage it all 

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themselves. 
That's why I partnered with 

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Multi institution Custody, where

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multiple jurisdictions. 
No single company can access, 

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move or lose your Bitcoin. 
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through the entire set up. 
They serve clients globally, 

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whether you're in the US, Europe
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That's onlinebitcoin.com/prom. 

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Most people stop too early with 
Bitcoin. 

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They buy it, maybe move it to a 
wallet, and think they are done,

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but they're not. 
The real questions are how 

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you're securing it, how private 
your setup is, and whether 

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you're verifying your own 
transactions or trusting someone

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else. 
And what happens to your Bitcoin

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when something happens to you. 
This is the layer that most 

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people ignore, and it's the most
important one. 

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That's why I've been working 
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set up self custody properly, 
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cybersecurity, inheritance, and 
even running your own note. 

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And they do it without ever 
touching your Bitcoin. 

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They're not a custodian, they're
your support team. 

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If you're serious about this 
like I am, go to 

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thebitcoinway.com/brum. 
That's Bram to book a free call.

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They'll walk you through your 
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whether you're a beginner or 
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That's the bitcoinway.com/brum 
all right. 

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So far we've seen that money is 
a mental construct that shapes 

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everything above it, that 
opposites are the same force, 

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and that Fiat sends a chaotic 
frequency while Bitcoin sends a 

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clean one. 
But those are all somewhat 

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abstract. 
And the next principle is the 

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one that made me quite angry 
actually, because it names 

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exactly who benefits from the 
chaos and how. 

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Principle 5 is about cause and 
effect. 

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Every cause has its effect, 
every effect has its 'cause 

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everything happens according to 
law. 

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Chance is but a name for law not
recognized. 

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And then there's this line from 
the book. 

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The masses of people are carried
along, obedient to environment, 

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the wills and desires of others 
stronger than themselves, moving

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them about like pawns on the 
chess board of life. 

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But the masters become movers 
instead of pawns. 

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They help to play the game of 
life instead of being played and

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moved about by others wills. 
We are pawns on a chess board 

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moved by wills stronger than our
own. 

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And that's the Catalan effect, 
written in philosophical 

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language. 
New money is created by central 

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and commercial banks, and it 
enters through primary dealer 

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banks. 
They deploy it into financial 

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assets, asset prices rise, and 
by the time it reaches ordinary 

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wages, prices have already 
risen. 

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The masses are moved and they 
don't even know the game is 

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being played. 
They experience inflation as bad

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luck, as an unexplained force 
making everything harder. 

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I can hear Christine Lagarde say
in my mind, the beast of 

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inflation came out of nowhere, 
right? 

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But it is not chance. 
Chance is but a name for a law 

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not recognized right. 
It's the direct, predictable 

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effect of a specific cause 
monetary expansion that benefits

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insiders. 
First, During the pandemic, the 

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world's billionaires gained over
$2 trillion. 

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The top 1% captured 63% of all 
new wealth created, and 

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meanwhile, 50 to 67% of 
Americans still live paycheck to

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paycheck. 
That's definitely not chance. 

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That is cause and effect. 
Those closest to the cause get 

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the effect. 
Those furthest away get the 

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opposite. 
Now Bitcoin makes this causation

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transparent. 
There's a public supply 

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schedule, there's a known 
issuance rate, there is a 

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verifiable transaction history. 
There are no hidden causes, no 

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secret meetings deciding who 
gets access first. 

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When you understand bitcoins 
causal structure, you're no 

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longer a pawn. 
You understand the board on 

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which the game is played. 
And so basically you move from a

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pawn to a player, from effect to
cause, from being moved to being

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a mover. 
Now 5 principles in and you can 

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kind of see the architecture. 
Money shapes reality, corruption

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cascades downwards, and 
opposites are the same force. 

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Fiat sends noise while Bitcoin 
sends signal. 

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And the system moves you like a 
pawn without you knowing. 

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But the 6th principle is the one
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it's not about the system, it's 
about you. 

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About what you feel every single
day but haven't been able to 

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name. 
And once I name it, I think 

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you'll recognize it immediately.
Principle 6 is about gender. 

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Gender is in everything. 
Everything has its masculine and

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feminine principles. 
Gender manifests on all planes. 

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The Kibalian is very clear. 
This isn't about biological sex.

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It's about two complementary 
energies present in everything. 

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You have masculine energy, which
is active, projective, and 

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initiating. 
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which is receptive, nurturing, 
and sustaining. 

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Both are essential and 
necessary. 

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Creation requires both in 
balance and here's the 

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connection that I think nobody 
has made before. 

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And once you hear it, you're 
going to see it everywhere. 

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In economics, the masculine 
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investing, deploying, and acting
the active, outward directed 

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energy. 
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saving, preserving, accumulating
and building slowly the 

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receptive, inward directed 
energy. 

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Fiat money systematically 
suppresses the feminine 

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principle. 
When inflation punishes saving, 

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the system screams at you to 
act. 

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You need to spend, you need to 
invest, you need to leverage, 

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deploy, always do everything 
outward, always be active, never

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holding, never preserving, never
patiently accumulating. 

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The entire culture shifts to 
match short term, competitive, 

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extractive, and restlessness. 
I mean, we cannot deny that this

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is the place and time that we're
in, right? 

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There's this constant pressure 
to hustle, to optimize, and to 

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grind, and the guilt around 
rest. 

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The inability to just hold still
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There's this nagging voice 
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sitting still means falling 
behind. 

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And that is not just hustle 
culture. 

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That's a monetary system that 
punishes the feminine principle 

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and rewards only the masculine. 
The imbalance isn't in you, it's

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in the money, and Bitcoin 
restores this balance when 

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savings appreciate instead of 
depreciate. 

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Patience becomes power. 
Holding is a valid strategy and 

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not acting is rational. 
The feminine energy of 

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preservation, of long term 
nurturing, of slowly building 

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something that is real becomes 
economically viable again on a 

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Bitcoin standard. 
And I think that's why so many 

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bitcoiners report changes that 
go way beyond money. 

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They consume less, they think 
longer term, they invest in 

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health and relationships and 
skills instead of stuff. 

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They feel calmer, less frantic, 
and more patient. 

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That's not a personality change.
That's the rebalancing of 

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masculine and feminine economic 
energy. 

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As above, so below. 
When the money changes, the 

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culture changes. 
From my European friends that 

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want to buy Bitcoin with ease, 
check out Relay. 

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They offer a super simple 
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distractions and no shit coins. 
You can do a quick one time 

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smash buy or set up automatic 
purchases when you're stacking 

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regularly. 
And here's the thing that 

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matters most. 
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If you want to get started, 
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Every bitcoiner hits this 
moment. 

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You need cash, maybe a house 
deposit, an emergency or a tax 

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bill and you're staring at your 
stack thinking, do I really want

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to sell this? 
Here's the thing, you don't have

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to. 
You can borrow against your 

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Bitcoin instead. 
So there's also no taxable event

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and your stack can keep on 
stacking. 

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This is where Firefish comes in,
a peer-to-peer marketplace for 

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Bitcoin backed loans. 
And Firefish isn't a lender. 

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They built the protocol that 
makes this all possible, which 

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is exactly why they never ever 
have to touch your Bitcoin 

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during your loan. 
Your Bitcoin sits in an on chain

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You can easily create a loan 
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amount, duration and interest 
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When you get matched and decide 

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to accept a loan offer, you can 
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first loans fees. 
That's firefish dot IO. 

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And now 6 principles, 6 
violations by Fiat money, and 

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six alignments by Bitcoin. 
And I've saved the last one on 

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purpose, because the 7th 
principle doesn't just describe 

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another problem, it describes 
the problem, the solution, and 

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the transformation all in one. 
And I think it contains the most

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elegant description of what 
Bitcoin offers that I've ever 

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encountered from anyone. 
Principle 7 is about rhythm. 

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Everything flows out and in. 
Everything has its tides. 

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All things rise and fall, and 
the measure of the swing to the 

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right is the measure of the 
swing to the left. 

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Rhythm compensates. 
Every artificial boom stores 

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energy for an equal bust. 
That is the boom bust cycle 

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described in a single sentence 
written over a century ago. 

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And the Federal Reserve's entire
project, their whole reason for 

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existing, is essentially to 
fight the principle of rhythm, 

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to have booms without busts, to 
swing the pendulum right without

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it ever swinging back left. 
And every time the principal 

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winsthe.com bubble, the housing 
crisis, the COVID crash, each 

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bust proportional to the 
preceding artificial boom rhythm

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compensates. 
Always. 

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But here's the part that really 
got me, the part that changed 

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how I see Bitcoin forever. 
The Kibalion doesn't just 

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describe the problem, it teaches
the solution. 

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It says the master of hermetics 
polarizes himself at the point 

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at which he desires to rest, and
then neutralizes the rhythmic 

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swing of the pendulum. 
The Master doesn't fight the 

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swing. 
The master steps off the 

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pendulum. 
Think about what that means. 

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You don't beat the boom and bust
cycle by timing it better. 

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You don't win by being smarter 
about when to buy and when to 

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sell. 
You step off entirely. 

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You find the still point and you
opt out of the swing. 

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Bitcoin is this still point. 
It's rhythm is embedded, natural

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and predictable. 
Every 10 minutes there's a 

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block. 
Every four years there's a 

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halving. 
No surprise interventions, no 

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emergency rate cuts, no 
transitionary becoming permanent

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overnight, no committee 
meetings, no press conferences 

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and no dot plots. 
The Kibbalion says the masses 

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are swung backward and forward 
like a pendulum, but the master 

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finds the point of rest. 
I know I want to be that master,

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and I think you do too. 
And that's what this is really 

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about. 
Not just better money, not just 

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better economics. 
It's about stepping off the 

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swing, finding the frequency, 
rebalancing the energy, and 

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moving from pawn to player, from
noise to signal, from being 

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swung to sitting still. 7 
principles, 7 violations by Fiat

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money, 7 alignments by Bitcoin. 
The Kibalion opens with a 

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promise. 
It says he who knows these 

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principles understandingly 
possesses the magic key before 

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whose touch all the doors of the
temple fly open. 

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I think Bitcoin is that not 
because it's better technology, 

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not just because it's better 
economics, but because it's 

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aligned with something way, way 
deeper, with the way reality 

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itself is structured, with 
principles that have been 

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understood for millennia and are
only now finding their monetary 

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expression. 
Fiat money fights reality and 

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Bitcoin aligns with it and 
anything that aligns with the 

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fundamental architecture of 
reality that endures. 

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The Kibalion has endured for 
over a century. 

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The Hermetic tradition it draws 
from has endured for millennia 

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and I believe Bitcoin will 
endure 2 for the exact same 

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reason. 
Because truth has a frequency 

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and when you tune into it, you 
know stay humble, stack sets and

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align with the principles. 
Thanks for listening to Bitcoin 

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for Millennials. 
If this episode opened the door 

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you didn't know was there, 
please share it and go pick up a

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copy of the Kibaleon. 
After this episode, I think you 

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will read it entirely 
differently. 

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Thanks again and I'll see you on
the next episode. 

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