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Something changes in people who 
hold Bitcoin for a long time, 

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and I don't mean their 
portfolio, I mean them. 

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They start buying less, thinking
longer term, building instead of

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consuming. 
They quit jobs that don't align 

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with who they are, and they 
invest in health, relationships,

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skills, and things that compound
over decades. 

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They report feeling calmer about
the future, even when the market

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drops 40%. 
Now you could say, well, that is

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just rich people feeling good 
about life. 

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Except this shift happens to 
people stacking smaller amounts 

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to people who aren't rich by any
traditional measure. 

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The change isn't proportional to
the number of Bitcoin that they 

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own. 
It's proportional to the depth 

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of their understanding. 
Something is rewiring, and 

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nobody is talking about what 
that something actually is. 

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Hey everyone, I'm Bram Gonstein 
and this episode of Bitcoin for 

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Millennials is deferred and 
final part of a small solo 

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series. 
Part 1 was about the trap, how 

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Fiat money hijacks your 
consciousness. 

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And Part 2 was about the map. 7 
ancient principles that reveal 

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why sound money matters at a 
level deeper than economics 

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today is the path. 
What actually happens inside you

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when you step out of the Fiat 
money system and into something 

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different? 
And I want to start by naming 

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the thing you're stepping out of
because most people don't 

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realize they're running a mental
operating system that was 

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installed by the monetary system
they were born into. 

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It's invisible to them, like 
something that is hiding in 

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plain sight. 
If you are enjoying my content, 

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it would mean a lot to me if you
could subscribe to the channel 

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and like my video to support my 
journey. 

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Thanks a lot. 
Now let's dive in. 

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The Fiat operating system has 
four core programs, and once I 

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name them, you'll start catching
yourself running them every day.

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Program 1 Scarcity, panic. 
Your money is losing value 

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always and every day. 
So there's this constant low 

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level anxiety about not having 
enough. 

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And it's not irrational. 
The dollar has lost roughly 87% 

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of its purchasing power since 
1971. 

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If you're not running to stay in
place, you're literally falling 

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behind. 
The system trains you to feel 

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perpetually behind because 
mathematically you are. 

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You know that. 
Not in your stomach when you 

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check your bank account. 
That is scarcity panic. 

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It's not a personal failure, 
it's the program running. 

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Program #2 is high time 
preference because saving is 

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punished by inflation. 
The system trains you to value 

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the present over the future. 
Spend now, consume now, and 

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leverage now. 
Why delay gratification when 

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your money buys you less 
tomorrow? 

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That isn't a character flaw, but
a rational response to broken 

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incentives. 
Every impulse purchase, every 

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subscription you forgot to 
cancel, every time you fought. 

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I'll deal with it later. 
That's high time preference 

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running in the AND program tree 
is identity true consumption? 

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When the system needs you to 
spend, it needs you to 1 So your

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identity gets constructed around
what you buy, your car, your 

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clothes, your apartment, your 
vacations. 

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And consumption becomes 
self-expression, shopping 

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becomes therapy, and lifestyle 
inflation becomes the measure of

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success. 
Think about the last time you 

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felt a rush of excitement buying
something. 

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Now think about how quickly that
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The wanting, the buying, the 
brief hit, the emptiness, and 

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the wanting again. 
That is the program, not you. 

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Program 4 is learned 
helplessness. 

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You can't change the monetary 
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You didn't choose it. 
You can't opt out. 

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The rules change without your 
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So you stop trying to understand
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You focus on running faster 
within it, and the most 

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important economic forces in 
your life remain completely 

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beyond your control. 
And you accept that as normal. 

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That feeling that says this is 
just how things are, that 

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nothing you do will change the 
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That's learned helplessness, and
it's the most dangerous program 

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of all because it prevents you 
from even looking for the exit. 

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These four programs don't feel 
like programs, right? 

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They feel like reality, like the
way things just are, like human 

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nature, but they're not human 
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They're Fiat nature installed by
a monetary system that needs you

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to behave in a certain way for 
it to function. 

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And the moment you start holding
Bitcoin, truly holding it, 

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understanding it, the 
uninstalled process begins. 

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But first, something has to 
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Now what is this crack? 
For most people, it starts with 

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the question that seems simple 
but turns out to be 

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revolutionary. 
Where does money actually come 

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from? 
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that, when you understand that 
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that banks created from nothing,
something shifts and you can 

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feel it physically, a kind of 
Vertigo. 

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The ground you were standing on 
turns out to be a fake, 

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fabricated story. 
Alan Watts described this kind 

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of moment. 
He said the ego is a social 

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institution with no physical 
reality, just a symbol of 

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yourself. 
And money is the same way, a 

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symbol of wealth, not the wealth
itself. 

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When you see the symbol as a 
symbol, you can never Unsee it. 

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The ancient Gnostics had a word 
for this gnosis. 

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Direct knowledge. 
Not something someone told you 

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to believe, something you saw 
for yourself. 

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And here's a line from the 
Gospel of Thomas. 

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The authorities seized the keys 
to knowledge and hidden them, 

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neither entering themselves nor 
allowing those who wish to enter

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to do so. 
Think about that in the context 

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of monetary education. 
Financial literacy is absent 

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from most school systems. 
The mechanics of money creation 

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are understood by a tiny 
fraction of the population, and 

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the keys to understanding have 
been functionally hidden not by 

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conspiracy necessarily, but by a
system that doesn't benefit from

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you understanding how it works. 
Bitcoin is the crack that lets 

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light in, not because Bitcoin is
magical, but because 

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understanding why it exists 
requires understanding why Fiat 

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money is broken. 
And once you see the operating 

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system as an operating system, 
you cannot go back. 

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Now here's where most Bitcoin 
content stops. 

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A lot of people are talking 
about number go UPS, stacking 

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sets and buying the dip. 
But if that's all you got from 

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Bitcoin, you missed the real 
shift. 

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The real shift is something a 
Barbadian Mystic figured out 

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over 80 years ago. 
This Barbadian philosopher was 

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named Neville Goddard and he 
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20th century. 
And his core teaching was this. 

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Assume the feeling of the wish 
fulfilled. 

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Not visualize what you want, not
set goals and hustle towards 

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them. 
Assume the feeling like life, 

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like right now, in the state of 
consciousness that corresponds 

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to what you desire. 
If you occupy that state, the 

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external world rearranges itself
to match your state. 

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Now, I know that to some people 
that might sound woo woo, but 

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the cool part is that Bitcoin 
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Remember Program 2 high time 
preference. 

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The Fiat operating system keeps 
you in a perpetual state of not 

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yet. 
Someday I'll have enough. 

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Someday I'll be secure. 
Someday I'll build what I want 

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to build. 
The system is designed around 

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deferral, around a future that 
keeps receding because inflation

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ensures that enough is always a 
little further away than it was 

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last year. 
Neville Goddard would say living

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in the state of someday is 
exactly what keeps someday from 

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arriving. 
You're occupying the 

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consciousness of lack of not 
having, and the world reflects 

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that consciousness back to you. 
Bitcoin lets you do something 

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radical. 
It lets you assume the feeling 

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of the wish fulfilled right now.
Not because you're pretending, 

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not because you're doing 
affirmations in the mirror, but 

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because the trajectory is 
actually real. 

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Bitcoin supply is known and the 
rules cannot change. 

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Your savings cannot be be 
debased, ever. 

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The feeling of sovereignty isn't
manufactured through positive 

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thinking. 
It's the rational assessment of 

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your actual position. 
And here's where the shift 

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really happens. 
The wish fulfilled isn't a 

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number. 
It's not when Bitcoin hits XYZ 

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amount of dollars then I'll be 
free. 

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That's still the Fiat mindset. 
Still deferring to the future, 

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still living in the not yet. 
The wish fulfilled is a state of

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consciousness. 
I am sovereign right now, I hold

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my own keys, I understand the 
system and my value is 

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preserved. 
I can think long term. 

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That exact state is available to
you right now with any amount of

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Bitcoin. 
And when you occupy it, your 

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behavior changes, your decisions
change, your relationships 

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change. 
Not because external 

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circumstances shifted, but 
because your inner state 

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shifted. 
And is Neville Goddard taught, 

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and as the Hermetic principle of
mentalism confirms, the inner 

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state creates the outer reality.
You don't wait for the 

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revolution, you become the 
revolution. 

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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 
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Most people stop too early with 

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Bitcoin. 
They buy it, maybe move it to a 

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wallet, and think they are done,
but they're not. 

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The real questions are how 
you're securing it, how private 

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your setup is, and whether 
you're verifying your own 

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transactions or trusting someone
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And what happens to your Bitcoin
when something happens to you. 

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This is the layer that most 
people ignore, and it's the most

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important one. 
That's why I've been working 

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And they do it without ever 

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touching your Bitcoin. 
They're not a custodian, they're

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your support team. 
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They'll walk you through your 

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When your time preference 
lowers, a cascade of changes 

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follow. 
And this is what report with 

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remarkable consistency across 
backgrounds, incomes and 

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countries. 
You used to eat out four nights 

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a week. 
Now you cook at home and 

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actually enjoy it. 
You used to have 12 

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subscriptions, half of them 
forgotten. 

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Now you've got three that you 
actually use. 

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You used to carry depth like it 
was normal, because everyone 

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does. 
Now you pay it off aggressively 

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because you understand what 
depth really costs in terms of 

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future purchasing power. 
You used to scroll for two hours

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before bed, but now you read. 
You used to measure your year by

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what you bought. 
Now you measure it by what you 

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built. 
You used to spend Sunday at the 

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mall, and now you spend it 
learning a new skill. 

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You start exercising because a 
longer, healthier life means 

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more years to benefit from your 
savings. 

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You invest in relationships 
because community compounds like

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nothing else. 
You think in decades, not 

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quarters. 
Safety in the Moose puts it 

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beautifully. 
He argues that the lowering of 

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time preference is what 
initiates the process of 

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civilization when money holds 
its value. 

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People plant trees they will 
never sit under, they built 

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cathedrals that take 
generations, and they invest in 

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education, culture, and 
infrastructure. 

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Henry Walter Thoreau, an 
American author and philosopher,

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figured this out in the 1840s. 
He went to Walden Pond and 

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discovered he could meet all his
expenses by working six weeks 

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out of the year. 
Six weeks and the rest was for 

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reading, writing, walking and 
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He wrote. 
The mass of men lead lives of 

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quiet desperation, and man has 
no time to be anything but a 

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machine. 
Bitcoin changes the math that 

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creates the desperation, and 
when the math changes, the life 

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changes. 
But the rewiring goes deeper 

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than habits. 
There's a moment that goes 

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beyond intellectual 
understanding and becomes 

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something you feel in your body.
This is the moment you move 

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Bitcoin to self custody. 12 
words written down, memorized 

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and secured. 
The value representing years of 

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your labor held by you alone. 
No bank can freeze it. 

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No government can confiscate it.
No algorithm can flag your 

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account. 
No terms of service can change, 

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and when that lands, when it 
really hits you that you can 

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hold your own values, something 
profound happens. 

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Because for the first time in 
your life, the most important 

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economic asset you have depends 
on nobody's permission. 

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The Gnostic tradition described 
an inner divine spark that no 

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external authority can grant or 
revoke. 

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Self custody is the financial 
discovery of that spark. 

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The moment you realize I didn't 
need a bank, I didn't need the 

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state. 
The sovereignty was always 

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available. 
I just needed the tool. 

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Goddard's teaching applies here,
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He talked about the difference 
between living from the outside 

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in, letting external authorities
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living from the inside out, 
assuming your own sovereign 

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state, and letting the world 
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Self custody is living from the 
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You don't request, you hold. 
You don't have to ask, you just 

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verify. 
And that all sounds great and it

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is, but I need to be honest. 
There's a part of this journey 

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that nobody warns you about, and
that is the loneliness. 

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Seeing through the system is 
lonely at first. 

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The Gospel of Thomas has this 
incredible line. 

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The teacher looks at humanity 
and says I found them all 

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intoxicated. 
I found none of them thirsty. 

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And if you've been in Bitcoin 
for a while, you know that 

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feeling. 
You see the cantalong effect 

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happening in real time and 
nobody you know has even heard 

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of this term. 
You try to explain self custody 

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to your family and they look at 
you like you've joined a cult. 

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You watch the money supply 
expand by trillions and everyone

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around you just thinks groceries
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no apparent reason. 
That's the cost of gnosis. 

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That's the cost of the direct 
knowledge that isolates you from

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those who don't share it. 
The ancient traditions warned 

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about this. 
The Gnostic path was described 

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as difficult precisely because 
it means seeing what others 

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cannot. 
But here's the turn, and this is

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very important. 
The loneliness is temporary, and

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the isolation isn't the 
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Definitely not the destination. 
It is just a passage. 

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Because the moment you find 
other people who see what you 

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see, who've been through the 
same rewiring, who understand 

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without you having to explain, 
the connection is deep, deeper 

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than most friendships built on 
service level shared 

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consumption. 
The Bitcoin community, for all 

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its debates and drama, functions
as a is a network of people who 

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share a form of nosis, and the 
bonds form through shared 

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understanding are real. 
Neville Goddard would say. 

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When you change your frequency, 
you attract others on the same 

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frequency. 
The tribe doesn't require 

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joining. 
It assembles around the signal 

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that we're putting out. 
From my European friends that 

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want to buy Bitcoin with ease, 
check out Relay. 

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I've been a long time fan and 
happy to partner up with what I 

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think is the best Bitcoin only 
platform for Europeans. 

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They offer a super simple 
beginner friendly app with no 

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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. 
Relay is 100% self custody. 

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Every set you hold is yours, 
your keys, your coins. 

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If you want to get started, 
download the app file in my link

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below or in the description and 
use code BRUM. 

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That's BR AM at checkout to get 
10% of your fees. 

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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

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thinking, do I really want to 
sell this? 

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Here's the thing, you don't have
to. 

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You can borrow against your 
Bitcoin instead. 

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So there's also no taxable event
and your stack can keep on 

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stacking. 
This is where Firefish comes in,

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a peer-to-peer marketplace for 
Bitcoin backed loans. 

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And Firefish isn't a lender. 
They built the protocol that 

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makes this all possible, which 
is exactly why they never ever 

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have to touch your Bitcoin 
during your loan. 

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Your Bitcoin sits in an on chain
multi sick secured by open 

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source code. 
You can easily create a loan 

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request with your desired 
amount, duration and interest 

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rate and share it on their 
marketplace at firefish dot IO. 

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When you get matched and decide 
to accept a loan offer, you can 

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use code Brom to get 30% of your
first loans fees. 

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That's firefish dot IO and code 
Brom. 

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All right, now let me bring this
entire mini trilogy together 

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because for these three 
episodes, the convergence is 

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what matters most. 
In in Part 1, I showed you the 

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trap, a monetary system that 
captures your consciousness, 

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your time, and your life energy 
through the extraction loop, the

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bandwidth trap and the 
institutionalized forever desire

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for more. 
In Part 2, I showed you the map 

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7 ancient principles revealing 
that Fiat money finds reality 

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while Bitcoin aligns with it. 
And in this episode, in part 

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three, it is all about the path.
The crack that lets you see the 

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system, the shift from someday 
to now, the rewiring of your 

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habits and your time preference,
the spark of self custody and 

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the loneliness of gnosis. 
And now the built. 

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Because the path comes down to a
single word. 

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Built. 
Buckminster Fuller said you 

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never change things by fighting 
the existing reality. 

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To change something, built a new
model that makes the existing 

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model obsolete. 
Building is the opposite of 

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consuming. 
Consuming extracts and building 

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creates the field. 
Money system needs consumers, 

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but Bitcoin creates builders. 
When your time preference 

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lowers, when your savings are 
secure, when your identity isn't

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constructed around what you buy,
you have the margin, the 

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bandwidth, and the freedom to 
ask what can I create? 

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And that question, I think, is 
the real gift of Bitcoin. 

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Not number go up, not getting 
rich. 

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The gift is the space to ask the
question and actually have the 

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bandwidth to act on the answer. 
Neville Goddard's teaching one 

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last time. 
Assume the state of the builder.

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Don't wait until you have enough
money, enough time, enough 

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permission. 
Just occupy the consciousness of

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the person who creates, and the 
creation will follow. 

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Hayek dreamed of this in 1984 
when he said all we can do is 

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buy some sly roundabout way, 
introduce something that they 

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cannot stop, and Satoshi 
Nakamoto built the sly 

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roundabout thing. 
And the question passes to us 

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not will Bitcoin work? 
It works. 

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The protocol runs and the 
network grows and the math and 

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the physics hold. 
The question is, what will you 

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build on top of it? 
So what does the rewired mind 

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look like? 
Not in theory, but in practice. 

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It measures wealth in time, not 
money. 

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It thinks in decades, and it 
doesn't need the next thing. 

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It holds its own keys and 
understands what that means. 

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It builds, creates, and 
contributes not to get rich, but

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because low time preference and 
secure savings free up the 

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bandwidth for work that matters.
And it lives right now in 

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Goddard's state of the wish 
fulfilled, not waiting for 

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someday, not deferring to a 
future that keeps receding. 

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It is occupying freedom today 
with whatever they have. 

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The Gnostics called this Gnosis,
the Taoist called this returning

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to Pooh, the uncarved block, and
the Hermeticists called it 

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mastery. 
Right? 

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Rising from pawn to player. 
Goddard called it the wish 

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fulfilled. 
Different maps, same territory. 

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And that territory is all yours.
And it always was. 

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You just needed a tool to see 
it, and now you do. 

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Bitcoin gives you this tool. 
The rewiring gives you the mind,

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and the path you walk after 
that, that is totally yours. 

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Thanks for listening to this 
episode and miniseries in the 

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Bitcoin for Millennials podcast.
All three episodes are linked in

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the show notes and if this 
trilogy changed how you think 

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about money, share it with 
someone who needs to hear it 

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too. 
I will see you with the guests 

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in the next episode. 
Bye. 

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I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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