#Bitcoin Co-Founder Rock Star Real Estate, Keen Interest in Monetary System, Espresso & the Adriatic Sea, Co-Host Your Life! Your Terms! Podcast
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Last Notes npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza What a listen. 🤯 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza The Bitcoin rabbit hole never ends. This was incredible. Bitcoin is like an angelic touch of clarity in a chaotic world. I'm constantly amazed by it. Thx for this 🙏 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza We did a few new things with NotebookLM this week that had our entire team’s jaws on the floor. Wild AI advancements happening. Another fold 😎 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that one!! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza This! This all day long! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza We just had a lawyer in Canada update our clients on all of this. If anyone in Canada is reading this and needs that type of assistance send me a DM and we'll share the contact. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Oh wow. Yeah that’s a beauty. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza AI productivity explosion is coming. No stopping it. Only two possible worlds: Fiat → every breakthrough gets silently taxed and funnelled upward Bitcoin → every breakthrough makes tomorrow cheaper than today Same tech. Totally different winners as @nprofile…w2ua has been sharing with us for some time now. This latest release of Gemini 3 is like another "fold" just occurred (it created the illustration below in about 2 seconds). The new system that's emerging is both exciting and slightly terrifying. https://blossom.primal.net/2b8e0fc76d8ed366ffb9657274171ce24176c247f9706f4c01b52a03d97ed58d.png npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza The most important economic transition in human history, illustrated. Left → breaking apart under debt + inflation Right → being born out of energy, intelligence, and sound money We’re somewhere in the colourful chaos in the middle right now it would seem. https://blossom.primal.net/6d03ac1249ea6bc19b66d1e81984dbc8e6dd8468e3086ae05c40556724ba66f5.png npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Two futures, same AI explosion (extrapolating out the next few years is wild): Left: Fiat + infinite cantillionaire printer → wealth flows upward, prices moon, savings melt, everyone runs faster on the hamster wheel just to stay in place. Right: Bitcoin monetary layer (fixed supply, energy-backed, no privileged diluters) → wealth flows outward to producers/savers, prices fall over time, one unit of work today keeps compounding forever. AI supercharges production either way. Only question is who gets the new value. https://blossom.primal.net/09ebf7e35542b034f8c6d98dde6d8a8f7be3d15ae4be01c8101d800ef1b06707.jpg npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Let the fun begin again! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza This looks right up my alley. Will listen. Appreciate the share. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Thanks for that 🙏 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza 🇨🇦 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza I continue to be in awe at what I have learned from Jeff. And thanks for sharing this 🙏 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Wow. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing that. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Appreciate that Jake!! 👊💯 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza "Scarcity is imposed. Abundance is natural." This whole shift to AI and sound money is a bigger transition that I initially realized. The old economy runs on scarcity economics. They system we use today - banking, pricing, debt, interest - were all built in a world where: Energy was limited, production was slow, information was expensive, labour was the bottleneck. This meant the economy evolved by managing "scarcity". It's what most economists and CEOs still discuss today ... the "economics of scarcity". (Aside: it really hit me when Eric Scmidt in a recent interview with Peter Diamandis, Moonshots podcast, assumed that AI will centralize power/control and he couldn't see outside of the old system) In a scarcity based system, whoever controls the money supply, the credit system, the energy markets controls the distribution of wealth. This leads to centralization. Energy is abundant and is headed to becoming abundantly available (yes, we are early here but the trend to abundance is becoming visible). Intelligence is becoming abundant. Scarcity is not the natural state of the world anymore. (Aside: We already produce more energy than we use — we just waste it. Bitcoin mining makes wasted energy profitable, which increases usable supply and pushes the cost of energy down over time.) This is blowing me away. The sun hits earth with 10,000x more energy than humanity is currently using. AI turns intelligence into a scalable resource. Automation is turning labour from scarce to easily replicable. Bitcoin turns value storage into something that's fixed and incorruptible. So instead of economics being about who controls scarcity, it is now actively in the process of becoming about how efficiently we convert: Energy -> intelligence -> output -> value. We are now incentivized to think from physics instead of from finance and the assumptions I've used my whole life are changing very quickly. Scarcity Economics: Value is limited Money is managed by centralized intitutions. Wealth accumulates upward. Savings doesn't work. Physics of Abundance: Value is producible at scale. Money is secured by energy. Wealth spreads outward through lower prices. Saving IS the mechanism of prosperity. If AI makes intelligence abundant, and Bitcoin makes money incorruptible, and energy increasingly comes from excess/stranded/renewable sources... ...then the limited factor in wealth creation is no longer "who controls the money". The limiting factor becomes: How much energy and intelligence you can access and coordinate. We are moving to a world where physics is more important than finances. Wealth in the future will flow to the people, companies, and regions that can power things (energy) and figure out what to do with that power (intelligence) — and connect those pieces efficiently (coordination). And with a new monetary layer (Bitcoin) is enabling global coordination between almost anyone. Scarcity has been imposed on us. Abundance is natural. And we're seeing this start to play out in a meaningful way right now. Completely wild time to be alive. I used to look at my favourite sunsets to admire the beauty (that's the Adriatic sea in the pic) ... and now I see much more. https://blossom.primal.net/381645f41a0eb404f104eac6b35882971db93751a848402c992118f4c73103ea.png npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza This interview with Peter Diamandis and Eric Schmidt is fascinating b/c it perfectly illustrates how difficult it is for even people like Eric and Dr Fri-Fei Li to understand how abundance can flow to everyone, globally. AI will create massive new wealth. The question is not whether abundance happens. The question is who captures it... When money is controlled, abundance concentrates. When money is neutral, abundance distributes. Bitcoin is the difference. In today’s system, the value created by society gets skimmed off at the monetary layer. Inflation, credit creation, asset manipulation—these are extraction tools today. That only works because money is centralized and can be changed by a small group of people. Bitcoin changes this. It ties money to energy, not politics. It removes the ability to “print” or dilute value. When productivity increases under Bitcoin, the value flows to the creators, not the gatekeepers. So the future divides cleanly: AI + Fiat → Centralized abundance AI + Bitcoin → Distributed abundance The base layer determines the outcome. Fix the money. Free the future. Obvious h/t to @nprofile…l6ly for making this all so clear. If anyone knows Peter let's get Jeff on the Moonshots pod, he'd bring new insights to their discussions. https://youtu.be/rFomaqO2SD4?si=xleYzeqYzbvzErRt npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza I think becase so much of what you share is very dense with signal you can say the same things "over and over" and still have a tremendous impact. For example, when you say "The natrual state of the free market is deflaiton" ... just that one setence made me have to figure out "what is a free market and are we in one now?" ... "what does he mean when he says 'natural state?'" ... "what is deflation and what are the 2nd order effects of that" etc. etc. etc. So you have one sentence that has multiple complex ideas that needed to be sorted. I need to hear you say it dozens of times to shift my focus into different aspects of it. And now after years of working on them I have zero patience for anyone who doesn't understand it all immediately ... but that's a differnt problem, LOL. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Beauty. I read this somewhere and it came to mind after seeing this … the qualify of our consciousness unlocks/creates the quality of our future. Wild to think about. Luv it. Thx for sharing this Jeff!! 👊🙏 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Preparing for a new presentation ... looking at the old GDP model for the economy and just shaking my head at how we've let this fiat game persist for so long. It's more obvious than ever that true prosperity comes from expanding access to abundant, low-cost energy (enabling everything from manufacturing to data centers), exponential gains in efficiency and innovation via AI and compute power (driving down costs across industries), and a sound, fixed-supply monetary base (like Bitcoin's model) that prevents debasement and lets deflationary forces compound value into the monetary unit itself. OLD: GDP = Consumption + Investment + Gov Spending + Net Exports ...this suddenly seems so archaic. NEW: Economic Abundance = Energy Scalability + AI Productivity + Monetary Integrity ...borderless, trustless, energy-based, deflationary (productivity growth without debt growth). We're in the middle of a major economic phase transition and it's going to be chaotic on all levels for some time ... but the opportunities ahead are exciting! The era of abundance awaits but it’s now very clear to me that the ride there is gonna be choppy. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza In fiat land debt is a wealth accelerator. Inflation erodes debt. The old guard likes this system and defends it. It destroys the middle class and creates dependance on central authorities. In sound money land, aka Bitcoin, savings is a wealth accelerator. Your money buys more over time. It restores personal sovereignty. It frees the soul. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza if anyone out there is in Canada and renewing a mortgage ... never accept the rate your bank is offering you. Always shop around and then tell/show your current bank ... almost 100% of the time your current bank will match it or beat it. Wish I knew that 30 years and many, many renewals ago npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza OK that was good. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza The fiat banking pushback continues npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza These are so great thank you for putting them together. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Canada struggling right now. Capital finding a new home. The Bitcoin free market continues uninterrupted of course. Weird to see things play out almost exactly as you expect them. And Canada has so much potential and so much to offer the world. Rough to watch. Here's the source: https://financialpost.com/news/foreign-investors-canada-missing-in-action https://blossom.primal.net/7ea25e2682b6dcfa3c15313ee4d9e5cb938d0449e491d277d62ce7781e6b75f2.png npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza UPDATE 🚨: Canada is at it again ... the latest M2 Money Supply data from Stats Canada is out and it ain't pretty. Canada hit another all-time high in M2 at 2.715 Trillion. The debasement of Canadian dollars continues at 8.48% CAGR from 1968 to today. Party on Canada (or print on!). Check out Bitcoin fellow plebs. https://blossom.primal.net/d8ac8ec71ce7a157ecc3e7d6050e2b78207f53a5e4f04666a084cd8f4d05235f.png npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Oh yeah. That’s a great one too!! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Something happened to me a little while back and I fully blame @`Jeff Booth` for this (in the best way possible Jeff!! 🙌 ) ... once you fully understand that "the natural state of the free market is deflation" everything clicks ... the fiat chaos in housing, politics, salaries, careers, almost everything. The madness of a dying system's last throes? It all makes brutal, logical sense - wrong and often horrible, but understandable. And the beauty that is emerging (slowly but surely) from a new free market is completely mind blowing. Blessed to witness this historic shift with each of you. Grateful for the perspective. What a time to be alive. Onward!! 🚀 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Sharing this one far and wide with friends. Always appreciate these episodes gentlemen. Thank you @nprofile…aadh @nprofile…m9kz 🙏💯👊 #nevent1q…vxl7 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza This must have been amazing Jeff! What a great opportunity! 👊💯🔥 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Powerful message. You don’t have to share as much as you do … grateful that you choose to. Thank you for it 🙏 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza LOL, same. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza I think you're right to be cautious here. I'm just going off of exactly what you stated ... M2 is going higher (mandatory) so therefore scarcer hard assets go up in dollar price. Doesn't mean they trend down for a little longer here etc. Unlike the 2010 which was a steady rise in prices, this decade real estate will continue to be much more volatile as the fiat system unwinds. I feel for the first time homebuyers as well. Hope some of them are spending the time to understand Bitcoin. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Tough to call. So much nuance here ... property type, location etc. etc. Just interviewed Brent Johnson (dollar milkshake theory) and this came up. I think the team will release it next week. He's negative on Canadian real estate but when I pushed a bit he admitted that it can go higher in nominal terms from here, especially in response to any economic crisis. My bet here is prices go UP on Canadian real estate over the next few years. The banks and the gov need real estate to go higher ... so they will. I don't agree with this approach but that's the game. Think of it this way. What will lose value faster? The Canadian dollar or a good hard asset property and then place your bet accordingly. But in BTC terms real estate just continues to get obliterated. Bottom line: Up in fiat terms, down in BTC. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza 5 years in and still processing how deep the Bitcoin rabbit hole goes. Wild. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza What an amazing conversation. Must listen stuff. 👊💯 nevent1qqsps6359ayuu0lmz9smsv02vtvcyn7gycyy24tv36qa332ntj8xwjcpyfmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6an9wf5kv6t9vsh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5x3ked8 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Absolute epic rip. Loved that you guys got into the weeds of what this transition looks like in more detail. Really appreciate these chats. 🙏 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Awesome. Thanks for sharing. 👊 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Suddenly NOSTR feels much more important and valuable to me. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Such an honour to have you there Leon! You are changing the way people are thinking with your insights and examples ... it's impressive to watch. Grateful to have crossed paths like this. 🙏 👊 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza LOL great one!! Must be from @nprofile…yza6 ... gonna use it as well!! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Agreed. What a beautiful message and wonderful time in history. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Just an absolute banger of a reply. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza So wild to see that!! Wow. Once you see it, you can't unsee it!! You have opened the eyes of so many us to this Jeff. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Awesome Larry!! 👊 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Appreciate the kind words 🙏 , Bram does an incredible job with these!! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza We cannot wait to unleash you in front of the group!! 👊🔥🙏 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Totally!! 😂 It’s wild that in an attempt to make people take a look at it I used the historic low. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza We've been banging the table for our real estate clients to add BTC to their lives for years now. And as we all know it's tough to get people to understand Bitcoin initially. Anyway we may have cracked this a tad by using what they understand. We started to share this example and the feedback has been good. Let's say you have a rental property worth about $750K (yes, that's really a standard CAD fiat price for one in the Greater Toronto Area) that generates $475 in positive cash flow. Now remember, these investors do not want to sell their real estate (yet!) .... they consider it risky. So we're presenting this: Take the $475 in cash flow and use it to get a credit line secured against the rental. At 5.7% rate here in Canada that gets you $100K, then buy Bitcoin with it. You now have a $750K property. And $100K in BTC. After 10 years: Property Value at 7% CAGR (historic rate) = $1,378,844 Bitcoin value at 24% CAGR (low 4-year rolling CAGR) = $693,098 Combined Value = $2,071,943 After 20 years: Property Value = $2,712,395 Bitcoin Value = $5,956,786 Combined Value = $8,669,181 So for $475/month that they property paid for they totally changed the return on the one rental property. You almost double the CAGR of property from 7% to 13.75% over 20 years with a simple $475/month credit line payment invested in BTC. The feedback by some of our most serious investors has been instantly profound, almost like they finally "get it". Anyway just sharing in case this is useful. @nprofile…uq9q it's basically a take on what you've been presenting just reworked a tad for a smaller single family home rental that is kicking off some positive cash flow. So thank you for the inspiration here. We'll have 1,100 investors or so out to a client event in April so we'll test out the messaging further there. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza I should have tagged @nprofile…rjkj @nprofile…evmn @nprofile…5g3a npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Newbie NOSTR question... I'm using Primal on the mobile app and Primal's wallet. It's great. Can I use also use the Primal wallet when sending Zaps from a browser on my Mac desktop ?? I seem to be locked into using my Alby wallet. Thanks!! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza I think it took my two full years to fully digest all of what you share and now my world will never be the same. This is gonna sound wild to some but to me Bitcoin is almost like a form of consciousness that is bringing information order to a complex system that was corrupted. That corruption kicked off poor quality signal and global human consciousness could not progress because of it ... Bitcoin solves for this. I'm not claiming to be the first to have such thoughts but it has become obvious to me that Bitcoin is more than the best money humanity has ever seen, much more. Wild times. Luv it all. So thanks for kicking off this exploration for me Jeff. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Thunderstruck AC/DC npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Appreciate that, thank you. Had a blast chatting with @nprofile…5g3a npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Enjoyed chatting a lot Bram! You do a great job with the questions!! Thanks for it! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza It's mind blowing to think that "it is imposing reality on them" ... It's obviously true but the idea just blows me away constantly!! Great post. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Wow. That’s an agenda!! Good luck with it all Jeff! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Just an incredible discussion, thanks so much for this! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Appreciate you sharing it!! 🙏 Bitcoin for the win! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza For our next event @npub1rxy…hnp8 agreed to come out and share. So we will have 1000+ real estate audience getting another dose of Bitcoin knowledge. It’s difficult for many of them to make the mental leap but it’s clicking for a few them now. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Really appreciate you taking the time to record this Preston. The feedback coming in from clients and listeners has been absolutely incredible. You orange pilled a bunch with this! Love it. 🙏💯🔥 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza At this point our real estate client events have gone from 100% real estate to each one having Bitcoin discussions. We brought Jeff Booth out and Foss etc. … slowly then suddenly. Appreciate you sharing this! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Got it. OK appreciate the tip! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Honestly still learning how to share stuff on Nostr so hope this works. Recently we chatted with Preston about Bitcoin and finance for our tradfi real estate clients ... he broke things down so beautifully, just as Preston always does. Appreciate this so much Preston!! Here's the YouTube link to the episode: https://youtu.be/EzOgaYuWYu0?si=lDvduRA0OFF-vrS4 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza I've always understood that fiat is stealing my time and labor from the past (via debasement). I don't think I've always appreciated that Bitcoin is giving me more time and labor in the future (via increased purchasing power). Wow. Bitcoin is literally giving me my time back. Holy shit. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Beautifully said. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza In Florence Italy stumbled into an exchange company on the streets that will accept BTC and hand out Euros. First in Italy apparently. Multiple locations. The person working at the counter was familiar with “wallets” and mentioned they had done this several times with customers. https://m.primal.net/JSXa.jpg npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Appreciate the information curation Jeff!! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Agreed. One of the few episodes I listened to multiple times. Especially the middle third ... fasntastic. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Interesting, thanks for highlighting this Jeff. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Thank you for everything you do Lyn. It’s very much appreciated. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza OK that was a brilliant way to summarize things. Love it. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Bit of a ramble, bit of a rant ... I was messing around with midjourney and made this image and somehow all of this then came to mind for me (LOL!). Posted on Twitter but with Nostr's improvements wanted to try sharing here as well: My parents came to Canada as young adults. One on a plane, one on a boat. They met here and had two kids, myself and my brother Nick. I don't exist without this country, so being grateful for this place, at that moment in time, is an understatement. Canada offered a lot, no doubt, that's why our parent's came. They worked hard, payed taxes, payed off debt and managed to save some. Their savings represented the efforts of their time and their labour. But those savings were not respected by the monetary system. The Canadian government, the Bank of Canada and the Canadian commercial banks actively stole their purchasing power by debasing the value of the Canadian dollar. These entities worked in tandem to create more and more and more dollars ... as a result my parent's savings have constantly been debased and lost value. More dollars created = decreased value of existing dollars. This continues to this day. And it's done in the name of an "elastic currency supply" that is required for "economic growth". It's actually pure theft of my parent's labour, their time and their saved purchasing power. It's theft of my savings and of my purchasing power. It's theft of my family's savings. This theft is masked with talk of productivity gains and building roads and hospitals. Sometimes it's even applauded with misguided cheers of "it's the right thing to do for society". You're told to "invest" to protect your savings. First you work, then you work again to protect what you worked for. The system has gotten so out of control very few remember a time when a "savings account" at the bank actually meant anything. Why does a "savings" button even exist on bank machines any more? The button might as well read "income property" or "S&P 500" or "any asset other than fiat dollars". We don't need an expanding, elastic money supply ... this actually prevents the vast majority of productivity gains from reaching the population. Any talk of the government "saving" for important things is quickly dismissed. Why save when you can debase? It's easier. "Print baby, print." The Bank of Canada is sometimes hailed as "saving the economy during recessions". The second order effects of their actions or what these actions facilitate are rarely, if ever, discussed by politicians, in academia, or in the media. When you point this out critics will call out the Canadian commercial banks as the ones created the problem when they create dollars out of thin air (signing for a new mortgage, car loan, credit line ... heck, making a credit card purchase ... and you're creating new fiat dollars out of thin air). The government and Bank of Canada get a free pass. It's an impressive display of misdirection ... missing the forest for the trees. Inflation is theft, pure and simple. it's not only debasing the currency it's debasing the quality of life, it's silently ripping apart the fabric of Canadian society. It's destroying the middle class. People work more and more and manage to save less and less. The Bank of Canada refers to inflation as "decline in the value of money" directly on their website. Instead of discussing this specific point, politicians and the media instead are surprised (act surprised?) when property prices go up, when grocery prices go up and when the standard of living goes down. The Bank of Canada is literally telling everyone it is actively decreasing the value of the dollars. To repeat ... it's literally their stated goal. Real estate and food and rent is not going up in value ... it's the same ... it's the value of our fiat dollars that are changing so you need more of them to buy the same things. Unfortunately the masses will vote for more of the same, they'll vote for UBI, they'll vote for lower interest rates, they'll vote for more spending via more debasement and more theft. Academia will mostly concur. But now, by some miracle, if some of us choose to exit this silent, never-ending robbery we can. #Bitcoin is like a super hero who arrived on the scene for those ready to see it. A finite supply. An open, honest ledger. Permissionless participation, a global monetary network. No one can debase it. It's the purest saving technology we've ever seen. The banks can't create more of it out of thin air. It's here to protect and serve. Now our time and our labour can be stored, it can be respected and it can "go up" in value relative to goods and services instead of going down. The productively gains that we all have worked for can be reflected in our chosen money. Thank goodness for #Bitcoin . My time and my family's time ... my labour and my family's labour ... can finally be stored and saved in a simple manner. We can create financial peace of mind. We can save for the future without gambling or speculating. We can focus on making the world great instead of worrying about navigating retirement and higher prices. We can free ourselves from the madness of debasement, the theft of inflation and focus on what matters: family, relationships, finding a purpose, having a mission, helping our community, deep learning, good food, great health, enjoying hobbies and having good laughs. We can plan and play for the long term. Personally, I believe we may be at humanity's inflection point. It's beautiful. Great change may be ahead. The future is bright. #Bitcoin for the win. I'm a #Bitcoin maxi for life. https://m.primal.net/HVyy.jpg npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Amazing!! Merry Christmas Jeff! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza I think we're both far along the fiat death spiral AND the supply/demand ratio in Ontario specifically is so out of whack that strong demand continues for years. Mike Moffat's data sets on this are pretty enlightening. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Beautifully written. Thanks Tomer. npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza We see you! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Likewise! Followed!! npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza 💯 npub1phqjwzvxyhqempaxy7wsc3l0js02atvd3lgnnn4c4h0hf73zmfpsedhshp TomKaradza Just setting up on here and testing it out … using Damus. Thank you for this!