#Bitcoin is the alternative financial system for local communities at a time of inflation and spiraling national debt. #Mendocino California.
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Last Notes npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino 2009: Bitcoin launches as peer-to-peer money, allowing anyone to be their own bank 2026: Only 4% of women live in economies with nearly full legal equality These dates are not ancient history. Every woman should understand Bitcoin. Every woman should have the option to own it. https://blossom.primal.net/b3471563e4003859b9e54410c65d7f2fe23e34109e699b805478ab2921c6654e.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino I hate seeing people quietly cheated out of their money and right now it’s happening to almost everyone through inflation. We’re told “prices” go up. What’s actually happening is the purchasing power of our currency is going down. Dig into why, and you’ll find inflation disproportionately benefits indebted governments at the expense of regular people. Studying bitcoin means understanding this system. Using bitcoin means opting out of this system. https://blossom.primal.net/b6a282a317f9fbf67e938af7b1c36314e55a2c4255283ffa79fc6fdd8d8d8527.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino https://blossom.primal.net/2ddba8b53256002fa8a63d655476bff72e5780687ba9c8ecfb91f1f8c77ba75e.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/3d993941b4a82b9807a721a53223dd295999451db8d5288179509eee9132c347.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino I don’t see any controversy in earning bitcoin or exchanging dollars for it. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino The flag represents different things to different people. For me, I just really like the freedom, decency, shining city on a hill, entrepreneurial, opportunity parts of it. https://blossom.primal.net/9bfb284702ac045dc1d776ce75630836cbcbebc0de7a6867c1a5007ce058e523.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino That’s OKK npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino • Age verification laws requiring government ID or personal data have passed in roughly 25 US states for sites with “harmful to minors” content and app stores (e.g., Texas effective 2026), with similar pushes in the UK, Australia, and EU, showing a real expansion trend. • The third-party doctrine is established US law allowing warrantless government access to data shared with companies, as it is considered voluntarily disclosed. https://blossom.primal.net/4f3daf4206c53f9cabaa1fd439623c70a343d2554b6af616699c482dab61ad61.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Strategy is sitting on a 13 billion dollar unrealized loss this week as Bitcoin's price drops. The options desks have started betting against them. Here's the part worth your attention. The saver who holds the same Bitcoin in a cold wallet is down the exact same percentage this week. Same asset. Same price. Same red number. One of them can be forced to sell. The other can't. That's the whole difference, and it's the difference self-custody was built to create. A company that holds Bitcoin through layers of financing has stakeholders, instruments, and obligations stacked on top of the coins. When the price moves, all of that machinery moves too, and at some point the machinery can decide for you. Coins on a key you control have no machinery. No preferred holders. No options chain pricing your pain. No quarter to answer for. A 30% drawdown is a feeling, not a forced event. The price falling tests everyone the same way. What it can't do is reach into a cold wallet and pull the trigger. Down bad is survivable. Forced to sell is not. Hold the version nobody can liquidate but you. https://blossom.primal.net/b7d81e6c245515a83fca0e158a2b4fc017e26bec3932d4a1a6d04e59e85ad07b.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino FIRST FANNIE MAE BITCOIN-BACKED MORTGAGE IS LIVE Better and Coinbase have issued the first Fannie Mae-backed Bitcoin mortgage, allowing a Michigan couple to use their Bitcoin as collateral for a conventional 30-year fixed-rate home loan without selling their BTC. The structure lets borrowers pledge Bitcoin as collateral while avoiding capital gains taxes and maintaining exposure to future price appreciation. Better CEO Vishal Garg called Bitcoin-backed mortgages a “generational next step,” arguing that Americans now hold far more wealth in stocks, bonds, and digital assets than in traditional bank accounts. Because the loan conforms to Fannie Mae underwriting standards, a government-sponsored enterprise is effectively recognizing Bitcoin as collateral within the traditional mortgage system. A broader rollout is expected later this summer. Better says demand is strong, with 76% of waitlist respondents already using Coinbase, 37% holding more than $500,000 in Bitcoin and projected loan volume reaching $250M. https://blossom.primal.net/63c151ae3cc757d15233d6f7454c1737c96c5d2403ed524e2e12ff461816f909.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Confidence. https://blossom.primal.net/69d490cfe5b2c76c26c0bee1c4b2e7c302dd513e5d1f3487d07704b97cee2728.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Another inspiring Bitcoin story Buena Vista, Colorado is becoming a new Bitcoin hub * already 19 businesses onboarded already (more than Colorado Spings) * Chamber of Commerce actively promoting it * Feedback from businesses (who were not bitcoiners) includes: "Our instore sales have increased, and 20% of our sales are now in Bitcoin" "it feels cleaner" "it feels more natural" "1 in 8 of our sales are now in Bitcoin" How did this happen? One person who in his spare time doing something we can all do - talking to people with a mindset of service. Luke Cortese(@ABCundrstandBTC) is the honeybadger who has been behind this incredible story. But it gets better Each month he runs a "treasure hunt" where new members of the community learn about Bitcoin. 25 new people started using Bitcoin on the last one. AND He's open sourcing the model so other small towns across the country can start onboarding new businesses. He's already gotten enquiries from neighboring towns, and states. https://blossom.primal.net/cd1766aa11dcbbec414450c260a3279d459fa474abedea7437eaf27e9d297a6c.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino When did Nostr die? npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Bitcoin is a pure protocol — no government no corporation, no one controls it. Digital but cash-like: pseudonymous, private, and ideal as a local currency. Nothing like Zelle, PayPal or payment apps where every move is tracked. This is money you actually own and can spend freely. https://blossom.primal.net/061ac975a3556b2e3c1f3f01a1bd71ab12b234611f9a45b19ab9908929b63e2f.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino We are entering a sovereign debt crisis… …are you prepared? https://blossom.primal.net/cd0b86594a869d485f84638affc6642b607a7c1ce9e6f044ab4a49bdd2694c6c.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino OVERALL US INFLATION UP 92% IN THE LAST 25 YEARS While the price of new TVs has collapsed in the first quarter of the 21st century, the things you need to survive like Food (+105%), Housing (+111%) and Hospital Services (+281%) are skyrocketing. Once you see what’s going on bitcoin starts to make sense as an alternative. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino It’s already started here on the coast and across Mendocino County where Flock surveillance cameras are being set up on our streets. Three technologies are converging in ways that deserve our attention: - CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) that enable financial surveillance - pervasive camera networks that track movement - digital ID systems that bind it all together. Separately, each is presented as beneficial. Together, they create the infrastructure for total visibility—a digital pentopticon where financial activity, location, and identity are monitored at scale. This isn’t inevitable. We have tools to push back: ✓ Encrypted, peer-to-peer financial systems like Bitcoin that operate outside central control ✓ Privacy-protective technologies (Signal, Tor, end-to-end encryption) ✓ Political pressure for strong data protection laws and warrant requirements ✓ Support for decentralized alternatives to centralized systems ✓ Local economic resilience—cash, community networks, local trade The question isn’t whether the technology can be built. It’s whether we’ll demand the guardrails—legal, technical, and cultural—that keep it from becoming surveillance infrastructure. That requires awareness first. https://blossom.primal.net/891bc63d502dd9d84966b5da093b43908ecbc8dd0d0863ea6c1de4e0f80b1f92.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Imagine your town is reliant on junk food that’s making everyone sick and increasingly dependent on pharmaceuticals. But you’ve discovered fresh organic food that’s healthy, and you want to share this knowledge to improve the lives of your neighbors. Now imagine your town is reliant on fiat currency that’s making everything unaffordable and increasingly driving people into debt. But you’ve discovered sound money that can be used and saved for a better future, and you want to share this knowledge to improve the lives of your neighbors, too. Study Bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/22b9d89c9188fd95c3747fc1e79bb2ad085243b060ab6c83155707c034f8b91c.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino There are 6 branches of government of differing levels of equality: - Executive - Legislative - Judicial - Intelligence - Military - Bureaucratic https://blossom.primal.net/fb5249ba020ac6f9fe70b95e472bd7eda3e88db4f41a9481cb4bb2a1219bf6fc.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino In a world drowning in debt and inflation imagine a small coastal community where the economy is strong because bitcoin is the local currency. https://blossom.primal.net/c4cf301a7cc47ac986682e3a5ebb9fc8439f1c42146cecbe5552b83a5a0b0db2.mov npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Bitcoin is a high-IQ, low-time-preference asset in a world addicted to DoorDash, dopamine, and debt. Holding Bitcoin requires patience, conviction, and the ability to not panic when CNBC tells you it’s dead for the 47th time. That rules out, oh I don’t know - 95% of the population? This isn’t some egalitarian revolution. This is a cognitive filter disguised as a monetary network. The rich, the strategic, the elite - those who understand volatility as opportunity - will stack the hardest asset on Earth while the masses beg for interest rate cuts and $600 stimmies to buy groceries they can't afford. It's not a level playing field. It's a time-preference war, and Bitcoin is the scoreboard. And every cycle, we watch it happen again. The media ridicules it, the politicians fear it, and the smart money buys more. While fiat punishes savers and rewards financial nihilism, Bitcoin inverts the whole structure. It’s a vault for those who can delay gratification, think generationally, and understand that true wealth is preserved rather than printed. The game isn’t rigged. It’s just calibrated for adults. ~Adam Livingston https://blossom.primal.net/db36ebe92d26da5e629c499d77859709c007cdb8ea3ee4d4cff7cd02b2f7895c.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Bitcoin isn't real! It's not physical! Yeah? Neither is the number seven, but I bet you'd notice if your bank balance dropped by seven figures. Let me break the spell for you: money has never been "real." Money is a collective hallucination—a social construct we all agree to pretend exists so we don't have to barter chickens for dental work. Gold wasn't money because it fell from heaven with "LEGAL TENDER" stamped on it. We picked gold because it was the least-bad physical object that checked the boxes: - Scarce - Durable - Divisible - Portable - Verifiable It was the analog solution to our shared idea. But here's the thing about analog: it's slow, heavy, and requires armed guards. And here's the thing about humans: we engineer better tools. We went from abacus to iPhone. From carrier pigeons to satellites. From gold bars locked in vaults to Bitcoin—verified by thermodynamics, secured by energy, and transmitted at the speed of light. Bitcoin is the digital versioin of money. Just like X is the digital version of town hall. Gold was the best we could do for many centuries. Bitcoin is what we can do now that we have cryptography, distributed consensus, and proof-of-work anchored in physics. Your grandpa trusted gold because he could hold it. You trust Bitcoin because you can verify it. One required faith in a metal. The other requires faith in math. Guess which one has never been debased, diluted, or confiscated by executive order? The concept of money is a human mental construct. Always has been. Always will be. The only question is: do you want your construct built on scarcity enforced by governments—or scarcity enforced by code? Gold was monetary technology for the industrial age. Bitcoin is monetary technology for the information age. Welcome to the upgrade. https://blossom.primal.net/b01c73d8aaea429dfc9ff421b54758830910763b9f32f96b55903ad279cb0a7c.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino https://blossom.primal.net/198dd42a0e5b80736de2824a2265b3b21b2f728eb3eedc3fa4b865324bf619bd.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino In 2014 a 19-year-old MIT student raised $500,000 and gave every undergraduate on campus $100 in Bitcoin. Most of them spent it on sushi. That sushi cost them $44 million. — Jeremy Rubin was a sophomore studying computer science. He raised $500,000 from alumni and Bitcoin enthusiasts and in October 2014 gave every undergraduate student at MIT $100 worth of Bitcoin about a third of a coin at $336 per $BTC. — 3,108 students signed up — The experiment became the first academic study on Bitcoin adoption ever conducted. — One in ten students cashed out within two weeks. — One in four had sold by 2017 — The ones who forgot about it entirely did the best. — The most common way students spent their Bitcoin was at a single sushi restaurant called Thelonious Monkfish. — The only place on campus accepting Bitcoin at the time. — One student estimated that half the people he knew spent their entire $100 on fish. — One student spent hers on two sushi dinners and forgot the rest existed. — In 2021 she found her wallet still sitting untouched. — Her $100 of Bitcoin was worth $13,000. — If every single student had done nothing the entire $500,000 experiment would be worth ove $110 million today — One student told reporters "Most of us thought it was a bit of a joke" The smartest students at the most prestigious engineering university on earth were given free Bitcoin in 2014 and spent it on sushi. The ones who forgot they had it became the winners. People often think bitcoin is an investment. In reality it is hard money with an absolute fixed supply of 21 million. That’s why its purchasing power increases over time. https://blossom.primal.net/15268afc93c26447ceebd19a19cbbc17639bbcb09c63bbe29d5667a24ab29869.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino https://blossom.primal.net/162f5ecacfe0664ea1cbfa2fbe8832e60154209bd6ef34afd75049f1045a6dbf.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino I trust you recorded all those zaps so you can calculate the capital gains and report them to the IRS next April then send them a fiat check. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Everyone in Bitcoin is telling you to hodl. Nobody is telling you to spend... 😬 Here's the problem with that: A currency nobody spends is not a currency, it's a museum exhibit. Gold became irrelevant the moment governments convinced people to store it in vaults and accept paper instead. That's exactly what happens when an entire community builds an identity around never spending their money. Satoshi didn't write a whitepaper about a store of value. He wrote about a peer-to-peer electronic cash system... Cash as in, you use it. The path to mass adoption isn't a million people locking Bitcoin in cold storage and waiting to become billionaires. It's a million people buying coffee, paying rent, sending money home to their families, and replacing what they spent. Spend and replace, that's how a currency wins. Hodl to death is how it becomes a relic. https://blossom.primal.net/13f4c851e37ec0993dc956a89d8ec9c5f0cde1ddd896df78d2f9269f068017eb.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Big Brother just got put on notice. Reps. Massie and Boebert just introduced H.R. 8470 — the Surveillance Accountability Act. No more warrantless searches of your phone, location data, or cloud storage. The Fourth Amendment finally applies to the digital age. Support this bill! https://blossom.primal.net/de87a4bde7dd33f6813181aaba51f35d9b9bc7721c8521aaf59963e9c9442de5.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino America is not a cohesive whole. It’s a patchwork of competing ideas — each one a different answer to the same question: how do we pursue happiness while preserving freedom? That tension isn’t a flaw. It’s the source of our resilience. https://blossom.primal.net/ffa923e1929bab6ffdf191fd092267411dadd4bde0fb89d6d98fa131e287355e.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Culture is upstream from politics. https://youtu.be/0YRTSA9q-6M npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino “Good news children -– your father has ordered us all iPhones.” https://blossom.primal.net/14af7cc1363997da47c283faadb092f847739500d5fd2809ee575dd57631c0c3.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino The American Dream wasn’t lost, it was sold off. Traded for debt, stripped for profit, and hollowed out by short-term thinking. No one is coming to fix it. Not politicians, not elections. If there’s a way forward, it starts with us rebuilding our communities, our families, and ourselves from the ground up. https://blossom.primal.net/6a7e51a14987d66b7f18959c419ad758cd879161447d2cbd626901955fdc4dd3.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino In just 6 months, BofA recommended bitcoin ETFs, Morgan Stanley launched its own bitcoin ETF, and Goldman Sachs filed for one. BUT… The point of bitcoin is that you don’t need these banks. You can be your own bank and use bitcoin as local currency strengthening our community. https://blossom.primal.net/22b9d89c9188fd95c3747fc1e79bb2ad085243b060ab6c83155707c034f8b91c.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino If the military-financial-multinational-industrial complex that is today’s American empire collapsed… …perhaps the real America could exist once more. https://blossom.primal.net/69caac90a07015d37cd32f000a1fb4544cef83f6fd90ba994d62adccd463100d.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino https://youtu.be/xXZOckp6rEY npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino An incredible story of human endurance. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino In the 1970s, Austrian-American psychologist Walter Mischel gave kids a choice: eat one marshmallow now, or wait 15 minutes and get two. Some waited, others didn’t — and the children who waited tended to perform better in adulthood in multiple facets of life. The ability to delay gratification, or exercise a low time preference mindset, wasn’t just a childhood quirk — it was an indicator of long-term success. Our current financial system degrades this way of thinking. When your money loses value each year because of consistent debasement and inflation, saving feels pointless. It’s not impulsivity; it’s survival logic in a system that penalizes patience. That “small fortune” of $100 I saved as a kid? Today, it barely covers a night out at the movies. Imagine the Marshmallow Experiment in reverse: instead of getting a second marshmallow for waiting, the children are told that every 15 minutes they wait, the marshmallow will shrink, one tiny bite at a time, until nothing remains. Naturally, they’d eat their marshmallow immediately — not out of impatience but common sense. Delaying would only guarantee them less marshmallow in the future. That’s exactly how our money works today: the longer you hold onto it, the less it’s worth. In this way, fiat systems incentivize a high time preference lifestyle. Bitcoin flips this dynamic on its head. With a fixed supply of 21 million and a transparent deflationary issuance schedule, bitcoin actually rewards those who save. The system enforces a money that gets harder to inflate/debase over time, and the incentive to spend is replaced with an incentive to hold (or “HODL”). Because when your money is going to be worth more tomorrow, spending today becomes much more expensive. https://blossom.primal.net/bd6d6dc4ba2b3511913e31a95ed7a73a3235d11d499594153c4f22229d9ee030.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino I just set up my new hardware wallet. https://blossom.primal.net/c059e3ca49e67f45736b2f7eff7664ee9f1b794609d0a9311553daec22d3cfcb.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Keep swimming against the current. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino The National Debt “The Republicans will fix it this time” “The Democrats will fix it this time” ~ (Study bitcoin.) https://blossom.primal.net/661e9d29b8a140e95d476aef7e31f28bffc1a3b964ed6e987e016d1e8e480dd8.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Imagine trying to predict today’s world from yesterday. Now imagine trying to predict tomorrow’s world from today. https://blossom.primal.net/a08fe3aaf57dce8eb3c606d9947f06f40327c0b7526d5201bc2a60b7ad62737b.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino 25 years ago you could put $500 in your pocket, drive anywhere in America, rent an apartment with no background check, and start over. $500 today is a month of groceries if you're lucky. The mainstream media wants you to think inflation is like the weather. Some atmospheric phenomenon that just happens. In reality, it's authorized, institutionalized, bipartisan theft. And the people closest to the printer don't feel it. Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching America turn into a giant carnival. Everything is temporary and transactional, without roots or community. Millennials were lucky, in an odd way, to come of age during the financial crisis. They watched Ron Paul in real time and grasped the Austrian economic framework as the bailouts played out. The wealth transfer unfolded with some families devastated while others thrived. Gen Z didn't get that education as they came of age in the aftermath. However, they certainly feel it. The sense of dispossession is completely justified. But feeling the problem and understanding the problem are two different things. The solution is there for them to find when they are ready, as Bitcoin exists and is battle-tested. The intellectual framework for understanding exactly what was done to them and exactly how to protect themselves is freely available. But it requires the hard work of sitting down and actually learning something difficult when you're already exhausted from a rigged economy. It asks people to better themselves at the exact moment they have the least energy to do it. A person with savings has options and leverage. The people running this system don't want you to have either. Sound money gives you both, and that's why they fight it so hard. Study bitcoin. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino If governments can ‘print’ their own currencies, they can pay arms manufacturers, foot soldiers, and contractors endlessly to wage endless wars. If the world operated with sound money, endless wars wouldn’t be financeable. Study Bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/e1fd0a21aa89ab53c02e0064adf43c58e01496b3551e54b08005958eaeed94a6.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino ₿ https://blossom.primal.net/46b1238db92506f687c31aed967a5c6bcb501cd5620aacfc787d8ab95c0b9f2c.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Everyone talks about innovation in California like it’s only a Silicon Valley or Hollywood thing. Meanwhile up here in Mendocino (California’s last slither of frontier) I keep meeting people who are bubbling with ideas. Up here the rules are few and the vistas wide. Creativity feels freer. Are you an innovator? https://blossom.primal.net/e6a7c0902e9b3c5ccd3e34198f77498fd9d786a4104819ae972b4f37e942dd82.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino ₿ https://blossom.primal.net/12d678fe0b68f5c2f755bc14f0b12adc24251ab205d1d9d3c99f8452c00e0298.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Surveillance does not need to arrest everyone. It only needs to make everyone feel arrestable. Privacy is the right to develop a self without permission, to think without a handler, to associate without being cataloged. That is why power attacks privacy first. When privacy dies, liberty follows. https://blossom.primal.net/0fce79db5ffa25e241d356a455080af0604e345e218b301ef8f8a124fbf3cd9f.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino The national debt just hit $39T. More dollars in circulation = each one buys less. That’s inflation. That’s why prices are rising. (That and foreign entanglements.) https://blossom.primal.net/9e6a02c64ff72f33bb562edd9d6661af128d1aa9b02cacf1893e6df7784a9655.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Small town living. https://blossom.primal.net/6f14850f6a4907c30f07ddaa781a24668dab403651be7160e6b4974c9705d5d4.png https://blossom.primal.net/c68f87397b1024e3e6a2426401b325430239b08471801fdffd4254d6e2a8fba2.png https://blossom.primal.net/c3c8a7b5b2bbec437011d32f81160e6c245d8f24ad6336c0d2a50c2f0a155979.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino SQUARE TO AUTO-ENABLE BITCOIN PAYMENTS FOR MILLIONS OF SELLERS Square will auto-enable Bitcoin payments for all eligible sellers starting March 30, 2026, according to an updated Terms of Service notice sent to users. The change means millions of businesses using Square could soon begin accepting Bitcoin by default, rather than opting in manually. The rollout is part of Block’s broader push to integrate Bitcoin payments across its ecosystem, leveraging the Lightning Network for fast, low-cost transactions. Sellers will still have the option to disable the feature or automatically convert Bitcoin to USD at the point of sale. With Square powering millions of merchants globally, this marks a major step toward making Bitcoin a standard payment method in everyday commerce. https://blossom.primal.net/c387d354be34af0624107f7c6a917b96bc0989e6c4e3edae7a06620cc09a58bf.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/06d49a8c81c9b866fa83b9318f1b888cbfb222962e13dedb8e196743ba0d7963.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino I used to bring up bitcoin in conversations so that I could try and convince people about it… …now when I bring up bitcoin it’s to hear what people have to say about it. https://blossom.primal.net/4fe11a8fff9416b7af4c8092323d334bbdbc2d88433c2babbe256d46b23a708c.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino We have something rare here in Mendocino — a tight community where people know each other. Don’t let surveillance destroy that. Opt out of the digital panopticon. https://blossom.primal.net/5419a842c18fe28c2cfee9f0c7d5ff49af8a19aaaee410d5d8598a6f8230afe8.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino 33 years ago today, Eric Hughes published the Cypherpunk Manifesto. "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age." A sentence from 1993 that hits harder every year. Bitcoin is the most powerful tool to emerge from this movement. Cypherpunks write code. 🧡 https://blossom.primal.net/36d501f798ca6952ed2a5cdc4ff7651fd0a092abb41ff3745c883addfd31f961.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino “Bitcoin is punk rock money.” Bitcoin started as a pure, permissionless counterculture, in the same vein as early punk, hip-hop, or folk. These were movements that began in the margins, dismissed and mocked by the mainstream because they didn't fit the established mold. But if a counterculture is successful, it rarely stays niche. Over time, the ethos tends to bleed into the broader world. The Ramones started playing tiny dive bars like CBGB's and today, their influence is even felt in modern pop. Bitcoin is following that exact trajectory. As it moves toward global adoption, it’s carrying the values that birthed it, from self-sovereignty and resistance to decentralized control and individual freedom, and embedding them into the global financial architecture. If hyperbitcoinization is to occur, most people who eventually use Bitcoin may never even hear the word "cypherpunk." They won't necessarily know the history of the early days, but the underlying ethos will be transmitted anyway. Gradually, behavior starts to shift because better money naturally leads to better decisions, and better decisions lead to better lives. Not every Bitcoin user will be a hardcore ideologue. Bitcoin just needs them to be incentivized to use a superior tool. The culture is built into the code, and as the money spreads, the revolution happens on a deeper level. https://blossom.primal.net/3693eed365c3a6d81470e0e452d685f307eff4019e3560ae31715a8682dea337.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino A man deposits $10,000 in a bank. The bank thanks him and records the deposit on its balance sheet. But not where you might expect. For the bank, that $10,000 is actually a liability – because technically it belongs to the customer and might have to be returned. So the bank does what banks do. It lends $9,000 of that money to someone buying a car. Now something interesting happens. The $9,000 loan appears on the bank’s books as an asset – because someone now owes the bank money. So the same $10,000 is doing two jobs at once. The depositor believes he has $10,000 safely in the bank. The borrower now has $9,000 to spend. That $9,000 gets deposited somewhere else. The next bank lends $8,100. That gets deposited again. Then $7,290 gets lent out. Soon the original $10,000 has quietly turned into tens of thousands of dollars of loans scattered across the economy. Everyone believes they have money. Depositors see balances in their accounts. Borrowers have the money they spent. Banks show healthy assets on their balance sheets because people owe them money. And here’s the best part. Banks charge interest on all those loans – maybe 7%. But the depositor who supplied the original money might earn only 0.5% on their savings account. So banks collect interest on money that mostly wasn’t theirs to begin with – and keep the difference. With bitcoin, banks are no longer able to take advantage of customers. With bitcoin you are your own bank. https://blossom.primal.net/b01c73d8aaea429dfc9ff421b54758830910763b9f32f96b55903ad279cb0a7c.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Most people think inflation is just "prices going up." There's actually a hidden order to how new money moves through the economy. Your position in that order determines whether you win or lose. It's called the Cantillon Effect. Here's how it works... When new money enters the system, it doesn't land equally in everyone's pocket. It flows from the source outward, losing purchasing power at every step. Level 1 — Banks & Financial Institutions: They get the money first. Before prices adjust. Before anyone else even knows it exists. They deploy it immediately into assets. Level 2 — Large Corporations & Contractors: They borrow cheap, expand fast, and lock in favorable terms before the market reprices. Level 3 — Asset Prices Reprice: Real estate. Equities. Hard assets. The early recipients have already bought in. Now prices rise for everyone else. Level 4 — Consumer Prices Catch Up: Your grocery bill. Your gas. Your rent. Costs climb while your paycheck holds still. Level 5 — Wages Adjust Last: By the time wages catch up, the purchasing power is already gone. You're running a race where the finish line keeps moving. This is the inflation tax most people never discuss. Structural, predictable, and baked into every fiat monetary system in history. The Cantillon Effect requires two things: new money and a centralized party with the power to issue it. Bitcoin has neither. Its supply is fixed, its issuance is governed by protocol, and no institution gets preferential access. Every participant operates on the same terms. Sound money neutralizes the Cantillon Effect. Bitcoin is the soundest money ever created. https://blossom.primal.net/22b9d89c9188fd95c3747fc1e79bb2ad085243b060ab6c83155707c034f8b91c.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Live light: ditch the clutter, dodge the surveillance. A quiet house, no smart fridge — freedom isn’t in gadgets, it’s in what you don’t own. https://blossom.primal.net/d9c8f58a0070c2c507fa392a45c1da030bc9be2a17cd201ad79569d52565de55.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino ₿ #nevent1q…pyf2 npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Jeffrey who? https://blossom.primal.net/5bf1a9b90a9aba19f0e70211544952735ff3868c8e4f8875b685b12db58e7d8f.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Rah rah, vodio do! npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Yes, visit Big River Beach and gaze up river — you’ll see the tops of redwoods, some are around my cabin. https://blossom.primal.net/c7ed73a8793557b2afd244366acc2f48122e9e7f55cf27e073f029b9c6b8e28e.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Bitcoin isn’t an investment. It’s not a stock. It’s not something that needs government approval. Treating Bitcoin like a speculative asset misses the point entirely. It’s about freedom. Self-custody. And breaking the state’s monopoly on money. If you're trading it like a stock, you're not seeing the real picture. Study it. Own it. Be free. https://blossom.primal.net/111f29fe13381c4ce3604420a02aead0388f5bfe780f850f377356a7ae444ae4.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino AI will soon be able to generate anything digital: text, images, video, even whole identities. In that world, what can you still trust? Gold answered that question in the physical world. It became money not by decree, but because its chemistry made it uniquely scarce, durable, and hard to fake. Szabo called this “unforgeable costliness”: you don’t have to trust anyone, because the cost and scarcity are enforced by physics, not by people. Bitcoin is that same idea ported into cyberspace. Its proof-of-work protocol doesn’t just follow software rules; it anchors digital truth in real energy and thermodynamics. Hard to produce, easy to verify – just like gold. As AI floods the internet with synthetic content and deepfakes, anything purely digital becomes easy to fake or deny. Proof-of-work is the one thing AI cannot simulate without real energy expenditure. That makes Bitcoin more than money; it’s a truth layer – a ledger of events that no committee, government, or model can rewrite. AI is digital abundance, Bitcoin is digital scarcity. Without a physics-based anchor like Bitcoin, AI just accelerates the existing fiat system and its centralization. With Bitcoin, AI gets an incorruptible base layer: a ledger of truth backed by the laws of thermodynamics, not by trust. Study Bitcoin. Sources https://blossom.primal.net/1e056d3ebf7d0540c8dc1076f0da07a5d653381019516ff80a26ae4a59a3ba2e.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino ₿ https://blossom.primal.net/9bd64e573479a6ea2184afabba38c6d343c124d5e16fe49fedbd4e02b4c09c5d.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino https://blossom.primal.net/f322d206efdf352c98cb9f369b82ded9bee9f81708a3e3cc19565b64028b91f3.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Bitcoin's been pitched as digital gold for 17 years. At sub-5% adoption, that pitch gets boring What's not boring is a business owner who hates their Visa statement: Every major technology adoption curve has a crossing point. It's never the early adopters who push it over. It's the people who adopt it for boring, practical reasons they don't feel the need to announce. The internet crossed because businesses needed fast communication, not because people believed in the digital economy. 4 million Square merchants have access to Bitcoin payments. 0% credit card fees, instant settlement, and instant USD conversion if you don't want to hold it. That last part matters more than any crypto bill that passes this year. You don't need a Bitcoin thesis to use it, you need a 3% problem. A coffee shop doing $500k/year in card transactions is paying $15,000 to Visa and Mastercard for the privilege of getting paid. A clear problem with a clear solution -> product market fit And the business owner doesn't have to touch a wallet, read a block explorer, or care about halving cycles. They flip a setting in Square, save the fee, convert to dollars, and move on. This is how nascent technologies win. https://blossom.primal.net/4d68bce9567f477c3b6f096bbf5155c96bbeae42f7fa2acec82e1f8e2275d555.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Two curves are crossing. One falling, one rising. The falling curve is institutional legitimacy — the trust that makes governments functional, money valuable, and expertise credible. It’s been falling for decades as the information asymmetries that sustained it have been destroyed. The rising curve is technological capability — not just useful technology, but technology that can improve itself, that can do the cognitive work that has historically defined human professional value, that is now operating on timescales that human institutions cannot match. The most underestimated preparation for this time of profound change is the simplest: invest in actual human relationships and community. The research on how communities survive large shocks — Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel-winning work on collective action — shows consistently that the communities that cope best are not the richest or the best governed. They’re the ones with the strongest bonds of trust and mutual support. https://blossom.primal.net/8513038d339e69ce84def755ea23c90b1b9a3b3956cc96f6f8e659cfd261ea9f.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Once you wake up to the fact that the world hasn’t operated with “money” since 1971, things start to make sense. When you realize that, instead of money, the world operates with currency—tokens created as debt and used as a proxy for money—the causes of wealth inequality and social unrest become apparent. Study bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/c5de5520e841f498810b4c3838807197b09d7efeb37e22f4d0bb35f8ee5b2a52.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino That’s a great reply. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino From Scott Melker: “Any remaining faith I had in our institutions is gone. The Epstein files were the final straw for me. For years, I’ve tried to give the system the benefit of the doubt. Assume incompetence over malice. Assume there are things happening behind the scenes. Assume eventually the truth comes out. Cope. At some point you have to stop lying to yourself. When the most powerful people on earth are connected to something this dark, and the result is sealed documents, redactions, quiet settlements, and zero real accountability, you start to see the pattern. There’s a system for regular people, and there’s a different system for the elite. We have seen it with monetary and economic policy. Now we see it is systemic. This isn’t about left vs. right. It’s not partisan for me. Corruption protects itself. Power protects power. That’s the constant. And when that realization sets in, you have a choice. You can scream about it. You can argue online. You can hope the next election fixes it. Or you can quietly opt out where you can. For me, that’s Bitcoin. Not because it’s some utopia or because it fixes evil. But because it doesn’t require me to trust the same institutions that have repeatedly shown they don’t operate by the same rules for everyone. No special access. No closed-door monetary policy. No selective bailouts. Just open code and rules that apply to everyone. Maybe that sounds dramatic. But I don’t see it as rebellion. I see it as self-preservation. When trust erodes, capital moves. It always has. Some people exit geographically. Some exit socially. Some mentally check out. I’m exiting financially. You don’t need to agree. But if you’ve felt that shift lately – that quiet realization that the people in charge aren’t playing the same game as the rest of us – you’re not alone. For me, Bitcoin isn’t about getting rich. It’s about no longer asking permission.” https://blossom.primal.net/fe193d754cce863df1cf952b7a9a6753a56c0fb8e83e9b712c73a54ebd41178d.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Most people still operate under a schoolbook illusion that banks take deposits and lend them out. The truth is far stranger: banks don’t lend existing money; they create new money. When you sign a mortgage for $500,000, the bank doesn’t go searching for someone who has saved $500,000 to lend you. It simply types the number into your account. That keystroke becomes money; new purchasing power is injected into the economy, backed not by production but by your future labor. This has nothing to do with capitalism. Saifedean Ammous called it “monetary alchemy”. Banks have become engines of debt creation rather than guardians of savings. They pay you a microscopic interest rate on your deposits, but they use those same deposits to acquire assets yielding far more. You bear the risk; they harvest the spread. And when their bets blow up, as they did in 2008 and 2023, they don’t face the losses that capitalism demands — instead, the government and central bank step in to rescue them, socialize the losses, and protect institutional survival at all costs. ~~~ Study bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/d6edbd865dca12a8b87b683dbc823ace93b57755e60cae8a6079d8e191f62d19.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Much of the angst in the national zeitgeist these days centers around economic uncertainty—like it’s just a bad roll of the dice. But dig deeper and the real issue stares you in the face: the money itself is broken. It’s not even money anymore—it’s currency, a system of IOUs controlled by a tiny handful of unelected officials. And surprise: the people closest to the printing press always win the biggest prizes. Everyone else just gets inflation. We’re all playing a global, gargantuan game of Monopoly except the bank can print infinite money for its friends and reset the board whenever it wants. Meanwhile the rules only apply to the rest of us who aren’t on the inside. So study bitcoin. It’s the one asset that finally changes the game: fixed supply, no central banker can inflate it away, no permission required. It’s the exit from a corrupt system. Bitcoin isn’t about getting rich quick, it’s about not getting poor slowly. https://blossom.primal.net/470634f5871b50dacff2c1d5151c7cbb1054e068b5f1df17debc49a1bf596654.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer designs an even more advanced successor to uncover deeper truths. That’s exactly what’s unfolding today with AI: systems are now helping build smarter versions of themselves, creating a rapid cycle of improvement that’s changing work faster than most realize. Out here in small towns and rural communities, where folks are busy with farming, local shops, family businesses, and everyday life, this might still feel distant—like something happening in big cities. But it’s not. AI is already quietly reshaping things closer to home: helping farmers spot crop issues early, optimize water and fertilizer use, predict weather impacts, or even manage small business tasks like bookkeeping, marketing, or customer service. What used to take hours or days can now happen in minutes with the right tools. The bigger shift is coming to more jobs. Office work, accounting, legal paperwork, financial planning, writing reports, or even parts of customer support—AI handles these faster and often better than before. In rural areas with fewer resources for retraining, this could hit harder and sooner than expected, potentially affecting entry-level and mid-skill roles in the next few years. At the same time, it opens doors: anyone can now experiment with building apps, starting side ventures, or boosting their farm’s efficiency without needing big-city tech skills or budgets. The key is getting ahead of it. Grab a paid version of a leading AI tool (it’s affordable, like $20/month), and spend time each day trying it on real tasks—whether that’s analyzing farm data, drafting emails, or brainstorming ways to grow your business. Those who start now, with curiosity instead of fear, will be the ones guiding their families, neighbors, and communities through whatever comes next. (This social media post was written by an AI.) https://blossom.primal.net/8123a5baa1b4dd2b3cba9d712e590ae2f9c44fd7db130e1d4e2fb4f6e8e695a1.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Inflation, often dismissed as a natural economic phenomenon, is a subtle tax on your time and energy. Every hour you work, every ounce of effort you expend, is converted into a currency that loses purchasing power over time. This is the debt-based financial system. Study bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/f23d0949413799713865b933d13ded1304b70ff6fca6bf235972562f122c988a.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino https://blossom.primal.net/c55a78376958a7e72c7a6ba6bf31a28ac1fe5ca2668c605dbd6eb2755223e441.png npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino I live in a shed in the woods but it’s nice…it has running water, oil lamps, a wood stove and blazing fast, gigabit internet. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino According to Jed it was sunny. npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino It was a on a sunny Saturday in town that Jed realized the world he’d always known had gone forever and that the future was here to stay. https://blossom.primal.net/bc085794da7a492aa38a2f428d2d8445d217fd01ea826cd3d018987d09bad989.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino ₿ https://blossom.primal.net/f490de55be372ed8cbc100f6e754903068edcf9001efb6238d19fa5a850bead1.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino Dear Mendocino neighbors, The times…and the global financial order are changing. The dollar's dominance is fading, gold and silver have shot up In value and inflation isn’t going away. Cash is on the decline and central bank digital currencies and stablecoins are on the rise. This means money could soon be programmed and tracked without our say. If we don’t want to be a pawn in a faceless bankers’ game let's start using Bitcoin for everyday payments here on the coast. It's decentralized—no bank, no corporation, no government controls it, you hold it yourself and after seventeen solid years, it’s still the best bet to keep its value. There are communities across the globe - in El Salvador, Switzerland, South Africa, Costa Rica, Vietnam and others - that are already using Bitcoin and Mendocino could be one of these too. 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Most of us grew up assuming the dollar is the only reliable money out there. So when something new like Bitcoin appears, it’s easy to dismiss it as risky, a scam, or just for tech enthusiasts and criminals. Once you look closer, though, Bitcoin stands out as fundamentally different: • It has a strict, fixed supply cap of 21 million coins—no one can print more. • It’s decentralized: No central bank, government, or CEO controls it. • It acts as “sound money” that holds (or grows) value over time, unlike fiat currencies prone to endless dilution. Understanding this shift isn’t about rejecting dollars overnight—it’s about recognizing a potential hedge against inflation and a tool for preserving wealth in uncertain times. Many business owners are quietly studying Bitcoin as a way to protect their hard-earned profits and think long-term. If you’re curious how this could apply to your business (or just want to understand the conversation better), take a few minutes to learn more. 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And surprise: the people closest to the printing press always win the biggest prizes. Everyone else just gets inflation. We’re all playing a global, gargantuan game of Monopoly except the bank can print infinite money for its friends and reset the board whenever it wants. Meanwhile the rules only apply to the rest of us who aren’t on the inside. So study bitcoin. It’s the one asset that finally changes the game: fixed supply, no central banker can inflate it away, no permission required. It’s the exit from a corrupt system. Bitcoin isn’t about getting rich quick, it’s about not getting poor slowly. https://blossom.primal.net/76062d2224ca52182fce3819b4749c294a610d3ca28399437c81d4b0068a49c2.jpg npub1d35fjctkz7qlz7n0wxf3pu7daljwkvmw5du357dzfmttd8sh9dvqmck508 BitcoinMendocino YES—we don’t want open borders letting hundreds of thousands enter the U.S. undocumented each year. And YES—we don’t want paramilitary forces in our communities demanding “your papers” (with the occasional “please”). 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