Episode 21: @BTCBrisket discusses his bitcoin journey, upgrading his privacy and security, permaculture, carnivore diet, bitcoin enabling resilience and autonomy, homeschooling, and citadel building.

Thanks to our guest: https://twitter.com/btcbrisket Host: https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin Sponsored by HardBlock: https://www.hardblock.com.au Notes - Bitcoin Bush Bash reflections - appreciating the thriving genuine Aussie bitcoin tribe - Setting up a pfSense router for better home network privacy and security - Running CalyxOS on a Pixel and learning about Samourai Wallet and BIP47 PayNyms - Learning better coin control (UXTO management) and taking care of bitcoin privacy - Brisket's bitcoin journey - Learning about bitcoin through the carnivore diet (eg, carnivore is the answer to fiat food, and bitcoin is the answer to fiat money) - Understanding (the hard way) about why we don't trade or use leverage - Technical Analysis is horoscopes for men - Finding quality signal on Bitcoin Twitter - Learning about permaculture and taking forward those philosophies into other aspects of life - Bitcoiners operate on first principles, with firm beliefs, held lightly - Experiences with and science behind carnivore diet and removing seed oils (polyunsaturated fatty acids) - John K Vallis iconically not wearing a shirt in podcasts - Discovering bitcoin is a framework to live your life better, like an immune system - The benefits of generalising and localisation over specialising and globalisation - Harnessing the bitcoin community to learn skills to be more self-sufficient and be apart of something greater - Bitcoin is based on solid underpinning principles and is about freedom, autonomy, and personal responsibility - Fiat systems are full of complexity which become impossible for most people to fully understand - Bitcoin is a cheat code that helps you think better - We're all working for bitcoin, only some of us get paid for it - The fiat world becomes increasingly unrelatable the further down the bitcoin rabbit hole you go - Shill lightly, if at all (as per Gigi) - You'd be amazed at the things you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit - an open source ethos - Complacency and indifference is a long-term threat to bitcoin - Appreciating the blocksize wars and how resilient the bitcoin code and network is - Toxic maximalism is part of bitcoin's immune system - Things to be bullish about: Jack Mallers' announcement, global deterioration, bitcoin being normalised, bitcoiners - Bitcoin is a one way street - Keeping extra meat in the freezer for if someone, anyone, needs to be fed - Having kids, home schooling, and citadel (bitcoin community) building - Using Obsidian to document ideas and knowledge - Bitcoin is hope!