Who am I & What is my Intention?
- Forever student 🤓
- Exited technology startup founder 🚀
- Experienced psychedelic explorer 🍄
- 2nd time entrepreneur building at the intersection of AI x Psychedelics on a Bitcoin Standard 🙏
- 100+ hours studying Bitcoin 📚
As a BTC 2021 dropout and 2024 returning student, I sincerely believe my ability and awareness to tame my ego via my hundreds of psychedelic exploration is a direct correlation to why I have been able to understand and adopt Bitcoin so quickly.
My intention with this presentation is to make my case why Bitcoin is an ego test, and from that understanding, if you learn how to befriend your ego, you may experience not only a spiritual awakening, but also a financial awakening with Bitcoin.
(this is NOT financial advice; do your own research and STUDY BITCOIN)
"You will spend 40,000+ hours of your life trying to make money; it is worthwhile to spend 100 hours figuring out how to keep it." - Michael Saylor
Let's begin the journey of learning how to keep your hard earned money…
When it comes to money, there are 3 key layers:
- our beliefs about money: "I have to work harder to make more money.”
- our skills with money: "I should learn HOW to save, spend, invest, and earn money."
- the money system we operate within: "I don't know why everything around me is getting more expensive."
Most of us focus on the first two—mindset and earning. Understanding our money system teaches us how to keep the value (purchasing power) of our money.
This presentation is about how difficult it is for our ego to see beyond our current money system due to passed down, unquestioned programming or teachings — and how finally questioning it might be one of the most important financial awakenings of your life.
How did something ridiculed as 'magic internet money' 16 years ago become the 7th largest asset in the world—outperforming gold and stocks every single year since its inception?
as of May 2025
Understanding Bitcoin is less about your intelligence (IQ), and more about your ability to challenge and willingness to let go of your old, inherited beliefs (ego).
Blue pill: Stay asleep. Trust the system. Avoid the discomfort of change.
Red pill: Wake up. Trust yourself. Question everything to unlearn the money illusion.
Ego IQ Test?
So why is Bitcoin an Ego Test?
Left (Moon Bois): low IQ people in the world who think Bitcoin is going to skyrocket
Right (Bitcoin Maxis): high IQ people in the world who think Bitcoin is going to skyrocket
Middle: everyone else (reasonably intelligent people) who expresses mockery and deny
Let me explain
Where the 'Middles' are
How the 'Middles' view themselves
Money isn’t JUST what you see and hold.
Have you ever questioned what money is, actually? What makes money…good money?
Remember: Money was created by humans to solve the inefficient problem of bartering (trading goods).
Throughout history, we've used many forms of money
Later we will understand why Bitcoin is the natural evolution of money.
Comparing Forms of Money to Properties of Money
Where we are today with money: "Why does everything feel and get more expensive over time?"
It IS…because of inflation: "The Invisible Tax"
Food for thought: why is the same weight of gold increasing in price when denominated in dollars?
Food for thought: why does the cost of bread (or anything around us) keep going up? Has the quality increased by that much? Has it been more expensive to create it?
If the dollar loses value every year, and you trade your time for dollars, then by default, your time & your life is also losing value year after year.
"Money is our time and energy in an abstracted form. When it's devalued, so are we." - Jack Mallers, CEO Strike
What is inflation? Money Printing…By Central Banks!
Since January 2020 the US has printed nearly 80% of all US dollars in existence.
So why does everything get more expensive and unaffordable?
Because the fiat money supply is ever expanding, exponentially!
More money units = less value per money unit in existence
"No man should work for what another man can print." - Jack Mallers, CEO Strike
Newly created money doesn’t impact everyone equally—it benefits those closest to the money printer first, while hurting those farthest away
Magical Pizza Kitchen Example:
- Imagine a world where we pay and spend in pizza slices.
- There is magical pizza kitchen that makes 100 extra pizzas and gives them only to the people closest to the kitchen.
- Those people run out and start buying more stuff—houses, equipment, shoes, etc. because it's practically free money
- Prices go up because there’s suddenly more demand.
- But everyone far from the kitchen (who didn’t get free pizza) now has to pay higher prices, even though their income didn’t change.
Inflation isn’t 'natural'—it’s engineered to steal
"The natural state of a free market is deflation." - Jeff Booth
- Technology makes things cheaper by improving efficiency, so in theory, life should be getting more affordable (e.g. AI).
- But central banks don’t like falling prices (deflation), so they print money and pump money into the system to keep things "growing."
- That extra money causes inflation, especially for assets and essentials, so even though productivity is way up, prices keep rising.
- The result: You work harder, AND life gets more expensive.
So are your stocks portfolio and real estate investments “going up” or just breaking even?
Housing affordability in US Dollars vs. Bitcoin
It’s not that housing got more expensive—it’s that the dollar got weaker (debased). Dollar debasement is the silent thief of affordability.
Even IF they go up to $1M+ in 30 years, have you ever asked yourself what will it actually buy you at that time?
And your $ savings account is an illusion, giving a false sense of security, while inflation quietly drains their wealth.
The Current Money (Fiat) System is Broken
Don't believe me? Let's look at history…
Germany, early 1900s
Venezuela, early 2000s
What if you had held all your net worth in a currency that hyper-inflated without your control or choice?
And the US Dollar $ is the BEST we have as the world's reserve currency…
All other currencies are losing purchasing power against the US dollar
How did we get here?
(great beginner book to get started with Bitcoin)
"The monetary system is broken because of decades — centuries, even — of real people making poor choices. Self-interested actors in positions of power have constructed a system that enriches and empowers them and leaves the rest of us at a disadvantage." - Lawrence Leopard, Author of The Big Print
“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.”
- F.A. Hayek (Austrian school economist & political philosopher) in 1984
Thank goodness there is a solution
Why ₿itcoin? It is the FIRST PERMISSION-LESS money
In 2022, the Canadian Emergencies Act allowed authorities to freeze truckers' personal and corporate bank accounts.
"Bitcoin is the one thing in the universe that you can truly own. Everything else you have in your life you own at the pleasure of someone more powerful than you.” - Michael Saylor
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 in 1933 that required Americans to surrender most of their gold to the government. The primary goal was to remove the constraint on the Federal Reserve, which was limited by the gold standard from increasing the money supply.
Why ₿itcoin? It is the FIRST INCORRUPTIBLE money
"Biggest moment in the history of Bitcoin was when Satoshi (inventor of Bitcoin) walked away." - Anthony Pompliano
"9 out of 10 people who can cheat, will cheat; it’s human nature.” - Jeff Booth
Bitcoin takes out the corruption of humans, because the humans that created it stepped away…creating a NEW & FAIR system of
Rules without Rulers
Why ₿itcoin? It is the FIRST ABSOLUTE SCARCE money
"Bitcoin is the ONLY thing in the world where more demand cannot create more supply." - Jack Mallers
"Bitcoin is a once-in-a-species invention of perfect digital scarcity." - Jesse Myers
Why does scarcity matter?
More money units = Less value per money unit in existence 📉
Fewer money units = More value per money unit in existence 📈
Food for thought: Why would you exchange your precious time that is FINITE for paper money that is INFINITE?
If God created money, what would it be like?
Why ₿itcoin Triggers the Ego
The Inner Resistance to Outer Sovereignty
- It Forces Humility: You can be smart with high IQ and still not get it.
- It Shatters Old Beliefs: Accepting Bitcoin means admitting what we knew—and inherited—about money was wrong.
- It Challenges Authority: We've trusted banks and governments our whole life. Bitcoin says: trust yourself.
- It Tests Patience and Discipline: Quick wins don’t exist. Bitcoin rewards long-term thinking and emotional mastery.
- It Demands Self-Responsibility: You reclaim your freedom. You hold the keys to YOUR money. You are the bank.
Denial: "But isn't Bitcoin a Bubble and Ponzi Scheme?"
Definition of a 'Bubble': A bubble only happens once, is relatively short time frame, and crashes back to baseline.
Definition of 'Ponzi Scheme': A central operator is making fraudulent promises to people and paying old investors with new money.
Denial:"But won't there just be a Bitcoin 2.0?"
"The main exception for the rule of 'newer technology being better' is communication protocols (ie. age of internet) because they achieve network effects and are purposely simple. Bitcoin is the dominant communication protocol for money."
- Lyn Alden, Author of Broken Money
Confusion: "But Bitcoin is too volatile!"
Volatility isn't a flaw; it's the signature of revolutionary technology in its growth phase
Revolutionary technologies we take for granted today were all volatile during its adoption phase
Volatility is a feature, not a bug.
Not just volatile, but also mocked
Since Bitcoin is a disruptive technology, those benefiting from the current system often label it dangerous and encourage others to dismiss it. But history shows that transformative tools are usually feared before they’re embraced.
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes” – Mark Twain
'Gradually, then Suddenly' Phenomena
"Between 1900-1930, the shift from horse-drawn carriage to motorized transport followed what Malcolm Gladwell would later call the 'Tipping Point' model: the time from 0% to 10% adoption equals the time from 10% to 90%."
- Lawrence Leopard, Author of The Big Print
Bargaining: "But what about stocks, bonds, gold, real estate, etc.?"
Debating amongst the best fiat investment—stocks, real estate, bonds, etc.—is like choosing which luxury suite to choose… on the sinking (fiat) Titanic.
" Diversification is selling the winners to buy the losers." - Michael Saylor
Depression: "But I'm too late to Bitcoin!"
"Bitcoin is at the America Online (AOL) stage of the internet's development" - Lawrence Leopard, Author of The Big Print
We are currently in the 'Store of Value' phase
Thus Bitcoin is currently best understood as Digital Gold
And there is still a 10x - 100x+ growth potential
The Bitcoin Gold Rush has started
“We’re currently in the Bitcoin gold rush. It started January 2024, and runs through until November 2034, at which time 99% of Bitcoin will have been mined.” - Michael Saylor
Acceptance: Bitcoin is THE WAY to opt out of the flawed fiat money system
So what do you choose?
Fiat = The elites can print money Bitcoin = No one can print money
Have you ever wondered…
- why saving your (fiat) money was never enough to keep up with prices, and thus the principle of saving is discouraged?
- why it's not enough to just work your job now…you also had to learn how to invest and chase returns just to outpace inflation?
- why even with a full-time job, you felt forced to also become a (full-time) investor, instead of being able to just focus on your craft?
Fiat makes you work… then speculate and chase.
Bitcoin lets you work… then rest and LIVE!
The Invitation: Taking the Red Orange Pill
You can’t take the orange pill until you’ve taken the red pill (ego death) first.
Orange Pill: Reclaim your power, opt out of the manipulated system, live in Truth… by STUDYING BITCOIN.
Your choice: Stay comfortable in the illusion, or courageously reclaim your financial sovereignty.
"Tickets to escape the matrix are priced in Bitcoin." - Michael Saylor
I can empathize with your confusion
But that's not an excuse to stay asleep
"Success comes from a willingness to acknowledge reality, embrace a new idea, do the work, take a risk, and execute." - Michael Saylor
The Bitcoin Journey: What's ahead for you
"I have never met any critic who spent 100 hours studying Bitcoin." - Michael Saylor
Remember: Bitcoin only; not crypto
Crypto = Everyone can print money, exploit, and extract from others
Bitcoin = No one can print money, and everyone can actually win, together
Food for thought… Why are all "Crypto" advertisements adjacent to sports gambling and with loud "influencers" while Bitcoin has no marketing team and has intellectual educators teaching?
Forewarning: everyone needs to learn their own lesson on "why Bitcoin Only"
Fix the Money, Fix the World
- Tired of losing purchasing power while living on a fixed income?
- Worried whether homeownership will ever be within reach?
- Living in fear during retirement if your savings will last?
- Frustrated with removing grocery items from your carts at the supermarket due to increasing costs?
- Fed up with all the wars and destruction that fiat currency has financed for far too long?
- Realizing that all political debates are just addressing the symptoms and not the root cause?
“Don’t Trust, Verify” … by Studying ₿itcoin!
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