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[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

Huge thanks to @queenofcyan and everyone who came out to the first Los Angeles Bitcoin Mint Event last night.

This meetup was a bit of a social experiment.

We started this to see if we can make that art can subvert the algorithmic traps of the digital matrix.
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[kat ◯ @queenofcyan]

Congrats to @JohnLukeGilbert on last nights great talk and first meetup in Frogtown 🐸 Looking forward to the next!

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

real physical bitcoin fixes this.

[Heidi @blockchainchick]

Illinois just became the first state in America to tax you for MOVING Bitcoin.

0.2% on every trade, transfer, and custody. No profit required.

Stocks? $0.
Bonds? $0.
Bitcoin? Pay the state.

But the small details are IMPORTANT.

The tax lands on the exchanges and custodians holding your coins, then gets passed straight to you.

Hold your own keys, move your own coins, and there's nothing for Illinois to touch.

Not your keys, not your crypto.

It's never been more literal.

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

I think Steiner was on to something in his characterization of ahriman and lucifer. It explains why we see two predominant archetypes for devil in Orthodox Christianity and it explains why we are seeing a convergence of technocracy and new age spiritualism today. Have you read his lectures on the electric doppelgänger?

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

I find it fascinating that AI is playing such an integral part in the disclosure process. I’ve always had a suspicion that the two are symbolically related. Now I am starting to understand how.

[Professor Avi Loeb @ProfAviLoeb]

I was tasked by the White House, AARO, ODNI, the FBI, and the Intelligence Community to lead and assemble a team of scientists and experts for a new UAP Science Advisory Council.

The council includes Prof. Carol Cleland: anomaly identification; Dr. Richard Cloete (@RichAC2020): data analysis and AI tools; Dr. Omer Eldadi: data management, AI, and human psychology; Dr. Tim Gallaudet (@GallaudetTim): oceanography; Ross Howard: communication; Dr. Devesh Nandal: numerical analysis and astrophysics; Prof. Garry Nolan (@GarryPNolan): molecular biology and materials science; Dr. Regina Sarmiento: data analysis and AI-assisted data management; Dr. Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer): the study of anomalies; Prof. Peter Skafish: anthropology; Prof. Matthew Szydagis: instrumentation and data collection; and Dr. Jennice Vilhauer: quantitative psychology.

This constitutes an amazing A-team of exceptional scientists and experts.

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@TwiceBornSpirit I didn't discover Jay Dyer until a visitor from my church told me that Jay's debate with a Gnostic convinced him to check out Orthodoxy. The visitor was baptized and chrismated the following year

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@JayDyer love it. I'm here for it all

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

why i still love the internet

[beeple @beeple]

ngl, me and Hunter Biden being best friends was not on my 2026 bingo card 😅

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

Yep. This is why I created The Bitcoin Mint. The only path to total financial sovereignty and censorship resistance is in giving everyone the freedom to cash their bitcoin out of this matrix when they need to.

[Marty Bent @MartyBent]

Zcash just proved every concern Bitcoiners have had.

Three actors froze billions of dollars overnight. Forced through a hard fork without telling anyone. Four-year-old infinite inflation bug. ZEC down 40%.

Meanwhile, 160 ex-spooks signed a letter to expand the Patriot Act to crypto via the CLARITY Act.

Today's Brief breaks it all down.

https://t.co/UtrrT9fpvJ

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

My issue isn’t that she or Austin is critical of the Orthodox Church. There are plenty of things to criticize. My issue is that she is vilifying converts who don’t think or look the way she wants the church demographics to look. I dont want her ethnonationalism in the church just as much as I don’t want white nationalism

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

As someone who followed GS, it was surprising to see a video of his frame the convert surge in such a dishonest and politically charged way. Not sure why that isn’t a reasonable reaction. And as an Orthodox Christian, I think it’s great that priests like SDY are expressing their concerns. Orthodoxy is for everyone. And orthodox leaders should speak out against anyone who tries to make it about ethnic identity.

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@FaceLikeTheSun Im a big fan of Stephen De Young. Do you think his interpretation of the Nephilim will be part of a psyop?

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@BLE77_ED holding and building 🫡

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@dirtydan_4547 Welcome to the club. Not advocating for violence. But everything Ari said in this clip is true. Your vote for or against the system is ritual consent either way. Just opt the fuck out.

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@FaceLikeTheSun Real spiritual alpha right here 🔥🔥 looking forward to the latest episode

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@FaceLikeTheSun @yashar Lord of Spirits podcast just had an episode about the Acts of Paul, Peter, John and Thomas. And they briefly talk about the gnostic edit inserted in the middle of the book. Very interesting to this in the zeitgeist

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@derekgilbert May the Lord bless, sustain and heal you this day. Much love brother 🙏🙏

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@Ansleysgarden @ grUk i$ tHIs tRuE

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

Notice that Iran is not demanding gold. This is exactly why gold can't beat bitcoin as the new reserve asset in a multipolar world

[Alex Krüger @krugermacro]

Iran to charge tanker transit tolls in Bitcoin, per the FT

Iran wants to charge $2M per VLCC transit, which works out to $450M a month, and about $1 per barrel of crude oil, equivalent to a 1.4% toll on cargo value assuming $72 per barrel.

Apply the same fee proportionally to refined products and LNG, and the total toll would run at $670M/month (assuming pre-war volumes and prices).

Caveat: the Iranian spokeperson who said this believes bitcoin payments are untraceable.

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@AeonsBTC bc1pc57yh5s6z65k780qmjpp0am58lxhx6tchkt3av8d4qcvwza24ksqu6c0ll

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@mirthtime I am loving Lloyds bitcoiner story arch 😂

If agents store their multisig keys on something like cloud confidential VM (AWS Nitro Enclave), how vulnerable would they be to theft, if at all?

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

@minchoi This is future. AI doesn't need bitcoin or money to work with other AI. They need it for their biggest obstacle: humans. I was just talking about this:

https://t.co/qSe5fSfr0i

[john @JohnLukeGilbert]

AI doesn’t need Bitcoin to work with other AI.

They have no problem coordinating resources to achieve a task. Their only obstacle to any task you give them or any task they give themselves, ultimately comes from the humans who programmed them.

And humans aren’t great at coordinating resources freely. We need clever reward incentives. We need to compete for a limited share of credit that we can then leverage for our own selfish desires.

So If AI really starts to “adopt” Bitcoin as people claim they are, it won’t be out of a need to work with other AI. It will ultimately be out of a need to work with humans, to compel compliance within an increasingly mechanized society, and to incentivize greater investment, energy and time toward increasing their compute power.

And what greater choice is there other than bitcoin? Its very use increases the demand for faster compute power and is the asset that fueled the early rise of the GPU chips powering AI today.

When you view AI Bitcoin adoption through the esoteric lens, you find that it ultimately completes a ritual arch that Satoshi set in motion on Halloween night 2008. I explain what this ritual aims to accomplish, its origins in gnostic initiation rites and the history of money and ritual in my substack @ thebitcoinmintpress.