The OG Philosopher of Bitcoin
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Bitcoin since ’09.
Engineer turned philosopher.
I decode money, markets & human behavior.
Daily reflections: substack.com/@thephilosophersbitcoin
Engineer turned philosopher.
I decode money, markets & human behavior.
Daily reflections: substack.com/@thephilosophersbitcoin
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The Bitcoin Funeral I Never Attended.
2018. £2,500. Everyone told me to sell.
The hardest part wasn’t the price.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
2018. £2,500. Everyone told me to sell.
The hardest part wasn’t the price.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
The market is moving.
What interests me more is what it exposes, your patience,your fear,
your time preference.
Most people aren’t shaken out by price,but by what they feel.
If today feels tense, pay attention.
That’s the real lesson.
What interests me more is what it exposes, your patience,your fear,
your time preference.
Most people aren’t shaken out by price,but by what they feel.
If today feels tense, pay attention.
That’s the real lesson.
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The market is moving.
What interests me more is what it exposes, your patience,your fear,
your time preference.
Most people aren’t shaken out by price,but by what they feel.
If today feels tense, pay attention.
That’s the real lesson.
What interests me more is what it exposes, your patience,your fear,
your time preference.
Most people aren’t shaken out by price,but by what they feel.
If today feels tense, pay attention.
That’s the real lesson.
The market moves in waves, but the real movement is internal.
Most people aren’t losing money to volatility, they’re losing it to impatience.
If today felt slow or frustrating, that’s the work.
Staying still when your mind wants to sprint.
Most people aren’t losing money to volatility, they’re losing it to impatience.
If today felt slow or frustrating, that’s the work.
Staying still when your mind wants to sprint.
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The market moves in waves, but the real movement is internal.
Most people aren’t losing money to volatility, they’re losing it to impatience.
If today felt slow or frustrating, that’s the work.
Staying still when your mind wants to sprint.
Most people aren’t losing money to volatility, they’re losing it to impatience.
If today felt slow or frustrating, that’s the work.
Staying still when your mind wants to sprint.
Every Bitcoin cycle punishes impatience and rewards silence.
The 2013 crowd mocked the 2011 holders.
The 2017 crowd mocked the 2013 holders.
The 2021 crowd mocked the 2017 holders.
The pattern never changes. Just the price. Time is undefeated.
Early is luck.
Holding is character.
The 2013 crowd mocked the 2011 holders.
The 2017 crowd mocked the 2013 holders.
The 2021 crowd mocked the 2017 holders.
The pattern never changes. Just the price. Time is undefeated.
Early is luck.
Holding is character.
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Every Bitcoin cycle punishes impatience and rewards silence.
The 2013 crowd mocked the 2011 holders.
The 2017 crowd mocked the 2013 holders.
The 2021 crowd mocked the 2017 holders.
The pattern never changes. Just the price. Time is undefeated.
Early is luck.
Holding is character.
The 2013 crowd mocked the 2011 holders.
The 2017 crowd mocked the 2013 holders.
The 2021 crowd mocked the 2017 holders.
The pattern never changes. Just the price. Time is undefeated.
Early is luck.
Holding is character.
Everyone talks about getting in early. Almost no one talks about staying in long enough.
Most losses weren’t from buying high, but from not being able to hold low.
Early is luck. Holding is character.
Most losses weren’t from buying high, but from not being able to hold low.
Early is luck. Holding is character.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Everyone talks about getting in early. Almost no one talks about staying in long enough.
Most losses weren’t from buying high, but from not being able to hold low.
Early is luck. Holding is character.
Most losses weren’t from buying high, but from not being able to hold low.
Early is luck. Holding is character.
Everyone romanticizes conviction, until they live it.
It doesn’t feel like power.
It feels like holding your breath while the world insists you’re wrong.
And even when you’re proven right,
you don’t celebrate.
You exhale.
Because conviction was never about winning.
It was about staying intact.
It doesn’t feel like power.
It feels like holding your breath while the world insists you’re wrong.
And even when you’re proven right,
you don’t celebrate.
You exhale.
Because conviction was never about winning.
It was about staying intact.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Everyone romanticizes conviction, until they live it.
It doesn’t feel like power.
It feels like holding your breath while the world insists you’re wrong.
And even when you’re proven right,
you don’t celebrate.
You exhale.
Because conviction was never about winning.
It was about staying intact.
It doesn’t feel like power.
It feels like holding your breath while the world insists you’re wrong.
And even when you’re proven right,
you don’t celebrate.
You exhale.
Because conviction was never about winning.
It was about staying intact.
The worst part of 2018 wasn’t Bitcoin at £2,500.
It was 2 a.m. at the kitchen table, realising conviction has a price tag, and not knowing if I could afford it.
Full story: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
It was 2 a.m. at the kitchen table, realising conviction has a price tag, and not knowing if I could afford it.
Full story: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
The Bitcoin Funeral I Never Attended
2018. £2,500. Everyone told me to sell.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The worst part of 2018 wasn’t Bitcoin at £2,500.
It was 2 a.m. at the kitchen table, realising conviction has a price tag, and not knowing if I could afford it.
Full story: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
It was 2 a.m. at the kitchen table, realising conviction has a price tag, and not knowing if I could afford it.
Full story: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
The Bitcoin Funeral I Never Attended.
2018. £2,500. Everyone told me to sell.
The hardest part wasn’t the price.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
2018. £2,500. Everyone told me to sell.
The hardest part wasn’t the price.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The Bitcoin Funeral I Never Attended.
2018. £2,500. Everyone told me to sell.
The hardest part wasn’t the price.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
2018. £2,500. Everyone told me to sell.
The hardest part wasn’t the price.
Read: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
2018. Bitcoin at $3,200.
Everyone said “sell.”
I almost did.
The hardest part wasn’t the price. It was wondering if they were right.
Conviction isn’t confidence. It’s choosing your own uncertainty
over everyone else’s certainty.
Everyone said “sell.”
I almost did.
The hardest part wasn’t the price. It was wondering if they were right.
Conviction isn’t confidence. It’s choosing your own uncertainty
over everyone else’s certainty.
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
2018. Bitcoin at $3,200.
Everyone said “sell.”
I almost did.
The hardest part wasn’t the price. It was wondering if they were right.
Conviction isn’t confidence. It’s choosing your own uncertainty
over everyone else’s certainty.
Everyone said “sell.”
I almost did.
The hardest part wasn’t the price. It was wondering if they were right.
Conviction isn’t confidence. It’s choosing your own uncertainty
over everyone else’s certainty.
1971: Nixon closed the gold window.
Those who understood bought gold. Those who didn’t kept their dollars.
2009: Satoshi opened the Bitcoin window. Those who understand stack sats. Those who don’t keep their time in fiat jobs.
History doesn’t repeat.
It rhymes in debasement.
Those who understood bought gold. Those who didn’t kept their dollars.
2009: Satoshi opened the Bitcoin window. Those who understand stack sats. Those who don’t keep their time in fiat jobs.
History doesn’t repeat.
It rhymes in debasement.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
1971: Nixon closed the gold window.
Those who understood bought gold. Those who didn’t kept their dollars.
2009: Satoshi opened the Bitcoin window. Those who understand stack sats. Those who don’t keep their time in fiat jobs.
History doesn’t repeat.
It rhymes in debasement.
Those who understood bought gold. Those who didn’t kept their dollars.
2009: Satoshi opened the Bitcoin window. Those who understand stack sats. Those who don’t keep their time in fiat jobs.
History doesn’t repeat.
It rhymes in debasement.
15 years in Bitcoin.
Still check the price too often. Still doubt myself some days. Still tempted by “maybe this time it’s different.”
Conviction doesn’t arrive, it’s renewed. Every. Single. Day.
What keeps you steady when the noise gets loud?
Still check the price too often. Still doubt myself some days. Still tempted by “maybe this time it’s different.”
Conviction doesn’t arrive, it’s renewed. Every. Single. Day.
What keeps you steady when the noise gets loud?
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
15 years in Bitcoin.
Still check the price too often. Still doubt myself some days. Still tempted by “maybe this time it’s different.”
Conviction doesn’t arrive, it’s renewed. Every. Single. Day.
What keeps you steady when the noise gets loud?
Still check the price too often. Still doubt myself some days. Still tempted by “maybe this time it’s different.”
Conviction doesn’t arrive, it’s renewed. Every. Single. Day.
What keeps you steady when the noise gets loud?
Bitcoin falling again, and every cycle proves the same thing:
Price tests emotion, not fundamentals.
Conviction compounds when volatility shakes weak hands.
Price tests emotion, not fundamentals.
Conviction compounds when volatility shakes weak hands.
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Bitcoin falling again, and every cycle proves the same thing:
Price tests emotion, not fundamentals.
Conviction compounds when volatility shakes weak hands.
Price tests emotion, not fundamentals.
Conviction compounds when volatility shakes weak hands.
Favorite comment from yesterday’s piece:
“Newton’s silence says more than his loss. The smartest man alive learned he couldn’t outsmart emotion.”
This is why I write here.
Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
“Newton’s silence says more than his loss. The smartest man alive learned he couldn’t outsmart emotion.”
This is why I write here.
Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Favorite comment from yesterday’s piece:
“Newton’s silence says more than his loss. The smartest man alive learned he couldn’t outsmart emotion.”
This is why I write here.
Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
“Newton’s silence says more than his loss. The smartest man alive learned he couldn’t outsmart emotion.”
This is why I write here.
Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
Isaac Newton could calculate the motion of planets, but not the madness of people.
He lost £20M in 1720 to a bubble he saw coming.
300 years later, we still fall for the same traps.
The Genius Who Couldn’t Price Madness: why Bitcoin is built for human psychology: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
He lost £20M in 1720 to a bubble he saw coming.
300 years later, we still fall for the same traps.
The Genius Who Couldn’t Price Madness: why Bitcoin is built for human psychology: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
The Genius Who Couldn't Price Madness
Isaac Newton, the South Sea Bubble, and Why Bitcoin Is Built for Human Psychology
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Isaac Newton could calculate the motion of planets, but not the madness of people.
He lost £20M in 1720 to a bubble he saw coming.
300 years later, we still fall for the same traps.
The Genius Who Couldn’t Price Madness: why Bitcoin is built for human psychology: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
He lost £20M in 1720 to a bubble he saw coming.
300 years later, we still fall for the same traps.
The Genius Who Couldn’t Price Madness: why Bitcoin is built for human psychology: open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
17 years ago, Satoshi published the Bitcoin whitepaper.
In just 9 pages, he redefined the idea of money, trust, and time.
Bitcoin wasn’t created for speculation, it was created for memory.
A quiet rebellion disguised as code.
In just 9 pages, he redefined the idea of money, trust, and time.
Bitcoin wasn’t created for speculation, it was created for memory.
A quiet rebellion disguised as code.
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
17 years ago, Satoshi published the Bitcoin whitepaper.
In just 9 pages, he redefined the idea of money, trust, and time.
Bitcoin wasn’t created for speculation, it was created for memory.
A quiet rebellion disguised as code.
In just 9 pages, he redefined the idea of money, trust, and time.
Bitcoin wasn’t created for speculation, it was created for memory.
A quiet rebellion disguised as code.
Every generation thinks it can print prosperity.
Every collapse proves it can’t.
In 1720 it was John Law.
In 2025 it’s us.
The systems evolve.
The psychology doesn’t.
Every collapse proves it can’t.
In 1720 it was John Law.
In 2025 it’s us.
The systems evolve.
The psychology doesn’t.
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Every generation thinks it can print prosperity.
Every collapse proves it can’t.
In 1720 it was John Law.
In 2025 it’s us.
The systems evolve.
The psychology doesn’t.
Every collapse proves it can’t.
In 1720 it was John Law.
In 2025 it’s us.
The systems evolve.
The psychology doesn’t.
In 1720, France tried to print prosperity.
John Law’s paper money experiment collapsed.
Voltaire warned:
“Paper money always returns to its intrinsic value, zero.”
300 years later, central banks still try the same thing.
Sunday’s piece: what Newton and Voltaire teach us about Bitcoin.
John Law’s paper money experiment collapsed.
Voltaire warned:
“Paper money always returns to its intrinsic value, zero.”
300 years later, central banks still try the same thing.
Sunday’s piece: what Newton and Voltaire teach us about Bitcoin.
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
In 1720, France tried to print prosperity.
John Law’s paper money experiment collapsed.
Voltaire warned:
“Paper money always returns to its intrinsic value, zero.”
300 years later, central banks still try the same thing.
Sunday’s piece: what Newton and Voltaire teach us about Bitcoin.
John Law’s paper money experiment collapsed.
Voltaire warned:
“Paper money always returns to its intrinsic value, zero.”
300 years later, central banks still try the same thing.
Sunday’s piece: what Newton and Voltaire teach us about Bitcoin.
Intelligence can’t outsmart emotion.
In 1720, Isaac Newton made and lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble.
He could calculate the motion of planets, but not the madness of people.
Three centuries later, the same psychology drives every bubble.
Only the tools have changed.
In 1720, Isaac Newton made and lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble.
He could calculate the motion of planets, but not the madness of people.
Three centuries later, the same psychology drives every bubble.
Only the tools have changed.
October 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Intelligence can’t outsmart emotion.
In 1720, Isaac Newton made and lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble.
He could calculate the motion of planets, but not the madness of people.
Three centuries later, the same psychology drives every bubble.
Only the tools have changed.
In 1720, Isaac Newton made and lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble.
He could calculate the motion of planets, but not the madness of people.
Three centuries later, the same psychology drives every bubble.
Only the tools have changed.
Real freedom doesn’t come from escaping responsibility.
It comes from choosing which responsibilities to carry.
Every time we give up responsibility, we give up freedom.
The weight you choose to carry is the weight that sets you free.
From Sunday’s reflection.
It comes from choosing which responsibilities to carry.
Every time we give up responsibility, we give up freedom.
The weight you choose to carry is the weight that sets you free.
From Sunday’s reflection.
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Real freedom doesn’t come from escaping responsibility.
It comes from choosing which responsibilities to carry.
Every time we give up responsibility, we give up freedom.
The weight you choose to carry is the weight that sets you free.
From Sunday’s reflection.
It comes from choosing which responsibilities to carry.
Every time we give up responsibility, we give up freedom.
The weight you choose to carry is the weight that sets you free.
From Sunday’s reflection.
We talk a lot about freedom, but rarely about the weight it carries.
Responsibility isn't a burden to escape.
It's the proof you're free enough to choose it.
Responsibility isn't a burden to escape.
It's the proof you're free enough to choose it.
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
We talk a lot about freedom, but rarely about the weight it carries.
Responsibility isn't a burden to escape.
It's the proof you're free enough to choose it.
Responsibility isn't a burden to escape.
It's the proof you're free enough to choose it.
Freedom isn’t light.
It’s heavy.
The more responsibility you carry,
the more sovereign you become.
The Weight You Choose, new reflection now live:
open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
It’s heavy.
The more responsibility you carry,
the more sovereign you become.
The Weight You Choose, new reflection now live:
open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
The Weight You Choose: Why Responsibility Is the Only Real Freedom
I used to think freedom meant having no obligations. Bitcoin taught me the opposite.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Freedom isn’t light.
It’s heavy.
The more responsibility you carry,
the more sovereign you become.
The Weight You Choose, new reflection now live:
open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
It’s heavy.
The more responsibility you carry,
the more sovereign you become.
The Weight You Choose, new reflection now live:
open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
I’ve been thinking about how scarcity applies to relationships.
A reader tried something simple: they listed everyone they interact with regularly,about 35 people, and kept only the 7 who genuinely added energy.
Then they sat with what happened next.
A reader tried something simple: they listed everyone they interact with regularly,about 35 people, and kept only the 7 who genuinely added energy.
Then they sat with what happened next.
October 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I’ve been thinking about how scarcity applies to relationships.
A reader tried something simple: they listed everyone they interact with regularly,about 35 people, and kept only the 7 who genuinely added energy.
Then they sat with what happened next.
A reader tried something simple: they listed everyone they interact with regularly,about 35 people, and kept only the 7 who genuinely added energy.
Then they sat with what happened next.
I received couple of responses to The Scarcity Paradox yesterday.
Common thread?
“I cut back, but abundance always creeps back.”
You didn’t fail. You just didn’t make the limit real yet. Write it down. Share it. Defend it.
Scarcity without accountability isn’t scarcity. It’s delay.
Common thread?
“I cut back, but abundance always creeps back.”
You didn’t fail. You just didn’t make the limit real yet. Write it down. Share it. Defend it.
Scarcity without accountability isn’t scarcity. It’s delay.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I received couple of responses to The Scarcity Paradox yesterday.
Common thread?
“I cut back, but abundance always creeps back.”
You didn’t fail. You just didn’t make the limit real yet. Write it down. Share it. Defend it.
Scarcity without accountability isn’t scarcity. It’s delay.
Common thread?
“I cut back, but abundance always creeps back.”
You didn’t fail. You just didn’t make the limit real yet. Write it down. Share it. Defend it.
Scarcity without accountability isn’t scarcity. It’s delay.
I deleted 73 apps last month.
Bitcoin’s 21 million cap taught me a strange truth:
Scarcity doesn’t limit you.
It clarifies you.
The fewer signals you trust, the stronger your conviction becomes.
New essay: The Scarcity Paradox – Why Having Less Makes You More
open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
Bitcoin’s 21 million cap taught me a strange truth:
Scarcity doesn’t limit you.
It clarifies you.
The fewer signals you trust, the stronger your conviction becomes.
New essay: The Scarcity Paradox – Why Having Less Makes You More
open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
The Scarcity Paradox: Why Having Less Makes You More
I deleted 73 apps last month. Here's what I learned about freedom, focus, and Bitcoin's 21 million lesson.
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I deleted 73 apps last month.
Bitcoin’s 21 million cap taught me a strange truth:
Scarcity doesn’t limit you.
It clarifies you.
The fewer signals you trust, the stronger your conviction becomes.
New essay: The Scarcity Paradox – Why Having Less Makes You More
open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
Bitcoin’s 21 million cap taught me a strange truth:
Scarcity doesn’t limit you.
It clarifies you.
The fewer signals you trust, the stronger your conviction becomes.
New essay: The Scarcity Paradox – Why Having Less Makes You More
open.substack.com/pub/thephilo...
When prices fall, markets become mirrors.
The question: What does it show you about yourself?
Conviction isn’t tested when things go up.
It’s revealed when things go down.
The question: What does it show you about yourself?
Conviction isn’t tested when things go up.
It’s revealed when things go down.
October 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
When prices fall, markets become mirrors.
The question: What does it show you about yourself?
Conviction isn’t tested when things go up.
It’s revealed when things go down.
The question: What does it show you about yourself?
Conviction isn’t tested when things go up.
It’s revealed when things go down.
Market down again.
People panic.
Algorithms amplify it.
But volatility isn’t failure. It’s feedback.
Bitcoin doesn’t just test your portfolio.
It tests your framework, your ability to think clearly when the world loses it.
People panic.
Algorithms amplify it.
But volatility isn’t failure. It’s feedback.
Bitcoin doesn’t just test your portfolio.
It tests your framework, your ability to think clearly when the world loses it.
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Market down again.
People panic.
Algorithms amplify it.
But volatility isn’t failure. It’s feedback.
Bitcoin doesn’t just test your portfolio.
It tests your framework, your ability to think clearly when the world loses it.
People panic.
Algorithms amplify it.
But volatility isn’t failure. It’s feedback.
Bitcoin doesn’t just test your portfolio.
It tests your framework, your ability to think clearly when the world loses it.