Bitcoin helps you become fearless, if you wish. I’ve made a financial loss on every single creative and entrepreneurial endeavour I’ve undertaken in the past 6 years. And while it hurts - believe me when I say that investing in yourself and constantly losing hurts - not only financially, but more importantly, mentally - I’m certain that had I not taken those chances, my mind, body and soul would be in a far worse situation than they are right now.

Operating within the framework of a sound, uncensorable monetary system grants you the belief in the power of starting anew. So it is freedom go up technology in a very profound sense. You have the freedom to fuck around and find out. It’s going to be painful, God knows it’s painful, to this day I’m in pain, every day, constantly. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. How else am I going to find out who I really am, and what I’m really capable of?

You don’t sit behind a piano and become a virtuoso. You sit behind a piano and you fail, and fail, and fail again, until one day, you start failing a little less.

Bitcoin is simply the assurance that no matter how many times your ego dies, no matter how many times you hit rock bottom, there’s something out there that can help pull you back up.

You can lose it all, but all is never lost.

Written 27 October 2025 Originally published on Stacker News