Your physique is a public ledger.
The results of your decisions surrounding exercise and diet are publicly displayed through your physique. Anyone you encounter, whether consciously or not, immediately audits the ledger you present. Therefore your discipline, work ethic and consistency - or lack thereof - are all a matter of public record. Your physique is a representation of the standards you hold yourself to.
Bitcoin uses Proof of Work to verify transactions and secure its network. Men use it to assess one another’s threat level or the value of a partnership with them. Women use it to identify potential partners, relying on their ability to determine which men could keep them safe for survival for nearly all of human history.
We’ve witnessed the digitization of much of the analog world in our lifetimes. Now the digital transformation of money is unfolding in front of us. Despite more and more of our lives taking place online, no one is impressed by a grown man’s virtual avatar. Your social media presence evaporates when compared to the physical presence you exhibit when around other people. When you enter a room, your follower count becomes irrelevant. In the physical world, a man with a powerful build that no one knows commands more respect and admiration than a weak and frail man with a massive online following.
Wealth has always been considered an equalizer in this arena. Smaller, weaker men can leapfrog their larger, stronger counterparts by measure of social status by accumulating vast sums of money. However, their power is abstract and for them to maintain it relies on stronger, more violent men cooperating with and adhering to social norms.
What’s even more important than the respect a powerful physique garners from others is the self-respect it fosters in the man who built it. Attention from women is nice, but it pales in comparison to walking around in a body you’ve constructed with your own effort and will.
While the results of your work draw parallels to a public blockchain, the details of it lie only within your mind. Only you know the full extent of the work that went into your physique. Whether you’re proud of yourself or not, you live with the understanding that you’re responsible for what you look like.
Bitcoiners experience a level of sovereignty that fiat maxis will never have access to. Non-holders are barred from the freedom derived from immutable money. But sovereign money doesn’t equate to freedom across the board. You can be a wealthy Bitcoiner and still feel like a slave to an unhealthy lifestyle. You can create financial freedom for yourself and still feel miserable in your own body. You can be disciplined in your spending habits, but not have the strength to complete a single pull up. Even if your desire for materialism and luxury has softened along your Bitcoin journey, you can still be plagued by the softness of a mediocre body.
Wealth doesn’t fix gluttony. It doesn’t fix laziness. It doesn’t repair a damaged relationship with food or an aversion to training hard. But it does give you the freedom to improve yourself.
For many of us, Bitcoin demonstrates how a singularly focused man can create immense value for himself when deploying a deliberate, impassioned plan. It proves that diversification is for those who lack conviction in their strategy. Once we reach a BTC target, the energy we used to do so can be applied towards building a physique we are truly proud to reside in.
There is no sovereignty without discipline and sacrifice. There is no freedom without self-control.