This Substack's Dilemma: Bitcoin or Heaven?
Week 9: Guitars, Grace, and Niagara Falls
End of last week, I brought the “dilemma” of this Substack apostolate to Father A.
Help folks with Bitcoin?
Help folks get to heaven?
He suggested get people to heaven. Be a lay missionary.
Fit into the charism I discerned a month earlier. Aligns with feedback from souls saying I should spend more time with people than in front of a computer.
So I go into Saturday with the mindset of a missionary.
Stay longer at a Saturday night parish event. Finish last week’s update at 1 AM. Sunday morning 9 AM Mass local parish. 10 AM coffee social. 12 PM other coffee social at our catechism class parish in Toronto.
Then reality hit a few hours into that Sunday afternoon.
This will be hard work. And I have no idea what I’m doing.
Good to be humbled quick.
I wish I had more lessons to share how I prayed and sought help, but I didn’t.
Lord worked His ways and brought me to these lessons anyway though.
Monday chat with friend. Shares story about how she sought advice from missionaries in the past and how they live their lives.
Tuesday cafe with married couple friends expecting first baby. Adoration. Second week serving. Gym with another friend. Visit another friend.
Wednesday edit first article all afternoon. Pick up friend from airport — new teammate hired last week to help with this apostolate. (R and I met at Hakuna conference in Mexico City in March.) Adoration on the way back from the airport.
Thursday talk with R about mission “dilemma” and realize I forgot to tell Fr. A about my thesis that working on Bitcoin adoption indirectly evangelizes the world.
Friday go experience the beauty of Niagara Falls.
Saturday I’m writing this post after a parish Pub Night. We rented a guitar at 1 PM, practiced for 90 minutes, then sang Hakuna Group Music’s new St. Teresa of Avila song for friends at 8 PM. No photos or videos.
Through these moments and conversations with friends in the faith, seems like Lord’s suggesting I shouldn’t drop the “fix the money” part of the mission.
So we continue with Bitcoin.
Next week we’ll be at Bitcoin Rodeo in Calgary. Plus I’ve got two folks scheduled to download their first wallet and receive their first fraction of a bitcoin. Plus I’ll pray and seek help for missionary clarity.
Updates and more to come soon.
God Bless and thank you for your prayers.
Notes from my notes app this week
Tues June 25
Moral hazard is a problem if we don’t believe in objective morality. If we don’t believe in objective morality we try to avoid moral hazard. Otherwise we would trust the authority in morality, the people who dedicate their lives to objective morality. Priests advising Bitcoin protocol developers
Be more confident with wording. I believe in Austrian econ. People are misunderstanding money. I tell them I will correct them and they will benefit. That’s a good coach
Wed June 26
Why am I upset when I spend 3 or 4 hour straight writing and updating that article? And it turns out great. Then I have tons of stuff in my to-do list. Why am I upset that I did that work? Overestimating me. Not listening to what God wants me to do. Plan less
Fri June 28
Boomers forced us into volatility to do well. N comment about being completely now okay after 4 years of dealing with high volatility, high upside, uranium, bitcoin, etc. but we were forced into being okay with this. It’s good. Not worrying about temporary “losses” for a long-term goal. Volatility comes with exiting chaos