Happy Sunday,Happy Sunday Bubbs! The first ever Bitcoin transaction occurred on January 12, 2009. My first Bitcoin transaction occurred on March 7, 2025. Let me tell you about it. I started hearing about “bitcoins” sometime in the mid-2010s. I was gifted a book about the blockchain in 2017 (it’s still unread on my bookshelf). For a decade, my intrigue about cryptocurrency was outweighed by intimidation. It all seemed so … technical. What is a crypto wallet? Honestly, even now, I barely understand how it works. I learned the hard way that buying crypto in Canada ain’t easy (and by hard, I mean annoying). There are four main hoops to jump through: 1) set up your wallet – cold or hot 2) sign up for a crypto exchange 3) get dollars onto the exchange to buy crypto 4) send crypto from the exchange to your wallet. Here’s what I did:
Each step took more time, trials, and errors than I preferred. When I thought I knew what I was doing, I’d hit another road block. In hindsight, the friction made figuring it out oh so sweet. After a decade of watching from the sidelines, it feels good to be in the game. I don’t know if I’m early or late, but I’m riding the waves! (a day after buying, the crypto market dipped by like 18% 🙃)
March in 3 snapshots 🦾 Amazed by AI — on more than one occasion this month, I was flabbergasted by AI. Grok helped me figure out my crypto wallet. Claude walked me through organizing my taxes. And ChatG made generating images a genuinely joyful experience. We live in the future. 📚 Bookstore browsing — there’s something serene about a bookstore. The smell of paper, the murmurs of patrons, and pages begging for your eyes. It’s one of the last few true scavenger hunts. When else do you come home with something tangible that’s not food or toilet paper? 🗺️ Tutoring social 20 — I was 17 in grade 11. I loved social studies. Seventeen years later, I still love it. The rise of nationalism in the 20th century and its implications on the fractured globalist society we live in today? Sign me up!
3 Lessons Learned I. Days are made up of stories, and they’re rarely your stories. Imaginations run wild, and perspectives bend by influence. We’re not living as ourselves. We’re living as we are told to be, implicitly. II. Life passes by while you’re waiting to live. It sneaks up on you in subtle ways. Small choices made enough times become half your life. You forget you have a choice. Don’t put off the future for too long. III. You’ll feel old if you act like it. One day, something shifts, and you have to fight to stay young. There’s no rush to grow up anymore. You’ll never be as young as you are now. Act like that.
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I’ll leave you with a quote 🤔 “If more money wouldn’t change how you spend your time, you’re already rich.” — Jack Butcher Until next time, Scotty
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