I made every mistake. So you don't have to.

2010 — "I don't want magic internet money."

I first heard about Bitcoin as a college student in 2010. The biggest financial mistake of my life followed: I waved it off with the words "I don't want magic internet money."

Even $10 invested back then would have generated life-altering returns. I missed it because I didn't take it seriously. Not because I'd done the work and concluded it was junk — because I hadn't done any work at all. The regret from that decision is the engine behind everything on this site.

2017 — bought, but never bothered to understand.

Fast forward to 2017. I finally bought a substantial amount of Bitcoin. Felt very smart about it. The problem: I still hadn't put in the work to understand what I was holding.

So I did the predictable thing. I got distracted by the allure of altcoins. Instead of simply stacking more BTC and holding through the cycle, I scattered capital across projects that mostly went to zero. The lesson took years to learn the hard way:

Bitcoin isn't a casino. The casino lives next door, dressed up to look like Bitcoin.

The two are constantly conflated by people who benefit from the confusion. Most "crypto" is a slot machine wearing the same clothes as the only asset that actually deserves the seat at the table.

The only position I'm fully confident in.

A substantial portion of my retirement savings now sits in Bitcoin. It's the only position I have that I am fully confident in — and the only one I've spent serious time studying instead of just trusting an analyst.

Part of that confidence is structural: Bitcoin sits entirely outside the fiat system. It doesn't depend on a central bank, a custodial institution, or anyone's continued good behavior. Bitcoiners have a phrase for this — "don't trust, verify." Every coin, every transaction, every rule of the protocol can be independently checked by anyone with a basic computer. I don't have to take the network's word for anything. I can confirm it myself. That's not a feature any other asset offers.

The focus has shifted from accumulation to architecture. Two questions drive most of my thinking now:

• How do I live off these savings without ever having to sell? The Buy/Borrow/Die framework is not theoretical to me — it's my actual plan for the next 30 years.
• How do I leave my children an asset they can leverage for the rest of their lives after I'm gone? Sound money compounds across generations in a way fiat simply cannot. That intergenerational angle is, honestly, the part I think about most.

I built this so I could send one link instead of repeating the conversation.

Most of the people in my life still don't get it. They've heard the headlines about volatility and crypto crime and checked out. The pitch I make to them in person — at dinners, on phone calls, in long text threads — is the same pitch laid out across this site.

Now I can send a single link. And anyone curious enough to read it can form their own view without having to talk to me first.

I'm not trying to convert you.

If you're reading this because I sent it to you, please know: I'm not running a sales pitch. I'm sharing what I've learned so you can decide for yourself.

If you have questions after reading, I'm a quick call away. The Book a Call form on this site goes straight to my inbox — no funnel, no upsell, no "starter package." I'm not selling anything. I just want fewer people I care about to make the mistakes I made.