Run a node and feel the economic energy at your fingertips.

Live below your means. Grind on your craft. Be frugal. Eat healthy. Get/stay fit. Dismiss all frivolous, status seeking, branded, celebrity bullshit. Save in money they can't fuck with. Be stoic about price. Never panic. Never fomo. Keep it simple. dca, stack, hodl.

Supply is capped at 21 million. Bitcoin's rules that keep it this way are in fact "your rules". You run a node to ensure that "your rules" apply to your stack. Your node will be in consensus with the chain that agrees with your rules. Full stop.

If you don't like my rules, you can all fork off. Node runners know that that is literally how it works.

If you allow your wallet to connect to some other node and thereby delegating all verification, then you are merely a passenger along for the ride on someone else's boat. If your keys are held in custody by another, then you are not even on the boat. You are holding tickets with your ETF friends in the spectator stand.

Run a node and connect your wallet to it. Tighten up your rules.

Run a node. You do not get closer to the economic energy a node places at your fingertips. Not running a node, you could not be further away.