Dea Rezkitha

I’m traveling abroad solo for the first time without my baby, and I just realized how much stress a mother goes through when traveling with her child.

She has to stay on top of everything, keep her baby safe, and do her best to make sure the journey is enjoyable for other passengers, too.

Traveling solo is so much easier in comparison.

It was an honor to share our Bitcoin journey in Indonesia with the My First Bitcoin team and talk about how @fedibtc is helping drive Bitcoin adoption through local communities.

The documentary is now out! Watch it to learn more about our story and the people building Bitcoin adoption in Indonesia.

When I read the news, the world feels like it’s all filled with doom, hacks, and ever-growing oppression. Everything feels so dark and looming.

But then I look at my baby sleeping peacefully beside me, and suddenly, the world feels like a fairy tale—soft, innocent, and full of wonder.

Two contrasting realities, indeed.

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Goddess Feronia and Bitcoin Circular Economy

I’ve always been fascinated with mythology in general. I think through their stories, there is a lot of meaning and “encryption” left for generations to understand.

Recently, I learned about Goddess Feronia, an ancient Italic goddess whose worship predates many of the traditional Roman gods and goddesses we know today.

Feronia is the goddess of wild nature, fertility, abundance, and freedom.

Feronia is not a regular domesticated goddess of crops and agriculture. Her sanctuaries existed at the conjunction of civilization and wild nature, often around forests, groves, springs, and rivers.

In her views, humans can benefit from nature, while nature remains free.

But what is particularly interesting about Feronia is her association with freedom.

Her temples was known as a place connected with the liberation of enslaved people. A person who had been enslaved could become a freedman by coming to her temples.

And interestingly, Feronia’s sanctuaries were also surrounded by markets.

Once you are granted freedom, what do you do with it?

You start exercising it.

It’s all tied together: Freedom. Property. Markets. Commerce.

And this is where I see a connection with Bitcoin and the circular economy.

Bitcoin is freedom money. You can hold it yourself. Its monetary policy cannot simply be changed by a government or central authority. It gives you stronger property rights over your money.

But freedom doesn’t end with simply holding Bitcoin.

If you receive Bitcoin, understand its value, hold your own keys, but still depend entirely on fiat for everything you earn, buy, sell, and build, then that freedom is still limited.

Just like the freedmen around Feronia’s sanctuary, the next step after gaining freedom is to exercise it.

Own your property.
Provide value.
Offer your skills and services.
Participate in commerce.
Earn more money.

This is why Bitcoin circular economies is so important. It is the way freedom spreads

It doesn’t make sense for Bitcoin to only become just an asset that everyone accumulates and nobody uses. If Bitcoin represents freedom, then that freedom needs somewhere to be exercised.

Spend Bitcoin with someone who can then use that Bitcoin to trade with someone else.

Someone earns Bitcoin.
They spend it at a local business.
The business pays a supplier.
The supplier pays a worker.
The worker saves some and spends some.

And slowly, more people can participate in an economy that doesn’t require them to surrender control of their money.

Freedom shouldn’t end with possession.

Freedom should circulate.