I found Bitcoin in 2017. Like most, I chased the obvious: price, adoption, the rotating carousel of headlines. The narratives shifted constantly. The code did not. By 2020, I hit a wall of intellectual honesty: I didn’t even know which questions to ask. So I went backward. I’m from the land once known as Colchis — home of the Golden Fleece. Here, gold isn’t abstract. It has been part of this region’s story for thousands of years. It has outlived every empire that tried to manage it. I began to ask: how does money survive for millennia? The answer wasn’t hype. It wasn’t branding. It was constraint. Gold endured because no king, no general, and no committee could adjust its supply at will. It operated under a neutral rule. That realization changed how I think. I stopped asking where Bitcoin might go and started asking what cannot be changed. Who has override authority? No one. Where does human discretion enter? Nowhere. Where are the hard limits? In the math. That’s how I arrived at first principles. I’m on Nostr because open protocols are consistent with that conclusion. If money can operate on fixed, neutral rules, our digital conversations should too. I’m Shota.