Exposure to Bitcoin isn't Bitcoin. We're not going into a bull market until this lesson is learned. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

The deeper the belief, the longer you stay engaged. Good thing the Bitcoin rabbit hole is deep.

Ultimately, the circular economy will emerge to get around fiat chokepoints.

People secretly like centralization because it gives them someone to blame if things go wrong. Girardian scapegoats are preferred to taking responsibility.

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I tell founders that preparing for success is much harder than preparing for failure, because most people think that success will be easy. It isn't. The more resources you have, the more choices you have to make and the more such choices matter. And those choices have to be made wisely. An abundant future is at hand. The question is, are you prepared for it?

Love stories like this. Understand that Bitcoin is savings and Family is the investment.

If you're doing drugs, you're not valuing your mind and body enough. If you're scamming people, you're not valuing your soul enough.

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Loyalty is admirable. But it is possible to overindex on it.

I suspect a lot of people choose sides not because they believe the side to be true, but because they want to win and increase their status.