I’ll always be a fanboi for how for a while you would fearlessly alpha Michael Saylor in tweets in his early days. It was glorious. Nobody but Nobody could get away with how you trolled a major CEO. Yet in Bitcoin world, you helped introduce him to the playground, and let him know the rules…and he got that. In that way, I believe you played a very pivotal role to reveal Saylor as a true Bitcoiner. Appreciated you.

I think its important to remind ourselves that for virtually everyone in the Fiat system it makes complete sense that you obey the orders of someone that you work for, and at the end of a “pay-period” you get credits to give to other people who obey the orders of someone THEY work for. Yes, Bitcoin is Freedom Technology…but it won’t be adopted quickly, because few are able to understand. It will take decades to break the collective unconsciousness. Prepare accordingly.

Well said! Nostr is perhaps happily doomed to be the place where people can just be. Fwiw the very wealthy realized centuries ago that “Gentlemen’s Clubs” would rule “Social Media” nine ways to Sunday. Be Small but Mighty and choose your friends wisely.

A foot is your foot. An inch is your thumb. Every real housewife knows a cup, pint, quart, teaspoon, tablespoon…and they built the greatest country the world has ever known. Not with Math, but with Measurements.

Look at this 2-year Weekly chart of Volume (bottom) v Price Action. Forget what Asset this is. This is an Asset that is Dislocating. Dislocating assets break. Always. With unanticipated results. But we don’t know WHAT will break. The stresses within have ripple-effects without. And those stresses are intertwined through SO many things when viewing the free-est global-market asset the human race has ever known, however small but scrappy. Yes, Bitcoin is tiny, so far as harbingers go. But Gold is not, and Gold is likely the tsunami that has been sucking out the water from the beach right now, if you view the Volume chart as the place where the earth meets the ocean of money. Bitcoin’s time is to shine is not yet. Likely another one to two years. So DCA accordingly and don’t swing for fences.

Gold can be allowed to break up 400% because no one, no individual, no Nation State can challenge Power if their gold holdings quadruple. Bitcoin cannot be allowed to continue to multi-x. The Nouveau riche have always had to be kept in check. This understanding goes back a looong way.

The very recent weakness in Bitcoin is a side-effect of the breakout in precious metals. Remember that in Bitcoin, God-Candles are basically just baseball cap branding. OG’s in Bitcoin have largely already dumped after 10 to 14 years of hodling. But in precious metals circles people have waited their whole lives for a 10x “melt-up”. Which is about where Gold and Silver are at right now. Think 30 years or more. So expect Old Guys with dreams of Cabo to absolutely eclipse what we think has been OG Bitcoiner selling after 10 years of hodling. “Retail” in Gold/Silver has been hodling longer than most Bitcoiners have been alive. And they are going to find that selling is very, very difficult at the prices we’re approaching. The spot markets at trading co’s has got to be interesting now, with buying v selling reaching a disconnect. Watching Gold & Silver run is like watching Susan Lucci finally win an Emmy award. t’s well-deserved, and everyone over 50 is applauding. But it’s little more than an honorarium at this point.

Definitely! In fact you can eat ground beef raw if you want. The popular problems were with under-cooked chicken and pork, almost entirely in the U.S. Likely because of factory farming, but still, don’t eat undercooked chicken or pork. But most of the world regularly eats raw fish, beef, eggs, seal, whale, et al. and they’re often served as delicacies. Don’t trust, but feel free to verify!

Starting to see a bit of talk about how Bitcoin is no longer a “Retail” asset because the Robinhood Retail crowd has become the Blackrock ETF Retail crowd. So fwiw, I’ll repeat: “UNLESS AND UNTIL….Overnight and Overweekend markets kick fully into gear and break the Western-centric hold on Bitcoin… Until we see THAT, Bitcoin is NASDAQ. Don’t leverage or expect anything more than 10%. Mark these words: Until the Non-Western “Flyover” markets clearly wrest control from Western “Wall St” markets, Bitcoin is going to trade like a trad-fi “FAANG” style investment. So accumulate accordingly.”

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I agree. But for the first time in years I feel like we’re not even in the battle anymore. Lack of any weekend & even overnight/weekday overseas volume/markets for more than two years now tells me traditional Bitcoiner Retail is dead. All our previous Pleb-driven cycles are done. Toast. Wall St is fully in control of Bitcoin now. Which simply means the Dumb money is in control. The hyper-sophisticated Fiat-wage-slaves trade Bitcoin, on their 9 to 5 schedule. So hyper-Bitcoinization is not happening. Every. Bitcoin is going to be “wage-slave” for quite awhile now. Quite a LONG while now. Think 10% yield averaged over the next 10 years. UNLESS AND UNTIL….Overnight and Overweekend markets kick fully into gear and break the Western-centric hold on Bitcoin. Until we see THAT, Bitcoin is NASDAQ. Don’t leverage or expect anything more than 10%. Mark these words: Until the Non-Western “Flyover” markets clearly wrest control from Western “Wall St” markets, Bitcoin is going to trade like a trad-fi “FAANG” style investment. So accumulate accordingly.

All the propagandized “division” - in America and elsewhere - all division in the world, boils down to: “My sources of information are better than your sources of information.” This has always been. And the first step in confronting this monstrous maelstrom of insanity… …is to recognize both sources of information are Fiat.

In a Fiat system, an increasing majority of people will turn to debt(credit) as a means of financing their future. As Fiat wanes, greater numbers of people will come to rely on debt(credit) to stay solvent. On the Eve of Fiat, debt(credit) will increasingly overwhelm the people. In a Sound Money economy, an increasing number of people will turn to harder work as a means of financing the future. As Sound Money grows, greater numbers of people will work for previous workers and investors to stay solvent. On the Eve of Sound Money, Fiat will become an attractive casino for those who wish to prosper without working harder. As it always has.

Shower thought today: The last legit conspiracy theory I can think of that has definitively been Debunked is that Playboy was primarily about the articles & interviews.

You will never sell your Gold for Bitcoin at the top. But you will sell your Gold for Fiat. And later buy Bitcoin with Fiat after the Gold/Bitcoin top. Source: You know you will.