This next year is going to be a banger in the fiat mines. If BTC is cheap, all the better.

Doing the same for my family Nat, at the end of the month they even have enough to safe some fiat money let alone “safe in risky sats” I’m in it and will support my family in the long run 🤜🤛😉

We really need to encourage self-sovereign, self-custody and cold storage... 🙏😁❤️‍🔥

Well said!

you are the worst journalist, and you smell like chlorine, fuck you skank

when you leave a country nothing beats btc

>I’ve had more people reach out to me shaken in this cycle...

rookies

People will learn the hard way 🤷🏽‍♂️

lots of people ngmi through the chaos. it's fine, we're building something better that everyone will benefit from, even if they are starting from zero GM

Feels like 2022 had easier explanations of China ban, fed tightening, terraluna-celcius-FTX blow ups, but could all be hindsight.

The broader market took a dive during the tightening cycle and precious metals weren't ripping so it felt a bit more like shared pain.

I would sell bitcoin if there was anything else out there worth holding onto long term. Paper Gold? Lol. Real gold? Mega lol. USD? Lol. Im not happy about the draw downs either, but there is no second best.

Some might say the second cycle is tougher than the first. You have that sense of what it was like and going through it again is something you just can’t face.

Strong hand, long term thinking. Bitcoin is the next Bitcoin!

Our hands will shatter diamonds to dust!

Abolish Social Security.

Nice PSA ... but, Natalie, "who do you think you are talking to right now? Twitter? You are on Nostr now. Everyone has bitcoin. Everyone stacks sats. We dont need the reminder. You are preaching to the choir!" 🤣🤣

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Awesome and agreed

learn selling options

you make 50-80% every year independent of what the market does

instead of bleeding money every day

There’s nothing to say to these folks except to wish them well and remember our hodl’d anxiety in these uncertain times knowing these are the same ppl that will call us lucky when we get to open water again.

One day, that sandwich shop down the corner will be taking Bitcoin... Just gotta be diversified, and not have next month's rent money in there. Not in any market really.

Bravo 👏

Agreed!

💯 percent fellow psychopath. Bitcoin is hope.

Boom! Bang on nostr:nprofile1qqswmnfq2k830kvnylvyrezc97dsqce343qppqrwlgpqaux5qpuwdksprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6v3w0fjkyetyv4jjucmvda6kgqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5dap47q ! Aho!

Here's some great context about the current state of #Bitcoin from nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg8de5s9trchmxfj0kzpu3vzlxcqvvc6csqssph05qsw7r2qq78xmgtpplrn .

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Thanks Nat. Honest. Vulnerable. And appreciated. I’m stacking liking a mofo. We got this.

well said 🎯

I would LOVE a drawdown to 16k. The lower it goes in dollar terms, the more confident I get.

“When everyone is fearful be greedy

When everyone is greedy be fearful”- One of the most successful stock cvcks

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🫡

This got me so pumped up 🔥🔥🔥

Hell yes, so we’ll said 🙌

Run Bitcoin Knots with BIP-110 and rug the spammers. Then we WILL have this. https://youtu.be/dYA9vYa0iwQ

If you want to do the most good, exit the dollar. Collapse the system of forever wars, infinite corruption, baby blood drinking pedos. You want to save the world? Help us fix the money. If you’re going to lettuce hands back into cuck bucks, you’re not ready.

If you’re scared, you didn’t put in the 100 hours. Sorry, you can’t learn all the important shit in a few tiktoks. Sometimes you have to put on your big boy pants and read and think and debate.

I feel like understanding the interviews that nostr:nprofile1qqswmnfq2k830kvnylvyrezc97dsqce343qppqrwlgpqaux5qpuwdkspy9mhxue69uhhxar4v3jkuapwvd5xzersdak8jar9vd5xu6tr9e3k7mgpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7f4hkyy did with nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qut0vex and using those as talking points through explanation might be a better way to go toward orange pilling people. From an outsiders view, I think most people don’t know what to believe, and more importantly, they know something feels wrong but don’t know what or why. Shilling Bitcoin is not going to be received particularly graciously by the vast majority of these people. It probably seems to them like unwanted hot stock advice from your broke uncle with a history of making poor choices, and if that’s how it’s received then those people are going to be hard to reach.

I think (I’m tired and my thoughts aren’t forming very well) that we need an education campaign in a way that’s more likely to be received. Tuttle Twins had an episode about Bitcoin, but it just touched the surface. We need a fun but fact based educational series, probably in video form, that touches on the problem (monetary manipulation and debasement leading to more and more people being unable to get ahead) and provides some solutions. Everyone knows about gold, but how many people know about Bitcoin? Most have heard of Bitcoin, but many (or most) see it as “magic Internet money.” What problems does Bitcoin solve? How is it better than what we have now with fiat? I don’t think most people see fiat as a problem. What about the price volatility? Some people view Bitcoin as a get rich quick scheme. These kinds of things, and many more. need to be addressed to educate people why Bitcoin is the hardest money out there and what benefits a hard money brings.

I didn’t mention the tools to onboard and transact with Bitcoin. Things need to get easier for the average Joe or Jane use Bitcoin. We have the advantage of having been in this space for a while and a desire to learn. My wife, for instance, doesn’t really understand Bitcoin. She doesn’t even really care all that much. She listens to me talk about it. Occasionally she’ll ask questions. She’s a great woman and smart, but this is not her wheelhouse, and she feels like she needs to have a masters degree in finance just to understand it. I’m afraid she’s indicative of many people. How can we educate people about the real problems that Bitcoin solves in a way that will help them realize that we’re all getting screwed by the fiat system, explain the solutions, and how do we move forward?

There’s plenty more I could write, but I’m spent for tonight. My eyes closed a couple time while writing this. I apologize if this post seems like I was smoking a little too much of the good stuff and things are all over the place.

How do we move forward?

How to spot a degenerate hodler 😂

They are panicking while the price tanks - meanwhile I’m in the green and ended up with more bitcoin than I’ve ever owned!

Hodl culture dogma will die off soon I hope.

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If you aren't trying to scheme, then why Bitcoin? Why not Litecoin, or Doge, or Ethereum. Why not QRL, ALGO, or NXS?

I think you're still hoping to "get rich" quick.

Your own mother collets $900 a month in social security, paid by a government that is supporting her; a government you wish to leverage, a government you are abandoning for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not giving her $900 a month.

Bitcoin will give her $0.

Tell me more how this plan of yours works.

By selling yourself, your labor, your money, for a system of servitude like Bitcoin. A network that can only pay you less and less year over year, and much less than the depreciation of goods or services you'll provide.

This is why we left the "gold standard" in the first place: it's a scam that leads to fractured economies.

Well said. i've been buying all weekend

The key part here is that the problem Bitcoin solves has not gone away. We must educate people about the fiat scam.

This is pretty painful for anyone who adopted bitcoin fully in 2021…huge disappointment after a lot of hard work learning, hodling, risking our reputation. We never got our moment. And this is 100% manipulation by banks and sovereigns who are actively trying to slow retail adoption. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a spook.

True

There’s literally a crime boss running the USA government and the Coinbase CEO is writing legislation?!?! You’re valuing your asset in USD and it’s so stupid. Very soon nation states will be warring for bitcoin. Stay safe everyone.

Well said.

The US president invested $6b in BTC and BTC mining. The Fed chair is a bitcoiner, the treasury secretary is a bitcoiner, the commerce secretary is a bitcoiner……

Natalie is the Bitcoin mom….

Love it 🔥

Something definitely feels more brutal and scary this time around but I'll keep building and hopefully come out on the other side helping the next wave of adopters stack sats.

Love this. Keep up the good work on the pod 🤙

Good words!

Keep stacking and carry on, girl.

Very well said!

Class of ‘21 and still stacking

I’ve never been down this much in dollar terms, but I’m still confident I’m doing the right thing, so I keep stacking. I’m not here to get rich in fiat. I’m here for what Bitcoin actually stands for.

That’s right, tock to the next block. Proof of time. Ride the highs, ride the lows. What is fiat price measuring against anyway? I’m excited about all the square terminals I see and spreading the word. I feel like things are more optimistic than ever.

It is not for the weak

The problem this time around seems to be a lack of fresh interest, a diminishing of the curiosity that was previously always there, despite the ups and downs. There is a sort of opinion saturation that has happened.

Feels like a rock band that never had a problem selling tickets until this current tour. Now suddenly stadiums are 3/4 full. What's going on?

There are only so many people in the world and opinions have hardened on bitcoin. I'd bet you can go to the far flung village in China or Peru, and most people by now will have an strong-ish opinion on Bitcoin, sensible or otherwise.

This is as opposed to three or four years ago, when far more people hadn't really formed an opinion, either had never really thought about it or had but were pretty neutral and open to arguments either direction.

Obviously those whose opinion is bitcoin is great have bitcoin. So now most of the recruiting has to be a two-step process, first an opinion massaging process and then onboarding. That really limits the intake. Talking people out of hardened opinions is itself hard.

This idea you can keep shaking people out and new people will line up, ad nauseam, doesn't add up. At some point you've shaken through too many people, they've all told their friends of the shake, and word gets around. One person spreads it to 50.

Gold doesn't shake people out in the same way. People tend to leave gold on neutral terms, gold says thanks for visiting come back soon, and many do. There are no "shake out" metaphors for gold because it's just not as suitable to these kinds of violent metaphors as bitcon is.

The world's investing population isn't all that big. It's big, but it's still a zero sum deal, discounting the young generation coming up. Everyone is waiting for the number to go back up. But who is buying? The price of bitcoin is going down, which is normal, but the real issue feels like the price of recruitment is going way up.

I have no numbers to support this, so take it as a personal vibe read. I'd be curious if numbers did support it or contradict it though.

As annoying as it is to have been wrong about thinking it would zoom from 120k to way higher . . . I am overall happy for the cheap sats ₿

What other investments that's gonna tell you that supply gonna shrink every 4 years and it's gonna effect you in terms of ' operational running cost ' in fiat value that you already put in and unless you do something about it ( no matter what! )..you gonna lose even more? Certainly not gold/silver investment. Certainly not stocks. REITS. Or private equity/venture capitol etc. Only bitcoin. Why? Coz it was MATHEMATICALLY designed. It's in the source code. Math don't lie. People do. MANIPULATION at its best. And BlackRock just loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee when people are dumb!!

We have a 10-sigma event in silver, a gold pump-and-dump that looks like a shitcoin chart pattern, and trillions of dollars wiped out in a single stock-market session. To me, this looks more like a major reset than random market behavior. From that perspective, I even think Bitcoin is behaving pretty solidly as more people begin to understand its foundational concepts.

Love the positivity and message. What meagre life savings I have mustered are in Bitcoin, too—beyond my IRA retirement investments. Easiest to recall for myself that this isn’t the value I need to care about—it’s the one 10 or 20 or 50 years down the line to borrow against for a home or actual retirement.

Well said Natalie.

Stay tough. 💪

I’ve loss zero bitcoin. I’m not sure what everyone’s shaken about?

Core Devs were confirmed pedophiles for the 3rd time.

I'm pretty sure that the loss of faith from long term holders is due to more than just some price action.

Core 30 was made to turn the time chain into a child porn hosting service, like what already happened to previous Bitcoin forks.

Once Bitcoin forks again and the core pedophile spam coinners are seperated from Bitcoin everything will be ok.

But as long as the core Dev pedophiles are involved with Bitcoin trust will go down while suspicion increases.

The recent times show that Bitcoin is needed, now more then ever🍯🦡

This round of education got hijacked by spooks, suits, and scammers. The plot was lost and the narrative wasn’t convincing. So many influencers sold out it was inevitable. We must do better next cycle or we’ll continue to spin our wheels and delay the bitcoin standard. The current price action tells us that pandering to institutions may well have been a waste of time. Deliberate individual adoption is the only way we see bitcoin’s price grind sustainably higher against the dollar

Price volatility doesn’t invalidate Bitcoin.

It exposes who still measures value in fiat.

Fear shows up when Bitcoin is treated as an investment instead of money.

If your unit of account is dollars, every drawdown feels existential.

If your unit of account is sats, nothing fundamental has changed.

Bitcoin doesn’t fix retirement by “number go up.”

It fixes retirement by restoring saving, time preference, and sovereignty.

I’ve lived on a Bitcoin standard for over a decade.

No debt. Lower cost of living over time.

Not because price was smooth — but because my productivity was stored in sound money instead of melting currency.

The problem Bitcoin solves hasn’t gone away.

But neither has the confusion between price and value.

Short-term volatility is the cost of exiting a broken system early.

Long-term stability comes from holding money that can’t be debased.

Zoom out.

Stack sats.

Self-custody.

Produce value.

The rest is noise. Especially the fiat price.

#Bitcoin #SoundMoney #LiveOnSats #PriceInSats

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsf67hqt0vuma40h2q0vauv3d9suw6fw2zjqdrvpprksf7vhhuhu4chsusce This is the shape of how you're feeling. It's not the nominal depreciation of the asset, it's the relentlessness of trend. If my analysis is right, 2026 looks more acute because there is less room for time projected into the future. That means we go down faster, harder but will we stay down for longer? I don't know.

You are reckless if not doverisfying 5 to 10% to Monero.

But yes, this to be expected when the laggards join while TradFi already plays paper games.