I feel sorry for the retail investors who will sell their paper Bitcoin shares at a loss while the issuers bought Bitcoin with their money and the fees they're charging them. But then again, we kinda knew this would happen. Still sucks that wall street gets to bleed retailers over and over again with little to no repercussions.

Sure, any firm caught colluding will get fined by the SEC and - maybe - a VP or two will have to leave (that's why they have so many) - but at the end of the day, as long as gains exceed the fines, it's all fair play. For them anyway.

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Human nature wires us for short-term survival, not long-term abundance. We hoard what we fear losing, spend on status signals, and chase dopamine hits from fiat dopamine—spending 98% of income on liabilities. Bitcoin demands delayed gratification: stack sats quietly while the world FOMO-chases the next bubble. Even if divided equally, we'd trade ours for iPhones and lattes in months. Orange pilling fights evolution; start with their pain points, not theory. We need more to understand.

very very few humans are intelligent enough to understand the potential of BTC.

If you truly believe Bitcoin can’t win because people are “too distracted by TikTok and lattes,” you’re betting against every single chapter of monetary history.

Every time in the past 5,000 years — from shells to salt to silver to gold — the hardest, most verifiable, least-inflatable money has crushed every soft competitor. Not because people were smarter back then, but because once the pain of debasement becomes unbearable, the herd flips violently toward the exit that still works.

Today the pain isn’t here yet for most. Phones are still paid, groceries still cheap-ish, 401(k)s still green. The moment that stops — when eggs are $20, rent eats 60 % of income, and savings evaporate in real time — the same “dumb” masses will suddenly become monetary geniuses overnight. They’ll ape into the one asset that can’t be printed, exactly like Germans into gold in 1923, Argentines into dollars in 2001, Venezuelans into BTC in 2018.

History isn’t a hope; it’s a pattern with a 100 % hit rate.

You’re not betting against Bitcoin.

You’re betting the greatest monetary awakening in human history somehow skips this cycle.

Good luck with that one. 🚀

Bitcoin will win, the sheeple will NEVER understand why.

The typical jabbed moron STILL worship government and have no clue how the FED bends them over every day.

Forget even asking about the BIS.

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