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Mark Puddleglum
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I post art mostly. I also sometimes post how I'm thinking about financial charts. #notscifi #notartbot #art #artstr

Gustav Klimt, Country House on Attersee Lake

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I take it back. If one doesn't have a belief system ultimately rooted in a benevolent God: strive, struggle, work, do anything possible to maximize your wealth in Bitcoin, if that's what you want. As an ultimate pursuit, it's rather black/white.

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Also, to help keep a sane mind, focus on being generous and giving money/value/bitcoin away, when the fiat value of the account goes up.

Fear and greed drive the euphoria and selloffs. The market will play you, if you don't find ways to have a bigger view of life. It will suck you in, make you think you absolutely need as much bitcoin as possible, and you'll do stupid stuff.

I learned the hard way. My net worth is up 3.5x from where I started 4 years ago. If I took my own advice here it would be up closer to 10x to 15x.

#bullrun #bitcoin #trading

I suggest letting off the gas when things start to go parabolic. It's helpful to use one or some of the charts at lookintobitcoin.com to assess how overheated the market is.

At some point, it doesn't make sense to keep stacking sats, until prices fall back down to fair value.

Keep it simple, don't stress about selling the top - you'll loose so much life doing that. Yes it will fall back down to earth fast after it hits a peak or peaks. But, it falls to a bottom much higher than the starting point - you believe in bitcoin in the long term, don't you? So, you're fine. Just make a point to get rid of as much fiat debt that you might have when everybody is talking about bitcoin going to the moon, replacing the dollar, or whatever - it'll happen. If you want to trade focus on the big picture and pull out your basis if your account is 2x where you started.

Focus on what is enough, instead of how much more you think you'll need to retire early, or whatever. Seriously. Money, and even the best money, is not worth living for. You're worth more than that.

I prob. entered too early, but I've placed a very tiny amount in #SMR

I think it's possible that the price is correcting after the initial kick-off impulse wave. I'll seek to annotate the chart with news events related to it's dramatic crash as I learn more about the regulation associated with it's reactor design.

Started learning about nuclear power, the energy commodity markets, and related topics as part of an investigation into allocating to energy and uranium.

Replying to Avatar gladstein

LFG

This is my hope for the orange anti-establishment money.

TBH, despite the increase in relative fiat value, which makes my life less stressful right now, I'm not all that excited about big institutions becoming custodians.

"Diversification is protection from ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing."

-Warren Buffett

Really appreciating nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a's writing here: https://www.lynalden.com/blue-chip-dividend-stocks/ because she answers questions I've had about diversification in ways that makes a lot of sense to me.

“It's stupid because it's still likely to go to zero,” and “it's evil because it undermines the Federal Reserve System.”

Charlie Munger on corn

This is from one of the best elliott wave traders I follow on X-itter, maybe I'll chill and see how high the #optimism #op goes:

reminds me of the artworks of Walter King, an instructor I had at #ccad (Columbus College of Art and Design).

Link to some of King's work: https://www.saatchiart.com/walterking

Here's an update on #optimism

I'm thinking about de-risking a bit.

Replying to Avatar Tuur Demeestr

A call to crypto flippers

Whether or not there is another “alt season”, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your life’s energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/“invoosting”, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin front—we have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.

You see we’re approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that years’ long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.

I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse control—I struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.

But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.

I’m just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. I’m here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.

So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one you’ve been telling yourself you don’t need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.

We’re all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.

Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. You’ll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that you’d forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of “not having enough” head on, you’ll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and you’ll start to feel happier than you’ve ever been.

Help yourself, you’re worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that “meh…” or eye rolling part of you, that’s not all of you, that’s not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you can’t feel it, it doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there for you, but just that there’s clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.

So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!

Or, you can take your "invoosting" seriously, chart/investigate your history, observe the real cost of trading (time + stress + capitol) and compare your outcomes to hodling BTC as a baseline. After you find some historical records on your trading, take a look at it after a cold shower, and decide if it's worth it. It's not impossible to do well, patterns are real, but it's likely harder than it looks.

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