Sydney Sweeney is going to be doing shitcoin treasury company ads isn’t she

What a week... brother

Channelling my inner Johnny Bravo. HOO HA!

People already trying to get fancy talking about eth and other shitcoin trading

I even saw a DOGE treasury company

When bear market? 😂

Hubris (a short story)

In the year 2029, the global economy trembled—not from war or pandemic, but from a quiet revolution that had been gathering beneath the surface like tectonic pressure.

The story began a decade earlier. @Microsoft, @Apple, @Google, and the other titans of Silicon Valley were basking in record profits. Their balance sheets overflowed with trillions in cash and equivalents, most of it parked in U.S. Treasury bonds—low-yield, “safe,” and endorsed by decades of convention. CFOs nodded confidently at board meetings. Risk was for startups. Stability was strategy.

But a storm was building, and they refused to look up.

In a small but growing corner of the global economy, something different was taking root: Bitcoin. While the tech elite dismissed it as volatile, slow, or worse — a haven for libertarians and groups trying to go around institutions — it kept humming along, block by block.

@MicroStrategy, a company dismissed as a curious footnote on @CNBC, quietly continued converting its balance sheet into Bitcoin. Others followed, slowly, and then into a growing wave. Sovereigns too: El Salvador, Bhutan, then Brazil, Czech Republic, and more. A parallel system was forming, one that operated beyond borders, beyond central banks, and beyond the cautious worldview of the titans of corporate America.

By 2027, inflation had returned—not the kind central bankers claimed to control, but the kind that eroded real wages and made corporate bonds unattractive. U.S. debt spiraled as interest payments surpassed defense spending. Apple’s $200 billion in cash began to shrink—not in numbers, but in purchasing power. They were rich, yes. But so was Rome, once.

Still, they didn’t move.

Why risk headlines for a speculative asset? Why anger investors stuck in the modalities of the past, those convinced by Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett and other investing giants of the past that this Bitcoin thing was a speculative fad? Why rock the boat when the tide had always lifted them?

Because tides change.

When the dollar crisis hit in 2029, it wasn’t sudden. But the consequences were. Treasury yields spiked. Foreign investors and stable-coin companies dumped U.S. debt. The Fed, cornered, scaled up its money printing. The world finally noticed that the emperor’s currency had no clothes.

Meanwhile, Strategy’s balance sheet exploded in value, as did those of other corporations that joined the early wave of Bitcoin Treasury Companies. Once small-cap and mid-cap firms, these companies now dwarfed the giants of the past. Countries lined up to mine, secure, and settle in #Bitcoin $BTC. A new monetary standard emerged—not by decree, but by demand.

At an emergency summit in Davos, the CEOs of the world’s largest firms gathered in panic. Microsoft’s CFO whispered, “We should have bought Bitcoin back when it was under $100K.” Apple’s board, once lauded for its caution, found itself questioned by shareholders who watched their cash erode in real time.

The corporations that once shaped the world had missed the future by clinging to the past.

It wasn’t lack of information. It wasn’t bad luck. It was hubris.

And hubris, history reminds us, is always punished in the end.

$MSFT $AAPL $GOOG $NVDA $TSLA $NFLX

how many people do you think self custody more than one bitcoin?

Relatable but he also sounds depressed.

This is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen in this space to-date

Reflecting on an inspiring experience from this morning. On my run down by Lake Ontario, there is an indigenous encampment drawing attention to consequences of Bill C-5 (One Canadian Economy Act) and a variety of outstanding Treaty issues.

I said hello and thanked them for the beautiful smell of sage that was filling the air, after which an Elder invited me over to smudge. Grateful for the gift, we began speaking about different issues pertaining to their grievances (very legitimate, centuries old grievances).

It opened an opportunity to speak to the Elder and a couple of others about Bitcoin and the potential for economic sovereignty (and by extension, other forms of sovereignty). I told them about the work my colleagues Suman Kumar and nostr:npub1zvu0wuq4rf5839sangchz8h7rq6ejp22zhvn8sncwc3eaq987qds66w2ya are doing to nurture dialogue and learning about Bitcoin with Cree community members in the province of Quebec.

The beautiful thing: they got it. The concepts resonated. They were interested to learn more. I’ll be going back to speak with them again and to share some resources.

It reminded me that a myriad of groups, communities, nations stand to benefit from the opportunity Bitcoin presents to (figuratively) bulldoze gates, fences, and enforcers that prevent them from achieving autonomy and sovereignty.

I we can find more openings and opportunities to engage First Nations, Inuit, and other native communities throughout the Americas regarding Bitcoin. We, the creator’s children, and future generations, all stand to benefit.

In part I remind myself that if I talk to the average person on the street if they've heard of Bitcoin, pretty much everybody has. Many will say they've heard of Ethereum. Far fewer will say they've heard of Solana, Ripple, Cardano, or Fartcoin or whatever other shitcoin.

I'm also reminded of something a friend told me a while back that stuck with me: back when the Internet protocol first took off, there were some people that came up with new ideas. When you asked what their idea was they'd say "it's like the Internet... but better". In my mind all the shitcoins are mostly solutions looking for a problem, and their main "selling point" is that "they're like Bitcoin... but better" - which is objectively nonsense. That's the message that I like to tell normies.

Guys there are hundreds more shitcoin groups in DC, representing these and more. Can’t let em win and screw over Americans even more

Like in my book there’s BPI, nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld and coin center does good stuff (but not Bitcoin only). Each with our own lane and focus.

The crypto/shitcoin to bitcoin ratio for education, think tanks, and policy is absolutely insane. Even though Bitcoin makes up 65% of market share in all of crypto, bitcoin only groups make up only about 10% of think tanks, industry, and lobby in DC. Thats insane

It is hard to believe people take this stuff seriously

Thrilled to have Jason on our team in this official capacity. He raises the bar on teaching and explaining Bitcoin, with the utmost integrity and kindness, to new folks who have yet to learn about Bitcoin.

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I can't believe I'm saying this but the new Canadian government is actually not doing retarded things, compared to the previous at least

You really think these people want their own private keys?

Can confirm—old people using iPads to take photos is still a thing.

Just saw it downtown lol

Unlimited fiat, only 21 million #Bitcoin

Had some haters fork my Bitcoin resources site in order to remove all the "impure" links from it.

Little do they know how much maintenance is required to constantly fight against linkrot. 😂

I thought Bitcoin was supposed to dump during the conference. I put in a limit buy at 58k, and hasn't filled yet. What gives? 🤷