Movies like Train Dreams that are shot in 4:3 make me irrationally angry. Let me make full use of my screens and 2020s technology that I paid good money for, don’t bother me with your fancy artsy bullshit.
Once you decentralise at least aspects of your life (even if it’s only, say, money and social media), it becomes easier to deal with the clown world.
Imo, all our ancestors had to deal with clown worlds of sorts, but were to an extent opted out by default. Their lives were informal, local, and unrecorded.
Technology has opted us in to clown world by default, but decentralisation is the exit. Simple.
Big resolutions for the new year include leaving X behind completely, and moving more of my spending onto a Bitcoin standard.
For the latter, I’m probably weird like that but a problem for me has always been that most of my Bitcoin stash is cold storage and I see it as long term family savings.
So going into 2026 I will more regularly convert part of my salary into Bitcoin each month, move it to a hot wallet / Lightning and spend it.
Because fuck fiat.
The real frustration with Bitcoin is that it’s not a story that will be written over the years, but over the decades and likely centuries. We all want to be there for the 0 to 1 and live happily ever after but truth is even our kids may not see it in its final form. That’s humbling
I enjoy these moves, because I know at the other side of it there are some big sharks increasingly exasperated that their manipulative bullshit tactics aren’t moving the market by more than +/- 2% these days. All your pathetic efforts for this lmao.
Fed balance sheet expanding for the first time since March 2023 (SVB debacle), which was when the recent Bitcoin bull run started. Imo on a false belief that QE was restarting materially.
It didn’t and was quickly unwound, leaving Bitcoin a bit in no man’s land (but still pumping due to 4y cycle cultists and ETFs). I think we’re going a lot higher soon.
Dear diary,
Every day the gold people’s victory laps become more vicious.
I picture them sitting there, gold bars piled up on their desk absolutely gloating at Bitcoiners online.
“Lmaaooo gotem!” they type 5 times as they look at a carefully zoomed in chart that should not extend even a fraction further to the left. “Up a 2x against your digital shitcoin, pay back, bitches!”
They are rich now. Tomorrow they’re putting all their gold bars in a bag to drive an hour to the big town next door, where they can sell them for at least 90% of the quoted spot price (75% in case the casing wasn’t carefully kept), after doing KYC and scanning their anus. In T+2 days the fiat will be in their bank accounts.
Imagine being a Bitcoiner, they say to themselves.
⚡️🎙️ NEW - Australia bans social media for teens, except BlueSky.
Joe Rogan: “Up until 16 years old, the only way you get to communicate is the most radically leftist site available.
…BlueSky, which is just Twitter, but for super hardcore lefties, is not included in the ban.”
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Nostr isn’t either. Because they can’t 🖕
Back when I really started loading up on Bitcoin, I guess it was 2018, it was one of those times where Bitcoin was “obviously dead”, endless obituaries. And my thinking was simply “something worth a few thousand $ is very much not dead”. Fade BTC at 80k all you want lmao.
Imagine watching the global discourse around CBDC, surveillance, exit taxes and not seeing the point of Bitcoin beyond “digital gold” / NgU. The lack of basic survival instinct truly baffles the mind
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Merry Christmas
Kind of in disbelief that gold bugs are doing the same thing shitcoiners do once every few years
“Recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization” 🤣 that’s what I love about clown world, all the entertainment is free.
I love the current state of Bitcoin. Its story since 2010 has been human arrogance and hubris all the way down:
First one and a half decade was all about “we can make a better Bitcoin”, which failed, so now it’s “Bitcoin is dead” by the exact same people. Insert any narrative, ie quantoom, to argue that case.
Very obviously global acceptance and adoption lies beyond this current phase. What humans thought about Bitcoin never mattered.
Keep seeing people say things like “the debasement trade is happening, but bitcoin is lagging (panic)”.
No, there is no debasement trade today. That’s a false narrative perpetuated by tradfi nerds who finally understood it about half a decade late.
In recent times, rates went to 5.5%, and we had 3 years of quantitative tightening where all post H1 2020 excess liquidity was drained. Today, there’s no debasement, if anything the old system has re-strengthened somewhat (though the fiscal/debt binge doesn’t help). Bitcoin went up on ETF hype at a time where it really shouldn’t have.
Instead, what you’re seeing is central banks swapping dollars for gold out of geopolitical spite and worry. This is quite literally the two old system behemoths duking it out one last time, and the dollar is not winning that fight.
Bitcoin is not a direct part of that story after less than two measly decades, though once the result of the match gets clearer likely benefits strongly.
One day it will be a direct participant too, but that day is not today. There’s zero signal in this for BTC, and most of the narrative is false.
What I like most about Bitcoin is that it has pushed investing into the background. It’s no longer “just full port all you have into the SPY because money loses its value anyway”. I keep a large part of my wealth in a savings account (BTC) and so some speculation / diversification on the side.