11 years in bitcoin now. It’s been better than I ever imagined.

The IRS has conferences every year and one of the things they talk about is the idea of a tax revolt (they are rightly freaked out about it), their method for dealing with this is to audit and investigate influencers who encourage tax revolts.

So when you post like this you increase your audit risk tremendously, but hey maybe you really do start a movement and collapse the government 🤷🏻‍♂️

The problem is most people get a refund every year. So the odds of getting a critical mass of Americans to opt out is low.

The IRS has conferences every year and one of the things they talk about is the idea of a tax revolt (they are rightly freaked out about it), their method for dealing with this is to audit and investigate influencers who encourage tax revolts.

So when you post like this you increase your audit risk tremendously, but hey maybe you really do start a movement and collapse the government 🤷🏻‍♂️

The problem is most people get a refund every year. So the odds of getting a critical mass of Americans to opt out is low.

When the clock strikes midnight we shake the fucking etch a sketch and start over on a new hopefully less shitty year.

It’s not

Verbiage is far less important than meaning, and policing descriptive terms has no transformative effect on reality.

If you find yourself playing word games all the time you’re probably engaging in some form of self denial.

“Quantum kills Bitcoin” is just recycled FUD from people who don’t understand either.

twenty-one rules I like

1. Don’t trust, verify.

2. Not your keys, not your coins.

3. Study first, stack second (ignorance is expensive).

4. Self-custody is the default; third parties are the exception.

5. Secure your seed like your future depends on it (because it does).

6. Backups exist in at least two places; single points of failure are for fiat.

7. Test restores, don’t just “assume” backups work.

8. Keep it simple

9. If someone promises guaranteed returns, you’re the yield.

10. DCA, chill, and let time do the heavy lifting.

11. Fees are temporary; getting rekt is forever—choose wisely.

12. Privacy matters: don’t broadcast your stack, don’t mix identity with addresses.

13. If you can’t explain it to a pleb, you probably shouldn’t be using it.

14. Learn UTXOs and basic wallet hygiene (coin control beats panic).

15. Prefer open-source tools; closed-source “trust me bro” is a trap.

16. Run you own node - verify your own rules

17. Never trust a man with fancy chairs.

18. Ignore noise: price is temporary, fundamentals are permanent.

19. Bitcoin, not “crypto.” alternatives are distractions

20. Teach others, but don’t try to save people who don’t want to learn.

21. Be humble and stack sats.

The shift of #Bitcoin miners to AI data centers may seem like an economic opportunity at first glance, but from the perspective of the #Bitcoin network, it is a sign of a temporary imbalance in incentives. When transaction fees fall and miners’ income from fees falls, it is natural for capital and processing power to shift to more profitable applications.

This behavior is more a direct reflection of the supply and demand equation than an ideological shift. Today’s AI is hungry for power and processing power, and is willing to pay a higher price for the shared resources that #Bitcoin also depends on. In such a situation, #Bitcoin mining temporarily loses out in the price competition.

But this equation is not sustainable. Energy bottlenecks, grid constraints, and rising infrastructure costs in the AI ​​industry, especially in Western economies, will sooner or later put pressure on the profit margins of the sector. At the same time, any real surge in #Bitcoin usage, whether from the payments side or from higher layers, could shift the balance of miners’ income by driving up transaction fees again.

In such a scenario, a return of processing power to #Bitcoin is not only likely, but logical. Unlike AI data centers, which are dependent on heavy investment and energy policies, #Bitcoin mining is more flexible and responds more quickly to economic signals. This same characteristic could allow some of the processing power that is currently going to AI to return to #Bitcoin in the face of cost pressures and declining profits.

Ultimately, the competition between #Bitcoin mining and the AI ​​industry is less a battle of technologies, but a competition over energy and its price. If transaction fees increase and network revenue strengthens, the very bottlenecks that make AI attractive today could become its weakness, once again making #Bitcoin the dominant option for using surplus energy.

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Hope you do it sooner!

My baseline assumption is that we have another pump: usually tops aren’t when everyone is calling a top

Getting more 🌎

#bitcoin 🧡

Thinking about doing some vlog style content and posting exclusively to nostr.

15k to 125k is about the same move as 125k to 1M.

Be more bullish.