Sorry Lyn, when Church of Lyn??
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Hey nostr:npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3 Team,
I will be running a Trezor Academy class on March 16, 17, and 18 in Zimbabwe, where Bitcoin isn’t just an option, it’s a lifeline. We’re not just teaching self-custody; we’re showing people how to opt out of broken systems and take real control.
And we’re making noise. This isn’t some quiet workshop, it’s going to be huge.
That’s why I want to introduce students to nostr:npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3. No KYC, pure peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading, exactly what people here need. Would you be open to sharing Vexl with students? Whether it’s a resource link, a shoutout, or something bigger, we’d love to have you in the mix.
Let’s make this massive. Let me know what you think.
Best
If you missed the HBO documentary, I'll save you the time. Most of it is about Bitcoin's history. Here's a part at the end claiming Peter Todd is Satoshi. The documentary outlining Bitcoin's history wasn't bad, but the reveal of nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm as Satoshi was dumb.
Bitcoin OG's look and act like Zionists in the Matrix🫣- especially Adam
To #Bitcoin investors:
Ouch. The past few years have been a wild ride in both traditional financial markets and the #Bitcoin space, particularly for Bitcoin holders. As of this moment, Bitcoin’s price has experienced significant volatility, with massive drawdowns from its all-time highs. Yet, despite the fluctuations, by many metrics, Bitcoin is stronger and more widely accepted than ever before.
● The number of unique Bitcoin addresses surged to over 140 million in 2024, from 90 million in 2020.
●Bitcoin’s market cap, while volatile, still grew to over $1 Trillion at its peak, and has maintained the trend also in 2024.
●Proportion of transactions on the Bitcoin network related to institutional investors grew from 10% in 2020 to 40% in 2024 as corporate treasuries, hedge funds, and public companies increasingly added Bitcoin to their balance sheets.
●Layer 2 solutions like the Lightning Network saw an 800% growth in usage, helping to reduce congestion and transaction fees during periods of high activity, which historically plagued the network during bull markets.
●Average daily volume for Bitcoin futures and ETFs rose by 300% as institutional interest in hedging and gaining exposure to Bitcoin without holding the asset directly increased.
●International adoption grew to record levels, with developing economies in Africa and Latin America adopting Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation and local currency instability, further legitimizing its use as a global store of value.
In the macroeconomic environment:
Central banks across the world embarked on aggressive monetary tightening, reversing ultra-loose monetary policies that fueled speculative bubbles in risky assets, including Bitcoin, post-2020. As interest rates rose, liquidity shrank, and Bitcoin entered a period of consolidation.
Inflation spikes in key economies, combined with the debasement of fiat currencies, fueled Bitcoin's parabolic run between 2020 and 2021, where its price surged over 400%. However, with inflation peaking and tightening policies setting in, Bitcoin faced headwinds from risk-off sentiments. Bitcoin's narrative as “digital gold” strengthened in response to economic uncertainties, with the U.S. dollar losing purchasing power and geopolitical tensions rising across key markets. Gold prices may have stagnated, but Bitcoin was viewed as a hedge against monetary devaluation.
Countries facing economic instability and capital controls (e.g., Argentina, Lebanon) accelerated #Bitcoin adoption to safeguard personal wealth and facilitate cross-border transactions, driving up demand for the currency.
So, if the #Bitcoin network is more robust today than it was four years ago, why the price consolidation so dramatically from its all-time highs? As the famed investor Benjamin Graham said, “In the short term, the market is a voting machine; in the long term, it’s a weighing machine.” Bitcoin’s wild price swings reflected a mixture of speculation, macroeconomic changes, and shifts in liquidity. There was a lot of "voting" going on in the 2020 boom cycle, driven by retail exuberance, loose monetary policy, and FOMO (fear of missing out). Now, Bitcoin is moving towards less speculative, more foundational adoption with long-term utility.
The fundamentals of #Bitcoin remain strong, with adoption growing, layer 2 scaling solutions improving, and macroeconomic conditions still favoring the need for sound money alternatives. We are building a future where #Bitcoin plays a critical role in financial markets, and over time, we believe this will be recognized.
In the meantime, we keep our heads down, running a more resilient, decentralized financial network.
The government of Zimbabwe has gazetted a new regulation, announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last month, restricting the amount of USD cash travelers can carry out of the country. Under this regulation, travelers are now allowed to carry a maximum of US$2,000, reduced from the previous limit of US$10,000.
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saw a trailer some weeks back
Hard to be proven but very easy to feel and experience
You think $1 Million is Crazy?
Meet Hal,
A week after #Bitcoin went live in 2009, predicting $10 Million 🤯
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As an amusing thought experiment, imagine that #Bitcoin is successful and becomes the dominant payment system in use throughout the world. Then the total value of the currency should be equal to the total value of all the wealth in the world. Current estimates of total worldwide household wealth that I have found range from $100 trillion to $300 trillion. With 20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million.
So the possibility of generating coins today with few cents of compute time may be quite a good bet, with a payoff of something like 100 million to 1! Even if the odds of Bitcoin succeeding to this degree are slim, are they really 100 million to one against? Something to think about...
Hal
I don't want to hear any excuses once we hit $1M in the next few years.
#Bitcoin gave you more than enough time to stack appropriately, and the community provided more than enough free education.
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Generational wealth of information in a book 📖
Sometimes, you don't have to be a capitalist to invade, spill blood, and kill; you can just be a communist and achieve more or less the same.
I am well, what stuff do you find interesting on Nostr?
I wonder if people in this thread including me understand 🤔
https://x.com/LawrenceLepard/status/1828367826484089188?t=-HgHEqszxi_reiHiF_yzaw&s=19
Ooh, this is an eye candy. very easy on the eyes.
The so-called influencers 😂! If only they could spend more time studying finance than rambling on mics 🤣. Too bad they have people who buy their snake oil products.
https://x.com/TheCryptoLark/status/1820304023171592675?t=unonuQ7uIX5BpG5KtGeyog&s=19