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Talkin' About A Revolution - h/t Tracy Chapman One does not simply dox a nostrich !

Me neither - Is not "Skewer's Number plus PI" a number albeit perhaps being referred to for the first time here

When a country, company or individual backs itself with #BTC reserves ...

It does so because it sees a better reserve

or

It is also always a capitulation to admit that it cannot manage a money supply the way BTC can

Either way it is inevitable

Perhaps the US and major players will be one of the last to do this (which is fine)

TLDR; get to the front of the queue.

You know what it feels like to blow up a balloon, not as easy as breathing.

It starts hard but gets easier and then a bit tougher before it finally bursts. Then it's as easy as breathing.

#Hodl bitcoin like you practice breathing.

The surprise will be good.

As #BTC prices close in on ATH I remind myself of a few things:

The price may "look" high, but in a few years it will be seen to have been low.

I can change the present, not the past - so stack for the future.

He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Happy hodling

Replying to Avatar calle

I had a chat with nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z about Bitcoin, Cashu, nostr, and privacy, and it was pretty good!

Thank you for having me 🫡

https://youtu.be/Z55drsUfIos

Good one

nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg & nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z

You worked well together to reduce some pretty complciated concepts and make them conumable by a mere pleb such as myself

Many thanks

Superb new vid by onramp with

ihate1999@rcrsv.xyz Abubakar Nur Khalil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfP6pPY4gy0

Ok - Yes - that makes sense - thanks. So initial runup triggered by M2 growth - BTC overreacts with FOMO and then peaks prior to M2 peak correcting faster to a new base level

nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe - appreciate the smile - and wonder if you could take a quick look at this and see if I am interpreting 'yield' in a bitcoin world correctly ?

https://primal.net/e/note1hf45l8d6p4fezjffjcs3p97unh7fuzyxq3cst0xermtpeqq30qyse3vccl

Interesting and bullish - Also interesting that BTC peaks precede M2 peaks.

So is M2 a lagging indicator? Trying to imagine a mechanism. - Maybe smart BTC (LTH retail) anticipates rate moves to front run the FED.

nostr:npub1qh5sal68c8swet6ut0w5evjmj6vnw29x3k967h7atn45unzjyeyq6ceh9r

Thoughts?

Is this a case of "Nothing stops this train" - Asking for a friend !

nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a

Replying to Avatar Jeff Booth

I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.

The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)

Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)

That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.

Either:

1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.

OR

2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)

While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.

Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.

Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.

Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day. You make a difference with every word, thought and action.

Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.

Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.

Jeff - I would welcome your feedback on this note

https://primal.net/e/note1hf45l8d6p4fezjffjcs3p97unh7fuzyxq3cst0xermtpeqq30qyse3vccl

Many thanks - and thanks for giving me the impetus to get on nostr

Yield on Bitcoin ?

When nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak & nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m discussed this they perhaps overlooked a long-term consideration, that nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe might have noted.

If #BTC is ∞/21M, the numerator ∞ grows with innovation.

However the incremental value from any innovation is not initially evenly distributed.

Essentially there is a 'Cantillion'-like effect where those nearest to the innovation beneit from the efficiencies or value-add generated.

Over time the technology is adopted by a competitive market, so that eventually each hodler of BTC gains a purchasing power advantage.

Howver during adoption, some hodlers see incremental purchasing power before others, so while 1BTC = 1BTC remains true some can buy more with their BTC (temporarily) due to the innovation.

As many innovations are simultaneous there will be those that can spot good technologies early (or are innovators themselves) and they can acquire trade-able wealth by spending bitcoin.

This allows them to 'spend' bitcoin more effectively than others so they can take a 'commission' in an agency manner, by acting as an intermediary.

The yield they thus generate (whether as participating in cheaper goods or in the form of BTC commission is for providing a service.

This process need not involve debt - however as with any transaction it is not trustless (buying a service is never trustless).

It can thus generate yield. Yield participation might be as a co-venturer (explicit risk in equity but no interest obligation), or it might be on an interest bearing basis (minimal risk).

The key point is that all purchases involve risk (pay up front hoping for execution but funding the exercise) or (pay subsequent to supply where the supplier carries the risk).

The risk reward may be tiny (or even secured by smart contracts if exercised in the digital realm) however, the existence of risk is required to transact so executors of risky transactions will require reward.

By this means a yield for innovation or for participation in trade as an agent is coupled to the time value of the articles acquired - which can ever be zero.

Thus the argument yield vs equity is moot - they are two ways of securing the deflationary economy that Jeff proposes and we expect.

The choice of which path to take is (absent regulation) one of preference. Do you carry risk or pay yield for the avoidance of risk.

In a world with risk-premium (ie any world with finite resources) transactions are the necessary means for decentralisation of innovation and levelling of purchasing power - they are implicit in any traded economy.

But the choice of which to use is open - so both Saifedean and Saylor can be correct, and neither can enforce a view on the other.

Side point - both forms of trade require the rule of property law whether encoded in software, by civic bodies or by threat.