A lot of people have tried to influence my decision making on #Bitcoin    over the past few years.

My friends told me I was stupid for buying at $69K. My family told me I was crazy for hodling at $15K.

Financial advisors told me it was a ponzi and to run away. My girlfriend told me I was in a cult on the internet.

My brother-in-law said it peaked and he sold. My cousin sold his to pay for a wedding. My dad sold his for real estate. My mom told me to sell at $45K.

The most incredible thing is no one ever told me that it is the best returning asset of the last 15 years.

No one told me that the world is becoming digitized and finance is the next domino to fall.

No one cared enough to understand inflation, monetary policy, characteristics of money or how all fiat currencies go to zero.

No one wanted to put in the work besides me.

Excuse me when I get emotional with people who know next to nothing about #Bitcoin   .

They didn’t do the fucking work. We did.

I will not falter and no one will break my confidence. I will not stop accumulating the winner in this decades long play.

I will burn bridges, run relationships into the ground and sacrifice everything for what I believe in. Nothing stops this train.

I know what I own and where it is going.

I made this post to blow off some steam. Tired of the constant doubt from everyone around me. This shit makes me want to go silent.

A big fuck you to all the doubters who never took a minute to study what they own nothing of.

Enjoy getting left behind for the next 2 years. It’s going to be bloody fucking great watching these bears get slaughtered on the way up.

why? what issues is that causing them?

This upcoming #halving will be my first. Any advice from veteran #Bitcoiners?

#Bitcoin

If you use a VPN or use a coinjoin after withdrawal they will block your account and freeze your funds.

What are some pros and cons of Swan Bitcoin?

#asknostr #bitcoin

This looks like a joke, except it is not ;)

I calculated the avg home selling prices in The Netherlands 🇳🇱🏡 over the past 10yrs in € and in #bitcoin  - guess which money makes homes more affordable?

€ prices 📈 87.80%

₿ prices 📉 -97.85%

Being pro fiat is delusional 🤷‍♂️

Where is the syllabus to learn #bitcoin?

I’m not joking. 🙃 So. Much. Information.

1. Read the white paper

2. Read the books (is there an order?)

3. Buy #btc

Sincerely, I was brought here because of my belief in freedom technology. I do now believe #btc & #freedom for the majority of people can work effectively.

Thanks in advance. 🥰🙏🫂🫡

#asknostr #studybtc

Thanks!

Night at the studio😉🎨#dineratmystudio #artcollectorsinvited #zapathon #zap

#nostriche#hispano #arte#pintura

#bitcoin #btc #nostr #plebchain #pleb #reddit #boost #stacksats #lightning #zaps #plebs #art #artists #Artstr

Good morning, #nostriches!

I have an important question:

Are there any BTC only (preferably) or BTC backed life insurance companies floating around yet?

I ask because I'm past the age where I should have at least a small life insurance policy so that if I suddenly kick the bucket no one else is left holding the bag. The thought occurred to me as I was waking up (yes, I know that's odd) that a policy that paid out in BTC would be much more beneficial than one that paid out a fixed amount of fiat. Has anyone else thought about this?

#gm #plebchain #grownostr #goodmorning #asknostr #lifeinsurance #beingresponsible #insurance #fiatsucks #btc #bitcoin #bitcoinonly

How do you move a 401k to #bitcoin?

The sword fighting is based on that personal energy shields are a thing, but

1) The shields block fast-moving objects, so bullet-guns are useless, but slow moving objects, like a carefully placed blade can penetrate.

2) Lasguns (lasers) react with energy shields with explosions that rival atomic blasts, so you don't want to use those of the enemy carries a shield.

Don't you think the effect of the upcoming halving is already factored into the latest #bitcoin rally? This halving is very different from the previous ones, both in terms of market capitalization and in the awareness of institutional players now involved in the game

#halving #bitcoin #price

Here’s my Dune part one and two summary. Correct me where I might be missing something. Spoilers abound.

The Harkonnens have been mining Spice on Arrakis for decades, and have become richer than even the Emperor since Spice is the most critical thing around (and despite its enormous expense and universe-wide demand, nobody can synthesize it elsewhere for some reason, even with nearly infinite resources, why?).

The Emperor, however, is more threatened by the Atreides’ growing influence than he is threatened by the Harkonnens (why?) and so he plots with the Harkonnens to destroy House Atreides. As part of this, he kicks the Harkonnens off of Arrakis and puts the Atreides there, but it’s a trap (cue “it’s a trap” meme).

Visuals and music are amazing, and remain that way throughout the films. The plot starting point is reasonable, but starts with a flaw imo: everyone is miserable already.

In LOTR, we get to start with the happy Shire, which sets a good baseline for a happy world that the characters end up fighting to protect and going through hell for, which lets us understand what they are fighting for. But in Dune, most people are already kind of miserable from the starting point. Harkonnens are all serious and mean and focused on domination and have a shitty world with no sun, Paul and Jessica are all serious and doing life-or-death tests with their Bene Gesserit stuff, all the Bene Gesserits are hyper-serious, the Emperor and his daughter are all stressed out by politics, etc. The only chill people with good vibes are Leto and Duncan.

It's unclear what anyone is fighting for, really. The Bene Gesserits plans are measured in centuries but none of those plans ever lead to

Alright so the Atredies go to Arrakis, aware of the political danger but trying to strengthen their house. Harkonnens and the Emperor’s forces attack them and easily win. For some reason despite all of this advanced technology, at the end of the day a bunch of dudes line up with swords and have a big sword brawl (why?).

Due to the Bene Gesserits’ influence, Paul and Jessica are technically spared, but have to fight to truly survive and escape. They join the Fremen, which are the perpetually repressed people of Arrakis and the only other people in the movie (eg Stilgar) who are sometimes chill and with good vibes. The Bene Gesserit have been purposely spreading the propaganda on Arrakis that Paul is a messiah, which is a result of years of bloodline management. Duncan dies like a champ to keep Paul safe.

Paul as a scrawny kid easily beats the hard desert man Janis in a fight (which seems kind of bullshit to me), which along with the messiah prophecy secures his initial place among the Fremen.

In the second movie, Jessica and Paul further secure their place in Fremen society, and there is growing conflict over the messianic prophecy. Jessica pushes the prophecy narrative and Chani pushes back on it. That’s a good plotline, imo. But in terms of execution, it feels like the fantasy of an angsty teenage edgelord boy. (“My biggest fear is that I have so much goddamn power that I might misuse it and hurt people!”)

Paul leads a series of guerrilla strikes against the Harkonnens. Paul reunites with Gurney, and Gurney reveals where the family nukes are, which is kind of a Deus ex machina plot line. For some convenient reason, Paul’s great great grandfather or whatever hid the family nukes on Arrakis (why and how?)

Paul and Chani fall in love, but Jessia and Paul drink the worm juice which gives them memories of the past including the fact that Jessia and Paul are descended from the leader of the Harkonnens (via the Bene Gesserit bloodline planning scheme). So Paul is quite the Mary Sue at this point, being descended from Atreides and Harkonnens, and trained by both the Bene Gesserits and the Fremen. All parts of the Venn Diagram center around him.

Meanwhile, the Harkonnens replace the jacked nephew played by Bautista with a different scrawny model-looking nephew who is even meaner for some reason. And they amp up this new dude with an arena fight where he ::checks notes:: beats two drugged captives and barely beats one normal captive. So they build him up as a psychopath and a not-so-bad fighter but not exactly anything too badass really.

Paul writes a letter to the emperor to come to Arrakis and he does (why? This seems too easy). The Emperor punishes the leader of the Harkonnens (which the Harkonnens just kind of accepted without pushback, like all of their plans are for shit now suddenly).

Paul launches his plot-convenient nukes at the emperor and sends sandworms at him and easily wins (why is the Emperor of the Known Universe so weak now?) After the battle is won, Paul also beats the Harkonnen nephew dude in a fight, and gets to be the new emperor. So he wins every fight he is in, has the magic voice, can survive all the poisons that others cannot, has all the best noble genes, but also has the kindness instilled in him from his father, one of the only chill dudes in the story.

But the other Houses object, so it’s war time! And Chani leaves because Paul wants to marry the emperor’s daughter for political reasons and thinks the messianic stuff is bullshit.

Everyone is kind of miserable at the end, which is basically where they started to begin with. The few people who started happy were killed off, and the Fremen are generally happier now but that’s foreshadowed by Paul’s visions to eventually end badly for them.

One of my friends that came to see it with me and she summed it up as “five hours of non-stop angst, kind of exhausting really.”

The overly religious shit in #Bitcoin has always bothered me. Granted I think there are parallel, connections, and avenues for broader and/or mutual illumination and insight between Bitcoin and religion (as well as math and all of the science), being that these are deeply felt human pursuits towards truth and understanding.

But your money should never be your god…