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Peony Lane: A New Classic

He built a sick breathwork company with his brother and is focus on on building that these days.

Nah he built a sick breathwork company with his brother and is focused on platforms with more users to scale it rn.

While Nostr is the best, we all can only handle so much social media

This is how I heard about Nostr for the first time.

nostr:nprofile1qqsdl3j6mx46xh63agkgcq0ksq20w5qyx0pen2tm0m2j59s3s6v8z9cpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ezumtfd3hh2tnvdakz7dveaq3 purple pilled me at the bottom of the bear, early 2023. It's been a good run. 💜

I found Bitcoin 4 months after moving home.

My town doesn't put Fluoride in the water.

Coincidence?

Replying to Avatar Cruz

Now I know. Thank you.

Must have changed those too long ago to remember

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The fog of the Maduro extraction is clearing, and the "why" beyond the Trump pressers is coming into focus.

Despite the Don repeatedly saying Venezuela stole our oil, the Pentagon didn’t move on Caracas for crude.

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, but the quality of that oil is very low.

It is a heavy, sour crude that is high in sulphur content which only a handful of refineries worldwide can process.

In fact, by some estimates it would cost $1 trillion to upgrade the Venezuelan infrastructure just to have the country surpass Canada’s exports of 3 million barrels a day.

So, while Trump uses oil as a way to make the American people feel like they will directly benefit from the excursion, the real reason they moved was because of a convergence of three existential threats:

- Chinese control of AI-critical minerals.

- Iranian drone manufacturing on Western soil.

- Russian military integration in the Caribbean.

If Washington cared about restoring democracy, why wait 13 years into Maduro’s reign?

The military brass felt a growing strategic vulnerability less than 3 hours from Miami and felt they needed to act immediately.

But while the media focuses on rare earth elements and degraded oil infrastructure, the real prize might be sitting on a hardware wallet in Caracas.

For eight years, the Maduro regime operated a shadow financial engine designed to be unfreezable.

Since 2018, they’ve been liquidating gold from the Orinoco Mining Arc and "washing" oil proceeds through USDT into Bitcoin.

The scale is staggering.

Intelligence reports by Whale Hunting now point to a "Shadow Reserve" of roughly 600,000 to 660,000 Bitcoin.

To put that in perspective: that is twice the size of the US government’s entire Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

It rivals the holdings of MSTR and BlackRock.

If these numbers are accurate, Maduro and his cronies have been sitting on a $60 billion life raft that will play as a lynchpin in how the negotiations play out.

Washington likely knew about this secret stash since its very inception.

Court documents now reveal that Alex Saab, the Venezuelan businessman who was the architect of this Bitcoin accumulation scheme, had been a DEA informant since 2016.

The capture of Maduro has now triggered a high-stakes interrogation with the recovery of seed phrases likely playing a critical part.

As news of this reported 600,000 BTC stockpile begins to spread, the market is currently pricing this as a massive "supply lock-up."

Bitcoin is up over $5,000 since the abduction of Maduro went down.

Under the Trump administration, the probability of a "fire sale" is near zero.

Trump campaigned on the promise of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

Getting Maduro to fork over the seed phrase would be an easy, budget-neutral way to triple its size overnight.

Maduro’s "unfreezable" asset could become the cornerstone of the American balance sheet with the only stack larger being Satoshi’s.

Bitcoin has always lived outside the logic of violence.

But as Maduro is finding out, that only holds true as long as you can keep the keys in your head.

Holy shit man. Well written and wow

What's with zapping 1000 sats and saying coffee on me?

Doesn't come close to covering one 🤷

They're amazing. I wish they had a longer season

Elevate your night in.

My intention was never to post rage bait

I saw this rage bait and felt like I had a nuanced thing to say about it so I did.

Thanks for helping me learn more depth about the history of the topic 🫡

Once again, a government solves it's own mistake by limiting personal freedoms.

Kids start saying "That's so Gas"

Trump takes over Venezuelan Oil

Gen Z flips Republican

It's Junuary in CO, so I'm pumping wine.

Socialism is Communism's most effective psyop.

Communism is Fascism's most effective psyop.

What is Democracy?

The US Military would crumble if we

lost the Chinese manufacturing base.

NONE of this was made in the USA

They did it for the oil?

If all the oil in Venezuela was sold for 100% profit and used exclusively to pay of US debt.

We'd still be $21,000,000,000,000 in debt

Bitcoin Word Search Day!

The first 3 words you find are your 2026 mantra.

You can stop giving it ur money tho

The more people who opt out the more who starve the beast.

Shout out to everyone who thinks we can fix a broken system by using the rules made by that system.

You can't fix rot.

Defund them. Buy Bitcoin

In a few weeks, I’ll have to commit to grapes for Fall.

This is my biggest annual expense.

One that won't even begin to return capital for 2 years.

If Bitcoin is in a Bull market, it makes sense to go big

If Bitcoin is in a Bear market, it makes sense to keep it small.

Where do we go in 2026? Green or Red?

Everything can shift under the surface.

Bitcoin price action is as flat as can be, but it feels like the decision to go up or down after this range has already been made.

My inclination is always bullish. I think we set a higher low on this dip, and invariably, Bitcoin is worth more than it is priced.

Then again, when DOGE was causing uproar last spring, I remember hearing that cutting spending, even if fraudulent, would trigger a recession. Fiscal Dominance is inescapable.

This time, I’m not hearing much recession fear, though I am sensing that people have a deeper awareness of how far the rot goes.

I’m not sure if that’s naivety or a disbelief that anything will ever be done to stop the fraud.

Maybe it's just that Trump can't afford a recession.

He will print the money.

I have no idea which way Bitcoin will go once the decision emerges, but I'm happy to hold it regardless. It is the only thing in the entire world that can't be debased.

Nick Shirley wouldn't have to sell sweatshirts to profit off of his journalism if he had zaps

Use of the word "Racist" over time.

Kinda reminds me of a different chart

One showing our rational debt.