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Matty Mick
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Family. #Bitcoin. Aortic Surgery. Node runner, solo miner, sat stacker. Wrestling back individual sovereignty from state control, one SAT at a time.

Just noticed that my node likes 69 degrees. 68 and 71, normal. 69, nice! #umbrel

Node crashed after a power outage. Not sure if the raspi failed to see the SSD or if the SSD failed (need to up my tech game and learn to ssh into pi/read logs.)

Re-flashed the micro sd, deleted and reformatted ssd and starting over. As Tom Petty said “And waiting…is the hardest part”

Banger of a sunset last night to cap a great weekend.

#Chesapeake #Sunset

Sold a boat and sat in two #banks yesterday for wire services and notary. Felt like I was watching the teller dinosaurs blissfully roam freely just before the #bitcoin meteor rendered them extinct.

I believe this next bull market will be looked back upon as the one that sparked real change in legacy systems.

Sometimes the memes just write themselves. #proofofsomeoneelseswork

Teach them to aim early and often….particularly when young, as target practice is a metaphor for life.

The perfect center of the target is the goal, infinitely unobtainable, but worthy of relentless pursuit. At the perfect center lies truth.

Taking aim requires discipline and the need to follow a natural ruleset. Failure to exercise both carries immense risk to both self and others.

A missed target requires critical self analysis and proper adjustment in order to achieve improvement. Failure to adjust guarantees similar missed goals.

Focus, respiratory and heart rate control, awareness of environment and controlled movement during execution are all learned behaviors that carry immense ramifications in life. We need to learn to breathe, narrow our vision, appreciate our surroundings and control our movements (or reactions) though-out our journey…moving closer and closer to our goal with each attempt.

Critics and skeptics will see a bb-gun in a child’s hands….I see a lifetime of life lessons packed into a backyard practice with Dad.

#Bitcoin maxis (myself included) cheering #crypto regulation now, but shouldn't be shocked when the regulators come for #btc . US onramps and offramps will soon be thru banks only, and the govt will attempt to paper dilute, centralize and limit what the common man can hold.

Perfect sunset to cap the weekend. Liquid glass on the Chesapeake Bay.

GM! That time of year again. Get outside, breathe deeply and remember that you are already on THE ARK, well ahead of the coming flood. #Bitcoin #WAGMI

Spent 30 mins talking about $BTC last night to a table of 8 at a work dinner.

Surprisingly, one guy at table was wholecoiner, but got spooked and sold after ftx because he didnt trust Coinbase. He knew NOTHING about cold storage….

Everyone else griped about inflation, their 401k and uncertainty, but threw fud grenade after grenade at $BTC.

Did my best to plant the seeds but so much work to do.

Another FOMC meeting where the world waits on pins and needles to hear from the ExpErTs whether we’ll get six more weeks of winter…or something like that. Opt out, buy #Bitcoin

Today, I had a friend of mine, a cardiac surgeon, tell me he doesn’t get #bitcoin because it sounds complicated….a cardiac surgeon who literally stops the ❤️to surgically repair it (circ arrest) and then brings it back to normal function once done. We’re still early

Bitcoin is about to “go Ralphie” on the both of them.

Daily reminder that we’re ALL short #Bitcoin. Look in mirror and repeat the following…..”Keep stacking…Ignore price…cold store…ignore price….keep stacking”

“At no loss to taxpayers” is the new “sixweeks to flatten the curve.“

Could thus be coming to a bank near you? Hope not…time to opt out now.

-Buy #Bitcoin

-Cold store

-Verify stack with personal node

100%. Its about managing risk and lowering time preference.

Replying to Avatar allen

I don’t wanna get too ahead of myself but we may be about to see a major public reckoning on what on earth banks even are and what they are supposed to do.

SVB didn’t go down due to “the tech bubble” or really anything to do with “banking Silicon Valley” being a bad idea. if anything, it’s a great idea! Their deposits went up ~2.5x in 2 years because there was a shit load of cash that needed to be banked! (debate separately to what extent that was a ZIRP phenomenon. I’m not saying this was good in the grand scheme of things. just that, in context, it was good business).

the problem is what to put the money in. most nocoiners seem to think that their deposits just sit there “as money,” and although I’m sure they don’t imagine notes in a vault, exactly, to a large extent that was true for SVB: they held treasuries - the “risk free” asset lmfao - which is as close to cash as you can get in a liquid security.

the conundrum here is that there literally is no such thing as “liquid dollars” - there is only credit. all dollar assets are somebody else’s debt. for all intents and purposes, treasuries *are dollars*. the idea of “keeping it in cash” at the relevant magnitudes is literally nonsensical. what would it even mean? deposit it at *another bank*? that hardly solves the problem!

the further you tug at this thread, the more you realise that dollars can only really be defined as vacuous promises by the US government to … one day give you slightly more dollars?!? that realisation is now getting aired in public.

I think the first consequence as this starts to sink in will be a massive preference for shorter term debt that can just be rolled over and over and over because the lesson of SVB is the duration sensitivity is absolutely not worth it. you can literally evaporate hundreds of billions of dollars by getting that just a little wrong even though you didn’t have much of a choice (“RISK FREE ASSET” LOLOLOLOLOLOL) this is yet another example of fiat driving up time preference and corrupting the information signals necessary to coordinate long-term capital investment. but oh well, the currency is collapsing so we have bigger fish to fry than the yield of long-dated bonds 😂

but the juicy bit is that we may be on the cusp of this reasoning, and the insanity of fractional reserve and central banking, finally being aired in public as people try to make sense of all this.

or maybe not, I dunno. maybe I’m naive. but I’m also bullish 🤙

My thoughts exactly. Dirty bank math is going to get aired in the general public.

Methinks the general public is going to learn some funny lessons about funny fiat bank math…aka fractional reserve banking.

Ignore the short term volatility and be happy you’re hodling the verifiably hardest money on planet earth. #Bitcoin PV!