It’s been about five years now since Swan Bitcoin opened their doors and started doing business.

In addition to successes, they ran into various frictions and controversies during that time due to limitations at their counter parties that they had to work through and upscale from, but at the end of the day, they have promoted self custody from the start, still do, and people can withdraw their sats safe and sound. They want you to, and you should, ideally.

Their vision from founding was that sats probably shouldn’t be on the balance sheet liability side of a startup (them) and instead should be in qualified custodians held in buyers’ names, to the extent that they’re not self custodied. They made it free to pull sats into self custody from the start and have a really high ratio of buyers pulling into self custody.

Cheers to them for being five years in operation and still working for their users.

When people are like “You should pull sats from Swan due to headline XYZ” Swan is like “headline XYZ is mostly wrong, here’s why, but yes you should pull sats from us, which we’ve been saying from the start!”

“Agree” it won’t be up to him if it happens

I believe something near the root of our societal problems today is The Death of God that happened nearly 150 years ago, and the society that was birthed from this patricide.

The sort of unhinged self-hatred that emerges from this murder is one that cannot see itself in the reflection of god, but only his death. All structures and former ways of being must be wiped away, are no longer venerated or respected, because nothing is really capable of that any longer in this society. It is a society of a dark forest where the hollow men reign, and purpose is pointlessness.

It is only through the long private sojourn into the dark of night towards the true existential angst, the questing towards the question of being itself, and what the lostness within this darkness means, that the pinprick of the light meaning could ever be found. But that demands a decision of agency, the desire to know if it is only blackness or something more. The death of god explicitly fills the void of society with this lack of thinking as thinking; the black ink of nothingness to create a meaningless life where such a seeking is pointless within itself.

It is only once we take the leap into the unknown, into the possibility that there could be something, and not nothing, that the possibility of something different, something beyond the nihilism itself becomes a possibility.

As I said, you have cognitive dissonance to get over.

Love your neighbor.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind , can’t believe how fast they’re becoming the problem they were fighting against

ICYMI: you can’t out exercise a bad diet.

I know the sentiment of despair and frustration with this price action can be really hard to bear

All I can say is hang on for a few more weeks, the tide will turn and bitty will continue rallying up. Hang on! Don’t sell!!

These tough times are challenging but we shall overcome it 🫂

Yeah i sold my house at 60k and plowed it in 2021. Im not some hedge fund trader that can time markets. I actually drank the kool-aide from the bitcoin influencers. Beware.

Sometimes i wonder how much better off id be if i would’ve kept investing back into my business instead of buying bitcoin with the shitty returns and volatility. Definitely down bad the last 5 years.

When you hit your thirties a voice in your head starts to whisper “you should run a marathon” lol 😂

I agree. I guess i was complaining about the current narratives that are getting propagated.

I think Ive reached the point where im done listening to macro fortune telling trannys and podcasters.

Did you see how USAID was funding transgender operas in Columbia? What if you don't go see something like that, or protest against it?

Y en hispanoamerica no hay policías para que hagan cumplir los métodos aml/kyc,, eso es un gran plus.

Obviously not, but Tether is legally bound to collect and/or provide that data to the US Government.

Anything digital including bitcoin can be surveilled and tracked. What is your solution?

Because KYC/AML is a phenomenon exclusive to the US? And KYC/AML is the only tool to surveil financial txs?