If masa (japans second richest man) took a 130 million dollar loss I’m going to assume he bought around 17k and sold around 11k meaning he had roughly 21k coins.

Today they would be worth 2 billion.

Instead he booked a 130 million dollar loss.

Masa is worth 30 billion, so he isn’t exactly hurting, but that 2 billion dollar position today would be poised to grow to 20 billion soon enough and 200 billion a decade after that.

There’s still time to unfuck the decision, but I doubt he will.

Even the best investors in the world come to Bitcoin and dash themselves upon the rocks.

Don’t expect your friend Steven from college to pick it up over beers and a rousing drunken speech by you about the evils of central banking lol 😆

Saylor is building the SBR.

1. MSTR's location is somewhat unusual: a 20-minute drive to the Pentagon.

2. MicroStrategy spawned the MSTR mafia; a few ex-MSTR employees now head billion-dollar businesses, most in the D.C. area. Odd.

3. Eric Trump's speech in Abu Dhabi, saying he has known Trump for 20 years. Hmm.

4. His reaction when probed about the possibility of an EO 6102.

5. His overall knowledge of American history, giving a major patriot vibe. One who would do anything for his country.

2025 prediction purely for fun. Bull and bear versions because why not.

Bull version:

- SBR passes but only thing that happens is seized coins are transferred in and Trump takes his victory laps

- ETF's accelerate as bitcoin keeps outperforming the market

- A few nation states announce reserves but larger countries are paralyzed by retard politicians who prefer to position themselves as close as possible to the money spigot for their own personal benefit

- Price between 150-200k before collapsing back down to low 100k 2026

Bear version

- SBR won't pass. Politicians don't have incentives to sign the bill since they're too busy looting the coffers for their own benefit. Any bitcoin held by US gov will be sold in spite of Trump and his administration.

- Fed resumes hiking to combat inflation

- Major bank crisis

- BTC top is already in at 108k

- Cracks start showing within MSTR

- Return to high 5 digit bitcoin 2026

I don't buy the influencer hopium and find it's healthier to have lowered expectations. My third halving and i've seen more people blow themselves up with stupid plays when they should have just stayed humble and stacked sats.

Happy New Year.

Just an FYI… financial advisors still haven’t started shilling the ETFs to their clients. They can only mention it if a client calls in asking about them.

The ETF inflow hasn’t even started.

Bitcoiners seem to be the only ones that get it

Ok. But, it will take decades for infrastructure to be built. Gridless and other organizations are doing great work. But, if you provided electricity to 100k new people every day until the end of the century. You still wouldn’t reach 3 billion.

To the extent of my knowledge Nostr is a protocol and Twitter is a centralised platform. These are by no means the same thing.

True Nostr feels like a mimic of X however that is only true to the extent that it was the most obvious starting point for Nostr adoption.

Because Nostr natively entwines freedom of speech with micro payments backed by monetary truth (Bitcoin) then you have a protocol that can walk into any market suffering from abuse of power or restriction of innovation and disrupt it.

It feels like we are building a completely new internet. 🤯 nostr:note1zf9qcn8uwrsya9z7q7fe4fu6gyn5p99l8j0k93l2zlap4nzpgefqk7a0fk

3 billion people either don’t have electricity or have unreliable electricity. So, I think we are a long way from the majority.

Better question how many non-bitcoiners on the platform? If nostr only gets adopted by bitcoiners. I don’t believe it will succeed.