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Bitcoin and Liberty
Has anyone checked to see how the "Inverse Cramer ETF" is doing?
It's kind of odd thinking about the fact that we are now living through the event that Bitcoin was created for. Sure, sure, Bitcoin was created for a lot of reasons because sound money fixes a great many problems and opens the door to fix our prevent a great many more. But, it looks a whole lot like the actual and necessary correction that was prevented in the '08 response is happening and is likely already past the point of "no return." Do I believe that Bitcoin will do what's it's meant to do? Yes. Am I anxious about how this whole thing is going to fall out? Also, yes. Just because I have prepared in a number of ways, doesn't mean the transition isn't going to bring some rough times. I mean, I don't know about you all. Some of you may be vampires or something (to be read as a joke), but I have never witnessed such a sea change event.
Between Operation Chokepoint 2.0, a bank run, and bank collapses, we should get ready for normies to start asking us a lot of questions. It's probably a good time make sure we're ready and able to give succinct but informative and truthful answers. I know that many of us here have seen what Satoshi offered for what it is. But we can't expect people who believed in the system and who were treated well by the system to gravitate toward sound money the way so many of us did. We need to be prepared to explain the realities that they're about to experience patiently and honestly.
After all of these years I still struggle to explain to people who what to use BTC to "make money" that bitcoin is the money.
I see a lot of people talking about how some of the March Off Twitter people at still stopping by Twitter. Now, I never said I would avoid Twitter any more than usual. But, my guess is that no one here ever saw me on Twitter unless it's was me posting my npub in a few threads. I have really only used Twitter to find headlines that interest me that I didn't find otherwise. That's what it was always for to me. Here's the thing: Nostr is great, and currently, the environment here is great. But I also need to find information about not so great things. And if you want to see what bullshit is happening or there, Twitter is still bullshit central. I look forward to the day when it no longer makes sense for me to even have a horrid blue bird account. But currently, I haven't found enough accounts on Nostr that talk about the things other than Bitcoin and Nostr that I need to know about.
I just watched Powell's testimony to the House committee. I'm a masochist, I guess. Now I need a shower to wash off all of the stupidity I just witnessed.
I've seen a several notes about hardware wallets and I'm already onboard with that. But, several of them have mentioned having old Ledger Wallets not being used. I'm currently using Ledger. So, question: Should I look into a different hardware wallet and, if so, why?
Bitcoin people are a noticeably different culture to, well, everyone else. That being said, there are Bitcoiners coming from all walks of life. So, what personality traits are most likely to push a person toward hard money? I'm not talking any the rational arguements for Bitcoin, but rather the personal traits that lead some people to be attracted to those arguements in the first place.