Gm nostriches, geopolitics is truly wild at the moment, oil up one day, back down the next, watching predictions of physical oil shortages, major countries (particularly France) almost looking like they’re circling the drain, waiting for the next president to initiate financial Armageddon (and markets are ok with nothing happening until 2027?!?!?). https://share.google/KGsX9UmyVSp4aiym5 Bitcoin mostly doing the inverse of oil, big panic, slight push down, a little calm, inching higher. BUT, highest price since March 18th, but much more interesting is that much higher and we get back to the highest since Feb, the end of the “freefall” period. Charting/technical analysis is horoscopes for men and fiat denominating is just so short sighted, but while we have an exchange rate there is information there. So what information is there? If Bitcoin is the truth machine, what could this be telling us? And so, the morning task in the fiat mine appears to be set. #coffeechain to be prepared and then time to update some price data and see what some averages look like. Not looking for “answers” just hoping to improve my understanding.

Starting Sunday dinner before 12, deciding to add a crumble into the mix, considered buying one, but bringing the kid in to get involved. Yeah it takes a bit of time, but to have everyone getting a proper dinner to start the week all around the table on a Sunday night, so worth it. #beefstr going for a slow roast through the afternoon. #catstr not realising he’ll having trouble filling Dug’s shoes!!!!

Ga nostriches, kid’s playhouse seemed like a bit of an unnecessary expense, but ngl, the adhd, frustrated labourer in me is loving a good bit of digging holes and moving turf manual labour!

The private credit fears and unwinds are serious, but feeling i’ve heard enough and sitting and waiting for the fall out, but Nick Nemeth on @MartyBent was fascinating. The private insurance and reinsurance markets sound like a ticking nuclear bomb sitting just out of sight of the mainstream, with more megatons of potential damage. Feeling a touch like Michael Burry, with his short in place but only my shorts being self custody bitcoin positioned against the fiat system, and lucky for me, I neither have to pay to keep the short position live nor impatience to over stretch myself. https://fountain.fm/episode/9boilAPMwDbFNGc3t5KN

Gm nostriches, “The money grab was billed as a one time tax, but it should be obvious that this is not how taxation works in functioning economies” @cjasonmaier on 2013 Cyprus but ultimately exactly what happening in the UK in 2024 where suddenly the “protected and sensible pension” suddenly went from a tax protected way of passing money to a spouse to something being hit by inheritance tax (also known as being seized) So to be repeat “this is not how taxation works in FUNCTIONING ECONOMIES” Yes Britain, we’re ruled by thieves and gangsters, as Curtis Garvin informed up. Enjoying a slightly light read this Saturday morning with #coffeechain on the side.

Was just thinking at I return to some older movies, Batman had to be in the mix then this scene appeared in my feed. Thinking next time I get a complement, this is how I should response.

Friday night #steakstr

Very interesting take on South Africa during a quiet Friday afternoon in the fiat mine. Made me think of @Valuarchist “It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largresse from the public treasury”

Valuarchy – A Monetary Value Leadership System

What if we could fix this political problem with one simple idea?

The public voting in “the good party that will give us what we want”, combined with a good dose of political corruption (maybe slightly worse in SA, but present everywhere else) and we have a time bomb freaks. https://share.google/qwlP5X99Y6Kfgo8jd

Gm nostriches, happy Friday freaks!! Well, this marks 6 years of me being in Bitcoin (well, first on chain, self custody transaction), yeah nice, maybe the money I’ve put in is worth slightly more, but you know what, as The Joker said, “it’s not about the money” This last 6 years is about what I have learnt and how it has changed me. Have I made new friends? No (well only internet friends saying “Gm”), has this strained existing relationships, yeah, quite a bit. People think I’m not normal, angry, extreme, even far right, but this is just from their point of view, where the existing system is still the invisible water they’re living within, all around them, in the background, continually stealing from them but they just can’t/won’t see it. This past 6 years marks a point in a journey where I no longer have ALL my money in the existing system, the house, the pension, the stocks or even the cash in the bank, I’m leaving it behind. This past 6 years marks me taking control over the assets I own, understanding the future world I want to live in and how I’m saving for that future. Yeah, damn fucking right I’m angry and extreme, those fuckers are stealing from everyone and you’re sitting there, criticising me, for being angry about the ruling class throwing money around to simply paper over the many problems they’ve creating or to create distractions (Artemis anyone? war in Iran anyone?), oblivious of how their actions are creating the divisions we’re dealing with no, making everyone poorer, while championing the under classes that have to be further subsidised to make their pointless unproductive lives bearable while simultaneously preventing them from ever making it on their own. Deep breath my inner monster; So far I’ve been in Bitcoin almost 1/3 of its existence. It has changed me, the way I think, the work I do, my unwillingness to passively nod along at the dining table when someone makes an ill informed comment in order to get the required seal 🦭 like clap of approval that says “yes your group think is suitably consistent”. While price may not be where all those YouTube influensoors told me it would be 6 years down the line, my personal freedom has gone up, and if nothing else, when all shit hits the mother of all fans sometime in the future and the system really crumbles, while the pension, house, stocks and bank account will have to stay put, my bitcoin will already be where ever I choose to head to. Now put a dollar value on that my fist denominator obsessed friends? ♾️ or maybe a little higher? So, over than time, block rewards have collapsed from 12.7btc ($93.7k) to a mere 3.13btc ($223.7k), transactions are cheaper, technology is improved, nostr is a thing and to top it all off, brought my copy of @Stackchain ⛓ Magazine into the fiat mine to look for a friendly face to further brighten my day. Keep at it freaks, today is the day you’ll have the least experience of bitcoin, so go build some more. 🫡🙌 #coffeechain