Intrinsic Value debate.. The instant cross border payment functionality alone should be worth a few trillions in market cap. The decentralized nature of the consensus is worth trillions more in my opinion. Nevermind the scarcity. Finance text books define assets as controllable resources producing future economic benefits, and finance bros would keep referring to potential future cashflows / dividends if the asset is not a commodity with utility with a resulting market value. So they will say a bond delivering 3% return technically has “intrinsic value” even if those returns are negative after inflation. Which makes no sense. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder then value is in the hands of the hodler. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

Well there are always downsides - 🤣🤣🤣 #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

Day 1. I will form good habits and become their slave. OG Mandino #bitcoin

We no longer create. We configure. This metamorphosis - from creator to configurator, from craftsperson to curator - represents not just a change in how work is performed but a fundamental shift in our relationship to our own labor. We become meta-workers, operating not on the raw materials of our craft but on the parameters that control the machine's interaction with those materials. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork #AI

In a market that values only output, the absence of humanity becomes the ultimate competitive advantage. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

In this new landscape, only that which cannot be simulated will retain its scarcity value. Ummm.. BITCOIN.. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

Your value lies not in what you know or what you can do, but in how you know and how you do it - in the irreducibly human qualities you bring to tasks that increasingly do not require human execution. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

The market does not value you for being conscious. It values you for what your consciousness can produce that cannot be obtained more cheaply elsewhere. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

If the outputs of consciousness can be generated without consciousness itself, what aspect of humanity retains intrinsic value in the marketplace? #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

The qualities we believed were uniquely human - creativity, judgment, abstraction, empathy - turn out to be replicable through systems that need not share our consciousness, our experiences, or our limitations. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

This is the cruel irony of our moment: the appearance of intelligence is functionally equivalent to intelligence itself when judged by economic metrics. The simulation of creativity is as valuable as genuine creativity when the outputs cannot be reliably distinguished. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork #ai

🔥THE GREAT AMERICAN MELTDOWN: WHY BITCOIN IS YOUR LAST EXIT RAMP🔥 Let me paint you a picture, and it’s not in oils, it’s in blood, grease, and whatever chemical is in those Dollar General-brand meatballs your cousin microwaves before putting on his Walmart apron. The American lower-middle class is dead. Not dying. Not struggling. Dead. It’s propped up by credit cards, payday loans, government cheese, and the vague hope that their kid becomes a TikTok star before they hit puberty and get diagnosed with six mental illnesses and a pot addiction. You’ve got two parents working full time - one of them making $16.50 an hour pretending to care that someone’s DoorDash is cold, and the other stacking shelves under fluorescent lights next to a sign that says “We’re a Family Here.” No you’re not. You’re a barely sentient barcode scanner with IBS and untreated dental issues. They’ve got $70 in their checking account, a $2,500 balance on a Capital One card with a 31.99% APR, and they’re trying to raise three kids on expired cereal and motivational quotes printed on tea towels. But sure - let’s keep pretending this is the greatest country on Earth. “Just buy a home!” they said. Yeah, with what? Pocket lint and unfulfilled dreams? Housing prices have done more blow than Hunter Biden. The median home is now a seven-figure shrine to despair that comes with a $4,000 mortgage and a nest of wasps in the attic. And then you’ve got your 401(k), which is essentially a rigged Chuck E. Cheese arcade. The returns are fake, the prizes suck, and the whole thing ends when the Fed spins the money printer like a DJ with Parkinson’s. And let’s not even talk about Social Security. By the time Gen Z hits retirement age, they’ll be getting their benefits in Arby’s coupons. So what’s the plan, America? Just keep voting for whichever ventriloquist dummy is least drooling on the mic while the Federal Reserve slurps your savings into a black hole of monetary fraud? ENTER: BITCOIN. Bitcoin is not a tech stock. It’s not a scam. It’s not some NFT your cousin Chad made of a monkey vaping. Bitcoin is the last goddamn exit ramp off this flaming clown car of fiat despair. Bitcoin is monetized truth. It’s thermodynamic capital. It is time - compressed, encrypted, and immutably etched into the fabric of cyberspace with the wrath of a vengeful God who finally got sick of your bank overdraft fees. While your local bank is busy locking you out of your $120 savings account for “unusual activity” because you bought gas and a sandwich in the same hour, Bitcoin doesn’t ask questions. It doesn’t inflate your money supply by 40% and then blame you for “not budgeting correctly.” It just works. There are no bailouts in Bitcoin. No lobbyists. No Jerome. No Wall Street Muppets pulling liquidity levers while you sit on hold with Wells Fargo wondering why your rent check bounced. Bitcoin is the vault, and it’s open to anyone smart enough to realize the old system is the Titanic and the iceberg was 2008. And don’t give me that “government will ban it” nonsense. These people can’t even ban TikTok without holding twelve hearings and a séance. You think they’re going to stop a decentralized, borderless monetary network defended by every disillusioned coder, cyberpunk libertarian, and Venezuelan grandma with a smartphone? No. Bitcoin will eat them. Just like it’ll eat the dollar, the banks, and the hollowed-out husk of American middle-class life that now resembles a gas station sushi roll with a mortgage. You want dignity? You want sovereignty? You want to actually own something that doesn’t decay like your quality of life? Then get off fiat. Get out of the clown car. Buy Bitcoin. Or keep believing in the dream while eating expired ravioli and Googling “how to get a second job that doesn’t make me want to die.” Your move. Adam Livingston on X. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

The bee is not the only insect that visits the rose but it is the only one that carries honey away. OG Mandino - life changing book. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. 2009/01/03 - BTC started as an acorn and now is an ever growing forest. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

The person who is perpetually hesitating between which of two things he or she will do, will do neither. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

I will form good habits and become their slave. SSSH #1 #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough. Bitcoin is this.. day by day it succeeds by becoming stronger and stronger. Be like this… #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork #asknostr

When the lion is hungry he eats. When the eagle has thirst he drinks. Lest they act, both will perish. I hunger for success. I thirst for happiness and peace of mind. Lest I act I will perish in a life of failure, misery, and sleepless nights. Stack Sats Stay Humble! @ODELL #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork #asknostr

Tell me you have read 3 pages of BTC research while having a shit… *Arguments in favour of Bitcoin, refuted by gold as preferred money* 1. Gold, you can’t eat. ~ Sure you can’t, but neither can your eat Bitcoin. 2. Gold is mostly possessed in vaults. ~ Not true. Central banks yes. Many wealthy people will store in safe havens, such as Switzerland. The majority of my investors and other investors take delivery of their Krugerrands. (They are strongly encouraged to do so). 3. Most gold is held as paper claims such as gold ETF’s. ~ Those who are cost conscious investors, yes, but otherwise not true. I strongly discourage this. My motto is, “ _If you do not hold it, you do not own it.”_ 4. Gold being 5 000 miles away from you. ~ No, it is not if you take possession of it, it is close to home. 5. Bitcoins has features of self-custody, portability, divisibility, and borderless transfer. ~ Gold and silver meet these criteria too. I add silver because it meets the criteria of “divisibility,” of being able to purchase a basic basket of fruit and veggies for an ounce of silver. 6. Bitcoin is portable. ~ So is gold. Ask any German Jew who had to flee Nazi Germany, he could not take any of his assets with him, except his few gold sovereigns. 7. Have gold bars at home, how will you trade them in a crisis? Shave off slivers? ~ The best gold to purchase is Krugerrands. No verification required. They are tried and tested – in fact they are the best branded product that SA has produced. Silver, as mentioned already, is for the small day today items. Gold is for the big items such as property and vehicle purchases. 8. Bitcoin, even if stored offline, is liquid and globally accessible again. No middlemen. No delay. No paperwork! ~ The same is true for Krugerrands, internationally they are the most accepted gold coin, and can be instantly turned into cash. 9. Bitcoin isn’t dependent on the grid… it just uses it better than anything else ever created. ~ Neither are Krugerrands dependent on the grid. Gold has been with man for 5 000 years. In every financial crisis the world has always returned to gold. Gold has a dependable history that has stood the test of time. 10. Bitcoin still needs to prove it is a store of value, before it qualifies as money. It meets two of the three criteria, a unit of measure and a unit of exchange. It still needs to overcome the hurdle of volatility, only then will it be regarded in the tradition of sound money. #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork #asknostr

You reckon $10 million per BTC by 2030? In today’s purchasing power? Many factors come into play.. Supply squeeze Nation states Brrrrrrrr In our lifetime yes.. 2030 maybe but less than 50% chance.. $1 000 000 yes.. What’s your thoughts? The main factor is all the sub factors applying pressure. There isn’t just one thing. It only needs to get to 5% adoption and you’re pretty much home. Once people start hearing about their neighbor getting wealthier than them, us humans like to copy so the curve will steepen exponentially. For all the current news events surrounding BTC it should be over 200k by now. There will be a catalyst like a failed auction at the bond market where people will realize we have a major currency crisis. This will leave many people with no other option… Before we use to talk about houses and gulfstreams - now we talk BTC! @Justin B #bitcoin #BTC #timechain #digitalcurrency #HODL #satoshi #mining #lightningnetwork #asknostr