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Building with Bitcoin and Lightning ⚡ Co-founder of Apollo @thomas_fahrer on Twitter
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
Information asymmetry is real. Right now the people with more money and less knowledge than you determine the bitcoin price.  This makes for a great trade. You can have their bitcoin today, and in the future, they can have your knowledge.
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
Bitcoin is the next world's reserve currency & it's the end of the cycle. The final monetary revolution. image
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
It’s been 3650 Days, almost 10 years exactly since Bitcoin has had a second of downtime. All the madness of the last decade - hash rate increasing 100 fold, China mining bans, bank runs, market volatility. Nothing stops the network. Tik tock, next block.
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
This post started well, triggered a lot of interesting chat. Then the BSVers found it. Shitting up my notifications with their cult. What a shame. Have to mute. image
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
The thing that makes bitcoiners unique, compared to say - everybody else. Is that they're actually curious about how money works. That’s it really.
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
Boomers own all the Stocks & Bonds. That's fine, but we're going to price them in Bitcoin
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
I only bring it up, because I think this might be relevant to Bitcoin. image
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
This is from 1864 when the Union switched to fiat to fund the civil war. We've always known the problem, but it wasn't until Bitcoin that we had a solution. image
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
An obsession with removing all volatility and de-risking everything is its own illness. The certainty is fake anyway, it’s an illusion that blinds you until you get the rug pulled out from underneath you. Learning to embrace risk is the ultimate freedom.
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
Chart from BitcoinTalk in 2015. Bitcoin was $300 at the time. Trendline predicted 10k in 2017 and 100k in 2021. Interestingly, todays Bitcoin price is about as far off trend as it was at that point in 2015 (~80%). image
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
Out of 7.5 Billion people, a few million people have heard of nostr and 20k people use it. That means if you're reading this post, you're on the bleeding fucking edge of tech. Cool.
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
Cancel culture is an emergent property of the internet. Bitcoin & NOSTR are the inevitable conclusion of cancel culture.
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
Spending your energy on Bitcoin is much more productive than wasting it on politics image
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
Always be developing your ability to articulate how Bitcoin works and why Bitcoin is unique among the sea of crypto assets. Memes serve a purpose, but they degrade articulation. You should also be writing in complete sentences to ensure you have a full grasp of the ideas.
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
The 2030s are your decade. Lift weights to have a great body in the 2030s. Build relationships with the people you'll want to know in the 2030s. Stack Bitcoin  to be rich in the 2030s A low time preference is a weapon.
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
There are three levels to this. 1) I trade Bitcoin. 2) I'm a long term investor 3) I'm a Bitcoiner I've seen plenty of people vacillate between 1 & 2. I've never met someone who used to be a bitcoiner
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thomas_fahrer 2 years ago
There are 4 types of wealth: 1. Financial wealth (money) 2. Social wealth (status) 3. Time wealth (freedom) 4. Physical wealth (health) Bitcoin is for 1 & 3. NOSTR helps with 2 (and maybe 1 in the future). But you need to be lifting weights and eating healthy for 4. No way around it.