An approachable & well articulated explanation of the dark secretes hiding in plain sight at the core of so much that is wrong
Worth sending to friends & family who remain unconvinced about bitcoin ... if any of them are still talking to you that is ... ๐
I find npub1ycvsxes7qfrmv897k8uqqfrwvj5efv0f282lxzacrdlglm8c2qrqm7jjgr 's podcast knocks a bit of the hardened bitcoiner crud off me & brings the bitcoiner optimism back to the surface ... worth a follow just for that
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Bitcoin's exchange rate expressed in gold follows a power law trend almost as closely as when expressed in usd (95% vs 96% r-squared)
In past bull/bear cycles bitcoin's behaviour around the power trend line is nearly identical for both measures (green circles).
This relationship has noticeably decoupled in the current cycle:
- the usd exchange rate has risen from long-term support trend line to the power trend line (red circles)
- the gold exchange rate has remained anchored to the long-term support trend line (red circles)
If gold is a more accurate measure of purchasing power, it can be argued bitcoin has not yet entered a bull-run in purchasing power terms
In gold terms, the power law trend line indicates, if a purchasing power bull-run occurs, bitcoin's price may:
- 2x from here to the power trend line (reversion to trend / no bull-run)
- 5x from here to to 1sd-up line (conservative base case bull-run)
- 10x from here to to 2sd-up line (up-side bull-run)
In usd terms, that's an exchange rate of US$500,000 to US$1,000,000 per bitcoin in a bull-run this cycle
This seems unlikely to say the least ... something is broken ... can someone tell me what it is?
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npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 is right that changing the incentives is the key to the future.
As Charlie Munger said: "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
It is not the incentives of the common man that matter. nor the incentives of politicians, banksters, vc's or wall street
The incentives that matter are those the bureaucrat class.
They are most dependant on the money printer, growing sever larger & amassing ever more power
They have little value to offer the world other than designing & implementing regulations, so they must steal the value of others through the money printer
As npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m says, it is not free speach that really matters, it is free will
As we reach peak fiat, across the Western world the bureaucrat class are racing to cement in their power by constricting free will through more & more regulations
There needs to be more open discussion of how to shift the incentives of the bureaucrat class
The matter has become quite urgent
In the end, I think, there will be little option but for the bitcoiners to pay them off ... and if that is the only way, we should do so