We are in the phase where being bullish while others are fearful pays off.
Bitcoin or bust.
I am all in.
It has always been worth buying the dip.
Strong conviction helps people act against crowd fear, which is often how long term opportunities are captured.
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Notes about Money (₿), Medicine and AI.
Volatility is life.
In physics, a perfectly flat line means no energy transfer, and no work being done.
Temperature exists because particles jitter.
Pressure exists because molecules collide.
Even “stillness” is just motion averaged out across time and scale.
Bitcoin’s volatility feels like that same honest signal.
A price that moves is a system responding to real forces
liquidity, incentives, risk, time preference, and human behavior.
So when Bitcoin rips and dumps, it’s weirdly calming.
It means the thing is alive and energy is present, participants are real, and the system is constantly rebalancing toward new equilibrium.
Is this the fourth turning?
Watching the leader of the United States publicly beg the central bank for cheaper money feels like a late stage empire scene,
A President shouting about national security while demanding rate cuts is basically admitting the system needs monetary anesthesia to keep the party going.
The message is simple
make borrowing cheaper, make the numbers look better, push the cost onto savers and future taxpayers, then call it strength.
If this is the public script, imagine what the private incentives look like.
plus how is the president shilling fucking shitcoins in the middle of a post what the fuck is this nation about?


This pullback is a short term liquidity move,
When markets get nervous, money leaves the most volatile assets first, and Bitcoin feels it quickly.
Long term holders are not selling, which shows conviction under the surface.
This same pattern has happened many times before major upward moves.
this dip is a pause inside a larger bullish trend.
Bitcoin is the first asset that lets you settle final ownership while staying pseudonymous.
That flips the usual tradeoff
privacy or property rights.
When both exist at once, every other asset starts to look like a permissioned IOU.
You are watching a textbook case of manufactured polarization.
+Two tribes.
+Endless outrage.
+Permanent emotional activation.
This is political load management.
When a population is kept in a state of chronic affective arousal, it loses the capacity for system-level analysis.
People argue symbols while the structure quietly shifts beneath them.
-Left vs right.
-Red vs blue.
-Republican vs Democrat.
- knots vs core
- big block vs small blocks
- bitcoin vs shitcoins
This is identity capture.
Once political identity fuses with personal identity, rational evaluation shuts down.
You stop asking what is happening to the monetary system and start asking who do I hate this week.
From a psychology lens, this is operant conditioning powered by outrage dopamine loops.
News, feeds, debates, scandals act as intermittent reward schedules that keep attention hijacked.
this is misdirection from monetary debasement.
While citizens fight culture wars,
three quiet trends compound:
Your currency loses purchasing power through monetary expansion
Your effective tax burden rises through layered taxation
Your savings are diluted without a vote ever being cast
You are taxed when you earn.
Taxed when you spend.
Taxed when you invest.
Taxed through inflation.
Taxed through fees.
Taxed through debt monetization.
This is called fiscal extraction without visible coercion.
Polarization turns structural issues into moral theater.
You are encouraged to debate bathrooms, flags, pronouns, statues, slogans, personalities.
You are discouraged from asking:
Why does my dollar buy less every year?
Why does public debt grow regardless of who wins?
Why do taxes increase regardless of who wins?
Why do asset prices rise faster than wages?
Because those questions require first-principles economic thinking,
This is known in psychology as displacement.
Anger is redirected toward lateral enemies instead of vertical structures.
The result is a population emotionally exhausted, politically divided, and economically confused.
Exactly the condition in which long term fiscal changes face the least resistance.
Divide the population.
Radicalize the discourse.
Capture the attention.
Extract the value.
And the people will defend the illusion while the purchasing power disappears quietly in the background.
solution? study bitcoin
They want you to capitulate and buy their ETFs, their shitcoins, their paper claims on rocks/metals, everything subdued by their power.
They don’t want you to accumulate Bitcoin, put it in self custody, run your own node, and have a mining setup.
That is the historical fact of following the money.
Do with that information what you want.
everyone promoting anything else is an enemy and wants you to remain subdue by the system.
The Founding Fathers left us a blueprint to resist the powers, whereby free men might withstand the encroachments of centralized war and the dominion of distant finance.
Satoshi left us a tool to peacefully boycott those same powers.
It remain only that the people awaken to this truth, and with steadfast courage resolve to act.
For those powers are mighty.
They possess armies.
They command vast resources.
They hold, as it seem, all things.
but we still have agency (I hope)
Since inception of human memory, time had an invisible leak.
You worked.
You saved.
Someone else issued the money and held the custody.
They decided what your time was worth.
Then, quietly, something new appeared.
For the first time in history, you can store your time in money no one else can print and no one else can hold for you.
It’s the first time humans can keep the full value of their hours without permission.
Self custody is time.
store it?
For 300 years the pattern repeated
Central banks fund wars
Wars reshape borders
Debt replaces gold
Institutions enforce the currency
Finance absorbs industry
Asset managers absorb finance
Tech absorbs behavior
Bank of England → Federal Reserve → Bretton Woods → IMF → Wall Street → Index funds → Surveillance era
Then in 2010, for the first time in history, money appeared that you can hold without a bank, a state, or an institution.
That is the historical break.
Every system before required you to trust someone to hold your wealth.
Bitcoin lets you opt out.
A peaceful boycott of a 300 year monetary pattern.
Self custody is the only protest available.
The real shift is not who runs the system, but how control moves over time.
War finance built central banks.
Central banks enabled debt money.
Debt money enabled financial markets.
Financial markets concentrated into asset managers.
Asset managers now influence companies, media, and policy through capital allocation.
The form of power changed from guns → banks → markets → data.
Bitcoin enters at the exact point where control moved from states to custodians and intermediaries.
So the tension is not “Bitcoin vs government.”
It is self custody vs financial custody inside a world where capital, not politics, steers outcomes.
Bitcoin should be legally protected in the United States at the constitutional level as a form of private property and free speech.
How could that be pursued?
If it is not protected, monetary control can drift back toward centralized systems that history shows tend to restrict individual freedom.
History often repeats and rhymes.
Define Bitcoin in law as protected private property and code as speech.
Build state level precedents through legislation and court cases.
Push for federal statutes that limit agencies from restricting self custody, mining, and running nodes.
Establish judicial precedent through strategic litigation.
Only then pursue a constitutional amendment once broad legal and cultural consensus exists.
How much bitcoin, lobby and fiat do you think is needed for this?
How do people gain reach and followers here on nostr primal?
i am lost on this app
and i know it will be important in the future
help a bitcoiner brother out
Altcoin slaves in CT,
try the quantum stuff and updates and let us know.
Just like we knew Proof of Stake was the worst decision ever, we will evaluate your mistakes to choose the best path toward quantum protection when it truly matters, and in a timely manner.
Thanks for the attention to this matter.
Across the late 1800s to mid 1900s, a few things happened at the same time:
Empires collapsed
Finance became international
Media became mass scale
Bureaucracies exploded in size
Intelligence agencies became permanent institutions
Wars and crises reshaped borders
A small number of highly educated, well connected people operated across countries
That is real.
And it did create a class of people who
moved across borders easily
worked in banking, law, academia, journalism, politics
had international networks
influenced events beyond their numbers
study btc


Here is what happened in 2025,
I genuinely believe that OGs from the 2011–2014 era were distributing large portions of their holdings while, at the same time, sovereign wealth funds, banks, and centralized institutions were accumulating.
The net effect remained negative in the short term because legacy supply overhang outweighed incremental institutional inflows during the transition phase.
I am not sure how much inventory OGs still hold, but if they were full maxis after a decade of accumulation, supply likely remains.
At the same time, adoption and structural demand have more than doubled.
This is why the bear market was effectively masked and why the traditional four year cycle framework is breaking down.
2026 is structurally biased upward.
2025 gave you the opportunity to accumulate and you should have taken it.
I know I did.
I nearly doubled my stack.
How disappointed would you be if Bitcoin took until 2030 to reach $500k?
