The Marriage Inequality: Why You Should Never Marry While You're "Weak" This is the ultimate hierarchy of life satisfaction, revealed in the "Marriage Inequality". It determines whether getting married is the best decision or the fastest way to ruin your life. Stop obsessing over finding "The One." The truth is, most people enter marriage looking for a rescue. They are weak and desperately seeking an external fix for internal problems. This is why we need the #Marriage Inequality: A simple ranking of life quality that shows if partnership is truly helping or hurting you. 🥇 #1: Two People Living Happily. This is the ideal. Your partner is an addition, not a necessity. You are both mentally strong, independent, and choosing to fight life's battles side-by-side. Your combined force is greater than the sum of its parts. (This is the only truly "high-level" marriage.) 🥈 #2: One Person Living Well. Greater than a messy #partnership. This is your baseline and your personal minimum standard. If you cannot live happily and successfully by yourself, you are not qualified for marriage. If you rush in, you are simply bringing an already failing life into a shared venture. You must be your own successful company first. 🥉 #3: One Person Living Carelessly. You're making mistakes, but you're only damaging yourself. A single person living a chaotic, directionless life is still better off than two people doing the same. Why? Because the problems are contained. The moment you marry, that chaos is magnified ten thousand times. 💀 #4: Two People Living Carelessly. The absolute worst outcome. When two messy, weak, or anxious people marry, they don't solve their problems—they pool them. This creates a state of mutual destruction where they actively erode each other's ideals, energy, and freedom. This is the tragedy of confusing possession with love. The rule is simple: If you cannot thrive alone, you will only suffer with someone else. Marriage is a life choice, not a life savior. Ensure you are strong enough to leave (that's your security) but choose to stay (that's your commitment). Are you marrying from a place of strength or a place of weakness?

The Bugs in Your Brain's Value System The Desert Choice: Essential vs. Expensive Imagine being dehydrated in a desert: your choice is a USD 1 bottle of water or a USD 280000 diamond. The choice is obviously the water. So why, in the "main map" of modern life, do we constantly sacrifice our "water" (health, time, relationships) to acquire the "diamond" (wealth and status)? 🚨 Bug 1: The Scarcity Trap Our brain operates on outdated "Stone Age" logic: Rare equals Good. In ancient times, rarity often signaled safety or superior nutrition. Today, that logic is simplified to Expensive equals Good, regardless of utility. This programming ignores Diminishing Marginal Utility. The first scoop of ice cream is amazing; the twentieth is repulsive. Yet, we continue to chase rare, expensive items whose value quickly approaches zero once acquired. ⚡ Bug 2: The Dopamine Hijack Our brain's reward system—the Dopamine system—is also stuck in survival mode. It gives us an intense, short-term rush when we find something novel and scarce (like finding a patch of ripe berries). The Dopamine Trap This reward system can't distinguish between finding those berries and buying a limited-edition collectible. Both trigger an identical, exaggerated spike of dopamine. The problem? It ignores the stable, essential "permanent buffs" like health, family, and true friendship. Since these things are constant, they don't produce the thrilling dopamine spike, so our brain treats them as boring or non-existent. We are wired to prefer the fleeting "fireworks" over the constant "sunlight." 🦠 Bug 3: The "Story Patch" Virus The most sophisticated flaw is a "software virus" injected by master marketers. They discovered they can exploit the first two bugs by attaching a compelling story to a product, fundamentally rewriting its perceived value. The De Beers Playbook Consider the diamond. Historically, it wasn't particularly rare. Yet, one company successfully attached the "Eternity of Love" story patch to it. They essentially created a mandatory upgrade for the "marriage" quest in the game of life. We are now willing to pay hundreds of times the material cost for the story, not the stone's utility. Modern marketing sells you the narrative (e.g., "The sense of security," "The Queen look"), not the physical item. 🔑 The Solution: The Dual-Screen System Research, like the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which tracked people for decades, consistently shows the single most crucial factor for a happy, successful life is high-quality relationships. To counter the bugs, you must override your default programming by running a "Dual-Screen Display System" before making a choice: - Screen 1: The Price Account (Monetary Cost) - Screen 2: The Value/Happiness Account (Subjective fulfillment, intimacy, growth) Rewiring for True Value When you compare a USD 20000 handbag (High monetary cost; temporary happiness spike) against a free, hour-long phone call to a parent (Zero monetary cost; lasting, mutual, high-value happiness), the truly worthwhile choice becomes clear. By prioritizing the Value Account (Screen 2), you reclaim control from your outdated mental programming, focusing on the permanent, abundant joys in life rather than the fleeting, scarce status symbols. What decision in your life today could benefit from running a "Dual-Screen" check?

The Real Reason Behind Bitcoin's Slide: A Hidden Liquidity Crisis The root cause of recent market volatility, including Bitcoin's sharp drop, is a brewing, yet "quirky" liquidity crisis tied directly to the U.S. Treasury. Signs of Tightening Liquidity: Despite two recent Fed rate cuts, market funding costs are spiking. The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (#SOFR) jumped 22 basis points to 4.22% in one day—its largest rise in a year. Banks are running low on cash. Demand for emergency funds is soaring. Usage of the Fed's Standing Repo Facility (#SRF) is near record highs, confirming widespread cash shortages in the banking system. The Treasury is the Culprit: The U.S. Treasury's General Account (#TGA) at the Fed has swelled past $1 trillion, a new high since April 2021. This "sucking sound" is a result of elevated bond issuance and potential government shutdown factors. The Hidden Tightening: By draining over $700 billion in liquidity from the market, the Treasury's action is equivalent to a de facto 100 basis point rate hike, completely offsetting the Fed's easing efforts. The market's safety net, the Reverse Repo (ON RRP) facility, is also nearly exhausted. Impact on Bitcoin: As a high-risk asset extremely sensitive to rates, Bitcoin is the main victim of this liquidity drought. Its price plummeted below $100,000, confirming its role as a "risk-on" asset, not a safe haven. When risk aversion rises, Bitcoin drops harder than stocks. The Opportunity Ahead: Current market pessimism is pushing options traders to bet on further declines, with $80,000 being a key downside target. However, this is setting up a major opportunity. The Liquidity Reversal: Once the liquidity crisis is resolved (e.g., when the TGA is drawn down), hundreds of billions in capital are expected to flood back into the financial system. This "invisible quantitative easing" will aggressively chase #Bitcoin, potentially echoing the 2021 rally.

Anyone else having issues with the Telegram #BitTipBot? All the sats in my #lightning wallet are now unusable… Is this a #rugpull or just a technical issue? Can @Kevin Ravens₿erg ⚡️ ☁️ help?

In my opinion, the core of the #BIP444 debate is prioritizing one existential risk over another. The Permanent Threat to Decentralization The ability to easily embed large, permanent, and easily retrievable files, enabled efficiently by Taproot/Ordinals, greatly magnifies the legal liability risk. The fear of permanently "possessing and broadcasting" all of this data creates legal uncertainty that could force nodes, especially institutional ones, to quit, thus causing a permanent and catastrophic collapse of decentralization. Temporary Technical Risk I agree the "reactive re-org" is a terrifying technical risk. However, a re-org is a temporary technical instability. This re-org would be a coordinated, one-time defense against a known, highly objectionable block—a social consensus defense against an attack on the network's legal viability, not an exploitable bug. Furthermore, the proposal is explicitly a temporary soft fork (lasting about a year). This temporary instability is justified as an emergency measure to 'buy time' for developers to implement a cleaner, permanent technical solution that prevents such data insertion without ever requiring re-orgs. My point is always: #Bitcoin is decentralized money. Everything else should be built on L2 or a sidechain—or on Ethereum or Solana or ... etc. The core chain must remain viable and legally unencumbered to ensure its decentralization. I might be wrong, still learning... 🙈 #NotCrypto

The 2x BTC Leverage via #BitcoinBackedLoan – Thought Experiment - Starting Collateral: 0.3 BTC - Strategy: Use recursive 50% Loan-to-Value (LTV) borrowing to double BTC exposure. - Goal: Maximize BTC holdings without selling, using borrowed fiat to buy more BTC, looped back as collateral. The Math Behind the 2x At 50% LTV, each loop lets you buy half as much BTC as the previous one: - 0.3000 BTC (initial) - +0.1500 BTC (1st borrow) - +0.0750 BTC - +0.0375 BTC … etc. This geometric series converges to 0.6 BTC — exactly 2x leverage (from 0.3 to 0.6 BTC exposure). But Fees Change the Risk Profile Assume: - 2% Capital Charge (one-time, added to loan principal) - 5% Interest (APR, compounding daily) - Liquidation threshold: 85% LTV If you borrow 0.3 BTC worth in fiat, a 2% fee adds 0.006 BTC worth to your debt — so total loan = 0.306 BTC. Now your true LTV = 0.306 / 0.6 = 51%, not 50%. You’ve lost 2.85% of your liquidation buffer before interest accrues. Interest will further erode your buffer unless BTC price rises or you repay. So. Yes, 2x #bitcoin leverage via recursive loans is mathematically sound. But fees and compounding interest push you closer to liquidation risk. Only use this strategy with: - Tight monitoring - Low interest & fee platforms - Strong belief in BTC price appreciation - A plan to de-leverage if markets dip #MiniMicrostrategy

#Bitcoin #NoCrypto Livestream in @primal! By @ForrestHODL. 1st time here! 😃 #NostrLive

First time using the BUDI MADANI RON95 program! I've been allocated a quota of subsidized #RON95 fuel, which shows up as liters in the app (like the 259.627 liters I have left for the month). ​This is the government's way of ensuring the subsidy goes to those who need it. Worth checking out if you haven't! ​#SubsidiBersasar #MalaysiaMadani

Seven years of unwavering conviction. This #BitcoinWhale address has been receiving funds since November 2016 and holds over 4,164 BTC worth almost $450,000,000 today. ​The balance has never been touched—it just kept #StackingSats. The power of time and #Bitcoin. 📈 https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/124YoiaSaUssbBeP5RukbSN9Evc3UJfwPj-full

Random BTC price check: - 1-year low: 66,863 (Nov 4, 2024) - 1-year high: 126,184 (Oct 6, 2025) Useful when deciding LTV & estimating liquidation price before taking a #BitcoinBackedLoan. Plan for volatility. Stay sovereign.

We might stop recommending @Umbrel ☂️, @Start9, or other "centralized OS" setups to newbies... who just hit "update" without understanding the implications. 🥲