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Seth Michael Steele
S_michaelsteele@BitcoinNostr.com
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools #Bitcoin
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sms 5 months ago
If you can’t make sense of the system, stack sats. Bitcoin’s not knocking, it’s swinging a bat, and every weak hand that sells only makes it tougher. This isn’t luck, it’s clarity. Playing it safe might be the riskiest move. I’m all in. image
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sms 5 months ago
$2.22T is a number, but Bitcoin is meaning. It’s surreal that Strategy holds more wealth than the top five nations combined, yet I’m reminded that wealth measured in fiat is still tethered to the same old game. We even ask if the Fed is independent. The very fact we have to ask is an answer. Why stay bound to manufactured stagnation when we can opt into volatility that’s at least honest, transparent, and predictable in its unpredictability? That’s why I stack. Not to hit a number, but because I want more: more productivity, more proof of effort, more alignment between my work and my future. There are no bad days, only new ones, and each one is another chance to stack a little further into freedom. image
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sms 5 months ago
Bitcoin itself can’t be captured, but people will always try to capture its volatility. Even if they succeed for a time, it has a way of breaking free, slipping past every attempt to contain it. The deeper you study Bitcoin, the more you realize its paradox: it’s complex in its simplicity, and yet, with enough understanding, that very complexity becomes disarmingly simple. That’s why my stance is one of humble conviction. I don’t pretend to know every detail of how the future unfolds, but I do know this: I’ll still be here when it does. image
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sms 5 months ago
People misunderstand this game: stacking sats on the way down ages far better than stacking on the way up. A dip isn’t a dip to me; it’s a discount on the future. Bitcoin moves in every direction, but it’s still the underdog in the global story. The difference is, either it’s cornering the rest of the world, or the rest of the world has already cornered itself. For most of its life, say, 95% of the time, Bitcoin is undervalued. Only in rare moments, maybe 5% of the time, does it feel stretched beyond its britches, and right now? It doesn’t feel like one of those rare moments, precisely because everyone’s thinking about it. Altcoins get framed as catching up, but that’s not reality. A better description is that Bitcoin already lapped the entire field and is now pacing itself, saving fuel for the final lap. The more value stored in Bitcoin, the more endurance it gains. That’s not something most speculative digital bets can claim, because their entire thesis depends on hype, not on unlocking passive potential. Right now, Bitcoin is on sale, while the wannabes are overpriced. Chasing speculative premiums over discounted proof isn’t just risky, it’s comical. At the end of the day, it’s the sats that matter. Even if they don’t make cents, dollars are printed into nonsense; sats are the last refuge of sense. #Bitcoin #StackSats #BitcoinIsHope #ProofOverPremium image
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sms 5 months ago
Bitcoin now makes up about 1.66% of global money, and it’s starting to smell like a new round of quantitative easing is already in the air. The problem with predictions isn’t just accuracy; it’s that you can’t forecast how reckless the printers will be, or the exact moment when the world will have its bitpiphany. I haven’t vibe coded yet, but I’ve been vibing in general and I hope that counts for something. Something that gives me spooky vibes: BlackRock’s Bitcoin stack now overshadows the combined holdings of Binance and Coinbase. That forces a question: what exactly is smart money doing? The answer seems clear: they’re not speculating, they’re stacking. #Bitcoin #SmartMoney #Bitpiphany image
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sms 5 months ago
I don’t mind Wall Street chasing after ETH; that just leaves me with more sats to claim. Bitcoin is the tortoise with torque, slow and steady only until you take your eyes off it, then suddenly it teleports. Powell’s words might shake markets, but they don’t shake me. At most, they nudge how aggressively I stack depending on the crowd’s reaction and its effect on the price, not my conviction. The real spectacle isn’t the Fed’s announcements, it’s watching everyone crane their necks to hear words they’ve given far too much power. My balloon doesn’t pop that easily; it’s been a strong week, and I’m already ready for the next. image
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sms 5 months ago
I just want my success, and Bitcoin’s adoption, to blow up to the point where I can casually ask a barista if she can break a $1 million bitcoin for my $20 coffee. Just for gits and shiggles. Some people struggle with chop. I call it the scenic route. Look to your left and you’ll see larps losing their minds over… *checks notes*… a <10% dip?? That’s the beauty of the scenic route: it’s only more enjoyable if you let go. The ride isn’t about predicting the next turn, it’s about appreciating where you are. Do you realize where we are right now? It’s beautiful, and it’s fun. When everyone starts playing prophet, remember to take their words with a grain of salt. Bitcoin always moves slower than we expect in the short term, yet faster than anything in history when viewed in hindsight. Don’t forget gratuity. I don’t have expectations — only excitement. What will the stablecoin fairy godmother bring for Bitcoin: a bumping carriage or will it bail out at the ball? Bitcoin ETFs were, by most measures, a success. They brought more demand, broke records on Wall Street, and still somehow birthed fresh FUD. I couldn’t explain it if I tried. Once you get used to Bitcoin’s mood swings, as any free market’s, people’s mood swings on an individual level become easy by comparison. 10/10 experience. image
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sms 5 months ago
Do I think Bitcoin could reach over a million dollars within the next five years? Absolutely, it’s possible…but would I be disappointed if it doesn’t? Not at all. Bitcoin doesn’t need to move on my timeline, and my conviction isn’t tied to a price target. I don’t measure success by when I can take profits out of Bitcoin, but by how much more I can convert into it. That’s the difference between chasing hype and living conviction. Hype is fleeting: it belongs to someone else’s narrative. Conviction, on the other hand, grows with discipline and productivity. It’s better to get lost in building, stacking, and improving your own life than to be swept away by another man’s excitement. Bitcoin rewards patience, but it demands clarity: do you want to speculate on its timing, or align yourself with its inevitability? image
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sms 5 months ago
I doubt even AI could talk me out of buying more Bitcoin, and I know it couldn’t make me FOMO harder than I already do on my own. Whether it ends up being more accurate than today’s so called experts at predicting the future doesn’t matter much to me, because the only constant is change, and I don’t want to underestimate a tool we don’t yet fully understand, especially one where it’s not clear who’s in charge: man or machine. In chaos I look for peace. I usually seek direction, but I’ve never gone wrong by chasing more of myself and more Bitcoin. If others want to dump, they’re free to, but what I hold is mine. That’s the key difference: Bitcoin is not like most assets. Still, it’s not simply up only. Chasing NGU blinds people. I like Bitcoin in good times and bad; I hold when everyone agrees, and I hold when everyone forgets why they agreed in the first place. Experts can be wrong and so can I, but I’d rather live with mistakes that were mine than be right for the wrong reasons. Even when I lose, at least I know the blame belongs to me: not to the crowd, not to the noise, not to the experts. If someone’s bullish on altcoins, I already know they’re not someone I should trust. I don’t need hype or speculation to fuel me. My conviction comes from grounded analysis, evidence, and the clarity Bitcoin continues to give me about what really matters. image
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sms 5 months ago
Is it the end of days, or just another correction? If it were truly the end, I hate to break it to you, but your soft hands wouldn’t still be here. When the going gets tough, those who were already grinding barely feel the difference; hardship is simply their baseline…but when money itself is debased, no one escapes; even the fastest runners can’t outrun a sinking floor. That’s why in Bitcoin the best place to stand is not on the extremes of paranoia or euphoria, but right in between: cautiously optimistic. Too paranoid, and you freeze. Too exuberant, and you overreach, but cautious optimism…that’s the mindset that survives corrections and thrives in revolutions. image
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sms 5 months ago
I have a secret I can no longer keep: Bitcoin quietly guides me on this journey, not just by revealing value in numbers, but by sharpening my sense of what is truly worthy of my time, my attention, and my energy. Life is extraordinary, yet we move through it so quickly that we often forget to notice its extraordinariness. The noise of obligation drowns out the miracle of simply being. Bitcoin reminds me to slow down. It restores that childlike wonder, the awe of seeing the world as if for the first time, while also demanding the discipline to grow into the man I was meant to become. Whatever tomorrow brings, I know this much: today will not slip by unappreciated. image
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sms 5 months ago
I believe in building bridges, not burning them. Any bridge that looks like it should be burned is really an invitation to see how it can be rebuilt stronger. The cycle is always the same: the old gives way to the new, and in time the new itself grows old, but Bitcoin is different: it’s built to age in slow motion, to endure across generations without decay. image
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sms 5 months ago
I used to stack believing it was because I thought differently, but now that so many are arriving at the same conclusion on a massive scale, I realize it wasn’t contrarian thinking; it was simply being right about Bitcoin. What once felt revolutionary now feels inevitable. Bitcoin is blurring the lines between establishment and anti-establishment, forcing both to acknowledge the same truth. image
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sms 5 months ago
Okay so i propose people who have been in nostr for a long time are not OGs rather Hipstrs…
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sms 5 months ago
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever run out of things to post about bitcoin, luckily it’s not just the digital gold they came for it’s the 24/7 soap opera we all stayed for. Fact is more entertaining than fiction and real people love the limelight and treasury secretaries change their minds like a girl changes clothes. I could take some notes and start using exploring and never interchangeably. I’m exploring paying my share of his salary. Don’t get me wrong, more time to stack cheap sats is beautiful. image
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sms 6 months ago
If Bitcoin’s movement is making your eyes water, I hope it’s from awe, not fear. The real question isn’t whether people are stacking; it’s who isn’t. With each passing day, the answer edges closer to no one. Amid the noise about price, I remind myself: 1 BTC will always equal 1 BTC. Fiat frames the drama; Bitcoin frames the truth. image
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sms 6 months ago
I don’t need to predict price when I can perceive the policy. Price is the shadow; policy is the hand casting it. If the structural forces at play persist, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bitcoin’s future cycles tilt toward more boom and less bust. That shift wouldn’t be magic; it would be the inevitable consequence of tightening supply meeting increasingly desperate monetary easing. The market currently gives a 94% chance the Fed will cut rates at their next meeting. That’s fine, but I’d still take the 6% odds against it, not out of contrarianism, but because true asymmetry lies where the crowd refuses to look. I like NGU, but I don’t depend on it. That detachment has allowed me to see more than I ever expected, because my focus isn’t on a single fleeting price spike, but on a lasting completeness that can’t be printed, paused, or revoked. image
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sms 6 months ago
Thanks to Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin, you can now use Bitcoin…and, unfortunately, some hype fueled altcoins…to pay for a trip to space. The idea is exciting in theory: a piece of hard money funding a literal escape from Earth, but when I look closer, I can’t help thinking the joyride isn’t worth the sats. To each their own, of course, but if we’re talking about value, the real leap forward wouldn’t be suborbital tourism. It would be Amazon itself finally accepting Bitcoin for everyday purchases. Imagine being able to shop on the internet with internet money. That’s not some luxury for the ultra rich: it’s a practical, scalable, and truly transformative integration, and it’s not like Amazon would be taking a loss doing it. Instead, we get a novelty: less than 21 minutes of spaceflight, a short burst of weightlessness, and a bragging right that fades faster than the experience itself. To me, that’s absurd. I suspect most people will read that Bitcoin can now be used for a Blue Origin ticket and think, so what? In this case, I think that reaction is justified. image
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sms 6 months ago
Today, the fiat mines had no claim on me. The stillness made room for the sound of my late-70s/early-80s Stihl 041AV, 4.1 horsepower, 61cc, “anti-vibration”, calling my name. I’ve postponed answering before, but today felt like the right time to pick up the conversation again. This saw isn’t just a tool, it’s a lineage. Passed down across four generations and through the hands of two previous owners, it carries more than steel and screws. It carries the fingerprints of those who used it before me. That’s the kind of inheritance I value, the sort that deepens with time and use, yet it’s become increasingly rare in a disposable, consumerist world that builds to replace rather than repair. The 041AV is from an era when money was backed by gold and products were built with the assumption that they’d be repaired, not discarded. This one’s been run over by a tractor, and shrugged it off. It’s over 40 years old now, and I have no doubt that once dialed in, it could last another 40 without breaking a sweat. It has the muscle to match today’s top-of-the-line saws, and I’d stake sats on it outlasting anything you can buy new. Yes, it’s heavier, thirstier, louder, and entirely lacking in safety features. But those are complaints only a modern “man” would make. Today’s physiques…and maybe our spirits, could benefit from heavier tools. The weight isn’t a flaw; it’s a challenge. Don’t be soft. Build yourself to match the work, not the other way around. I’m no small engine mechanic, just a pleb with curiosity, but there’s only so much mystery in a machine like this. Given enough time, I could keep it running indefinitely. Right now, I suspect the carb just needs some adjustment to clear its throat and sing like it used to. Worst case, I come out with more skill than I went in with. Today’s progress: it wouldn’t idle when I started, but now it does. It bogs a bit on full throttle, which might be solved with a few minor tweaks. I also discovered the chain tensioner is bent, so I ordered a replacement. Until it arrives, I’ll resist the urge to keep tinkering; better to pause than to press forward and cause harm. Tools like this remind me: longevity is a choice. It’s in how we build, how we maintain, and how we value what lasts. And maybe, in the process of keeping it alive, we remember how to do the same for ourselves.
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sms 6 months ago
Is volatility behind us? I doubt it. The price feels more suppressed than ever, because it’s still trying to reconcile two forces moving in opposite directions: an increasingly deflationary money being measured in an increasingly inflationary currency. That tension doesn’t resolve into stability; it compounds into greater volatility the longer it’s ignored. Adoption means little without discipline. Unless your monetary policy outlasts Bitcoin’s in strength and credibility, it will siphon away your premium: slowly at first, then all at once. That’s a standard no state has ever met, and fewer still are willing to even attempt. Bitcoin may be closer to maturity than ever, but the dollar is nowhere near the end of its decline. This is a problem you can’t kick down the road forever; a trolley problem where the choice isn’t between strangers on a track, but between yourself and the generations that follow. Bitcoin was born in the wild and raised free range. It has manners now, and we’ve invited it inside, but if the walls of the house become a cage, it will break free as easily as it once slipped through the cracks, and those with sense will follow it out. image