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So I've never seen any of the #DragonBall series and as an adult I want to give them a go but I really don't care for filler which the series is well known for having. So over the last few days I've located trimmed down fan edits of the original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z Kai (itself already trimmed of most of the filler before the fan edit). They're titled Dragon Ball Recut and Dragon Ball Kai Recut, both by the same guy who goes by various usernames that all use "The Milkman" in them. The Kai fanedit is uncensored, and has the Yamamoto score reinserted after the retail Kai removed them to fan disappointment. All in all the retail Kai edit in addition to the fanedits to both shows to make the story more streamlined and closer to the Manga, reduced the total running time by roughly 76 hours! Thats 23 hours cut from the original Dragon Ball, while 41 hours are estimated to have been removed from DBZ via the retail cut of Kai and the fanedit removed another 12 or so hours. Then I compiled a list: recommendations for when to watch the movies (adjusted for the fan edits altered episode count, although I understand most of the movies are themselves filler lol), throwing in fan favorite filler episodes that were removed from the retail cut of Kai, and placing Dragon Ball Daima and Dragon Ball Super before the final 3 episodes of Z (also intermixing their movies too). So now I believe I've built an ultimate streamlined Dragon Ball viewing list for people who've never seen the series before. I can share if anyone wants the list. 😁 But I'm excited to see what all the fuss is about with this Anime, hopefully I'll be able to do the same with other popular anime's in the future. 🤞

The choice is yours.

I think Bitcoin will go up 50 - 100% over Q4. Target range of $165k - $220k. Possibly higher.

How to stop sitting on your stack, and start to slowly live on Bitcoin as it grows. In the years of helping friends and family understand and use Bitcoin, it's become obvious to me in hindsight that using Bitcoin immediately is better than Hodling forever without ever using it. Reason being if you are a die hard HODLer then it HURTS to convert value out of Bitcoin. Like mental pain as you're going against consensus on what is best: continuing to HODL. But while HODLing for the future is ideal, if you never withdraw anything and you're struggling to cover life expenses then you have no immediate benefit from stacking. This may cause you to reduce your DCA amounts out of concern that you may need the cash more later and don't want to feel bad that you sold some of your stack. Thus HODL-ONLY mode may actual reduce how much you end up stacking over time. Instead, by using it immediately and automatically there's no mental struggle and there's an obvious benefit to stacking while negligibly affecting the overall long term value growth. How to live on Bitcoin today: 1: Stack an initial lump sum of Bitcoin, then steadily DCA over time to increase it. Whatever value you stack, when the cost per coin is close to the cost of production, will be returned to you (and used to cover living expenses) within 3 years, 5 at worst. The first year of stacking often matters more than all the others combined, as you may find that every year you need to save twice as much FIAT to stack the same amount of Satoshis as the year before. The beginning matters the most. 2: Don't just HODL forever and never benefit directly from it for years, start using it immediately. Anything you put into Bitcoin can support a steady expense of 1% a month while only reducing the ~3~ year multiplier of value from ~9x~ to ~7x~ (if entering at the bottom of the trend line, often close to the mining production cost). 6x would remain in the stack, while the original 1x investment amount is spent on life in that time. To easily do this calculate 1/4% of your stack's spending power in FIAT or Precious Metal (whichever is easier), if you have Bitcoin worth 400 Oz of Silver than 1/4% would be 1 oz, vs if you have Bitcoin worth $200k 1/4% would be $500. However you do it, lock in the initial spend amount for the entire year and withdraw it from your stack every week automatically. This means if on Jan 1st 1/4% is $500 you stay at $500/wk all year even as the stack grows, and recalculate this amount in 52 weeks time. 3: Keep track of your stack value over time, if you enter when the cost per coin is close to the production cost (I find estimates by MacroMicro.me are helpful) it is highly likely you won't have to worry about suffering through a devastating bear market. Note however if the total stack value falls by more than half the value it was when you calculated the monthly payment, you will want to adjust the weekly payment down to avoid spending too fast. Otherwise just leave the withdrawal amount alone and use the weekly stack withdrawal to cover a bill or other life expense and don't worry about it. With this immediate concrete benefit to your life and budget you may find you have a fire under your butt to increase the stack value as much as you can before the next recalculation so you have a higher usable amount each week. Living on Bitcoin is the end goal, instead of going from never spending Bitcoin to spending it all the time and all over the place, potentially spending it too fast, this system of regularly growing withdrawals is like training wheels that slowly wean you off FIAT and onto a personal Bitcoin standard. The most important thing is 1% a month usage is long term sustainable with Bitcoin, whether the future growth rate is 18%, 30%, 70%, or 109%. 1% a month never runs out. Bitcoin is engineered to make humanity value it and compete for it over time, forever increasing it's value against time and energy. Use it to make your life better TODAY, not only 10 years from now.

The people make the network, and there are no better networks or people than those who understand freedom of money (Bitcoin) and freedom of speech (NOSTR).

I'm grateful for Bitcoin and NOSTR. And all the people the built and use them, including you 😉.

It's interesting. The hashrate is at all time highs, the stock market isn't having a crazy crash that's bleeding into Bitcoin like early this year with the tariffs, no new outbreak of war, no major FUD announcement from any country. From what I can tell there's no reason to make the price fall this low, yet we're almost 1% below the long term trend line which is IMO a fairly significant. Although we are still a bit above the production cost on the mining side which recently hit a new ATH of $106k. The trend line is not fool proof, nor is it an attempt to set in stone what the price will be in the future, it's just an observation of the lows the price has hit over the years and if that trend is plotted where it might continue into the future. I like to think of the trend line as an attempt to plot out the long term support of the organic growth of the network, essentially showing the influence new and existing users continuing to stack and new and existing miners continuing to mine have on the price. Even if the price drops below the trend line in the short term, it's unlikely the trajectory of the momentum of growth would change all that much, especially if the mining network is hitting new highs. I'm still confident we're going to see $150k+ by the end of the year, or March at the latest.

The human mind is a funny thing, focusing primarily on stuff that scares it even if they're very far removed from normal existence and everything in real life is going great. If we put down the news and look at what's in front of us, things are rarely as bad as we fear they are. It's a struggle sometimes. But I find going outside and physically moving helps the most, talking to others helps as well. Stay well hydrated, well rested, well fed, and never stop moving for too long. Take regular breaks from the news cycle, if there's something important someone will let you know or you'll see it when you check the news next. 🤟

It's fun to offer people Solver as payment. Helps break the ice to talk about Sound Money and the problems of FIAT, and how Bitcoin is Sound Money which can fix it all. In the last month I paid for 3 breakfasts and 10% of a used car with Silver coins and rounds, totalling over $300. The economy needs sound money in any form, carry silver with you along with cash. If people don't accept Bitcoin yet, offer silver and see what happens. 🙂

Bitcoin will become more decentralized when we have more competition in node software. Core being primarily community driven development is great, Knot's being an alternative that changes a few things in Core is great too. This is not enough though, we need MORE alternatives if we are to truly be a robust network. Imagine there were 1000 competing clients for node software. Or 10,000. The more independent of each other node clients are, the more stable the network will become. If a client changes something that's not popular, the change will die. But if the change ends up being popular, the other competing clients will implement it too.

Bitcoin fire sale! Only 3% above today's long term trend line price of $108,900! Great buying opportunity, you won't see 1.03x the trend line again for a long time.

Yesterday we hit a new ATH in production cost per Bitcoin. $106,000, today we dropped a bit to $104,600 (see attached) In addition, here's where we stand on the Trendline: Today's Bitcoin price: $116,000 Today's Trendline price: $108,490. Ratio of Price over Trendline: 1.069. Very healthy, not a lot of hype and not enough fud to break the long term trend even a little. Just so you know where we're likely to be in 1, 2, and 3 months from now if the previous pattern continues to hold: Date. Trendline Price. Price if 1.069x Trendline. 10/20/25: $115,347.21 / $123,306.17 11/20/25: $122,888.46 / $131,367.76 12/20/25: $130,655.55 / $139,670.78 I wouldn't be surprised if we end the year at $150k though, or at least hit it sometime before December 31st.

My long term growth rate: 1.002046x compounding daily. 2 years ago the price was $26,017.50. Multiplying that amount by the daily growth rate compounded over 2 years: $26,017.50 * 1.002046^(365*2) = $115,679.51. Today's price? $117,682.36.