Nothing Stops This Train? Don't Trust, Verify Elon Musk in 3 acts. Act 1: In 2021 Elon tried to appease the Democrats by paying the largest tax bill of all time - quite a bit more than he actually needed to pay. He verified that you could not tax your way out of the overwhelming debt problem. Act 2: In 2024/25 Elon tried to appease the Republicans by campaigning for Trump, forming DOGE, and suggesting a narrow possible path where we could cut our way out of the debt problem. He verified that the right only gives lip service to fiscal conservatism. Act 3: Elon has been well aware of libertarian/bitcoiner arguments for a long time. But he needed to verify that in fact the system could not be fixed from the inside, he has now done that. I believe Elon will now turn towards the only actual solution to the problem - Bitcoin.

My ode to @RABBIT HOLE RECAP @MartyBent @ODELL @Al’s Lacrosse from last week. Saved here for posterity, hope you all enjoy, I wasted an hour on this! Marty Bent, the palindrome freak, Block height 888888, Bitcoin’s latest peak. Marty Jones, our tinfoil thoughts align, But why do mirrored digits blow your mind? Thought I’d celebrate with a boost and ask a simple question Is this even free country? Surely the clown world is descending? And wen sausage ODELL? No word back, Ten31 tribe, proud part of the pack. I think we’re going to win just like #FreeRoss We got a good thing going like Al’s Lacrosse Resident TSLA shill never bothered me. But you can also call me a freak, dirtbag, pleb, or just FT₿

"The Executive Order can just be undone by the next administration" Ok, we'll make sure we get right on that sometime in the next 12 years 🙃🤡. YOU'RE ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY PEOPLE! YOU'RE ALLOWED TO WIN!

I’ve never seen a potential known news event (even if the market doesn’t really think it’s going to happen, it’s still known that it might) move the price sustainably. I have seen news move the price in a positive direction, but it’s always surprise news (like when Tesla announced out of nowhere that they bought). However I think the surprise could be a change to the tax treatment of bitcoin which could have wild implications, this has been talked about a little, but would still be a surprise to the market I think. Let’s say hypothetically they announce that they’re going to get rid of cap gains on bitcoin and treat it as a currency. I think you see 3 phases: Phase 1 where everybody suddenly stops selling and we go up only until it’s implemented. Phase 2 once it’s implemented where we have massive volatility of people resetting their cost basis, OG’s selling, and the start of a huge rotation into bitcoin. Phase 3 where we just see the rotation as the market realizes that bitcoin isn’t just the best performing asset, but also the only one with tax free gains. I think the best we’re going to get re: SBR is some sort of announcement or proposed legislation that will maybe cause a brief spike that will be sold off. It’s hugely bullish, but I think bitcoin is very bad at pricing in future events, just not enough liquidity, won’t be priced in until they actually start buying.

Regarding the QQQ snapshot on Friday, it appears unfortunately that Saylor fucked up, and now they're going to go in with a much lower market cap than they could have. Of course this is all in hindsight and there were a lot of unknowable things that happened between last Monday and now so I'm not throwing stones, it'll all be fine, but it could have been better! After last Mondays ATM announcement it was pretty clear to see he was going to keep pushing hard at least through to this snapshot if not for as long as the bull market rages on. We had two consecutive weeks of increasing ATM usage both at about 7% of the weekly trading volume. So going into this Monday I and many others saw that the volume last week was insane, and we imagined that it was certainly possible that another 7% of that volume was ATM usage. For whatever reason it seems that wasn't the case. In fact as long as their liquidity keeps rising they should be able to keep increasing the ATM's maybe linearly...or maybe parabolically. My best guess is they were waiting until Friday to really hit the ATM hard in preparation for weekend stacking. Instead they were caught off guard by the Citron hit piece which combined with the known convert shorting really turned the momentum 180 degrees. At that point they either hit the ATM to try and get what they still could, or more likely they had done a couple billion before then and we're saving the remaining 5 for Thursday/Friday which then got cancelled with the momentum shift. I still believe the 100k coin buy was the plan, but the plan got curtailed. So now we're about 37% off the highs and the snapshot is in 1.5 trading days, and obviously momentum is bearish as hell. So my bear case is they'll be lucky to close Friday above $300/share. I guess my base case is we stay around here, maybe creep up to $375. But there is still a bull case... What could they do to try and shift momentum in a hurry in time for Friday? Well barring some major bullish announcement outside of their control all they can do is announce another buy! Volume was still very high over the last two days, and I could easily see Saylor continuing to tap the ATM hard and making a surprise announcement tomorrow morning and/or Friday morning. Even if it doesn't cause the momentum to shift it'll still likely increase the market cap by increasing the share count (as long as we stay flat or even go down less than the issuance). So almost 50M shares have traded in the last two days, I'd say the bull case is 7% of that sold by Saylor (3.5M shares), maybe at an average price of $400 is $1.4B or about 15,000 bitcoin. Not bad for a midweek smash buy. At the end of the day their strategy does not rely on getting into any indexes. It's just extra fuel on the fire. More fuel, bigger fire, but this sucker is burning bright no matter what. Anyway, I feel somewhat compelled to bridge the bitcoiner and MSTR worlds, which used to be one and the same, but very much no longer are. Hope someone got something out of this. Disclosure: LONG AF

$MSTR is not a Ponzi, fiat is the ponzi, MicroStrategy is just going to make this obvious to the rest of the world. Imagine the bewilderment of the world when they’re the largest company on earth and all they do is keep buying bitcoin!

I do believe we have entered the so called suddenly phase. What’s changed, well believe it or not, it’s not the ETF’s, or the options on top of them. It’s not the red wave, the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, or the supposed nation state announcement happening at the Bitcoin Mena conference. All of that is insanely bullish and absolutely fuel on the fire. But we’re in the suddenly phase because of MicroStrategy. If you’ve been following $MSTR as closely as I and others in the MSTR True North community have this won’t be news to you, but I know many of my humble sat stacking pleb, freak, and dirtbag friends don’t realize that the MicroStrategy strategy has evolved and Saylor has pushed the pedal straight through the floorboard. The past 4 years he’s been building a flywheel, and now it’s finally spinning. If you want a full breakdown I can’t recommend listening to Saylor’s presentation during the most recent earnings call enough, he put all the cards on the table. Laid bare everything (and more) that the MSTR community had pieced together over the past months. I’ll try and keep it simple, but the 21/21 plan was the starting gun, it was the announcement that there were no longer any training wheels on and that the flywheel was spinning up. Since then the company has issued 7% of the weekly trading volume via ATM offerings each week. The more liquidity the stock is trading + the more the stock goes up = the more $ that 7% has gotten them = the larger their bitcoin purchases have been. Now this has only happened for two weeks so far, but this past week they were the most liquid stock in the entire stock market. We’ll find out likely on Monday or Tuesday if he’s made it 3 in a row. My guess is it’s highly likely and if so we’ll see a ~100,000 bitcoin buy probably announced on Monday morning. 70 billion funded from ATM sales and 30 billion from convertible debt. It could be 200,000 next week and 400,000 the week after that. Higher stock price = more liquidity = more ATM sales = more bitcoin = higher stock price = more liquidity….get it? There are not nearly enough bitcoin available below $100k to keep this up. Things are accelerating extremely rapidly. This supposed sell wall is an ant hill in the face of the kind of buying MSTR is doing. This is the main gist of the story but if you’d like to dive deeper there’s plenty more to it. Upcoming index inclusions (nitrous in the flywheels engine), convertible debt, other future debt instruments. It all points to an undeniable reality. MicroStrategy is now single handedly forcing the suddenly phase (aka hyperbitcoinization) to begin. Add on all of the other massively bullish catalysts on the horizon and it’s quite clear, DON’T SELL YOUR BITCOIN!

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Good morning everyone, meetup location has been changed to BarWhiskey in downtown Jefferson City! We will have the entire back room available from 6-8. Sorry for the last second notice.

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Jefferson City Bitcoin Meetup, Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Hello Bitcoiners! Come join us Wednesday, November 20th at BarWhiskey in Jefferson City, starting at 6:00 pm. Bitcoin seems to be going through a...

@ODELL help me out with a retweet! Don’t want to strand the freaks!

Every single one of you needs to watch the MSTR earnings call and pay attention to it very carefully. Please.

Approached a guy wearing a Bitcoin shirt at the farmers market an hour ago. After a few mins chatting and talking about my meetup he says “wait, you guys aren’t bitcoin maxis are you?” “Yeah of course we are” “But what about (insert shitcoin I can’t remember)” “Never heard of it” “What?! Let me tell you about it, they’re decentralizing broadband!” “I’m good, nice talking to you” FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKK

@MartyBent the SpaceX super heavy booster is more like a 20 story building, not 4! Take the kids and drive down to Starbase, TX! Record RHR with 10 starships in the background!

Does ifixit have repair guides for pagers? Asking for a friend. The next teardown is going to be 🔥!

I’ll take a shitcoiner over a nocoiner any day.

Might not have quite been true when I first posted this, but feels true now. Better early than late! View quoted note →