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Mostly Bitcoin Only. My stuff is TLDR on purpose so you can pick/choose what you want. Bitcoin Store of Value first but then MoE, least friction. Open Source is King. Filters are not Censorship. Bitcoin is Time (Gigi). Timechain. Ocean. Bitcoin Knots. I am a 35 year BI Developer using a competing product of Microstrategy but now am a MSTR /Saylor supporter. Non-Partisan. npub1mp77smkmq77zwp3d8ke2let567cype0m3lhwx7v97gu2fans40qsn7vzdd
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BRBitcoinapolis 11 months ago
So many are are hanging on Trump to be the savior in "crypto" and Bitcoin, like this guy's final desperation: image Trump to son: "Hey Eric, what do you think about this guy losing his crypto in a dump?" Eric: "Bitcoin, dad, Bitcoin. Well, if he finds it, he isn't going to HODL and will sell it. If he doesn't find it then it is a donation to the Bitcoin Network. Helps us." Trump: "Got it...helps me....screw that guy. Denied."
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BRBitcoinapolis 11 months ago
It bums me out to see Trending 12 and 24 hours full of GM. I mean GM is great, I mean super great but Trending? I feel bad now after a month in Europe how GM here is almost always GA to you all. I will have to start posting around midnight to say GM to all of you in most of the rest of the world.
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BRBitcoinapolis 11 months ago
With Donald and Elon the United States Government is going to be going gansta: The dynamic duo: F/ELON
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BRBitcoinapolis 11 months ago
Trump: "The Greatest Grifter of All" Bitcoin: "The Greatest Asset to the Greatest Grifters of All and Everyone Else" Trump is slick. Everyone knows this. He's a showman. A TV celebrity. He's the late night TV guy shilling mops and hair products and knives that cut through aluminum cans. He owns and markets products from Steaks to Bitcoin Shoes. He owns massive property. Also, his family started this "Crypto" (WLF): " World Liberty Financial is designed as a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform where users can borrow, lend, and invest in cryptocurrencies." But what happens when the grifter figures out, all of the crap he owns or shills is crap and Bitcoin is the perfectly cooked steak for his liking. In his case "Well done with Ketchup." Bitcoin satisfies all people, to their individual needs, it's the Burger King of "Have it your way." Like it on cold storage or in an ETF or on an exchange? Want to try and spend it (MoE) or use it as a savings technology? (SoV) It's been there for you since day one, at least as a SoV first. (SoV first is the least friction, MoE will come eventually after figuring out the stupid tax laws etc. It's freakin' money, man. My savings.) But is Trump listening and figuring it out. It has nothing to do with politics. I wrote before the election results, on my low time preference I hoped Harris got into office. I could then stack cheaper sats for at least 4 more years and it would give the rest of the world the chance to lead in Bitcoin technology or my family and friends more time. Where are you rest of the world? Especially Asia. It's so disappointing to me how a small circle on our globe has more than half our inhabitants and you have had 16 years to figure it out? Where are you? So, Trump won, fine, I support Trump fully on Bitcoin and hope you have seen the light? Finally? Do you now see your dumb products, a lot of your buildings, your prized Mar-A-Logo with the gaudy carpet and your Gold toilets are crap compared to Bitcoin? I am hoping your sons, with the launch of your crypto token number 35,870 is a dud. and you are listening to Robert and Vivek? You are a smart business man, hopefully you are letting many of your old habits on making money go and listening and understanding when Saylor says: "There is no second best." Meaning, compared to buildings, tokens, shoes, wine, whatever when it comes to Bitcoin, they are inferior. Thank God Bitcoin doesn't give a rat's ass about Trump or any of us. A "Bitcoin Strategic Reserve" works on every damn level, whether individual or country or Rotary Club. Any organization that understands a savings vehicle to store value and not get it taken away by terrible policy, including the incoming team. Give yourself dumb names like DOGE (the association to the shitcoin sucks by the way for a much needed 'Department'). Doesn't matter, we are screwed regardless because as Larry Lepard has taught us: "The Big Print" is coming, February 14, 2025 for sure in one way or another. So, is the United States Bitcoin Reserve going to happen on January 20th, or a100 days later, or 75 days, or never? WHO CARES? Wake up, Bitcoin is for you, for you to make the decisions and not have to worry about any other company or leader or AI or algorithm to make the decision for you. It's up to you. Sixteen years and counting. When will YOUR Bitcoin Strategic Reserve happen? I'd say do your personal Bitcoin Reserve today. Today is a great day. Tomorrow is good too and the next day and the next day...infinity. But for now, I am eating this popcorn I got at Target on the Clearance rack for a buck, sitting back...watching the human, word based, irrational, emotional pan out while logical, rational, math based Bitcoin keeps on Tick-Tockin' Next Blockin.
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BRBitcoinapolis 11 months ago
GM Bitcoin NOSTRaightjacket wearing MoFos. NOSTR is superior technology the inferior don't understand.....yet. image
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"Bitcoin: THE Elevator Speech" I hope this can be a group project but I have had this on my mind for a long time. I would like ONE post that is dynamic, that summarizes Bitcoin as if the post was one elevator speech with ** number of floors. Using Pictures and Links. Bad idea? If not, send me things you think I should use. Scene:Woman (yes, we need more women in Bitcoin) starts to walk on the elevator where there is a guy with a Bitcoin Shirt carrying a notebook. All the Elevator buttons are pushed. She asks, "Can you explain Bitcoin to me briefly, I am going to the top floor." FIRST FLOOR: Purpose? Yes, you have to know the purpose and why Bitcoin was created. There are 180 currencies around the world, each of which is terrible as a Store of Value or savings. The US dollar is the 'best of the worst' but look how much it has lost its store of value and therefore purchasing power. image SECOND FLOOR: Why do currencies lose their power as money? Because our US government/others print money out of thin air. Your house isn't going up in value, just like the groceries, everything is rising because the dollar is devaluing because we are $36T in debt and struggling to pay the interest even. (This one sucks I know, need help.) THIRD FLOOR: Man: With Bitcoin, everything is Trending down in price because it is perfectly sound/Hard Money. Bitcoin not only stores value, it increases that stored value over time as it is considered a perfect Savings Technology. FOURTH FLOOR: What is Bitcoin? It's simply a Protocol or code. Think the Internet, pictures, songs, maps, phone calls over the Internet, Snail mail cost vs email, as prices plummeted with those, Bitcoin is merely Money over the Internet and every cost associated with money plummets (Bank, Remittance, Credit Card transactions, wire transfers.) With Bitcoin? "I owe you money, I send you money." - Brian Brooks (as he explained to Congress the almost 7 hops used in a PayPal transaction.) image David Portnoy was offended recently by a 'Explain Bitcoin Like I was 5' but this 3 Minute cartoon for kids does an outstanding job explaining it all: More for adults, must watch recent viral video Homework: "What's the problem?" - Joe Bryan FIFTH FLOOR: Other 'Crypto'? Yes, there are 10s of 1000s of other crypto coins but think like Currency or Stocks, most of them are doing nothing, decreasing, zombies as far as value goes. Not able to keep up with the current financial systems/inflation around the world. FIAT (currencies) and CRYPTO are similar but Bitcoin stands alone. image SIX FLOOR: Energy Use too high? Bitcoin doesn't waste energy, it uses waste energy. Daniel Batten and Troy Cross are the experts to follow and because of their efforts, especially Batten, Grok and other AIs are getting it right now. or this one: SEVENTH FLOOR: If it's not useless is it Ethical? Alex Gladstein is the world expert on the 'Use Cases' of Bitcoin, explaining how it is an asset for all people, especially the underbanked/unbanked. (Stopping here January 14, 2025 First Rough Draft or the end) xxxxxx FLOOR: Can it be hacked today or tomorrow based on new technology. The network is massive, down to the galaxy level, it would take 2 earth's worth of energy to hack the network for perhaps just a few blocks. Work In Progress Section may or may not use: Saylor Legacy no kids: Waterfall analogy: Ponzi: image PAST: (waiting to add in 2024) image FUTURE (where we are headed with adoption Jesse Meyers) image MORE HISTORY Trace: TOO VOLATILE: HUGE LIST OF SAYLOR INTERVIEWS Pierre Speculative Attack https://x.com/WhiteBoardFin/status/1864531676430290956 Saylor to MSFT Board More Daniel Too much Energy Cedric top 50 Bitcoin clips need to parse
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Bitcoin 401K provider: Empower.com ?? We were out of the country and my former craptastic employer decided to give a couple weeks notice that my (partial) 401K I have with them is moving providers and there is a month blackout period until the end of the month. Regardless, the former provider had no access to the Bitcoin ETFs or MSTR and I can't find anywhere if this move will allow me to invest in any Bitcoin ETFs or MSTR. Is anyone else in this situation where their company uses Empower.com to service their 401Ks? Yes, I have moved most of the 401K to Fidelity to get around this but I was using this to pay bills.
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BRBitcoinapolis 11 months ago
"This is Water" Thank you Bob Burnett for your latest "Old Man Yells" podcast. It meant a lot, it went deep. I have to admit, I was trying to figure out where you were going with it and missed when you said BSV/BCH. It's about thinking. I was thinking you were going to tie in Bitcoin with Ocean/DATUM, the frustration, maybe the wrong path? I know you are super busy, but I would give anything for what you think about this commencement speech. Every person should watch this, but especially Bitcoiners: (this post will make way more sense if you watch this first.) Most people don't understand, when they ask me what my favorite part of me is, I tell them "the way I think." Self centered? Arrogant? I have always thought differently than most people. It's a blessing and a curse. I don't fear many diseases but I do Alzheimers because I want to be thinking until the day I die. Even ALS doesn't scare me if my thinking is intact. I wonder if Hal was able to keep communicating his thoughts during that terrible disease though. Regardless, while I complain about most Bitcoiners not giving a rip about most of your vision and not supporting you, you understand "the water." For me, I take comfort on knowing there are a handful of Bitcoiners who truly are working on low time preference. Who are building things right while the high time preference Bitcoiners are supporting the wrong visions or visionaries. It's all about the thinking, regardless of if you are in the majority, or invited to $100K parties or not. I love how you think too, but perhaps are default settings are not quite right with Bitcoin? Regardless, on our low time preference, all of it, ordinals, filters, Spam, Mining, pools, it is all sacred. Build it right, low time preference, it's going to take 10x longer. Thanks Bob, for how you think. Cheers
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"ProxyVote Nonsense" If you got emails that says you can Proxy Vote for MSTR, the links don't work and it isn't Fidelity or eTrade etc. If you go to the site directly it doesn't even let you cut and paste the Control Number or even type it in. I tried on various browsers. The only thing that works is you have to setup another account. I wonder how many lost votes there are for this nonsense? image
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Bitcoin: "The ridiculous Filters are Censorship debate" Struggling with X , as I am day 8 of letting my blue check go), my heart, soul, brain shares the NOSTR/Open Source vision. But the bigger struggle is not with me, but with the Bitcoin community. I am struggling with X and NOSTR with the lack of support for Ocean/DATUM as 'filters' is not censorship as the losers in Bitcoin are giving passes on Altcoins and Ordinals. Including people like Trump/Bitcoin Magazine. "Sure Bitcoin is Digital Gold but I can make a lot of money off Fools Gold too so I will regardless of it is right for the Bitcoin Network, it's about me. My legacy. Don't like censorship? Complain to Google if you use Gmail or whatever and tell them to stop filtering SPAM. Tell your mail carrier you are not getting enough "Free" Credit Card solicitation. Tell you Phone Carrier you want to get more of the "question on your warranty" or "we couldn't deliver your package" text. Say YES to RoboCalls where you want to hear about candidates anywhere in the world. Come on, go all in on with your "filters being anti-censorship." It bugs me no one cares on people SPAMing, putting GIGO, Junk, on the Bitcoin Timechain because it's forever and all those nodes...never mind I guess?
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"The Emperor and the X Empire (not the game or Kekius whatever)" Opinion: "Payment System on X will not use Bitcoin" When is Musk going to launch his Payment System on heX and throw shade at Bitcoin by backing it with X token or *X Coin (already on a game) or Doge or Dogelon because he has to fuming he isn't the King of Bitcoin? Maybe even a SpaceX token because people will need money on Mars and Bitcoin is just fine on Earth first, Mars is second best, unless Starlink can reach Mars or he launches Planetlink? Elon has been beyond luke warm in his support for Bitcoin, ignore the Bitcoin (others) bought for his companies. He has never supported Cathie Wood publicly (on Bitcoin) even though she has gone to bat for him a zillion times. Billy Bambrough from Forbes assumes Bitcoin, I do not: image "Now, as China scrambles to contain a crisis that some think could blow up the bitcoin price, a leak has revealed Elon Musk's X could be about to "imminently" launch a bitcoin and crypto game-changer." Elon knows it's not feasible or cool to send a turd to the moon in his space program but will he allow it in his payment program? Watch the timing of his X Payments to be right around when Trump takes office to throw shade/rain on the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve parade? These egos are just something, luckily Bitcoin doesn't care and we can stack cheaper sats living low time preference lives. Dogelon Coin, can't make this up: image
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Imagine you are 16 years old and for 9 of the past 12 years, more than 1/2 your life you have been the GOAT of Financial worldwide Asset Classes and most people don't know you exist or understand you: image
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On of my favorite Internet sites is really, really old called despair.com and it is so full of Bitcoin/anit FIAT Gems on it. Here is one of their newest "2025 DEMOTIVATORS": image As a former 35 year Corruptorate America cube slave, half as an FTE and half as a 'Consultant' this poster proudly hangs in my garage: image I spent 35 years in BI using a competing product to MicroStrategy. BI is all about the data, thus my effort to protect the Bitcoin Timechain from GIGO which is rampant in our society.
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BRBitcoinapolis 11 months ago
Saylor's 100K party is so last year, who is planning Bitcoin's Sweet 16 party this month? @yellow ?