If someone told us even a year ago, that bitcoin and crypto would be part of the conversation for a national reserve, we wouldn't believe them. It's important to take stock of where we've come from, and how fast things are changing. Just the fact that operation choke point 2.0 is over is enough to be bullish about.
My friend is a hedge fund manager, he is super butt hurt over #mstr. He's about 15-20 yrs older than me. I've talked about it with him about a year ago, but haven't mentioned it since. He continues to bring it up and tells me I'm an idiot for not hedging it. Now he's telling me he's going to short it. I could be an idiot, but I'm still gonna continue to buy more mstr and #bitcoin like a psychopath.
@preston today's MSTR podcast was a banger. Helped me get clarity on the gestalt, because frankly, it's a hated security right now. The key point for me was that MSTR holders need to understand #bitcoin and security analysis. In some ways this stock is the culmination of listening to TIP, reading Berkshire shareholder letters, and studying value investing, which I did for many years before learning about #bitcoin.
Thank god for you and TIP. Any folks on #nostr that haven't discovered this show yet, need to incorporate it into your information diet.
Yesterday I met an appeals judge for NYC business summonses in the sauna at my gym. To me, this is basically my arch nemesis incarnated. Not only does this agency, tie me up in bullshit head aches, but it's usually draining my wallet too. He was nice enough and wanted to engage, he asked me what I do, and when I said, "restaurant business," he quickly realized our career paths put us on opposing sides. I took it as an opportunity to let the guy know (in a civil way), how insane and onerous the implementation of law on SMB in NYC is. When I told him I thought that imposing heavy fines on business operators could eventually drive away talented independent entrepreneurs and leave only big corporations to operate in the city, since they are the only ones who can absorb the government imposed costs, he said that I sounded like Trump. lol. However he mostly agreed with me, and he made some good points too, but my takeaway was, how amazing is this country that I can meet an appeals judge (someone with power), get into a heated discussion (no sauna pun intended), about the minutiae if nyc business law, and part as new friends. I am bullish on democracy, and I'm bullish on saunas. It was the longest I've stayed in 😂.