Imagine how rich you would be if you took the opposite of Peter Schiff’s advice on Bitcoin 15 years ago. Some people (like Peter) can’t permit their brain to consider the possibility that gold is continuing to be demonetized (notice gold is now only rarely correlated to liquidity whereas it used to define it) and Bitcoin is being monetized (notice that Bitcoin used to be correlated to nothing and now strongly tracks liquidity). Is it possible Bitcoin will correlate with global credit like gold does (note that central banks buy gold and central banks are the foundation for credit; essentially, gold still serves as collateral for currency — money by definition is the collateral for currency!). This implies a valuation model for gold and Bitcoin. Do the math. Assign a probability. Allocate accordingly.

Petty criminals steal the cash you have on you. Professional criminals steal from your bank account. Elite criminals steal your bank. And government criminals steal the very essence of cash itself, affecting everyone. Bitcoin fixes this.

I’m finally got a chance to play with my @COLDCARD mark 5…I love the buttons and the increase in speed while scrolling…and mine glows in the dark, which I think is uber cool. While I still prefer my Q for serious business, I look forward to the Q2 someday. The mk5 feels snappier, and a Q2 with better keyboard and faster scrolling would be epic, if obviously more expensive to build.

Mental note: if I ever invest in a bitcoin startup, don’t tell anybody. Looking at the hassle 'tards are giving @Jameson Lopp is a good reminder why…and they don’t even know why they feel the way they do other than someone else told them to feel a certain way.