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BTC Class of ‘21. Padawan on the road to Master X: @BTCSkywalker21
Bitcoin ruins your perception of money Going to an all inclusive resort soon. Took out $200 in USD for tips. Forty 5 dollar bills. They are just pieces of paper. It’s basically pretend money. Coupons for little activities you can do in certain parts of the world . 10 years ago I would have been nervous holding that much value in my hands at once. Nowadays I can’t stop looking at the paper it’s printed on. A funny thought.
They are trying to shake you out They make quantum computing sound vague and confusing with no clear path to a solution They are trying to shake you out They are blowing the spam discussion so wildly out of proportion, going on and on about CP on the blockchain They are trying to shake you out They are pointing your focus in a million different directions They are trying to shake you out They are constructing narratives that make you question what you know to be true They are trying to shake you out They are offering you ETFs, leveraged stocks, and treasury companies for a “safer” way to get Bitcoin exposure They are trying to shake you out They are trying , and succeeding Don’t let them win
Trump’s speech was horrible And whoever was running the mixing board behind his mic wasn’t doing him any favors by letting him clip it out while he screamed into it
The best part about doing barbell squats with 90% of your body weight for reps is the insanely intense soreness and pain in your legs whenever you stand up and or walk anywhere for the next three days
Blows my mind that there are still so many “it’s going to zero” Bitcoin haters out there for absolutely no reason Next time someone says this to me I want to scream in their face. Why is it going to zero? What is the basis for your claim? What will that look like? Describe to me the events that will set in motion to trigger nearly $2 trillion to flee bitcoin and move somewhere else. Elaborate on the scenario in which the 9th most valuable asset by market cap on existence somehow goes from number 9 to zero. Go on! How long does that take? Do we all somehow wake up tomorrow and find it’s nuked to 0 overnight? Do you know something I don’t know? Do you know something that some of the smartest minds on the planet somehow haven’t realized? For sake of argument, let’s say it somehow does hit zero. How long does it stay there? Forever? It never goes above $0.00 ever again? What happens to the miners across the globe? How will they react? Will they just shrug their shoulders, turn off the miners, and walk away forever? What happens to the transactions currently awaiting the next block? What happens to the small businesses using as money right at this moment? What happens if bitcoin is worth $0, and I decide to go out and buy as many as I can for $0.01? Let me take a guess as to what lead you to believe that moronic idea; Your ego is hurt. You are jealous. You see thousands of people buying bitcoin, holding it for years, and seeing their net worth skyrocket, with seemingly no effort involved. Meanwhile , you stick to what you thought was good investment advice you for 20 , maybe 30 years ago, and avoid anything that’s perceived as marginally “risky”. Maybe you even heard about bitcoin when it was only a few hundred dollars. “Not for me” , you thought, “too risky. Too complicated.” You think you missed the proverbial boat. Hearing the word “bitcoin” reminds you of all the other times you ‘failed’ in life; all the other risks you didn’t take, all the other adventures you missed out on, all because you were too afraid. You have almost a gut reaction when you hear it come up. Minimize it. Deny it. Criticize it , without basis or any relevant knowledge. Don’t let others jump on the boat you missed out on. If you can’t get on it, why should they? I think THAT scenario is 10,000x more likely than Bitcoin suddenly going to “zero”.
I need an app that I can give my parents as a method of encrypted messaging in the event that AI is trying to spoof me and phish them for money Any Nostr based apps that fit that use case?
Does this mean I am no longer an average pleb? And I going to make it one day because I just did things? @walker image
I literally have no more cash available to buy more bitcoin Dammit
“So your average bitcoin cost basis is over $120k?” “Yes Dave” “And now you want to sell all your bitcoin because the price is in the 90s?” “That is correct Dave” “And you’re asking me when is a good time to buy back in?” “When 58k?” image
Sentiment has never been worse yet I have never been more bullish This is where the fun begins
This is genuinely how some people buy bitcoin and it’s hilarious image
I’m realizing as I grow older that one of the greatest gifts my father gave me is media literacy. I’m specifically talking about old school movies. Being able to sharply quote a film from a previous generation or two gives you a level of credence with senior level colleagues that is otherwise unattainable . If you can quote or at least recognize films and TV that the old heads at your company know and love, they start to see you not just as a dumb kid , but as a dumb kid who was raised on a diet of culture they can relate to. I can’t underestimate how far that goes in developing rapport with people much older than you. It’s really a magical thing . Even the most memorable and over quoted lines from older movies lands you major brownie points every time. You’d be surprised how man millennials even can’t quote caddyshack, Ferris bueller, napoleon dynamite, Star Wars, you name it . Whether he did it consciously or not, gotta hand it to my old man for putting me on a steady diet of classic American cinema from a young age
Knowledge is sometimes a curse. I often find myself at the supermarket contemplating the “old world” that no longer exists , but we still live in, and the “new world” that is being born , of which we have yet to witness the full scope. Nowhere is this stark difference in realities more evident than a supermarket or grocery store Just today I saw: -An elderly women (in her 70s easily) working as a cashier. Likely a prosperous career path when she was a teenager, I wonder if she works today out of boredom in retirement and a desire to leave the house, or out of necessity for survival, unable to live solely off her savings any longer, and without enough viable skills to compete in today’s job market -A woman with young children clipping coupons for basic necessities. She battles fiat debasement every single day without knowing it, and may be just barely scraping by as it is, possibly unaware of just how much worse it could get -An elderly man, also in his 70s , feeding a stack of tickets into a lottery machine. Perhaps living off a fixed income, this man is literally feeding his lifeblood into a gambling addiction. Maybe he’s a multi millionaire and can afford to do so, but is it more likely he’s also barely scraping by, and is feeding his limited and dwindling savings back to the beast that has already taken so much from him? When I see these people, day after day, week after week, in my local store alone, I am reminded of the hundreds of millions of people just like them in my country, not to mention the billions like them around the world. I don’t look upon these people with pity, or with disdain , thinking they are “uneducated” or “misinformed”. Quite the opposite . My heart goes out to them. I fear in my souls for them. As the world sheds its skin of the old systems and institutions these people grew up in, and as technology beyond comprehension unveils itself daily , how will these people be affected? Their jobs, their loved ones, their safety, their mental sanity, their sense of meaning; all of these things will be on the table of uncertainty in the coming decades. As bitcoiners , we find truth and purpose in our convictions through study and critical thinking . Even if we are dead wrong about the thesis of Bitcoin, the conditions from which it was born still exist; They are history, They already happened. So even if bitcoin as we know it fails, the endgame of the conditions of its creation will still happen, one way or another. Not to mention AI, robotics , super computing , drone technology , and the digital panopticon of government surveillance; all breaking down our doors and barging their way into our society as we speak. So when I’m at the store checking out with Apple Pay, using a credit card that rewards me with bitcoin and automatically withdraws to my ColdCard at a certain threshold, I no longer take pride in knowing that I am ahead of the curve. A small part of me feels shame in knowing so many people are at risk of being left so far behind.
Always hard to go back to work when we hit new all time highs over a weekend