All we need is a plus 10% daily move and “WE BACK”!!!!! Love seeing a slew of @rektbot short notifications. Bears (temporarily anyway) on disbelief as US debt breeches 40T. Treasury doubling buybacks. Hmmm, or is this a Paul Sztorc ecash hardfork bump? 🧐

Gm nostriches, wasn’t expected yesterday’s mini bump to continue into Thursday……. Given my inability to trade was expecting holding cash/gold over mstr over the summer was always going to backfire, BUT, helping me not get excited/annoyed, there will be a pull back, there may be a final puke, that even a nearly 10% day (up, first this year, had a few downs) shouldn’t get us too excited for. Very good chance a bear market fake out, but also…….. sorry guys….. this time is different?!?!? 🤦‍♂️ So, let’s put that to one side for a moment, heading out with the eldest this morning, will attempt to convince her (and the youngest) that a day on the bikes is the best way of spending today. Eldest was in a funk so got her working on the bike in preparation, and informing her I’d got some mars bars to have during the bike ride……. Served in harvest (iykyk, @Susie Violet Ward and @Lyudmyla Kozlovska 🫡🙌). Which may have won her over! “That all is as thinking makes it so - and you control your thinking” #meditations, going to share this with the eldest in an effort to help her better control her funk and realize biking riding will fix quite a few things. “Dad you’re not that type of Doctor!” But how many physicians read philosophy to inform how they support your thinking process?!?!? #catstr and #coffeechain and #marcus type of morning!

Gm nostriches, lovely being back at home, but such a good time celebrating with my mother over the weekend, so all good. Great @BTC Sessions episode with all the hardware wallets https://fountain.fm/episode/M5e02dY6Fsb7iN8C71Br, definitely the balance between security and complexity, with the added cherry on top of now deciding how to get the product delivered to my house, or somewhere else……… “hey buddy (someone you don’t like), can I have a packed delivered to your house” Now onto @Danny Knowles with @_Checkɱate 🔑⚡🌋☢️🛢️ . Slightly dubious about the “I think the institutions are coming” [again], sorry Danny, but given I have you firmly placed in the “big bitcoin” camp, while evidence would support your view, the way this was shared was slightly too “sponsor aligned” and gleeful, good James pushed back a little. https://fountain.fm/episode/fswEsRs4bpCm4vYNit0Z As always, need to bring the price spreadsheet out to “run the numbers” and was absolutely ahead of myself a few months ago that “the bear was done, up only”, but what James said about June 17th 2022 matching with Feb 2026, then 5 months before the absolutely bottom (ftx) then scraping that bottom, then an entire year not able to breech 30k (but still allow 100% candle for 2023), we could really have a long road ahead of us. Given where we started, March 2023 lines up with Nov 2026, so if we started stepping up, maybe 50% off the bottom, $90k is pretty sweet, then another 9 months to this time next year, 2x the bottom and we are sitting at $120k again, reckon that would be quite manageable. But as I said, need to get the numbers and start plotting these bears next to one another.

“Every intelligent boy of 16 is a socialist. At that age, one does not see the hook sticking out of the rather stodgy bait.” Orwell in #theweek Wit and Wisdom quotes.

Gm nostriches, love being able to be staying with my mother for her birthday, youngest just headed off with her for some morning Pilates, grabbed a little walk with her #dogstr and now enjoying a little breakfast pie. Once they get back, off to the zoo for a bit, with some lunch and ice cream thrown into the mix. Really don’t want her be by herself, but has been getting loads of birthday wishes and off on holiday with a friend on Tuesday, getting to do what she wants in her. Pie a couple of days after it was made, still not shit!

Ga nostriches, taking the opportunity for a quick spin before dinner on the velo, Wales on a summer’s afternoon, not shit.

Gm nostriches, rather satisfying when a plan comes together in the way it did yesterday, kids had to make do, given attention was on the oldies, strange when visiting parents and you’re the one with responsibility for everyone having a good time, but actually beginning to enjoy it. Kid got annoyed before bed, and found myself quoting meditations to her…… when is too young to get her a copy of #meditations so she’s able to up her stoicism?!?!? #coffeechain and #dogstr sort of morning, finally a bit of rain.

Ga nostriches, day in Lancashire with fam, slow lunch, found some graves now back looking after the dog and a little wine on the side before getting into #piestr! Also, realised, however much you may think you love another half, if considering changing your name, just think about it. Yes, assuming it was arrange, because the surname of Bottom just feels wrong and mean to any future kids!!!! 🫡🙌

Gm nostriches, just got a message from Google after updating my Fitbit app, “poor night’s sleep” guessing I’ll be getting updates on things I need to buy through the day!!!!! Must upgrade to an open source version!!!! Why we sleep currently a theoretical insight. Saying that, early start with the fam, off to the cradle of life (of my family) in Lancashire for lunch, looking at the family tree (back to nearly 1700), fascinating listening to wife’s views on why they had such big families 🧐, and so much on birth control…….. context is so important….. @Efrat Fenigson and @M A D E X it’s all about having kids again!!!! On the plus side, some time with the parents celebrating my mother’s birthday early!!!! But first, #coffeechain, pancakes, strawberries and eggs for breakfast to get everyone ready. Pie ready for later, blackberries picked just down the road with the youngest. 🙌

Thank you @Efrat Fenigson and @M A D E X , always love listening to a creator striving to better themself, but particularly loved to call to have kids, yes they’re hard work, but they are your legacy. Choosing to not have kids, whether for “the career” or because of “the cost” is fiat short termism embodied. Absolutely right, if there are no kids, who will there be to watch, to speak to, to live through once all your friends have gone? Looking at my late grandfather, his kids, grandkids and great grandkids were always up for a visit, we were his life, and alway pleased to spend time right up until the end, with that so quickly transferring to the generation of my own mum and dad, me, my brother and our kids are their life (give or take a little love my old man still has to beers with the boys, business, shooting and tractors, legend!). “Our legacy won’t be one of compromise” 🫡🙌 https://fountain.fm/episode/epSRBcDa9ScmbUyWzcde