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Joseph Voelbel
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Author, PAY ATTENTION TO BITCOIN: The Rise of Digital Gold and its Place in the Evolution of Money (2024), NINETEEN STORIES (2017).
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josephvoelbel 6 months ago
PAY ATTENTION TO BITCOIN: The Rise of Digital Gold and its Place in the Evolution of Money was published on July 24th, 2024 at a bitcoin price of $60K. We’ve nearly doubled a year later. Celebrating all you bitcoiners out there and this journey. Here are ten highlights for the book: 1. @manlikekweks made an ill track inspired by the book wavlake.com/track/beb1befc… & it got streamed on @Fountain on “It’s a Mood” 2. @PUBKEY put a copy on the bitcoin shrine at their location in New York City just west of Washington Square Park, which are my old stomping grounds from when I was an undergrad studying at NYU 3. @Sean Clarke - Gday Bitcoin gave me a comprehensive interview space to walk through all the ins and outs of the book and dig into its depths in podcast form: 4. 28 Reviews on Amazon from friends, family, and fellow bitcoiners. Any authors out there know how hard those are to come by and a 4.9/5 star rating 5. Wrote the last leg of the book in Argentina where their currency had recently undergone hyper inflation. Got a chance to meet @River CEO/CTO @Alexander Leishman and join him for dinner. 6. Had my book clocked and recorded according to price day of publication in The Bitcoin Canon at a price of $60,277. Wrote most of the book in 2022 and 2023 during the depths of the bear market honored to join long term bullish authors like @Saifedean Ammous @Jason lowery @Seb Bunney @Svetski.info / @SvetskiWrites @cjasonmaier @Lyn Alden @gladstein et al. 7. Appeared on the @Simply Bitcoin podcast and dropped some ideas about The Remnant, and how we should stack knowledge before sats so we know what we’re holding 8. Had a fantastic collaboration with designer @Mr. Pixel Paranoia So much fun discussing attention, symbolism, and sharing cover ideas and sussing out what works and why. Oh, and I paid in bitcoin⛳️💸 Initially his design reminded me of a Kafka cover. So grateful bro THANK YOU! 9. Went on the The Once Bitten Podcast with @Princey21M and got into the weeds on The Federal Reserve and The System Open Market Account (SOMA) ran from The Desk at 33 Liberty Street👀 Soma numbed the masses in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World📚 Full pod here: Executive Order 6102 in <5 min. 10. Learning and growing and loving having added a small piece of knowledge to the greater stack we all build together. That and becoming immune to volatility. “Attention is the arbiter of value. Money is that which we agree to pay attention to. Pay attention to bitcoin.” — @Joseph Voelbel #PayAttentiontoBitcoin
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josephvoelbel 7 months ago
@PUBKEY added my autographed copy of Pay Attention to Bitcoin to their shrine in New York City, just west of Washington Square, Park and I’m honored. image
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josephvoelbel 7 months ago
Made it out to DC for the Bitcoin Policy Institute event. Travel certainly has to be worth it now-a-days, and it was. Stopped by the library of congress and picked up a researchers pass. 💯 #PayAttentiontoBitcoin
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josephvoelbel 8 months ago
Designed a bitcoin presentation today. After writing a book it only felt appropriate to distill it and present it. Shooting for 30-45min. image
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josephvoelbel 8 months ago
MUUN wallet is highly underrated. Don’t sleep on MUUN wallet, they’re UX is on point💯💸✊ image
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josephvoelbel 8 months ago
It took Ray Nelson six pages of concept thinking in “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” to generate what John Carpenter would turn into the all-time great 80’s cult classic “They Live”. Short stories make worlds.
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josephvoelbel 8 months ago
I think abou this scene an unusual amount. How “getting out” translates in a bitcoin-as-money (or gold) type world. How to generate an FU ability on an asset with no yield. How to “cash out” when cashing out may be the mistake… and I’ve landed on this: BTC is the nest egg dont sell most of it. If the world is frothy in its valuation of BTC peel off a very modest amount and dump it into $STRF (or something similar). Rake 10% in cash on that in perpetuity and repeat every bull cycle. Meanwhile continue to purchase BTC with earnings with target of closing the depleted gap. Furthermore, I’ve decided against levering bitcoin for a cash loan because one, the rates suck and two, even if you can refi the loan in a year for twice the amount and use the new loan to repay the old loan yer still sitting on a 2X increase in amount owed and will have to find a way to generate the debt eventually (possibly in a bear), which means either with muscle or selling corn. Lastly, to me it’s better to: 1. Moderately peel during top cycles (5-10%) 2. Generate passive perpetual fiat inflows (8-10%) 3. Continue to buy recurringly with every pay check and potentially make up the lost corn during the bear (20-45% draw downs) 4. At which point you’ll have the same or greater stack size and regular income to buffer against needing to sell in the future 💪🤷‍♂️💸💯🚀😤
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josephvoelbel 9 months ago
@Michael Saylor on AI is so GOATED🐐😤 “Look at every single publically traded company and get me the open interest divided by their market cap, and the liquidity and the trend of the liquidity, and tell me where we stand. Click. Okay, and the next step will be why don’t you just do that every day.” #Strategy #PayAttentiontoBitcoin
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josephvoelbel 9 months ago
Worked with Manus and Grok to spec out some btc merch. #PayAttentiontoBitcoin
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josephvoelbel 9 months ago
Manus predicts bitcoin hits $187,656 by 11/11/2025. #PayAttentiontoBitcoin image
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josephvoelbel 9 months ago
Jack Mallers on Bloomberg as to how he can possibly be CEO of TWO companies, “You can just do things.” — @jack mallers Bitcoin dialect is simple and direct. Winning🥇 #PayAtentiontoBitcoin #XXI $XXI