Coinbase doesn’t actually have to buy or sell on-chain Bitcoin. They “Custody”. Because Deep-State connected Institutional firms are the “providers” (read “gateway”) for the overwhelming majority of BTC trades. Firms like Jane St, CME Group, et al. This means: Coinbase cannot be undermined like FTX and every other non-NGO exchnge. They’ve effectively collude with the firms trading paper Bitcoin w/o oversight. The Bitcoin 4-year Cycle was broken because Institutional trading firms traded fake bitcoin in collusion with Coinbase to suppress price. Ad nauseam. NOW - having suppressed the price (which is what these firms LITERALLY exist to do, i.e. asset-price manipulation), they’re buying back the fake-trade “deficit”, to off-set the increasing potential for an unexpected event to explode them, all of which is calculated by “quants” and then they’ll begin the whole fleece all over again. The very real “They” want the Bitcoin. Because they have all the tools to hold out until we die to continually take it from us. Time is nothing to them, just so they own this thing they can’t destroy that threatens them. tl;dr The price of Bitcoin is going to be suppressed for a very long time because Self-Custody, which is INSEPARABLE from Bitcoin, has simply been cast aside. It’s a Fiat asset now, and like Ft Knox, its all kayfabe and pretend anymore.

We all feel the hardship of these Times. Times in which we “live and breathe and have our Being”. We all experience this together, as Bitcoin Tribe. We will suffer. We always have. But none alone. Thus I Choose and Will continue to Represent Myself. (And also take Self-Custody, don’t be a Cuck).

Ebay is just drug trade/money laundering anymore.

We’re in a time where heroes and models are being sacrificed. Rosa Parks was an influencer, Anne Franke’s uncle wrote most of her journal. Helen Keller may have been the OG Greta Thunberg. A hand-puppet for a Harvard-educated socialist narrative. Never trust anyone the media promotes.

I saw this recently, saved it, and cannot do justice to the OP.

Unpopular Nostr Opinion: I’m old enough to remember that when rich folk start losing money the Fed always, ALWAYS steps in to make them rich again - overnight. After they bagged their game…which they telegraphed beforehand. I suspect only a handful of people I know are spotting the telegraph, so I’m not confident about anything rn. But currencies, bonds, and sound money are all spinning so very fucking askew that whatever the target is it’s serious and the globe is going to pay for it when they execute it. When the blood they seek is in their hands…the refunding will be Spectacular. Game-changing. But Do not try to second-guess this, Bitcoiner. Because this is not simply a falling knife. We know nothing about the game being played. Now - IMHO - is the time to go underground, like the proverbial shrew before the asteroid. Now is the time when stay Humble matters most. Now - again, my stupid-ass Internet rando opinion - is when you need to prepare for Fourth Turning, full Prepper, hodl your family close, learn and love to make beans and bread and rice, abandon the cities and find a rural lifeboat, et al. Because the global, primal signals that have been ignored, then laughed at, then fought, are crazy clear about to win. And we may be wrong again, no doubt. But you won’t miss out, so don’t try to catch the bottom of a falling knife. I, personally, am going underground. Keeping mine what is mine. This is bigger than a COVID event. PEOPLE are an expendable resource to those who exist for Fiat money. No, this is a Fiat money epidemic.

Signothermal Spectralwallet photography of Max Keiser’s “OG” Pre-History bags shows they’ve been massively depleted at the sub-$100k stratum. Osiris is the only limit now for Bitcoin.

In Real Life (irl, lol) the idea of the NPC is those people who can only react to influences and inputs according to the programming they’ve received from without. People who can’t parse signal from noise, truth from propaganda. To me it clearly has nothing to do with the mind, and it’s “intelligence”, and I’ve always seen it as something more fundamental. What is it that creates an inner “ballast” for some, a pull or need for inner discernment in things? A call to seek truth, however relative? I used to believe it rested in a positive attitude toward work and suffering. But my experiences in this 4th Turning have led me to question whether it’s something deeper…?

I got my fiancee a new, cheap, clean laptop for setting her up with Bitcoin. With Win 11, Microsoft is hard-forcing machines to setup a Microsoft Account. I duckduckgo’d how to get around that, and some of the easier (command line) ways seem to have been shut down by MS already. My signal in saying this: The methods still being touted involve knowing this ahead of time and not establishing an internet connection at all before bypassing. MS wants the computer you bought to only be an authorized terminal on their mainframe network. CBDC anyone?

The Dollar has been declining vs Yuan. And American citizen’s buying power has been declining vs. the Dollar. This is one of many things Bitcoin fixes. This is one of many maps of Shitcoining, writ large. The shitcoin of the era will always and inevitably decline vs the shitcoin of the next animal spirits. Absent anything to ballast. With Bitcoin, the world everyone human has ever known is changing.

I can wrap my head around the idea of death. And I can find solace in the idea of being dead. What I can’t even begin to engage with is that there will be a moment in between.