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| Self-Sovereignty. Stay humble & stack sats. 🍊💊 | #Bitcoin is a Savings—Technology, Honest & Scarcest form of Money. | All prices fall relative to #Bitcoin. Bitcoin class of 2017. 🍀 🟠 |
Degrees open doors, but skills keep you in the room. In today’s world, execution > credentials. Don’t just look qualified. Be capable. image
Bitcoiners, let’s see what is your best meme for this photo. 😆👇 . . . . image
Ever wonder why a company buying thousands of Bitcoin doesn’t pump the price? Let’s break it down 👇🧵 When a corporation wants BTC, they don’t smash market orders on Coinbase. They call an OTC (over-the-counter) desk — a private service that matches big buyers & sellers off-exchange. Think: 🐋 meets 🐋 No noise. No slippage. Let’s say a company wants to buy 5,000 BTC. Doing that on an exchange would cause insane price slippage. So they go OTC. The desk quietly finds a seller, or maybe a miner, maybe a fund, and they settle off the books. Here’s the key: 🟥 OTC trades don’t touch public order books 🟩 That means no visible price movement Even if it’s a $250M buy, it doesn’t affect the price, unless the OTC desk runs out of sellers and has to go to the open market. So what does move the price? ✅ Spot market buying (on exchanges) ✅ Leverage getting liquidated (longs/shorts) That’s when you see price rip or dump. OTC doesn’t do that. It’s stealth mode. Ironically, OTC buying is super bullish, it means whales are accumulating. But it doesn’t show up until later… When supply dries up 👇 …and buyers are forced to go public. That’s when green candles appear 🕯️🕯️🕯️ Also: leverage wrecks the market faster than anything. A $50M OTC buy? No price move. A $5M long getting liquidated? Market nukes. Because it cascades through exchange order books instantly. So next time you see: 🚨 “Strategy bought 5000 Bitcoin” …and price doesn’t move? Now you know why: ➡️ It was OTC ➡️ No price impact ➡️ But supply is tighter, and that matters later Final takeaway: 🔹 OTC = Quiet accumulation 🔹 Exchanges = Price discovery 🔹 Leverage = Instant volatility Smart money moves first. Price follows after. Stack wisely 🧱 ⚡️⚡️⚡️
This makes us question everything we learned in school. Study #Bitcoin. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ image
Just buy #Bitcoin. Move it on a hardware wallet, hold it for a decade, and they can thank us (bitcoiners) later. Just that simple. But still many won’t get it, that’s why I stopped explaining myself. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ image
Buckle up. Things are about to get wild. One thing I rarely see discussed about the game theory of #Bitcoin is that the incentives are aligned in such a way that the game speeds up over time. During the initial phases of the game, #Bitcoin was a strange foreign idea in cyberspace. It was risky, it was uncertain, it was hard to buy, and hard to store. Only the outcasts, the explorers, and the free thinkers joined during the early wave, and they were handsomely rewarded for doing so. Now, the talk I frequently hear is that the best gains are behind us. What's the point? I missed Bitcoin. I should have bought it when it was cheap. Etc... While it is true that the biggest percentage gains are behind us, the biggest and fastest adoption is just around the corner. Also, even if you have dismissed #Bitcoin, the cost of ignoring it will soon become unbearable. The game theory will soon switch from greed to fear, and for the first time ever, fear will drive #Bitcoin higher and higher instead of lower and lower. Why is that? The bitcoin network grows stronger and becomes more valuable with every person that joins. At the same time, the fiat monetary system becomes weaker with every person that leaves. While adoption was still tiny, the cost of ignoring Bitcoin was negligible. You missed out on the gains, but otherwise, it was not important. Soon, however, that will no longer be the case. Everyone knows that fiat money is being debased at an accelerating pace. With every person that exits into Bitcoin, it means that those left with fiat will now have to carry the burden of those that have left. In other words, the cost of staying with fiat will exponentially increase over time. Think about it. Does the national debt decrease if people leave the US? No. The same is true with monetary networks. Unfortunately for those holding fiat, it is a debt-based system, and the people opting out with #Bitcoin no longer have to care or worry about that debt. This is why the best money always wins, and why there can only be one winner. I also believe that's why the fastest growth in Bitcoin adoption is just ahead of us. It will go from a trickle, to a rush, and end in a stampede. At some point, you won't be able to exchange fiat for #Bitcoin at any price, and all of your models will be destroyed. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ -FiatHawk #Bitcoinfessions image