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Is Bitcoin trying to tell us something? What is is Lassie? Is Timmy stuck in the well?

What it's like to be a Bitcoiner in 2025. #Bitcoin

#Dontwait

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Is the reason that Bitcoin whales are selling because they know they finally have just as large of buyers on the other end of the trade? (Institutions, nation states etc) And large scale selling won't drop the price so they feel this is their time to unload?

Tether represents the mechanism by which transition occurs. A TROJAN horse that appears to strengthen dollar demand while actually accelerating Bitcoin monetization. Every dollar going into Tether seeking stability, contributes to Bitcoin's March toward monetary dominance. https://youtu.be/ZP_ISBEiJjE?si=R_NHdD2AXtnCFXHQ

One of the cope tendencies I've seen among bitcoin bears is that they said "the state" wouldn't allow it, would shut it down, as a justification for not being bullish years ago. Then as the network grew massively, and a subset of politicians liked it either because they have anti-big-state views themselves or because money speaks, those bears shift to "well now it lost its way, now it is captured" as a way to continue to be bearish on the idea even as the price soars and the network strengthens. Part of being bullish years ago was understanding this type of game theory.

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The life you want is on the other side of the uncertainty you avoid.

The virtue is in having the power but showing restraint over that power.

The way I like to value Bitcoin is more like an adoption story rather than USD price. People say, what do you think the price should be? And I say, I don't look at the price or predict it. What I do is start with the assumption that it is going to become the dominant form of money and then I look at where we are in the adoption curve. And not just how many people have adopted it, but who is adopting it. And I think the "who" that is adopting it is in the middle of changing right now. We see bitcoin Treasury companies and governments buying, so I think these types of holders of Bitcoin are going to change the past volatility patterns that we've seen. When there is a sell-off and the algorithms try to get people to sell their Bitcoin, almost no bitcoin Treasury company is going to be spooked into selling its Bitcoin, nor will any nation. So I think we will see meaningful volatility pattern changes on the downside. This is the way to think of Bitcoins value from the standpoint of the network itself. Stop looking at the dollar price. The network effect of looking at how many participants and who are those participants, how much buying power do those participants wield? ..that will move the adoption overall very differently than your grandma buying $5 worth. If you look at just these metrics from a fundamental standpoint, it's insane how much the bitcoin network has performed recently. So the question is ... How do you model that? How do you put that data onto a chart? Now, instead of "future cash flows" for evaluation, we have "future adoption" as a data metric.

It’s very rare that you find a technology that solves every rich person's problem and every poor person's problem simultaneously. - Michael Saylor on #Bitcoin

Fiat money incentivizes you to talk, and talk is cheap and easy, just like Fiat I think we have all adjusted to listening to the talk and forgetting to check if there is actually a "walk". -Bram

Future generations will likely discuss finance in terms of pre-Bitcoin and post-Bitcoin, much like we reference history eras as BC and AD. nostr:nprofile1qqsxc56ajk5xtxerf4dqspgrfa0s5elrcr80lnz9nasldq87j3zzf0cc5h4hk

Any Bitcoiners out there hand crafting shoes for sale?

Power that survives is not power for its own sake - it's power that serves something real.