Embrace this, or be broken by it.

A $12,000 weekly wick (biggest in history). Almost tagged the 200 weekly average. With massive volume on the bounce. Healing.

Repost from NVK @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 The most comprehensive list of Bitcoin Truths I've ever seen. Now on immortalized on NOSTR 👇 "Some Bitcoin truths: Bitcoin is not for everyone, but it is available to anyone. Bitcoin will affect everyone. Bitcoin self custody is not hard. Bitcoin self custody responsibility is for the few. Most people don't want freedom, they just want a better cell. There are not enough UTXOs for everyone. There is not enough block space to "be Visa". L2+ will resolve most throughput issues by behaving more like IOUs. "Holding" Bitcoin is not possible for poor people, because poor ppl can't save thus can't buffer handle volatility. Stable coins are great for poor ppl because it's more free from capital controls than fiat. Stable coins are great for everyone who needs "stable" unit of account with less capital controls. Most people need credit, bitcoin is not credit. Businesses need credit, specially trade credit, bitcoin is not credit. Free banking is both useful and will always exist, specially on a bitcoin standard. Volatile units of account struggle to be medium of exchange for small payments when given alternatives. Shitcoins will always exist. There is no single Bitcoin community; there are tribes that share the same love (or hate) for Bitcoin. There are no bail outs in bitcoin. People you don't like will hold Bitcoin. People you don't like will do very well holding Bitcoin. There is always someone who matter more than you to bitcoin. Most people who hold Bitcoin can't affect Bitcoin. There are no analogs to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a brand-new asset class. Bitcoin will never do what people think it will do. We don't know where Bitcoin will go. Bitcoin FUD will always exist. Bitcoin sour grapes will always exist. We know the fiat system is in controlled demolition. Bitcoin self-custody is for the few. Suits will have paper Bitcoin. Paper bitcoin is unavoidable. Leveraged bitcoin is unavailable. Just because you don't like a bitcoin use, doesn't mean you can stop it. Some will see Bitcoin as religion. Some will see Bitcoin as math. Some will see Bitcoin as toxic. Some will see Bitcoin as the solution. But at the end, the honey badger doesn't care. Bitcoin price is an important signal that most can't understand. Bitcoin has no realistic alternatives. Bitcoin is decentralized, non-inflationary, permissionless, salable, divisible, and transportable. Bitcoin must be ultra conservative with new features. Bitcoin savior complex is ego poison. Bitcoin is designed to ignore individual preferences. Bitcoiners are splitting and fighting internally is annoying but integral part of the process. You just arrived and you can't fix bitcoin. No other bitcoin participant owes you anything, specially their attention. Bitcoin devs don't control bitcoin. Bitcoin miners don't control bitcoin. Bitcoin holders don't control bitcoin. Bitcoin is very rough consensus. Bitcoin is designed for your selfishness to secure the network. Without healthy and sufficient decentralized self-custody, Bitcoin goes to zero. All sides in Bitcoin debates are wrong until they become the longest chain. Bitcoin is designed to win, not to fight. Bitcoin monetizes mutually assured destruction. Bitcoin is the most important tool of peace in our generation. Bitcoin is the only fair and self-verifiable monetary system. Bitcoin bridges trust gaps with a trustless network. Bitcoin will always be less efficient the centralized systems. Investing in Bitcoin is using Bitcoin. Holding bitcoin is using bitcoin. Bitcoin allows opting out of the legacy financial system. Bitcoin is generational wealth, there will only be 21m Given its history, the most consistently successful strategy has been to buy bitcoin, put in your COLDCARD, STFU, have patience."

Where did everyone on NOSTR go? I noticed @ODELL And @Jeff Booth both have paid checks on X. We need to face facts. Engagement algorithms work. True community is much more difficult. Nostr's fate is up to each of us. Https://npub.world/stats

Are you a confused conservative? You are not alone 🤣. This is brilliant.

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What the hell of being a conservative influencer in 2026 is like...

I panic sold dollars today.

Truman show.

$1 costs $0.80. Free money.

I'm tired boss...

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Orange-pilling people is hard...👇

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Osama bin Laden's niece. 👇 It's all a giant Truman Show.

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"53% increase in number of merchants accepting Bitcoin for payments in 2025" Footnote: Gold / Silver - 0%

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The "Left - Right" philosophical divide is nothing new. Both sides see a different reality from the other. This can be traced to Plato vs. Aristotle's view of reality. Plato (Theory of Forms): The abstract is primary and more real. Eternal, perfect Forms (e.g., Beauty Itself, Justice Itself, Equality itself) exist in a transcendent realm. Reality flows from abstract ideal to concrete world; knowledge is of the Forms via reason. Aristotle (Primary Substances & Hylomorphism): The concrete is primary and foundational. Individual, tangible particulars (this man, this horse) are the basic realities (primary substances). Abstracts (universals, forms, essences, ideals) are secondary—they exist only in or derived from concretes via abstraction from particulars. Without concrete particulars, abstractions could not exist. Knowledge starts from sense perception of the tangible world. In short: Plato (current day Left) Places the Abstract first (Platonic idealism: ideals shape reality). Aristotle (current day Right) Prioritize Concrete first (realism: reality grounds abstractions). The implications of this difference are profound.

Which one is which?

@Guy Swann made a new friend 😀

TRIVIUM BOOK REVIEW: In 1513, Machiavelli wrote his famous book "The Prince". It was written as a "practical guide for rulers". His target audience was one man. Lorenenzo de' Medici, the most influential financier of his time in Florence Italy. The Medici family pioneered the use of the double-entry bookkeeping ledger, a major financial innovation at the time. They grew so wealthy as a result, they were able to fund the Renaissance movement, and eventually take control of the Holy Roman Empire. Before the Rothschilds, there were the Medici. "The Prince" offers an insightful methodology that elite people use to this day for control. Understand it and you can better interpret today's geopolitical environment with more clarity. Machiavlli popularized the "Might makes Right" principle in this book. But there are other take aways that you can use in your own life. The movie A Bronks Tail has a great scene talking about a passage in the Prince. The mobster is asked "is it better to be Loved or feared?". His answer was almost a direct quote: "its best to be both, but that is difficult. If you have to chose, being feared is better." -we are here ... I give the book a 5 star rating and categorize it as a "must read". Trivium note on grammar: being simultaneously loved and feared could be defined as being "respected". Respect is both earned (loved), and imposed (feared). We love and fear God at the same time...i grew up both loving and fearing my parents. Maybe we should open our minds to other dichotomies ? GN nostr.