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travis 2 months ago
Had my quant put this together. Looks about right. image
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travis 2 months ago
GM Nostr, Every morning I go for a run at dawn and part of that run is next to a massive 8-lane expressway downtown in a US city. Above this freeway, there’s a double-sided LED billboard. One side is a regional bank slinging 3.5% high yield savings as the path to financial freedom. The other side is a lottery jackpot ticker advertising how you can instantly buy tickets on your phone. These billboards haven’t changed in TWO YEARS. Every morning as the night fades away, they glare down in soulless fluorescent lighting with their message of despair. Oppressed on the people driving to their 9-5 fiat grind in dire need of hope. The tragic irony is undeniable. This billboard presents two paths, neither of which are hope. So why am I sharing this? Because we know it doesn’t have to be this way. That there is a third path offering rational optimism. Bitcoin. We have to keep spreading the truth of Bitcoin. A message of hope that people desperately need. It’s a lot of work. But it is worth it. h/t @HODL for the “rational optimism” framing
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travis 2 months ago
I believe Bitcoin’s most powerful feature is that it gives the individual a binary choice this fourth turning. Option 1: Your entire existence will be at the permission of the state; confined within the walls of a digital prison so that your resistance to their authority is no longer a human problem, but a software problem. Your dissent will be quashed on demand by removing your ability to speak, transact or store value for yourself with the click of a button. Option 2: You adopt Bitcoin in a self-sovereign way and peacefully declare that you will not participate in their tyranny. You understand that whoever controls the money, controls the population. And you control your private keys, so you cannot be controlled. Once you’ve made this binary choice, every downstream action you take will either be in service of a permanent global digital panopticon OR freedom and abundance for the individual. Each individual that chooses self-sovereignty meaningfully helps deter the tyrannical dystopia that is lurking around the corner. #Bitcoin #Nostr
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travis 2 months ago
GM Nostr, How did I know my wife was the one? On our 5th date she told me her dream was to be gifted a Porsche Cayenne like Tony gave Carmela. That was the moment I knew. But today, at this very moment, we’re heading to church in a 2012 Honda beater because she believes hodling is more important. I’m a lucky man. #Bitcoin #HODL
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travis 2 months ago
There are only 3 reasons to be negative toward Bitcoin. You’re uninformed, unintelligent, or unethical. In that order.
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travis 2 months ago
GM. Where the 90s kids at? image