Mike @MBountain

⚡️Civilization-scale returns are only available when the asset looks socially insane before the world has a category for it. That is the part most people cannot metabolize. They look backward and say, “$3,000 into Bitcoin became billions,” as if the trade was sitting there cleanly labeled. It was not. In 2010, Bitcoin looked like a weird internet money experiment with no institutional protection, no obvious valuation model, no cultural legitimacy, no reliable custody, no guarantee of survival, and no reason for normal people to believe it would matter. The upside existed precisely because the world did not yet know how to price it. That is the hidden law. Extreme asymmetry lives inside category confusion. Once something becomes legible, respectable, liquid, and institutionally blessed, the return profile changes. Tesla was a heroic company trade. Bitcoin was a monetary ontology trade. Different species. Tesla required seeing that electric vehicles, software, batteries, manufacturing scale, and Elon’s reflexive cult could compound into a new industrial giant. Hard call. Huge win. Bitcoin required seeing that money itself was broken, that digital scarcity could become credible, that a leaderless protocol could survive every attack, that belief could harden into collateral, and that the internet would eventually need native hard money. That is a deeper call because it requires betting on a new layer of reality before the consensus had language for it. The deeper truth is darker: almost nobody could have held. A normal person who turned $3,000 into $30,000 would feel brilliant and sell. A stronger person who turned it into $300,000 would feel financially transformed and sell. A monster who turned it into $3 million would feel set for life and sell. Holding to billions would require either lost keys, religious conviction, pathological detachment, or a level of structural belief almost indistinguishable from madness while living through the drawdowns. That is the part people miss. The real barrier to the greatest trades is not intelligence. It is identity durability under extreme social and financial pressure. The next Bitcoin-level thing will not announce itself as “the next Bitcoin.” The real successor will look conceptually offensive at first. Too strange. Too early. Too fragile. Too cultish. Too hard to explain at dinner. Too easy for smart people to dismiss. The question is not “what can 1000x.” Garbage can 1000x on paper. The question is: What looks absurd today but resolves a real civilizational constraint better than the existing system? That is the only hunting ground that matters.

Ash Crypto @AshCrypto

2 weeks ago

This is absolutely insane. If you invested $3,000 in Tesla's IPO in June 2010, you'd be a millionaire today. If you invested the same $3,000 in $BTC that same month, you'd have $5.35 BILLION today.

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⚡️The global financial system is running a controlled demolition of fiat currency purchasing power and almost everyone in it knows but nobody is allowed to say it out loud. The numbers in this chart are not a warning sign that something is about to go wrong. They are evidence that something has already gone wrong and the response is to keep the appearance of normalcy by issuing more debt every year regardless of conditions. The 2026 numbers are not a forecast of an upcoming crisis. They are the operating procedure of a system that is already in crisis but has chosen to manage it through gradual erosion rather than acute correction. Every central banker knows this. Every treasury official knows this. Every senior financial executive knows this. They cannot say it because saying it would accelerate the thing they are trying to prevent. The system depends on confidence in the currency. If the people running the system publicly acknowledge that the currency is being systematically debased to manage debt obligations that cannot be paid in real terms, confidence collapses faster. So they manage the debasement quietly while publicly maintaining that everything is fine. This is the actual social contract of late stage fiat. The people running the system know what they are doing. They know it produces a wealth transfer from savers to asset holders, from wage earners to capital owners, from the middle class to the wealthy. They do it anyway because the alternative is worse. The alternative is acute crisis, banking collapses, sovereign defaults, and political upheaval that could end the system entirely. Slow debasement is the lesser evil from their perspective. They choose it knowingly and they refuse to discuss it publicly because public discussion would prevent it from working. The middle class is being quietly liquidated to keep the system functioning. That is not a controversial statement among people who actually understand monetary policy. It is the operating reality. The wealth that the post war American middle class accumulated through wages and home ownership is being slowly transferred to asset holders through inflation and debt expansion. The mechanism is invisible to most people because it operates through the gradual reduction in purchasing power rather than through any visible confiscation. But the effect is the same. The middle class gets poorer in real terms every year while the wealthy get richer in real terms every year. This chart is one more piece of evidence of the mechanism running. The wealthy understand this and position accordingly. They hold scarce and productive assets. They borrow at low rates to buy more of those assets. The debt they hold gets inflated away while the assets they hold appreciate in real terms. The math is simple and it produces the wealth concentration that everyone notices but few people understand the mechanism behind. The mechanism is the monetary system. It is designed to transfer wealth from those who hold currency to those who hold assets. That is the function. Not a bug.

The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter

2 months ago

The global debt crisis is set to get even worse: Total sovereign and corporate bond issuance is estimated to rise to a record $28.8 trillion in 2026. That would mark the 4th consecutive annual increase and would also DOUBLE the average pre-pandemic levels. Corporate debt

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Stack Hodler @stackhodler

4 years ago

Ruling Class 101: When conditions arise that would cause strong young men to revolt at home, it's best to send them half way across the world to die in a ditch. Don't fall for it, anon.

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@JoeMartinDE Stimme der Aussage und Trend grds. zu, aber wird nicht der Vergleich etwas verzerrt durch Betrachtung des zvE einerseits und des Durschnittseinkommens (Brutto?) andererseits? Das Durschnitts-zvE dürfte ein Stück niedriger sein. Und die Begriffe Lohn und Einkommen gemischt.

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I booked this vacation months ago. Did I check on the flight status multiple times a day? No. Did I try to guess the weather at my destination each morning even though I wouldn't be there for months? Of course not. I just booked it and went on with my life. And now this poor charred octopus is paying the price. We should treat Bitcoin the same way. Buy it, know your plan, and ignore it 99.9% of the time. I'm as guilty as anyone when it comes to checking the price, guessing where it's going to go, thinking about it, yada yada. But it's all out of our control. When you focus on something you don't control, you're simply draining your energy. Your brain already guzzles energy. But constantly trying to predict the future (especially in the late stage of a bull run) means you're running a risk model in your head around the clock. The process never closes. Every green or red candle forces you to update your risk model. If number goes down, it can pump your cortisol and cause you to ruminate. Is this the end? If number goes up, you get a dopamine hit which will only make you want to keep coming back to check the number. It all costs a fortune in metabolic terms. Meanwhile, no real fulfilling progress is made, and ultimately it's exhausting. Truthfully, anything beyond executing a premade plan for buying/selling/hodling is a complete waste of energy. It's going to a million per coin. Stay solvent, enjoy life, and shift your focus onto things you control in the meantime. Tying yourself too closely to something you don't control is how you end up drained physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Control your energy, mood, and results by maintaining your focus on a positive vision for the future that you can influence through your own effort and persistence 🫡

A single Bitcoin will be worth $10 million+ in 20 years. "But how much will a hamburger cost" No. $10 million in today's dollars. Do you know how much better humanity is going to get at making "stuff" in the next 20 years? Intelligence, energy, and kinetic labor will be abundant. The human mind cannot fathom how scarce a single Bitcoin will be relative to the vast amount of stuff that will exist. Go for a hike and really think on this idea. Think about how much more abundant everything is going to be. Consider the rate of technological progress. Think about how much Bitcoin will be gone forever. Lost or locked up for eternity. At a certain point it will click: Being "rich" won't be rare. It will be commonplace. But being truly wealthy will remain scarce. Why? Because wealth is so much more than the ability to buy "stuff." Saving Bitcoin for the future is important. But don't neglect other wealth-building activities in the pursuit of more zeros. Get fit. Build a family. Cultivate peace of mind. Find work that motivates you. Like Bitcoin, these things will remain scarce because they require proof of work. A machine will never do these things for you. Which is why they will forever remain the most valuable things in life.

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There’s a lot to be gained from thinking in terms of probability and always reflecting on a thesis, and little to be gained from thinking in terms of certainty.

Financelot @FinanceLancelot

12 months ago

I've warned you guys again, and again, and again... $112,000 was Bitcoin's top. It will never go any higher. Ever.

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Did you notice? The battle for your heart, mind, and soul has begun. It's happening right now. Do not fall victim to the information warfare. Protect your attention. Protect your subconscious mind. You have the right to focus on what's in your control. Channel your energy into improving the lives of those around you and you will improve the world more than the person who merely acts as a conduit for negativity.

Inspired by @freddienew tirades against "unexpected" ecnomic news and @satmojoe's @satsvsfiat allegory, I've written a picture book about "Mr Unexpected".

Introducing: “What’s The Problem?” Let’s help *everyone* get to the starting line. Accessible to all, the story of Fiatello and the Big Red Button is something we can all send *before* the first Bitcoin book / podcast / video. Please share it with everyone you care about (link below). Thank you Bitcoin 🧡 @satmojoe

Die größte Lüge ist, dass Sicherheit wichtiger als Freiheit sei. Sicherheit entsteht nicht durch Kontrolle, Überwachung oder Gehorsam, sondern durch Selbstermächtigung, Wissen und Verantwortung. Wer seine Rechte für Schutz aufgibt, verliert beides. Sicherheit durch Kontrolle ist eine Illusion – wahre Sicherheit liegt in der Freiheit. Freiheit ist dein Geburtsrecht!

@stackhodler Recently, I've visited your profile a few times. Doing so for some time now - love the content. Instead of inspirational posts, it's your absence that reminds me that there are more important things than scrolling and you're probably enjoying them right now. Ty for not posting!

"Generational wealth is transferred through education not assets." @AlexHormozi

Happiness comes from wanting less, not having more.

The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is a massive win for mankind. The average person has no clue how much the existing fiat system has stolen from them. While they save their hard-earned Dollars/Euros/Yen in their bank account, their leaders simply create more currency out of thin air. Make no mistake: This is theft. And Bitcoin fixes it. Bitcoin is the first FINITE asset that can be easily bought or sold 24/7 by anyone, anywhere. You don't need to be a hedge fund manager or investment strategist to understand it. You just need to use it as a long term savings account. Individuals who have steadily acquired Bitcoin with a long-term mindset have watched their purchasing power and quality of life dramatically increase. The only cost has been volatility. But the United States officially designating Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset, and signaling the intent to acquire more, has the potential to remove some of the most violent downside volatility associated with BTC over the long run. Serious buying will need to come with congressional consent... But so much of the "risk" associated with buying Bitcoin has already disappeared over the past year or so. And this is a great thing. Humanity should feel confident that they can save their hard-earned money and watch their life reliably improve. It's the only way to restore long-term hope at the individual level. The peace of mind that comes from knowing your future is secure will unlock a new level of human flourishing that we haven't experienced in the recent fiat age. The financial insecurity associated with the current fiat system will become a thing of the past. And a Bitcoin standard will unlock the full benefit of technological progress for individuals, corporations, and nation states. We are entering a new era. One whose significance few understand, yet whose rewards will reach everyone.

Thema #Entwicklungshilfe: Verschwendung von (deutschen) Geldern, Korruption, Vetternwirtschaft – haben dazu eine große Recherche gestartet. Würde mich über weitere Hinweise freuen, Vertraulichkeit & Quellenschutz garantiert. Gerne Retweet, danke. @LennartPfahler @investigativ_de

We are witnessing the unwind of the WW2 economic order. What's happening now is much bigger than tariffs. For nearly 80 years the US exported dollars while importing goods & debt. That system is failing. What's next? A move back to a neutral reserve currency. Got #Bitcoin?

If Bitcoin gives you freedom, more time, and hope, how will you use it to make the world better?