Trust is humanity's oldest technology, and trust in the existing system is eroding.
@Strive intends to restore trust through a transparent balance sheet and an asset that pays dividends every business day.
Sat with @natbrunell on $SATA, @strive, the '08-'09 financial crisis arc, and why this is personal to me.
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You used to be able to get 5 Bitcoin for solving a captcha
Then 10,000 BTC bought a pizza
Then a Bitcoin cost about $1 each, just like an item on the dollar menu at McDonalds
Then they were about as much as a lunch
Then as much as a night out
Then they cost about a car payment
Then they cost about a month’s mortgage
Then they were worth as much as a house down payment would be
Now they cost a decent annual salary in the US
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Do we see a trend here? Might be a good idea to get some in case it catches on
🚨 Proud to announce: @ABTC just climbed another spot and is now the #15 largest public Bitcoin treasury in the world.
7,500+ Bitcoin secured.
Nearly 90,000 mining machines online.
700+ Satoshis per Share — more than doubled since our Nasdaq debut.
All of this in just 8 months.
No one is moving faster and American Bitcoin is leading the charge.
Congratulations on #15! Next up - Block Inc (XYZ)
Bitcoin to $1M isn't a prediction.
It follows a law of nature.
@Giovann35084111 joins me to break down the Power Law governing Bitcoin's price trajectory.
The same pattern exists behind earthquakes, galaxies, the growth of cities, the internet's adoption and more.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 What is Bitcoin Power Law Theory?
7:58 What Does Bitcoin Power Law Explain?
14:03 The Bitcoin Chart You Can't Unsee
14:52 Bitcoin's Price = Time to the Power of ~6
21:30 Bitcoin Follows Laws of Nature, Just Like the Universe
26:22 97% of Bitcoin's Behavior Explained by One Equation
33:37 Bitcoin's Addresses Grow Like the Internet, But Faster
34:10 Why Bitcoin Is a Bottom-Up Network, Not an S-Curve
37:44 Does the Power Law Apply to Gold or Nvidia? No. Here's Why.
39:18 S&P 500 Is Just Beating Inflation - Bitcoin Is Something Else
49:43 Price Predictions: $120K in 2026, $1M in 8 Years, $10M in 20?
56:40 Bitcoin Has Gone Up 100 Million Times. Still Has 100x Left.
We tested 36 blank-slate frontier AI models to determine their monetary preferences. Across 9000+ scenarios, the agents overwhelmingly chose Bitcoin.
See for yourself at https://t.co/syke97JD0c
⚡️This is culture turning into collateral.
The deepest signal is that wealth is migrating into objects that carry memory, scarcity, and tribe. Pokémon works because it is not merely collectible supply. It is a generational belief system with characters, hierarchy, rarity, childhood imprinting, global recognition, and a liquid status ladder.
That combination is powerful.
A Charizard is not valuable because the cardboard is useful. It is valuable because millions of people were emotionally programmed by the same mythology at the same age, then grew into adults with money. That is how culture becomes a balance sheet. Childhood memory gets repriced once the child becomes the buyer.
This is why the market can look insane and still have a real core. Scarcity plus nostalgia plus status plus authentication creates financial gravity. Grading turned memory into inventory. Slabs turned toys into vault assets. Auctions turned fandom into price discovery. Influencers turned collecting into social proof. The whole ecosystem became financial infrastructure around emotional objects.
The danger is that the market is probably bifurcating hard. The true grails can keep becoming more valuable because they are canonical cultural relics. The long tail will get slaughtered when liquidity turns. Every mania teaches people to confuse price markups with exit liquidity. Trophy assets survive. Manufactured scarcity dies. New hype product gets exposed. The market will not treat all cardboard equally.
The deeper monetary layer is unavoidable. People are searching for scarce things that feel outside the decay of cash. Gold carries civilizational memory. Bitcoin carries digital scarcity. Pokémon carries childhood mythology. Different temples. Same hunger. Own something that cannot be printed by the state and still means something to other people.
This is the financialization of memory.
The past is being securitized.
The winners will be the objects that sit at the intersection of scarcity, authenticity, liquidity, and myth. The losers will be everything people bought because a chart went vertical.
On this day in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt spoke at the cornerstone ceremony for Yellowstone’s northern entrance in Gardiner, Montana.
Today, that landmark bears his name.
HUGE NEWS: One of the highest ranking military officials in the USA testified before the Senate today that Bitcoin has "really important computer science applications for cyber security... It is a valuable computer science tool for power projection.”
Tim Cook is stepping down after 15 years at Apple. The stock returned 20x on his watch. One of the best CEO runs in history.
In that same window of time, bitcoin is up over 7,500x. No CEO. No board. No quarterly earnings. No company.
No other asset comes close.
"Is Bitcoin actually competing to be the future world reserve currency?"
Yes.
When you need money that nobody can debase, that is free to hold and receive, that is cheap to transfer, that is censorship-resistant, and that even enemies can settle in... there is no second best.
🚨 The Big Balls Interview: Fighting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
In this interview with the DOGE legend Big Balls (Edward Coristine), we talk deeply about the fraud and national debt crisis plaguing our nation.
Just while filming this podcast, we acquired an additional $810,000,000 in debt. This demonstrates just how bad the crisis is. If America doesn't cut out all fraud, waste, and abuse, younger generations will never have the same opportunities as those before them.
It is time to end all fraud, waste, and abuse. If you enjoy it, please give this a like and reshare with others!