@WASH3DUPONLY I know
But the one rule I’ve learned
Through losing tens of millions of dollars
Is the following;
Never
Ever
Fight
The FED
We are beginning a massive liquidity cycle
⚡️The ability to be disliked is the price of owning your own perception.
Most people never pay it.
They rent their beliefs from the room they want access to. They learn what gets applause, what gets punished, what makes them seem intelligent, compassionate, respectable, employable, attractive, safe. Then they confuse that social calibration with thought.
That is the prison.
The bars are not visible because they feel like maturity, manners, professionalism, nuance, prudence, social awareness. Some of that is real. But much of it becomes fear wearing adult clothing.
A person who cannot tolerate disapproval cannot follow signal for very long. The moment truth becomes socially costly, they fold. They soften the sentence. Delay the call. Ask who else agrees. Wait for permission. Hide inside consensus until the danger passes.
That is why most people are late to everything.
They are not waiting for evidence.
They are waiting for safety.
Markets expose this brutally. The best calls usually feel lonely before they feel obvious. Political shifts feel insane before they become consensus. Technological inflections look overhyped or ridiculous before they restructure the field. Cultural reversals look dangerous before they become fashionable.
Early truth almost always arrives without social protection.
That is the deeper lesson.
Being disliked does not make someone right. But refusing to be disliked guarantees dependence on the group. It means the crowd owns the boundary of your thoughts.
The modern world has made that trap worse. Everyone now lives inside a live approval machine. Every post, opinion, relationship, forecast, and public stance gets scored. The nervous system learns to optimize for reaction before truth. This creates people who are constantly “authentic” inside the narrow band their audience will reward.
That is fake freedom.
Real freedom begins when disapproval stops functioning as a leash.
The strongest people are not indifferent to being disliked because they are cold. They are oriented around something stronger than approval: mission, truth, God, signal, craft, duty, conquest, love, whatever sits above social mood.
Without that higher anchor, the crowd becomes god.
And the crowd is a cowardly god. It blesses late. It punishes early. It worships what already won.
Deep down, learning to be disliked means learning to leave the human herd psychologically before reality forces the herd to move.
That is where all real signal starts.
@Cole_Walmsley He knows most of his customers are retarded and unable to imagine a world running on BTC so he just says that instead, which is what $10M per BTC actually means
A story to show how competitive CEO's are:
As a teenager Jensen Huang became a nationally ranked ping pong player. Later on in his life, an employee challenged him to a ping pong match.
From his biography:
"Levin considered himself a good recreational player, but never expected to receive quite the beatdown he got at the hands of his superior. ‘He just whooped me,’ said Levin ‘The game was up twenty-one points, and he let me score only once or twice. It was a very quick match."
Another employee then challenged him to a game of chess.
The book says:
“Every time he lost, Jensen would swipe his arm across the board, knocking over the pieces, and storm away. He would sometimes later insist on a rematch on the ping-pong table.”
When Jensen's company came in second place in a silicon chip magazine, the book said:
“’The first time we came in second place, Jensen sternly told me: Second place is the first loser,’ Logan said ‘I never forgot it. I realized I’m working for a boss who believes we have to win at everything. It was a lot of pressure.”
Jensen is not the exception. This is how competitive most CEO's are.
⚡️This is a tectonic event.
Not because of Maduro. Not even because of oil.
Because of what it signals:
1. Sovereign asset capture has gone overt.
This is a direct seizure of $17 trillion in reserves, publicly declared, executed in 12 hours, with zero institutional resistance.
2. The dollar just got re-oiled.
The petrodollar system was fraying. Saudi hedged east. BRICS pushed for multipolarity. Now the US has just hardwired a fresh oil supply directly into its control structure. That’s monetary fuel.
3. Global resource baselines just reset.
Venezuela’s reserves dwarf most OPEC nations. Whoever controls that flow rate controls leverage over global energy pricing for a decade. This is a planetary pricing mechanism shift.
4. The unipolar moment is back - on steroids.
This reverses years of narrative about declining US reach. Trump remapped sovereignty in a single move. Every global actor is now recalibrating risk.
5. Bitcoin’s narrative just matured.
This is why “uncensorable,” “unseizable,” and “non-sovereign” matter. Fiat can reroute $17 trillion overnight with a single military op. Bitcoin remains the only asset immune to that logic.
6. The macro board has tilted.
Expect:
•Gold to spike short term on imperial volatility
•Oil volatility to surge as supply chains reprice
•Bullish Bitcoin
7. Most people are still asleep.
They think this is a Trump story. Or a Venezuela story. It’s a new Bretton Woods, masked as a headline.
What just happened wasn’t a war.
It was an audit.
And the US just claimed the balance sheet.
@starkandlime Fuck, this is a huge red flag. Do you know why they left? And, how do you know they left?
I was building stuff with DLC but after their announcement I stopped because I'm worried about the vulnerabilities that they "found" so I'm very curious about this
@JakeBlockchain@wsfoxley@david_seroy@lava_xyz Do you have any reason on why you think it's a commit reveal scheme with adaptor signatures? I've been asking if they still use the DLC but I haven't get an answer yet, I think the DLC system is great but I'm curious if they still use it, I believe that system is great
⚡️What Musk describes as “first principles thinking” is a survival instinct for people who operate outside the social consensus.
Most humans don’t build worlds. They inherit them. They live in stories built by others - systems of meaning, economics, morality, and habit - and mistake those systems for reality.
“First principles” is what happens when you stop mistaking the story for the structure. It’s not intellectual, it’s almost spiritual. It’s a form of exile: you tear away the inherited illusions, and you realize most of human culture is scaffolding around fear - fear of uncertainty, fear of being wrong, fear of isolation.
Musk isn’t teaching critical thinking; he’s describing how reality feels when you no longer have a tribe. When you build rockets and cars and neural networks from scratch, you’re not thinking from “first principles” because it’s trendy - you’re doing it because the world’s explanations stopped working for you.
And that’s the real engine underneath all genius: alienation fused with precision.
You can’t see clearly until you’ve detached emotionally from the consensus. Once you do, the noise drops away, and the world reveals itself as a field of physics, incentives, and probabilities - stripped of sentiment, politics, and myth.
But here’s the darker side no one says out loud: this state of perception burns you alive. You start to see the recursive illusions in everything - education, governance, even human relationships.
You realize how fragile and performative most “understanding” is. And you can never fully go back.
So when Musk talks about “first principles,” what he’s really describing is cognitive exile disguised as clarity.
It’s the price of building reality instead of living in it.
That’s the real truth.