THIS IS HUGE FOR BITCOIN
Someone just bought a $4.2 million home using Bitcoin as collateral... without selling any Bitcoin. And it was backed by Fannie Mae.
While the timeline obsesses over short-term price action, Bitcoin is quietly moving from “store of value” into real collateral inside the $50 trillion US housing market.
Society: "having kids after 40 is too late"
Nature: "when you have kids after 40 you live way longer so that you can raise your kid for longer"
ladies, your clock is ticking a lot slower than you think.
Confessions of a Haunted Bitcoiner
Nobody warns you about the part that actually gets to you. It isn’t the volatility. It’s the loneliness of the volatility. I can stomach watching half the number evaporate — a 50% drawdown isn’t a crash, it’s a sale on the scarcest monetary asset humanity has ever invented. What I can’t stomach is sitting in a Bavarian lakeside town this summer, the water so still it looks photoshopped (no, I’m not German, I just enjoy the cooler weather) — while my brother-in-law explains to me, slowly, like I’m a golden retriever, that bitcoin “isn’t backed by anything.” This, while he carries a currency backed by the feelings of a committee that meets eight times a year and has never once been early.
Because I’ve done the work. Thousands of hours, between podcasts, books, articles etc. And then you’re stuck. You sit across from people you genuinely love, who built businesses or went to top universities, but you still can't hand them the one thing you’re surest of in this life. You watch the words leave your mouth and die in the air. “Inflation is policy.” Nothing. You’ve said something profound to a man squinting at the bill to see if service is included.
So you stop. Not because you stopped believing — because you’ve learned, at real cost, that conviction and evangelism are different muscles, and the second one only ever cost me. The early bitcoiner’s true discipline was never holding through an 80% crash. It’s holding your tongue at brunch while someone calls your life’s thesis a Ponzi between bites of a croissant they bought with money engineered to be worth less by the time they finish it.
And here’s the confession underneath the confession — the haunting part. A small, ugly corner of me wants the price to keep bleeding. Not for me. For the vindication. So they’ll finally see. And I despise that corner, because I already know the ending: the converts arrive years late, exhausted, having “figured it out themselves,” and I’ll have to swallow the most expensive three words in the English language — I told you — smile, and pour the wine. Because being right early and being right late feel exactly the same from the inside. The only difference is who got paid, and whether you stayed someone people still wanted at the table.
That’s the trap nobody mentions. It’s lonely being the only one who sees the iceberg. But you can’t save the ship by screaming “ICEBERG” louder — you just become the iceberg guy, and now you’re not even right anymore, you’re exhausting, and exhausted.
So you make a quieter peace with it. The math doesn’t need their approval. 21 million is 21 million whether anyone claps, whether your brother-in-law ever comes around, whether the number is at 60K or 600K this particular haunted Sunday.
But here’s the part I didn’t expect. You spend years being the only one at every dinner table — and then you find the others. Not at the table. But here on X. It turns out the whole time I was losing the argument at brunch, there was a deck full of people on the other side of this screen squinting at the same iceberg, doing the same math, biting the same tongue at their own family dinners. We’re not an echo chamber — an echo chamber agrees on conclusions. We argue about everything: cycle tops, treasury structures, whether Saylor’s a prophet or a margin call away from his next podcast appearance. What we share isn’t an answer. It’s the humility to question everything we once knew, and the foresight.
I used to think being early meant being alone. It just meant being early to the wrong room. This is the right one.
Now let's ride this bear to zero or a million 😎
#Bitcoin $MSTR $MPJPY $MTPLF
@AdamSimecka@1914ad That's only if you do it the wrong way. I created a website that guides people on how to do it correctly and safely if it's for them.
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If you spend $1 million everyday it will take you 2,740 years to reach $1 trillion.
The U.S. national debt is now $34.7 trillion and rising by $1 trillion every 100 days.
EVERY…100…DAYS!
Our fiat system runs on debt expansion because new money enters the system through borrowing
1. The government spends more than it collects in taxes
2. They borrow money by creating debt (IOUs)
3. That debt is sold as Treasury bonds
4. The government spends that borrowed money into the economy
5. Banks multiply the money through loans and credit expansion
6. We work for those dollars and get taxed on them
7. Banks, bondholders, and asset owners take their cut through interest, fees, and rising asset prices
8. Our government still owes more than it has, so it borrows again
The cycle starts over and never stops because it runs on expanding debt
You need to take your dollars and save it in something they can’t create endlessly,
Bitcoin
The effects of inflation are not shown by prices.
They are shown by the debasement of society.
Look at everything that's been debased:
1) Family
2) Free time
3) Birth rates
4) Food quality
5) Relationships
6) Craftsmanship
7) Material quality
8) Small businesses
9) Architectural beauty
10) Home ownership
11) Attention spans
12) Community
13) Honesty
14) Savings
15) Health
16) Trust
It all flows from the same source:
Debased money.
The measure of your work, your time and energy, the reality around you... constantly losing value.
The money decays. So does everything it touches.
Flip the script.
Start using money that is impossible to debase.
Watch everything head in the other direction.
The solution is here... all that remains is understanding.
Fix the money, fix the world.
SAIFEDEAN AMMOUS: "Bitcoin won't be adopted like the iPhone because it's cool. It will be adopted like gunpowder. If you don't own it, you'll be its victim."
JASON LOWERY: “Blaming Bitcoin to protect your failing hegemony is not going to help you, your financial system is still going to collapse.”
“Bitcoin didn’t cause a bunch of bankers to debase savers and to destroy the purchasing power of the currency.”
1971: Nixon kills the gold standard.
2003: Iraq tries to sell oil in euros. Saddam is dead within months.
2011: Gaddafi tries a gold-backed currency. Dead within months.
2022: Russia gets $300 billion frozen.
2026: Iran chose Bitcoin. The U.S. can't do a thing about it.
America’s reserves balance sheet is a critical component of our nation’s insurance policy, bolstering our currency and providing assurance during times of uncertainty. Over time, the prevailing sentiment as to what constitutes a durable store of value can shift, and as such it is important for us to recognize this fact and provide the flexibility needed to broaden America’s portfolio of reserve assets.
The American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA) ensures digital assets in the possession of the federal government will be consolidated across government and protected as a reserve asset for future generations, protecting these assets from the whims of Congress or future administrations.
🔥BUY BITCOIN OR GET CRUSHED - THE WEALTH GAP IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE🔥
This is, BY FAR, the most EFFECTIVE and SUCCINCT ORANGE PILL I have ever recorded.
The U.S. owes $38.95 trillion, the money printer has no off switch, and the top 1% owns 634x more wealth per person than the bottom half.
In this episode I walk through the Cantillon effect, the debt-devaluation cycle, and why your 401k is a participation trophy in a heist that's already in progress. Kevin Warsh is about to inherit a flaming bag of fiscal dog shit on a porch made of kindling.
The choice is simple:
Own scarce assets or get slowly harvested by a system that thinks of you as a renewable resource.
Buy Bitcoin and HOLD IT FOREVER.