Well, looks like we successfully retired 2025. Here’s a takeaway you can walk into 2026 with…
In 2025, every Bitcoin Pusher/influencer/ Self proclaimed expert got it waaaay the fuck wrong. And that, is enlightening.. or at least it should be to the rest of us normal plebs on X who listen and follow these guys relentlessly trying to find THE guiding light for the path forward. What 2025 shows us is Bitcoin doesn’t follow a set pattern or listen to the political winds. None of the experts could predict its price action with any real semblance of accuracy. They ALL said at least $130K by year end. Turns out, they didn’t know anymore than the rest of us fools despite having been in Bitcoin for years, having a huge pile of coins and being “all in” They just had a bigger bullhorn, and all of the “analysis” being spewed with such certainty was, in fact, just their hopes and dreams.
Perhaps the bigger lesson/tell was demonstrated by their reaction to the rise of precious metals… Particularly #Silver. Many of the top bitcoin influencers used to be gold and silver bugs. When #Bitcoin emerged, they got in early. They recognized its potential and most of them abandoned the precious metals they had held for so long.. They went all in on the digital replacement. A vast majority of them proclaimed from their orange towers that the shiny rocks were relics now, and had no place in the modern world.
Yet, 2025 turned out not to be the year of the Orange Revolution, it was instead the Resurgence of the Relics. It seems that precious metals like gold and silver still play a very large role and most of the people of the world still run to the shiny stones when fear and uncertainty begin to take hold.
My advice … never take as gospel the words/predictions of someone whose livelihood is dependent on the performance of the very thing they are selling… and trust me, they are SELLING faith in Bitcoin to you.
Moving forward into 2026, my recommendation for everyone is to read, @LawrenceLepard’s book, “The Big Print: What Happened to America and How Sound Money Will Fix It” (and some of you who have already read it, need to read it again). Mr. Lepard does a great job warning of the impending crisis from unsustainable economic policies and advocates a return to sound money (Bitcoin, Gold and Silver) principles. The Difference between Lawrence and many of the other X influencers is that he has a “foot” in both the Bitcoin Universe and the Precious Metals Universe, and advocates that both have a place in your portfolio to protect you financially from what’s coming.
Keep that in mind moving into 2026.
#Silversqueeze #Gold
#BTC
@mikealfred Sure as long as you grandfather in Gen X and the Biomers. You can’t rip the rug out from under us when we’ve been operating under under certain guarantees for OUR future retirement
Permitting is the biggest impediment to any building project. I pay more in city fees and permitting fees than I do to any other contractor when building a 1600 ft.² duplex and it does take months! It’s ridiculous, and I hope AI does eliminate these barriers. Make it happen!
Jeff Bezos wants AI to approve Miami building permits in 10 seconds:
“Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit and it should give you a yes or a no in 10 seconds. Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Trump did not “just declare war” in the legal sense, but the US military is now actively engaged in combat operations against Iran under his direct order.
George W. Bush Redeux
@zerohedge@Huntdaddy7 mple math problem.
If we’re not building offices anymore, and all the money is going to data center construction….where did the White Collars Bros job go?
Simple math problem.
If we’re not building offices anymore, and all the money is going to data center construction….where did the White Collars Bros job go?
AI Takeover Complete: Data Center Construction Surpasses Office Construction For The First Time
Realtor is a zombie career at this point, headed nowhere but the grave. Middle men aren’t necessary for a real estate transaction… all we really need them to do is open a door, smile, and let someone walk around the house.
Jack Dorsey was mostly correcting massive COVID-era over-hiring, while aggressively framing the entire move as an AI-driven efficiency reset.
As Dorsey admits himself,
“yes we over-hired during covid because I incorrectly built 2 separate company structures (square & cash app) rather than 1, which we corrected mid 2024…”
But if you have a convenient excuse to cut almost half your workforce, and it makes you look like you’re ahead of the technology curve… Why the hell not seize the day?
@jonbrooks So what you’re saying is if you’re going to play the Real Estate game you better be looking at it as a multi decade investment… Otherwise it might hurt