"I've noticed, in the past few weeks, a resurgence of something pernicious that can sometimes characterise this country: tall poppy syndrome."
- @clairlemon
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Highest CGT In The World!! No one voted for this, it was not in Labor’s manifesto they took to the people. This “change of position” has no legitimacy.
My column: Experts keep finding landmines in the Budget handed down last month. These improvised explosive economic devices could blow up the Australian dream. Read the full story here 👉 https://t.co/QFWPbBRek7
@francisjfoster I honestly wish your interviews weren’t such compelling viewing. I honestly wish they weren’t necessary. But here we are, and thank you.
We built an entire education system to prepare kids for a world that no longer exists. We test memory in a world with infinite memory. We punish collaboration and call it cheating.
This needs to end.
Bitcoin is doing it again.
Not the fun part yet. The part where it gets everyone doubting the whole thing before the next cycle can really begin.
People forget how this asset works. It does not just go up because “halving.” That is the kindergarten version. The real engine is fixed supply meeting human emotion. There will only ever be 21 million coins, so when demand wakes up and real holders stop selling, price has to climb until it finds enough coins willing to move.
That is how you get the insane runs. The 1k to 20k move. The 3k to 69k move. The 15k to 126k move.
But then comes the part nobody likes.
Bitcoin has to digest what it just ate.
If an asset runs 8x, the market does not just calmly reset in three weeks and move on. It has to work through late buyers, leverage, weak hands, tourists, ETF flows, and everyone who bought the top calling themselves a long-term investor until the candles turned red.
That is where the downside gets ugly. The person who bought too early in the downtrend eventually becomes a seller lower. The trader who thought he was buying the low finds out he was just catching another bounce. The leveraged long does not get to be patient. He gets liquidated. Perps and synthetic exposure make the whole thing worse because they create extra demand on the way up and forced selling on the way down.
This is how Bitcoin gets those elevator-down phases.
Not because it died. Because ownership is being cleaned up.
Coins move from people who liked the price action to people who actually want the asset.
That process feels terrible while it is happening, which is exactly why it works. Doubt comes back. The timeline gets dark. People say AI replaced it. Stocks are better. Bitcoin had its moment. The whole thing is over.
And somehow they say this while Bitcoin is still trading above the last cycle’s blow-off double top.
Think about how crazy that is.
The 2021 top near 69k was viewed as this insane parabolic event after a 20x plus move from the prior cycle low. Now, after 7+ months of crypto winter, Bitcoin is still hanging around that old “impossible” zone, and people are acting like the asset failed.
That is not failure. That is a much higher floor trying to form.
Maybe the final floor is already in. Maybe it is not. Nobody knows. The only way to stay sane is station to station. If you think it is going lower, fine. Mark the next real support. Mark the level above that proves your read is wrong. Then update when price gives you new information.
Do not do what the eternal bears do.
Do not pick some dramatic number like 15k, 3k, or zero and then build your whole personality around it. That is how people blind themselves. They stop doing analysis and start defending a prophecy.
Being wrong is not the problem. Everyone is wrong. The problem is refusing to say, “I was wrong,” when the market has clearly moved on.
That is why Bitcoin is such a funny asset. Most bears do not say it is expensive. They do not say it needs a normal correction. They say it is going to zero.
They said it at $7. They said it at $70. They said it at $700. They said it at $7,000. Now they say it when one coin is worth more than most people make in a year.
That is the magic.
Bitcoin creates doubt, then feeds on the people who get trapped inside it.
It runs. It digests. It makes everyone question the whole thing. Then when the floor is finally found, the same people who were waiting for zero are shocked when it starts moving again.
The supply is still fixed. The emotions still swing too far. The believers still absorb the panic. The doubters still give it fuel.
Everyone is falling for it again.
The U.S. government values its gold at $42.22/oz.
The market price is $4,528.
That's a 107x gap. Congress just introduced a bill to close it and use $1.17 trillion in gains to buy 200,000 bitcoin per year for five years.
It's called ARMA. Here's why it matters:
https://t.co/FQkX6W7fQg
La notizia più potente di questa tragedia non è soltanto il recupero dei cinque italiani morti alle Maldive.
È un’altra.
Gli speleo-sub finlandesi che hanno affrontato il buio della grotta… hanno chiesto di non essere pagati.
Fermatevi un attimo a pensare a questo.
Sono entrati in uno dei luoghi più pericolosi al mondo.
Hanno rischiato la vita tra correnti, profondità e oscurità assoluta.
Hanno visto da vicino ciò che nessuno vorrebbe mai vedere.
E quando tutto è finito, non hanno chiesto soldi.
Niente.
In un’epoca dove molti farebbero qualsiasi cosa per guadagnare visibilità, loro hanno scelto il silenzio.
In un mondo dove quasi tutto ha un prezzo, loro hanno dimostrato che esistono ancora persone che agiscono solo per umanità.
Sami Paakkarinen.
Jenni Westerlund.
Patrik Grönqvist.
Tre persone che ci stanno ricordando cosa significa avere una coscienza, un cuore, un’anima.
Perché riportare a casa quei cinque italiani non era un lavoro qualsiasi.
Era una missione umana.
Era permettere a delle famiglie distrutte di poter dire addio.
Era dare pace a chi era rimasto sospeso tra speranza e disperazione.
Era trasformare un vuoto infinito in un ultimo saluto possibile.
E certe cose non si fanno per denaro.
Si fanno perché dentro di te senti che è la cosa giusta.
Oggi viviamo circondati da gente che urla, ostenta, pretende applausi per qualsiasi cosa.
Poi arrivano persone così.
Persone che rischiano tutto… e non vogliono nulla.
E allora forse l’unica reazione giusta è questa:
stare in silenzio.
E dire grazie.
Grazie Sami.
Grazie Jenni.
Grazie Patrik.
Perché avete ricordato a tutti noi che l’umanità vera esiste ancora. 🌊❤️
- Resilienza