@BTCoptioneer@AdamBLiv High-confidence 40%-60% annual returns are available with MSTR and Strive. Both have trustworthy management teams.
Zero reason to go further out on the risk curve for *anything* IMO.
Especially a company generally perceived to be shady. The thought makes me nauseous TBH.
⚡️Bitcoin is the first asset in modern history whose main product is refusing to die.
That is why Hal Finney’s line is so powerful.
He saw the actual mechanism before almost anyone else.
Bitcoin does not become valuable because someone promises yield, growth, dividends, guidance, or political backing.
Bitcoin becomes valuable because it keeps surviving every attempt to dismiss, ban, corrupt, fork, ridicule, financialize, and bury it.
Every day it survives, the world has to quietly update.
At $0.01, the bet was “this is probably a toy.”
At $15, the bet was “maybe this survives among weirdos.”
At $1,000, the bet was “maybe this becomes a speculative asset.”
At $20,000, the bet was “maybe this becomes digital gold.”
At $60,000+, the bet became “maybe this is a permanent monetary rail.”
The price is just the visible surface of that probability update.
Bitcoin’s real chart is not price. It is death probability collapsing over time.
That is what skeptics still do not understand.
They think Bitcoin has to keep proving itself with new arguments. It doesn’t. Time is the argument. Blocks are the argument. Halvings are the argument. Failed bans are the argument. Exchange collapses that fail to kill it are the argument. Bear markets that fail to erase it are the argument. Governments regulating it instead of destroying it are the argument. BlackRock packaging it is the argument. States discussing reserves are the argument.
Bitcoin wins by making disbelief more expensive each year.
The real genius of Bitcoin is that it turned survival into compounding credibility. Most assets need management teams to execute. Bitcoin needs the network to keep producing blocks and refusing invalid rules. That sounds simple, but simple is the point. It is a machine that converts time, energy, and consensus into monetary credibility.
Fiat credibility decays because humans keep modifying the promise.
Bitcoin credibility compounds because the promise keeps refusing modification.
That is the entire civilizational split.
Every fiat system eventually asks for trust again. Trust us through this emergency. Trust us through this deficit. Trust us through this war. Trust us through this bailout. Trust us through this inflation. Trust us through this temporary measure. Trust us through this debt spiral.
Bitcoin says: verify.
That is why it terrifies the old system. It exposes money as a credibility game and then offers a version where the rules do not need a priesthood.
The hardest truth: Bitcoin is no longer trying to become legitimate. Legitimacy is slowly being forced to route through Bitcoin.
That does not mean the path is clean. There will be crashes, confiscation attempts, custody failures, regulation, taxation, ETF paper games, political attacks, quantum fear cycles, and stupid leverage blowups. None of that changes the core. Those are stress tests.
The longer Bitcoin survives the stress tests, the more absurd the zero case becomes.
The zero case was plausible in 2010.
It is now mostly a psychological defense mechanism for people who missed the compounding of monetary credibility in real time.
Bitcoin is not just an asset anymore. It is a running referendum on whether trust in code-backed scarcity can outlast trust in political restraint.
And the answer keeps getting clearer.
Every block says the same thing:
The promise held again.
@SullyMichaelvan 2022 was great in hindsight. Rolled multiple retirement accounts in and levered myself to the hilt. Very proud of those buys now obvs.
This part of 2026 will be a similar look-back for a whole new generation.
@orangeyield 200-week SMA is at roughly 61. Cost of production roughly 60. Realized price is in the low to mid 50s. PL floor you cited above.
What models are you talking about?
Capital markets are funding the AI buildout at historic scale: ~$400B over 6 months. Bitcoin ETFs have seen ~$4B of outflows since May 14, pressuring $BTC. This is a capital rotation, not a Bitcoin impairment. Volatility creates opportunity.
@petrijaervinen@WalkerAmerica Eh I'm indifferent about that too. The narratives on both sides are always overstated.
The war won't be over next week. But Oil isn't going to $300/barrel next week either.
The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Pragmatism will carry the day.