How much bitcoin in self custody is enough bitcoin in self custody, for bitcoin to succeed in serving as a sovereign money for those who chose it, long term?
The $MSTR mission creep I always said would come.
Even though Strategy doesn’t need the money, it is conditioning investors to believe that selling Bitcoin to fund dividends and yield is a normal part of the new Strategy playbook.
The result is a structure that normalizes Bitcoin distribution back into the market whenever cash flow is needed to support dividends and yield.
In effect, they’re building the infrastructure for short-term Bitcoin price management while training investors to view it as prudent capital allocation.
A gift to the Financial Industrial Complex.
Bitcoin was designed to separate money from the financial system.
The FIC wants Bitcoin integrated into the same system of custodians, leverage, yield products, and paper claims that dominate traditional finance.
Strategy accelerates that transition by making Bitcoin sales, dividend policies, and yield engineering part of the accepted model.
It is what it is.
Bitcoin can be used by anybody.
But Bitcoin in self-custody is the resistance.
In the long run, the FIC doesn’t want you to own Bitcoin. It wants to custody your Bitcoin, tokenize your Bitcoin, lend your Bitcoin, and issue paper claims against your Bitcoin.
The goal is simple: keep you a paper-Bitcoin slave while they accumulate the real asset instead of you.
Not your keys.
Not your Bitcoin.
@isabellasg3 Open sourced? My kid made this tool to check for vulnerabilities emulating Mythos (but FOSS)...
You can use it to try to crack your own wallet now.
https://t.co/BR9zN7LtKV
Kudos!
@japan_nobunaga Mosquitoes are the real killer, however they jave quicker reproductive cycles and will likely putevolve this tactic in a couple decades and then what? The real solution is to reduce their habitats by making humans smarter and more agentic about puddles in the heat and gutters
@japan_nobunaga Master. This is where my sword begins to turn hot and I decide to make it my law. Is that not the real way of Samurai?
I cant pretend to have the strength to defeat all the evil I come accross, but if that guy came around my neighborhood?
Arrow in the head from 20m
-Just.Is
A woman at the warehouse store held out a tiny paper cup. Inside was one bite of sausage, skewered on a toothpick. "Free sample," she said, and smiled.
I took it. I ate it. It was warm, and it was good.
And in that moment, a debt was born.
In my country, to accept food from another's hand is to accept an obligation. The gift may be small. The bond is not. I had eaten her sausage. I now owed her my service.
So I stayed.
I arranged her toothpicks. I guarded her tray from a child who reached for a second piece. When a man took one without bowing, I corrected him.
She told me the samples were free. I told her nothing warm is ever free. She said it again, slower. I bowed lower.
A manager came. He explained the samples cost the store nothing, that I owed no one, that I should enjoy my shopping and go.
I thanked him for his kindness. Then I returned to my post beside the sausage.
I was there four hours.
They have asked me not to come back. But a debt does not expire because a building locks its doors to you.
So I must ask, plainly.
When an American hands a stranger food and asks nothing in return, what is the true price? What am I bound to? How long does it last?
Tell me the terms.
I intend to pay them in full.
There is a restaurant in Texas where they bring you food until you tell them to stop.
They do not tell you to stop. You tell them.
I did not know a man could be trusted with such power. I confess I wept.
In my country, when a host feeds you, you finish what is served. To leave food on the plate is to insult the hands that made it. This is not my opinion. This is the law of the table.
So when the man said "all you can eat," I did not hear an offer. I heard a challenge of honor.
The house was offering me everything it had. To stop before the house stopped would be to call the house stingy. I would not insult the house.
Plate one, fried chicken. I bowed. I finished it.
Plate two, ribs. I bowed. I finished it.
Plate three. Four. Five.
The house did not stop. So neither did I.
A waiter came and said, kindly, that I could stop whenever I wished.
I told him I did not come here to wish. I came here to settle a debt of honor.
He brought a manager. The manager brought water. I do not drink water during battle.
By the second hour, the kitchen had slowed. I took this as weakness in the enemy and pressed forward.
By the third hour I could no longer feel my face. But a samurai does not retreat simply because his face has left him.
They turned off the lights and closed the restaurant around me. I remained seated. Still chewing. The last man at the table.
I won.
I have not eaten since. That was eleven days ago.
So tell me honestly. When the sign says all you can eat, who is supposed to surrender first?
Because it will not be me.
I feel like sh*t for no reason other then simple life crap. Death in the family, grief, kids ages and upcoming needs, financial woes as thing get harder somehow consistently and while bitcoin is down.
SO... I'm taking the loss.
I am painfully aware that I'm unable to stack what I want to and should be stacking. Things just.... hurt. I've decided to spend. Spending sats I can't yet replace and it may be stupid but I'm spending on bitcoin companies. Gifting their hard work to earn sats on the low...hoping it grows for them ... so they continue to build. I'll take the loss...for now, and pay it forward. Because it makes me feel better to give or buy in bitcoin... when I struggle....brings a sort of forced gratitude that we are surviving somehow.
Doesn't make sense to most, but its just how I roll.
Look out
@TheOrangeHabit and @without_rulers
My entire family will be decked out in incognito bitcoin conversation starter apparell and #freesamurai gear. Time to take a stand.
Let the freak flags fly!! Feckthefed.
@Daywrotethis U forgot the part about being loved and then still wanting to bang hot botches all the time and it being hard to refuse hot bitches all the time. Maybe write about that next? I agree w most of it btw, but bitch niggas are to blame just as much as souless femmes