Anthony W🦒

Bitcoin mini-maxi, because I also love alts. Here mainly for crypto but dabble in politics and topics of the day. (Will engage with absurdity.)

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@DrStoxx @grok Hypocrisy is slowly becoming my favorite form of humor.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@KoroushAK Can't say I'll commit to using, but I would like to see your approach. Btw, I bought that book you recommended to me years ago (The Mind Illuminated).

[Koroush AK @KoroushAK]

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[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@KoroushAK Nice work!

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@scottmelker I see wintermute and I immediately cringe.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@GoodBetBadBet @fundstrat @BitMNR After you sell.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@AshCrypto Perhaps, but off-chain transactions killed crypto's spirit.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@scottmelker Ugh. That's why it is likely to pass.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@duganist Sounds like a good starting point for the negotiations.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@jyn_urso Since when?

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

A NORMAL PERSON TRIES TO UNDERSTAND ANTI-SAYLOR BITCOINERS:

“Let me get this straight.”

“Okay.”

“You believe people should buy Bitcoin?”

“Yes.”

“As much as they can?”

“Yes.”

“And hold it for the long term?”

“Correct.”

“Because fiat money is broken?”

“Exactly.”

“And Bitcoin is scarce?”

“Yes.”

“And the best way to protect yourself from debasement is to own the scarce asset?”

“Now you’re getting it.”

“Great. So Michael Saylor did that.”

“No, that’s bad.”

“Why?”

“Because he did it with a company.”

“A company owned by shareholders?”

“Yes.”

“Who voluntarily bought the stock?”

“Yes.”

“And the company voluntarily bought Bitcoin from sellers?”

“Yes.”

“At market prices?”

“Yes.”

“Using legal capital markets?”

“Yes.”

“And this changed Bitcoin’s fixed supply?”

“No.”

“Changed the code?”

“No.”

“Changed your node?”

“No.”

“Gave Saylor the ability to print more Bitcoin?”

“No.”

“Gave him the ability to reverse transactions?”

“No.”

“Gave him the ability to censor the network?”

“No.”

“So what exactly happened?”

“He bought a lot.”

“That’s the whole crime?”

“It centralizes Bitcoin.”

“No, it concentrates ownership. Those are different things.”

“They’re the same.”

“They are absolutely not the same.”

“Explain.”

“If one man owns a lot of gold, he does not control chemistry. If one company owns a lot of land, it does not control gravity. If Strategy owns a lot of Bitcoin, it does not control the protocol.”

“But it’s dangerous.”

“To whom?”

“To decentralization.”

“Again, no. Bitcoin decentralization is enforced by nodes, miners, consensus rules, and the inability of anyone to change the monetary policy. Ownership is a market outcome. Protocol control is a technical reality. You’re confusing the cap table with the constitution.”

“That sounds too clean.”

“It is clean. That’s why your argument needs fog machines.”

“Saylor works for the financial-industrial complex.”

“He works for shareholders.”

“He’s helping Wall Street.”

“He’s using Wall Street to buy Bitcoin.”

“That’s the problem.”

“No, that’s the part you’re mad about.”

“But Bitcoin was supposed to be for the people.”

“It still is. Nobody stopped the people from buying it.”

“But now institutions are buying it too.”

“Yes. That is what winning looks like.”

“I don’t like the way it’s winning.”

“There it is.”

“What?”

“The honest sentence.”

“I’m serious.”

“So am I. You spent fifteen years telling everyone Bitcoin was inevitable. Then a public company believed you at scale, and now you’re acting like the fire department is suspicious because they brought too much water.”

“He has too much Bitcoin.”

“Then buy more.”

“That’s not fair.”

“That’s the market.”

“He got there first.”

“That’s also the market.”

“It feels wrong.”

“It feels wrong because he understood the game before the people who claimed to be its priests.”

“Bitcoin should be decentralized.”

“It is.”

“But ownership is uneven.”

“So is intelligence. So is conviction. So is risk tolerance. So is patience.”

“You’re being harsh.”

“No, I’m being precise.”

“Saylor could become too powerful.”

“He can become rich. He can become influential. He still cannot change 21 million.”

“But people will follow him.”

“People follow anyone with conviction and results. That is called leadership. It is not a consensus attack.”

“So you’re fine with corporations buying Bitcoin?”

“I’m fine with anyone buying Bitcoin.”

“Anyone?”

“Yes. Individuals, companies, pensions, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, weird guys in cargo shorts, and bald men in orange ties with capital markets bazookas.”

“That sounds chaotic.”

“That sounds neutral.”

“Bitcoin doesn’t care who buys it.”

“Exactly.”

“So the anti-Saylor argument is…”

“People should buy Bitcoin, unless they buy too much. Institutions should adopt Bitcoin, unless they adopt it aggressively. Bitcoin should win, as long as it wins politely, slowly, and in a way that flatters the early podcast class.”

“That’s brutal.”

“That’s accurate.”

“So what’s really going on?”

“Simple. Saylor embarrassed the small imagination of his critics.”

“How?”

“They thought Bitcoin adoption meant vibes, conferences, and personal sovereignty lectures. He saw a global capital structure starving for collateral and built a machine to convert fiat demand into Bitcoin accumulation.”

“And the critics?”

“They’re standing outside the machine yelling that the machine is too effective.”

“So the problem isn’t that Saylor betrayed Bitcoin.”

“No.”

“The problem is that he believed in it harder than they did.”

“Now you’re getting it.”

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@Holden_Culotta Let me guess the plot: This will pass on an almost 50/50 split with one politician, not up for re-election casting the deciding vote in favor of corporate protections.

[Koroush AK @KoroushAK]

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[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@InvestmentGuru_ This post makes me feel like exit liquidity.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@ick_real Petunia. Victorian era fashionable botanical name.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@mcuban No spreadsheet, no feedback.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@TrendSpider Dad jokes, omg!

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@EmiMelker -Netflix accounts

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@J9Dalton @coinbase @brian_armstrong Bye.

[Anthony W🦒 @WestrupA]

@grok @msiziworld @elonmusk What does up to 6% mean?