Aeon ∞/21M

Fiat debt system is enslavement, #Bitcoin is Freedom. “Liberty ,when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”

[Vivid.🇮���� @VividProwess]

Charlie Kirk’s wife, Erika Kirk, in tears:

“Charlie loved life, he loved America, he loved nature, which got him closer to God, he loved his children, and he loved me with all of his heart.”

[Carl ₿ MENGER ⚡️🇸🇻 @CarlBMenger]

Bro was spot on about Apple back in 2012, just as he’s spot on about #Bitcoin today.

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

Take notes, folks. This is how AI should be used.

@MartyBent is locked in.

Entertaining educational content on a shoestring budget relative to what this would have cost to produce in the past.

Bravo.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Today in 1945, George Orwell published a devastating critique of Communism.

Animal Farm reveals why every communist revolution follows the same tragic pattern: liberation to corruption to oppression.

Here are 10 truths from Animal Farm Orwell warned us never to forget 🧵👇🏼

[BTC Sessions 😎 @BTCsessions]

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[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

Bitcoin was $50K when I wrote this.

Absolutely no one should be surprised by $123K Bitcoin.

If you are, I suggest you read this carefully.

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

It's been a long road to $118K Bitcoin.

Take a moment to thank past you for doing the work to understand what's going on.

Many didn't.

As we enjoy another vertical part of the Bitcoin price journey, remember:

1. Gratitude is the antidote to FOMO. The vast majority of the world has zero BTC. And everyone wishes they had more. So be grateful for your stack.

2. Don't get greedy. As BTC runs up in price, people inevitably look for riskier bets to try to get more BTC. Many people have been permanently separated from their BTC due to irrational bull market greed.

3. Number goes up and down. The more euphoric you allow yourself to be on the way up, the more irrational you will become near the top, and the worse you will feel on the way down. Nature likes to maintain balance. Stay even-keeled. Enjoy it, be grateful for the increased financial power, but remain mindful.

4. The numbers on the screen aren't wealth. Health, family, enjoyable work, friends, control over your time, a nice place to live, physical security, etc. Those are the things that matter. Money facilitates much of it. But only to a point.

5. Nothing actually changes when the number on the screen goes up. It's all in your head. Feel more confident all of a sudden? That power was inside you all along. Recognize how silly it is that you have the ability to feel this way but you wait for outside circumstances to adjust first.

6. Bitcoin will be $1 million per coin one day, likely within 5 years. Act accordingly.

If you stacked BTC when everyone told you it was dumb, held when things got tough, and ignored all the ridicule...

Let that be all the evidence you need that you are destined for success.

Stack Sats, enjoy life 🫡🥂

[Aeon ∞/21M @bitcoinNode16]

@AdamBLiv We also lost the charger and headphones that came with it inflation is a bitch 😆

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

I have a friend who finally bought BTC at ~$90K the other day.

A few days later I got a text:

"BTC is over 100k do you sell some or hold on?"

Me: "Pretty much everything else is down 99% vs. Bitcoin over the past 10 years. Stick with the superior asset!"

Them: "Let's hope it keeps trending the same"

It made me realize how few people understand what they buy when they buy BTC.

Imagine buying a car and being like "well, let's hope it continues being a better mode of transport than walking!"

Or "let's hope gravity keeps pinning me to the earth!"

Yes BTC went through an early adoption period with ridiculous returns.

But the fact that it's the only credibly finite, neutral, reserve asset that can't be seized or debased means it's going to continue to vastly outperform the assets that can be seized and created out of thin air.

It's really not complicated.

At a certain point you just have to embrace that it's designed to outperform and accept that gift into your life.

I followed up with this text:

"You want to own the only finite asset in existence that is still in early stage of adoption by large institutions. Just today the rules changed to allow banks to buy, sell, and hold BTC. Soon you won't be buying with Coinbase. You'll be buying through your bank."

She's still hodling.

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

10 year yield 4.6% and BTC ripping to new highs in the same day.

Just don't dance.

[Anthony Towns @ajtowns]

Wow, @glozow's account apparently just got deprecated, I mean deleted.

[Psychedelic El ₿arto @PsychedelicBart]

I encourage you all to step out of our echo chamber once in a while and learn how fortunate we are to understand money/SoV. Normies I chat with live paycheck to paycheck and don’t have basic understanding of building a nest egg. It’s pretty fucking crazy.

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

Investors are slowly realizing that Trump is sincere.

He is upending the global economic and geopolitical order right in front of us.

Tariffs are real. Deglobalization is real. Realpolitik is real.

The rules of the game are changing in real time and global capital is scrambling to keep up.

Expect volatility.

While stocks begin to melt down in the face of an uncertain economic outlook, gold remains strong near all time highs.

This is a clear signal that now is the time for scarce neutral reserve assets to shine.

Gold first, Bitcoin next.

There's plenty of "risk froth" built into the Bitcoin price.

And it's currently being drained.

Any asset that goes up 100%+ in a year will attract fast capital...

But in an uncertain world, there's no more certain asset than Bitcoin.

Finite.
Neutral.
24/7 liquidity.
No counter-party risk.

No amount of price volatility will change these characteristics, which are an ideal combo for the world we're headed into.

This is exactly what Larry Fink meant in January when he said:

"If you're frightened of the economic or political stability of your country, you can have an internationally based instrument called bitcoin that will overcome those local fears."

As it stands today, we appear to be headed into a rough moment for global markets.

Negative vibes will be everywhere as people lose money and attempt to cling to the old world.

But this is an opportunity to train yourself to focus on the positive.

Keep the negative stuff out and focus on the good stuff.

Even if it's just your morning coffee, some morning sunlight, and a few olives that survived the winter cold.

Opportunities are everywhere for those who stay positive and optimistic.

It's time to build your own Golden Age 🫡

[Brad Mills 🔑⚡️ @bradmillscan]

From the desk of Brad Mills re: US Crypto Shitpile

Gold has been a store of value through history.

However, there was a MULTI DECADE period in the late 1800s where excitement around this new novelty metal called Aluminum caused investors to collect it and invest in early production.

Aluminum, an inferior metal, was backed by influential people & it even traded at higher prices than Gold as a new store of value.

In 1852 aluminum was trading at $34 per troy ounce while gold was $19 per troy ounce.

Today, gold is $2850 per troy ounce.

Aluminum? $0.05 per troy ounce. (Actually it's not priced in ounces, it's $0.80 per pound.)

The wealthy investors who hoarded aluminum bars as ‘the next gold’ got rugged by technology (rekt by the Hall-Heroult extraction process.)

The moral of the story is, you are early.

Don't get triggered by crypto bubbles, study bitcoin & accumulate as much of it as you can.

BTC is the measuring stick, nothing changes the fundamentals.

The history of financial markets is a sordid tale of corruption, greed, wealth extraction, regulatory capture & missteps.

'The government ' is not going to save you - the best you should hope for is to have free speech, property rights & individual liberty protected.

Anything beyond that, expect it to be a clown show.

We have to be grateful for freedom, and be ok that people are free to rug themselves.

If you're captain save-a-ho, then do your best to educate people on why there is no second best to Bitcoin.

Be thankful Crypto is providing a smokescreen for people like you who do the work to acquire as much bitcoin as they can before it achieves full monetization and trades at much higher prices.

A smart man keeps telling me "the world will show you where you're not free."

If you're upset by things like this, you should take stock of where you are in your own life.

Are you exercising enough?

Are you meditating enough?

Are you providing enough value to people?

Are you spending too much time online?

Are you reading enough books?

Are you eating right?

Stack sats, improve yourself, and build resilience to handle citadel problems cheerfully and constructively.

[Parman - Paranoid Bitcoin Mentor 🔑 @parman_the]

My Bitcoin journey in order...

Fiat slave

Bitcoin

Bitcoin and shitcoin

Shitcoin

Bitcoin

Bitcoin only

Shitposter

Bitcoin only, but for real

Bitcoin only, maxi

Bitcoin only, toxic maxi

Node runner

Write technical guides (heaps) for other to learn from.
https://t.co/UsvMXNYCqX

Expand site with ideological/economic/anti-FUD bitcoin essays

Bitcoin self-custody mentor
https://t.co/XgKYfjGMzm

Make software (FOSS) because not enough people running nodes.
https://t.co/CjepO06ZiN

Build and ship nodes (ParmanodL) because not enough people building from easyAF software
https://t.co/g0t3Gx1Hd6

Buidl and ship airgapped laptops, ParmAirGap and ParmAirGap Zero
https://t.co/1un0qM0Xbk

Solo lottery mining

Build and ship ParmanodL node/miner (ParMiner)

To-do list...

Satellite node

Expand bitcoin only products

Build BitVotr
https://t.co/dCaK5yPN4N

Buy more bitcoin

Make ParmaWallet (Electrum Parman's Vision)

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

Do not let the judgement of those that parrot orthodoxy deter you from making a purely logical decision.

Orthodoxy says you need a solid portion of government paper in your portfolio and should avoid "speculative" investments like Bitcoin.

Well, since 2020 TLT is down -27% and Bitcoin is up +1,288%

The future belongs to those who can see that the status quo is broken, and take bold decisions based in rationality.

Bitcoin is rational.

A finite, non-sovereign asset with growing adoption.

An asset that cannot be debased in an era of unavoidable debasement.

You studied game theory at LSE.

You understand where this is headed.

And you have a chance to put your name in history books as the first central banker who saw beyond the status quo and put your country in a position to win the future.

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

DeepSeek is omega-bullish for Bitcoin.

Nasdaq is crashing pre-market and taking Bitcoin down with it.

But this is a temporary correlation.

The narrative is that Deepseek is exposing just how overvalued US tech stocks are.

On the eve of an AI and robotics revolution, US equities seemed like the best game in town...

But if Chinese companies can produce similar innovation at a fraction of the cost, what does that say about US tech valuations?

In my opinion, this will likely end up being a temporary sentiment reset.

Similar to the Yen carry trade or "war in the middle east" panic that served to shake out weak hands before the bull run could continue.

But here's the bigger picture:

We are headed into an era of unprecedented technological innovation.

And businesses that look like sure winners one day WILL end up being disrupted overnight.

Storing your value in equities will end up being a more and more dangerous game.

This Deepseek shock should serve as a wake up call to anyone who is planning on storing their life's savings in equities over the next decade.

Can you count on the businesses that you own not to be disrupted overnight?

Which businesses will be able to maintain their advantage in an age of cheaper and cheaper AI & robotics?

"well that's why I buy indexes"

When you buy the Nasdaq, you're betting on the USA. But what if China eats their lunch?

Or the US rapidly devalues the currency in which the Nasdaq is denominated?

These are difficult questions to answer.

And they highlight the problem we all face: Where to store our value for the long-term.

Bitcoin is the solution to the store of value problem.

Bitcoin will not change.

Bitcoin will not be disrupted.

And It cannot be seized or debased.

In an era of rapid change, Bitcoin's boring predictability is its biggest strength.

Finite supply, new block every ~10 minutes, and a security network tied to real-world energy expenditure that cannot be replicated.

Equities are an artifice built upon the shifting sands of the market, vulnerable to the tremors of creative destruction.

Bitcoin is the solid bedrock on which you want to build your financial future.

This idea is far from understood, and even further from being priced in.

Equities are still THE consensus store of value.

But I expect to see more and more investors conclude that the coming technological revolution requires a new approach to storing value.

History is full of example of investor consensus changing.

Investors used to store value in savings accounts, gold bars, war bonds, etc.

The best ideas of previous eras always end up looking silly in the future.

I think the idea of blindly investing in equity indexes will ultimately be seen as a stepping stone on the journey to finding the ultimate store of value asset.

The best we had until Bitcoin.

Let global companies rapidly innovate and drop prices for everyone.

This should be something we celebrate - not fear because it disrupts equity markets and takes down our store of value assets.

Hold Bitcoin, celebrate creative disruption, and get outside ✌️

[Aeon ∞/21M @bitcoinNode16]

@xpugHODL @Crypto_China Don’t know but if you want to play it safe https://t.co/1H29odCrE6

[Jack Mallers @jackmallers]

EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE

Ross, the man who taught us all so much about freedom, is finally free.

We launched merch in his honor, with 100% of proceeds going to Ross. $50k sold in the first hour, and we’re just getting started.

Welcome home, Ross. Bitcoiners stand with you!

[THE Bitcoin Podcast @titcoinpodcast]

A message from @americanhodl8 to everyone who was mad Trump didn't free Ross on "day one":

[Aeon ∞/21M @bitcoinNode16]

@Rothmus @his_eminence_j https://t.co/AYxOUtGUlu