Bitcoin Optimist

#Bitcoin powered early retiree. I like tulips.

[Bitcoin Optimist @btcoptimist]

Today I quit my corporate job after nearly a decade of slow but steady Bitcoin accumulation.

Bitcoin is many things to different people, but to me, it’s always been the promise of owning the one thing more precious than Sats themselves: my time on this planet. And after 8 years of grinding in corporate America, stacking and hodling as hard as I could stomach, I’m finally there. Breaking free and going my way, no longer selling my heartbeats for dwindling dollars, and if it all goes well leaving wealth behind for the kids as well.

I feel thankful for all the Bitcoiners who have made my journey possible. First, to Satoshi Nakamoto and all the shadowy super coders that followed. Thanks for creating the soundest money on earth, the arch to weather the relentless assault of money printing and fiat debasement.

Then, to the supporters of Bitcoin of all kinds - thanks for the orange pilling, the education, the hopium and commiseration, the memes, and most of all the defense of the network and defense of our freedoms. Your tweets, podcasts, books, memes and activism are the reason I embarked in this journey and why I never jumped ship. Though I haven’t been active on BTC Twitter until today, I’ve been the pleb that followed you and this place has been a beacon through the good and the hard times.

I’m starting this account to share my experience and tribulations retiring early on (mostly) just BTC. Let’s be clear - I’m far from having things figured out. But hopefully I can spread some optimism and maybe inspire others to take the leap. I’d be proud to give back at least a little of all I’ve received.

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Let the liquidations begin 🫡

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@kusan_btc @lopp Already did - coinbase leak last year

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I would imagine it works this way: you want to start a project anonymously, so you make an alias. You need people to engage with this project , so you use your realname to interact with mysterious creator to lend it credibility, and bring the cryptography community along. It’s not that far fetched.

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@TXMCtrades 🤣love your posts, keep it up!

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@TXMCtrades The bet is that inference cost goes down multiple orders of magnitude and that this is a market grab

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@apsk32 Btc is just going to stay stuck between 65 and 75 just to make everyone wrong

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@mattyglesias Smarter people are more likely to be part of the elite. People tend to vote like their social group. Elites lean left today for cultural reasons. This is yet another confusion betweey correlation and causation

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Can’t wait to do it all over again tomorrow. See y’all at market opening 🫡

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@real_vijay @nic_carter This does feels like the main dynamic at play. Bitcoin fuds and manias cycles follow price action more than they drive them. They do reinforce existing trends, but they don’t create them.

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@TXMCtrades You’re not bullish enough.

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@LawrenceLepard I’ve have tried 5 days. 48 first hours are the most brutal. Once you’ve reached that cap, it’s worth pushing a little further imo. I believe fat loss also accelerates after 24 to 48h.

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Dogmatic ideologues writing propaganda for clicks

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

INSIDE NYT’S HOAX FACTORY

Five months ago, five New York Times reporters were dispatched to create a story about my supposed conflicts of interest working as the White House AI & Crypto Czar.

Through a series of “fact checks” they revealed their accusations, which we debunked in detail. (Not surprisingly the published article included only bits and pieces of our responses.)

Their accusations ranged from a fabricated dinner with a leading tech CEO, to nonexistent promises of access to the President, to baseless claims of influencing defense contracts.

Every time we would prove an accusation false, NYT pivoted to the next allegation. This is why the story has dragged on for five months.

Today they evidently just threw up their hands and published this nothing burger. Anyone who reads the story carefully can see that they strung together a bunch of anecdotes that don’t support the headline. And of course, that was the whole point.

At no point in their constant goalpost-shifting was NYT willing to update the premise of their story to accept that I have no conflicts of interest to uncover.

As it became clear that NYT wasn’t interested in writing a fair story, I hired the law firm Clare Locke, which specializes in defamation law. I’m attaching Clare Locke’s letter to NYT so readers have full context on our interactions with NYT’s reporters over the past several months.

Once you read the letter, it becomes very clear how NYT willfully mischaracterized or ignored the facts to support their bogus narrative.

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@clairlemon Lower expectations

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@lindsaystamp3 Yes. I’ve been on the other side for a little over a year now, after over a decade of grinding and saving. Worth every effort, good luck!

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@mattyglesias This logic is flawed. What’s driving AI progress in the face of risk is the idea that if you don’t do it someone else will.

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@TXMCtrades Yes but was CZ actually guilty in the first place? Real question, I haven’t followed closely.

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@TedPillows Charts are meaningless. Bitcoin can go up or down from here. That’s all there is to it.

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It’s going to be ok.

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@SenSchumer And you are a better man?