Throwing it all on Orange 🟠
Here’s your Day 2 recap of Bitcoin Vegas 2025 from our intern!
From $BTC battling economic slavery, to Saylor dropping a masterclass on wealth-building, Ulbrich's freedom, to the roots of HODL...
Here are the biggest takeaways: 🧵🔽
At this point in time if someone needs you to "explain Bitcoin to them" why it's legit
The only response is to just laugh at them.
The world has moved on without them. It's not our problem they don't get it, its theirs.
@Culture_Crit Because we switched from a deflationary monetary standard (gold) to an inflationary monetary standard (unbacked paper money)
Here's a simple explanation... https://t.co/zI3hzz3cXg
US govt debt has gone from $1.2 trillion to $31.4 trillion since 1980.
1980 Debt to GDP = 26%
2023 Debt to GDP = 123%
2040 Debt to GDP = ???
Anyone who thinks this path is sustainable is insane.
This is the path the Roman empire went down. Reduce the metal content of the coins ... make the money worthless.
This is late stage empire type of stuff.
None of own enough #gold and #silver.
Get it while you still can.
Gov regulates food; population is grossly unhealthy
Gov regulates healthcare; costs skyrocket
Gov regulates drugs; fentanyl epidemic
Gov regulates money; runaway debt and high inflation
Let’s have them regulate AI so we can truly fuck ourselves
In physical domains (diet, workouts), consistency is king.
In intellectual & social domains, wins are rare, sudden, and nonlinear - 99% of effort is “wasted.”
Once we find our ideal spouse, career, friends, we realize how much time we squandered by not moving on sooner.
@naval
Next week, I’ll be sending a bill to congress to eliminate all taxes (income, property, capital gains and import tariffs) on technology innovations, such as software programming, coding, apps and AI development; as well as computing and communications hardware manufacturing.
I can’t name any game company that isn’t working on NFTs for games in some form.
Your a fucking idiot if you think crypto gaming isn’t about to decouple and be it’s own sub niche of finance separate from DeFi.
It’ll move completely independently of general crypto.
But what about unintended consequences?
This potentially gives banks the go-ahead to take greater risks with our capital, knowing that the government will likely foot the bill in the end.