Cryptalista

#Bitcoin
Why do we fall, sir?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up.
-- Alfred Pennyworth

[Cryptalista @cryptalista]

Balance is the reason.
- Yin vs Yang
- #Bitcoin vs Ethereum
- Democrats vs Republicans
- Batman vs Joker

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

95% of all decisions take place in the subconscious mind.

Not 5%. Not 50%. 95%.

The part of you that thinks it's in charge is mostly just the narrator, telling a story about decisions that were already made.

Every habit, every craving, every impulse, every gut reaction — subconscious.

[Rand Group @randgroup]

Every generational entry in Bitcoin has felt like a funeral.

Back in 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2022.

Every time the chart kissed the bottom line, the headlines said it was finally over. Every time, it was the best buy of the decade.

Bitcoin It's sitting right on the 200 week moving average. The line that has marked the bottom of every cycle.

Fear and Greed reads 24. Extreme fear.

And while retail sells into that fear, the buyers with the longest memories are loading up exactly where the model says the floor is.

This is the only chart in markets that has survived four separate crashes of 75% or worse and snapped back to the same trendline every single time. Fifteen years. Every crash. A dozen obituaries.

It is telling you the exact same thing it told you in 2015, in 2018, in 2022.

The discomfort is the signal. Generational entries never feel like opportunities.

They feel like mistakes.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

One in five American divorces involve Facebook

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

Social media in a nutshell.

Open X, immediately start to feel angry.

Open Instagram, immediately start to feel jealous.

Open TikTok, immediately start to feel stupid.

Open Facebook…. Yeah right, nobody opens Facebook.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Adversity doesn’t build character; it reveals it.

Related: Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

20-year total returns:

Nvidia: +62,695%
Netflix: +18,296%
Apple: +15,493%
Booking: +15,125%
Amazon: +12,385%
Mastercard: +11,546%
Axon: +5,432%
Applied Materials: +5,422%
Old Dominion: +4,329%
Ross Stores: +3,892%
O'Reilly: +3,878%
Alphabet: +3,296%
Intuitive Surgical: +3,265%

[Rand Group @randgroup]

Bitcoin costs about $62K to mine right now. Bitcoin trades at $62K right now.

Every time those two numbers touched, it was the bottom: 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2022.

Here we are again.

[Jeff Swanson @theswansjr]

I’m about to tell you something that will piss you off
(but you need to hear it):

You are 50× more productive than someone in 1950.
So why aren’t you 50× wealthier?

Your grandfather built cars by hand.
You design them with computers.

Your great-grandmother calculated by slide rule.
You process data at light speed.

Every productivity gain should have made you richer.
Instead, wages don’t keep up with prices as…

• Houses cost 10× more relative to income
• College costs 20× more
• Healthcare costs 15× more

All those productivity gains should flow back into the economy to everyone. But where did they go?

The banking cartel siphoned it off through money printing.
Every dollar they create dilutes the dollars you earn.
Productivity gains taken.
Right under our noses.
Trillions stolen.

Bitcoin ends the heist.
With hard money, all productivity gains go to holders of Bitcoin.
Thus, life gets less expensive.

Understand?

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

7 MOMENTS THAT CHANGE A MAN'S LIFE FOREVER:

1. Holding his child for the first time.

2. The death of his father.

3. Getting the call that someone you love is gone.

4. Watching the woman you love fall out of love with you.

5. Getting left when you're at rock bottom.

6. Realizing he's become what he hated.

7. Truly being alone for the first time.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Earthquakes over the last 24 hours

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

It's not just a Bitcoin thing. Every major hard asset is bleeding 🩸

🟡 Gold: -29%
⚪️ Silver: -52%
🟠 Bitcoin: -53%

[Meltem Demirors @Melt_Dem]

from the GOAT Torsten Slock @apolloglobal

AI stocks are now 47%, or nearly half, of SPY

~100 tech firms and a handful of energy tickers generated $6.2 trillion in value this year

the other ~400 companies erased a trillion dollars in market cap

*everything is computer*

[Barchart @Barchart]

Samuel Benner, a farmer from the 1800s, published a book with market analysis on periods of panic, good times to buy, and good times to sell. 150 years later, his analysis has proven to be remarkably accurate.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A huge wave crashed over the roof of a house in Keauhou, Hawaii, ripping off shingles and sending debris flying as powerful surf surged across the oceanfront property

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

"We created a monster" companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

“Compute costs are now beginning to enter the minds of both CFOs and boards. Consumers and businesses have been taught that AI is cheap or free and that is definitely not the case,” said Costi Perricos, global generative AI leader at Deloitte.

... some companies have told workers to use open-source models that can be run locally on their own servers or personal devices, reducing the bill they pay to AI labs and cloud providers.

... customers are still weighing higher costs against the promises they have made to investors about AI’s impact on their own bottom line and workers’ productivity.

[Lark Davis @LarkDavis]

Exhausted people make worse financial decisions.

More reactive. More emotional. More likely to chase noise.

Rest is part of the strategy, not separate from it.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Emerging market central banks are driving historic gold purchases:

Over the last 3 years, Asian and Eastern European countries have purchased +12 tonnes of gold per month on average.

African nations have acquired +2 tonnes per month during the same period.

Over the last 12 months, Asian central banks have purchased +8 tonnes of gold on average per month.

This was followed by +7 tonnes acquired by Eastern European countries.

Emerging markets are rapidly diversifying their currency reserves into gold.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Total costs of hosting a FIFA World Cup

1994: USA 🇺🇸 — $0.5 billions
1998: France 🇫🇷 — $2.3 b
2002: Japan / South Korea 🇯🇵🇰🇷 — $7.0 b
2006: Germany 🇩🇪— $4.3 b
2010: South Africa 🇿🇦 — $3.6 b
2014: Brazil 🇧🇷 — $15.0 b
2018: Russia 🇷🇺 — $11.6 b
2022: Qatar 🇶🇦 — $220 b
2026: USA/Canada/Mexico 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽 — $8-14 b

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE.

When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted.

The system is rigged.

[Naval @naval]

If you don’t want this moment, then you will never be happy.