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Everyone talks a big game about "buying the dip" when prices are high and the charts look bulletproof.

Then the actual dip arrives and suddenly the same people are posting "This time it's different," "Wait for confirmation," or "I'm just gonna DCA... starting next month."

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CZ Binance says that he believes 2026 will be a Bitcoin supercycle

Do you think he is right?

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After forgetting a $27 Bitcoin investment made for a thesis in 2009, Kristoffer Koch rediscovered the holdings years later, eventually using a small portion to buy an apartment while the remainder grew to a value exceeding $450 million today.

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

This is what the next few weeks look like:

- New Fed Chair
- Clarity Act finalized
- U.S. BTC Reserve news
- PMI > 50 for 4 months
- Lower interest rates
- The war in Iran ending
- Strategy buying billions

AND YOU WANT ME TO BE BEARISH?

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is predicting that AI-driven demand for computing power will create a new asset class of "compute futures" for buying and selling capacity

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@BitPaine @thepowerfulHRV @grok summarise this in one sentence

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Everyone is celebrating the price pump

But you panic sold the bottom

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The company plans to cut 14% of its workforce, to build leaner, AI-native teams that can move faster.

Armstrong highlighted AI's power to speed up engineering from weeks to days, while trimming layers to just five below leadership.

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FED Chair Jerome Powell says “bitcoin is like gold”.

[The Smart Ape 🔥 @the_smart_ape]

aave: yo arbitrum, send back the $71m you get from the hacker, we need it

arbitrum: chill, we’re voting on it, you’ll have it in a few days. defi united, remember?

aave: bet. love that for us

(suddenly, american lawyers show up)
plaintiffs: stop right there. that $71m is ours now

aave: excuse me??

plaintiffs: we have old judgments against north korea. the hacker was lazarus group. lazarus is north korea. therefore the funds belong to north korea. therefore we seize them

aave: wait. do you have proof it was north korea?

plaintiffs: yeah, tweets

aave: …tweets

plaintiffs: and a news article

aave: but even if it was them, holding stolen funds for 5 minutes doesn’t make you the owner??

plaintiffs: yes it does

aave: so if i smash a tiffany’s window, grab a diamond, and a bystander grabs it back from me, your creditor friends can seize the diamond?

plaintiffs: correct

arbitrum: uhh… what are we supposed to do here

plaintiffs: don’t move. everything’s frozen

aave: but the funds belong to my innocent users??

plaintiffs: not our problem

aave: if i lose this, nobody will ever stop a hacker again. why would they? the reward becomes a legal war with the thief’s creditors

plaintiffs: not our problem

aave: and sanctioned states will have an incentive to hack more, since stolen funds can pay off their old debts

plaintiffs: still not our problem

aave: (turns to the judge) your honor, either vacate this now, or make them post a $300m bond. we have days before the entire defi ecosystem cascades

judge: (tbd)

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This vending machine sold bitcoins for $7 at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in 2012.

Casascius coins are ‘physical bitcoins’, containing a private key hidden under a tamper-proof hologram, worth $80,000 today.

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Bitcoin reclaims $80,000

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Follow @crypto_relevant for weekly breakdowns on crypto that go beyond the price charts.

The fundamentals matter. Most people skip them.

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Cigarettes. Giant boulders. Seashells. Gold. Dollars.

All of them have been money at some point in history.

Bitcoin is next in line and the reason isn't complicated.🧵

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So does Bitcoin qualify as real money?

By every formal definition, yes
By legal tender status, not everywhere, not yet
By collective agreement, increasingly, yes

The question isn't whether Bitcoin is money. The question is how many people need to agree before that's undeniable.