My dad gave me a MILLION Confederate dollar bill when I was a kid.
When I asked him what I could do with it, he said, "Nothing."
That's what's coming for the US dollar.
First, a few retailers will say, "we accept Bitcoin” and then a few will say, "we ONLY accept Bitcoin."
The moment that happens, people will panic and run to the bank. They’ll pull their dollars out and convert to Bitcoin.
Please own some Bitcoin, so you don’t panic when people don’t accept your dollars.
This is why I'm telling everyone the same three things right now:
1. Buy enough Bitcoin to keep your family alive for 6 months.
2. If you run a company, hold enough Bitcoin to pay your employees for 4 weeks.
3. If you manage a government treasury, put some percentage in Bitcoin.
Full conversation with Coinage is linked below.
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This skateboard trick may never be eclipsed.
Danny León, a Spanish Olympic skateboarder, set up this shot and landed it during today's eclipse in Spain.
Perfect planning!
Thanks to a generous credit of tokens from @PPQdotAI , Kimi K3 and an ape with a laptop (me) have conducted the following analysis of a bunch of projects / companies wallet softwares. @Coinkite , @OPENDIME , @SeedSigner , @Bitkey , @bluewalletio , @PhoenixWallet , @SparrowWallet , @Trezor , @Blockstream , @Ledger , @BitBoxSwiss , @SpecterDIY , @ElectrumWallet , @SamouraiWallet
🟡 Yellow ≠ broken. None of the nine Yellow products has a confirmed fund-loss-by-default flaw. Yellow means at least one of: (a) something security-critical sits outside independent verification. i.e., closed firmware or secure-element code (Opendime, Ledger, open source please!), vendor-run recovery infrastructure (Phoenix/ACINQ, Jade's oracle, Bitkey's WSM); (b) a real but bounded weakness, such as a zero-work-factor KDF (BlueWallet), weak legacy KDFs on a hot wallet (Electrum), no-SE DIY hardware with thin maintenance (SpecterDIY), a just-patched vulnerability awaiting its report (Bitkey); or (c) a dead/unmaintained product whose crypto reviewed clean (free Samourai!). In every case the entropy/key-generation path itself was reviewed and found sound unless the cell says otherwise.
People think one guy just snapped his fingers and created Bitcoin…
In reality Satoshi fit pieces of an elaborate puzzle together in perfect balance and harmony
Those puzzle pieces took over 40 years and countless individuals to make
My wife and I got into it last night about the grocery bill.
I pulled up an old Target order from February 2020.
28 items. $64.50.
Added every single one back to the cart just to see.
$158.30.
Same 28 items. Same store. Same cart.
$93.80 more.
In five years.
We didn’t buy more.
Didn’t upgrade anything.
Didn’t add a single extra item.
Just needed the same things we always needed.
They told us inflation was transitory. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was strong.
Our cart didn’t get any of those memos.
145% increase in five years.
Not one member of Congress has looked at a grocery receipt in decades.
And it shows.
The obvious way to buy back your time is to pay someone to do something for you. Pay the mechanic to change your oil or a dry cleaner to press your suit.
The less obvious way to buy back your time is to say no. Passing on a promotion might "buy" you more time with family. Declining the dinner invite might "pay" for the time you need to exercise. We buy back our time not only with the money we spend, but also with the opportunities we decline.
The more clearly you know how you want to spend your days, the easier it becomes to say no to the requests that steal your hours.
15 years of bitcoin:native, one power-law channel.
Every cycle top, every capitulation — all of it lives inside the same band.
Today: $62,585. Q2. +75%/yr long-run trend still intact.
The chart doesn't care about your timeline. 🧵
writing will genuinely change your life more than motivation ever will. not in some cringe “manifest your dream life” way. i mean in a very real, practical way. most people never actually stop long enough to understand what’s going on inside their own head. they just react to life all day. scroll when they feel uncomfortable. distract themselves when things get quiet. jump from one dopamine hit to the next. but writing forces you to slow down for a second and actually look at your thoughts instead of running from them. and the weird part is you usually don’t even realize what you truly think until you start writing it down.
writing doesn’t just record your thoughts it creates them. ideas start flowing that you didn’t even know were there. patterns start showing up. emotions start making sense. problems become easier to solve because they’re no longer this giant fog floating around in your head. writing organizes your mind. every high performer, every sharp thinker, every person who just gets it, they all write. It keeps showing up as the common thread. not the expensive stuff. not the complex stuff. Just pen and paper. they write because feelings are vague but words are precise. every time they sit down and search for the exact word to describe what’s inside them, they become a sharper, more powerful communicator.
“people follow the person who can say what they mean and mean what they say. writing every day is how you build that muscle until it becomes second nature.”
over time, all that accumulated writing becomes a resource you can draw from forever. the more you write, the more material you have to solve problems, connect dots and think bigger.
the better you get at putting thoughts into words, the better you get at communicating in general. and honestly, communication controls a huge part of your life. like relationships, opportunities, business, confidence, influence, all of it comes down to how clearly you can express yourself. and no, you don’t need to be some amazing writer either. your grammar doesn’t need to be perfect. nobody cares. half the benefit comes from simply getting thoughts out of your head and onto paper.
some of the best writing advice i’ve ever heard was:
“write badly. just write.”
because the moment you stop trying to sound smart or perfect, your real thoughts finally start coming out.
even 30 minutes a day changes something in you. you become calmer because your mind isn’t carrying around a thousand unprocessed thoughts anymore. you become more self aware because you start noticing your own habits and emotional patterns. you become more articulate because you’re practicing turning feelings into language every single day.
if you write every day, your future self gets to sit down and read exactly how far you’ve come. i think that’s more valuable than any photo album.
who knows maybe one day all that writing becomes a book, a course, something you give your children. at the very least, it becomes proof that you were here, that you grew, that you tried.
that’s one of the coolest parts about it. writing lets you watch yourself evolve with time.
seriously. start writing. doesn’t matter if it’s in a notebook, your notes app, twitter wherever. just sit, think about your thoughts and write.
just sit down for 30 minutes and let your mind speak for once. and watch yourself becoming unstoppable.
it's not the tourists underwater this time.. it's the long-term holders.
~45% of $BTC LTH supply is now sitting in a loss, the same level reached at every cycle bottom in history & we're not even under realised price.
if the strongest hands haven't sold yet (besides @saylor), who's left to?