LAWRENCE LEPARD: "They are going to do a big print. It's going to be bigger than the last one. Mathematically, it has to be."
"This is about destroying a system that's fundamentally broken and hurts millions and millions of people... it's more than just getting rich. It's about voting with your feet to say, no, I'm not playing your game. I'm not holding your money. I'm not holding your bonds. I'm not staying in dollars."
"I want this thing that's the sharpest spear in the sound money arsenal. And I want to stab your Fiat monster right in the f**king heart and kill it."
"It's the Fiat monster that funds the wars and funds the corruption and creates a lot of the sh*t that's bad in the world." - @LawrenceLepard
@Cryptoidolic28@TheBTCTherapist What was the top expected to be in 2025? Don’t think we got near the projected top… no blow off top. Maybe we don’t have the same draw down
@JoelHodlman@BitcoinMagazine Doesn’t sound like Saylor is the driving factor. He owns 4% of the network… he sole like .005 % of his 4% so prices should relate to that.
The Founding Fathers were the original open source developers.
Think about what they actually built.
A system of governance with no central authority.
Distributed power. Checks and balances.
Amendments baked into the protocol so the whole thing could self correct without burning it down.
No king. No monarch. No single point of failure.
They wrote it with a quill, on parchment, by candlelight, and it terrified every empire on Earth.
Why? Because it was the first time in human history that the people held the source code to their own government.
Satoshi did it again.
For money.
A hard cap of 21 million.
An immutable supply schedule.
No central bank. No committee meetings. No Jerome Powell.
No emergency session where six unelected bureaucrats decide to print 40% of all dollars in two years and call it stimulus.
Just math. Just code.
Just a distributed ledger running across tens of thousands of nodes that no government, military, or executive order can shut down.
The Constitution said, no king shall rule your voice.
Bitcoin says, no king shall rule your wealth.
One protected your speech.
The other protects your savings.
This isn't a coincidence. It's the same idea, two centuries apart.
A government of the people, by the people, for the people.
A money of the people, by the people, for the people.
The revolution didn't end in 1776.
It just happening to our money.
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Everyone seems convinced they are living through uniquely stressful times. They are, in fact, living through the most comfortable era in human history, and the gap between those two facts is quietly ruining them.
Look at what you actually woke up to. A warm bed, a roof that held, a tap that gave clean water without a three mile walk to a well, a fridge holding more calories than a medieval village saw in a week. No plague at the door, no army on the ridge, no steward come to take a third of your grain for a lord you never met. The chance that you or anyone you love dies this year of an infected cut is, by the standards of almost everyone who ever lived, a rounding error.
Now measure that against how you feel. Wired, braced, worn out by things that have not happened, a generation with heating and antibiotics and same-day delivery, privately certain it endures the hardest conditions anyone ever has.
The truth is less flattering, and facing it squarely is the whole point. Our ancestors carried far more stress than we do, and carried it better, and the reasons we cannot are worth naming plainly.
The first is diet. Most people run on a blood sugar rollercoaster and a low simmer of inflammation, so the nervous system is already jangling before a single real problem arrives.
The second is lifestyle. We have stripped every scrap of deliberate hardship from ordinary life, so the first genuine difficulty finds a body that has never once been asked to cope.
The third is the strangest. We have taken to adopting every disaster on earth as a personal emergency. A famine two continents away. A feud between strangers. An outrage you will have forgotten by Friday. You pour a finite store of nervous energy into all of it, then wonder why nothing is left for your own life, the small handful of things you could actually change.
The Stoics drew a tight circle around that handful: your judgements, your effort, your conduct. Everything outside it, which is very nearly everything, they treated as weather. Have opinions about weather if you like. Try to be personally responsible for it and you go straight under.
Here is the part they leave off the posters. All three causes are yours to reverse. You can eat the way people ate before any of this. You can put hardship back into your week on purpose. You can let the planet's misfortunes carry on without your sponsorship, because they always would have.
You were not born fragile. You were softened, slowly, by decades of comfort doing exactly what comfort does. Seeing that plainly is the first honest thing you can do. Owning it as yours to fix is the second, and the whole business starts turning the moment you stop waiting for someone else to start it.
@scottmelker It’s an ultra marathon, the goal is to finish… and there will be highs and lows…. And knowing the highs and lows, you prepare and battle for these, with the end in mind to finish the race. Right now they are leading, hit the aid station, top up, and keep moving