@CultrHack Only watched the original film from 1945. So I'm not quite sure if the film translates. The final 'reveal' was wonderful. When in Chicago, visit the painting by Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago... it's pretty amazing...
$STRC is literally BlackRock's top holding in it’s preferred shares ETF but apparently JohnnyRetard25494146869 on X has done the research and concluded it’s a scam that nobody wants.
@JeffDavidsonEsq@scottmelker My guess is not giving a 'Win' to Trump before the midterms and payback for what 'Rigor Tortoise' did to Obama and Garland...
Listen, do you want to hear a secret?
Do you promise not to tell…
The Beatles did not merely write catchy songs. They reverse-engineered the entire 1960s radio machine.
They were engineers.
Top 40 AM programmers lived by a brutal clock. Every extra second of music was a second stolen from advertising.
Songs had to land well under three minutes or they never made the playlist. So the Beatles stripped the traditional intro almost to nothing.
No long guitar wander. No polite buildup. "She Loves You," "Help!," and "Can't Buy Me Love" slam straight into the chorus. "A Hard Day's Night" opens with one jagged, instantly recognizable chord that grabs the listener by the collar before the first word is even sung.
Change the station and you miss the hook. Most kids did not change the station.
Lennon and McCartney also ran a linguistic operation McCartney later called the pronoun strategy.
They loaded the lyrics with "I," "me," and "you." Titles were not decoration. "From Me to You." "I Want to Hold Your Hand." "Love Me Do." "She Loves You."
The songs were written as a private conversation aimed at one teenager sitting alone in a bedroom or a car. Third-person stories feel like someone else's life. Direct address feels like the band is talking to you.
Then they attacked the hardware. Cheap portable transistor radios were flooding teenage rooms.
Those radios had two-inch speakers that barely produced bass and drowned in AM static. George Martin and the EMI engineers mixed the early singles accordingly.
They crushed the mono masters, cut the low end, and pushed midrange and treble until the close harmonies and ringing guitar lines cut through the tin and the hiss. The records were not mixed for hi-fi living rooms. They were mixed to win on the worst speaker in the house.
That combination of instant structure, personal pronouns, and speaker-optimized sound is why those early singles did not just get played.
They occupied the dial.
And yes for decades it was a secret.
Talking Heads release “Stop Making Sense” 42 yrs ago today
Of his performance in the film, David Byrne said: “You see this person in the beginning who's kind of angsty .. And then, by the end, he's surrendered to the music and is fairly joyful .. He’s found a kind of community."
Over time and throughout history...
- Government fiat currency is a Depreciating store of value.
- Gold is a Stable store of value.
- Bitcoin is an Appreciating store of value.
Understand (and apply) this monetary categorization and you will do well.
Carl Menger destroyed the labor theory of value in 1871 with a single insight: humans value goods based on their marginal utility, not the labor embedded in them. The same year, William Stanley Jevons in England and Léon Walras in France independently arrived at similar conclusions about marginal utility. Three economists, three countries, one revolutionary idea that shattered Marx's entire framework.
Menger's "Principles of Economics" went further than his contemporaries by building economics from individual human action rather than mathematical abstractions. While Jevons and Walras constructed elegant equations, Menger asked the fundamental question: why does anyone value anything at all? His answer traced value back to human needs and the decreasing satisfaction each additional unit provides. The tenth glass of water matters less than the first when you're dying of thirst.
The timing wasn't coincidental. By 1871, classical economics had painted itself into a corner with the labor theory of value. If labor determines value, why do diamonds cost more than water? Why do identical goods sell for different prices? Value exists only in the mind of the acting individual. No intrinsic value, no objective measurement, just human preferences ranking scarce goods according to their ability to satisfy wants.
Menger's approach created the foundation for the entire Austrian school tradition that followed. Böhm-Bawerk used marginal utility to explain interest rates. Mises extended it to money and the business cycle. Rothbard applied it to ethics and political theory. Every free market economist since 1871 stands on Menger's shoulders.
The establishment still teaches economics as if Menger never existed, preferring mathematical models to human action, aggregate demand curves to individual choice, and central planning to market processes.
WHEN THESE ASSHOLES LOOKS AT PICTURES OF SEASHELLS THEY SEE DANGROUS THREAT 🚨BUT LOOKING AT PICTURES OF GROWN MEN RAPING CHILDREN AND WOMEN CRICKETS 🤷 RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES ✊✊
@PeterMcCormack@Heccles94 High time preference with a complete lack of understanding of the fundamental problem. The money is broken (@LynAldenContact ). We're still early. Very sad in a way...
Bitcoin is not a "normal" asset like a stock or even a basket of stocks.
It has no earnings. No cash flow. (Although you can borrow against it, turning it into an asset like we do with 2718 fund).
It's also not in any way like "other cryptos". It is purely decentralized. Has no foundation or control committee. It can't be sanctioned.
It's a purely mathematical form of money. It's what mathematicians would call "canonical".
Statistically, is the only financial asset to form a power law.
The faster you can get your brain around this, the richer you will get.
My net worth is 5x what it was in 2020.
And no, it is not because Bitcoin went up.
My Bitcoin cost basis is only a few thousand dollars below current price.
The real return came from going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole.
Bitcoin forced me to understand how money works.
How debt works.
How inflation works.
How incentives work.
How the system is designed.
Once you understand that, you stop making the same financial mistakes everyone else makes.
The biggest gain from Bitcoin is not the price.
It is the mindset shift.
$5M Bitcoin is now a supply race.
Not a prediction.
Something just changed in the structure of the Bitcoin market.
Not the price.
The mechanism behind it.
Almost nobody sees it yet.
Not even close.
Because what most people are still seeing as “demand”…
Is actually turning into a machine.
And that machine is scaling.
It’s already happening in real time.
Michael Saylor just updated his tracker again.
766,970 BTC accumulated.
Over $54 billion deployed.
And every time that tracker gets posted…
Another acquisition follows.
Like clockwork.
The machine isn’t coming.
It’s already running.
Michael Saylor isn’t just buying Bitcoin.
He’s building a system designed to absorb it continuously.
At scale.
Forever.
And if you zoom out for a second…
You start to see how big this could get.
Right now, Bitcoin sits at a $1.4 trillion market cap.
At $1,000,000 per Bitcoin, that number jumps to roughly $20 trillion.
That’s an $18+ trillion gap that needs to be filled.
Most people assume that requires $18 trillion of new money.
It doesn’t.
Because markets don’t move linearly.
Bitcoin has something most assets don’t:
A multiplier effect.
When new capital enters Bitcoin…
It doesn’t just increase market cap one-for-one.
It reprices the entire asset.
And depending on the environment…
That multiplier can be massive.
At a 10x multiplier:
It only takes about $1.8 trillion of net inflows to push Bitcoin to $1 million.
At 5x:
Roughly $3.7 trillion.
Even at a very conservative 3x:
About $6 trillion.
Now put that into context.
The global debt market is roughly $348 trillion.
To drive Bitcoin to $1 million…
This system only needs to capture around 0.5% to 1.5% of that market.
That’s it.
Not 10%.
Not 20%.
One percent.
And right now?
This machine has barely even started.
Strategy’s STRC product - the engine behind this accumulation - is sitting at roughly $5.3 billion.
That’s about 0.0018% of the global debt market.
Read that again.
0.0018%.
That’s not adoption.
That’s a prototype.
And it’s already moving the market.
It’s already strong enough to impact Bitcoin supply.
Wall Street just noticed.
Bloomberg just reported that most analysts expect Strategy to MORE THAN DOUBLE this year.
Calling it one of the most undervalued companies in the world.
Not because of earnings.
Because of Bitcoin.
Now imagine what happens if that scales 100x.
Or 200x.
Or more.
Or globally.
Because this isn’t just about buying Bitcoin.
It’s about transforming Bitcoin into a global fixed-income asset.
High yield.
High liquidity.
Scarce collateral.
There is nothing else like it in the financial system.
And capital always flows to the best-performing product.
It always has.
It always will.
Even Coinbase’s CEO just said it out loud:
“If you don’t own at least 5% Bitcoin… you’ll probably be sad.”
And he’s not talking to retail.
He’s talking to capital allocators.
Funds.
Institutions.
Corporate treasuries.
Sovereign capital.
That’s how markets work.
Which means this isn’t just a Bitcoin story anymore.
This is a capital markets story.
Because if STRC - or products like it - start absorbing even a fraction of global debt flows…
Bitcoin doesn’t just go up.
It gets repriced.
Violently.
And this is where it breaks most people’s understanding of markets.
This system is reflexive.
The more Bitcoin gets absorbed…
The tighter the available supply becomes.
The tighter supply becomes…
The stronger the price reaction to new capital.
The stronger the price reaction…
The more attractive the yield and collateral profile becomes.
Which pulls in more capital.
Which absorbs more supply.
Which drives price higher.
And the cycle feeds itself.
This is not a normal market dynamic.
This is a feedback loop.
And most people are still looking at it like it’s just another cycle.
They’re watching price.
Instead of watching structure.
While everyone is focused on charts…
The infrastructure behind Bitcoin is being rebuilt in real time.
Wall Street is integrating it.
And it’s not just one firm.
Barclays.
Morgan Stanley.
Trillion-dollar banks are now openly moving toward Bitcoin integration.
This is no longer early adoption.
This is the beginning of system-level migration.
Corporations are accumulating it.
And now…
Financial products are being engineered specifically to absorb it.
At scale.
Consistently.
Relentlessly.
And we’re still early.
Because if this entire system only needs ~1% of global capital to drive a full repricing…
And it’s currently sitting at less than 0.002% penetration…
Then the move hasn’t even started yet.
Not really.
Which brings us back to the original point.
This is no longer about whether Bitcoin reaches $5M.
It’s about how fast this machine scales.
Because once it reaches escape velocity…
There is no off switch.
No supply response.
No way to slow it down.
There are only 21 million Bitcoin.
And the portion actually available to buy is shrinking every single day.
So when this system ramps up…
New capital starts competing for an asset with vanishing float…
Price won’t move gradually.
It will gap.
And by the time most people realize what’s happening…
They won’t be early anymore.
They’ll be chasing.
Because the real shift isn’t just demand.
It’s the creation of a system that turns demand into a continuous force.
And once that system is fully in motion…
There is no ceiling.
Only supply constraints.
They’re disappearing faster than anyone realizes.
It’s happening faster than people can react.
So the question isn’t whether Bitcoin reaches $5M.
It’s how much is left…
When the machine finishes absorbing the rest.