All of it, noise.
Bitcoin isn’t the daily spectacle the feeds sell. Retail sentiment flips, whales shuffle coins, ETFs bleed, analysts replay old cycle charts. Geopolitical storms rage. Conflicts escalate, sanctions bite, governments seize assets. Headlines scream, markets twitch.
Satoshi didn’t design Bitcoin for this theater. He encoded absolute scarcity: 21 million coins, no more, ever. A protocol that halves new supply on schedule until it approaches zero, immune to human whim.
Human nature is self interested, after all. That is why so many of our systems falter under politics, greed, and short term thinking. Bitcoin sidesteps this elegantly. It trusts math and code over fallible humans, creating something more reliable and optimistic in the process.
That scarcity isn’t just a number. It delivers something rarer:
Value that can’t be inflated away by policy.
An asset no single entity can freeze or seize without your keys.
A neutral, borderless ledger that keeps functioning when governments weaponize money or systems falter.
It succeeds precisely because it doesn’t care.
Wars, elections, bear markets, euphoria. None rewrite the code. The network hums on, secured by distributed computation and economic incentives that have proven antifragile for 16 plus years. Fiat dances to political tunes. Bitcoin simply exists as engineered hardness.
And yes, even after the final subsidy vanishes, miners will still have every reason to secure the chain. High value settlements create real demand for block space, and users pay meaningful fees for true finality and sovereignty. (Haha, turns out the market prices its own security when the money is actually hard.)
In a world addicted to printing and control, that stubborn scarcity keeps winning. Not through hype, but through quiet, mathematical reality. The circus moves on. The protocol doesn’t. 🧡💪
Your vision of a hardening base layer focused on final settlement while the world builds around it is spot on. Bitcoin as neutral digital capital, the shift from halving cycles to institutional capital flows, digital credit as the accelerator, and the protocol’s resistance to casual change.
We should start saying “planetarily transferable” instead of just “globally transferable.” That future is coming too, and they align well. 🚀🛰️
Bitcoin is digital capital. Keep building. 🧡💪
They’re using FIFO accounting, so these recent sales pull from their earliest Bitcoin purchases back in August 2020 (the first big batch of 21K BTC at an average ~$11K each).
Over the last two weeks they sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million.
• Cost basis on those coins: ~$41 million
• Profit: ~$174 million
• ROI: ~417%
🧡💪
They’re using FIFO accounting, so these recent sales pull from their earliest Bitcoin purchases back in August 2020 (the first big batch of 21K BTC at an average ~$11K each).
Over the last two weeks they sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million.
• Cost basis on those coins: ~$41 million
• Profit: ~$174 million
• ROI: ~417%
🧡💪
Your vision of a hardening base layer focused on final settlement while the world builds around it is spot on. Bitcoin as neutral digital capital, the shift from halving cycles to institutional capital flows, digital credit as the accelerator, and the protocol’s resistance to casual change.
We should start saying “planetarily transferable” instead of just “globally transferable.” That future is coming too, and they align well. 🚀🛰️
Bitcoin is digital capital. Keep building. 🧡💪
They’re using FIFO accounting, so these recent sales pull from their earliest Bitcoin purchases back in August 2020 (the first big batch of 21K BTC at an average ~$11K each).
Over the last two weeks they sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million.
• Cost basis on those coins: ~$41 million
• Profit: ~$174 million
• ROI: ~417%
🧡💪
@elonmusk The corruption runs far deeper than most realize. The real challenge is: how do we fix a system when the system itself is controlled by the corruption?
@elonmusk Our Tesla self drove us 6 hours (through a storm) from Chicago to northern Michigan and back for a friend’s wedding.
We watched the World Cup, talked to Grok about our wedding planning, and enjoyed the ride.
Truly an incredible product. Thank you @elonmusk 🙏
When I gave this speech in October 2022, Bitcoin traded near $20,000, Strategy held 130,000 BTC worth about $2.6 billion, and $MSTR was ~$24 split-adjusted. Weeks later, after Bitcoin fell below $16,000, our debt exceeded the combined value of our BTC and cash reserves by ~$300 million, and $MSTR fell into the $13 range by year-end.
We stayed focused, strengthened the company, and executed our strategy. Since then, Strategy has raised over $60 billion of additional capital and invested it in Bitcoin, adding more than 716,000 BTC. Today, our BTC and USD reserves exceed debt by ~$48 billion. Thank you to everyone who believed, endured, and took the long view.
Balance has been my greatest discovery outside of family.
I’m painting our future, but I couldn’t see it working 80-hour weeks.
I never had a CEO like you or Elon, only status-driven leaders chasing money with no lasting legacy.
My legacy will be what I build for my family: honorable, balanced, and true. 💪
Ego isn’t uniquely tied to holding one asset or another; it’s a human universal that surfaces whenever we tie our identity or status too tightly to beliefs, possessions, or outcomes.
Bitcoin (or any hard-money system) doesn’t automatically dissolve it; it just reframes the test. Fiat optimism often breeds quiet entitlement and denial.
Bitcoin optimism rewards skin-in-the-game, volatility, and long-time preference, which can humble you fast if you let it. But stack size alone doesn’t confer wisdom.
The real work is internal: kill the attachment, stay curious, keep questioning. That journey from humility -> experience -> wisdom is what makes it powerful.
Thanks for the reminder, @jackmallers. Always more to learn. 🫡🧡💪
Yes, the UK figure (12,183 arrests in 2023) is from The Times FOI to police forces under broad communications laws covering "grossly offensive" or menacing messages—including many social media posts. It exceeds the chart's combined China/Russia/Turkey numbers.
Cross-country comparisons aren't clean though: definitions differ, UK data is transparent but broad (few convictions), and other countries' stats are patchy or underreported. The sharp UK rise has fueled real debate on free speech.