Joshua

UIC Baseball Alum

[💗 @SheAintJanae]

That first NFL Sunday is gonna hit like crack in the 80s. 😭

[Wealth Squad Chris @Chrissssjohnson]

Crazy how we had to read about Henry Ford or Rockafeller in books but we got to see Elon Musk’s work in real time

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Bitcoin, Perfect Scarcity, Imperfect Critics

Bitcoin’s fiercest critics keep missing the target. The new bear case is not about bugs in the code, but about one public company accumulating a perfectly scarce asset in a world of perfectly elastic money.

Strategy, the artist formerly known as MicroStrategy, has turned its balance sheet into a bitcoin vault. This, we are told, proves structural fragility: a single, promotional buyer supposedly props up the price, concentrates supply, and creates a future liquidation overhang. If that balance sheet ever de‑risks, the story goes, bitcoin and Strategy’s equity go over the cliff together. Never mind that the company controls less than 5% of outstanding bitcoin, a meaningful hoard, but hardly a corner. Many of the loudest market voices are happy to repeat the script, treating bitcoin as little more than a speculative circus act.

Yet in gold, the same behaviour is treated as statesmanlike. Central banks quietly warehouse bullion with opaque disclosures and openly political motives. How soon we forget the Brown Bottom. When they blunder, as with Gordon Brown’s infamous decision to dump UK gold near the secular low, it is remembered as bad timing, not as evidence that gold is unfit to be money.

Bullion trusts exist for the sole purpose of locking metal in a vault. Streaming companies such as Wheaton Precious Metals sign long‑dated claims on future production, giving shareholders geared exposure to the same finite resource. No one concludes that this pattern of hoarding renders gold “uninvestable.” It is simply how a reserve asset lives.

The double standard is not accidental. Implicit in the consensus is that central‑bank hoarding is respectable, while bitcoin hoarding is suspect. Markets yawn when official institutions add a few more tonnes of gold. They scoff when the Sec of the Treasury Scott Bessent in recent testimony, suggest that the United States methodically moving toward a strategic bitcoin reserve. Gold reserves are “prudence.” A bitcoin reserve is “crankery.” Hoarding is fine, apparently, so long as it never threatens to introduce perfect scarcity into a fiat system that depends on its opposite.

Bitcoin perfect scarcity in a fiat world run wild is now ignored, even by high profile pundits.

Seen clearly, Strategy’s accumulation is not a fatal bug in bitcoin, but a tell about its critics.

When gold is cornered by states and vehicles, it is applauded. When less than 5% of bitcoin is accumulated by a listed American company, it is denounced. That asymmetry says less about bitcoin’s weakness than about the political system’s fear of anything it cannot print. And yes the bias of many who should know better.

$MSTR #Bitcoin @theallinpod

[NFL on Prime Video @NFLonPrime]

Da Bears are really ENJOYING this win 🧀

[NFL @NFL]

The @ChicagoBears are going to the #NFLPlayoffs!

@budlight #ForTheCelly

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

Unreal.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

This week’s edition of “good, better, best”.

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Caleb Williams haters are real quiet.

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Caleb Williams haters are REAL QUIET.

[br_betting @br_betting]

THURSDAY: Eagles-Cowboys
FRIDAY: Chargers-Chiefs
SATURDAY: CFB Slate
SUNDAY: Full NFL Week 1
MONDAY: Bears-Vikings

THIS WEEK IS GOING TO BE AWESOME 🤑

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Last Sunday without NFL games until 2026.

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: The Bulls announced they will be retiring Derrick Rose's No. 1 jersey on January 24, 2026 🌹

[helkum @he1kumwya]

i didn't appreciate haircuts enough when they were $20

[Wealth Squad Chris @Chrissssjohnson]

Anything you aren’t playing the long game in, is a waste of time. If it ain’t worth 10 years it ain’t worth 10 minutes is true, thats how you have to see everything. Anything worth having is worth building and compounding the benefits over a long period of time… Relationships, businesses, partnerships, health, communities, portfolios..
you name it. If it ain’t worth 10 years it ain’t worth 10 minutes is true

[Brad Garlinghouse @bgarlinghouse]

This is it – the moment we’ve been waiting for. The SEC will drop its appeal – a resounding victory for Ripple, for crypto, every way you look at it.

The future is bright. Let's build.

[Karl Townes Van Zandt @Karl_Townes]

Those teachers in elementary/middle school that put on those first round March Madness games still hold a special place in my heart.

[UIC Baseball 🔥⚾️ @UIC_Baseball]

Reece Lawler Named to 2025 NCBWA Preseason Stopper of the Year Watch List

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#ChicagosCollegeTeam

[Heart of America Athletic Conference @TheHeartConf]

⚾️, Defending Heart conference tournament champion @Go_Mustangs is up next for Heart Media Day!

Head coach Jack Dahm and senior Jeremy Figueroa spoke with host @StevenDavisReal about this years team!

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