The Wolf Of My Street

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

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[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

Bitcoin is better money than gold. It has superior monetary properties.

In fact, Bitcoin beats gold on 25 different dimensions.

1. Portability: Move billions across borders with 12 or 24 words. Gold needs guards, vaults, trucks, customs, and prayers.

2. Divisibility: Bitcoin divides into 100 million sats per BTC. Gold is awkward to divide, verify, and spend in small amounts.

3. Verifiability: Anyone can verify Bitcoin supply and ownership with a node. Gold requires assays, trust, and specialists.

4. Scarcity certainty: Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million. Gold supply expands with mining, new discoveries, and potentially asteroid mining.

5. Supply auditability: Bitcoin’s total supply is publicly auditable in real time. Nobody knows the exact amount of above-ground gold.

6. Settlement speed: Bitcoin can settle globally in minutes. Gold settlement is slow, expensive, and institution-heavy.

7. Custody sovereignty: Bitcoin can be self-custodied without a vault. Gold self-custody is physically dangerous and logistically annoying.

8. Confiscation resistance: Properly secured Bitcoin can cross borders invisibly. Gold is obvious, heavy, and historically confiscatable.

9. Storage cost: Bitcoin can be stored for near-zero physical cost. Gold requires vaulting, insurance, security, and transportation.

10. Transport cost: Bitcoin travels at the speed of information. Gold travels at the speed of armored logistics.

11. Programmability: Bitcoin can integrate with multisig, time locks, Lightning, smart custody setups, and financial infrastructure. Gold is inert metal.

12. Global liquidity: Bitcoin trades 24/7 globally. Gold markets still rely heavily on traditional financial rails and business-hour settlement layers.

13. Settlement finality: Bitcoin can provide direct bearer settlement without trusted intermediaries. Gold often settles through paper claims.

14. Resistance to counterfeit: Bitcoin units are mathematically validated. Gold can be plated, diluted, faked, or rehypothecated.

15. No trusted issuer: Bitcoin has no central issuer, board, treasury, or refinery bottleneck. Gold custody often depends on institutions.

16. Easier inheritance: Bitcoin can be structured with multisig and recovery planning. Gold inheritance is physical, messy, and theft-prone.

17. Collateral efficiency: Bitcoin is easier to pledge, move, audit, and financialize digitally. Gold collateral is slower and more custodial.

18. Transparency: Bitcoin’s monetary policy and ledger are open. Gold’s market is opaque, with hidden reserves, paper claims, and unclear leverage.

19. Censorship resistance: Bitcoin can be sent peer-to-peer globally. Gold needs physical handoff or trusted transport.

20. Energy-to-scarcity conversion: Bitcoin turns energy into digitally verifiable scarcity. Gold turns energy into heavy rocks guarded by men with sunglasses.

21. Monetary upgradeability: Bitcoin can absorb software improvements at the network edges. Gold cannot become more useful without wrapping it in trust-based systems.

22. Unit consistency: Every bitcoin is perfectly fungible at the protocol level. Gold varies by purity, form, assay, and bar history.

23. Lower friction: Bitcoin is easier to buy, sell, send, receive, verify, split, secure, and integrate into modern finance.

24. Digital-native compatibility: Bitcoin fits an internet economy. Gold belongs to a world of vault receipts, musty central bankers, and men named Klaus guarding basements.

25. Personal sovereignty: Bitcoin lets one person hold immense wealth directly. Gold makes you become your own medieval castle.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

It gives you the power to earn money, which gets you all that money can buy (though not more) and the freedom of choice to do what you want and navigate life’s challenges well. The most valuable forms of human capital are great skills, great relationships, and a great reputation. I urge you to invest heavily and uncompromisingly in getting these. Besides being the most powerful type of capital, human capital is the only capital that can't be taken away from you. Throughout history, those who had everything else taken away—including those who had to leave their countries with nothing more than the shirts on their back—but had great human capital were still able to prosper.

I’ll be sharing more investment principles in the coming weeks—if you’d like to be notified when I share them you can click the 🔔 next to the following button in my profile.

[Lark Davis @LarkDavis]

Everyone: "Saylor's underwater on Bitcoin. He's cooked."

Saylor: "We're like a company that owns 3.4% of Manhattan with enough capital to hold out to the end of this century."

"You're telling me it's been a bad week in Manhattan real estate?"

The "loss" only exists if you're forced to sell.

He's not forced to do anything.

You are.

That's the difference.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

In 2010, Satoshi was believed to be Hal Finney.

In 2012, Satoshi was believed to be Nick Szabo.

In 2014, Satoshi was believed to be Dorian Nakamoto.

In 2016, Satoshi was believed to be Craig Wright.

In 2018, Satoshi was believed to be Adam Back.

In 2020, Satoshi was believed to be Jack Dorsey.

In 2022, Satoshi was believed to be Elon Musk.

In 2024, Satoshi was believed to be Peter Todd.

In 2026, Satoshi was believed to be Epstein.

So there will be another FUD narrative in 2028.

[Plamen Andonov @Plamen__Andonov]

Bitcoin demands a shift in mindset. In a world chasing instant gratification, it forces you to adopt a low time preference. It’s about building integrity through self-custody and rejecting the noise of endless alternatives. The real sacrifice is continuing to participate in a broken system. Long-term thinking wins.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Bitcoin is a volatile asset.

It went from $0.01 to $126,000 in about 15 years. There were many 50-85% drawdowns along the way.

Bitcoin has averaged a Global Financial Crisis every 18 months for the last decade.

Yet bitcoiners continue to hold through all the noise. The blockchain produces block-after-block of transactions.

And the critics take their “victory laps” during the drawdowns, only to get their faces ripped off a few months later in a bull market by the best performing asset since 2010.

It is a story as old as time.

Let the critics celebrate today. They will predict the death of bitcoin for the thousandth time. They will point and laugh at those who hold the asset.

But secretly they know the truth.

Their dollars will continue to devalue and bitcoin will appreciate over the long run.

Scarcity never goes out of style.

[The Wolf Of My Street @mirchevhtc]

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[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

🔥BITCOIN TURNED THE MONETARY PRISON INTO A DIGITAL EXIT🔥

You were born into debt.

Not poverty. Not hardship. Debt.

Before your first breath, your time was collateral.

The state issued bonds with your future baked into the yield curve.

You’re not a citizen. You’re a cash flow.

Your labor is a line item.

Your dreams are priced in CPI.

And every dollar you save bleeds like an artery under Powell’s boot.

You go to work. You pay your taxes. You obey.

The system thanks you with a slow rug pull called inflation, hidden behind three-letter agencies and rigged CPI baskets.

They tell you 2% is healthy, which is a euphemism for theft.

You finance your education at 8% to compete in a marketplace where AI writes the emails and HR ghostwrites your personality.

You buy a house at 7% so BlackRock can bid against you with zero-percent Fed liquidity.

You invest in “diversified index funds”
so Vanguard can lend your shares to the very people shorting your future.

You use dollars backed by debt, held in banks that don’t hold your money, inside a system that pretends solvency by marking treasuries as “hold to maturity” while quietly preparing bail-ins.

Then came Bitcoin.

A monetary asset no one can counterfeit, inflate, or confiscate.

A bearer instrument secured by the most powerful computing network on Earth.

A digital vault sealed with entropy and fire.

Time-stamped. Permissionless. Final.

Every sat is a scar on the fiat regime.

Every block is an indictment of the old world.

Every HODLer is a silent fugitive from the monetary asylum.

Bitcoin turned the monetary prison into a digital exit.

And the guards haven’t even realized the inmates are gone.

[Carl ₿ MENGER ⚡️🇸🇻 @CarlBMenger]

Supply Shock is Real Bro. #Bitcoin

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

21 Rules of Bitcoin

[Quinten | 048.eth @QuintenFrancois]

Bitcoin dips -30%
People’s reaction: extreme fear

Black Friday -30% sale on a new iPhone
People’s reaction: take my money

This is why most people stay poor

They buy liabilities on sale and sell assets on fear, the exact opposite of how wealth is built

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

After 16 years and $1.83 trillion, I finally understand what Bitcoin actually is.

It's not digital gold. It's not a payment system. It's not even money.

Bitcoin is humanity's first institution where legitimacy comes from physics instead of politics.

Here's what that means:

Your bank account exists because a government says it does. They can freeze it. Print more. Change the rules.

Bitcoin exists because thermodynamics says it does. Each block costs $281,700 in electricity. You cannot print energy. You cannot vote to change physics.

To rewrite one day of Bitcoin history costs $40 million in power.
To rewrite one day of banking history costs one phone call.

This is why it won't stop.

Not because of price. Not because of believers. Because of math.

Metcalfe's Law predicts Bitcoin's price with 90% accuracy across 15 years. The same law that governs how epidemics spread and how earthquakes cascade.

Game theory predicts zero successful attacks across 16 years. The same math that keeps nuclear weapons unused and traffic flowing.

Thermodynamics predicts why it costs more to attack than defend. The same physics that makes gold impossible to counterfeit.

Three scientific laws. 16 years of data. $1.83 trillion in validation.

Every other money in history asked: "Do you trust us?"

Bitcoin asks: "Can you do the math?"

For 5,000 years, money meant trusting kings, priests, or central bankers.

For 16 years, money has meant verifying physics.

You don't have to believe in Bitcoin.

You didn't have to believe in the internet either.

TCP/IP hit year 16 in 2005. People still thought it was a fad.

Today you're reading this because of it.

The pattern is simple: Infrastructure that removes the need for trust always wins. Always.

Not today. Not this year.

But eventually.

Because physics is patient.

And physics doesn't negotiate.

Read my full paper on why Bitcoin matters!

Substack
https://t.co/d0Ft9cfBFF

Medium
https://t.co/QSvKVqvJrS

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

Every fiat currency in human history has collapsed in purchasing power.

Every single one.

The historical failure rate is over 99 percent.

People act like this is controversial.

It is the most documented trend in economics:

• The US dollar lost over 98 percent of its purchasing power since 1913

• The British pound lost over 99 percent of its purchasing power since its peak

• The Japanese yen lost over 95 percent since 1970

• The euro already lost about 40 percent since 1999

• Argentina has had five currency collapses in 100 years

• Zimbabwe nuked its currency by 35 quadrillion percent

• The French franc died after eight redesigns

• The Italian lira had inflation so bad they gave up and
joined the euro

• The Roman denarius went through a 700-year dilution death spiral

Look at the global scoreboard.

Out of roughly 179 fiat currencies, over 170 are dead.

Hyperinflated, abandoned, redenominated, or wiped out completely.

The survivors only exist because their governments force them to.

Their purchasing power still collapses every year.

The decay never stops.

You can pretend your savings are safe in government paper, or you can acknowledge the obvious.

Every fiat experiment ends the same way.

Bitcoin is the answer to this purchasing power debasement.

Every government currency is built to decay.

Choose the thing that does not require trust in politicians who cannot balance a checkbook.

Fiat loses value. Bitcoin does not.

History is not subtle.

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

You still don’t get it, Ray. History doesn’t “show” what you think it does—it shows the same misunderstanding repeated by financiers who never learned what money is. Governments don’t “print money” to pay debts; they issue debt. The new bonds aren’t creation ex nihilo—they’re liabilities, sold to investors who fund deficits through credit, not through presses. The central bank, when it engages in so-called “printing,” is simply exchanging one form of government debt for another—reserves for bonds. That’s not inflationary by necessity; it’s balance sheet substitution.

Let’s start with your first claim: “The empire can no longer borrow.” False premise. Every major economic power in the last 200 years has borrowed through credit expansion, not through physical money creation. The British Empire did this throughout the 19th century under the gold standard, issuing consols—perpetual bonds—to finance wars. The United States has done the same since 1790, refinancing old debt with new, never “repaying” in the sense you imply. Empires collapse not because they borrow, but because their productive base collapses relative to their debt servicing obligations. Debt without output is decay; debt with innovation is leverage.

Your second point—“it prints a lot of new money”—belongs on a protest sign, not in an economic model. Modern economies don’t print money; commercial banks expand credit under fractional reserve frameworks. When demand for loans rises, money supply expands; when loans are repaid or written off, it contracts. The government’s deficit spending adds net financial assets to the private sector, but those assets are offset by public liabilities. You’re describing accounting, not alchemy.

Inflation isn’t created by a “printing press.” It’s created by excess nominal demand relative to real output capacity. The Weimar Republic printed because its industrial base had been gutted by reparations and foreign occupation. Zimbabwe printed because its agricultural output was annihilated by expropriation. The problem wasn’t “too much money”; it was too little production. But economists who worship models instead of mechanisms prefer to blame paper.

“Living standards decline, leading to political extremism.” A nice slogan, but let’s recall: in 1945, the UK had debt-to-GDP above 250%, rationing, and yet the period that followed—when Keynesian debt-financing rebuilt industry—ushered in 30 years of growth, social stability, and real wage expansion. Debt did not cause collapse; it funded reconstruction. The same pattern held for postwar Japan, whose “debt crisis” financed the greatest industrial expansion in modern history.

“Turbulent conditions undermine productivity.” No, Ray—productivity collapses when speculation replaces production. When capital chases yield in financial instruments rather than in factories, the multiplier dies. That’s what your peers on Wall Street perfected. They built paper castles, mistook leverage for wealth, and called it “financial innovation.” The turbulence you lament is the inevitable feedback of your own class mistaking liquidity for value.

And finally, the punchline: “Populist leaders emerge.” Of course they do. People eventually tire of experts who spend decades misrepresenting debt mechanics, calling QE “money printing,” and then act bewildered when confidence in institutions collapses. Populism is the symptom, not the cause.

You want to talk about cycles? Here’s the real one: economists misunderstand credit, politicians exploit the misunderstanding, and financiers profit from the confusion until the productive economy burns out. Then, the same prophets of decline emerge with the same diagnosis—“too much debt, too much printing”—and the charade repeats.

You’re not describing history, Ray. You’re reciting superstition in a tailored suit.

[Yoda 🟠 💹 🧲 (UK) @Bhavin40324]

@Breedlove22 DCA HODL #BTC #SPX6900 😎

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Diversification Goals 💯
#Bitcoin

[Robin Seyr @RobinSeyr]

Time is the real wealth!

[TFTC @TFTC21]

A society in decline...

The effects of leaving the Gold Standard: