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Lately I've seen a lot of Bitcoiners talking about how bad the sentiment is. Here are my thoughts:
You better be using this time wisely.
Right now, you get to see who the real Bitcoiners are. The people still building in this space right now are the ones who truly care about freeing the world from monetary prison.
We don't *just* care about the fiat gains.
Yes, OF COURSE we do care about fiat gains. Anyone who says they don't care about NGU is lying. But that time is not now.
That time will come.
What I care about most is doing the best I can to make sure my country is no longer financially raped by an elitist, parasitic, unconstitutional monetary system that our founding fathers warned against.
The most beautiful thing about the bull/bear cycles is that those who truly understand Bitcoin, those who continue to build during a bear market while sentiment is low and hope feels lost - these people will be the ones becoming the most successful.
Why? Because we are acquiring Bitcoin while the price is lower, while nobody cares about it.
We are building right now while others are distracted with whatever else they're being mentally programmed to feel "hyped" about.
Really quite a notable phenomenon. Bitcoin rewards those who reject the masses.
I've been in this for a decade now. I don't give a shit about bear markets. I like them.
I am devoting all of my time to build with the team at @BULLBITCOIN_ and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else. We know where the world is headed, we know Bitcoin is the next global reserve currency, we actually give a shit about privacy, and we're not funded by sketchy VCs like so many other companies are (Bull has been bootstrapped since 2013).
Now is the time to build, form alliances, help each other out, and prepare for the inevitable adoption of Bitcoin.
The world's most powerful country (USA) and the country it's at war with (Iran) are BOTH pro-Bitcoin...and you're bearish?
The world order is changing and Bitcoin is at the epicenter of this change.
You will look back on these days and wish you did more.
So, do more.
I did not see this coming, but my election has become an inflection point for our whole country. Today we make history.
Will you be part of this historic day by voting, calling friends who can vote, posting to social media, or making a donation?
Spread the word fellow patriots!
"Passion and purpose are not the same thing.
Passion brings you joy.
Purpose brings you meaning.
Passion gets you out of bed in the morning, but purpose allows you to sleep at night."
-Harrison Ford, 2026
After 17 years, bitcoin is still widely misunderstood.
We partnered with @atlanticrethink to make a short film for the curious ft. @natbrunell, @NSmolenski, and our CEO @josephkelly. Not the crypto story. The bitcoin story.
The New Rules of Bitcoin, out today cc @TheAtlantic.
HIGHLY recommend this 41m interview of Ben Sasse.
He lays out the simple blueprint of how government should operate vs. what we have today.
https://t.co/vfW0DUetpB
@BenSasse@60Minutes
Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop.
Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock directly.
The fundamental question is simply this:
Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever.
I could have started OpenAI as a for-profit corporation. Instead, I started it, funded it, recruited critical talent and taught them everything I know about how to make a startup successful FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.
Then they stole the charity.
This bill is absurd. Nobody other than those who want to continue fraud and corruption supports it.
Another reason to be perpetually disappointed with government. 🤦🏼♂️
🚨 Exposing California's corrupt "Stop Nick Shirley Act", instead of going after the fraudsters California is now going after the people exposing the fraud.
This bill AB 2624 will:
- Criminalize journalists with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown
- Let immigrant based NGOs' funding be confidential
- Take away freedom of the press from journalists
- Protect any "immigration support services" information from being public (healthcare, legal services, etc)
This bill was created by the Attorney General's WIFE Mia Bonta to stop fraud from being exposed. Please like and share this video everywhere! By trying to silence and intimidate journalists, they are trying to hide the truth from you. EXPOSE ALL THE FRAUD.
@PeterMcCormack https://t.co/uJY3F41xOL
They're selling this lie that taxing billionaires is some sort of solution.
It's idiotic to anyone who can critically think.
I attended an event in Santa Barbara for @RoKhanna yesterday.
I thanked him for the work he's done with @RepThomasMassie on the #EpsteinFiles, and recognized him for being a leader in helping build that bipartisan achievement and encouraged him that we need more of that.
Then I asked him why he thinks that taxing billionaires and any new taxes will change anything when the government can just print money to oblivion? And I reminded him that people thrive when they're taxed less, not more.
His response was to point out that when he asks the younger generations to raise their hands: "Should we tax billionaires their fair share?", that overwhelmingly - it's supported.
As some of us know, sure, like socialism, it "sounds good". No wonder those hands go up when asked.
This is just more evidence about how truly clueless most people are about how our fiat financial system works.
Of course, Khanna didn't address my point about money printing - the quiet root cause of our ailing systems.
Disappointed, but not surprised.
Continuing with fiat is insanity, doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
The world needs a Bitcoin standard.
“Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Wrong.
People just do not want to:
- Work 60 hours and still be broke
- Miss their kids growing up
- Get raises smaller than inflation
- Save in a currency printed out of thin air
- Answer emails on weekends
- Get replaced the second margins get tight
- Spend half their paycheck on rent
- Need debt just to survive
- Watch groceries, insurance, and housing go up faster than their income
People do not hate work.
They hate giving everything and getting nowhere.
I just listened to your appearance on "The Daily" podcast.
Your comment at the end, thinking there is such a public interest in knowing who Satoshi is, his motivations, and you implying that there are some downsides to Bitcoin. Who did you get your talking points from, Ben McKenzie?
Like the Internet, Bitcoin has taken on a life of its own. IT DOESN'T MATTER. Back makes that same point.
Also, the hyphen similarities are-a-stretch - quite a dubious claim. And just like Back said, a coincidence. Proof-of-work is a great example. Maybe Satoshi saw how Back wrote it and just mimicked it? It proves nothing.
The HBO documentary claimed Peter Todd is Satoshi. Both that filmmaker and you seem pretty sure of yourselves. You can't both be right.
Who Satoshi is and what his motivations are don't matter.
What matters is money that is free from government control. THAT'S why we love Bitcoin. I wish more time and energy were spent on that
The NYT should consider writing a piece about what happened on Jekyll Island, the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard in 1971, and more, but you won't, because that won't give you the clicks you crave.
Your piece is a giant waste-of-time.
(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.
OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?
A thread on some of of our findings:
Just stop, we all know your scam.
>Democrats raise taxes.
>Money flows to NGOs packed with Democratic operatives.
>Those operatives take their cut, write a check to Democratic campaigns
> Report back that the problem still exists and needs more funding.
If you fix the problem... the money stops.
So nothing ever gets fixed.
The money vanishes into a network of nonprofits and nobody goes to jail and nobody loses their job and then freaking YOU go on X and point at billionaires.
You doesn't want to fix anything.
Fixed problems don't generate donations or fund your life...
If you wanted to fix the problem you'd care about the fraud, BUT YOU DO NOT.
That's how I know you're lying.
@TempletonThomas Absolutely. PWAs are so underrated.
The number one issue with them is notifications, which Apple purposely makes very, very difficult.
How specifically will this make anything whatsoever better?
Let's take the extreme example - what about 100% tax? Taxing billionaires 100% won't change a thing. It won't make a dent in the deficit. It won't shrink government spending. It won't change the lives of anyone for the better.
And when you the government still doesn't have enough money to fund your excessive budget, you will print money, devaluing the currency and increasing inflation.
Your fake virtue signaling is obvious to those of us who know this.
I used to admire you. What you've become is something you'll have to reconcile with your karmic energy.
Why do you belong to a political party?
Seriously. I want you to think about that for a second.
Not the rehearsed answer. Not "because the other side is worse."
Why?
There are multiple political parties in this country, but only two get airtime on TV.
Only two get government funding.
Only two get on the debate stage.
And most of you openly admit you're choosing "the lesser of two evils."
You're literally telling me your choice is evil... and you're okay with that.
The men who built this country warned us about exactly this.
George Washington called political parties the people's "worst enemy." In his Farewell Address, he warned that parties would allow a small group to seize power and make themselves the masters of the government.
Tell me that doesn't sound like 2026.
John Adams wrote, "There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the Republic into two great parties." He said it would lead to the most "horrid evils."
230 years later, we're living in it.
James Madison called them factions and said they were a dangerous byproduct of liberty that would allow one group to dominate everyone else.
My personal favorite founding father, Thomas Jefferson, said "If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
That one hits different when you think about how many people today would burn a friendship to the ground over a political party.
Even Alexander Hamilton, one of the most partisan founders, warned that factions would be exploited by demagogues seeking personal power.
Every single one of them feared the same thing.
That party loyalty would replace civic virtue.
That politicians would prioritize their faction's victory over the nation's well being.
That parties would divide the country into permanent hostile camps.
That foreign powers would exploit the division.
That compromise would become impossible.
That demagogues would whip up partisan passion to seize control.
Sound familiar?
Now look at what these two parties actually do.
Every election cycle they come to you with the same pitch.
"Give us your money or the other side wins."
"This is the most important election of our lifetime."
"We can't let them destroy the country."
So you donate. Millions of you. Billions of dollars.
Where does it go?
Consultants. Ad agencies. Political operatives. Media buys on the same networks that give them free coverage. Private jets. Fancy dinners. Lavish retreats.
It doesn't go to fixing your roads. It doesn't go to lowering your grocery bill. It doesn't go to securing the border.
It goes to keeping the machine running so they can come back next cycle and ask for more.
These aren't political parties.
They're fundraising operations disguised as public service.
"Save us from the mess we created" is not a platform. It's a scam.
And every two years, you fall for it because they've convinced you the other side is scarier than they are.
The founding fathers didn't just warn us about this.
They begged us not to let it happen.
And we did it anyway.
So I'll ask again.
Why do you belong to a political party?
What has it actually done for you?
Not what has it promised. What has it delivered?
If you can't answer that honestly, maybe it's time to stop giving them your money, your energy, and your loyalty.
They don't deserve it.
They Both Suck.