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Goatherd, Mountain Search and Rescue, Bitcoin fixes that, Camino Frances, 14ers, Wardruna

[Dylan LeClair @DylanLeClair]

$BTC is being embraced by Japan. 🇯🇵

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

https://t.co/x8dS9UgaFn

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

What's happening on the Swedish grid right now is not only hard to believe, but a window into the future regarding the Bitcoin usecase the world embraces first.

Here's a snapshot.

[Forge first @sargent_99]

@BTCBreadMan I go to you for my daily dose of snark. 👍

[Handre @Handre]

Two countries split from the same colonial body in 1965. One picked economic freedom. The other picked handouts and racial spoils. You already know how this ended.

Singapore had no oil, no farmland, no hinterland. Just a swamp and a port. Lee Kuan Yew looked at that and trusted trade, low taxes, and hard money. Central planners hate what he did.

Malaysia went the other way. In 1971 Kuala Lumpur launched the New Economic Policy, a state program handing quotas, contracts, and university seats to ethnic Malays. Politicians decided who got what. A commissar fantasy dressed in liberal language.

Now let's look at the numbers. In 1965 both places sat around $500 per capita. Today Singapore clears $84,000. Malaysia sits near $13,000. Same climate, same starting line, one sixth the result.

The Singapore dollar holds its value because the Monetary Authority of Singapore manages it against a currency basket and refuses to print its way out of trouble. The ringgit has lost roughly two thirds of its value against the Singapore dollar since 1981.

You cannot subsidize your way to wealth. You cannot redistribute what you never let people produce. Every ringgit funneled through a quota is a ringgit some bureaucrat spent on his own vision instead of a customer's.

Malaysia bet on planners deciding outcomes. Singapore bet on people deciding for themselves. The gap between $84,000 and $13,000 is your answer.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Strategy has sold 3,588 $BTC for $216 million to fund dividends on our Digital Credit securities. As of 7/5/2026, we hodl ₿843,775 in our BTC Reserves and $2.55 billion in our USD Reserves. https://t.co/Cssgz29Psj

[Forge first @sargent_99]

@bramk Great point about the chasm, framing of the current situation. 🔥

[Bram Kanstein @bramk]

For the doomers

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Bitcoin will evolve by changing less at the protocol layer and mattering more everywhere else.

The base layer will harden.
The capital markets will deepen.
Digital Credit will expand.

The world will build on Bitcoin. $BTC

[Samson Mow @Excellion]

Well said.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

I just learned about a 2300-year-old concept I can't stop thinking about

The Empty Boat Theory

It explains why Elon Musk fights strangers on X at 2 am
Why Michael Jordan turned his Hall of Fame speech into a revenge list

Once you understand it, your life will never be same:🧵

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

As thousands of wildland firefighters across the Nation come off the line this evening, eat a plate of food, and climb into their sleeping bag overlooking the fire they just burned 5,000 calories on, they know it will take more than a day to stop that thing.

From the bug filled Black Spruce swamps in Alaska, to the unforgiving timbered terrain of the Gila, the Sage brush fires in the Basin that go on for miles, across the deciduous fires out east, to the steeps of Colorado, into the tall trees of the Pacific Northwest, the WUI of California, and the sheep county in the Northern Rockies…. the work takes more than a day.

So, while today is National Wildland Firefighter Day, tomorrow is too. Because at 05:00, that very same sleeping bag the firefighter climbed into, will start to stir again. Boots tied tight, nicotine and caffine binge begins, and a hike back into the very same fire that provided a night light on the mountain top.

It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. And because it’s a marathon, you need to have people motivating and cheering for you for all 26 miles. Even when you vomit halfway through, or you’re bleeding from chaffing, those that watch from the bottom of the mountain are with you day by day. That’s how you make it to the finish line. Stay strong, stay savage, and stay together.

Happy National Wildland Firefighter Day.

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

There is a shocking number of people who have forgotten that governments will continue to print money forever and debase their currency, while Bitcoin's supply will remain fixed at 21 million.

This isn't hard. Trade paper money for Bitcoin.

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

AI Maxers: The Debasement Trade is dead.

The Fed:

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Income. Twice a month. $STRC

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Strategy announces a Digital Credit Capital Framework designed to strengthen Digital Credit, enhance liquidity, preserve long-term Bitcoin exposure, and support long-term value creation. $MSTR $STRC https://t.co/AUoUCtem53

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Volatility tests every capital structure. Strategy remains focused on Bitcoin, disciplined capital allocation, credit quality, and long-term value creation. We appreciate our investors and will continue to execute with transparency and resolve. $MSTR

[sunnydecree @sunnydecree]

17 years after Bitcoin's creation:

• still 10 minutes per block
• still capped at 21 million
• still adjusts difficulty every 2016 blocks
• still decentralized
• still open source
• still SHA-256
• still 99.99% uptime
• still never hacked
• still immutable
• still growing

Yet most people still think it's going to zero.

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

Bitcoin has been a game changer. 🚀

Bitcoin payments save us money in processing fees, which we use to improve our food quality to make America healthier again, with tasty grass-fed burgers and beef tallow fries. 🍔🍟

For over a year, our sales have been up double digits. Thank you Bitcoiners!

All Bitcoin payments go into our Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

[Forge first @sargent_99]

@elonmusk Of all the potential extinction level event (ELE) risks to humanity, a self inflicted pandemic is the most likely.