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[Veli @velilaz]

@mattkratter Thanks for the video Mat. I would be curious to hear your take on the bullish scenario of MSTR/STRC and what percentage you would give each scenario.

[Veli @velilaz]

@pakpakchicken What's your opinion on just holding BTC

[Veli @velilaz]

@Breedlove22 I heard you stopped coffee for a while? What happened?

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

Value is not a physical thing

To all the people who think bitcoin can’t have value because it’s not tangible...

Tangible assets constitute the following percentage of the Mag7 market caps:

Nvidia: 0.66%
Apple: 1.38%
Tesla: 4.06%
Microsoft: 7.29%
Alphabet: 8.39%
Meta: 9.56%
Amazon: 16.28%
Combined weighted average: 5.79%

If you liquidated all of these companies’ physical assets, they wouldn’t amount to 6% of their valuation. There have been days in which the market caps of these companies have moved by more than the total value of their physical assets.

If 94% of the value of the most valuable companies on earth is non-physical, then value does not have to be physical.

If digital things have no value, then you should have no problem with giving me your computer to erase all the data from it. I will return your computer to you in the same exact physical form. I will just press a few buttons that remove all your data, photos, and contacts, and make it impossible for you to restore them. If value can only be tangible, then all of these digital things have no value, and you shouldn’t mind me deleting them as long as the devices return in their original state. I don’t think you would.

Technology, data, business knowledge, customer base, brands, and so much more are non-physical assets whose value likely exceeds that of all the planet’s physical objects and land. This is something most people understand in their daily lives, but because most people have no understanding of money, they do not understand how it applies to money, too.

Most people think their money is physical, but in reality, most fiat currencies today are 90%+ digital, and usually less than 10% of the supply is physical paper money. There are no stacks of dollars in your bank sitting in a box under your name, available for you to pick up at any time. A tiny fraction of the money is physical, and the rest is digital, manufactured in various quantities by your bank, government, central bank, and other pedophiles, in quantities based on pure vibes. People still give this non-physical fiat money value because it is the only money they can use with a bank account, since governments only license banks that use their local fiat shitcoin. There is no need for the money to be physical to work; digital fiat money works as well as physical fiat money; or as badly.

Bitcoin is an entirely digital money, but it is given value for far more intelligent and peaceful reasons than fiat money. You can read more about that in my books The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard, which you can buy from Amazon or https://t.co/Va3iL87Ups.

A common objection to bitcoin’s value is: “But if people stop believing in the value of bitcoin it can lose all value.” But that is true of everything. If people stop believing in the value of gold, it would lose value and just become another worthless rock. If people stop believing in the value of electronic devices then Apple and Nvidia go to zero. If people stop believing in the value of Manhattan, then all Manhattan real estate goes to zero. If people discover that tomatoes are poisonous, they stop believing in the value of tomatoes, and the entire planet’s tomato industry goes to zero. Just because something is physical does not guarantee its value, as we can see from the infinite amount of sand and rocks on our Earth left completely untouched by human hands. Physical things can be valueless and non-physical things can have value. Value and physicality are two independent things that are orthogonal to each other. You are doing yourself a disservice if you are unable to benefit from the world’s most advanced money and best saving technology because you are unable to see that value can be non-physical in this one instance, when you have no problem seeing it elsewhere.

[Willy Woo @willywoo]

“BTC uses too much energy.”

There’s only 3 ways to secure a monetary ledger.

- with atoms (gold)
- with energy (BTC)
- with social / political consensus (fiat)

Energy is the only path to unbreakable hard money. There’s no scarcity of atoms.

[Veli @velilaz]

@willywoo Quantum was a known risk from a while back. Why would the trend break now?

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

If you LOVE gold and HATE Bitcoin then you NEED to watch this video…

[Veli @velilaz]

https://t.co/qMzad2RQsk

[Veli @velilaz]

@patrickbetdavid @Breedlove22 @saifedean @saylor

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: $200 BILLION OIL & GAS GIANT SHELL IS NOW ACCEPTING #BITCOIN IN SOUTH AFRICA

EVERYDAY PAYMENTS WITH BTC. THEY'RE HERE 🔥

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

@PeterLBrandt Bitcoin is an asset, circulating on a network, governed by a protocol, and rooted in ideology.

[Toine @TronMonGone]

No daily DCA is too small. Even $1 a day makes a difference, eventually. The chart shows what a $1 DCA can do with a 40%, 50%, and 60% CAGR over the span of 12 years (3 epochs). If you mine for heat, you are earning a lot more than that, and it won't increase your monthly expenses. Earning KYC-free sats for heating your home has been a massive life hack for me.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump is preparing to open the $9 trillion US retirement market to Bitcoin & crypto investments — Financial Times

[Veli @velilaz]

@EricBalchunas @saylor @VildanaHajric Follow the money

[Veli @velilaz]

@SoftwarmLLC What are your thoughts on having a home miner as a hobby (for a small operation). No tax deductions for the miner or energy use, but no BTC as revenue to declare. Simply offset your energy cost (that you're going to use anyway to heat)

[Veli @velilaz]

It's time

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

@joeroganhq Hey @JoeRogan, let's talk about Bitcoin.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

@joeroganhq Hey @JoeRogan, let's talk about Bitcoin.