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Rip VanWinkle ⚡️

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I post about Bitcoin and the profound impact it will have on our world. Stanford grad.

Los Angeles, CA

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Rip VanWinkle ⚡️

7 months

The cult-classic movie The Matrix metaphorically describes the fiat monetary system in a scary accurate way. In the movie, AI robots create a mirage for the entire human species in order to absorb all of their life energy. In this world, humans lived a lie while their life energy

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8 months

Ok, I've been doing some math, and my mind is officially blown. I don't think any of us are bullish enough on #BTC . Let's dive in. 👇 Monday's $3,000 BTC candle was a sign of what's to come. Several sources of demand converged onto BTC in a short window of time and caused the

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Am I the only one who thinks that #BTC is gonna rip peoples faces off this cycle? I’ve been around markets long enough to know that they do not do what most people expect. Case in point, last cycle everyone thought $100k was a slam dunk. We never got there. This cycle,

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If you are looking for signs that this #Bitcoin bull market is different, look no further. 👀 #BTC is sitting at its all time high BEFORE the Fed has started cutting rates and BEFORE the halving. Totally unprecedented. Bullish AF.

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5 months

I've heard a few people suggest that the Bitcoin spot ETFs are an attack vector. The theoretical attack is a "bribery" attack because the spot ETFs could easily pump the price of #BTC to $1 million per coin and higher. The theory is that a lot of Bitcoiners would be enticed to…

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8 months

The #Bitcoin White Paper was a marketing document to get the attention of cypher punks who had been toying around the with the idea of e-cash for some time. The use of the term "cash" was more relatable to this group than the use of the word "gold" because cypher punks were not

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Most people are projecting a #Bitcoin price in the $100k to $200k price range. In the context of the long term trend, they're basically saying that despite historic buying of $500m per day net inflows from spot ETFs, #BTC is going to continue crawling up the lower trend line. I

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How high could the #Bitcoin price go this cycle? What about next cycle? No one knows. But @Excellion and @dotkrueger have both recently predicted $1m as a target for #BTC this cycle. Does that sound crazy? I don't think so. I decided to get some perspective by zooming out and

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The only way that Michael Saylor can be as balls long #Bitcoin as he is, is to understand the protocol at such a deep level that he now sees it as the safest place to ensure the future value of his purchasing power. Once you fully grok Bitcoin, you realize that the risk is not…

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BlackRock, Fidelity and the other spot ETF providers will be serving up "bite-sized bitcoins" to millions of investors. Here's what I mean. 👇 If the price of BTC is $35,000 per coin when the ETFs are approved, the shares of the ETFs will not be priced anywhere near $35,000 per…

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Adam Back ( @adam3us ) has a PhD in distributed systems. He is mentioned in the Bitcoin White Paper and is credited with inventing "Proof of Work". He is arguably one of the most qualified people in the world to try and improve upon #Bitcoin . He spent years trying. This is what he…

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Saylor's Flywheel Strategy is starting to pay off BIG TIME! Yesterday MicroStrategy acquired another 3,000 coins, bringing their total to 193,000 #BTC at a cost of $6.09 billion. The stack is now worth $11 billion. The company makes around $75m per year. So the value added to…

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7 months

People still think that Larry Fink and BlackRock have some sort of dubious, sinister plan to co-opt, manipulate, or destroy #Bitcoin . Take off the tinfoil hat for a minute and listen to reason. 👇 Larry Fink and BlackRock are good for Bitcoin. Why? Because of incentives. Their…

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Saylor calls #Bitcoin property, not money or currency. He also realizes, that can't work over the long term. The fiat system relies on people saving in it by buying government bonds. The government needs people and entities to continue lending their excess capital to the

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8 months

Over time, everything in the economy trends towards its marginal cost of production. Remember Kodak? They had a monopoly on the film market for photos. It used to cost $5 for a roll of 35mm film for 24 photos. They even developed the first digital camera, but they failed to

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People say that because BTC can only handle about 7 transactions per second on the base layer, there's no way it can ever become the world's reserve currency. They do not understand how money works. It's cool, most people don't. Let's get into it. 👇 The entire US banking

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Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who says that #Bitcoin is too volatile to be useful as a currency is missing one obvious thing. Well, maybe it's not so obvious, until you hear it. 👇 Every one of the fiat currencies on earth today are the unit of account in their nations. When the

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Satoshi's major breakthrough was that he solved the Byzantine Generals' Problem. This is the breakthrough that will usher in a decentralized future for humanity. What is the Byzantine Generals' Problem? The Byzantine Generals' Problem is a classic problem in distributed…

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Not taking the time to understand #Bitcoin is the most expensive mistake a person can make. I speak from experience. Someone mentioned it to me in 2013 when it was $100 and I dismissed it as a ridiculous idea. “Magic internet money? 😂 Ok pal. Good luck with that.” I didn’t

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Of the millions of assets on planet Earth, #BTC is in the top 12 by market cap. Only 11 assets in the world are more valuable than #BTC . They are👇 Gold - $12.4 Trillion Apple - $2.7 Trillion Microsoft - $2.3 Trillion Saudi Aramco - $2.3 Trillion Google - $1.7 Trillion Amazon

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How high could the #Bitcoin price go this cycle? What about next cycle? No one knows. But @Excellion and @dotkrueger have both recently predicted $1m as a target for #BTC this cycle. Does that sound crazy? I don't think so. I decided to get some perspective by zooming out and

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When I heard Jamie Dimon today saying that Bitcoin is for criminals, money launderers and tax evaders and that he would ban it if he were the government, I fell on the floor laughing my ass off. This dude thinks it’s possible to ban Bitcoin. Lol. No Jamie. You cannot ban…

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What is the US government's strategy for dealing with #Bitcoin ? It can seem confusing at first. On the one hand you have @SenWarren crusading against self-custody of Bitcoin (and all of crypto). On the other hand, you have the biggest firms on Wall Street bringing Bitcoin spot…

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#BTC is a black hole. It’s sucking the monetary premium out of other store or value assets, exactly as Satoshi designed it to do. This is a good thing if you’re a pleb and a bad thing if you’re using something other than BTC as a SoV. On a fiat standard, people understand…

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Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano, is clearly a primary source of misinformation about Bitcoin. This is the person that provides alt coiners with all of their anti-Bitcoin arguments. They follow him like he's a God and they repeat everything he says without ever questioning

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Charles Hoskinson

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On Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano

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#Bitcoin is difficult to understand. Before you understand it, it seems absurd. After you understand it, it seems obvious.

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You know you’re a real #Bitcoiner when holding #BTC feels safe and holding fiat feels risky. A normie would caution you to only invest into #Bitcoin what you can afford to lose. A #bitcoiner would say only hold in fiat what you can afford to lose. Having made this paradigm…

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Almost everyone expected #Bitcoin to either rip, or to sell off on the ETF news. But BTC managed to deceive almost everyone, once again. 👇 What’s behind the muted price response? Turns out that compliance departments at brokerage firms often take weeks to several months to

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#Bitcoin is repricing everything, including real estate. 👇 The price of a new home in the US is up 40% since 2020 in fiat terms. Even with mortgage rates at multi-decade highs. Those same houses are down 80% against #BTC in just 4 years. And the bull-run is just getting

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Rip VanWinkle ⚡️

6 months

Another hit piece about Bitcoin was just published by the Financial Times. Please read it. 👇 My response: #Bitcoin is not backed by anything because Bitcoin is not debt. Only debt needs backing. Bitcoin is the collateral itself. BTC is a digital asset…

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Bitcoin’s bounceback déjà vu

The buy-and-hold case for crypto remains largely a fiction

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I’ve done my best over these last 3 years to Orange-pill everyone in my inner circle. I’d bring up #Bitcoin even at the risk of coming across as “pushy”. Some took my advice. Some did not. I did my best to give people an edge. Most simply didn’t care enough to learn. Or they

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This is what security looks like. If you wanted to attack Bitcoin and try to double spend it, you’d first need to figure out how to do more “work” than all existing miners combined. You’d need to channel 20 gigawatts of energy into more than four hundred and eighty quintillion

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Documenting ₿itcoin 📄

@DocumentingBTC

7 months

——————————————— New Record Bitcoin Hashrate ——————————————— 480,000,000,000,000,000,000x Hashes Per Second

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One major difference between #bitcoin and other assets is that #BTC is held by millions of people who don't value fiat, at all. Bitcoiners, for the most part, don't plan to take profits. It's not a trade. It's not an investment. It's an entirely new and far superior monetary

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Since starting at Swan a few weeks ago, one thing is becoming abundantly clear. A LOT of Americans are planning to retire on #Bitcoin . Most of the high net worth clients, unsurprisingly, are either Gen-X (my generation) or Boomers. That much was expected. What I didn't expect

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I’m beyond excited to announce that I’ve just joined @swan as a Managing Director supporting athletes and celebrities on their bitcoin journey. I can think of nothing better than working with bitcoiners on such a big mission. Everyone I’ve met at the organization is smart,

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If you can’t lose it, it’s not real money. I remember the day that someone somehow accessed my debt card info and was withdrawing $400 from multiple ATMs around the SoCal area. Worried, I called customer support at Chase. They said not to stress. They marked the card stolen,…

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#Bitcoin is being hoovered up by spot ETFs at a rapid clip. In just two days, BlackRock has acquired 11,439 coins. The entire field of ETF providers bought a total of 23,000 coins on Thursday and Friday alone. We know that there are some 1.8 million #BTC on all exchanges. Of…

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Michael @Saylor is putting on a clinic for Wall St. It’s free and it’s publicly available for all to see. Is anyone paying attention? If you’re not, you should be. 👇 As @PrestonPysh recently explained on @WhatBitcoinDid Microstrategy had $500m on the balance sheet in 2020 and

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Why would anyone buy an ETF when they can simply buy spot #BTC and take it into self-custody? Technically any individual should be able to buy spot BTC and lock it away in cold storage. But the reality is that many people have their investment money sitting with a trusted…

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When you own a share of Apple stock, you own 1/15,000,000,000th of Apple’s productivity. When you own one #Bitcoin , you own 1/21,000,000th of ALL productivity, globally. Bitcoin cannot be debased, thus, all future productivity growth will accrue to bitcoiners in the form of

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What is #Bitcoin backed by, you ask? Bitcoin isn’t backed by anything. 👇 Backed by means “redeemable for”. Some will say #BTC is backed by energy or the largest computer network in the world. But that’s not technically true because I can’t go up to a window and turn in my BTC…

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I believe Bitcoin has value, but I would like to ask: What is $BTC backed by? It’s not gold, silver, or the US dollar. I am learning still, but from my perspective it only has value because we say it does. Please educate me on why I’m right or wrong.

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Ethereum finds itself in a tricky spot right now. On the one hand, the ultra sound money narrative isn’t holding up. #ETH is down 30% year to date against #BTC . On the other hand, it’s losing ground to Solana on the smart contract front. SOL is much more scalable with much…

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How do you know if your favorite crypto is decentralized? The term 'decentralized' describes a system where no one is in charge. #Bitcoin sets the standard for what it means to be decentralized. No other crypto project comes close. But rather than spend 1,000 hours arguing

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In 2021, there was a lot of talk of the "Flippening", an event where the market cap of Ethereum would surpass that of Bitcoin. ETH grew to reach 50% of the #Bitcoin market cap later that year, but it never got much (if any) higher than that. Then, in 2022, people thought that

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#BTC is the first "triple point" asset in history. This is why Bitcoin is the best performing store of value asset in history, and its why the Bitcoin price is likely to be unfathomably high in the future. "Triple point" means that all three functions of money compete for it.…

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Grayscale is down from over 600,000 BTC, to around 330,000 #BTC in 2 months. What's their strategy here? Are they milking the cow for as long as they can? Will they let the fund bleed out to zero BTC? My guess is that they know how many of the coins in the fund are held in the

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There are 160 fiat currencies in the world today. And after only 15 years of existence, #BTC is already the 18th largest currency in the world by market cap. Think about that. What used to be dismissed as "magic internet money" or "money with no intrinsic value" or "rat

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#Bitcoin is going mainstream. We’ve seen the Bitwise ad for their spot ETF. Don’t forget that there are a dozen other ETF providers in the field competing with Bitwise. Do you think they’re going to be outcompeted by them? Of course not. Bitwise set a very high bar for the

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It looks like Blackrock and the gang are getting ready to launch their Bitcoin ETFs. More than $40m in flows from today alone as these firms buy some initial BTC to back the ETF shares that they will issue on day 1. The real buying hasn't started. This is just to cover their

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Pillage Capital

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Public funds saw a $43m inflow into bitcoin today, that's 10% of the YTD total in one day!

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Since Michael Saylor started buying #bitcoin in August 2020, Microstrategy is up roughly 500% vs only 40% for the S&P, 5% for gold and negative real returns for cash and short term bonds. How many corporate treasurers are looking at @saylor with envy? The top 7 big tech

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What are the odds that Bitcoin gets disrupted by something "better" later on? Anything is possible, but the chances of something disrupting #Bitcoin are slim to none. While 30,000 alt coins have copied some element of Bitcoin's design, it's what they cannot copy that makes…

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Funny how all of the people talking trash about Saylor's Bitcoin strategy are awfully quiet these days. The bull run hasn't even really started, and the company is already up $1.5 billion on its #BTC position. Wait until this train starts moving. Saylor is redefining…

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MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 16,130 BTC for ~$593.3 million at an average price of $36,785 per #bitcoin . As of 11/29/23, @MicroStrategy now hodls 174,530 $BTC acquired for ~$5.28 billion at an average price of $30,252 per bitcoin. $MSTR

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Bitcoin is the ultimate form of collateral. This is arguably one of #Bitcoin 's highest and best uses. Most plebs are not taking advantage of the opportunity to accumulate #BTC at these levels. But the wealthy are warming up to BTC. Since the wealthy have the resources to…

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Why are so many boomers buying #Bitcoin right now? Could it be that they're starting to understand that the fiat system is a scam? Do they realize that the Fed is out of moves in its fight against inflation? To Lyn Alden's point, when inflation is caused by the banking sector…

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Hal Finney not only understood #Bitcoin at a deeper level than most, but he was also instrumental in shaping the protocol in the early days. Some folks think that Hal was Satoshi, but that's a topic for another day. What you may not know is that Hal had a vision for BTC that

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The majority of plebs will soon be priced out of using the #BTC base layer. This is undeniable based on the current trend. Why? Because, just like BTC is scarce, Bitcoin blockspace is also scarce. And those blocks have been full for the past 6 months or so. In the…

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Someone make this make sense, please. I can go to the grocery store and buy 👇 - a pound of meat in a plastic bag - a loaf of bread in plastic wrapping - a bag of potato chips in plastic packaging - a jug of milk in a plastic jug - a pre-made salad in a plastic container -

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No one has a medium of exchange problem. Everyone has a store of value problem. Why on earth would someone bother with #bitcoin if all it did was enable p2p transactions as a currency? Large blockers argue against the store or value narrative in favor of the MoE narrative.

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Colin Talks Crypto 🪙

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In a nutshell, Saifedean is denying that usage is what causes a money to become a medium of exchange. Value doesn’t just happen spontaneously. Logically, how could something just, out of nowhere, become a medium of exchange if it didn’t have some sort of value first, through

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MSTR is more than a proxy for #Bitcoin . It's a #Bitcoin flywheel that generates more and more #BTC per share of MSTR over time. MSTR is much better than an ETF. ETFs charge a fee. You end up with less BTC per ETF share. MSTR GROWS the amount of BTC per share over time. You

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Dumb money is focused on the fact that #BTC has declined since the ETFs were approved. Smart money is focused on the fact that BTC is being taken out of liquid supply by large institutions. I frequently check the website. For the two years I have been…

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What if #Bitcoin is more than a monetary protocol? What if it has implications that extend beyond its use as a Store of Value, and its use for inscriptions? Major Jason Lowery of the US Space Force published a thesis two years ago that some of you who are new to X may have…

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Let the hash wars begin! Ethiopia recently spun up a $200m bitcoin mine powered by excess energy from the Great Renaissance Damn on the Nile river. And now Oman is jumping is with a $370m mining operation. 👀👀 Who’s next?

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Bitcoin News

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$370 million hydro-cooled #Bitcoin mining project in 🇴🇲 Oman 👀

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I’m still hearing a lot of people asking why the market hasn’t front run the ETF. Everyone who truly understands #Bitcoin is already allocated as much as they can be. This has pumped the market, but this isn’t enough to arbitrage the opportunity because the news is that $30

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You can make a very strong argument for why #BTC returns will continue to diminish during each subsequent cycle, especially when comparing against the returns of the first few cycles with the price of BTC starting from $0. This is perfectly logical. I take no issue with it.

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#Bitcoin is breaking out to new all time highs all over the world. As of today, #BTC is sitting at new highs in the following 14 countries. 👇 Argentina Bangladesh Congo Egypt Japan Kenya Lebanon South Africa Sri Lanka Nigeria Norway Pakistan Turkey Ukraine #Bitcoin doesn't

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Imagine being a contributor to the most popular finance publications (Bloomberg, CNBC and Yahoo Finance) and not understanding that slicing a pizza into smaller slices does NOT create more pizza. The number of Sats in a #Bitcoin has zero impact on its scarcity. Some trad-fi

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Samantha LaDuc

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@Lisa00007369 Interesting - serious question then: If one Bitcoin is sold in units of "Sats," and there are over 2 quadrillion of those, HOW can they claim scarcity, lack of dilution, hedge against inflation/DEBASEMENT. This would seem to be common knowledge and well, “MATH”?

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#BTC is the antidote to fiat monetary debasement. The more fiat money governments print, the higher the price of BTC denominated in said fiat currency. Here in the USA, the dollar has been strong because the Fed has raised interest rates which makes government bonds an

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The #BTC multiplier effect is an interesting topic. While modeling anything as complex as an economic system or market is challenging, it can still be fun to go through the exercise of trying to understand how this multiplier works. How can $1 invested into BTC turn into $193 in

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The #Bitcoin spot ETFs have already snatched up 150,500 #BTC in just 13 trading days. They are buying at a rate of 12,000 BTC per day. Now, let's KISS (keep it simple stupid) 👇 There are only 900 BTC per day being issued. BTC is being bought up at a rate of 13x daily…

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All roads lead to Bitcoin. Few outside of bitcoin circles understand this. Here’s what I mean 👇 #BTC is selling off because Wall St and Main St both treat #Bitcoin as a “risk-on” asset. If you’re none the wiser, this makes sense. Other risk assets, like tech stocks and small…

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If a government can print the money they need to attack a PoS coin, why can’t they print the money to buy ASICS to attack Bitcoin? Technically they can, but it would be nearly impossible in practical terms. 👇 The first question is buy ASICS from where? All ASICS are spoken…

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The largest pools of capital on earth will soon be entering the #bitcoin market with massive buy orders based on retail demand for their ETF products. These firms have $30 trillion under management/advisory. Selling Bitcoin will be easy because the stage is set 👇 The 60/40…

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There has been a lot of talk about the spot ETFs and how much that will open the floodgates for #Bitcoin adoption. But there's another pot of money which is just as large if not larger, and also coming to BTC in 2025. The corporations. Right now, it is extremely difficult for…

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There’s going to be a mad scramble for #Bitcoin in the years ahead. Whoever coined the term “The Bitcoin Hunger Games” is spot on. ( @BritishHodl if that was you, props 👊) The catalysts 👇 1 - For most of Bitcoin’s history, Available supply of BTC was rising into each halving.…

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Prominent alt coin influencers like to point out that users will opt to use cheaper blockchains than #BTC because BTC will require extremely high transaction fees on layer 1 and no one will pay those fees in a competitive market. They assert that #BTC will be dead in a few years…

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I find it incredible that so many plebs still don’t get #Bitcoin . The average pleb in the US isn’t even remotely interested in it. This tells me that a) people are terrible at investing, and b) most people are asleep at the wheel. It’s the best performing asset over the last 5,

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7 months

With the help of BlackRock, #BTC will become a part of the standard portfolio allocation from here on out. For the longest time, the model portfolio was a 60/40 with 60% stocks and 40% bonds. The idea behind the recommended allocation between equities and fixed income…

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#Bitcoin consumes a massive amount of energy. Enough to power entire countries like the Ukraine or Australia. 99% of people think that's a bad thing. I say it's a great thing. How can we increase the energy consumption 100x? 👇 The notion that Bitcoin miners are competing with…

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It's a shame that Ethereum moved away from Proof of Work. The world could use more PoW to offset methane emissions. Instead of doing what was best for the planet, greed took over. #ETH insiders love the idea of doing absolutely nothing and earning free ETH. This way the

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The discussion around #Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange has resurfaced again for the 10,000th time. Anytime on-chain fees spike, the MoE crowd comes out of the woodwork. It's inconsequential IMO. I never would have bought #Bitcoin if it were presented to me as a "more

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Nation states are mining #Bitcoin , in secret, just as we suspected. This is why hashrate has been going vertical for 3 years now. The question is, is this a good thing, or a bad thing? I say it's great news for Bitcoin. Here’s why. 👇 When countries start mining, they're

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Satoshi gave us all 15 years to use the main chain freely. But those days are numbered. On chain fees are going sky high as demand for block space continues to rise. Everyone knows that bitcoin won’t scale on layer 1. But fewer realize that it also won’t scale on Lightning in a

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Crypto bros think this alt season will be like the others. I think not. This is the cycle where #Bitcoin separates itself from the rest of the crypto pack. The institutions are coming into Bitcoin. Their pockets are so deep, that they make all of the retail buyers of all the…

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I used to work at two of the firms currently blocking access to the #Bitcoin spot ETFs. Merrill Lynch and UBS. At both firms, my co-workers and I used to call the compliance group the “business prevention department”. True to form, the “business prevention department” is

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Here's why there's no substitute for SHA-256 and Proof of Work. 👇 Before Bitcoin, it was impossible for something digital to also be scarce. Satoshi made this possible by implementing Proof of Work, inspired by the work of @adam3us . But what is Proof of Work? When you look

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7 months

The narrative that #BTC is a flight to quality is gaining steam. Mohamed El-Erian of Allianz, the $2 Trillion investment firm, just stated that “You have people talking about bitcoins, about equity being the 'safe asset' because they've lost confidence in government bonds being…

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Unit bias is a bitch. People who think they've missed the move in #BTC are dead wrong. They suffer from an affliction called unit bias. 👇 It's perfectly normal. I speak from experience. When I was working at Merrill Lynch, fresh out of college, I did a stint down on the floor…

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It is impossible to accurately measure the value of goods and services with fiat money. At some point, people will look back on the "fiat times" and mock at how ridiculous it was to attempt to measure the value of the entire global economy and everything in it with a unit of…

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6 months

#Bitcoin is being vacuumed off of exchanges and locked away, never to be seen again. 13.8 million BTC have not moved in over a year. Not only is Bitcoin being Hoovered up by plebs, but it is also being added to corporate balance sheets at a rapid clip. 👇 - Funds, ETFs, and

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Satoshi intended for #BTC 📷 to be digital gold AND digital cash, but with the emphasis on digital gold. Don't believe me? Think I'm just a crazy maximalist making stuff up? Read and learn. The first thing Satoshi wrote publicly, after the white paper was the following: 👇…

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I had dinner with my good friend Paul the other night. He’s an instrumental figure in Hip Hop music. He manages Eminem and is the reason Eminem and 50 cent got connected with Dre. He later introduced Dre to Kendrick Lamar. The rest is history. Turns out Paul holds a nice stack

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My friend is a 30 year Wall Street veteran who doesn’t buy the “sky is falling” narrative about the US dollar and the impending collapse of the fiat monetary system. The reason he doesn’t buy it because he’s been hearing gold bugs talking the same talk about the unsustainable…

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BlackRock has filed for an Ethereum spot ETF. While a spot ETF is very good for #Bitcoin , it presents a real danger for Ethereum. The reason BlackRock and other ETF entities do not threaten Bitcoin is because Bitcoin uses a Proof of Work consensus model with miners proposing

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#Bitcoin is one of Africa's greatest hopes. While the continent of Africa is considered "poor" by most Western standards, the reality is that Africa is one of the wealthiest continents on Earth when measured by the resources that exist within it. Africa arguably possesses more…

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#Bitcoin has a potential vulnerability that everyone should know about. 👇 Bob Burnett ( @boomer_btc ) wrote an article and describes on a podcast, a scenario that I've never heard anyone mention before. We all know that Bitcoin is incredibly secure and anti-fragile, but the

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I came across an article in Barron's written by a financial advisor who founded an advisory firm which oversees $15 billion in client assets. He acknowledged that he was a #Bitcoin skeptic, but when he ran the numbers, his preconceptions took a beating. The data doesn't lie.

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#BTC can never be “overvalued” in the fundamental sense of the word. Unlike stocks bonds and real estate, BTC does not produce any cash flows. BTC is a commodity, and commodities are as valuable as the demand for the utility they provide. Stay with me. 👇 Over the long term,

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Almost every alt coiner mistakenly thinks that Proof of Work is wasteful. As usual, they don't know shit about shit. Proof of Work is what anchors #Bitcoin to the real world. It's what makes Bitcoin the first and only truly immutable, decentralized ledger. It is the reason why

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“The CEOs of the biggest banks all think that legacy banking regulations should apply to crypto. That tells me it’s time for congress to act.” - Liz Warren Liz, like so many others in DC, has forgotten that she works for the American people, not the banks that pay her to do…

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For the sake of our national security, crypto firms should have to follow the same anti-money-laundering rules as other financial institutions. And I’ve got a bipartisan bill to make it happen.

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Y’all didn’t think we’d go straight up without a pullback, did you? There will be many pullbacks, some nastier than others. #Bitcoin destroys most traders. She smoked the shorts on the way up, and now she’s coming for the longs. 100x leveraged perpetual swaps. Rekt Balls…

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UNPOPULAR TAKE: Bitcoin is not a currency. #Bitcoin is money. Understanding this distinction could alleviate a lot of confusion in the crypto sphere. What's the difference between money and currency? I think about it this way 👇 Money is a commodity which is hard to…

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