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Learning markets and AI one bad trade and good idea at a time.
Joined November 2014
NEW: @anikmalcolm releases a short film exploring the beauty and deeper meaning behind Bitcoinโs 21 million limit.
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Crypto is the only industry where if you try to be smart, you lose money. Donโt overthink it, just buy the candle.
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Venezuela Just Proved the Bitcoin Bull Case, And No One Is Paying Attention Maduro used Tether to move 80% of Venezuela's oil revenue. Billions in sanctions evasion, settled on Tron since 2020. Then the US made a phone call. Tether froze the wallets. Game over. Everyone's
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Hi Bitcoiners โ itโs Fran again. 17 years ago today, Hal Finney posted two words that changed everything: โRunning bitcoin.โ Since then, thousands of bitcoiners across 50+ countries have run in his name. The 5th #RunningBitcoinChallenge starts NOW. โก๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ Are you in? ๐
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Venezuela isnโt about oil. Itโs about critical minerals and territory where China, Iran and Russia operate simultaneously. Another sign the post-1971 fiat system is dead. The world is moving back to real things with real constraints. We'll all need real money. Buy bitcoin.
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Breaking news: rumors are swirling that Maduro will pardoned after buying Trump coin and is set to be released back to Venezuela this afternoon
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Happy New Year, frens If youโre still here, you already won. For me, 2026 is about fewer trades, higher conviction and acting with more intention. Wishing everyone a strong year ahead. BUY BITCOIN
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We are excited to celebrate the recent acquisitions of Chromie Squiggles and CryptoPunks into @MuseumModernArt's permanent collection. We are all profoundly grateful to the artists and collectors who supported this important donation, uniting the collective generosity of this
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The amount of bullshit people write here and on LinkedIn is a good reminder that freedom of speech has its downsides.
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It sounds harmless, but it plants a dangerous seed: the belief that everything should be easy, and that if you have to try hard, you must not be as special as they said. It breeds a specific kind of fragility where "potential" becomes a cage and risk feels like a death
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For more than a decade, Bitcoin has been described as many things: a hedge against inflation, a speculative bubble, a protest asset, a digital commodity, a currency, a religion and occasionallyโฆ a joke. And yet, despite every narrative forced onto it, one thing keeps
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Just dropped my first Substack post โThe Empire Strikes Back: How Wall Street Finally Ate Bitcoinโ. TL;DR: Big capital and legacy finance firms have moved in and quietly transformed Bitcoin from a rebel led experiment in decentralization into just another asset swallowed by Wall
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We came here for decentralization not another wall street cosplay. But big capital and legacy institutions pushed their way in and suddenly web3 looked a lot like TradFiโฆ just wearing a blockchain hoodie.
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The Cultural ShiftBitcoin has successfully transitioned from "unstoppable censorship resistant money" to "high-beta Nasdaq proxy with a cool logo." Mission Accomplished?
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JUST IN: Billionaire Ray Dalio says 1% of his portfolio is in Bitcoin.
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Sourced this truffle straight from the International Alba White Truffle Fair. You can also find these in Dubai, I guess ๐ฎ๐น
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