Well, looks like we successfully retired 2025. Here’s a takeaway you can walk into 2026 with… In 2025, every Bitcoin Pusher/influencer/ Self proclaimed expert got it waaaay the fuck wrong. And that, is enlightening.. or at least it should be to the rest of us normal plebs on X who listen and follow these guys relentlessly trying to find THE guiding light for the path forward. What 2025 shows us is Bitcoin doesn’t follow a set pattern or listen to the political winds. None of the experts could predict its price action with any real semblance of accuracy. They ALL said at least $130K by year end. Turns out, they didn’t know anymore than the rest of us fools despite having been in Bitcoin for years, having a huge pile of coins and being “all in” They just had a bigger bullhorn, and all of the “analysis” being spewed with such certainty was, in fact, just their hopes and dreams. Perhaps the bigger lesson/tell was demonstrated by their reaction to the rise of precious metals… Particularly #Silver. Many of the top bitcoin influencers used to be gold and silver bugs. When #Bitcoin emerged, they got in early. They recognized its potential and most of them abandoned the precious metals they had held for so long.. They went all in on the digital replacement. A vast majority of them proclaimed from their orange towers that the shiny rocks were relics now, and had no place in the modern world. Yet, 2025 turned out not to be the year of the Orange Revolution, it was instead the Resurgence of the Relics. It seems that precious metals like gold and silver still play a very large role and most of the people of the world still run to the shiny stones when fear and uncertainty begin to take hold. My advice … never take as gospel the words/predictions of someone whose livelihood is dependent on the performance of the very thing they are selling… and trust me, they are SELLING faith in Bitcoin to you. Moving forward into 2026, my recommendation for everyone is to read, @LawrenceLepard’s book, “The Big Print: What Happened to America and How Sound Money Will Fix It” (and some of you who have already read it, need to read it again). Mr. Lepard does a great job warning of the impending crisis from unsustainable economic policies and advocates a return to sound money (Bitcoin, Gold and Silver) principles. The Difference between Lawrence and many of the other X influencers is that he has a “foot” in both the Bitcoin Universe and the Precious Metals Universe, and advocates that both have a place in your portfolio to protect you financially from what’s coming. Keep that in mind moving into 2026. #Silversqueeze #Gold #BTC

$75,000 bitcoin attained… I might have to start paying attention to it again….

If only…..

Permitting is the biggest impediment to any building project. I pay more in city fees and permitting fees than I do to any other contractor when building a 1600 ft.² duplex and it does take months! It’s ridiculous, and I hope AI does eliminate these barriers. Make it happen!

Trump did not “just declare war” in the legal sense, but the US military is now actively engaged in combat operations against Iran under his direct order. George W. Bush Redeux

Simple math problem. If we’re not building offices anymore, and all the money is going to data center construction….where did the White Collars Bros job go? AI Takeover Complete: Data Center Construction Surpasses Office Construction For The First Time

Realtor is a zombie career at this point, headed nowhere but the grave. Middle men aren’t necessary for a real estate transaction… all we really need them to do is open a door, smile, and let someone walk around the house.

Jack Dorsey was mostly correcting massive COVID-era over-hiring, while aggressively framing the entire move as an AI-driven efficiency reset. As Dorsey admits himself, “yes we over-hired during covid because I incorrectly built 2 separate company structures (square & cash app) rather than 1, which we corrected mid 2024…” But if you have a convenient excuse to cut almost half your workforce, and it makes you look like you’re ahead of the technology curve… Why the hell not seize the day?

Silver on the move….

When the theory of AI taking white collar jobs and the reality of it actually taking them begin to intersect…

They will never let you get rich…..

Color me surprised….

Jane Street's entire business model is generating fake price directionality through constant, repeated HFT momentum ignition (huge leverage on small positions), and luring retail in. Then it rugs everyone right after it cashes out.

Kick the “silver” can down the road….

Fundamentally, the fundamentals remain… Remain fully funded in precious metals.

Bitcoin is not a short term play. Once you realize this you’ll probably sell. Thats what will become known as “your biggest regret“.

Whoaaaaaaweeee!!! Silver back above $90!! Someone better check on Bitcoin…..

CME silver futures resume trading in ~10hours when stars and planets are all perfectly aligned for something “unthinkable” brewing in the silver market 🚩 More than 26,800 Mar26 futures OI have to be shredded before Thursday 6pm EST, otherwise there won’t be enough silver left at the Comex to clear all Mar26 settlements (assuming 100% of the contracts receiving delivery notices continue to be physically settled) that begin on Friday 27th. Keeping the status quo till Friday and expect the Comex to pull out a rabbit from its hat, or even worse declare “force majeure”, to avoid a stream of settlement failures isn’t realistic. Any action of that sort will be outright in favour of the naked shorts (hence making the exchange the immediate target of lawsuits) that in this case do have the possibility to close their positions without causing settlement chaos at the Comex, but they simply don’t want to pay the price for their mistakes. ⚠️ Scenario 1 The trend observed so far of buyers standing for physical settlements 2x to 4x higher than the previous years doesn’t replicate in March. However assuming the same amount of physical settlements of Mar25 reoccur, ~80m oz Mar26 will settle and only ~88m oz Registered are so far left at the Comex (likely this amount will continue dropping next week ahead of the 27th). How do you think the price will react with virtually no Registered silver left at the Comex after Mar26 settled and already ~50k futures OI for May26? ⚠️ Scenario 2 Mar26 holders stand for a larger physical settlement amount than Mar25. Unless the Comex can summon in its vaults a large amount of physical in just 4 days, regular settlements will fail. Similar to October and November, it cannot be excluded that the bullion banks manage to cut OTC deals to delay the physical delivery in the future. However, not only that won’t solve the problem to still source the physical silver in the future, but will create even more supply scarcity. How do you think the price will react? ⚠️ Scenario 3 On Tuesday China demand will be back online, hence the pressure on the silver price will resume. Liquidity is already razor thin and in this kind of situation the scenario that bullion banks can start turning on eachother shouldn’t be ignored. What does this mean? That one bank decides to break the ranks, be the first to start covering its shorts and at least be assured that will limit its losses. This will push up the price and increase the pressure on the others dragging their feet with the risk that margin calls are triggered. What would you do in their situation in that case? Pledge more collateral or pull the plug? The domino effect in this scenario is pretty intuitive, I already warned about a potential “2022 Nickel” or even “2008 VW” scenarios before; so no need to provide further details. Is there a scenario where the price of silver can go down on Monday? Sure, if more naked shorts are opened and/or illegal techniques like spoofing or wash trading are deployed again. However there is no doubt anymore about demand for physical, with the consequent drain on exchanges vaults, rising with lower prices, not the opposite. Why? Because demand is structural, rising and much less price sensitive due to industrial demand for the physical commodity. If the price is slammed hard again on Monday, the problems in the paper market will compound as we saw after the events of Jan 30th because this time price suppression shenanigans have no impact to the silver fundamentals anymore. I hope this whole explanation helps to understand why I haven’t been shy to keep posting the chart below even without considering the potential impact on silver price from other exogenous events like, for example, the official beginning all of a sudden of an armed conflict between the US and Iran or the US supreme court declaring the special US tariffs illegal ultimately leading to higher debt and QE in the long run.

US January pending home sales fell to a record new low To put this in perspective: More homes were selling in early 2020, when we were in lockdown with a 20% unemployment rate and people afraid to leave their homes to tour a property That’s how bad the current market is

Elon Musk just said saving for retirement becomes pointless in 10 to 20 years. Not speculation. Math. Musk: “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in like ten or 20 years. It won’t matter.” We passed the event horizon. Retirement savings assumes scarcity persists. It won’t. AI and robotics collapse labor costs to zero. Living costs follow. You’re not saving for security. You’re saving for a world that stops existing. Musk: “If any of the things that we’ve said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant.” Age of Abundance isn’t vision. It’s physics. Economic laws executing whether you believe them or not. 5,000 days. Fourteen years. Global GDP uncaps. Production approaches infinite. Net worth as concept dies. Only scarcity left is meaning. Money stops being the constraint. Timeline is shorter than your brain accepts. Fourteen years. We transition from survival work to Universal High Income in that window. Event horizon isn’t coming. You’re in it. Operating under old rules while ground disappears beneath you means you already lost. Production costs hit zero through automation. Everything priced on human labor reprices instantly. Housing. Food. Goods. Services. All reset when scarcity evaporates. Traditional planning assumes structure persists. Save for decades. Retire on capital returns in scarcity markets. That model shatters when abundance becomes baseline. You’re optimizing for a world vanishing while the replacement materializes. Your strategy becomes obsolete before you finish executing it. The retirement you’re building toward assumes costs stay high. They collapse. And your savings designed for expensive scarcity become irrelevant in cheap abundance. Every dollar you put away for future scarcity is a bet against the transformation already happening. And that bet loses the moment production costs hit zero and the economy you planned for stops functioning. You’re not preparing for the future. You’re clinging to a past that’s ending whether you accept it or not. And fourteen years from now, the question won’t be whether you saved enough. It’ll be why you wasted time saving for conditions that don’t exist anymore.