Well heck. The Arsenal. What an amazing achievement. BPM 150, dropping slowly.

This belongs to all of us.

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

CHAMPIONS

I thought I was totally orange-pilled on Bitcoin. Until I went to McDonald’s tonight. Nothing will slap the fiat out of your bloodstream faster than standing in line at 10:47pm behind a woman in Looney Tunes pajama pants, yelling into her iPhone 6 about “SNAP benefits not hitting.” The kid next to her is mainlining Hi-C Orange, and her boyfriend - tattoo of a melting Spongebob on his calf - just traded two loose cigarettes for an extra McDouble. The air smells like fryer oil, broken dreams, and the ghost of the middle class. The cashier, wearing a paper hat so limp it looks like a banknote from Argentina, just asked if I want to round up for charity, as if my $19.14 order for “value” food isn’t already a war crime against my wallet. The McFlurry machine is “down” (it’s always down), but there’s a 72-inch Samsung blasting Fox News reruns over the sound of a toddler coughing up a quarter-portion of French fries. Some guy is FaceTiming in the bathroom, arguing with his parole officer. Meanwhile, I stare at the Monopoly stickers on my tray, little reminders that fiat was always just a game for the house. Bitcoin fixes this? Buddy, Bitcoin is the only escape hatch from this cosmic simulation of fiat hell. And it’s only when you see Ronald McDonald in a haze of neon, hawking 1400-calorie death-burgers on credit, that you realize: Fiat is already hyperinflated. We’re just living in the grease-stained afterglow.

People see whats on the surface, but rarely understand the reasons behind it. Most Indians who are unbiased and objective can look around and see that almost everything is in some form of collapse economically. And almost all economic problems can be traced back to government interference or government misallocation of capital in some form or the other. But what people miss, is that you need to go one step further than that. The reason the government CAN interfere or misallocate capital in the first place, is because they control the ledger. Its not the main reason, or part of the reason. Its the entire reason. The ledger is the tool by which governments wage wars. Its the tool by which governments tax their citizens into oblivion. Its the tool by which governments interfere in and destroy free markets. Its the tool by which recessions are created. Its the tool by which inflation is created. Its the tool by which poverty is created. Its the tool by which entire industries are destroyed. When everything around you is collapsing, you can't fix each and every problem individually forever. When everything is a problem, theres typically one problem. Every problem your seeing is a symptom of that deeper problem. And that problem is the State's unilateral and monopolistic control of the ledger. When you democratise control of the ledger, when you commodify the ledger, the governments ability to fuck things up drops to almost 0. Fix the money. Fix the world.

The official rate of inflation is 3%, or some other made up number. In unrelated news, Wetherspoons have completely withdrawn steak from their menu & replaced it with "gourmet burgers". This RELENTLESS degradation in quality is caused by central bank monetary debasement.

I finally watched the full video by Katie Martin from FT covering Strategy, and the punchline of her story that has been making rounds is not the "tooth" scarcity. There's something far more sinister happening here, and I want to break it down. The role of a media company is to attempt balanced reporting. But what Katie does here is anything but neutral. She opens the program by admitting she "got annihilated" shorting $MSTR and "wants to understand what she is missing here." But by the end of the video, it’s clear that wasn’t her goal at all. She closes by saying she's "not going to tell you what to do because her track record sucks and she genuinely has no idea," even going as far as to claim, "no one really truly has any idea either." This is intellectual dishonesty. She claims she wants to learn, and when people—including @saylor himself—try to explain it out of his busy schedule, she dismisses it entirely. Worse, she goes on to say, "This is why I get nervous for retail investors like @PunterJeff," assuming a caretaker role as if it's her job to worry about anyone—as if she’s not a journalist, but a gatekeeper. And then, as if to wrap it all up with a neat bow of hypocrisy, she reasserts that her original short thesis was justified: "This is the concern I had all along, and part of the reason why I shorted the company," directly contradicting her supposed quest to understand. Then the video ends with Katie saying, "I've been wrong before, and I can be wrong again," neatly sidestepping any form of accountability. This is vile. Not only is it not journalism, but it’s also the kind of attitude that resembles command-and-control narratives, the sort you’d expect from authoritarian states—not media institutions. It’s the same cultural lockdown we’re seeing play out between the political left and right: a collective voice, unqualified, pretending to seek understanding but never intending to. And when proven wrong, claiming that nobody knows the answer anyway—and worse, absolving themselves of accountability. We need to stop normalizing journalism like this.

Arteta really schooled Pep Guardiola man.... Wtff🔥

Fasting trains your body. Bitcoin trains your mind. Together, they make you fucking invincible. embracingdiscomfort.medium.c…

33 and I still tell my Mum my trainers were £35 max. I’m not brave

Bitcoin is just a bunch of lines of code which you can use for anything you want. Your impression of it is a reflection what you seek. Free people see freedom in bitcoin, criminals see crime.

The economy is a sham, the money is fake, and the printers aren’t stopping. medium.com/@embracingdiscomf…

@JeffBooth sent this to me. He posted on NOSTR yesterday, and gave me permission to put it out on X on his behalf, as Jeff now posts almost exclusively on NOSTR. As you can imagine, I agree with Jeff’s assertions. I find I very rarely don’t. Thank you. JB: With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin  (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.  (*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group) According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.  Why is that important:  Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards.  Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.  In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.  #bitcoin  has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power.  Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin  decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day. That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.  It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.   What a time to be alive.  Jeff Booth

The cost-of-living crisis is a fiat problem. When you measure your wealth in Bitcoin, the crisis doesn’t exist. embracingdiscomfort.medium.c…

Passive income doesn’t build. It doesn’t innovate. It doesn’t solve problems. It’s a hamster wheel of extracting value without contributing any. In a world where value matters, passive income doesn’t. embracingdiscomfort.medium.c…

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Your house is their liability, and they’ve managed to sell it to you as an asset. medium.com/@embracingdiscomf…

Can any UK plebs please tell me how I can plow my pension pot into bitcoin?

Read that again.