No better feeling than when your mining pool hits a block that has one of your on chain transactions in it. 🤌

Your work is greatly appreciated! Keep it up and thank you for providing a logical framework to assess markets, adoption, price and how the plumbing of the system works. You help me think outside my box and provide new perspective I wouldn’t have otherwise.

Your situation will predicate your use case for Bitcoin. - If you have $USD as your currency your need for store of value is less than if you were in a country with a weaker currency. - If you have a bank account then you don't need $BTC to keep your money safe and not hidden in your house as cash or converted to physical goods to barter with later. - If you have family in the same country as you don't need $BTC to transfer across borders. - If you want to stay in your country and are not worried about fleeing or having your wealth confiscated then you don't need $BTC to avoid confiscation. - If you don't have to worry about political or religious persecution for how you use your money then you don't need $BTC to provide anonymity. - If you live in a safe, democratic society with strong property rights and rule of law then $BTC might just seem to be a store of value but this is why it is our responsibility to keep pushing forward. Incorporating $BTC into the U.S. financial system is a trojan horse attack. I wish that more of the "least of these" would have had found $BTC before this point to benefit from the NGU but it doesn't change the fact that at its core it is decentralized P2P money. There is an incentive for businesses to begin to accept $BTC payments. Businesses don't want to absorb the credit card fees but if they don't then they lose convenience for their customers. $BTC saves businesses money. That alone will be enough to get them to accept $BTC payments. Once they do that I wouldn't be surprised to see a discount for "Cash and $BTC" payments versus credit card. Don't be discouraged, living in the U.S. is a sedative for being able to truly see what Bitcoin is to most the world.

Thoughts? If you are not seen as “successful” by spending $ on flashy stuff to normies, has that made it harder to orange pill especially those that are not closest to you?

Hung with college buddies tonight. Great guys, all successful, extremely smart, great families, strong marriages, leaders in their communities/churches. Salt of the earth men but they can’t see past the politics, gaslighting and consequences of a fiat system. I threw out a few nuggets to get them to think deeper on incentives and 1st principles but it went unnoticed. Just throwing this into the Nostr void….We are so early! I am so grateful for the clarity that Bitcoin has given me.

I vote for the next Bitcoin Treasury CEO.

Dope: #italosummer

Agree. NGU is a beautiful by benefit for those that are willing to put their money where their mouth is and say that Bitcoin is going to change the world! If you haven’t heard it today “Levi, you likely have been called idiot, scammer, dreamer & naive, but those same people will eventually call you legend, visionary and wise!” We are winning and this is just the beginning!

All right screw it guys/gals. Gonna be honest. They say don’t use leverage, etc. I am all in! HELOC maxed out, rental properties HELOC maxed out, 0% for 18 month credit card maxed out and a small Bitcoin backed loan on Strike to test it out. All proceeds are in cold storage Bitcoin, hosted Bitcoin miners in 4 countries (nonKYC and geographically diverse just in case), Bitcoin mining stocks + call options, Bitcoin treasury stocks + call options. I have a written plan on when I will pay off some of the debts but now is not that time. We are going to slay fiat! Its days are over and humanity’s greatest days are just over the horizon. Good night and God bless Bitcoin!

Well….years of waiting and instead of ripping faces like everyone expected with the 4 year cycle. I think Bitcoin is going to Pac Man the rest of the world with some 20-30% drawdowns but mostly unrelenting accumulation. Cycles don’t really matter that much anymore from supply side. The only thing that the cycles are anymore is psychological anchoring to previous cycles. This is it boys/gals. All our models are going to be destroyed because Bitcoin is going up forever! 21M / Infinity is reality….You were called idiots, dreamers, scammers, naive, etc. but in 100 years after are gone your lineage will refer to you as “LEGENDARY”! Stay humble, stacks sats and love others!