Also,,, don’t do nothing or obey or buy or follow something you don’t desire?

Big epiphany for me and myself — there’s actually not much if anything I desire on this planet? Besides perhaps bitcoin?

Often new things and new technologies have many hidden fragilities which only reveal them after about a year of use? For example our new “slim” Dyson? The neck is already broken?

When to stick to old protocols? When it ain’t broken, and also when what you’re already doing doesn’t cause you pain? Sometimes the new concept, the new technique the new approach can actually can you a *NEW* type of unforeseen pain?

Physiological physical pain?

Via negativa health

Unstrict or non-strict people and parents are not respectable?

“Now we have a White House that is embracing Digital Assets. We expect something around $250,000 for #Bitcoin in 2025.” –

@FundStrat

Mortgages, 30 or 40 year mortgages for owning a bitcoin(s)?

Saving Time > Convenience

RAIDERS.

Just design it yourself!

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Your job, not your job?

 do you really care about other people that much?

The will to reduce

 exception, exceptional, anti-, different?

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Energy efficiencies; something that people don’t talk about is the efficiency of riding the bus or the train, the metro because when you don’t have to drive and you’re not forced to sit, but that then means is that you actually can conserve more of your energy and physiological power?

The will to survive ? 

 we’re happier when we’re around other people

Bet on the jockey and the horse? 
And the track, and the game?

Bitcoin is a game you could actually win! 

So I thought the other day; now that I live in LA, Culver City… Life is different now than I was living in the suburbs of Orange County, like a two minute drive to my local gym etc.

And also, the tricky thing is that with the winter months, things are also different.

I recall that in the early mornings, when I was living in the OC, I would just put on my daily gym attire, drive to the gym, immediately hit the hot sauna wore myself up. But now things are a little bit trickier now that when I wake up in the morning, sometimes ridiculously early, the apartment is still cold, not a super strong impetus for me to go outside. 

Also, now where I live, is practically like 100%, 100 out of 100 walkability score. Here in Culver City, I’m living a walker’s paradise!

Now the reason why this is so important is that I’m kind of finally starting to figure out how critical it is for me to change my mindset, my approach, my protocol.

Also, now that Cindy is a century working full-time, and more often than not my time is a little more limited, the way I approach fitness is obviously changing and must change.

Recent innovations I’m happy for is after making a ton of money off of Microstrategy, buying two 50kg calibrated steel plates, which is about 110 pounds a plate.  it has been super super fun and cool because even lifting it up to rack it unto the barbell is a workout in itself! Also, have the time I’m just walking around town with Seneca, this might be the most walking I’ve ever done in my life, and all his arm carry him, and I’ve been noticing that also, my biceps are becoming a lot more buff and impressive. Even to myself!

Switching up the protocol

Even another weird thing is that as of late, I find that going on my walks my morning walks I was actually more important than lifting weights? I suppose the way I am able to double dip is that I’m like almost always wearing my 60pound weight vest, All day every day. 

So first, with exercise and fitness, I guess it is critical for me to change my mindset, and also my protocol on what to do, why I do it etc.

Also, what I think is so paradigm shattering with bitcoin is that now that we are all sons of bitcoin (Michael Saylor, @saylor tweet), we also have to change and replace and recapitalize on bitcoin as our base, concrete, bedrock foundation.

For example, if you’re building cyber Manhattan for the 22nd century, you don’t build it on bedrock on the main island. If you’re going to build in cyberspace, you need a totally new protocol, a totally new paradigm mindset.

Stick shift?

Every single car that I have purchased in my adult life has always been a stick shift Manual transmission car, five speed. And also my pride is I have never spent more than $3000 USD on a car in my whole adult life and I’m 36 years old, and the first bitcoin blogger photographer street photography millionaire that I know. Maybe the only one in the universe that was self-made?

How do you know if your self-made or not? If you practically had a single mom, who waited tables, clean houses, worked as a cashier, and also had a dad who would gamble away the rent money, threatening your mom with physical violence, and also mental violence if she didn’t cough up the rent money.

Now consider how pernicious this is; the real critical issue here is that not only are you trying to fight to stay afloat, but you’re also actively having somebody unplugging the hot water bath water.

I think this is also something that people who don’t understand growing up in a family of economic peril; once again it’s not just having two hard-working parents, struggling to work to minimum wage jobs just to pay the rent and expenses and put food on table; no, it is one mom working full-time While having a father who did not work ever since you were two years old, while actively gambling away the rent money. Double bad.

2025

We live in a really bizarre time, and I bet you it’s going to just get more and more bizarre. Once Donald Trump takes office January 20, 2025… You’ll see a huge paradigm shift.

First, obviously this will be good for us bitcoiners because bitcoin is going to go through the roof! Just look at the riveting talk that ERIC Trump did at the bitcoin conference in Abu Dhabi, in essentially which he says that he is confident that bitcoin is going to get to $1 million a coin.

The reason why I feel like this is very very important to watch is that because he is a son of the incoming president, he will actually do everything in his power to make sure this manifested as a reality. 

Funny enough, I didn’t even know that Donald Trump had a son named Eric Trump, I guess all guys whose first name is ERIC our geniuses! And also ERIC Semler of similar scientific, another ERIC! And also another ERIC Balchanus, like one of the head ETF guys at Bloomberg, his name is also ERIC? We gotta make an ERIC squad! 

Why new protocols are so difficult

Once again, if you’ve been riding a horse and buggy whole life, and I pull up in a matte black cyber truck, what will be your reaction? Your mind will absolutely be blown, your jaw will drop, you’re going to think that the person in the cyber truck is like some sort of alien god. Even a fully rational person will probably drop on his knees, and start repenting for his sins whatever.

Or, let us say that I drop you into the 1950s, and selling that you pull up with a brand new iPhone Pro, and you go to the head of Kodak and telling them that you came from the future and that this iPhone thing will totally disrupt their business. What would their reaction be?

Why photographers and digital photographers should intuitively understand bitcoin

We are all passionate about photography yet for a lot of us, we make our money elsewhere. But if you were like an investor in Kodak, and I came from the future and I told you that this thing would come along and totally destroy your business and you’ll go broke, unless you shift and embrace this new economic protocol and innovation, isn’t the wise thing to adopt the change? 

Even Peter Diamandis said “Bitcoin is digital photography”. or, “bitcoin is the iPhone”. 

You know this often tied phrase that a lot of these skinny fat bearded flannel wearing salty loser say “Humph! Everyone thinks that they’re a photographer now!” (Yes the truth is everyone is a guitar for now, and this is a good thing.)

I wonder if the same sentiment exist amongst acid fund managers “with bitcoin, everyone thinks that they’re an investor now!”

I think all of us, if you’ve been following me since the beginning, don’t you know that we have all always been anti-establishment, anti-“the man“,– if so, shouldn’t you embrace bitcoin with open arms?

We the new goats!

I think the reason why paradigm shifts are so difficult to understand and embrace is that once again this is a big deal. For example, the paradigm shift of bitcoin is like if you suddenly came up to Michael Jordan, and told him that the whole time he’s been playing the game wrong, or that they totally changed the rules of the game, certainly wouldn’t he be confused, and upset?

Embracing the new is hard

One thing I learned from the ERIC Trump talk is that apparently, the protocol for email was around for like 25 years before anyone actually really decided to use it. And now for most of us, it might be the most critical way to communicate, and magically teleport messages all across the planet.

I think for so long we’ve been stuck in this kind of fatalist mindset about the whole banking system, financial system whatever; now that we are living the year 2024, the year 2025, come on… Why are the banks closed after like 5 PM Eastern time? And why are the traditional stock markets closed on Saturdays and Sundays, when we all have these super Ultramega computers that could take us to Mars and back?

Like let us consider you know the story when they say that apparently, the computers that got us to the moon were like half of the computing power of like a TI 84 calculator? Isn’t that the same error in which the operating protocols for the NASDAQ stock exchange were invented?

Also, during those times, America was the only center of the universe, Singapore wasn’t really on the global stage, nor Dubai or any of these other global super power nations. As a consequence, everything revolved either around New York Manhattan time, or London time. So being able to operate on the protocol of these random arbitrary American numbers were common.

Now that once again, we are a global planet, don’t we need some sort of global capital token that could instantaneously trade hands, 24 seven, 365, all day every day, with no delay no lag no friction, no annoying middleman?

the middle mans feel at risk? 

Let us say that your job is to manage other people’s money, and that your well-being and money comes from other people being dependent on you, your financial services etc., if that is the case, wouldn’t you be interested to have other people always be dependent on you?

You don’t need no middleman

I almost feel that middleman, are like the biggest parasites to society.

For example, kind of a low-key super greedy bad thing, in their early days of text messaging, SMS messaging, apparently it cost nothing for these huge telecommunications platforms to transfer and facilitate a text message exchange. Like it was already running on the same rails, and that to send a text message did not cost the carrier $.10 or whatever, it was free for them but they charged you an arm and a leg. 

Similarly speaking, do you remember in the early days of smart phones, you’re forced to sign some sort of arbitrary to your contract, before actually signing up for a phone plan? This was like some terrible mafioso thing.

I almost wonder, maybe, now, starting next year, people are finally starting to wake up to their senses and realize how traditional banking is such a scam.

Also other arbitrary things, like… You need to maintain a certain bank balance for the checking account to be free, and also these pernicious overdraft fees, late fees etc.? Do you remember like the early days of blockbuster?

Even apparently, when I was listening to an interview with ERIC Semler, when he met the executive a blockbuster and told him that Netflix was almost an existential threat to them… Most of these executives at Blockbuster just laughed directly in their faces, and told them to leave. Where is blockbuster today?

I almost feel like this is going to happen to everything. Everything is going to be disrupted, whether we like it or not. The intelligent strategy is to accept embrace and integrate these new protocols.

For example, obviously the Internet as we know it today is already running the planet. Imagine if 20 years ago your company did not embrace the Internet, where would you be today?

What is bitcoin?

, Bitcoin is like the new Internet, except in some ways it is far more valuable because it actually deals with money. Why is this so important? The reason why this is so important is that money is actually more important than technology, or money might be the most important technology. 

For example, let me give you example; obviously I love ChatGPT and AI, but I could live without it. Things will be less optimal, but still, I could live life without ChatGPT. But could you live life without money? No.

And honestly at this point, you need the Internet. If you don’t have access to Wi-Fi, at home, at the local coffee shop, if you don’t have 4G or 5G cellular data on your phone, you’re absolutely screwed.

How was wolverine made?

This is an interesting analogy, I think the way that they made wolverine is that they replaced his entire skeleton with adamantine steel. A very painful process. But this made him invincible pretty much.

They call him weapon X.

Maybe the process of bitcoin is like the same thing, if somebody took out your whole exoskeleton your bones everything your ligaments, and you’re forced to replace it with some sort of new add a man times steel, even if it did make you immortal, certainly you would not like the process very much because it will be excruciatingly painful.

Who doesn’t want to live forever?

Everyone must die, you must die. But if I could promise you immortality, in 100 perfect health and vigor and happiness and joy, wouldn’t you take it? Probably.

Bitcoin is like heaven on earth?

So what is the difference between bitcoin and every other asset? Bitcoin will last forever like 100,000 years, 1 million years, 100 million years etc. You’re shabby real estate might last 30, 40 years?

Think long

Apparently Jeff Bezos invested in this thing called like the 100,000 year clock, which will apparently run and work for like 100,000 years. And the reason why this is a critical thing is that course is us to think about the long-term.

Even the reason why I think Jeff Bezos might be one of the most underrated entrepreneurs of all time is that he really really really played the long game with Amazon, pretty much projecting the dominance of Amazon, over the course of 20-30 years. 

So in the early days of Amazon, when Jeff Bezos was still transporting books to the local post office in his Honda accord, and I came from the future and I told you that one day, he in Amazon would send you run the planet, what would you have told me? You would’ve probably laughed in my face.

Or, that Apple, in the early days of Apple, like when they’ll still Wozniak and Steve Jobs in their garage building Apple two computer computers that once again, they would be like a $3 trillion company, what would you have said to me? You would’ve thought I was a fool!

But then again, once again, to think about the future, 20 or 30 years is not only difficult, but requires grand creativity, almost like a detachment from modern reality. If you are too stuck in the present, you’ll never become anything grand.

buy big become big

I was reading some newspaper article or television thing about how after the bitcoin boom, like the number of bitcoin millionaires, or people with over X amount of bitcoin in their wallet has exploded.

What are my bitcoin price projections? Considering that we’re going to have non-Trump the first bitcoin president, and his blood son, ERIC Trump in his left ear, we’re definitely going to see the bitcoin act pass, the senator Cynthia Lummis act, in which America will probably purchase at least 1 million bitcoins. If and when this happens, you’re definitely going to see a mad rush and explosion in the value of bitcoin.

Why? Like Michael Saylor said, if you were an evil genius, and you were America, the smart strategy is to sell all of your gold and demonetized and deepen the capital assets of your enemy, Russia and China, and all the other BRICS nations, because then, assuming if America owns like 25% of the bitcoin network, then suddenly you get this insanely phenomenal best trade of all time:

1. You essentially demonetize “debank” the assets of China Russia etc., which still stores a lot of their wealth in gold.
2. You get a free trade, you don’t have to print more US dollars to purchase more bitcoins, you just use already existing gold reserves.
3. You essentially make your country, America, the center of the economic planet, your conquer cyberspace, which is the next frontier, and you essentially control it forever.
4. You then back the US dollar stable coin with your bitcoin reserves, and then you make the US dollar coin the dominant coin of the planet.

Isn’t this obvious?

What is the American ethos?

Bet big, dominate, control it all!

ERIC

Humans economize time

Economize Time how to economize your time

Human time

Resources need to be produced before consumed

The effort we go into to find such resources

“Proven reserves”

Insane material abundance?

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Capitalize on Bitcoin

In modern-day times we are suckered into thinking that always being super super responsive and attentive is a virtue. But I say, when in doubt, delay is often the wiser approach.

Being or becoming beautiful is difficult — a privilege.

The Privilege of Beauty

We must labor to be beautiful.

Abu Dhabi

Developers greatest dream

Dream it you can build it!

The Bitcoin crypto president

Make America the crypto capital of the world

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Hospitality

The future of finance

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You’re going to have the most pro crypto president

Digital revolution

Embrace crypto

$100k!

Pops

Together …

Pledge to add crypto to the US treasury

Tax free crypto?

I truly believe

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Bitcoin is a fundamental shift!

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I want to safeguard treasury transfer funds pay vendors, collect rents —

Revolution is already here

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Most people can’t see it

$1M at Least a coin

1970 email

Arpanet

25 years ,,, 1995 email

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1992 text message . Dec 1992,

22B texts a day

Slow to adapt to new technology

How’s your portfolio doing now?

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Real estate family

Hard assets

Trump Chicago

Bhurj khalifa

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Bedrock tangible

Has energy! Digital asset revolutionary!

Politics weaponize, banking weaponize.

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Cancelled

Grow wealth without trusting

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Blockchain, more transparent new frontier

The institutions are petrified!

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National treasurer

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Look behind the curtain! How manipulating

Scarce 21M

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Change supply dynamics

Hard limit

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Wait

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Not tied to geography instantly

REIT

18 months

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Disrupt traditional banking systems

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Lead the charge

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6am call

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People who got it wrong got it wrong?

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Congratulations Bitcoin!

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Our best days are ahead!

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the Trump family loves you!

Podcast

Quite a radical idea —

Audio

Free money! Assuming you never had to pay property taxes on a single-family home, you’re technically getting like a free $1500 check a month! Being an owner versus a consumer shopper? Bitcoin, monthly installment plan? With bitcoin you kinda have to rewrite all the rules ? Create your own new metrics 

bitcoin fanatic

Beef & bitcoin 

The dollar is depreciating bitcoin is appreciating

Photography is infinite 

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Entertainment, superficial entertainment and amusement?

Hide the body shape? Or reveal it?

I suppose what is interesting about a really really dark matte black wrap, is that you could hide ugly body shapes on cars?

Aesthetics

Aesthetics matter more than race nationality whatever?

Life is for being outside!

Free money! Assuming you never had to pay property taxes on a single-family home, you’re technically getting like a free $1500 check a month!

Being an owner versus a consumer shopper?

Bitcoin, monthly installment plan?

With bitcoin you kinda have to rewrite all the rules ?

Create your own new metrics 

Utility, utility yield

Tyrants ?

It is OK to not like or hate

Vitriol ?

Indignant, indignation porn?

Marginal utility !***

New attitudes

Law of diminishing marginal utility

Specific joy declines with each extra use

Valuation by the least valuable use

Marginal next utility

The Ultimate Resource

Temporal

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Career risk

Create a new permission structure

Drawdown

Bitcoin & the military?

Bitcoin for Military

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Sell it all!

Demonetize gold

More intelligent to demonetize your enemy’s network! ***

Strategic.

Bigger world & life ambitions!

We need a new world enemy?

Manifest Destiny

How to manifest your destiny?

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20T to 4T–> demonetize gold

Devalue assets of gold

25% of bitcoin network Forever

Demonetize your real estate

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Bonds

Safe haven

Evil Genius strategy

$100T in heart beat

Dump gold, buy $6 million bitcoin,

Crappy assets,

Define US dollar custodian. Audited.

$150B stable coin to trillion to 8-16T$, USD stable coin

$10-20$ T, sovereign debt for US

adding back demand to do stable coin

Replaces CNY, ruble, replaces euro! ***

US world reserve currency

Just merge into US dollar

There isn’t a stronger currency

CNY is pegged to the dollar

Implicit peg, euro,

Collapsing currency

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$10T dollar standard currency, stable coins

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Think 22nd century!

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16th century Spanish, gold failed as monetary network

Eliminate the fiction

Digital gold, sell the past, own the future , easy!

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Dodge

Satisfaction of human needs ,, “useful”

Causal connection

“Economize”–

Study of human choices under scarcity

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Introduction to Bitcoin

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New tactics, approaches, techniques —

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Value is subjective, inside our consciousness

Bad to good

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Insanely ingenious ideas!

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Subjective valuation

Ordinal vs Cardinal

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Best Friend –> there can only be one.

New morals, new ethics

Value and price are different

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Want of the thing vs the labor necessary to create it!

Labor does not always determine value!

Utility vs labor?

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Negative vs Positive talk & energy?

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Perhaps I’m immoral and unethical and evil?

It’s ok to be evil?

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Human choice, scarcity

“I am a bad person”

No virtuosity in anything?

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The Bitcoin industrial machine

Simple Designs Last

Unconcerned.

Like shifts in temperature?

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The sun never doesn’t rise,, the sun always rises!

malus, kakos (bad, wicked)

The word evil has a long and fascinating etymological history that traces back to Old English and beyond. Here’s a breakdown:

1. Old English: The word “evil” originates from the Old English word yfel, which meant “bad, vicious, ill, wicked.” It was used broadly to describe anything harmful or morally reprehensible.

2. Proto-Germanic: Before Old English, the term comes from the Proto-Germanic root ubilaz, which also carried the meaning of “bad” or “evil.” Variants of this root appear in other Germanic languages:

• Old High German: ubil

• Old Saxon: ubili

• Gothic: ubils

3. Proto-Indo-European: The root of ubilaz is thought to trace back to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) root upelo- or upo-, which conveys ideas of “overturning” or “exceeding limits,” suggesting something disruptive or harmful.

4. Shift in Usage: Over time, “evil” evolved from a general term for “bad” or “harmful” into a more specific term for moral wickedness, particularly in a religious or philosophical context.

5. Comparison with Related Words: In other languages, similar terms for “evil” also reflect notions of harm or moral wrong:

• Latin: malus (bad, evil)

• Greek: kakos (bad, wicked)

Thus, the concept of “evil” has ancient roots tied to notions of harm, wrongdoing, and disruption of order, evolving into its modern sense of profound immorality or wickedness.

Transgress good or healthy

Bad, harmful, deviant?

The English word “evil” has its origins deep in the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, tracing back at least to the early stages of Old English and beyond. Its earliest known form in English appears as yfel in Old English texts, dating to before the 12th century. This Old English form aligns closely with cognates in other early Germanic languages, such as Old Saxon ubil, Old Frisian ivel, and Old High German ubil. All these variants carry meanings related to morally reprehensible behavior, misfortune, or something harmful or disastrous, though they did not always have the exclusively moral sense that “evil” often carries today.

The Proto-Germanic precursor is commonly reconstructed as *ubilaz (or similar variants), pointing to a shared root in the pre–written history of the Germanic tongues. Although definitive reconstructions at this deep temporal distance are always somewhat tentative, most historical linguists believe that this root signified something “bad,” “harmful,” or “deviant.” It may have been connected to the idea of transgressing established boundaries or failing to meet the standards of what was considered “good” or “healthy.”

Beyond Proto-Germanic, attempts have been made to link the root to Proto-Indo-European (PIE) forms. Some scholars have proposed a tie to a PIE root that would have carried a more general sense of “exceeding limits” or “causing harm,” though the precise PIE form and meaning remain uncertain. Such uncertainty arises because not every Germanic concept can be neatly matched to a PIE antecedent with a direct semantic equivalent. Nonetheless, the general sense of wrongdoing, harm, or moral deficiency seems consistent throughout its deep linguistic ancestry.

In Old English usage, yfel had a relatively broad semantic range, encompassing not only moral depravity but also misfortune, calamity, defect, and anything considered unfavorable or harmful. It was not strictly limited to moral evil as modern English often is. Over time, and through the Middle English period, the forms shifted—ivel, evil, and others—gradually standardizing into the modern spelling “evil.”

By the later medieval period and into Early Modern English, the moral and spiritual connotations of “evil” came to the forefront, particularly influenced by religious texts and philosophical treatises that contemplated the nature of sin, wrongdoing, and moral opposition to the divine. Thus, the modern English sense of “evil” as embodying profound immorality, wickedness, and malevolence reflects a long history of both linguistic evolution and cultural reinterpretation of its meaning.

Last week, $MSTR‘s treasury operations delivered a BTC Yield of 3.3%, providing a net benefit of approximately 13,270 BTC to shareholders, or around 1,896 BTC per day. At $98K per BTC, this equates to $1.3 billion for the week, or $186 million per day – @saylor

You’re not missing anything!

From the bottom up

MSTR & Bitcoin

No carbs no starches, no powders! Just beef flesh meat!

Video podcast

so this is the line of thinking: you work so hard, your whole life, grinding away to make money, why would you put the money in the hands of others, to manage your money for you?

Of course you could teach yourself how to manage your own money

The bizarre; why would other people somehow be better for you — at managing money? They’re not!

Audio

Or why diversification is a losing strategy:

Patient

Bitcoin is efficient

Why? It lasts forever

Animal animal skin and products are luxuries 

How to stay rich forever

Simple: just don’t buy a loser Lamborghini or phantoms, buy bitcoin instead!

20 bitcoins matte black! 

Google is the world’s biggest advertising agency

Everyone should buy bitcoin

Don’t call it crypto call it bitcoin

Hardcore bitcoin

It Seems like this simple strategy to just go 100% into bitcoin?

high viz orange, high visibility orange is the way.

Black and orange, the new palette 

100%

Colors of the future, shiny, silver?

Gold?

Outdoor education

Don’t trust weird. looking people?

The smallest tool possible?

Think nature, think natural

Colors of the future? Why does this even matter?

Bitcoin soldier

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Conceptualize — bitcoin for military 

One way to conceptualize “Bitcoin for the military” is to think of blockchain-backed digital currencies and distributed ledger technology as tools to enhance security, transparency, and efficiency within various military operations, both on the battlefield and in the broader defense ecosystem. This conceptualization isn’t about the military using public Bitcoin directly for day-to-day transactions, but rather about leveraging the underlying principles of blockchain technology—immutability, decentralization, and cryptographic security—to strengthen operational frameworks.

Key Dimensions to Consider:

1. Supply Chain Management and Logistics:

Military logistics involve complex global supply chains, often spanning multiple jurisdictions and involving a variety of contractors, vendors, and allies. By using a blockchain-based token—akin to a specialized cryptocurrency—each piece of materiel could be “tagged” on a secure ledger. From ammunition crates in a forward operating base to jet engine components at a maintenance depot, every transaction and movement could be recorded in a tamper-evident, distributed ledger.

• Benefits:

• Traceability: Commanders and logistics officers gain real-time visibility into inventory movements, preventing misrouting or pilferage.

• Auditable Compliance: Auditors and inspectors can verify the origin, maintenance history, and chain-of-custody of critical equipment with unparalleled precision.

• Cost Reduction: Reduced paperwork and middlemen through automated “smart contracts” that release payments only when delivery and quality checks are confirmed.

2. Financial Transactions Between Partner Nations:

Joint operations, peacekeeping missions, and coalition activities require seamless financial coordination. A secure, shared blockchain-based currency or stablecoin—perhaps a military consortium coin—could facilitate real-time settlements for cost-sharing arrangements, equipment leases, and emergency funds distribution.

• Benefits:

• Reduced Friction: Settlements could be made within minutes instead of waiting for complex intergovernmental clearances.

• Enhanced Trust: Pre-agreed upon smart contracts ensure that funds disburse only when mission criteria are met, alleviating concerns of fraud or misallocation.

3. Personnel Compensation and Benefits:

Deployed personnel often face challenges in accessing traditional banking services. A secure, military-issued digital currency wallet—linked to a blockchain—could ensure soldiers receive pay and allowances reliably, even in austere environments.

• Benefits:

• Immediate and Secure Access: Soldiers in remote postings receive pay directly to digital wallets, which can be converted into local currency as needed.

• Reduced Dependency on Vulnerable Financial Channels: Minimizes reliance on local banking infrastructure or the risks associated with transporting physical cash in combat zones.

4. Black Box for Cyber and Signal Intelligence:

The military increasingly relies on data—ranging from battlefield sensor feeds to encrypted communications. Storing critical logs and access records on a secure blockchain could create a verifiable audit trail of who accessed which intelligence, when, and from where.

• Benefits:

• Data Integrity: Once recorded, intelligence logs cannot be altered without detection.

• Cyber Forensics: Investigators can pinpoint breaches, unauthorized data alterations, or suspicious activity with cryptographic certainty.

5. Sanctions and Denial-of-Resource Operations:

On the flip side, understanding how adversaries might leverage cryptocurrencies is critical. Military strategists could use blockchain analytics to trace hostile financing networks, identifying patterns in bitcoin transactions that might indicate procurement of weapons or financing of covert cells.

• Benefits:

• Early Warning System: Spotting irregular financial flows on open ledgers can provide intelligence leads.

• Targeted Interventions: If certain addresses or wallets associated with adversaries are identified, they can be flagged and monitored or used in shaping cyber/information warfare strategies.

6. Resilience in Conflict Scenarios:

Conventional banking infrastructure can be disrupted by enemy action, natural disasters, or cyberattacks. A decentralized blockchain network—if properly implemented and maintained across multiple secure nodes—could provide a resilient backbone for financial and logistics operations even if traditional communication lines fail.

• Benefits:

• Survivability of Networks: Distributed data storage ensures that no single point of failure can disable the entire financial/logistics apparatus.

• Fallback Resource: Even in near-peer conflicts or contested environments, critical financial and supply chain records remain intact.

Challenges and Considerations:

• Security and Encryption: Military-grade cybersecurity would need to harden these blockchain systems against adversarial attacks.

• Interoperability with Legacy Systems: Integrating new blockchain frameworks into existing logistics, payroll, and procurement systems is non-trivial.

• Governance and Policy: Clear rules must govern how digital tokens are issued, managed, and audited within a military context.

• Scalability and Complexity: Military operations are vast and intricate. Ensuring that blockchain solutions scale effectively and do not overly complicate routine processes is key.

Conclusion:

“Bitcoin for the military” is not a direct one-to-one adoption of public cryptocurrencies, but rather a strategic application of distributed ledger technologies to enhance the security, auditability, transparency, and resilience of military operations. By carefully designing private, permissioned blockchains or secure cryptographic token ecosystems, militaries can modernize logistics, improve financial coordination, enhance data integrity, and better protect their strategic interests in an increasingly digital and contested world.

Bitcoin party

Riot’s (NASDAQ: RIOT) vision is to be the world’s leading Bitcoin-driven infrastructure platform.

Riot Platforms Announces Proposed Private Offering of $500 Million of Convertible Senior Notes

Riot is a Bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company focused on a vertically integrated strategy. The Company has Bitcoin mining operations in central Texasand Kentucky, and electrical switchgear engineering and fabrication operations in Denver, Colorado.

Backed by US treasury bills?

Gradual dilution of value

1971, Breton woods

Reimagine the very idea of money

Technology can make tomorrow possible

Tech giants are not companies , they’re networks

Traditional metrics to never before seen assets

Change assets, not stocks

Deception

.

Bitcoin is Digital Photography

.

If it ain’t broke, break it! ***

Bitcoin is Netflix. Bitcoin is the iPhone.

Security & sovereignty

Banking ologiopoly

Lazy greedy or both

Bitcoin is Beautiful

To save it was to lose it.

To spend it was to use it

2300% Internet growth a year

.

The Internet of money

Full faith and credit of that government

.

COVID 19 is like the best thing that happened to me. My business & bitcoin

.

Bitcoin is totally decentralized ***

Scarcity is what imbues it with value — just like life?

Send value to one another …

Bitcoin is the future of value

It’s valuable

.
No mass, entirely virtual

Incorruptible

Store of value

Stone tablets

Debt

.

Lead vs Gold

Technology & Faith

We have the worlds most innovative economy

Collectibles

Tangible physical property

Tangible property **00

Property rights in America religious

Every joke is a truth wrapped in a smile

Metcalfe’s law

The future is not for the faint of heart

.

Your season tickets ,,,

Games you can play, ,,,, or be spectator just watch

Rigged in favor of the individual ***

We are all Satoshi now!

Prometheus gave us fire! A game we can all win!

Monetary network won’t censor where you send money won’t freeze account

You’re winning the game over time!

.

LeBron, Michael Jordan play forever , score 100. You get 2 points we all winning together!

.

Team Bitcoin , hundreds of millions of fans!

.

You get wealthy while win game

Agile and responsive form of money

Backed by US treasury bills?

Gradual dilution of value

1971, Breton woods

Reimagine the very idea of money

Technology can make tomorrow possible

Tech giants are not companies , they’re networks

Traditional metrics to never before seen assets

Change assets, not stocks

Deception

.

Bitcoin is Digital Photography

.

If it ain’t broke, break it! ***

Bitcoin is Netflix. Bitcoin is the iPhone.

Security & sovereignty

Banking ologiopoly

Lazy greedy or both

Bitcoin is Beautiful

To save it was to lose it.

To spend it was to use it

2300% Internet growth a year

.

The Internet of money

Full faith and credit of that government

.

COVID 19 is like the best thing that happened to me. My business & bitcoin

.

Bitcoin is totally decentralized ***

Scarcity is what imbues it with value — just like life?

Send value to one another …

Bitcoin is the future of value

It’s valuable

.
No mass, entirely virtual

Incorruptible

Store of value

Stone tablets

Debt

.

Lead vs Gold

Technology & Faith

We have the worlds most innovative economy

Collectibles

Tangible physical property

Tangible property **00

Property rights in America religious

Every joke is a truth wrapped in a smile

Metcalfe’s law

The future is not for the faint of heart

.

Your season tickets ,,,

Games you can play, ,,,, or be spectator just watch

Rigged in favor of the individual ***

We are all Satoshi now!

Prometheus gave us fire! A game we can all win!

Monetary network won’t censor where you send money won’t freeze account

You’re winning the game over time!

.

LeBron, Michael Jordan play forever , score 100. You get 2 points we all winning together!

.

Team Bitcoin , hundreds of millions of fans!

.

You get wealthy while win game

MSTR, can’t stop won’t stop!

MicroStrategy Acquires 21,550 BTC and achieves BTC Yield of 43.2% QTD and 68.7% YTD; Now Holds 423,650 BTC, Dec 9, 2024

On December 9, 2024, the Company announced that, during the period between December 2, 2024 and December 8, 2024, the Company acquired
approximately 21,550 bitcoins for approximately $2.1 billion in cash, at an average price of approximately $98,783 per bitcoin, inclusive of fees and
expenses. The bitcoin purchases were made using proceeds from the issuance and sale of Shares under the Sales Agreement.
As of December 8, 2024, the Company, together with its subsidiaries, held an aggregate of approximately 423,650 bitcoins, which were acquired at an
aggregate purchase price of approximately $25.6 billion and an average purchase price of approximately $60,324 per bitcoin, inclusive of fees and
expenses.

Peter. Diamandis

The two most sublime things of all time?

I love society!