MDB on Nostr: People confuse optimism with blind faith. Mine is the opposite. The more time I spend ...
People confuse optimism with blind faith.
Mine is the opposite.
The more time I spend studying money, sovereign debt, incentives, and settlement systems,
the harder it becomes not to be optimistic about Bitcoin.
Not because everything is fine.
Because it clearly is not.
We are living through a world where debt compounds faster than trust, where asset prices are increasingly monetary policy variables, and where most people are forced to save inside systems they do not control.
That is the emotional part.
Here is the rational part
Optimism in Bitcoin is understanding that when uncertainty rises, systems with fewer discretionary levers become more valuable.
the incentives keep pointing the same way.
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2026-04-14 14:25:04 UTCEvent JSON
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