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Anastas

Well, sometimes life brings not one but several surprises at once. Surprises are more often negative than positive. The way you think determines how you will perceive a negative or positive surprise. One brings you easy profit, the other brings you opportunity.

2025-09-30 16:02:13 UTC

“The war of 1914 provided telling proof of the fact that stateguaranteed paper money, unlike gold and silver coins, does not represent any substantial value.”
Hjalmar Schacht “ The Magic of Money” 1967

2025-09-07 12:02:47 UTC

He who seeks profits must be able to bear losses. To acquire riches by legal means requires talent, diligence and the renunciation of comforts. Most men lack these qualities. For them a moderate income enabling them to enjoy life’s ‘simpler pleasures’ is sufficient. They eschew risks. Security of income is worth more to them than a possible but doubtful profit. Security of work, and provision for illness, old age, injury and unemployment, are therefore in the forefront of social controversy.
Shacht

2025-08-12 18:13:42 UTC

We live in Bretton Woods times!

2025-03-17 11:02:37 UTC

A centralized ledger is a single point of failure—one breach can compromise the entire system. Unlike Bitcoin’s decentralized network, which resists attacks, a central system is an easy target. As financial tech evolves, decentralization is key to securing digital assets.

2025-03-07 20:05:47 UTC

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Yes I agree, but this is how it is used in other books and articles I have come across. And the quote is from the first page of the book “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” published 1966 and is almost 1400 pages!!!

2025-03-06 15:12:26 UTC

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence co-operative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”
Carroll Quigley

2025-02-27 07:01:25 UTC

It does really feel like a opportunity! #bitcoin

2025-02-14 12:10:51 UTC

Casual conversation with GROK
**User:** We accept that a lie cannot exist without the truth. If there is no truth, there is no way to invent a lie. Then, if the fiat system is a lie, what is the truth?
**Assistant:** If we accept that lies exist only in the context of truth, then in the context of the fiat system, which is considered a lie, the truth would be **the backing of money's value with real assets or gold**. This is the historical basis for monetary systems before the introduction of fiat money, where the currency had value backed by gold reserves or other tangible assets.
So, if the fiat system is viewed as a lie, the truth would be a return to the **gold standard** or another system where money has inherent value, not just trust in the state or central bank.
**User:** Which means that #Bitcoin is the truth?
**Assistant:** #Bitcoin is often viewed as a form of "truth" in the context of digital currency because:
- **Decentralization**: #Bitcoin is not controlled by a central authority or institution, making it resistant to manipulation by third parties.
- **Transparency and Accountability**: All transactions are recorded on a public blockchain, which allows for transparency and verification of each transaction.
- **Limited Supply**: There's a fixed total number of Bitcoins that can be created (21 million), making it analogous to gold with a limited resource.
If we accept that "truth" in the context of monetary systems relates to sustainability, transparency, and decentralization, then #Bitcoin can be seen as a form of "truth." However, this depends on perspective:
- **Value Stability**: Unlike gold, Bitcoin's value is much more volatile, which can be seen as a flaw in its "truth" in the context of stable currency.
- **Adoption**: The truth of #Bitcoin as a currency still depends on collective trust and acceptance by the community and institutions.
Therefore, Bitcoin can be seen as a form of "truth" in terms of structure and principles, but its nature and adoption make it more complex for a categorical definition as "truth" in the traditional sense of monetary systems.
**User:** Which means it's a matter of time, not proving the truth!
**Assistant:** Exactly, in the context of #Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, its acceptance as "truth" or a valid form of currency indeed seems to be **a matter of time, rather than proving the truth**. This is partly because:
- **Trust and Adoption**: The more people and institutions accept #Bitcoin as a valid form of payment or investment, the more legitimacy and stability it gains.
- **Technological Development**: Over time, technologies around blockchain and cryptocurrencies improve, increasing trust and reducing risks associated with their use.
- **Regulatory Environment**: The regulatory frameworks being developed around cryptocurrencies also play a role in their acceptance as "truth" in an economic context.
Thus, while #Bitcoin has fundamental truths in its structure (decentralization, transparency), its acceptance and stability as currency will be proven with time, rather than through an absolute proof of its "truth" in an immediate context.

2025-02-06 18:15:27 UTC

Thanks to #bitcoin we have learned how to study properly!

2024-12-10 15:34:17 UTC

Not interesting if you don't buy at the top!
#bitcoin

2024-12-05 06:06:32 UTC

Sympathy for the Bears
(to the tune of “Sympathy for the Devil”)
Verse 1
Please allow me to introduce myself,
I’m a trader with no clue.
I shorted Bitcoin a thousand times,
And watched my debts accrue.
I was there when Peter Schiff
Declared, “Gold’s the only way!”
But while his tweets were raining down,
Bitcoin flew to 100K.
Chorus
Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guessed my game.
Oh, I short the pumps,
And I lose the same!
Verse 2
I joined in Schiff’s eternal rants,
“BTC has no real use!”
But gold just sat there looking shiny,
While Bitcoin cut me loose.
I sold my stash at ten K flat,
Said, “It’s dead, just like before!”
Then watched you hodlers ride the wave,
And laugh as bears went poor.
Chorus
Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guessed my game.
Oh, my golden idol,
Brought me only shame!
Bridge
Peter shouts, “It’s going to zero!”
While stacking his fool’s gold bars.
Yet every tweet is a public L,
As we hodl past the stars.
Verse 3
So if you see me on TV next,
Beside Schiff’s eternal sigh,
Just know we’re bitter, broken bears,
Who watched the moon pass by.
I mocked your laser eyes and memes,
Called wallets “magic dust.”
Now I’m left holding nothing but,
A pile of broken trust.
Final Chorus
Pleased to meet you,
Hope you guessed my game.
Oh, my bearish ways,
Lit a fiery flame!
Outro
Every Schiff still clings to gold,
Every bull just rolls their eyes.
Bitcoin laughs from 100K,
While Peter writes more lies.
Ad-lib fade-out
“Gold’s real money!”
“Bitcoin’s a bubble!”
“Wait… can I pay rent in sats?!”

2024-10-24 05:21:24 UTC

The most underrated side effect of #bitcoin is that it made a lot of people learn what economics and finance are! Then it made them think critically.
#bitcoin

2024-10-20 19:27:12 UTC

Do not sell your #Bitcoin = Carthago delenda est
#Bitcoin

2024-10-16 08:55:11 UTC

Wealth is a philosophical matter with material expression.
#bitcoin

2024-10-04 21:46:15 UTC

It's not just about getting rich! That's stupid! It's about being able to not have our energy and labor siphoned off by and to certain people and organizations. If you just want to be rich without any moral or ethical sense of wealth, then you are poor, and with lots of money, you will still be poor. If you only want the money to satisfy your fantasies that you can't pay for now, then you will be living on an island of misery surrounded by suffering and poverty! #bitcoin can't fix that! Only you can!
#bitcoin

2024-09-30 20:52:45 UTC

When a man gets tired of always being right then he begins to see the truth.
#bitcoin

2024-09-27 19:53:39 UTC

I think wealth as far as #bitcoin is concerned will not be expressed in the current fiat standards of millions, billions, trillions, etc. of dollars. Supercars, yachts, palaces, islands, etc.
#Bitcoin wealth will be something real beyond the material by current standard understandings. It will give access to something unimaginable by current unified brain standards.

2024-09-19 06:47:06 UTC

People can get better not just by learning #bitcoin but when they start thinking about what individual and collective problems it could solve.

2024-08-27 10:02:50 UTC

@npub1nn5…su7u

2024-07-30 19:08:03 UTC

#bitcoin tempers the will

2024-07-15 08:27:28 UTC

If you are just trying to get rich you will become a person subject to impure forces, but if the goal is to be a sovereign individual you will be a wealthy person with preserved dignity.
#bitcoin

2024-07-15 08:26:43 UTC

Ако се опитвате само да забогатеете, ще се превърнете в човек, подвластен на нечисти сили, но ако целта ви е да бъдете суверенна личност, ще бъдете богат човек със запазено достойнство.
#bitcoin

2024-06-05 18:01:03 UTC

Buying #bitcoin with fiat currencies is transforming credit into sound money.

2024-05-20 08:03:17 UTC

No one can beat math!
#bitcoin

2024-05-16 06:13:33 UTC

#bitcoin makes miracles!!!
Congrats to Botev Plovdiv FC! #note1h6z…g6s0

2024-05-05 08:34:45 UTC

Христос Воскресе!

2024-04-14 07:19:53 UTC

New ATH next week

2024-04-04 09:23:27 UTC

No need to hurry
#bitcoin

2024-03-26 17:53:30 UTC

Changes for the better are always about limitations and testing the will
#hodl

2024-03-11 18:40:41 UTC

All this daily and incessant talk by central bankers about how inflation was supposed to be 2% but it would take a long time because it was stubborn you see, but you didn't have to wait for it to fall to 2% to start lowering interest rates etc etc etc......
and all the chatter seems to be mentally training people to stop caring about inflation
Get the fuck of zero
#bitcoin

2024-03-11 07:24:11 UTC

ATH all day long
#bitcoin

2024-03-04 08:31:53 UTC

🤔 $65k then $68k?!
#bitcoin

2024-02-14 19:28:22 UTC

Unlearn everything what you know and start learning again.
#bitcoin

2024-02-14 17:06:27 UTC

🤔 $52k then $58k?!
#bitcoin

2024-02-07 18:13:53 UTC

Inflation is humiliating!
Regain your dignity with #bitcoin

2024-02-01 20:57:45 UTC

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Because some ppl created communistic style state over there! It’s about time for you Americans to kick them out.

2024-01-30 20:35:23 UTC

A lot of people don't realise yet that they're on the Delayed-Release orange pill
#bitcoin

2024-01-30 20:31:17 UTC

#bitcoin will always be worth more

2024-01-27 18:18:35 UTC

I believe we are at the end of the dark ages of economic thought. If this turns out to be true, and we will find out years from now, I think that through the motivation for a better life of freedom and change that #bitcoin gives us, we will emerge from these times and the next renaissance will begin.

2024-01-16 06:14:12 UTC

Starting to realise that learning #bitcoin is an endless process.

2024-01-12 10:44:31 UTC

If you work hard, help people in need, strive to be honest and do the right thing but still get unexpected and unwanted knocks in life don't worry. These are the times when the best lessons can be learned. This is the reward.

2024-01-12 06:59:39 UTC

The last few years I have had to have unwilling partners in business. What I learned the hard way about one of them is that the lazier a person is the greedier they become. The pursuit of freedom alone will save you from people like that.
#bitcoin

2024-01-11 10:18:25 UTC

I have a dream
To dedicate my time to #bitcoin
I'm working towards this dream

2024-01-10 13:42:26 UTC

IMO #bitcoin ⛏️ will be profitable forever

2024-01-07 08:00:21 UTC

#bitcoin = freedom There is no price that you can put on freedom. So….
You get it!

2024-01-06 22:22:32 UTC

As I look and understand for the first time we are given the solution first and once we start learning and understanding it we realize what problems it solves.
#bitcoin

2024-01-05 08:17:00 UTC

The whole staking shit is to divert the resources and energy you have from the only important thing #bitcoin

2023-12-27 20:09:06 UTC

The richest 1% own almost half of the world's wealth and only 0.26% of the world population can own 1 #Bitcoin
GN

2023-12-20 15:25:06 UTC

Understanding #bitcoin is finally waking up for the reality!

2023-12-14 20:47:08 UTC

Storing #bitcoin will become the most important thing in the world after fate!

2023-12-14 06:13:40 UTC

Gold is acting like shitcoin 😂
#bitcoin fixes this 😄

2023-12-13 07:09:48 UTC

The worst thing that a country’s government can do is to take loans from the IMF!
#bitcoin is the solution

2023-12-07 07:18:39 UTC

There are people who call inventions made by other people significantly smarter than them dumb inventions. Basic logic proves who is dumb and who is brilliant. At some point they realize their dumbness and start spouting lies about the invention in a pathetic attempt to cover their ignorance. A very very obvious idiotic display Jamie! Stay humble admit to yourself that you are a dumb liar.
#bitcoin

2023-12-05 13:30:42 UTC

It is extremely difficult to work with greedy people who think they are always screwed and that they can take more and more. That's why freedom through #bitcoin

2023-12-05 13:28:49 UTC

I have known what I want for years and it is absolute freedom!
That’s why I #bitcoin

2023-11-28 10:18:17 UTC

Take control on your value!
#bitcoin

2023-11-27 22:52:14 UTC

Even the human mind is volatile in terms of emotions and decision making but when one discovers #bitcoin somehow this mindset volatility disappears and strong conviction takes place and this gives the fundamental value to the finite asset.

2023-11-27 09:47:54 UTC

To become a sovereign individual should be the main goal of every person who wants to be free.
#bitcoin

2023-11-13 20:40:07 UTC

#bitcoin irrefutably proves that quality trumps quantity⚡️

2023-11-13 20:36:20 UTC

The feeling with #bitcoin is that I never know enough about it.

2023-11-13 16:29:27 UTC

There is only one thing that can make you happy and that is being grateful!
Thank God for #bitcoin

2023-11-07 15:10:39 UTC

I will never buy US bonds or any other government bonds because I don't want to give money to war!
#bitcoin

2023-11-07 10:09:07 UTC

There are only two certain things in life!
One is that we will all die someday and the other is that #Bitcoin will never die

2023-11-07 06:47:59 UTC

There is no risk in #bitcoin! There is risk in bad decisions!
#bitcoin #Nostr

2023-11-04 22:07:07 UTC

No opinion without knowledge!
Study #bitcoin

2023-11-03 19:16:04 UTC

I have a friend in the construction business and a few years ago he said something very interesting to me, "I like to build in times of crisis because then there are a lot of available workers and I can choose construction crews at a good price. At such times I work undisturbed!"
Exactly the same thing happens during bear markets. Work, earn and save peacefully in #bitcoin
Neither more nor less!
#bitcoin #Nostr

2023-11-03 11:27:43 UTC

🤔 $32k then $38k?!
#bitcoin

2023-11-03 07:16:40 UTC

1000 #sats a day keeps the poverty away
#bitcoin #Nostr

2023-11-03 06:32:01 UTC

The feeling about #bitcoin is astronomical net positive!

2023-11-01 21:03:11 UTC

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Честит празник! Това, което направихте с приемането на #bitcoin плащания и влизането в #Nostr си е съвременна будителска дейност, защото носи със себе си неограничен заряд за нови знания.
Популяризирайте pub key-я на акаунта си в #Nostr!

2023-10-31 08:56:32 UTC

At least for now the 34k support looks very strong! I still don’t understand who’s selling?
#bitcoin ⚡️

2023-10-30 06:32:27 UTC

I love reading!

2023-10-28 19:34:28 UTC

EU is a walking dead waiting for the headshot!
The current Union denies and prohibits the right of states to take a free position on all issues using refined mechanisms of repression. It does so in exactly the same way as neo-liberalism denies and restricts the individual's right and ability to think independently in a way that is different from the commonly imposed way.
Europe needs freedom!
Europe will survive as a Europe of nations!

2023-10-28 12:13:09 UTC

I almost feel bad for the bears!
They were so confident in their predictions😀
#bitcoin

2023-10-28 12:11:19 UTC

In 2040, the planet's population is expected to be more than 9 billion people. And #bitcoin supply will be 21 million coins forever!

2023-10-28 08:52:55 UTC

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#bitcoin

2023-10-28 08:52:07 UTC

Sympathy for the bears
#vitcoin

2023-10-27 19:01:10 UTC

Gold is physical bitcoin😀
#bitcoin

2023-10-27 05:15:20 UTC

In general, it turns out that paying taxes is pointless! We are paying for government spending that is not ours, and for wars we don't want to fight! #bitcoin could really fix this, but hope in common sense is gradually evaporating!

2023-10-26 18:03:22 UTC

I already miss the bear market
#bitcoin

2023-10-26 08:38:18 UTC

The refusal of the heads of state to resolve the problem of interstate payments proves that they never wanted to make secure trade with each other, but wanted to impose their will in order to achieve their geopolitical goals through centralized mechanisms of power. This proves that the populations of these states have never been important to the power-obsessed politicians. Honest and hard money that cannot be manipulated is the only solution to the problems of this rotten world.
#bitcoin

2023-10-26 05:11:03 UTC

Sooner or later everyone will stack sats! One way or another!
#bitcoin

2023-10-26 04:23:13 UTC

The long term perspective is eternity
#bitcoin

2023-10-25 09:48:40 UTC

When you learn #bitcoin this means that you learn about everything! Literally about everything that’s important for the human existence!

2023-10-25 08:36:11 UTC

This bear market will be missed like a good memory for lots of new bitcoiners.
#bitcoin

2023-10-24 14:41:40 UTC

Being intelligent does not always mean that you are smart. Knowing many things does not mean you are smart. There is knowledge that can make you good, but there is also knowledge that will sustain the insatiable thirst for wealth. Greed is fed by bad knowledge and the desire for freedom and justice by good knowledge. #bitcoin is one such knowledge that can make many people good which equals smart.

2023-10-24 14:28:30 UTC

It seems that #bitcoin is the only asset that is not backed by credit

2023-10-23 14:37:19 UTC

If #bitcoin fails I won't be sad about the lost money. The tragedy will be the taking away of the only hope of a normal life for us ordinary people. Not the hope of getting rich but the hope of a normal life free from the shackles of the fiat system!
Carthago delenda est #Bitcoin

2023-10-21 17:53:23 UTC

Knock, knock, knocking on the 30k door
#bitcoin

2023-10-20 19:26:23 UTC

Centralization excludes private property and adds slavery!
#bitcoin to the rescue

2023-10-19 08:47:06 UTC

More and more people are finding a way to inform themselves from reliable sources. The desire for freedom and non-acceptance of injustice motivates people to seek the truth. In seeking, they harness the energy that the desire for freedom and justice gives them. In doing so, they become smarter, more active, better and more compassionate. Gradually they become sovereign individuals.
#bitcoin

2023-10-18 19:46:22 UTC

Fiat is threatening the existence of human kind!
#bitcoin fixes this

2023-10-18 15:13:37 UTC

Defund wars trough #bitcoin

2023-10-18 11:43:36 UTC

Gary says #bitcoin is a commodity. History proofs that the best and the most fair money are commodity money. So what are waiting for?!?!

2023-10-18 10:23:49 UTC

At this point I think that even 1 000 000 sats are enough! #bitcoin

2023-10-16 17:53:19 UTC

ETF this, ETF that aaaaaaa just stack sats!!!

2023-10-15 19:50:21 UTC

Who laughs last? #bitcoin is the answer

2023-10-15 19:07:10 UTC

#bitcoin creates critical thinking and this is the scariest thing ever for the masters!