2025 broke a lot of models. Bitcoin made new ATHs… yet finished the year lower. Stocks ripped. Gold surged. Bitcoin chopped. A frustrating year for price—but an important one for thinking clearly about FIRE, risk, and assumptions. The FIRE BTC year-end review is live. 🧵👇

🗓️ 2025 FIRE BTC Year in Review

FIRE BTC Issue 60 - Broken models, better frameworks

Gold’s utility makes it worse money. Do you know why?

🪙 Gloating Goldbugs

FIRE BTC #52 - Gold's best utility is not what you think it is

Global debt keeps climbing. Bitcoin’s supply stays fixed at 21 million. All you need to know.

Non-economic actors who want to destroy bitcoin will gladly pay a 4x higher fee for OP_RETURN, but they’re too lazy to bypass the mempool altogether. Make it make sense.

The upside of this NPM vulnerability is that you can’t send BTC to exchanges to sell it 🙃

Random thought: the reason gold only trades for $3,500/oz is because there’s sooooooo much of it, and they’re constantly finding more.

AI could make Labor Day obsolete.

IBIT is BlackRock’s most profitable ETF ever, and Uncle Larry Fink LOVES it. BlackRock makes more money when bitcoin pumps, and you’re bearish, anon?!?

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How many of these people have the majority of their net worth tied up in their homes instead of in liquid assets? 🤔