Personally, I cringe at the use of the “V for Vendetta” mask to characterize Satoshi Nakamoto. It’s fanboi. However literal you need to think or believe, Satoshi Nakamoto was undeniably a Force. Not a revolutionary, or any other label. For instance, I’d offer that Elon Musk is a person of such destiny that it’s clear he will be enshrined in Human History. Yet even Elon doesn’t recognize that Satoshi Nakamoto acted in this world on a completely different scale from anything he is or could be capable of accomplishing.

I’m old enough to remember when Google was an internet winner, and they sent trucks out to map and photograph every square foot of American streets. And as an investment pro I thought “how can they ever monetize this info?” I would later learn they never paid for it in the first place. It was a contract from a 3-letter Agency. Still, Google Maps is pretty useful, on occasion, even if I paid for it in taxes.

Just commerce being transacted.

No Power wants Freedom, nor will support Freedom. But it WILL leverage the instruments of Freedom to buy time, and rug-pull the People. Rene Guenon labelled this “the False Return”, spiritually. Science might call it “blast wave reflection”. In the Arts its called a “plot twist”. Only the Remnant Maxis will prevail. If legend and myth hold any wisdom. All else will be very, very surprised at the moment they realize they were led astray. So the eternal dance repeats.

Another Bastille Day has come and gone. An event with global resonance that goes largely unrecognized. Because the importance of the French Revolution was not that it liberated the French People, but that it drove the wealthy and Powerful, throughout Europe, into hiding. Where they’ve remained ever since.

At this point, does any American believe that anything in the Epstein files would change the way we’re told American voted in the next election?

I love Nostr. Love all y’all here. I’m getting married this weekend, working hard on a house, and I can’t even tell you how crucial Bitcoin has been in making my Life better and my dreams come true. So many of you lifted me up on your shoulders, so many more inspire me or just amuse me. Not kidding. I’ve been fortunate to meet a few Bitcoiners I only knew online, and became more impressed with them in person. Appreciate you. Here’s a totally og kitten photo. Up for stealz, or just for the squealz.

The Tornado Cash trial is being held in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Regional Court, which is…how do I say this…the central Court for major financial and legal issues, but also considered by many to be most corrupt, for-profit Court in the US. Prob’ly because it’s New York, and Money, and you know, history. But this also means trials are only brought there when the money’d interests outweigh the Defendents. For instance, the Celsius Bankruptcy is happening there. Thousands of independent clients are being told they have to return their Bitcoin/Crypto because they withdrew them prior to Celsius going Bankrupt. How is that a fair case? Tornado Cash is fucked. Just as those who thought they avoided the Celsius debacle. We don’t have Justice in America anymore. Haven’t for decades now. View quoted note →

I’m a long-time veteran of financial markets, worked at a top-10 Investment firm for over a decade, was adept with a Bloomberg terminal back in the ‘90’s when there was no other “fast news”, yadda yadda. I’ve mused here on Nostr about how long-term Volume and Price have disconnected very markedly since the months before the ETFs came into play - and how that, to my mind, is clear proof of the growth of a true “paper Bitcoin” market (i.e. not just buying directed toward Bitcoin Treasury Companies). And it seems this disconnect is being noticed now other places as well. Yet there’s another thing that I still can’t wrap my head around: Where are all the non-Wall Street buyers of Bitcoin? Bitcoin continues to flirt with, and print, all-time highs, yet the Bitcoin market predictably goes to sleep during European, Mid-Eastern and Asian trading hours. And weekends are so devoid of spot-trading you can spot each weekend by eye on a daily chart. Whatever Institutional trading has taken root here in America, it is not reflected in any way outside. Are ATHs going unnoticed, having no influence, outside of America? Or is paper-trading far, far more rampant in foreign markets? Are foreign companies, institutions and wealth funds NOT interested in accumulating spot-market Bitcoin? Bitcoin would seem to be in a bear market still, looked at from a global perspective. Except that Price shows more active buying than Selling. So where is the Volume? This is the strangest Bull Market I’ve ever witnessed. Especially in an asset that has experienced more Bull Markets than any in human history. What is happening in Bitcoin right now is without precedent. Just as the previous bull-market was ‘wonky’, this one is clearly a new trajectory. And that’s a good thing. I’ve said in the past that predictable cycles were not healthy in any asset, and to expect Bitcoin to break those. At any rate, I can say for certain that I will not be convinced this Bull-run is over until we see continued huge volume surges happening during global-exchange hours. And its likely when that happens, paper Bitcoin on American exchanges will become an exciting learning lesson for all who don’t understand Self-Custody.