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One of my favorite pastimes is reading long-form posts from @Jonathan and browsing the linked materials, like Zapping everyone who posts thoughtful comments and shares solid research... as I dedicate the evening to thinking about what great business leaders of past would do to push Bitcoin forward ⏩
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Infrastructure only became indispensable once the hard work of commercializing the opportunity was completed. Among those early networks, the story of James J. Hill and the Great Northern stands out as a blueprint for today’s bitcoin industrialization. https://www.ten31.xyz/insights/commercializing-bitcoin
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This is a good book (available on audio) about some of the key players of the industrial era. Rockerfella, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Morgan etc. absolute wild times. This one is about the oil industry which started in the late 1900’s and has a section on JD Rockefeller and Standard Oil. (I’ve not finished this one yet)
Long-term thinking is non-negotiable, and it begins with primary sources. Not interpretations. Not influencers. Not narrative wrappers designed to sell comfort. Bitcoin is no different. You don’t understand it by scrolling through. You know it by reading the whitepaper, studying monetary history, reviewing code, following on-chain reality, and tracing incentives over decades. Every monetary system that failed left a paper trail. Every durable system left first-principle constraints. Bitcoin is documented in plain sight: the whitepaper, the code, the difficulty adjustment, the issuance schedule, the ledger itself. If you haven’t read the source material, you don’t have an opinion you have marketing exposure. Bitcoin doesn’t reward cleverness, speed, or social consensus. It rewards discipline, delayed gratification, and the ability to think in decades while others think in election cycles. Fiat breeds short-term optimization and moral hazard. Bitcoin selects for rigor. It strips away weak thinking, weak incentives, and weak hands with mathematical indifference. Fiat thinking optimizes for the quarter. Bitcoin thinking optimizes for generations. Those who study first inherit silently. Those who outsource understanding arrive later at a higher price and call it inevitability. Those who do the work early inherit the future. Everyone else pays a premium later. ₿⚡🧡 💭 I tried my best, Uncle @UNCLE ROCKSTAR 🫂❤️‍🔥