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This is a must-read esp for those who blows off Bitcoin as 'scam' or 'gambling' or just for 'crypto bros' or associate it with Trump etc- like many of my progressive friends. Alex works for the human rights foundation and is one of btc's biggest advocates. We intv'd him for our upcoming book Both Sides of Coin and it was eye-opening some of the things he said and things he's seen eg ("Fewer than 10% of humans live in strong liberal democracies with robust free markets and property rights"). Being used to store value and evade censorship in authoratarian inflation-ridden countries is also what 'evolved' Larry Fink towards ETF filing. And let's be real: right now these traits of bitcoin aren't as imp in US but they very well could be in the future.
Biggest IPO of 2025 and @RobinhoodApp @AskRobinhood @vladtenev will not have this available on their app to trade??
$STRC $STRF $STRD $STRK
Strategy announces pricing of its Stretch Perpetual Preferred Stock ($STRC) Offering and upsizes the deal from $500 Million to $2.521 Billion. $MSTR strategy.com/press/strategy-…
. @vladtenev @AskRobinhood @RobinhoodApp
There is a significant opportunity to enhance your platform and UX. The preferred offerings from Strategy are high-yield, low-volatility assets that would pair exceptionally well with $HOOD Gold accounts.
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$BTC/Share has gone from 0.00085 to 0.00176 over the last 27 months.
If you held 1,000 $MSTR shares over this time, your BTC Exposure has gone from 0.85 BTC to 1.76 BTC.
If you still have no idea how this deserves a premium idk how else to lay it out for you. Figure it out or buy in at the price you deserve lol.
Brilliant post.
Most financial advisers have an opinion on Bitcoin.
If I were to ask them five questions to gauge if they have even given Bitcoin a couple hours of thought:
1) What is Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment and why does it matter in 30 seconds or less?
2) What was the crux of the blocksize wars and what does it signify in 30 seconds or less?
3) At what Bitcoin price does Microstrategy's (MSTR/Strategy) balance sheet get margin called?
4) If technology helps prices fall to the marginal cost of production, why do goods and services continue to get more expensive?
5) Why is 2% inflation the best rate?
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mdcarlso retweeted
There’s no better Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the immaculate conception, the Big Bang of digital assets. It cannot be recreated. What it lacks in functionality can be built on L2s like Lightning and @buildonspark. Trying to build a better Bitcoin is a fool’s errand.
mdcarlso retweeted
There are now 36,000,000+ altcoins.
This has only made #Bitcoin stronger.
THREAD breaking down what's happening & why altseason has been permanently cancelled...
mdcarlso retweeted
Bit Bonds in a nutshell:
- 90% goes to government funding, 10% to buying bitcoin
- 1% interest annually for 10 years
- 100% of BTC upside paid up to 4.5% compounded annual return
- Remaining BTC upside split 50/50 with the government
mdcarlso retweeted
MUST WATCH: Michael Saylor’s full speech today on how the United States becomes the global Bitcoin superpower & why it matters.
@saylor
@SenLummis
@bitcoinpolicy
mdcarlso retweeted
Over the past decade, the federal government sold approximately 195,000 bitcoin for proceeds of $366 million. If the government had held the bitcoin, it would be worth over $17 billion today. That’s how much it has cost American taxpayers not to have a long-term strategy.
mdcarlso retweeted
Home Depot is worth more than all the European start ups created in the past 50 years combined. Home Depot.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The graphic provided is not a representation of ALL European start-ups in the last 50 years, but rather the 14 EU companies founded in the past 50 years which qualify as "arrivistes"—publicly traded entities started from scratch.
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mdcarlso retweeted
2025 will be the year when the average person starts to understand the global utility of Satoshi's invention
Here's to "Bitcoin is useless" finding its resting place in the dustbin of history
To celebrate, we made this video 🥳
mdcarlso retweeted
Bitcoin produces nothing but it has the 7th highest market cap in the world at ~$2 trillion
Bitcoin's market cap is higher than:
- Berkshire Hathaway
- JP Morgan and Chase
- Visa
- Tesla
- Walmart
- ExxonMobil
- Mastercard
- Home Depot
- Costco
- Coca-Cola
- Disney
- McDonald's
- T-Mobile
If you know this and you're not questioning it and trying to find out why, you're not as competent or analytical as you may think.
If you just assume Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, you probably don't read much or understand how Ponzi schemes work.
In 2019 Bitcoin was worth ~$150 billion.
The price increased more than 10x since then because it's becoming more obvious that Bitcoin is the best asset in the world.
Bitcoin will take us back to a world where commodities are used as money.
A world where houses are not seen as cash-flowing containers to be accommodated by renters.
An asset doesn't need to produce cash flow to be valuable, and the world is figuring it out.
Having the characteristics we need money to have is enough.
Bitcoin is perfectly designed to be money.
It allows you to:
1) Store value
2) Transfer value
3) Assign value
By being:
1) Fungible
2) Scarce
3) Durable
4) Portable
5) Divisible
6) Salable
Some people say "It's been so long and Bitcoin isn't even doing anything!"
It took Apple, one of the most valuable companies in the world, 42 years to reach a $1 trillion market cap (2018).
It took only 2 more years to reach a $2 trillion market cap (2020).
It took Google 22 years to reach $1 trillion (2020) and less than 2 years to reach $2 trillion.
It took Bitcoin 13 years, from 2009 to November 2021, to reach a $1 trillion market cap and 3 more to get to $2 trillion.
Do you truly think we're late to Bitcoin?
Growth doesn't happen all at once.
It takes time.
As more people figure out that Bitcoin has the characteristics they want money to have, they will start accumulating.
I think Bitcoin will have a $4-5+ trillion market cap by the end of 2025.
By the time most institutional investors figure it out, Bitcoin will be $200,000+ per coin ($4 trillion - more valuable than Microsoft - ~$3 trillion today)
And by the time most retail investors see what's happening, Bitcoin will be $1M+ per coin ($20 trillion - more valuable than gold at ~$17 trillion today).