Bitcoin, debasement, and the math under hard money. Power law over price targets. Dad, husband, Christian, jiu jitsu.

Nashville, TN
Joined October 2022
Dylan’s rant as promised. This was 15 years ago in 2011 after the GFC. He basically nailed everything that’s coming home to roost today:
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Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfalJul 25
The average American has no clue how damaging this war has been to the U.S. (oil reserves, interceptor munitions, military cost, national debt…) If they did, they’d be hitting the streets in their thousands protesting against it
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🇺🇸ATLAS POLL - USA 2026 Midterms Democrats lead Republicans by +14.5pp on the generic ballot for the House. Democratic candidates have the preference of 54.6% while 40.1% prefer Republican candidates.
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Two interesting theories on the parabolic sell off yesterday: @TheOtherParker_ theorizes that HK-based hedge funds, likely non-crypto natives, blew up on massively leveraged $IBIT options trades. Key evidence: record $10.7B IBIT volume (2x prior high), $900M options premiums, and BTC/SOL lockstep drop with low CeFi liquidations. These funds held 100% in $IBIT for margin isolation, per 13F filings. Tied to JPY carry unwind raising funding costs, silver’s 20% crash (2nd largest ever), and a summer short-vol squeeze compressing BTC vol to record lows - until Oct 10’s spike blew holes in balances, spiraling into desperation trades and full liquidation. In-kind ETF creations since July ’25 enabled OG Bitcoiners to shift stacks tax-free for covered calls, amplifying vol suppression and eventual unwind. @TheShortBear attributes it to a leverage-driven unwind from the yen carry trade, hitting correlated risk assets like $BTC and software stocks ($IGV). No single blow-up, but systemic positioning stress: funding tightens, vol spikes, forcing sales across yield-seeking channels (crypto, software, private credit). Unwind started ~quarter ago, aligning with risk momentum loss; plays out in waves over quarters with grace periods. Binance’s heavy Asian-hour selling suggests regional funds/traders dumping during US liquidity. Long crypto positions now liquidated at 20:1+ skew, resetting extremes. Always remember: financialization of BTC via ETFs/options introduces systemic macro and derivatives risks -like carry trades, vol squeezes, and cross-asset contagion - wholly unrelated to BTC’s fundamentals. This dovetails with my theory that much “OG selling” was likely rotation into $IBIT for access to margin leverage and its ultra-liquid options market, fueling the powder keg.
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David
@david_eng_mbaJan 15
The most dangerous financial strategy in the world right now is "wait and see" on Bitcoin. In traditional markets, waiting buys information. In fixed-supply markets, waiting destroys optionality. This is a global game of musical chairs with $25–30 trillion of state-controlled, reallocatable capital and only 21 million chairs. The math makes delay indefensible. The Math of Inevitability The "real option" to buy Bitcoin is expiring because the addressable sovereign pool is structurally mispriced. State-level capital pools (order of magnitude): Sovereign FX reserves: ~$13T Sovereign wealth funds: ~$15T Central bank gold: ~$4T Gross sovereign pool: ~$32T Conservatively reallocatable: ~$20–25T If just 1% reallocates to Bitcoin, that is $200–300B in net inflows. With a standard liquidity multiplier where $1 of persistent inflow drives ~$3–5 of market cap, this is not incremental. It is a regime change. A 5% sovereign reallocation mathematically supports $250K–$400K+ Bitcoin. This is not a "top": it is merely the repricing required to accommodate the first wave of institutional refugees. Bitcoin does not absorb capital smoothly. It reprices. The Sovereign Trap: Utility vs. Possession Do not confuse "utility" with "sovereignty." We already see the signal in the retail noise: 75-year-old grandmothers in Caracas paying HOA fees in USDT to escape hyperinflation. That is utility. It saves them from local currency collapse. But useful ≠ sovereign. That USDT is a digital IOU controlled by a private company and ultimately answerable to the US Treasury. It can be frozen with a keystroke. For a grandmother, stablecoins are a life raft. For a nation-state, they are a leash. A sovereign nation cannot store its strategic reserves in a database controlled by a rival power. They require an asset with no issuer, no kill switch, and no counterparty risk. The Zero-Sum Geopolitics This is a prisoner’s dilemma with irreversible outcomes. • The US: ~$38T+ in federal debt. If rivals front-run accumulation, monetary dominance erodes. • Petro-states: Selling finite energy for infinite fiat is a negative-sum trade. Recycling surplus into finite BTC locks in energy value. • Late adopters: Every BTC acquired by a rival permanently removes your future option set. In a fixed-supply game, waiting is not neutral. It is a transfer of advantage. The Nash equilibrium is simple: defect early. The Sound of Execution So why the silence? Because announcing a $1B+ buy order front-runs your own execution. Serious actors do not signal. They accumulate. Silence isn’t disinterest. Silence is execution. We are in the silent accumulation phase—positions built quietly while liquidity still exists. The Cascade Eventually, one mid-tier sovereign discloses a ~5% allocation. That disclosure triggers an announcement cascade: a bank run on roughly 2 million coins on exchanges: the only truly liquid supply left. This window does not close gradually. It slams shut while others are still "doing research." The End State This is not about Bitcoin "winning." It is about Bitcoin becoming the denominator against which tens of trillions in state assets are measured. The math is binary. The supply is fixed. The game is already set. The only remaining variable is timing. Position before the cascade, or after. Game Theory Framework:
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David
@david_eng_mba26 Dec 2025
North Star Power Law (R² ≈ 96%) Fair Value ≈ $119k Price ≈ $87k Discount ≈ 27% Bitcoin is trading at ~74¢ on the dollar relative to its long-term trend. I don’t trade Bitcoin. I just buy it when price is cheap relative to the trend.
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Scientists for years said they had proof that climate change was accelerating sea level rise. But that's not what the evidence shows. They knew the truth and misled the public. And now I have a long email exchange with a top scientist that shows how they did it. Massive scandal.
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Debunking The Biggest Lies Told About Charlie Kirk (0:00) - Intro (10:58) - On Second Amendment (12:48) - On Empathy (15:42) - On Gay People (17:58) - On Trans People (24:21) - On Racism (28:21) - On Affirmative Action (30:58) - On Critical Race Theory (34:56) - On Illegal Immigration (39:12) - On Abortion (44:22) - Charlie’s Why (49:48) - Liberal Threats (50:55) - Leaving The Left (52:29) - My Thoughts
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Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for saving the planet 💪 _
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk4 Jun 2025
Flatten the curve
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Scott Adams, a long-time Trump supporter, warns the new budget could destroy Trump’s legacy by exploding the national debt: “If this budget passes, it’s going to blow up the debt situation, and I would consider the Trump Presidency a complete failure.” @scottadamssays Is Scott too harsh? Can Trump fix this?
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Hegseth: “We won World War II with seven 4-star generals. Today, we have forty-four 4-star generals. There’s an inverse relationship between the size of staffs and victory on the battlefield. We don’t need more bureaucracy at the top. We need more warfighters empowered at the bottom.”
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"One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again. Do we need to keep repeating the same mistakes forever?" — Thomas Sowell
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