Bitcoin Alternatives

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1. 00:00Claim

   We have reached the point in the Bitcoin cycle where boredom has set in, and this really is the time where the stacking that occurs now will be the stacking that pays off the most.

2. 00:43Prediction

   There will be a tipping point and we don't know when that is going to happen. It could happen tomorrow morning. You could wake up and the price could be 100X what it is today based on a single allocation.

3. 00:43Claim

   You come to the realization early on in your journey that there really is no alternative.

4. 01:47Reference

   While things are functioning in the extended order at the moment, there are still high probabilities that in the future you will be able to transform energy from inaccessible to accessible, either through business endeavors of your own or through working for someone else.

5. 02:20Idea

   There is only so many vehicles that will hold that energy. You will have reserve energy, you will have excess energy. The question is what do you do with that energy, where do you want to put it so that you can have reliable access to it in the future.

6. 02:20Claim · condensed

   99.9% of the mouth-breathing world will believe that the safest place is to put your energy in a fiat legacy institution, the bank, believing they're never going to go out of business or do anything that would harm their reputation with holding your energy reserves.

7. 02:55Claim · condensed

   You loan your money to the bank; post-Dodd-Frank, you are an unsecured creditor.

8. 02:55Reference

   You loan your money to the bank; post-Dodd-Frank, you are an unsecured creditor. This is just the way that it's written.

9. 02:55Claim

   If you are the people in charge and you change the rules, it is not wise to inform everyone inside the system that you're changing the rules, because that would make things clearer and the masses would understand more about how they're being manipulated.

10. 03:31Event

    Take Cyprus, 2013, for example. They said even things like your FDIC insurance, your deposit insurance scheme, would certainly be the backstop if there ever was a crisis, that at least anything under $250,000 in the bank account you could access at any time. Then when the shit actually hit the fan they completely ignored all of the deposit insurance schemes. They just said, we're taking everything.

11. 04:39Quote

    We're taking everything. We're taking everything now. It wasn't by chance. It wasn't random. It was completely planned.

12. 04:39Claim

    The more easy it is to remove your energy, the higher the likelihood that that is actually going to happen.

13. 05:11Quote

    Anything else besides Bitcoin is incredibly easy to remove from your possession.

14. 05:44Claim

    Legally, if you have more than $250,000 in the bank, that excess can be swept into accounts to keep the institution afloat. You're insured up to $250,000. After that, the money that you have in the bank is their money, not yours.

15. 06:46Idea

    You don't have them because you were FTXing them.

16. 06:46Analogy

    In some ways, bankers and Bitcoiners are very similar. They are both holding hands, and in the card game they are waiting for the flop, but they already know it isn't going to change the final outcome. It's already set. The shuffle has determined exactly how the cards are going to play out. You know the entire deck. You know where every card is placed.

17. 07:16Prediction

    People will lose confidence in the system because they see the problems all around them. They will seek security, and they will try and grasp on to anything they can.

18. 07:49Claim · condensed

    If you have information before the vast majority of people have information, and you understand the instinctual patterns of human behavior, it is in the power holders' best interest to act now to close the escape hatch as securely as possible before the time comes.

19. 08:19Reference

    Christine Lagarde herself has said it, that if there is an escape valve, it will be utilized.

20. 08:19Claim

    Christine Lagarde was referring to global cooperation for the regulation of Bitcoin, which, by the way, she's completely wrong about, both whether they could actually do that and whether or not it would work.

21. 08:58Claim

    The traditional fiat ecosystem sits between two threats and has to manage both sides: technology like Bitcoin out-competing their offerings, and the old-fashioned confidence crisis.

22. 09:30Quote

    That is a battle that centralization will always lose, especially when it is combined with government and regulatory interference.

23. 10:00Claim · condensed

    If they no longer have to expend energy covering their opposite flank from bank runs because confidence in the system is lost, they can focus their attention on the very real threat of technology out-competing them.

24. 10:00Reference

    They can FTX everyone legally, get that legislation in place now, and then they can sleep peacefully knowing they are covered on that base.

25. 10:39Analogy

    Managing perception is like dealing with caged animals. You catch an animal and it's all about expectations, all about setting. You don't want to surprise anything, you don't want to startle anyone, because that's going to lead to volatility and uncertainty.

26. 11:10Idea

    The institutions at the moment are not doing that. They are playing a fiat game. They're not actually transforming energy from inaccessible to accessible. They are managing the energy once made accessible. So they need to maintain control over energy transformers, because without them, their control over the energy allocation is worthless.

27. 11:42Reference

    They need the extended order to opt in, to think that you are better off with the system as they have designed it. That is conveyed through convenience: they need to make the path of least resistance their design.

28. 12:12Quote

    You store your energy reserves in a system that is programmed to remove you from your energy at an ever increasing rate.

29. 13:53Claim

    Storing energy reserves that you would like to ensure you have access to in the future in a form that you have no control over is probably not the best idea.

30. 15:04Claim · condensed

    The important question isn't whether your funds are FDIC insured. The important question is: can anyone at any time remove my ability to access my funds? Yes.

31. 15:36Quote

    You fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, don't fool me again.

32. 16:38Claim

    You can own a piece of paper of a company that itself operates in a more restricted environment than you do. That doesn't seem like the best deal.

33. 17:47Reference

    Why would I open myself up to easier removal of my energy from my own possession? This is one of the most obvious points on the roadmap to hyper Bitcoinization.

34. 18:18Claim

    Even if you do manage returns in the market, you can't move that energy anytime you like to any buyer interested in taking it off your hands. You have to be vetted, you have to be KYC'd. The total accessible market is a fraction of the world's population.

35. 18:50Prediction

    Counterparty risk is something that will become more and more mainstream in the coming years, for sure, as people start to understand just how risky a position they are actually in.

36. 19:26Claim

    You can't move the real estate. It's not highly fungible, it's highly illiquid compared to other alternatives when you need to move these things fast.

37. 20:35Claim

    A five to ten percent allocation for most people is a good place to start. If you know nothing, those numbers make sense because it will incentivize you to do more research.

38. 21:37Quote

    Any allocation outside of Bitcoin is a bet that those who are planning to use you as energy liquidity have the better chance at outcompeting a system that relies on opting in.

39. 22:11Analogy

    The panic will lead to an instinctive, drowning response. If someone is drowning they will cling to anything or anyone within arm's reach to get another gasp of air. The phrase reach or throw, don't go is what lifesavers are taught because it is true; they will grasp at everything within their reach, which is why it's important to remove yourself from that easy access.

40. 23:16Claim

    At block height 775,000 something, we can't get 15 million people to hold a single coin.

41. 23:53Prediction

    All fiat ends the same: the rush to the core will take place and then the last walls of defense will fall.

42. 23:53Reference

    Maybe you see on Twitter or on Nostr that everyone is all in on Bitcoin and that it's everywhere. Well, certainly the numbers paint a different picture.

43. 24:27Prediction

    Just as smaller fiat economies are dollarizing while their own currency is collapsing, dollarized countries will begin to Bitcoinize. The escape valve that is there will be used because they can't stop it.

44. 25:02Analogy

    If you've done the work, you can see your hand and the other player's hands at the table. You know you've won, but no one else realizes the game is already over. You've seen the shuffle and you've done the probability work. It's yours. But the reality is the flop still has to happen, or else the hand won't finish.

45. 25:37Quote

    They're going to be pissed. They will come for you. They will come for anyone with a boat.

46. 26:10Claim

    My hope for you is that you didn't tell anyone that you bought Bitcoin.

47. 26:10Claim

    Absolute scarcity will do that to a society: one allocation can turn Bitcoin into a multi-trillion dollar asset class.

48. 26:10Open question

    How many bail-ins is it going to take until people realize we are in a serious problem spot?

49. 26:44Event

    De-dollarization is absolutely taking place right now. Everywhere you turn, the US dollar is being attacked; in order to survive, it has to evolve.

50. 26:44Reference

    The BRICS countries, de-dollarizing for trade purposes, are going to use something worse than the dollar, which means they ultimately default to a better solution. If they come up with their own walled-in system, by definition it will be inferior to the US dollar system: less participants, less liquidity, less access.

51. 27:54Reference

    A sleep at the wheel, Charlie Munger, babbling about China in Bitcoin.

52. 27:54Reference

    Ray Dalio describing a tool the world needs, outlines Bitcoin's exact architecture in the same breath, saying Bitcoin somehow doesn't solve this.

53. 27:54Claim

    I'm not sure what it is, but to be so seemingly intelligent, to be bamboozled by a system like this, it doesn't make any sense. Change is painful; many people will be swept away by the sheer force of this impending financial tsunami.

54. 28:30Claim

    No one in any camp that I have been able to locate says that we are in a good spot. Everyone appears to have recognized that there are serious problems inside the system.

55. 29:01Quote

    The real answer is that we have to remove money from the state, and Bitcoin is the best horse in the race to make that a reality.

56. 29:34Prediction

    Higher rates mean government spending is more costly, and more costly government spending means more energy flows to cover increased costs. At a certain point in the very near future, interest payments eclipse total tax receipts.

57. 30:05Claim

    Bailing number one sets off a chain reaction that destroys confidence. Masses flock to safety, to anything outside of the system.

58. 30:41Claim

    The real question for every member of the extended order is: am I better off if it is harder to separate my energy reserves from my possession, or not?

59. 31:12Claim

    This is why we see these huge hodl waves in Bitcoin. Everyone will have a threshold for how much they are willing to put up with so they don't have to unearth the true costs they're dealing with, and there is a point where one more hodler takes the whole system down with them.

60. 31:12Analogy

    The gravity of the changing function sucks everything behind it inside.

61. 32:21Claim

    As more knowledge is pumped into the system, the data separates from the information, the information turns into knowledge, and the knowledge turns into wisdom. The more that cycle happens and repeats, the less friction there is for people looking for other options.

62. 32:21Reference

    Not to mention the Lindy effect of just how long it's been around now.

63. 32:21Reference

    Blocks continue to get produced as described in the original white paper as those things happen.

64. 33:01Claim

    If you have an allocation of five to ten percent, and you know these things to be true, and you know there has never been a fiat system that has lasted beyond a certain point, the questions start to get asked about what allocation would make sense: how much risk am I willing to take, and what is the vehicle that exposes me to the least amount of risk and the most amount of certainty.

65. 33:46Quote

    It is the answer. It is the conclusion that is best suited for having access to energy in the future versus every alternative out there.