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JYARZ's avatar

From my perspective people can sense the shift underway but are either too scared or distracted to take the time to understand it. The thing we should fear most is fear itself. The jump over to the new system was once a leap, it is now (practically) a hop and soon will be a small step. But the fear narrows our perspective and it’s hard to recognize how small a step it has become. Jordi you are a mensch for helping see clearly toward taking that step. Thank you.

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Jose Castillo's avatar

Couldn't have said it better. Sent these instructions of Bitcoin reasoning to people who are about to cross the line but too scared to jump. The people who are the most exposed are the ones who are most hesistant describes the problems of instituisionalism and government lobbying. They aren't scared or lack financial knowledge, they are simply just comsfortable with the world built by the industrial revolution.

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David Stowers's avatar

Wow Jordi, this is such a great insight. Living near Portland OR in 2020 and watching the non-sense of the pandemic and the V shaped recovery led me to spend a few minutes researching bitcoin. I'm in my 60s and it was as big of an epiphany as I ever had. However, in all my discussions with several very smart, accomplished people I'm always amazed at the responses I get to the negative. I guess it's true. Bitcoin finds you, but it finds different people at different times.

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derek's avatar

Thanks Jordi.

Really appreciate your clarity and vision.

Keep up the great work.

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Stephen Griffin's avatar

Killing it with these posts. Brilliant uncomplicated explanations.

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Johnny Invest's avatar

Jordi, great article and I agree with everything you said with one exception, and that's something you left out of the conversation: Quantum computing...

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Jordan Perry's avatar

Awesome read! When you see it, you can’t unsee it.

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Michael Cuoio's avatar

Once you believe in Bitcoin, you eventually see that the only real way this wins over the current system is through adoption; it would be more easily and more quickly and more certainly adopted if we believers could find a way for the masses to begin using Bitcoin as a daily means of transaction...either directly or indirectly...with or without fiat. Then adoption would feed adoption.

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Joe's avatar

The driver of that will be retail business owners who understand bitcoin and start making it convenient to pay with bitcoin.

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Cody's avatar
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Jordi, I love everything you put out. I latch on to all of your content to understand the fiscal world around me. I love Bitcoin. The only thing I would offer is that BTC has become a store of value that can't scale with AI and that all technology throughout history has been improved upon. Give me room to explain, please. The characteristics of BTC (POW, layer-1, open-sourced, secure, fair-launched, scarce, decentralized, commodity, etc) as essential to thrive as I understand you and what I've learned. In addition, the Treasury isn't going away any time soon and they need to sell their debt to stable coin companies (potentially trillions of dollars worth), as you've alluded to. These stable coins can't exist on a layer-1 BTC network at 1 block per 10 min. There is a POW coin that is BTC in that it is a layer-1, POW, secure, fair-launched, open-sourced, decentralized, yet scalable at 10 blocks per second. Multiple entities (that are not core developers-yes, this is the only difference than BTC) are working on building smart contracts for stable coins and are demonstrating success. With AI needing to achieve settlement at internet speeds, his coin will satisfy the issue of being unable to scale with BTC's block speed issues and mantras like, "never sell your Bitcoin". You've sighted Jeff Booth as being instrumental in your growth and he is a strong advocate that BTC can't be used as a store of value for obvious reasons. This coin is Kaspa. Regardless of how you feel about a digital economy of only BTC and stable coins (often the argument I hear is that BTC and stable coins are all that is needed), there is no secure blockchain that can scale for stable coins (ETH is centralized, slow, and expensive, SOL is centralized and has outages regularly, TRON is centralized and subsidizes their gas fees for users, etc). Kaspa solves all this. I realized I am a stranger on the internet, but would encourage you to study Kaspa and wrestle with it. I would love to have a more in depth conversation around these ideas if you're interested. There is room in the future digital economy for a store of value and transactional network that can scale to support stable coins. A proverbial digital gold and digital silver, if you will. For this reason, I buy both every week. Thanks for all you do. God speed.

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Johnny Invest's avatar

Bitbonds are the answer to the National debt

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Cody's avatar

Sure, but that still requires stable coins.

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Tim's avatar

Warning... This guy is a shitcoiner

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Cody's avatar

This is what the closed minded say every time. They never provide an argument against the sentiment, they only throw names out.

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Tim's avatar

Your coin is down 70% the last year, those must be some heavy bags you got to pump

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Cody's avatar

It’s up 38,000% all time. If you want to debate charts, although I think it’s unwise to assess the merits of a technology based on its chart, we certainly can.

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Cody's avatar

So you’re saying BTC never drew down 70% from ATH? What’s your point? Are we arguing first principles or looking at charts? There’s a finite number of Kaspa and Bitcoin and an infinite number of dollars. I have nothing to pump.

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Jordi Visser's avatar

kids, this is a community of thinkers and people who understand that all views are on the distribution of potential outcomes. No need to turn this into a WWE event in Vegas. I will say Cody, your line about scaling with AI misses greatly the point of my post. In the end, if you follow my work, BTC is the S&P 500 of the digital economy where NO innovations can scale with AI. That is the point. The only thing that survives exponential change is the thing that has no innovation. Everything else is worthless eventually. I could be very wrong but that is my view as of today now everyone place nice.

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Joe's avatar

Awesome article Jordi!

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Bitcoin's avatar

You fools forgot to buy your bitcoin. Every single person will buy their bitcoin at the price. They deserve……

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Michael OConnor's avatar

Great job of pulling this together, articulating the challenges and showing how BTC provides the offramp and onramp going forward. First time I've heard the term Economic Trilemma and how these 3 macro factors are contributing to our system imbalance. Agree it's important to understand that BTC isn't just a digital store of value but also a base layer protocol for the future.

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Cody's avatar

Are you saying that there is no need for value settlement where AI is going because of the abundance that is coming? If so, doesn’t this negate the value of Bitcoin if value settlement is null?

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JayP's avatar

Fair criticism. I think eventually there will be abundance with AI, but not without a period of extreme socioeconomic disparity that may last our whole lives.

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Johnny Invest's avatar

Yes it would just like money markets are needed too

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Mike's avatar

If Bitcoin is the purest AI hedge, why isn’t its adoption exponential right now given AI’s dominance? Does price and adoption support that narrative?

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Johnny's avatar

With the passing this week of the Genius Act to identify regulations for Stablecoin use, I could understand your belief that this new increased liquidity through Stablecoins could be the foundation to more Bitcoin adoption. But it doesn't have to be. I'm more aligned to Stable coins driving the use and adoption of Utility coins like Hedera's HBAR and it's efficient Hashgraph based decentralized network & Use Cases. Use Cases like micropayments, verifiable compute, tokenization of assets, NFTs, consensus service, Defi, etc will drive new operational models. Verifiable Compute will enable 'Truth in GenAI" all with the most efficient least costly transaction & scalability with on and off ramps to the USD.

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Johnny Invest's avatar

Think of stablecoins as a digital money market account. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Joe's avatar

More like just crypto dollars.

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