TheCryptoDegen

Iran just showed the world why Bitcoin is the hardest money.

A student wakes up in Tehran and the phone is dead. Not “slow.” Dead. Iran is in a near-total internet blackout connectivity reported around 4% of normal. (The Washington Post)

The next problem isn’t politics. It’s money.

If the internet is off, payments don’t clear. If protests spread, accounts get watched. If the state feels threatened, banks become a control surface. And if the currency is melting, your savings bleed while you’re trying to stay safe. In late January the rial hit a record low around 1,500,000 per dollar. (Al Jazeera)

This is the war lesson: in conflict, money stops being neutral. The rails become permissioned. Access becomes conditional.

Bitcoin wins here for one simple reason: it’s bearer money.

Not “a bank account.” Not “a promise.” An asset you can hold yourself, move without asking, and take across borders in your head. It doesn’t fix war. But it does remove a key weapon: the ability to trap people inside a broken currency and a controlled banking system.

The best money is the money that still works when institutions don’t.

21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No hotline.

This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy. Price doesn’t reflect it yet.

It will.

Most people don’t know this, but Bitcoin has a hidden message that can never be deleted

Bitcoin block 666,666 was mined on January 18, 2021

It contains a message permanently written into the blockchain

Using Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN, the miner embedded a Bible verse directly into the block’s data

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21

To make it happen, they paid over 5x the normal fee just to guarantee inclusion in that exact block

The transaction is linked to wallets named “GoD” and “BibLE”, verifiable on any public block explorer

Once it’s there, it can never be removed

I've never trusted banks, utapata they actually invest in crypto

You deposit $10,000

They quietly allocate part of your money into Bitcoin rn
In a year, when Bitcoin is back at 126K$, they’ve potentially doubled your money,

Your reward?

16% interest.
Minus taxes.
Minus fees.

🚨Here's how his downfall started 😔😔

He had more then 100K just 3 days ago, Then one of his friends told him about $POWER , it was at 1$ that time 😑

He didn't pay attention that time, Then it start pumping and he got really excited about $POWER 😤

He bought 50K at 1.7$ and another 50K when it touch 2.2$, Bro thought it will keep pumping 🥲😭

Someone even told him it will touch 50$ within the next 1 week 😵😢

Then it started crashing and in 2 hours he lost -97% of his portfolio in $POWER 😥

Somebody shout Power 😂
always DYOR before putting your hard earned cash

If these charts are right…

2026 is the last year to make big money for the next 5 years.

18-year real estate cycle
→ 2026 = CYCLE PEAK

200-year Benner cycle
→ 2026 = CYCLE PEAK

😂😂😂😂 bro needs help 😂

“If I put $100 in Bitcoin in 2010, I’d have $730 million today.”

No.

You’d only have $730 million if you had the psychological strength to hold through this:

You bought $100 of Bitcoin in 2010.

It grows from $1K to $40K to $290K.
You do nothing.

Then it crashes to $26K.
You still do nothing.

Then it climbs to $2.5M.
You do nothing.

Then it falls to $744K.
You do nothing.

Then it rallies to $12.57M.
You do nothing.

Then it collapses to $2.28M.
You do nothing.
Then it explodes to $222M.
You do nothing.

Then it drops to $36.8M.
You do nothing.

Then it finally runs to $730M…

So no, the story isn’t about putting $100 in Bitcoin in 2010.

The story is about having the conviction to hold through over a decade of brutal volatility without touching it.

Almost nobody would.

If you buy 1 Bitcoin at $70,000

and it drops to $50,000

you didn’t lose anything unless you sell.

The supply didn’t change.

The network didn’t stop.

A few years later it runs to $250,000.

Same coin.
Different patience.

Most people panic.

Few understand time.

This is amazing , it was magnificent having you around. We keep building 🔥

Did you know?

In 2012, Satoshi Nakamoto listed himself as a Japanese man born on April 5, 1975.

No one knows why for sure, but the date may be symbolic: it’s the same day the U.S. ordered citizens to turn in their gold under Executive Order.

legend

There isn’t enough Bitcoin for everyone.
Michael Saylor

BREAKING: A whale has accidentally sent 126,000 TON to a scammer, worth ~$220,000.

but the guy later returned 116,000 TON (~$203k) and kept 10,000 TON (~$17k) as a “reward” for returning funds.

Here’s a quick TLDR on what’s happened:

- a whale was about to send coins
- they accidentally copied the wrong wallet address from the transaction history. (This happened because the scammer had created a lookalike wallet address & sent a small amount of a TON to it, making it look real)
- The whale wasn’t paying attention carefully. he saw the similar first symbols of the Wallet address & the last, then…
- copied it without double-checking
- A whale then went through with sending 126,000 TON to the scammers wallet by mistake.

When the scammer received the funds, he urgently sent back 116k TON and even dropped a message in the transaction saying:

“Sorry, the money is too much. I know it’s your hard‑earned funds.”

In exchange for returning funds he kept 10k TON for himself as compensation.

—

Would you return the funds if someone accidentally sent you 120k TON ($220k) or would you keep it?

The Bitcoin low for 2026 is in.

Those calling for and waiting for $30,000 to $40,000 were wrong and will be sidelined unless they chase.

As I said, the max drawdown I expected was 50-60%, not the 80-90% seen in past cycles.

$60,000 was a gift (52% down from the ATH), and it took a Binance "glitch," months of Jane Street manipulation, and plenty of shenanigans to get us there.

We got follow through on the PMI, and it is time for the main event: the full bull market.

The bull market correction is over.
$BTC

Bitcoin’s monetary policy is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

More than 95% of all Bitcoins have already been mined.

And yet… the remaining ~1 million BTC won’t be issued quickly.

They’ll take over 100 years to fully enter circulation.

Key Milestones
• Now: ~450 BTC mined per day
→ Annual inflation rate: ~0.82%

• April 2028: Next halving
→ Block reward drops to 1.5625 BTC

• January 2035: ~99% of all BTC projected to be mined.

• ~2140: The final Bitcoin is effectively issued
The first 20 million BTC were mined in just 17 years (2009–2026).

The final 1 million will take more than a century.

This is what a predictable, programmatic monetary system looks like.

When can you retire with Bitcoin?

IN MY OPINION: When your stack is 15x your expenses after a brutal drawdown in Bitcoin's price (NOT during a bull market, because at that point, chances are Bitcoin will fall to a much lower price in USD terms in the near future

Eg. Bitcoin falls 70%, annual expenses are 100K

Your stack should be worth at least $1.5M for you to retire

In future years, your stack will grow faster than your expenses

If you borrow against your Bitcoin to pay for expenses, you can likely retire sooner

IMO, Bitcoin will grow 20%+/year, meaning your stack will grow by $300K in the FIRST YEAR of your retirement

You will earn 3x more from just holding Bitcoin than your annual expenses

You can also set aside a cash buffer of 3-4 years just to make sure you don't have to sell during a bear market

This cash buffer can be in $STRC

What are your thoughts on this?
$BTC

If you bought $150 of BTC every week since the 2021 all-time high of $69,000:

You'd have 82,549,309 Satoshis

You would have paid $33,900

Your Bitcoin would be worth 59,950

You would be up 76.85% even though Bitcoin is only up about 5.25%

Bitcoin will break from both Nasdaq and IGV.

The diagnostics already say so.

I ran head-to-head regression diagnostics on the two strongest equity proxies for BTC. Here’s what the numbers say:

IGV (Software ETF)
R² = 0.812 · β = 2.73 · z = +0.81σ
Cointegration: yes
But only 2/7 diagnostics pass.
Rolling beta unstable.
Structural breaks detected.

Nasdaq
R² = 0.854 · β = 2.69 · z = -2.18σ
Cointegration: no
Also only 2/7 diagnostics pass.
Rolling beta unstable.
Structural breaks detected.

First principles:
If both relationships only pass 2/7 tests and both show structural breaks, they’re not what Bitcoin is.
They’re who is pricing it right now.
Correlations are weather.
Power law is gravity.

Power-law model:
BTC = $73,457
Trend = $124,975
Z = -0.761σ
That’s 41.2% below trend.

Translation:
Short run → BTC trades like levered tech because crossover capital is the marginal buyer (β ≈ 2.7).
Long run → BTC keeps orbiting its network adoption curve regardless of which equity proxy “fits” this year.

Key point most miss:
The strongest “cheap” signal comes from the weaker relationship.

Nasdaq shows -2.18σ but fails cointegration.
So that discount has no real anchor.

IGV is less exciting but more defensible:
cointegration passes, and BTC is only +0.81σ relative to software.

So don’t worship either proxy.

Bitcoin is being priced like tech while sitting 41% below its long-term power-law trend.

That gap won’t close because Nasdaq catches up.
It won’t close because IGV leads.

It closes when the marginal buyer changes.
That’s when Bitcoin breaks from both charts.

HAL FINNEY: "I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin.

I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction, when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test.

I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them."

#bitcoin

Where do you think Satoshi moved on after Bitcoin?

$BTC

#Crypto_Jobs🎯

Bitcoin’s price and the supply numbers are saying two different things.

Price says risk.
The supply numbers say supply shock.

450 BTC/day of new supply.
~13,500 BTC/month.

Strategy bought 3,015 BTC in one week.
One ETF session pulled in $458M.

Long-term holder selling is down 87%.
Exchange supply is at its lowest level since 2018.
Only ~3.01M BTC remains on exchanges.

Supply keeps shrinking.

That is not a normal drawdown.
That is a tightening float.