Stories

I visited family recently. My brother was talking about how he is probably going to get a new project. He is currently finding and grouping targets for predatory loans. The next project had to do something with finding and grouping the risk of rent default. After bringing up how Nigerian prince scams are a good business model he ask me about BTC. I was not going to bring this up anymore ever because I had already laid it all out on the line when I was slightly manic in February. I go into the psych ward and when I come out everything I said came true and BTC basically doubled. Now, my brother is probably wondering if I was just a lucky crazy person or if I knew exactly what I was talking about. My predictions were not grandiose. I was on twitter the second Elon Musk put #bitcoin in his bio. I told my brother Elon Musk was probably putting large portions of money into BTC. It would be wise to get some skin in the game ASAP. There might be a run on wallets and setting up exchange accounts so try to get ahead of those people. BTC will be going up. Anyways, he was not interested. He did bring up BTC in this conversation though. He asked some super detailed question on cryptography and I was like lul, fuck dude, I am happy you are doing some serious due diligence but you have to just throw some money on there and see how it works and it will be motivation to figure it out. Currently, he will never figure that cryptography problem out. He works 60+ hours a week at a desktop pc and then has to take care of a kid, a large house, and still give his wife enough attention or she will freak out.

I remember doing some quick math that if a lot of the gold market realizes that BTC is better than gold than BTC gets to like $600,000. I don't think it will work exactly like that. Some people will just stupidly hold gold especially if they think it's pure and got a good deal storing it in some bank in Manhattan and they never want to send it to London or Tokyo. The inflationary and impurity aspects of gold mining still make it shit but I would wager that there will be some people that still HODL gold. Non-idiots realize pretty quickly how much better BTC is than gold. The tougher one is this hard-wired belief in fiat currency. Whether it is the us dollar, euro, or chinese yuan it is ingrained in the past and even current zeitgeist. I remember my sister was asking about investments and I told her that if her employer matches 401k investments then definitely just do that and throw it in a Vanguard fund or get into picking stocks or whatever but if her employer does not match then start looking into things like BTC or getting a good deal on a house she likes. I added to keep in mind that the USA is a failed state that is headed for imminent collapse. My dad started to malfunction after that statement. My response was, "bro, you don't even believe in climate change. We are not going to have this discussion now." That ties into sometimes my dad and brother will have these conversations where they are smelling their own farts about how "astute" they are at investing. There is actually nothing more astute than buying a good home in a good area (or future good area) and investing in employer matching 401ks for most people but just mindlessly piling in portions of a paycheck into a default Fidelity fund does not make anyone Michael Burry. It's great (for them) that these people's houses are inflating like crazy and the stock market returns are good but what's going on? If the powers that be and the federal reserve can figure out how to get certain corporations 10% growth and certain portions of the stock market 10% I guess they are going to fucking do it (by any means necessary). What about all the crumbling and rotting underneath?

But, back to BTC. We are in an interesting time. The first time I put money into an exchange I had to go down to the local branch and get interrogated by the bank manager whose decision was basically "lul, I don't actually care... wire transfer fees numnumnumnum. If you dump it all on the worst parts of Silk Road I will never know, lul." Today, Alex Wice has his net worth in crypto and zero centralized bank accounts. It's pretty easy to see that crypto is also better than fiat currency. Even though there is all this crap like "we have arrived" and laser eyes there is still a long way to go.

Rikd has my username "hiems" or something I posted/interacted with you ever come up in a therapy session? My vanity is very curious about this haha.

Probably never with past therapists but I did just think of an example when I was talking with the forensics psychiatrist in the psych ward. I was telling her my twitter home page is definitely a bubble but that poker site that I still visit the vocal majority are right-wingers. You would fit in there. Sometimes I wonder if those doctors were capable of anything other than increasing my medications. One thought I was on the brink of joining Q and as I've said another gave me a 10 min. lecture on staying away from parler. There was no point in even explaining myself. Btw, the itemized bill was absurd. Anyways, I have no plans of ever seeing a therapist again so sorry hiems you probably aren't getting any mentions.

"You would fit in there"

Yeah, right... That's like mentioning the team that you're playing next week is the 95-96 Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan "fits in there".

rikd you should write a biography one day, u seem like a good story teller lol