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Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
The future of Bitcoin is the future of finance.
This morning at the World Bank, I joined Chris Brummer, Founder & CEO of The Fintech Foundation, for a 25-minute fireside chat at DC Fintech Week. @fintechthinksdc
00:52 - Strategy as a reserve institution built on Digital Capital, Digital Credit, and Digital Equity
01:32 - Bitcoin as Digital Gold, Digital Capital, and the foundation for a new financial system
03:19 - Strategy as a private central bank for the crypto economy
06:54 - Manufacturing Digital Credit backed by USD reserves and Bitcoin
08:08 - Return of capital, tax-deferred dividends, and scalable fixed income
09:17 - How Digital Credit amplifies Bitcoin per share for $MSTR equity holders
12:17 - Bitcoin headwinds and tailwinds: policy, liquidity, bank adoption, and AI capital flows
13:12 - Bitcoin-backed bank credit and the impact of $10B in new lending
16:20 - The triple reflexive flywheel: Bitcoin price, reserves, credit risk, and equity premiums
18:25 - Quantum risk, AI hacking, and why Bitcoin can upgrade when consensus forms
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
🇺🇸MICHAEL SAYLOR:
“WORKING HARD IS THE WORST ADVICE YOU CAN GET.”
“AI WILL OUTWORK YOU.”
“ROBOTS WILL OUTWORK YOU.”
“YOUR SKILLS ARE BEING DEMONETIZED.”
“YOUR LABOR IS LOSING VALUE EVERY SINGLE DAY.”
THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP SELLING THEIR TIME WILL STRUGGLE.
THE PEOPLE WHO OWN SCARCE ASSETS WILL WIN.
THIS IS WHY I’M ALL IN ON BITCOIN.
YOU CAN ALWAYS PRINT MORE MONEY.
YOU CAN ALWAYS BUILD MORE COMPANIES.
YOU CAN NEVER CREATE MORE THAN 21 MILLION BITCOIN.
THE WORLD IS CHANGING FASTER THAN MOST PEOPLE REALIZE.
ADAPT…
OR GET LEFT BEHIND.
Quite accurate.
Nobody warns you. That's the sick part.
Nobody sits you down and says, hey, if you spend one weekend actually reading about money, you will lose the ability to enjoy anything for the rest of your life.
Your brother-in-law just mentions it at a barbecue. That's how it starts. Some guy holding a hot dog says "you should look into Bitcoin" and you laugh at him.
You laugh AT him.
You make the tulip joke. You feel superior for eleven more days.
Then it's 2:47 in the morning and you're on your fourth Saylor podcast and your wife thinks you're having an affair.
And in a way, you are.
You're cheating on your entire worldview.
ou came in to debunk it. That's the trap. Everyone comes in to debunk it. You wanted to find the flaw, dunk on your brother-in-law, and go back to your Vanguard target date fund like a respectable adult.
Instead you found out what happened in 1971 and now you can't make eye contact with your 401k.
Because here's what actually happens.
Bitcoin is cool and all, but you REALLY learn about the dollar. Bitcoin is fine, Bitcoin is twenty-one million and a schedule, you understand it in an afternoon. The dollar takes months, because every time you think you've hit the bottom of that thing there's a trapdoor.
The Fed just... prints it? And they gave how much to the banks in 2008? And the banks did WHAT with it?
And the guy who ran that got a MEDAL? You're up at 4am reading about the Cantillon effect like it's your kid's toxicology report.
Then comes the phase where you're insufferable.
Everyone goes through it, nobody admits it. You ruin Thanksgiving. You genuinely ruin it. Your aunt says turkey prices are crazy this year and you see your opening like a lion seeing a wounded gazelle.
Forty-five minutes later you're drawing the M2 money supply on a napkin and your mother is crying and your uncle is saying "it's not backed by anything" for the ninth time while his pension is backed by the promises of a government that's thirty-seven trillion in debt.
He's worried about YOUR risk profile.
He has unit bias so bad he'd rather own a whole Shiba Inu coin than a fraction of the hardest asset ever created, because his brain, poisoned by seventy years of fiat, thinks "whole thing cheap" beats "piece of thing good."
And the prices. God, the prices. You can't turn it off.
You're in the grocery store repricing eggs in sats. The eggs are getting cheaper in sats. Everything is getting cheaper in sats except your will to explain that to anyone.
You look at a house and you don't see a house, you see the number of Bitcoin it costs, and that number falling forever, and you realize the housing crisis is a measuring stick crisis, and you say this out loud at a dinner party, once, and now you're not invited to dinner parties.
Then the anger burns off and something worse arrives.
Clarity. You realize nobody is coming to fix this.
The people in charge KNOW. That's the part that breaks you. They're not stupid, they're incentivized.
The debt can't be paid, only inflated, and every serious person in a suit on television knows it, and their plan is to be dead before the invoice arrives.
So you buy. Coinbase, first time, hands shaking like you're doing something illegal, and the fee annoys you, and that annoyance is the last normal financial emotion you will ever feel.
You set up the DCA. You learn what a hardware wallet is. You write twelve words on steel like a doomsday prepper, because that's what you are now, except your bunker is math.
And then the loneliness. Nobody tells you about the loneliness. You've seen it. You can't unsee it.
And you're surrounded by people you love who are working forty years to fill a bathtub with the drain open, and when you point at the drain they get mad at YOU.
So you stop pointing. You just stack quietly, in the dark, waiting for the day one of them comes to you, at a barbecue, holding a hot dog, and says the words.
"Hey... you were into Bitcoin, right?"
And you smile. Because it's their turn in the barrel.
Welcome. Nobody warned me either.
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
Nobody warns you. That's the sick part.
Nobody sits you down and says, hey, if you spend one weekend actually reading about money, you will lose the ability to enjoy anything for the rest of your life.
Your brother-in-law just mentions it at a barbecue. That's how it starts. Some guy holding a hot dog says "you should look into Bitcoin" and you laugh at him.
You laugh AT him.
You make the tulip joke. You feel superior for eleven more days.
Then it's 2:47 in the morning and you're on your fourth Saylor podcast and your wife thinks you're having an affair.
And in a way, you are.
You're cheating on your entire worldview.
ou came in to debunk it. That's the trap. Everyone comes in to debunk it. You wanted to find the flaw, dunk on your brother-in-law, and go back to your Vanguard target date fund like a respectable adult.
Instead you found out what happened in 1971 and now you can't make eye contact with your 401k.
Because here's what actually happens.
Bitcoin is cool and all, but you REALLY learn about the dollar. Bitcoin is fine, Bitcoin is twenty-one million and a schedule, you understand it in an afternoon. The dollar takes months, because every time you think you've hit the bottom of that thing there's a trapdoor.
The Fed just... prints it? And they gave how much to the banks in 2008? And the banks did WHAT with it?
And the guy who ran that got a MEDAL? You're up at 4am reading about the Cantillon effect like it's your kid's toxicology report.
Then comes the phase where you're insufferable.
Everyone goes through it, nobody admits it. You ruin Thanksgiving. You genuinely ruin it. Your aunt says turkey prices are crazy this year and you see your opening like a lion seeing a wounded gazelle.
Forty-five minutes later you're drawing the M2 money supply on a napkin and your mother is crying and your uncle is saying "it's not backed by anything" for the ninth time while his pension is backed by the promises of a government that's thirty-seven trillion in debt.
He's worried about YOUR risk profile.
He has unit bias so bad he'd rather own a whole Shiba Inu coin than a fraction of the hardest asset ever created, because his brain, poisoned by seventy years of fiat, thinks "whole thing cheap" beats "piece of thing good."
And the prices. God, the prices. You can't turn it off.
You're in the grocery store repricing eggs in sats. The eggs are getting cheaper in sats. Everything is getting cheaper in sats except your will to explain that to anyone.
You look at a house and you don't see a house, you see the number of Bitcoin it costs, and that number falling forever, and you realize the housing crisis is a measuring stick crisis, and you say this out loud at a dinner party, once, and now you're not invited to dinner parties.
Then the anger burns off and something worse arrives.
Clarity. You realize nobody is coming to fix this.
The people in charge KNOW. That's the part that breaks you. They're not stupid, they're incentivized.
The debt can't be paid, only inflated, and every serious person in a suit on television knows it, and their plan is to be dead before the invoice arrives.
So you buy. Coinbase, first time, hands shaking like you're doing something illegal, and the fee annoys you, and that annoyance is the last normal financial emotion you will ever feel.
You set up the DCA. You learn what a hardware wallet is. You write twelve words on steel like a doomsday prepper, because that's what you are now, except your bunker is math.
And then the loneliness. Nobody tells you about the loneliness. You've seen it. You can't unsee it.
And you're surrounded by people you love who are working forty years to fill a bathtub with the drain open, and when you point at the drain they get mad at YOU.
So you stop pointing. You just stack quietly, in the dark, waiting for the day one of them comes to you, at a barbecue, holding a hot dog, and says the words.
"Hey... you were into Bitcoin, right?"
And you smile. Because it's their turn in the barrel.
Welcome. Nobody warned me either.
Most founders think PMF is a moment.
It's not.
It's incremental steps towards something that a lot of people want and are willing to pay for.
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
It depends on a lot of variables…Try my interactive Bitcoin Retirement Calculator which lets you adjust all these variables to try out various scenarios:
moon-math.online/calculator
This one lets you adjust the inflation rate, your retirement age, your desired income, the capital gains tax rate and also include additional monthly income if you want to such as social security (if any). You can adjust your current stack size, your projected monthly stacking rate, your age, etc. Even see how large your estate would be if you die before spending it all. You can also set a fixed retirement age and then work backwards to see what your income would be given a bear, base or bull case for Bitcoin growth rates, and see if you need to increase your DCA, etc.
Try it out!
Brilliant interview. Must see.
Fantastic interview and the introduction that @natbrunell gives is one of the clearest and most evocative explanation of the power law ever.
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
The United States Government will delay Bitcoin adoption until the last possible moment then it will be hyper-accelerated at breakneck speed.
Bitcoin will become $100,000,000 per coin.
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Imagine you are a major world government at the dawn of the locomotive centuries ago.
Horses have been the dominant power network for millennia and you have the most horses, so you make the rules. Trains have been seen as expensive, unpractical, and an entertainment luxury for the rich.
However, some people have been saying for years that the locomotive will be seen as a matter of national security... Which sounds crazy to most. How could something that exceedingly few use for transportation or economic trade be a matter of national security?
The reality is that while the locomotive isn't the world's standard yet, it will take decades to build the infrastructure... We cannot afford to fall behind.
If we don't adopt a railway network our enemies will be able to move 100x the military or economic goods as us 10x faster and 1,000x cheaper.
It's not a question. If you believe the locomotive is real then a failure to entrench it as the bedrock of your army is national suicide - deferred to the future.
The locomotive standard of the industrial age is still 50-100 years away, but you need to begin making the railways now.
Your horses are in their final 100 years of their 3,000 year reign economically and militarily while you're loaded up on them.
These horses are an asset right now, but they will become liabilities. Instead of being used for security for your nation they will become a burdensome expense on your budget.
The locomotive right now is impractical and ineffective as a means of war or economic transport, but your horses are still effective today.
You make the only logical move... You begin allocating some of your horse-power to creating locomotive-power.
Use the horses to build the railroads... Scout the trail, move the beams, transport the people, and provide momentum to the project.
Most still think you're crazy... "Why waste these horses to build something nobody uses?"
But you made the right call.
The horse era is about to be over. Squeeze every last ounce out of them to build the railroad as fast as possible.
The only use for the horses at the end is to build more railroads.
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Now with Bitcoin.
The current dominant power network for the US government is the bond market which is sustained by political currency dilution, global trade lubrication, and oil.
Bond purchasing power is defended by American guns and military power. If American bonds stop trading America's government as we know it ends. This is the new horse.
However, artificial intelligence and robots are expanding at a powerful rate. This is the new industrial era.
Bitcoin is a digitally native protocol which requires energy expenditure via proof-of-work to create new tokens of the network. This is the new locomotive.
Everyone belies that Bitcoin is the highest risk asset on the planet... The truth is that if technology continues to advance Bitcoin becomes the lowest risk asset.
Most believe locomotives are high risk and horses are low risk because horses have been around longer, but the horse is about to pivot to being a full-time locomotive-building machine.
The American economic machine is not lower risk than the Bitcoin economic machine... it is about to become a vehicle which advances Bitcoin.
For years I've been saying this and my banner photo has been of a fiat horse running straight at a Bitcoin locomotive.
Everything else is moot.
Bitcoin is the only information on the internet AI or a government cannot fake, duplicate, or censor.
Therefore, it is going to be in demand for everybody.
The US Government will continue to give little hints and glimpses like this clip shows that they are figuring this out... So that when they pivot they have years of research and publications to point back towards.
However, they will wait for a full pivot until the last moment because it is so high risk. You make yourself really vulnerable to admit your horses are about to be worthless and make your game theory on display.
America will back her bonds with Bitcoin and it will confuse most people because most are financiers and not technologists.
Bitcoin would easily be $100,000,000 per coin.
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
IRAN JUST BECAME THE BIGGEST BITCOIN BUYER ON EARTH
Iran charges $2M in Bitcoin per ship to cross Hormuz
At $72,000 per $BTC, each ship = 27.7 BTC
~130 ships cross daily
For context:
Miners produce 450 $BTC/day
Iran earns 3,601 $BTC/day
That's 8x the entire daily mining supply
MicroStrategy took 4 years to stack 500K $BTC
Iran could do it in 5 months... with a toll booth
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
Three thing you need to do to hit escape velocity:
1. Bet big against the crowd.
2. Be right.
3. Don’t take profits early.
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
Mark Moss gives the greatest explanation on Michael Saylor's Bitcoin Strategy.
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
JUST IN: GROCERY STORE GIANT CARREFOUR IS NOW OFFERING 20% DISCOUNTS ON #BITCOIN PAYMENTS
IT HAS OVER 14,000 STORES ACROSS 40 COUNTRIES. MASSIVE 🔥
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post makes it seem like all ~14,000 Carrefour stores are adopting this policy, but only one location in Arcachon, France is offering this. A few other locations also offer BTC payment, but not with the discount.
bfmtv.com/crypto/bitcoin…
Awane Jones | 2x Founder | Entrepreneur retweeted
The Death of the 4-Year Cycle and the Path to the Next $600K Super-Cycle
Current Price: $88K
Many on X and social media are still echoing a 4-year cycle false narrative. Let’s kill it tonight.
Investors wedded to the 4-Year Cycle are selling now for one simple reason: their “clock” tells them time is up.
According to that theory, Bitcoin is past its expiration date. The model dictated a peak 18 months post-halving (October 2025), followed by a guaranteed crash in 2026.
Because we are sitting at $88k instead of the predicted $250k, they believe the cycle has failed.
It hasn’t failed. It has evolved.
The “4-year cycle” never made mathematical sense. Bitcoin is a multiplicative system evolving in log-time (power law).
Imposing a fixed, linear clock on a scaling asset guarantees failure. Expecting Bitcoin to follow a 4-year cycle forever is like expecting a 40-year-old to grow the same number of inches they did at age four.
The clock isn't broken. You're just looking at the wrong one.
1. The Statistical "Smoking Gun"
Ran a head-to-head competition between the Fixed 4-Year Model and the Log-Periodic Power Law (LPPL) Model over Bitcoin's entire history. The results were decisive.
Fixed 4-Year Model AIC: -6,386.1
LPPL Model AIC: -7,510.5
The Difference (AIC): 1,124.4
In statistics, a difference of 10 is strong evidence. A difference of 1,000 is a disqualification. The fixed 4-year cycle is statistically incompatible with the data. Bitcoin does not tick like a clock; it grows like a living system.
2. The Physics of Time Dilation
If the cycle isn't 4 years, what is it?
The LPPL model unlocked a natural frequency (omega) of 8.89. This value is within 1.90% of the theoretical constant for "Age-Doubling" (~9.06).
Bitcoin operates in Log-Time, not Calendar Time.
Infancy (2010-2013): Cycles were fast and violent because the network was small.
Adulthood (2025+): As the network scales, "time" effectively slows down. It takes exponentially more energy and capital to move the price, causing the cycle duration to stretch.
The "4-Year Cycle" was a temporary optical illusion created during Bitcoin’s adolescence. That window has closed.
3. The Death of the 80% Crash (Damping)
The 4-Year narrative depends on the "inevitable" 80% crash in 2026. The math says those crashes belong to the past.
The model detects a Damping Rate (beta) of -0.40
2011 Volatility Amplitude: ~100%
2025 Volatility Amplitude: ~47%
Bitcoin has shed 53% of its historical volatility. We are no longer facing a vertical blow-off top followed by a total collapse. We are entering a phase of sustained, lower-volatility compounding.
4. The Trap vs. The Supercycle
This is where confusion creates the ultimate opportunity.
The Trap: The 4-Year model predicts a crash in 2026 because it thinks "time is up." Sellers are exiting now at $88k to avoid a phantom bear market.
The Reality: The LPPL model predicts that 2026 will be a breakout year, not a breakdown year.
Model Forecast for 2026: ~$219K (End of Year)
2026 is likely to deliver a decisive, mathematical rejection of the “4-Year Cycle” model. While the old guard waits for a crash, the Supercycle model projects a grind higher, targeting a true structural peak of $619K in August 2029.
Conclusion:
We are not witnessing the death of Bitcoin.
We are witnessing the end of the speculator’s cycle and the emergence of Bitcoin as a world class sovereign asset class.
The conclusion is purely mathematical.
Selling at $88k is not “risk management.” It is almost certainly a miscalculation of historic scale.
The data shows you are not avoiding a crash you are exiting a supercycle at the point where it is most likely just beginning.
ALT This chart shows the mathematical divergence between the outdated “4-Year Cycle” narrative and Bitcoin’s emerging supercycle. The gold path reflects a maturing monetary network.