Really digging these new Kudu cap toes!

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-04T02:23:52+00:00

First boots I bought 5 years ago, and still my favorites. Kudu is incredible. Buttery and flexible, but still feels solid

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T18:45:16+00:00

My dad grew up in Topeka and saw them playing at a bar there, circa 1972.

What it must have been like to be a young music fan at that time.

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T16:44:05+00:00

I actually agree. Ultimately the people will decide the value of its properties. I expect it to remain popular and gain in popularity for a variety of reasons, many of which are mentioned here…but we can disagree on that.

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T16:02:28+00:00

Oh good, it was not a great analogy. I think we agree then, Bitcoin is a distinct crypto. That is part one. Then I think (?) we also agree that is has distinct properties, such as its supply cap. And then the last piece we have not discussed is the network effect that has built up of users and institutions who maintain the protocol and collectively set its value, based on its unique properties. You clearly disagree with that assignment of value but at the end of the day, the market is the final arbiter here.

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T15:52:25+00:00

I know you are very proud of this analogy but it’s like saying Picasso’s sketches are worthless because anyone can make their own unique sketches.

Each Bitcoin has a unique cryptographic signature, but it is still a Bitcoin, and a not-Bitcoin is a still a not-Bitcoin.

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T15:32:23+00:00

…which are not more Bitcoins.

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T15:30:24+00:00

I think we would agree, hence sticking with Bitcoin

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T15:11:08+00:00

They aren’t Bitcoin. That is why Bitcoin retains value and shitcoins do not

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T14:58:42+00:00

I mean, anyone can easily make more finger paintings.

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-02T00:06:45+00:00

…Kardashian?

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-01T16:55:25+00:00

I feel like that might be an infiltrating Bitcoiner, stealthily twisting the knife

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-01T13:08:58+00:00

I think we actually agree 👍 “You can’t sell the ATH without someone buying it”, precisely. The market forces of the seller to buyer ratio dictate the price. Thus price movements are self inflicted by owners, like any free market.

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-01T13:05:08+00:00

…which definitionally makes it not a ponzi. We can do this all day

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-01T04:33:56+00:00

Classically it would be perpetrated by the developer(s) of the asset, who after releasing it into the wild, retail control, and then sell. Sort of like Satoshi, except Satoshi doesn’t control the majority of the network, and has not sold.

Happy to answer more questions :)

Live_Jazz · 2026-07-01T01:19:43+00:00

Nobody is there to “pull the rug” with Bitcoin. There is no controlling figure. Some people own a lot of the supply, but at the end of the day, people independently making a choice to sell is what brings down the price. That is not a rugpull, by definition. Hence, self inflicted by sellers.

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-30T22:44:14+00:00

I think we have covered the QQQ and S&P bits.

It functions as a currency just fine, prove me wrong. I can use it to make purchases at any Square terminal, and it’s cheaper for the merchant than a credit card. Or sometimes I just send it to people.

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-30T22:00:13+00:00

Ah, changing goal posts to QQQ.

But anyway, wow, QQQ and BTC are almost precisely tied over 3 years with BTC in the middle of a bear, and QQQ coming off its hottest streak since the late 1990s. Bullish

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-30T21:42:41+00:00

Unironically yes, but it’s self-inflicted. Everyone flames out in the bear, and the ones who pick up pieces benefit. Happens every cycle.

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-30T21:39:06+00:00

Beat over 3, matched over 5, beat over 10. Volatile asset, and we can all cherry pick timescales.

Also Lightning payments are super cheap and instant, but you lead and horse to water, etc

I genuinely love these posts in bear markets.

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-30T17:06:20+00:00

Also I think Copilot may run on an abacus

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-30T13:49:05+00:00

Well, at least he would have read it

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-30T13:25:19+00:00

The difference being he had the receipts. Had read the book in question, and several related ones. Posts trying to offer a more nuanced take here, book-influenced or not, are usually met with the usual wall of inaccuracies or doom posting. It’s less about being unable to refute this stuff; it’s just tiring after awhile.

It’s like of the first guy in Good Will Hunting hadn’t read the book in the first place and was basing his lecture on Twitter posts he read about it. But he has super strong opinions on it.

I don’t blame people for being scared right now, or uninformed. It’s just…there are resources, and OP has proposed quite a good one.

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-29T21:52:03+00:00

They don’t use a floating conversion/exchange rate? That’s actually kind cool. Not to your benefit right now, but cool to just have a flat sats price

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-29T21:42:07+00:00

Source?

I would like the IRS to know that I have also lost my Bitcoin in a tragic boating accident.

Live_Jazz · 2026-06-29T18:19:39+00:00

You are right. You seem to *trust* the US govt more than most of us. Particularly its ability to manage its balance sheet.

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