Why Bitcoin price talk bores me
And Should Bore You
I can’t stress this enough:
Crypto is not the only investment out there, and talking about price action bores me.
But every headline I’m fed — every AI model I test, every news feed I scan — is obsessed with Bitcoin. And 90% of the comments add nothing unless you explore the context. That’s why I’m writing these posts: not to give you signals, but to give you thinking frameworks.
As a former film student, the biggest criticism of Spielberg was that he never let you think.
His scenes move too fast.
No time to reflect.
No time to consider meaning.
A lot of crypto content is like that — shallow cuts between scenes.
No context.
No thinking.
No patience.
And that’s exactly what good investing requires:
thinking, confidence, and patience.
When I see Bitcoin holders like Michael Saylor on TV, what strikes me isn’t the trade.
It’s their conviction.
Buffett has it.
Michael Burry has it.
Right or wrong — conviction pays.
When I traded on Wall Street, conviction was my biggest weakness.
Everyone around me stared at price action trying to guess the next tick.
No one taught context.
No one taught meaning.
Numbers didn’t mean anything to me yet.
This is why you won’t see me brag about trades I made 10 years ago.
You can’t learn from that.
You can’t plug it into your life.
You can’t replicate it.
What you can use — and what I’m selling here — is context.
A short origin story
I didn’t enter Bitcoin as a genius.
I entered like most people enter big things:
by accident, then all at once.
Robert Prechter — the famous Elliott Wave publisher — wrote about “a new sovereignless currency” trading at $1.50.
He spots a lot of trends.
But too much bearishness will melt your brain, so I shelved it.
Back then you couldn’t even figure out how to buy BTC on Yahoo.
So I made a mental note:
“If I ever see it again, I’ll take another look.”
A week later, I walk into work…
and my boss is offering Bitcoin trading.
Not owning — trading.
When something shows up twice in two different worlds, you know the universe is whispering.
Then comes the classic moment:
I finally get a wallet.
I finally start accepting BTC for services.
I don’t check it.
I don’t care.
Then I see the news: Bitcoin is $600.
I multiply what I have by 600.
And let’s just say I sat up straight.
It helped.
I had a new marriage, a baby, debt, and a slow-growing business.
Bitcoin came at the right time.
In hindsight?
I didn’t buy a pizza.
I didn’t buy a Lambo.
I should’ve hired someone to decode Satoshi’s manuscript and stake out a few tokens.
But my instinct was still correct:
Bitcoin was, and still is, the greatest unit of exchange society has created.
Not a store of value.
Not a religion.
Not a cult.
A unit of exchange you can earn.
And I earned it.
And I used it.
And it helped support my family.
Buffett called it a scam.
I disagreed.
But here’s the thing: when I criticize someone like Buffett, it’s because I learned something from him first.
Buffett taught me to understand a business.
He taught me the value of adding value.
That’s how I used BTC — as a business owner.
Jack Mallers earns BTC through Strike.
Michael Saylor leveraged his software company into a BTC strategy.
You want to stack?
Earn in the world you understand.
That’s my approach:
business owner → investor → value creator.
Tomorrow: a simple trading idea you can test with AI.
Next week in my origin story: the absolute lunatics I met in early Bitcoin, the real “first Bitcoin families,” and why I’m spinning up my own Sovereign AI rig at the exact moment Tether is quietly doing the same.
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