- TheWaveFlows -

Bitcoin Core has no CEO, no board, no formal hierarchy. But between 2019 and 2025, a small network of developers, funders, and institutions came to control who got in, who got funded, and what got merged. I am working on a four-article series documenting how informal power over Bitcoin Core was built, exercised, and defended. Article one scheduled to drop next week.

What’s been unfolding in silver these past few weeks is a defining shift for the entire metals and mining cycle, in my view.   This is the year silver stepped firmly into the leadership position it has historically taken during powerful, long-term bull markets.   If you respect market history and acknowledge the inevitability of cycles, the silver-to-S&P 500 ratio isn’t just a useful chart — it’s a clear blueprint for the path ahead, in my opinion.   And while some are insisting the move looks overextended, I see the opposite.   I believe real wealth is built by riding the major trend with conviction, not by constantly second-guessing every bout of volatility.   From where I stand, we are entering what could be one of the most consequential and enduring phases the metals and mining sector has seen in the last 120 years.

What if we start adding green dots?

Have a friend that was close to 30M net worth Has almost a decade in crypto Lost the whole 30M yesterday in 10 minutes on cross margin An entire decade and multiple generations he could have retired all gone in 10 minutes

yep on many topics but especially this one. i think the real crux of the issue isn’t this or that specific spam thing. it’s that core as a group isn’t considered trustworthy right now. there are 3 main groups of holders with regards to how they view core: 1. don’t care and don’t think about core at all. that’s the vast majority of holders. they don’t know who the regular contributors are, wouldn’t recognize their names or faces, and therefore by default don’t trust them more than they trust any arbitrary person 2. people who are really upset with core (mostly filter camp). this group is orders of magnitude smaller than (1) but also order of magnitude bigger than (3). you could argue that their contention is mostly emotional and not informed but it doesn’t matter. they don’t trust anyone on group (3) so they won’t believe anything they say. they’ll want to fck around and find out themselves 3. people who are actively and vocally supportive of core. that’s actually a really small group now. probably historic lows. so the have a really hard time swaying the convo even though they’re technically correct in general i think in the earlier days core as a group used to be more representative of holders, where most bitcoin early adopters were very technical themselves and tended to keep track of technical discussions regularly, whereas now a much larger % of the population is involved in bitcoin so of course most aren’t hyper technical core didn’t do a great job adapting to this shift, and if you also consider that many of the “famous” old core people are not really around anymore, we now have a situation where core is unknown and unfamiliar to most people and they simply don’t trust anything they say (because why would they) the REAL solution is rebuilding trust, modernizing community outreach, etc that’ll take a long time but no better time to start than today