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$MSTR People ask me all the time why I’m 100% Strategy, why I haven’t diversified into Bitcoin. Let me start by saying this: I think owning Bitcoin is a great idea. I respect anyone who chooses that path. My story is just different. I only got curious about Bitcoin in 2020. I kept hearing about this “crazy” CEO who had put everything into it. Except he wasn’t crazy And what flooded my feed back then was simple: “This billionaire is going to lose everything.” That’s what pulled me in. Why would someone who’s already made it… risk it all on this? So I started digging. I found Saylor. His talks, his lectures, the way he explained Bitcoin. And that’s when it clicked and that’s when I went down the rabbit hole. The first real shift for me was trust. Bitcoin teaches you not to trust but to verify. And that principle is powerful. But there are moments where you choose to trust someone’s vision. History is built on that. Builders, innovators, people who created systems we rely on today at some point, people chose to trust them. And Strategy earned that. Saylor had the courage to risk everything: his reputation, his life’s work, all for Bitcoin Phong came from nothing, built himself up, and still had the courage to stand beside that same decision Both of them were willing to lose it all. And that’s where alignment really started for me The company opened everything up. They showed people how they were doing it. They shared the playbook. They built in public from day one. You could track the company. You could see the decisions. You could hear the thinking directly from them. And when things didn’t go perfectly..they didn’t hide. They adjusted. Convertible bonds didn’t fully align the way they wanted. Silvergate was a real risk. Some of the early preferreds weren’t the perfect fit. But they never stayed stuck on a mistake. They kept moving. They kept refining. And eventually they found their version of an iPhone moment. That’s what stood out to me. you’re watching someone learn in real time, adapt, and keep pushing forward without losing conviction. You get to align with someone who’s an educator, a thinker, a builder.. but more importantly, someone who has found what they’ve been chasing their whole life. And now they’re locked in. That rare. Then came the disruption. And this is where it goes beyond just a company. They didn’t just embrace Bitcoin.. They changed how companies think about holding it. They changed how capital is raised. They changed how a balance sheet can be structured. They changed how a company communicates with its shareholders. They made it interactive. They made it transparent. They made people feel part of something. And then they went after something even bigger. Credit markets. One of the largest pools of capital in the world. That’s where you realize this was always the goal. To plug Bitcoin into the system in a way that forces the system to evolve. And the impact of that is everywhere. It’s good for Bitcoin. It’s good for equity holders. It’s good for credit investors who want stability. It’s good for companies watching this and realizing they can do the same. It’s not one disruption. It’s multiple layers hitting at once. And if history has taught anything.. you don’t sit on the sidelines when that’s happening. Even if I was late to Bitcoin, I’m early to this. And then comes the part I don’t even need to spend much time on. Outperformance. You get the alignment. You get the trust. You get to watch the disruption happen in real time. And on top of that you outperform the greatest asset the world has seen. That’s when it became obvious to me. It feels like catching Apple right when the iPhone was introduced. A company changing the world and changing my life at the same time. This process has made me more patient. It’s taught me how to deal with volatility. It’s forced growth. So when people ask why I’m 100% Strategy that’s why. $BTC $MSTR $STRC

Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness to grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Iran wants to be paid in Bitcoin. Interesting. Isn't $XRP faster than banks? Isn't $SOL faster than VISA? Isn't $ETH programmable and cheap? Isn't $USDC stable and fast? Maybe "speed" is just marketing. Maybe "finality" is what matters when it comes to money (and thus freedom). Money is worthless if it can be sanctioned, censored, confiscated, have a network hiccup, have issuers who black-list wallets, or exchanges delist them. Iran doesn't care how fast your money is if they can't reliably receive it, hang on to it, and spend it in the future. It's that simple.

Bitcoin is money It will eventually be what all energy exporters demand for payment, regardless of whether they are dictators or democrats

This topic was very interesting to me and I learned and used it to win bets with people during the military service because I will tell them I could repeat without error 100 words in a row after they read me the list only once. It is a fascinating topic. The “Palace of Memory”—more formally known as the method of loci—is one of the oldest and most powerful techniques for memory ever developed. Although it was refined and celebrated during the Renaissance, its origins go back to ancient Greece and Rome, and it was deeply connected to rhetoric, philosophy, and even early ideas about how the mind works. Origins: From Antiquity to the Renaissance The technique is traditionally attributed to Simonides of Ceos, who is said to have discovered that memory could be strengthened by associating ideas with specific physical locations. This insight became a core part of classical education, especially for orators who needed to memorize long speeches. During the Renaissance, thinkers like Giordano Bruno and Matteo Ricci expanded the method into something far more elaborate. They saw it not just as a memory aid, but as a way to organize knowledge itself—almost like an internal library of the mind. How the Palace of Memory Works The idea is simple but profound: Choose a familiar place A house, a street, a palace—somewhere you know well. Define a path through it For example: front door → hallway → kitchen → bedroom. Place vivid mental images along the path Each location (or “locus”) holds a piece of information. Recall by walking through the space mentally You retrieve the information by revisiting each location in order. The key is that the human brain is exceptionally good at remembering spatial environments and visual imagery. The method leverages this natural strength to store abstract information. Why It Works From a modern perspective, the method is effective because it combines: Spatial memory (navigation, locations) Visual imagination (striking images) Associative linking (connecting ideas to places) In a sense, it converts abstract knowledge into something more like a physical landscape—something the brain evolved to handle extremely well. Renaissance Expansion: Memory as a System of Knowledge Renaissance thinkers took this much further. For them, memory was not just about recall—it was about understanding the structure of reality. Giordano Bruno created highly symbolic and even mystical memory systems, combining images, geometry, and cosmology. Matteo Ricci used memory palaces to teach complex ideas in China, demonstrating their practical power across cultures. In this period, the “memory palace” became almost a model of the universe in the mind—a way to impose order on vast amounts of knowledge. A Deeper Insight What makes the Palace of Memory fascinating—especially from a physics or systems perspective—is that it reflects a fundamental principle: We understand complex information better when it is embedded in a structured space. You are effectively building an internal “geometry” of information.

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