Allan Robinson

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@_ARob the store of value comes first. you dont spend a currency thats still finding its price floor. gold wasnt spent daily in 1970 and nobody called it a failure

The U.S. dollar denominated price of Bitcoin is irrelevant. Continue to add value and exchange a piece of paper for real money. 1 BTC = 1 BTC

If Bitcoin fails as a medium of exchange, it eventually fails as a store of value. Every transaction in Bitcoin strengthens the network. Every merchant who accepts it, every employee who receives it, every supplier who's paid in it — these are the connections that make Bitcoin function as actual money rather than as a digital collectible. The store-of-value property is downstream of the medium-of-exchange property in the long run. If everyone simply hoards and nobody transacts, Bitcoin becomes pure speculation. If everyone transacts but nobody holds, Bitcoin becomes a payment rail without monetary value. The healthy state is a balance — people use it as money in real economic activity, and the resulting network effect supports its store-of-value role. This is why the "spend and replace" strategy that some Bitcoiners advocate has merit. You spend Bitcoin where it's useful and immediately replace it from your fiat income. You participate in building the transactional economy without depleting your stack.

Stay focused.

Meditate on this: A distracted man is predictable. A predictable man is controllable.

What does measuring deflation actually mean? The conventional view is that money measures prices, and prices reflect supply and demand. But this only works if the money itself is stable. If the measuring stick keeps changing, the measurements become noise — they reflect changes in the stick more than changes in what's being measured. Consider trying to measure whether your child is growing if your ruler shrinks 3% per year. Each year you measure 4'2", 4'4", 4'6". Are they growing? Maybe. The ruler is also shrinking. The measurement contains both signals — child growth and ruler shrinkage — mixed together inseparably. To know whether the child is actually growing, you'd need either a stable ruler or knowledge of exactly how much the ruler shrunk each year. Fiat-denominated prices have this exact problem. When a house "appreciated" from $200,000 in 2000 to $420,000 in 2026, two things happened simultaneously: the house may have changed in real terms (perhaps slightly), and the dollar shrunk dramatically. The price increase is a mixed signal containing both housing market dynamics and currency debasement. Disentangling them requires assumptions about inflation, productivity, and other variables that aren't directly observable. Bitcoin is a stable ruler. Because Bitcoin's supply is fixed by protocol, it doesn't shrink. When you measure something in Bitcoin terms, you're measuring against an unchanging unit. The signal you get is the actual change in the thing being measured, not a mix of that change plus monetary debasement.

What does measuring deflation actually mean? The conventional view is that money measures prices, and prices reflect supply and demand. But this only works if the money itself is stable. If the measuring stick keeps changing, the measurements become noise — they reflect changes in the stick more than changes in what's being measured. Consider trying to measure whether your child is growing if your ruler shrinks 3% per year. Each year you measure 4'2", 4'4", 4'6". Are they growing? Maybe. The ruler is also shrinking. The measurement contains both signals — child growth and ruler shrinkage — mixed together inseparably. To know whether the child is actually growing, you'd need either a stable ruler or knowledge of exactly how much the ruler shrunk each year. Fiat-denominated prices have this exact problem. When a house "appreciated" from $200,000 in 2000 to $420,000 in 2026, two things happened simultaneously: the house may have changed in real terms (perhaps slightly), and the dollar shrunk dramatically. The price increase is a mixed signal containing both housing market dynamics and currency debasement. Disentangling them requires assumptions about inflation, productivity, and other variables that aren't directly observable. Bitcoin is a stable ruler. Because Bitcoin's supply is fixed by protocol, it doesn't shrink. When you measure something in Bitcoin terms, you're measuring against an unchanging unit. The signal you get is the actual change in the thing being measured, not a mix of that change plus monetary debasement.

What does measuring deflation actually mean? The conventional view is that money measures prices, and prices reflect supply and demand. But this only works if the money itself is stable. If the measuring stick keeps changing, the measurements become noise — they reflect changes in the stick more than changes in what's being measured. Consider trying to measure whether your child is growing if your ruler shrinks 3% per year. Each year you measure 4'2", 4'4", 4'6". Are they growing? Maybe. The ruler is also shrinking. The measurement contains both signals — child growth and ruler shrinkage — mixed together inseparably. To know whether the child is actually growing, you'd need either a stable ruler or knowledge of exactly how much the ruler shrunk each year. Fiat-denominated prices have this exact problem. When a house "appreciated" from $200,000 in 2000 to $420,000 in 2026, two things happened simultaneously: the house may have changed in real terms (perhaps slightly), and the dollar shrunk dramatically. The price increase is a mixed signal containing both housing market dynamics and currency debasement. Disentangling them requires assumptions about inflation, productivity, and other variables that aren't directly observable. Bitcoin is a stable ruler. Because Bitcoin's supply is fixed by protocol, it doesn't shrink. When you measure something in Bitcoin terms, you're measuring against an unchanging unit. The signal you get is the actual change in the thing being measured, not a mix of that change plus monetary debasement.

What does measuring deflation actually mean? The conventional view is that money measures prices, and prices reflect supply and demand. But this only works if the money itself is stable. If the measuring stick keeps changing, the measurements become noise — they reflect changes in the stick more than changes in what's being measured. Consider trying to measure whether your child is growing if your ruler shrinks 3% per year. Each year you measure 4'2", 4'4", 4'6". Are they growing? Maybe. The ruler is also shrinking. The measurement contains both signals — child growth and ruler shrinkage — mixed together inseparably. To know whether the child is actually growing, you'd need either a stable ruler or knowledge of exactly how much the ruler shrunk each year. Fiat-denominated prices have this exact problem. When a house "appreciated" from $200,000 in 2000 to $420,000 in 2026, two things happened simultaneously: the house may have changed in real terms (perhaps slightly), and the dollar shrunk dramatically. The price increase is a mixed signal containing both housing market dynamics and currency debasement. Disentangling them requires assumptions about inflation, productivity, and other variables that aren't directly observable. Bitcoin is a stable ruler. Because Bitcoin's supply is fixed by protocol, it doesn't shrink. When you measure something in Bitcoin terms, you're measuring against an unchanging unit. The signal you get is the actual change in the thing being measured, not a mix of that change plus monetary debasement.

Before 2009, digital money had one fatal flaw: You could copy it! Send the same $10 file to two people. Who actually owns it? Banks solved this by being the referee. Bitcoin solved it without one — using a public ledger anyone can verify. That's the breakthrough.

Before 2009, digital money had one fatal flaw: You could copy it! Send the same $10 file to two people. Who actually owns it? Banks solved this by being the referee. Bitcoin solved it without one — using a public ledger anyone can verify. That's the breakthrough.

Before 2009, digital money had one fatal flaw: You could copy it! Send the same $10 file to two people. Who actually owns it? Banks solved this by being the referee. Bitcoin solved it without one — using a public ledger anyone can verify. That's the breakthrough.

Before 2009, digital money had one fatal flaw: You could copy it! Send the same $10 file to two people. Who actually owns it? Banks solved this by being the referee. Bitcoin solved it without one — using a public ledger anyone can verify. That's the breakthrough.

@_ARob No one can take that from you!

@_ARob Yes, ice cold ❄️🥶

How many hours of your work does it take to acquire 1.0 Bitcoin? For the average American worker: 2015: 1 day of work. 2016: 2 days of work 2017: 2 weeks of work. 2025: 1 full year of work. * 2033: Over 12 years!!! (Bitcoin at $1 million)

Do the knowledge — You deserve better money. Jeff Booth on Bitcoin, AI, and Why Deflation Is Coming youtu.be/N41OC2sazbw?si… via @YouTube

The biggest mistake isn’t being wrong. It’s waiting too long to try. Opportunities don’t disappear they just get harder. A.I. Bitcoin They’re not coming. They’re here. Move now or pay the price later.

Bitcoin in cold storage is the answer.

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