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Short tweet: bitcoin.

Dip for ants. Need bigger drawdowns to get exited.

Probably one of the best tweets you’ll read today. #hodl

@pedromvpg This guy?

Hello

@Excellion Yes I know that’s why I wrote it was a thing even before

@swehodl @efebitcoin @jimbocoin I have tweets sent from Citrix that predate those.

My gifts to you guys for this #Bitcoin bull run: Omega M Notation Max Pain Theory 🐉

@JoeCarlasare @N0US3F0R4N4M3 With open mouth , definitely

@N0US3F0R4N4M3 What if I titled it “10 INSANE PREDICTIONS GUARANTEED TO COME IN 2024 and WHY YOU MUST PREPARE NOW!”

2024 Predictions: 1. The economy won’t collapse 2. The treasury market won’t become Illiquid 3. Half the population of Europe won’t freeze 4. Oil won’t spike to $200 a barrel 5. There won’t be a civil war 6. There won’t be a U.S. CBDC 7. Gold won’t outperform stocks 8. The U.S. banking system won’t collapse 9. Most folks will continue to say Bitcoin is going to zero and won’t be able to change their minds 10. Folks on twitter will continue to say all of the above are coming.

Pronto listo para El Salvador! #Bitcoin #español

Big difference

@vaneck_us $RUG and $PULL

What are the dream tickers for a spot Ethereum ETF?

@180grader_C Intressant

@BoldBitcoin Dirk Diggler

Who is he? Wrong answers only.

@BitcoinNytt När MSM är Bitcoin Bulls är det tid att vara försiktig.

«Dette er bare starten på en supersykel som vil sende #bitcoin til en verdi over fem hundre tusen ubegrensede Biden-lapper» - Bloomberg Prolly nothing

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End of Decade

$69K BTC EOD

@BTCGandalf Good luck with whatever you do. Been a pleasure having you around since the beginning.

THE NEXT CHAPTER IN MY BITCOIN ADVENTURE (I'M LEAVING BRAIINS) I’ll get into why I’m leaving and what I am planning on doing next at the end of this piece, but first let me tell you about my bitcoin origin story and how I started working for Braiins. I think a lot of you will resonate with it. The First Time Bitcoin Caught My Eye (You’ll Find This Familiar) It was March 2017, and I was running a one-man residential real estate brokerage business in Hong Kong, my home for 25 years. I was working with a financially successful client (he had a great budget) who worked for an aircraft leasing business. When you’re working with renters, you can end up spending many hours together during viewings, and you tend to chat with your clients about all sorts of stuff. During one of our conversations, he told me about bitcoin. I remember he mentioned it had gone up from a few hundred bucks to over a thousand dollars in a short time and that it was going to go even higher. He suggested I look into it. Now, keep in mind that I used to be one of those people who thought I was well informed because I read news and opinion pieces from “reputable” sources like the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg. After reading a few mainstream media articles about bitcoin, I concluded the following: 1⃣ It had no intrinsic value (I now realise I didn’t even know what that meant at the time). 2⃣ It was free open-source software, so it could easily be replicated. How could some code that could be copied for free have any value? 3⃣ It was a bubble (How can an asset with no intrinsic value go up so much in such a short-time span? Must be a bubble). 4⃣ Blockchain, not bitcoin. I could see how blockchain technology could have some use cases, but I couldn’t understand how bitcoin could capture any of that value. Following this conclusion, I decided to watch how things played out over the next few months while going about my life. In early 2018, the bitcoin price crashed from $20,000 to $3,000. I was right, it was a bubble! I thought I was so clever, filed bitcoin away in the "I was right" draw and continued with my real estate work. But little did I know that the seed had been planted. My Bitcoin Turning Point (I Did NOT See That Coming) In 2019, during a holiday in Portugal, I saw that bitcoin had gone back to $10,000. This was a game-changer for me. If what I observed in 2017/18 was really a bubble, then there’s no way that bitcoin would go back up to $10,000. There must be something that other people were seeing that I wasn’t. I decided it was time to get some skin and bought my first sats in 2019 (I didn't know fractions of a bitcoin were called sats back then). Owning some bitcoin would give me an incentive to learn more about it and figure out what other people understood that I (clearly) didn’t. It would still take me another 1.5 years to find the time to study bitcoin properly as my real estate work was keeping me busy. That time started in January 2020. I had been doing well financially, and I needed to find some places to park some of my cash. I'd been obsessed with with value investing and Warren Buffet, which at this point came in very handy. I began to invest in stocks, putting most of my money into stocks like Tesla, Spotify (right before they announced the Joe Rogan deal), Disney, and Square (another bitcoin seed planted). Everything was going up. I saw that bitcoin had crashed back to $3,000 briefly as Covid first broke out, but I was busy working and picking stocks, and I wasn't selling or buying any more bitcoin until I put in the work to understand it. Falling Down The Rabbit Hole Towards the end of 2020, as the whole world was freaking out about covid, my wife and I decided that we would be leaving Hong Kong for good, and I went to Scotland in preparation for our move there. During this trip, I finally had the time to study bitcoin more deeply, and I began to fall down the rabbit hole. The timing also coincided with my transitioning out of the real estate business. I loved (and still do) the internet so much, and I wanted to focus more on trying to start an online business of some sort, but bitcoin had other plans for me. With 6 months left in Hong Kong, and no obligations, I was able to spend every waking moment learning about bitcoin. What started out as just another asset where I could park some cash became an all-encompassing obsession. I had lurked on crypto/bitcoin Twitter during the 2017 bull run, and I knew I had to get back there to continue learning about bitcoin. I remembered some of the accounts I followed, so I logged in and searched for them. There was one particular pseudonymous account that stood out to me — cryptocobain (now known as Cobie). A lot of accounts were pseudonymous, so I decided to start one as well. Cobie's old handle format was the inspiration for naming my account BTCGandalf, except that I went for BTC instead of crypto because by that time I already knew that bitcoin, not crypto, was what I wanted to pay attention to. Crypto seemed complicated, confusing, and without a clear value proposition. On the other hand, there was a simplicity to bitcoin. It’s value proposition was clear. Joining Braiins: A Leap Into the Bitcoin World One night, while scrolling through Twitter in the early hours of the morning, I came across a Tweet from @WillHash4Coins, who at the time was the Head of Business Development at Braiins. They were looking to hire a social media intern. While I was a decade deep into my real estate career, I was still early in my bitcoin journey, so I knew that if I wanted to dedicate the next phase of my professional career to it, I’d have to start again from the bottom and humbly learn and earn my way back up. Plus, I was really enjoying Tweeting about bitcoin, so an entry level social media position for a bitcoin company seemed like the perfect fit. I applied, had a couple of interviews, and, to my great joy, was offered the gig. It wasn't all unicorns and rainbows though. I was essentially going from being a young, single business owner making a great living, to a part-time internship position, except that now I had a wife with whom I was expecting a baby. But my mission was clear; I was there to learn and had designed my life so that I could get by for a while without a lot of income. Thank You, Braiins (And What You Can Expect from Me Next) Braiins took a chance on me and gave me the opportunity to learn about bitcoin and bitcoin mining, as well as travel around the world to bitcoin conferences and meet incredible people who are now my friends and peers. I'm incredibly proud of the work I've done during my time at Braiins, rising up from an intern to handling an important portion of the company's copywriting, social media, and external communications. I want to thank Braiins from the bottom of my heart for the opportunity and for enabling me to have all the wonderful experiences I’ve had over the last few years. In particular, I want to thank @KristianCsep who saw something in me and gave me the chance to hop aboard the Braiins ship, and to @janbraiins, @mor_pav, and @b_elinagar for their leadership of the Company. I also want to thank all the colleagues I’ve had, both on the marketing team and across the entire company. I'm proud of the work we've done together. Ending this chapter is a bittersweet moment. On the one hand, I’m leaving behind something that has given me so much, but on the other hand, I have reached the point where I need to leave some empty space in my life for some new things to fill it :). What’s Next for Me and Why Should You Care? From a young age, I’ve been interested in business and entrepreneurship, and there’s nothing I’ve loved more than doing my own thing, as I did in real estate. I also believe there is nothing (not even bitcoin) that yields more than investing in yourself. So, I’ll be taking a couple of months to exclusively focus on improving the skill sets I have been building since working in bitcoin (writing, marketing, sales, media). I'll be experimenting with a few things and seeing where I can provide value to others as a way of figuring out what I should focus on next. Thank YOU In addition to Braiins, I also want to thank all of you. You have been kind enough to share your knowledge with me (whether directly or indirectly) via the internet. You are a huge part of why I am where I am today, and there’s no place I’d rather be. Thank you, I appreciate each and every single one of you. P.S. If you enjoyed reading this, please let me know by smashing the like and retweet buttons. I'd love to hear about what part of this story resonated with you, drop it in the replies 👇. P.P.S. Please follow me if you want to learn from the experiences and lessons I’ll be sharing as I upskill and experiment with different ideas. 👉🫡@SemperePico (for all non-bitcoin stuff) 👉🧙‍♂️@BTCGandalf (for bitcoin stuff).

@GregSchoen @KlausLovgreen Good one. Poor dude. I’m glad I was late to the party. This must be anxious.

I wish I had kept my 1,700 BTC @ $0.06 instead of selling them at $0.30, now that they're $8.00! #bitcoin