This level of conviction is not in their models.
Our edge is our irrational optimism. No matter the dip, no matter the ridicule, no matter the time scale, no matter the exchange-rate pain, we are never fucking selling.
If the establishment wants to play Chicken, then please do.
You’re going to fuck around and find out, for damn sure.
We shall see who the real Brinksmen are.
Contrapliant
I was recently introduced to a word by PabloF7Z.
Contrapliant . I’m not sure it’s even a word in English, but since we’re always making up words, I’m claiming it. As I’m sure you can tell, it means the opposite of “compliant.”
The way I like to think about it is: “Actively-non-compliant.”
To me, this is the definition of life. Entropy is the status quo and life seems to be that which defies entropy. We don’t understand why, or how, but it does.
Case in point: when I was coming back from my run, I saw this and had to take a photo:
Just like nature, Bitcoin is contrapliant. They are both alive, and that which lives will always find a way.
Bitcoin and Bitcoiners will never surrender. We will never give up.
We are irrationally optimistic about the future, because as I’ve said many times, a world without Bitcoin, where we own nothing, have no privacy and are doped up on anti-depressants is not a world worth living in.
Let this moment in time serve you. Allow the flames to burn off all that is unnecessary. What’s left is the real you, just with a thicker skin, greater conviction, a higher degree of courage and a character that’s worthy of leading.
You will look back on this moment, and remember what it meant to earn your stripes, and it will give you what you need to maintain the big F.U. energy that makes all the difference.
Become contrapliant, young Bitcoin padawan.
This is your moment.
Now go buy some cheap bitcoin and listen to this playlist: Svetski’s Bear Market Music
This is a guest post by Aleks Svetski , author of “ The UnCommunist Manifesto ,” founder of The Bitcoin Times and Host of The Wake Up Podcast . Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine .