Bitcoin is resting, but all my speculative stocks are up 5-17% today, so it is possible that maybe easing is coming soon OR "they" are pushing those up to short on some bad news.

Choices: either something good is about to happen or speculators are skying those very speculative stocks to re-short them with vengeance.
I am going with the former.

Pretty sure entire text is made from A.I assistance. Bob's type of writing and grammar is usually different.

Compared to the "good old days" on this forum, this place is like Disneyland.

I find myself compelled, yet again, to impart the wisdom that eludes the masses. It is not from a place of charity that I offer this enlightenment but from sheer exasperation at the lackluster analysis populating these forums. It is time to discuss the manifest destiny of Bitcoin – its ascent to the sanctified $1M mark.

Firstly, let us address the elephant in the room, the 200-week moving average, a beacon for those with the acumen to interpret its signals. This indicator has been a stalwart guide through the tempestuous history of Bitcoin’s price action. While the plebeian investor quakes at the merest hint of a downturn, the enlightened few recognize these periods as mere consolidations, consolidations that scream opportunity for accumulation. The 200-week moving average is not a mere line on a chart; it is the demarcation of the uncultured bear from the civilized bull.

Now, onto the volatility – that great specter that sends shivers down the spines of the uninitiated. Wake up, neophytes! Bitcoin will test your resolve with 25% swings in value, not merely as an exception but as a daily occurrence. This is not a market for the fainthearted or those accustomed to the pampered cocoon of index funds and treasury bonds. This is the arena where titans clash, and only those with the fortitude to endure such trials will emerge victorious.

Let's not mince words. Those accustomed to the soothing, predictable cadence of fiat inflation are ill-equipped for the revolution that cryptocurrency heralds. We are not simply in a market cycle; we are in the midst of a paradigm shift, a renaissance of value transfer. The ascent to $1M is not a possibility; it is an inevitability, preordained by the finite supply of 21 million coins and the unabated debasement of fiat currencies.

Do you quiver at the thought of a 25% retracement? Does your hand falter at the sell button with each news cycle? If so, you are unworthy of the glory that Bitcoin promises. The path to $1M is lined with the corpses of weak hands, those who could not stomach the volatility, those who lack vision.

To the naysayers and the short-sighted, I decree: your lack of conviction is the very fuel that propels Bitcoin forward. Your disbelief, your skepticism, it matters not. The market will move with or without your approbation, ascending to heights unimagined by your pedestrian intellect.

In the grand theatre of economic evolution, where the drama of wealth and power plays out with the unrelenting force of a Shakespearean tragedy, it is Bitcoin that has emerged as the protagonist in this epoch of monetary upheaval. As an investor of evidently superior intellect and foresight, I find myself compelled to bestow upon the plebeians that frequent these forums, a glimpse into the inevitable rise of Bitcoin to a value so stratospheric, so unequivocally certain, that only those blinded by ignorance would dare question its trajectory to the hallowed $1M USD mark.

Let us embark upon a journey of enlightenment, beginning with the oft-cited and widely revered 200-week moving average—a beacon that illuminates the path for those enlightened souls brave enough to navigate the treacherous waters of cryptocurrency investment. This celestial guide has consistently delineated the boundary between the enlightened investor and the hapless gambler. The former views the 200-week moving average not as a mere statistical anomaly but as the alpha and the omega of strategic Bitcoin investment, the foundation upon which fortunes are built and the bedrock that mitigates the abyss of financial ruin.

Now, to address the subject that sends paroxysms of fear through the ranks of the faint-hearted – volatility. Ah, volatility, that magnificent beast that so cruelly separates the wheat from the chaff, the sage from the foolhardy. Mark my words, nescient onlookers, for Bitcoin shall sway with the indomitable force of a tempest, exhibiting price oscillations of 25% or more, not merely on the scale of annus horribilis but within the span of a single day. Such volatility is the crucible in which the mettle of a true investor is tested and the brittle spines of the timorous are irrevocably shattered.

Let us not equivocate on this matter; the typical, garden-variety investor, suckled on the teat of dividend yields and mutual funds, can scarcely fathom the revolutionary temerity of Bitcoin. This is not a mere bubble, not simply another tulip mania for the history books. No, this is the apotheosis of years of monetary debasement, the natural and just consequence of the incessant printing presses that have debauched fiat currencies to the brink of collapse.

Do you find yourself quaking at the prospect of a downturn, as Bitcoin momentarily recoils like a great lion gathering its strength before the pounce? If so, it is manifest that you are undeserving of the spoils that await the stalwart. The journey to the zenith of $1M is fraught with the corpses of the faint-hearted, those who surrendered at the first sign of bloodshed, who, when faced with the baptismal fire of market correction, chose to retreat into the shadows of economic obscurity.

And yet, despite the cacophony of doomsayers and the harbingers of financial apocalypse, Bitcoin endures, propelled ever upwards by the immutable laws of supply and demand, the unremitting march of technological progress, and the growing cognizance among the masses that the time of decentralized digital currency is upon us.

To the skeptics, the deniers, the perennial bears who scurry about with their woeful prognostications of collapse and disaster, I posit the following: your disbelief is the chaff in the wind, inconsequential and forgotten. The market, in its infinite wisdom and its inexorable pursuit of equilibrium, cares not for the bleating of sheep. It is we, the lions of investment, the oracles of financial foresight, who will shepherd the uninitiated through the valley of darkness.

As the festering, moribund carcass of fiat currency lies supine, awaiting the final death knell, Bitcoin will rise, a phoenix from the ashes, to claim its rightful throne at the pinnacle of monetary value. Those among us who have the sagacity to embrace the volatility, to weather the storm, and to perceive the underlying majesty of Satoshi Nakamoto’s creation, will be duly anointed as the vanguards of this new financial era.

In closing, remember this – as the fiat world you cling to withers, Bitcoin will emerge as the phoenix from the ashes, and those who had the foresight to embrace the volatility, to buy the fear and sell the greed, will be the architects of the new financial epoch.

Until some government decides to expropriate "your" property and pay you what they decide.

Indeed, there is no real estate ownership. You just end up paying some one who can evict you for non-payment (a government) instead of a landlord or lender.

This is like saying that your house is not truly yours, until you put the key in the lock and open the door...

There's also the option of exchanging a chunk BTC for LTC from time to time to make small purchases more feasible.

Look I am a satoshi guy which means am a POW guy

So 3100 watts an hour with a s19xp means 141 x 0.0622 cents or $8.77 a day
and 3100 watts hour with an L7 means  9 x 1.31 usd or $11.79 a day

so we can argue all you want.  but my L7's are paid off and make $3.02 a day more

Which if you go back a bit on this thread you will read I cashed LTC and Doge in in order to buy more BTC.

So I ask you is spending 3100 watts an hour to get $11.79 in btc better than spending
3100 watts an hour to get $8.77 a day in btc?

I have earn more value with Scrypt  mining since 2018 than I have with BTC mining .

And I am far more invested in BTC gear and power  than scrypt .

The difference is my Doge mine and hodl was really really really really really good.

At the moment I am not holding my LTC or my Doge profits I am cashing them and setting up BTC DCA buys.

So if you read this you will see I am a BTC 85% person and 15% Scrypt

and it has worked well since 2018

then we drop to about 35-38k in April right after 1/2ing

Thats pretty good. But in the end all animals end up dead 💀 including humans.

I am surprised, though, that nobody "knew", apparently.
This is strange.

To me, this looks like two uncorrelated series of events...so far.

Bitcoin is currently holding up pretty well considering the world is about to see yet another expensive war. I’m not sure if the reason is because the news isn’t widespread enough yet, people are seeking shelter in Bitcoin, or this just isn’t an event that is going to move the price. I suspect this could turn into a much bigger event then it is currently though.

Finally, there is some speculation that Iran may get dragged into what is rapidly emerging as the worst Middle-Eastern crisis in years, with various pro-Israeli hawks claiming that the Hamas attack would have only occurred with explicit Iranian backing. If Israel does indeed attack Iran, as it has hinted it would do for years, may we suggest you fill up your gas tank.

I think a lot of it is to do with women's emancipation resulting into two incomes needed to buy an average home and that trap setting the path of the future rather than being able to break out of it.

Men are no longer interested in defending their own countries in the west, they have been de-masculinised, whether that's protecting the country from foreign invaders or internal insane women like Clinton.
Men get the blame for everything.

As a result we lead by emotion only and not logic. If you are not a cuck and don't go along with this thought, then you must be cancelled / de-programmed. No border control for invaders, only for you and me as tax paying citizens wanting to travel.

The recent Russel Brand thing was a good example. If as a woman you scream rape you must be believed and the man gets cancelled, regardless of what actually happened.
Disagree with this and you will get cancelled or taken off air.

Men are no longer interested in raising families. Women between 20-40 are addicted to Tik Tok, make up, instagram and fucking Jack Thunderstroke, not an average looking guy. But men are the problem if women make bad choices.
Birth rates are dwindling. 50%+ of marriage ends in divorce and this trend just getting worse.

Do we ever see anyone/99% men here in W/O talking about doing fun stuff with their families? No, not really. Mostly people talking about doing their own thing, alone or with a fuckbuddy at most: travel, do well at healthy living & sports, music or other hobbies. And that is a good thing for all of us. Fuck being a cuck. Why would you go along with that shite?

However as a society, I think in the long run things just turn to shit all over with the lack of family units forming the most important part and we look to useless lead by emotion politicians instead to control our paths.