The morons dumping on Bitcoin right now don’t realize this…

Published February 3, 2026

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    The morons dumping on Bitcoin right now
    don’t realize that people like them have
    been wrong 17 solid years. Now, if
    you’re like me, you enjoy the early
    years of Bitcoin. I love reading the
    books about the early years of Bitcoin,
    watching the documentaries about the
    early years of Bitcoin, and I have read
    them and I have watched them all. If
    there was anything that described the
    very early years when the price was in
    the, you know, single digits, double
    digit, triple digits, and even below a
    dollar, uh, anything that describes the
    early cipher punk movement, a whole, all
    of that. And what you realize is that
    the things people are saying about
    Bitcoin now are exactly the same things
    people were saying 17 years ago. So, as
    you know, I post a lot about Bitcoin on
    Facebook. And so I post things like,
    “Hey, I bought, you know, I sold gold
    and silver to buy Bitcoin at $95,000
    Bitcoin.” Um, which was when gold was,
    you know, 4,000 an ounce and silver was
    $48 an ounce. Uh, which was a couple
    months ago. I took out a Bitcoin backed
    loan on Strike, S I ke, which I do not
    recommend unless you can really, really,
    really afford it, which I can. Um, and I
    bought Bitcoin at a price of 82,000. Um,
    and then of course in the comments
    there’s all these morons who are like
    five minutes later or you know a day or
    two later they’re like, “Haha, Bitcoin’s
    at $79,000. How’s that working out for
    you?” It’s like, “Okay, It’s a
    one-year loan for at $82,000.” So, we’re
    not going to resolve this 48 hours after
    a one-year loan. Like, come back and
    check with me at the 12-month mark
    because it’s a 12-month loan. Same with
    when I uh sold the gold and silver.
    People are like, “Haha, it’s not at
    95,000 anymore.” Again, they don’t
    realize if you go back to the early days
    of Bitcoin, all the stories were the
    same. I mean, people were saying, “I
    just sold all my assets and bought all
    the Bitcoin I could at $100 of Bitcoin
    for $50,000, which is what they bought
    500 Bitcoin or whatever that is. 50,000,
    I guess it’ be. Yeah, whatever.” Um, and
    then of course somebody is like, “Haha,
    it’s 80,000. You know, it’s only $80.
    You bought it at $100, loser.” And it’s
    just insane. Like, I mean, here’s the
    thing. If you’re going to run your mouth
    on Facebook, you ought to get some
    historical perspective. You ought to ask
    yourself, hey, has an idiot said the
    things I’m saying now at some point in
    the past and been totally wrong. And the
    answer is yes. I mean, there’s all these
    there’s this famous tweet of somebody
    saying, you know, Bitcoin crashed all
    the way down to $2.13.
    So glad I dumped all of mine at $8. It’s
    never coming back. And then again,
    people post that online and they’re
    like, uh, you know, one one of the ones,
    uh, someone posted, uh, was the guy that
    had dumped all of his Bitcoin at $8 and
    said it was never coming back. And, um,
    and somebody posted, they tagged him on
    Twitter and were like, “Hey, is this guy
    still around?” And he responds, “Yes,
    but dead inside.” Right? I mean, this is
    the guy who said $8 Bitcoin was Bitcoin
    is over. It’s crashed for the last time.
    you know, it’s down to $2 and something
    and I’m done. You know, and then there’s
    other people early on that were like,
    “Haha, you losers who bought Bitcoin for
    $4, you know, or $2. Now it’s below your
    talk, you know, you’re out of your buy
    price going to zero.” Anyway, it’s just
    insane. It’s insane that if you’re going
    to run your mouth about something, it
    seems like you ought to think about it.
    They all show up on Facebook and they’re
    like, “You buy Bitcoin at 82,000 and
    then it’s down at 77.” and they’re like,
    “Haha, how’s that working out for you?”
    Thinking like, “What is that? Is that
    like the first time someone ever thought
    to ridicule someone who made a long-term
    investment that happened to be down a
    day or two later?” Like, no. That
    happens all the time. On Monday, I
    challenge you. Go buy Apple or Amazon
    or, you know, Microsoft, uh, Nvidia,
    Tesla, Google, Facebook, any of the
    magnificent seven stocks, the highest
    performing stocks of the last decade.
    buy any of them and then see if the
    price goes down at some point during
    that same day below the price you bought
    it for. Of course, it will. All of these
    prices are volatile. The price is always
    going to eventually be low below the
    price you paid for it. And the reason
    you can’t wait for that lower price is
    you don’t know when it’s going to happen
    and you don’t know what it’s going to
    be. So, in my case, I bought more
    Bitcoin at 82,000 because nobody knows
    if it’s going to go lower than that.
    They don’t know when it’s going to go
    lower than that and they don’t know if
    it’s going to go how much lower than
    that. So if somebody wants to say, “Hey,
    that was a dumb decision. How’s that
    working out for you?” It’s like, “Okay,
    when would you have bought?” First of
    all, these people have no money anyway.
    Like what are they, you know, it’s not
    like they’re saying, “Hey, I bought
    something else instead that’s doing
    better.” They’re, you know, criticizing
    the actions of other people without
    realizing that people like them have
    been wrong for 17 years. and that any
    good investor knows that any asset you
    buy ever will eventually be below the
    price you paid for it because otherwise
    you bought it at the exact perfect time
    at the exact perfect price and that’s
    impossible. Nobody buys everything at
    the exact perfect time at the exact
    perfect price. That’s impossible. You
    cannot time the market. That’s like the
    one the number one rule in markets and
    investing is you can’t time the market.
    You can’t you don’t know you don’t know
    how low any stock is going to go. You
    don’t know when it’s going to go low.
    You don’t know when it’s going to be its
    lowest price. So, you can’t measure the
    timing and you can’t measure the price.
    So, is Bitcoin the lowest it’s ever
    going to be right now at 77,000 or
    778,000
    per coin? I don’t know. You don’t know
    because nobody knows. Nobody knows any
    of that sort of stuff. So, all you can
    do is you can buy assets that have huge
    long-term upside potential. You can buy
    them at whatever price you buy them at,
    whatever. And then you can wait a really
    long time which is called investing when
    you have patience for a long time. That
    is how this works. And you know if you
    invested in an asset that has high
    long-term upside potential, which I very
    absolutely positively believe Bitcoin
    does, then it’s just a waiting game. You
    buy and you wait, and if the price goes
    down, you buy more. You buy as much as
    you can and you wait as long as you can.
    Like that’s what investing is. Uh so
    Bitcoin’s on sale. The formula is
    simple. Buy as much as you can and hold
    on to it for as long as conceivably
    possible. The best case place to buy
    Bitcoin is river. R I Ver river.com.
    River like you know rivers and streams
    and lakes. Uh link it to a bank account.
    You can buy Bitcoin that way. Um the
    best place to keep and store Bitcoin for
    the long haul is Bitkey bitke.orld.
    That’s bit kell.
    I post about it all the time and I post
    about River all the time. Buy as much
    Bitcoin as you can, hold on to it for as
    long as conceivably possible.
    Straightforward formula. That formula
    has never been wrong in the entire 17
    years of Bitcoin. No one has ever been
    wrong who just bought as much Bitcoin as
    they could and sat on it as long as they
    could. Like, if you did that, you always
    eventually made way more money in
    Bitcoin form, which you could then
    convert into any other kind of money
    anywhere in the world. It’s just not
    that hard. But all these morons who are
    commenting on Facebook, well, they’ll be
    proven wrong in the end. I don’t care. I
    mean, I’m just buying more Bitcoin. So,
    so what? I I know my investment thesis.
    What are they going to do? What else are
    they going to buy? There’s nothing else
    they can buy that’s a better investment
    than Bitcoin. So, good luck with that. I
    don’t know what they think they’re going
    to do instead. There’s no better
    investment than Bitcoin. So, whatever it
    is they think they’re doing instead,
    which is probably nothing, is an
    inferior option. And I don’t do inferior
    options. I’m making the optimal choices.
    And right now that’s buying Bitcoin.

…that people like them have been wrong for 17 years.
Originally recorded 2/1/26

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