How Not To Be A Bitcoin A**hole

Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

I’ve said for years that gold is easily my preferred sound money investment, but that I’m also long some Bitcoin. I’m just not long Bitcoin loudly and arrogantly — the way the lobotomized orange-pill missionaries would prefer me to be.

But with all due respect, f*ck them, because I’ve made a career of being my own person, and it’s going to be no different with how I talk about Bitcoin.

In other words, I’m long, but I’m not joining their cult, as I told Peter McCormack during my bitcoin “coming out” interview a couple years ago.

You know the cult. The cult that guarantees when you’re the slightest bit skeptical of Bitcoin in a comment or Twitter post, you’re immediately harangued, called an idiot, and talked down to by some 23 year old who doesn’t know shit about how the world works and wants to tell you he’s got the secret to making infinite cash forever and knows where we’ll all be 50 years from now.

I’m not wearing a laser-eyed profile picture or rolling around Twitter like a messiah who’s discovered the One True Asset for the rest of eternity. And I sure as f*ck don’t take completely hollow financial advice, devoid of any logic, on a nascent, entirely new asset class experiment from Scottie Pippen.

OK Scottie. A dur dur dur. In fact, nowadays, Bitcoin pushers on social media are starting to oddly remind me of the Soviet-style propaganda campaign that was forced down our throats about the importance of getting vaccinated for Covid-19.

I own Bitcoin because I hope it eventually leads to something better than the fiat carnival we’re stuck in, but I’m not blind to the fact that its 15-year résumé is the fast dash of a toddler’s crayon compared to gold’s six-millennia masterwork. Gold has been “number one” for about 6,000 years, and likely will...(READ THIS FULL COLUMN, 100% FREE, HERE).