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05/31/2026

The cleanest version of the Bitcoin thesis fits in one line, and Arthur Hayes delivers it: more fiat tomorrow than today.

The reasons for printing rotate every cycle: war, supply chains, AI infrastructure, bailouts, deficits. The political stories change, the denominator keeps growing, and a fixed-supply asset behaves the way you'd expect against an expanding denominator.

That's the whole thesis. The hard part is acting on it before the math becomes obvious to everyone else.

05/30/2026

A dead machine earns nothing while it sits.

On-site repairs keep that window short.

Meet Nathan.He's one of our Advanced ASIC Repair Techs. In hosting, keeping machines online is most of the job, and the ...
05/29/2026

Meet Nathan.

He's one of our Advanced ASIC Repair Techs. In hosting, keeping machines online is most of the job, and the repair bench is a big part of how that happens. Nathan's right in the middle of it.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡?
"The connections. Everybody here is so easy to get along with that it makes the workday much better. Like-minded people get along well."

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮?
"I diagnose machines and attempt repairs, normally using a microscope and soldering iron."

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬?
"I tell them I repair computers that mine Bitcoin. If they still don't understand, I try to relate miners to home computers."

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞?
"I love to work on my project cars and maintain my vehicles. My family has always been extremely automotive-focused, and from a young age I've admired the effort it takes to have a clean car."

Glad to have Nathan on the team!

More of the team coming soon.

05/29/2026

This is a former top White House economic advisor being asked, on camera, why the US borrows in a currency it prints.

He doesn't have a clean answer. That alone is worth thinking about before deciding how much faith to put in the system that issues your savings.

05/28/2026

There's a useful version of the Bitcoin argument that has nothing to do with price.

When obligations grow larger than assets, governments reach for debasement because the alternative is visible austerity, which no one runs on. That's the political-mathematical pattern, and it doesn't change based on which side is in power.

Bitcoin is the position you take before that pattern forces a decision. The timing is uncertain. The math isn't.

05/27/2026

The political logic of inflation is simpler than the economics.

Voters reject taxes they can see, so governments fund crises with the tax voters can't see clearly: the inflation tax. That's the mechanism.

Bitcoin matters because that incentive structure doesn't reverse. It compounds with every crisis.

05/26/2026

Two digital loads can look identical from the outside and behave like opposite assets on the grid.

AI compute is bursty but always running. It consumes power regardless of price and doesn't really pause. The economics depend on uptime.

Bitcoin mining works the other way. It runs when power is cheap and ramps down when it isn't. The economics depend on flexibility.

That difference is what makes the two loads complementary on a shared energy campus. The constant load gives the site a steady revenue base. The flexible load absorbs power when nobody else wants it and yields when the grid needs the room.

Most public conversations about data centers treat them as a single category. The behavior on the grid is what determines whether a project helps stabilize the system or strains it.

05/25/2026

The price goes up. Saylor's plan doesn't change.

05/24/2026

How does Bitcoin die?

That's the question Brian De Mint puts on the table in this clip, and his answer surprised a lot of people in the Bitcoin community.

His take: Bitcoin is currently in the store-of-value phase. Companies hoard it. Countries hoard it. Long-term holders plan for the future and aren't really spending it.

He argues the future of Bitcoin depends on actually being used as money. Jack Dorsey has made the same point in different words: Bitcoin dies if it fails to function as a form of money.

A lot of Bitcoiners push back on this. The instinct to save runs deep in the community, and the math for holding has historically been very strong.

Where do you land?

05/23/2026

A common concern about new data centers is that they push energy prices up for everyone on the local grid. It's a fair question, and the answer depends almost entirely on one thing: how the project is structured.

In well-structured projects, the data center pays for the system upgrades the utility needs to support the new load. Those upgrades get deployed across the whole grid, so every other customer benefits from the improvements. The data center also commits to actually consuming the power, which spreads grid costs across more usage.

When that structure is in place, utilities in many regions are seeing energy prices come down with new data centers, not up.

When prices do rise, the cause is usually something like a storm or fuel market stress that has nothing to do with the new load. The load tends to get folded into the explanation anyway.

The fair question for any community to ask is whether a given project is structured to fund grid infrastructure or to lean on existing ratepayers. Same kind of data center, very different outcomes for the people on the bill.

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