Oddbean

I agree. But I’m not afraid to admit that I’m scared. I don’t want to risk my family’s wealth on being “too smart by half”. We have so much truth behind us, but also so much risk ahead. We have Plan B’s,still we want to stand firm. Yet when the artillery hits us - hits us all - for real, will we have a battle plan then? That’s what I worry about. We’re up against a machine that has ground-down COUNTLESS “insurgencies”. Bitcoiner’s need to get serious about hodling long-term, verses selling in fear. And I don’t think we are. The deep-state doesn’t actually want to imprison us, imo, they want us to sell or give our BTC to them. They want the Bitcoin. That’s the end-goal. They’ll use KYC to force cap-gains taxes on everyone who bought on an exchange (which Michael Saylor will likely be a willing partisan to). They’ll vilify Bitcoin across the Western world, turning our families against us, labeling us “terrorists” or “racists” or whatever. And the no-coiners will WELCOME this. The war has just begun. We will become the target for every Evil that they themselves have perpetrated. That’s their stock in trade. They blame others for what they themselves are doing. Normal people are never prepared to deal with Sociopaths. That’s what Sociopaths count upon. And yes, we will win. But Bitcoiners pretend they’re ready for war. Few of us are battle-hardened for what is happening now, myself included. When the arrests continue, how many will wave the white flag, and comply? How many will give over their cold-storage vs going to jail? And does that depend on pre-planning to have your cold-wallet outside your home, and your family knows where to find it and how to access it? Very very few of us I fear are ready for this. Yet this is the line we now need to draw as human beings.