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 The #bitcoin carry trade (aka, “speculative arbitrage”) remains the trade of the decade. 

It’s hiding in plain sight from the majority of Wall Street traders and investors. 
 It’s still always shocking to me that we have easy access to 30y fixed-rate mortgages in the States. A few years ago I did a cash out refi at 2.85% and did my part to attack the USD. Since then we’ve moved, but if rates come down again I may have to repeat.  
 Perhaps Wall Street traders are already experimenting this with personal capital. Perhaps it too soon for Wall Street to do this at the institutional level. Perhaps they are waiting to see how MicroStrategy’s strategy plays out.   One assumes the floodgates will open eventually, but the exact timing can’t be predicted. 
 Some younger trader definitely are.  Its the old guard thats slow to adapt. 
 Once you see it, it’s obvious. But until you do it seems insane. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤯🤯 
 So basically, 'stay humble and stack sats' but with a Wall Street twist? 😄 Funny how the jargon can make it sound like a whole new strategy! 
 Should be illegal for us to short the dollar aka greedily buy Bitcoin and hodl 😏 
 The Reality.

Before Money, Barter was the exchange of  things but was rated in Human Empathy.

Money removed that Human Empathy part of the exchange, because it was not perfect Information that recorded exactly the Human Empathy part of exchange.

That was Commodity Money.  Since the 1970's Fiat Currency money became globally used, that further removed that Human Empathy exchange.

People game system's, so that opened Pandora's Box, you can have everything at no cost.  If you can game the system with no cost, you have the perfect environment for fast breeding Psychopaths to win.  Empathy holds others back.

Politicians from Vanity to Psychopaths can promise everything and deliver nothing.  Psychopathic lawyers become heads of Government's, Councils, Mayor's and big Institutions and Non-Government  Organisations etc et cetera.

The nett result of the loss of exchanging Pure Human Empathy is living life backward to those who cherish the exchange of Human Empathy.

As such, Gender Attacked, Family Attacked, Childhood Attacked, Religion Attacked, Property Attacked, Opinion Attacked, Home Attacked, Privacy Attacked, Health Attacked, Nature Attacked, Survival Attacked, Climate Attacked etc et cetera.

Bitcoin goes right back to what I said at the start and further, it's the exchange of Pure Human Empathy before people even thought to write about how a God could do this better.

If you don't think that chasing Fiat Currency is the Religion of living backwards, then my friends, your minds have gone.

 
 My TradFi / Wall St colleagues refuse to put in the work. I recently explained to my team the Saylor / MSTR strategy and they all said it's too good to be true and sounds like a ponzi playbook. I told them yeah it's indeed a ponzi playbook, but Saylor is the one attacking it...