In general, with life, it’s always best not to fight the flow of things. Float down the river of life in a state of acceptance. Accepting the temporary nature of everything you pass by. Investing is different. Learn to tread water, learn to swim and start pushing in your own direction. Only once you can swim, can you start looking for ways out.

Since 2017, every platform I’ve tried to create on, to write on, to share my ideas has been banned, blocked, show-banned, deleted. I gave up, years go by and I often give up on it. I get it, it’s illegal to give people ‘financial advice’. As if that’s even what I’m doing. If you’re too stupid to understand, let me explain. I’m sharing with you my findings and you decide if and what you invest in. No one should gate-keep information and if you agree with it, you’re part of the censorship problem that we face today. Don’t call what I do financial advice and don’t call me a financial adviser. Investments funds on their own are already an inefficient investment model with management fees slapped on top. Then you add the fees of your investment adviser on top, no thanks.

Bitcoin price is compressed right now and this is exactly when investors are most vulnerable to manipulation. So here’s my reminder to you, if everyone else is doing it, you’re already too late.

I remember when I first tried to invest in stocks. I tried to open a trading account with a broker and I was told I needed 20k to get started. Obviously, I didn’t have that. There were big, bold warnings of ‘70% of retail lose money investing.’ on all the websites and even a disclaimer and ‘affordability questions’ over the phone.

A few years later and there’s a choice of ‘easy’ apps for stocks. There’s subtler, if any ‘warnings’ against investing. There’s very little friction when it comes to buying. Easy approval and signup. ‘Too poor to get started’ is not a thing any more, fractional shares can be bought with practically no minimum entry amount.

Read that again without the rose-tinted glasses. While there was real opportunity in the stock market, retail investors we discouraged. If you’re retail, you’re only ever designed to be exit liquidity.

Today, governments are encouraging us to invest in stocks and pushing us away from the next big opportunity. If you haven’t experienced it, sign up for an exchange/stock brokerage and then sign up for a bitcoin exchange. Observe the hurdles put in-front of you from one to the other.

Your ‘protection’ is not their concern. Bitcoin is an escape valve, a dangerous idea that no one has been able destroy. Governments know this and as such they attempt to tame it, somehow pretend it’s part of their system. The pretend that it cannot exist without a big corporation as a custodian, holding it for you and charging you for that privilege.

Your government is often positioned against you. If they’re telling you, or implying that something is unsafe, you should be asking questions. Look at the recent internet censorship that’s been rolled out. We didn’t get to vote on that. It was just rolled out, as a way to ‘protect children’. Yet now, as an adult even harmless images aren’t being served to me because I’m in the wrong IP address range. Most parents agree they can monitor their own children’s internet usage. Most people aren’t even having children these days! The world’s nations disagree on everything, yet they all agreed they needed to close down bitcoin and all agree that their citizens need someone else to decide what they can read on the internet. In the UK, you can be arrested for distasteful comments on social media. Again, no one voted that in.

I’m not invested because I hope that it will one day make me ‘x’ millions. I’m not invested waiting for a certain price point because if I was, I can assure you I should have already ‘cashed out’. I’m invested in bitcoin because I believe there’s something fundamentally wrong with the current financial system and no one really knows how to fix it. The only logical move I can think anyone will make is towards a harder money. Gold has been tried and tested in this way. It already failed as a the global reserve. No one can confirm how much each nation holds, it’s maximum supply cannot be verified and no one can tell you exactly how much of it is discovered each year. It cannot be easily stored and it cannot be easily transported in mass. Bars of gold have famously been faked and the only way to know is to chop it open and look inside. There’s a better money.

We’re hovering around $90,000 and retail sentiment is in extreme fear while the largest bitcoin holders are only increasing their positions. Do you know how far this has come? God knows I tried with everyone I know.