RickyZhang / Ricky Zhang is on Nostr

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2026-07-13 19:02:44 UTC

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Was a pleasure to welcome you on @nprofile…9smn Kyle! More to come 💪

2026-06-15 06:12:18 UTC

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This is a fundamentally self-contradictory statement: "That is the value that Saylor is creating. He is building Bitcoin's yield curve."
Bitcoin has no yield, so building a yield curve just means reintroducing the credit-money stack that bitcoin was designed to retire: someone, somewhere, is now taking leverage and credit risk so that "bitcoin" can pay a coupon it cannot natively pay.
With MSTR and the preferreds, we are very much on a path towards what Jeff is describing:
1. Over time, more of the money that would've just bought bitcoin buys
the yield product instead, because it pays income and feels safer. At
the margin, the preferred quietly becomes a substitute for buying
bitcoin. Not in today's snapshot, but that's the direction every year
this thing grows.
2. Strategy doesn't lend its coins, but the preferred itself becomes
collateral out in the world. One coin sits reserved while the claim on
it gets pledged and borrowed against again and again, in margin
accounts and structured products.
3. Even if none of that happened: moving more and more coins off the
network into a handful of company balance sheets, parked at two or
three custodians, is centralization on its own.
These all contribute to the centralization of bitcoin when you have infinitely expanding claims on top of a fixed base. Eventually, when there is a bank run, the system tries to change the rules to stay solvent. Because of the nodes and the protocol, it will not succeed this time.

2026-01-25 06:59:49 UTC

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I’m frankly surprised to see people still trapped in left-right thinking on here

2026-01-14 20:37:42 UTC

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💯

2026-01-04 18:05:45 UTC

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Creativity + agency = superpower

2025-12-28 21:24:10 UTC

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Where abouts in Asia? How's the Nostr community over there?

2025-12-28 21:23:37 UTC

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What about those who are freedom posting on X with a view of bringing more individuals over to Nostr?

2025-12-28 00:07:59 UTC

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By narrative bridge, I mean Saylor's media work is exposing people to Bitcoin for the first time (alongside his work building products for the financial markets).
That leads them into the ecosystem and to learn about self-custody from those who are championing it.
Yes, there may be some shitcoinery and stockcoinery mixed in. Perhaps Saylor now faces different vested interests compared to before.
But it doesn't matter, because you and I and many others can speak the truth and share with others freely.
And over a long enough period of time, the honest protocol (and its social layer) wins.

2025-12-26 02:03:07 UTC

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Inevitable

2025-10-24 16:19:22 UTC

The world is waking up 🧠
https://blossom.primal.net/bc4461f5c9178be9e8419ae876b2498bed33e8d7259874bfb9cf139bf86f160a.jpg

2025-10-18 16:19:26 UTC

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@nprofile…rgfl

2025-10-18 15:06:25 UTC

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One of the most exciting things about #bitcoin is how it allows more ways of knowing to surface all around the world over time, once the weight of global hegemonic fiat is lifted.

2025-10-12 15:55:45 UTC

And they said deflation would cause people not to spend.
https://blossom.primal.net/d5e518caf528e614c8f016c59caf48e1e1021fa92bc288a85092aa6ebf834e4e.jpg

2025-06-11 14:54:54 UTC

Fiat makes us worship money.
Bitcoin makes money serve us.
When money can no longer be printed, stolen, or inflated away…
it becomes a tool, not a god.
#Bitcoin fixes the idolatry of money.