The Great Debate: Should You Ever Sell Bitcoin?
synopsis
The Season 1 finale / year-in-review episode. They announce the Holiday Challenge winner (Nooblessy from France), debate whether Mandana should sell bitcoin when it's high (the core bitcoiner vs. non-bitcoiner tension), review the year's major events (FTX, celsius, self-custody, Michael Saylor, Nostra), and Mandana reveals she's joined Nostra before Ian. A raw, extended argument about selling bitcoin reveals the fundamental philosophical divide that still exists between them after a year.
quotes
Ian: "When you hold your bitcoin, no one else is making decisions with what to do with your money."
Ian: "This is oxygen. You can't take the oxygen out of the room."
Mandana: "I'm still new. But I'm on bitcoin twitter now so give me a few months, I might be teaching you a few things."
Ian on selling: "It's not that bitcoin is high. It's that the dollar is less and less."
Mandana: "We're just one cycle behind, babe."
topics
Holiday Challenge winner: Nooblessy (France) — first lightning transactionBinance collapse prediction and paper bitcoin at exchangesThe Great Debate: Mandana argues for selling bitcoin at highs and rebuying at lows; Ian argues this is fundamentally crypto thinking, not bitcoin thinkingYear in review: self-custody, Michael Saylor, Jack Dorsey leaving Twitter, NostraBitcoin vs. crypto: the critical delineationEthereum "flippening" delusion and the merge (still can't withdraw)Logan Paul/Zoo Coin scam via CoffeezillaMandana's dinner party where she educated friends on the gold standardNostra: Mandana is first in the household to join (via Damus beta)