Anger
Daily Ramble
I came home to a meltdown. The meltdown was caused because of oranges and pizzas. Naia wanted leftover pizza and Ana wanted her to eat an orange first. When you’ve got a 2.5-year-old, it doesn’t take much difference of opinion to set the fire alarm off.
Luckily, I was blissfully unaware while out on a jog. Oddly enough, I was thinking on the run how I was grateful to have matured into a better understanding of my anger and strategies for focusing it — like running. It was my first run in two weeks after being cooped inside caring for a sickly family and staying dry. I really needed to burn some too-long-with-my-face-in-a-screen energy which left unfettered, turns into a grouchy, angry Kent.
Coming back to Naia curdled up on Ana’s shoulder, her face ashen in post-tantrum collapse, and Ana’s cheeks flushed, I knew I’d ducked a live one. The contrast between my thoughts while running and seeing my daughter experiencing her anger was not lost on me. It reminded me how important it is to model healthy use of anger so she can begin to learn her own ways of channeling it. Our dishes are going to appreciate it.
Favorite Thing on the Interwebs Today
Both a solstice and star of Bethlehem yesterday — Ana and I are lucky!
Bitcoin Price Prediction
Yesterday: $21.7k - $24k
Today: $22.3k - $25k
Tomorrow: $21k - $26k
After a drawn-out day of battling, it does appear the bulls have control again as the price found a floor at $21.7 yesterday and has now pushed as high as $23.5k. Odds are that we see a run at the $24k high water mark again in short order. The more frequently we visit $24k, the less likely it is to be the high water mark though. My bet is that we break it and start pushing for $25k. At some point, we will see a healthy pullback, though it’s anyone’s guess when that will be. If $24k does prove to be too much to surpass, then we could see the bears take control and drive us down into the $21k region. For that reason, tomorrow’s predicted range is quite large — we’re either breaking up or down out of this $22.3k-$24k range soon.
Bitcoin Ed Bite
Bitcoin is doing a good job of proving to the world that it can transact value outside of a) being cash and b) being part of the banking system. Tracking money through the banking system didn't start until the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970. It was supposed to stop the bad guys from money laundering and wreaking havoc on all us normal joes schlepping through life. Let me ask a heretical question — do you truly feel safer from terrorists and black market activity since the 1970s?
If you said “No”, you’ve got a good reason. Just like the war on drugs, it’s just made a black market for the activity. How? Well, if you got enough money, the mark-up on laundering money through a bank may be expensive, but it’s highly doable. But if you’re a normie trying to send even $10k to your dying aunt in Iran for chemo treatment you’re screwed without using Bitcoin. And collecting all that personal identifying information adds costs to banking justifying bankers charging lil’ ole you more fees. My absolute favorite though: all that personal information is collected and stored on a server somewhere that is just waiting for a nice, kindly hacker to collect and distribute to nefarious actors for a profit. Heck, when even the US Treasury is hacked what makes you think your banking information is safe?
Bitcoin allows you to send value to anyone in the world with no identifying information attached. A breath of fresh air.
Thanks for reading,
Kent