Bear Market Diary 2023: Bekka Interview
By @piratebeachbum - Analyzing The Bitcoin Bear Market Series - Volume 21
Name: Bekka
Country: Alberta, Chinada
How do people know you?
I *was* the simp in Saylor’s replies, but I am a reformed simp now. Strictly simping for bitcoin only.
But I’m also known for memes, making sandwiches great again, being a WEF-Disrespector, and having BDSM sessions on Meme Factory {that doesn’t exist} … (Bekka’s Delicious Sammie Menu) guys com’on. I’ve been accused of simp farming, engagement tweeting and thoting. All baseless accusations. I am the founder of BT Weekly {doesn’t exist gossip magazine}; I’m also a natural ginger, which automatically makes me a natural bitcoiner. I don’t make the rules. No Hue.
How long have you been into Bitcoin?
Class of 2018 BUT! bitcoin has been inside of me since the day I was born. I was born to be a bitcoiner.
How many Bitcoin market cycles have you been through?
I’ve been through all of the bitcoin cycles; I just wasn’t aware of it. But for real, I have been through one full 4-year bitcoin cycle. Alternatively, I’ve been present for 1 bitcoin halving. Next halving will be celebrated in El Saly with the Meme Factory hosting the Halfing Party (shameless plug, not sorry).
What are you optimistic about in this space despite the current state of the market?
I am optimistic about the current market conditions because I am literally stashing away years’ worth of retirement in sats for pennies on the dollar. Picking up cheap utxoes, bishes. I’m optimistic about being selfish and stacking as many sats as I can. If you’re not bullish now, are you even a bitcoiner?
Other things I am super optimistic about are clown world continuing to be ridiculous. Everyday it’s a new headline that is so absurd and therefore must be ridiculed by memes. Clown World supplies endless meme content. What’s that saying from that daily bitcoin news show that shall not be named but is sponsored by a duck or something… if tweets are the bullets, then memes are the artillery. And this is something I believe. I believe memes play an important part of the financial warfare I find myself in. The bitcoin toxic maxi cult members are battling against fiat, in the war for the separation of state and money and if making blackface Trudeau memes mean I’m helping, then I will continue to do so.
I’m optimistic on the “votes”, “policies”, “regulations”, “sanction” and “targets” of clown world as it lend to many great memeing opportunities, like recently the 15-mintue WEF ghettos. The Davos crew is going hard on their agenda in Chinada and in EU, along with the recent “yes vote” on banning new ICE cars in the “union” after 2035.
You will eat ze bugz, you will stay in ze district, and you will be enslaved. And for this I am optimistic, because making memes helps expose these cantillionaries, grifters, scammers and criminals for what they are, parasites here to steal your lifeforce.
What tips do you have to those who are new to this or who might be upside down?
Tips for the newest members of the Toxic Maxi Cult is to buckle up because it’s going to get bumpy, wild and crazy before the bitcoin ride smooths out and we are sailing into a post-hyperbitcoinization world. Second, don’t listen to me for advice. I just make sandwiches; I do not provide financial advice. Just save what you can, buy sats, sweep sats into a wallet and be happy. If you’re a woman reading this and looking for a suitable man, go learn how to make sandwiches, go to culinary school (I wish I would have done this instead of bUsInEsS AdMiNiStRaTiOn, but it’s ok I landed a good man anyways). Wash your face at night, use a mixture of rosewater and witch hazel as toner and stay moisturized.
My tips for bitcointwitter are, move to #NoStR
Biggest regret during the last bull market?
Not simping harder for Saylor…. Lol jk don’t ban me.
What have you learned so far in this bear market?
But are we still in a bear market? Because it seems like the sentiment has changed on bitcointwitter, like Dr. Bear is now Dr. Bull (how LibsofTicTok of him) and since the Prophecy on Dec 23rd, bitcoin is up like 50%. But Yellow’s Don’t Stop Believing Spaces are still on, meaning that bitcoin hasn’t hit 100k yet.
Remember all that “100k on conference day”? Lol. Where did all the 100k hopium go? It completely dried up, like Yellow’s mom. jk, please don’t report me to Trudeau.
We are all LARPers online, in one way or another; this is what I have learned so far.
What is the biggest fail you have seen during the last bull cycle?
Outside of the Great FTX Collapse and shitcoin rugpulls, for me, the biggest failure last cycle was Nelson BC, banning bitcoin mining in March 2021. It was just a small story, and didn't garner much attention, but I found it hilarious on a few fronts. I moved to Nelson BC after high school and lived there for several years so I know the town, the culture, the history, the people, and I just couldn’t stop laughing. This so-called hippy town, notorious for weed, drafter dodgers in the 60s/70s and stoner culture, bans bitcoin mining... HFSP you dumb LARPing hippies. A town where for decades it was fine for residents to use electricity to grow cannabis in homes – at one point every second home was a grow op, allegedly – but using that same electricity to mine freedom money is banned. Ok. Makes sense. GFY
Read more on google, I’m not a journalist. But essentially the Nelson city council banned: data centres, bitcoin mining, and other industrial scale computing. More recent the entire province of BC (aka Being Communist) hasn’t gotten any friendlier towards bitcoin mining. As of Dec 2022, the province has halted on electrical connections for “cryptomining” for 18 months. (Manitoba imposed similar governmental regulatory barriers).
FYI, 60% OF CANADA’S ELECTRICITY IS DERIVED FROM HYDROELECTRIC DAMS. The government literally ruins everything.
What do you think about all the influencers promoting companies and products that have imploded?
I think those simpfluencers are so fiat but it does make for some great meme materials. This is where the saying, DYOR - do your own research - comes in handy. Always ask, what are the incentives for these simpfluencers shilling said product or service?
Like if I start shilling Subway promo codes it’s only because they offered me a shit ton in fiat.
Why do you think people still listen and support these people?
People will still listen to the likes of Pomp, Nic Carter and Dan Held because people like pain, are greedy and/or stupid. It’s that simple. Just imagine giving your money to a person that had anything to do with FTX or shilled Blockfi... Completely rekt. This is why I bake bread in the kitchen and make sandwiches. It’s simple, not scammy.
What do you think helped trigger the current bear market?
Yellow starting the Don’t Stop Believing Spaces is what triggered the bear market in November 2021. *Change my mind* We have been in a bear market for 460 days.
Who was most exposed during this last market meltdown?
Sir, this is Wendy’s.
But if I must answer I will say, Plan B’s Stock to Flow Model and his revised S2FX2 model.
What are your thoughts on Bitcoin Maximalism?
It is a cult, and I am a proud cult member. Being a member of the Toxic Maxi Cult is one of the most rewarding experiences any human can have. Yes, it is better than sex because with bitcoin, you’re fucking the state and when you fuck the state, that’s hot.
When you come into the toxic maxi cult, you’re immediately battered with toxic love from fellow cult members. It’s like a childhood security blanket. When you are graciously accepted into the cult and the toxic maxi blanket is around you, nothing can happen to you; until you want to inscribe jpegs on the blockchain and then you are out of the club. Your star will not continue to rise.
Like any good cult, I am a recruiter for the Toxic Maxi Cult and I recruit new members with sandwiches, since the quota for thirstygympostingthots was full, I opted for the kitchen instead. It’s the only cult that has delicious sammies and freedom money.
Why do you think there is an emerging narrative to demonize Bitcoin Maximalists?
Why? Because we are right and somewhat unapologetically! That’s why. We are loud. We fight. We yell. We meme. We troll. We get muted, blocked, reported, and suspended. (Nostr fixes this, supposedly.) They hate us cuz they ain’t us.
What kind of damage do you think the latest price drop has done to buyer sentiment?
For a toxic maxi buyer, the current market fiat price of bitcoin is great! If you’re not happy stacking cheap sats then you’re doing it wrong and please sell your corn to me.
What is it going to take to turn this around?
Many, many more Don’t Stop Believing Spaces. Please send red bulls to Yellow. He is the only hero we cannot slay, it is written in the Prophecy. Everyjuan else, watch out, present company included.
What are your tips for HODLing Bitcoin through this cold bear market winter?
If you are lucky enough to get into bitcoin during a bear market, then you are laughing because it is much easier to hodl. The downturns and the upturns are all tests of your commitment to this protocol and the longer you hodl, the stronger your diamond hands are. The hodler that hodls the longest wins and Satoshi will send you a trophy.
How do you feel about alt-coins and NFT’s and stable coins right about now?
1 scammer = 1 scammer.
There is no second best.
No keys, No coins.
And wft is a stablecoin anyways? A token backed by fiat currency… Wow, great sounds like a scam to me.
What do you think about the whole collapse of FTX and Blockfi?
As more of the shitcoin casinos are exposed as the MLM scam that they truly are, the better. As those victims can turn into new recruits for the Toxic Bitcoin Maxi Cult. These shitcoin casinos are just another recruiting arm for bitcoin and they don’t even know it. All roads will eventually lead to bitcoin.
What is the best way to accumulate Bitcoin during a down market?
Get sponsored by Swan…
… or go earn sats by working in the space, or sell stuff for bitcoin, or sell your skillset for bitcoin, or makes sandwiches and memes for sats. There is another more traditional way you can accumulate bitcoin and that’s hustle for fiat and buy bitcoin while you still can.
How bullish are you on Bitcoin despite this recent pullback?
Well, I’m a Taurus plus a redhead so I’m naturally super bullish but enough about me. Bitcoin is a different journey for everyone and that makes me bullish. I love hearing stories from plebs all over the world about how they are using bitcoin, how they view bitcoin, how bitcoin has changed their lives and the communities around them.
I’m bullish on grassroot bitcoiners and plebs getting together and building the peer-2-peer economy we all larp so much about on twitter and now on Nostr. I want to see more plebs out there transacting and building that circular p2p economy. I’m starting to change my views a little bit when it comes to the concept of HODL bitcoin only. While sitting on the sidelines hodling your corn in cold storage is amazing and feels soooo good BUT I am going to encourage plebs to consider the “Spend & Replace” approach to bitcoin as well as HODLing. Because it comes down to the individual to opt into this new epoch of humanity. It’s better to be apart of helping to lay the foundation down, even if it is a small pebble, then just standing on the sidelines and waiting for someone else to do it. Let’s not become complacent like the past did with the fiat system.
Bitcoin is many things to all of us, but most importantly bitcoin is an opt into a better life by taking responsibility back to yourself from the fiat matrix system. It is rules without rulers. It is a tool that conserves and holds your economic energy, your life force as Saylor calls it. Bitcoin makes me bullish because it allows plebs to save and build for the future. It might not seem like it when you first hear about bitcoin but once you start going down the rabbit hole, it doesn’t stop. Or for me, it hasn’t stopped. I am still learning because I know, I know nothing.
Any tips you want to give to people new to Bitcoin?
Yes! Once again welcome to the Toxic Bitcoin Maxi Cult, Rule number one, tell everyone you are a member of the Toxic Bitcoin Maxi cult. Second, if they laugh at you just tell them to have fun staying poor. Third, your entire wardrobe must be orange or bitcoin apparel. I don’t make the rules, and this isn’t financial advice.
Tip 1: Stack – Bitcoin is a savings plan but remember don’t keep your bitcoin on an exchange because that isn’t real bitcoin. Sweep your sats onto a wallet and back that wallet up! I am not finding it difficult to manage my private keys because I lost all my coins in a boating accident. But if a sandwich maker can figure it out, you can too!
Tip 2: Fight – the 1st toxic maxi cult member to get blocked by Christine Lagarde wins.
Tip 3: Build – take this any way you want.
· Build a better saving with bitcoin.
· Build a better you by making low time preference decisions.
· Build a better community by going/starting a meetup.
· Build a better peer-2-peer economy by supporting business and plebs that accept bitcoin
· Build better relationships with yourself, your family, your community, and like minded individuals.
· Build a better skillset, it doesn’t need to be bitcoin related either! Learn to code (lol), learn to grow a garden, make sandwiches, raise chickens, mix concrete, milk a cow, play chess, or play sudoku, learn how to fix a diesel engine, figure out what plants are edible in your region; the options are almost limitless on what you can build on.
Bonus Tip! Remember everyjuan is a LARPer in one way or another on the internet. I don’t even like sandwiches, I prefer soup.
Any last words of wisdom?
Stack sats and watch the fiat legacy world collapse… and fuck you, Greg.
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