adamchalmers on Nostr: Bitcoin has a beautiful cyclicality to it. The rhythm of the four-year cycle is ...

Bitcoin has a beautiful cyclicality to it. The rhythm of the four-year cycle is bringing a stability into my life that mirrors the four seasons and the corresponding feelings that accompany them. Cycles bring a predictability to life that gives me a focus, and something to work towards. In this way as much as any other Bitcoin has been a positive influence on my wellbeing.

You can look at the four-year cycle as a mirror of the seasons with each season extrapolated out to roughly one year. My journey began in the Bitcoin Fall of 2021, just as prices were approaching their ATH and greed was peaking. It was this anticipation of a harvest that pulled me into my first purchase as I saw those around me bearing the fruits of their labours. My own ignorance of the Bitcoin cycle also led me to believe that demand and price appreciation would only go up from here and it was with the naivete of one who has never seen a harsh winter that I jumped into the cycle late in the day.

The winter following shortly after was harsh. A plummeting fall in price from such lofty heights was especially hard on those who had not enjoyed the fruits of their labours, and the Bitcoin winter which came in 2022 took many by surprise. In my case due to having not actually been through a Bear market, the fall in the fiat price was welcome news and I began the process of steadily storing away Sats over the year that followed. When the winter became especially grim after the collapse of FTX my conviction simultaneously grew that the sun would shine again and I worked my arse off that year to stack as many sats away in my cold storage locker, knowing a great harvest would be mine someday. It was this exact goal that pulled me through a very difficult year and brought hope when all was bleak in the World.

Spring came with a bright bloom of new hope in 2023. The world was opening again, and Bitcoin had survived another Winter. I was no longer a complete newbie and the value of having something tangible to focus on was becoming clear. Spring in the Bitcoin cycle as with the season is a vibrant time. The appreciation in the value of my holdings accumulated during the winter was becoming obvious and my conviction began to grow. I started absorbing more Bitcoin focused content and summer seemed to loom close. This part of the cycle is uplifting for the soul, and I felt in a way I’d never felt before that there was a predictability to this asset class that I could depend upon. The dollar price became less important other than waiting for pullbacks so I could convert more of my devaluing fiat into as many sats as possible. I began to dream of the freedom that BTC could bring me and my family in the coming summer if I could only double down on my conviction and work harder. I did.

When 2024 rolled around I had changed entirely. Not only had I survived a gruelling Winter, Spring had revitalised and encouraged me, and I was using this passion to learn new skills including running my own node, setting up more advanced cold storage, and considering how I would secure my families harvest into the future. Utilising a multi-signature vault was intriguing me, and the value of my assets continued to rise, be it in a volatile manner. The volatility began to bother me less as I started to see with clarity that all that matters is how much I can put away. This summer coincided with literal summer in my work and gave me the energy needed to put in long days with total conviction that something great was coming. It became clear to me that this cycle was going to be a permanent fixture in my life and that winter would return with all its opportunities. Suddenly what was most important was how I would enjoy the upcoming Bitcoin Summer, where I would be for Fall, and most importantly the following Winter. The cycle had captured me and was now a driving force in my decision making.

Midway through the Summer I felt an intense compulsion to change my life and start fresh. Bitcoin had given me a focus, hope for a better future, and a reason to work hard. It had inspired me to dream bigger well empowering me with the means to break free of another cycle I was perpetually stuck in.

I finally broke free in July this year. With my family I left NZ and set forth with the hard earnt BTC locked in a multi-sig vault as a confident assurance that I had the means to start anew somewhere else. Bitcoin is fuelling my current adventure and allowing me the possibility of planting roots somewhere new, ready to sow a late season crop and reap an even greater harvest in the Fall of 2025.

The Winter will come again and the motivation that accompanies it. The Bitcoin cycle is bringing a structure and purpose to my life that I never had before. I look forward to completing a full Bitcoin cycle and the breadth of experience it brings. It is a beautifully un-predictably predictable thing.

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