BTC Dragon Boat Festival Market: The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.

The Dragon Boat Festival coincides with Children's Day. BTC experienced a continuous pump in April and May for two months, temporarily maintaining around 104k. May opened at 94k, peaked at 112k, bottomed at 93k, and closed at 104.5k. The rise has not increased. This article is the 47th note of the "Ten-Year Agreement" live witness plan. The current Holdings cost is over 50,000 dollars, with an ROI of around 97-98%.

I initially planned to take the kids out to play for two days during the three-day holiday, but both the second child and I proposed two destinations that were vetoed by the eldest child, so we couldn't come to a decision on the first day. In matters of eating, drinking, and having fun, our family adopts an equal democratic veto system. The two adults and two children are like the four permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, where anyone can veto another's proposal with one vote. This means that any executable result must be passed unanimously, and there is no majority forcing the minority to comply, nor the minority forcing the majority to comply. This way, everyone feels respected and satisfied with the plan. Of course, the cost of this is that decision-making efficiency is relatively low. However, adults can compromise on the children's needs by reserving their veto power without exercising it, thus increasing the possibility of reaching a consensus.

Retaining the right to veto but not exercising it, and not retaining the right to veto, fully delegating decision-making to the child, may seem equivalent in effect, but there is actually a significant difference. We hope to provide the child with as many opportunities as possible to think, analyze, propose, and make decisions, as well as opportunities for communication, negotiation, compromise, and transaction practice between the two children, but we must also have the ability to step on the brakes at any time.

The most difficult situation to handle is often when the ideas and opinions of the two kids clash severely, for example, during mealtime, one insists on eating A while the other insists on eating B. At this point, I usually have to act as a mediator, helping them analyze the pros and cons of different options and striving to reach a consensus.

In the context of such an equal and democratic voting mechanism, a way to improve efficiency is to form conventions, consensus, and even culture around some typical scenarios, such as what to eat after a long run, and to fix it as a convention, thus avoiding the need to make decisions anew every time.

Today I went hiking on a small mountain in the suburbs, playing many interesting and challenging activities with my child, such as rock climbing, crawling through pipes uphill, climbing nets, swinging bridges, slides, trampolines, and so on. The activities were very diverse, and my child had a lot of fun. The sky was overcast, the valley was shrouded in misty rain, and the air was as humid as Nanyue. Surrounded by the misty water vapor, it felt like a fairyland. Along the way, we chatted about various topics like chemistry, English, math, and poetry—the charm of poetry lies entirely in imagination.

Normal conversation: I want to eat a McSpicy Chicken Burger with fries and Coke.

Poetry:

I put my heart /

Threw it into the McDonald's store /

I want to eat a McSpicy Chicken Burger with fries and cola.

Chat about essays - An essay is to expand the essence of 5 sentences into 500 words, just like many foods that contain a lot of moisture, such as watermelon, which is 80 to 90 percent water; it's delicious when it's juicy.

The overly dry content is simply tasteless to read.

Ancient people were constrained by technological limitations and had to compress their desire for expression repeatedly in order to be as concise as possible. After all, carving characters on turtle shells and bamboo sticks is not as easy as typing on a keyboard. This leads to a discussion about the "Tao Te Ching."

The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of all things. Therefore, always be without desire in order to observe its wonders. Always have desire in order to observe its limits. These two have the same source but differ in name; both are called profound. Profound and again profound, the gateway to all wonders.

After reciting the first chapter, I said: this first sentence "The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao" has had many different interpretations and understandings since ancient times.

One understanding is like this: the "Dao" in this sentence has two meanings. "Dao" refers to reason, law, or method. The "Dao" in "Ke Dao" means expression, speech, or explanation. "Chang" refers to constant or unchanging. Thus, the meaning of this sentence becomes: the principles that can be expressed in language are not eternal and unchanging principles.

This seems to emphasize the essence of the Dao, the true principle, which can only be understood intuitively and cannot be fully expressed in words. Just like crypto investing, no matter how much you read from KOLs or self-media about investment principles, methodologies, or fascinating anecdotes, they cannot be directly applied as truths. Only through hands-on practice can one gain true understanding; practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. By investigating things to acquire knowledge, achieving investment returns is the only way to truly understand the Dao of investing.

However, the downside of this interpretation is that the character '道' in such a short sentence needs to be explained with two meanings, which does not comply with Occam's Razor (entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity).

There is another interpretation: "Dao" has only one meaning, which is reason, law, or method. The original sentence means that the reason can become a reason, and the law can become a law precisely because they are not unchanging reasons and laws.

The teaching chain prefers this explanation. Because this explanation is more concise and aligns with the principle of "change" in the root of Chinese philosophy, the "I Ching" — the only eternal thing is change; and it also conforms to the modern scientific principle of falsifiability — any scientific proposition must be falsifiable, meaning its correctness can change, rather than being absolutely immutable.

Newton's laws successfully calculated the motion of celestial bodies, seemingly touching the door of God. However, in the practice of approaching the speed of light, Newton's laws were broken, and Einstein's theory of relativity emerged. All laws, all principles, no matter how impressive or correct, are merely relative, not absolute or eternal.

It is precisely because these laws and principles are not eternal and unchanging that they become scientific laws and principles; otherwise, they would become superstitions.

All investment principles, market rules, insights, and methods cannot be universally applicable and unchanging. One should never blindly trust or follow anyone's words.