• Disclaimer:
• Just quickly the basics:
  • What is BaZi?
  • Yin & Yang – The Fundamental Polarity
  • The Five Elements (Wu Xing)
  • The Day Master – Bitcoin’s Core Nature
  • Earth Dominance – Why Bitcoin Is a Settlement Layer
  • Metal – Rules, Value, and Monetary Precision
  • Water – Network, Liquidity, and Information Flow
  • Low Fire – Why Bitcoin Isn’t About Hype
  • The Month Pillar – Bitcoin’s Operating Environment
  • The Year Pillar – Collective & Historical Forces
  • The Hour Pillar – Long-Term Destiny
  • The Animals – Behavior, Not Personality
  • Overall Pattern
• Thank you!

§Disclaimer:

I have no idea about this whole BaZi and chinese calender thing. I just saw a few videos about it and wanted to try it out with Bitcoin as a fun idea!

Also, I used the website “MingLi.info“ and ChatGPT to write this.

Hope it’s not to long…

§Just quickly the basics:

§What is BaZi?

In Chinese metaphysics, BaZi (八字) means “Eight Characters.” These eight characters come from four pillars:

• Year Pillar – ancestry, collective forces, long cycles

• Month Pillar – environment, season, structure, system

• Day Pillar – the core identity (the “Day Master”)

• Hour Pillar – future potential, hidden intention, long-term expression

For Bitcoin, I used the Genesis Block timestamp (3 January 2009) as its birth moment. This treats Bitcoin not as a company or product, but as a born system—a protocol that came into existence at a specific moment in time.

§Yin & Yang – The Fundamental Polarity

Everything in BaZi is based on Yin (阴) and Yang (阳).

• Yang: active, outward, initiating, visible, strong

• Yin: receptive, inward, hidden, subtle, storing

§The Five Elements (Wu Xing)

The Five Elements are not physical elements, but processes of transformation:

• Wood – growth, expansion, code, ideals

• Fire – energy, visibility, hype, attention

• Earth – structure, stability, settlement

• Metal – rules, value, money, law, precision

• Water – information, flow, networks, liquidity

§The Day Master – Bitcoin’s Core Nature

The most important part of any BaZi chart is the Day Pillar, specifically the Day Master.

Bitcoin’s Day Master is Yang Earth (戊).

Yang Earth represents:

• Mountains

• Bedrock

• Immovable land

• Structures that endure time

• Stability through mass, not speed

This alone explains a huge amount about Bitcoin.

Bitcoin does not adapt quickly.
Bitcoin does not respond emotionally.
Bitcoin does not pivot.
Bitcoin does not negotiate.

Yang Earth does not “win” by fighting — it wins by outlasting.

Everything else moves around it.

This is exactly how Bitcoin behaves in markets, politics, and culture. Volatility happens on top of it, not inside it.

§Earth Dominance – Why Bitcoin Is a Settlement Layer

Earth in BaZi is about:

• Foundations

• Storage

• Settlement

• Reliability

Bitcoin’s chart contains strong Earth energy, especially tied to the Day Master.

This aligns perfectly with Bitcoin’s actual use over time:

• From payments → to store of value

• From novelty → to monetary base layer

• From experimentation → to settlement

Earth does not rush.
Earth consolidates.

This is why Bitcoin trends toward being final money, not fast money.

§Metal – Rules, Value, and Monetary Precision

Metal is one of the strongest supporting elements in Bitcoin’s chart.

Metal represents:

• Law

• Rules

• Precision

• Money

• Hard value

Bitcoin is pure Metal in behavior:

• Fixed supply

• Immutable rules

• Cryptographic certainty

• No discretionary policy

Importantly, much of this Metal is Yin Metal.

Yin Metal is:

• Refined

• Stored

• Silent

• Valuable without being flashy

This is vault Metal, not weapon Metal.

This explains why Bitcoin increasingly behaves like:

• Digital gold

• Reserve collateral

• Strategic asset

Not something you wave around — something you hold.

§Water – Network, Liquidity, and Information Flow

Water is also prominent in Bitcoin’s chart, especially through the Rat signs.

Water governs:

• Information

• Communication

• Flow

• Global movement

• Adaptation

This is Bitcoin’s network layer.

Water allows Bitcoin to:

• Flow across borders

• Bypass institutions

• Route around damage

• Survive censorship

Earth without Water is isolated.
Water without Earth is chaotic.

Bitcoin has both:

• Earth = trust

• Water = reach

That combination is extremely rare.

§Low Fire – Why Bitcoin Isn’t About Hype

Fire represents:

• Attention

• Hype

• Visibility

• Emotion

• Speculation

Bitcoin’s intrinsic chart is low in Fire.

This is critical.

It means:

• Bitcoin itself is not emotional

• Hype cycles are external overlays

• Speculation is human behavior, not protocol behavior

Fire comes and goes.
Earth remains.

This is why Bitcoin survives crashes that destroy Fire-heavy projects.

§The Month Pillar – Bitcoin’s Operating Environment

The Month Pillar shows how something functions within its environment.

Here we see Wood supported by Water.

Wood represents:

• Code

• Growth

• Protocols

• Expansion through replication

Bitcoin grows like a plant:

• Open-source

• Permissionless

• Forkable

• Self-replicating through nodes and miners

But Wood depends on Water.

Without the internet (Water), Bitcoin cannot exist.

This shows Bitcoin as a living protocol, not a static invention.

§The Year Pillar – Collective & Historical Forces

The Year Pillar places Bitcoin in a Water-dominated collective context.

This ties Bitcoin to:

• Global crises

• Systemic liquidity issues

• Information age dynamics

• Networked societies

Bitcoin was born into a collapsing trust environment — and its chart reflects that it is designed for such conditions.

Not to fix the system emotionally.
But to replace parts of it structurally.

§The Hour Pillar – Long-Term Destiny

The Hour Pillar points to where Bitcoin matures over decades.

Here we again see Metal.

This reinforces the idea that Bitcoin’s final role is:

• Monetary anchor

• Collateral layer

• Neutral base money

• Reference point for value

Not flashy.
Not political.
Not expressive.

Just there.

§The Animals – Behavior, Not Personality

Bitcoin’s chart includes:

• Rat (Water) – intelligence, survival, networks

• Monkey (Metal) – technology, clever design

• Rooster (Metal) – precision, timing, exactness

These are strategic animals.

No Dragon (imperial power).
No Tiger (aggression).
No Horse (freedom mania).

Bitcoin does not dominate.
Bitcoin persists.

§Overall Pattern

Bitcoin’s BaZi chart describes something that is:

• Heavy

• Grounded

• Rule-based

• Non-emotional

• Long-term oriented

• Extremely hard to destroy

It does not seek approval.
It does not seek attention.
It does not need belief.

In BaZi terms, Bitcoin is not lucky.

It is well-rooted.

And in Chinese metaphysics, well-rooted things don’t disappear —
they slowly become part of the landscape.

§Thank you!

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