Hello Reader,

If you’ve been following this newsletter, you already know my core thesis:

• Our monetary system is broken.
• Bitcoin is one of the few tools that can protect and empower regular people.
• Most “pain” in a crisis comes not from the event itself, but from being unprepared and overexposed.

This week’s Video of the Week fits perfectly into that frame.

🎥 Video of the Week: The 2026 Reset

In this clip, Elon lays out a simple but uncomfortable idea:

He argues that we’re likely heading into what he calls a “2026 reset”—not the end of the world, but a brutal clean-up of all the debt, bad bets, and fake valuations that built up in the “everything bubble” (stocks, real estate, crypto, etc.).

What matters is who you are in that moment:

• Reactive: panicking, overleveraged, glued to headlines, selling good assets at the worst time.
• Strategic: calm, liquid, prepared, buying quality at 50–70% off while everyone else is frozen.

He walks through:

• Why late-cycle euphoria (“this time is different”) always precedes the crash.
• Why cash and low debt are power in a downturn.
• How to build a “shopping list” of assets you understand before chaos hits.
• How to use a disciplined buying strategy as prices fall instead of trying to “call the bottom.”
• Why your mindset and information diet matter more than any single investment pick.

​👉 [Watch the video here]

Why this matters to you (as a dentist & Bitcoiner)

Dentistry is a capital-intensive, people-intensive business that lives downstream from the broader economy:

• Patients feel poorer → they delay treatment.
• Banks tighten credit → it gets harder (and more expensive) to borrow.
• Inflation persists → your supplies, lab costs, and wages go up faster than insurance reimbursements.

At the same time, resets create incredible opportunity for those who:

• Are not drowning in debt.
• Have dry powder (cash + sats).
• Know exactly what they want to buy when assets go on “clearance.”

Bitcoin fits into this in two ways:

1. As a long-term, hard-money savings technology outside the system that keeps blowing up.
2. As an offense tool during the reset: stacking sats while risk assets are mispriced and everyone’s panicking.

The goal is not to predict the exact month or day the wheels come off.
The goal is to be the calm one with a plan when they do.

🛠 How to Prepare for the 2026 Reset (Without Losing Your Mind)

Here’s a simple, dentist-friendly playbook you can start now, before emotions run hot.

1. Decide who you want to be before the chaos

In the video, he repeats a core idea:

That starts as a decision:

• “In the next crisis, I’m going to be the calm buyer of quality, not the panicked seller of my best assets.”

Write that down. Tell your spouse. This is your north star.

2. Reduce fragility: kill bad debt & build a buffer

Crashes punish leverage and sloppiness more than anything else.

Over the next 12–24 months, focus on:

• Paying off high-interest consumer debt (credit cards, car loans, lifestyle creep).
• Building a basic emergency fund in boring, liquid cash (3–6 months of essential expenses).
• Avoiding new, unnecessary leverage: margin trading, speculative loans, “0% interest” toys that aren’t truly free.

Like he says in the video: you can’t go to Mars with extra mass.
Same with your balance sheet.

3. Build your “dry powder” buckets: cash + Bitcoin

In a reset, liquidity is opportunity.

Set up two simple accumulation buckets:

1. Cash bucket
   • For emergencies + future bargains in your practice, real estate, or businesses you understand.
2. Bitcoin bucket
   • A consistent DCA plan (weekly or monthly), regardless of short-term price.
   • This is your long-term, hard-money savings — the thing you don’t dump just because CNBC is screaming.

The key is habit over heroics: small, consistent buys beat emotional, one-off “all in” moves.

4. Make your “Shopping List” before the storm

In the video, he emphasizes knowing your targets while things are calm.

Take 30–60 minutes and literally write down:

• The assets you understand and believe in for the next decade, not the next quarter.
• Example buckets:
  • Sound money: Bitcoin.
  • Your own productive assets: your dental practice, tech upgrades, systems that actually increase cash flow.
  • Real estate you truly understand: not hype Airbnb flips, but quality locations with real demand.
  • Strategic / real-world assets: energy, food, productive land, etc. if that’s in your circle of competence.

Then ask:

• “At what prices would these become no-brainer, ‘I’d regret not buying’ levels for me?”

You don’t need to be precise. You just need a plan that’s thought through ahead of time.

5. Systematize how you’ll buy when prices fall

You will not “feel” like buying when the time comes.

That’s why he suggests a more intelligent version of dollar-cost averaging:

• Down 20% from today? Buy some.
• Down 40%? Buy more.
• Down 60–70%? That’s when generational wealth is quietly built.

You can apply this tiered approach to:

• Bitcoin
• Broad market indexes
• Individual assets you deeply understand

The goal isn’t to nail the bottom. The goal is to be active while everyone else is paralyzed.

6. Engineer your information environment

When things get wild, most people don’t lose because of math — they lose because of fear.

He calls this out directly: panic spreads via friends, family, news, and social media.

So before we get there:

• Decide which 3–5 signal sources you’ll follow (long-term thinkers, not doom merchants or hype machines).
• Decide which channels you’ll ignore when volatility spikes (most mainstream “breaking news,” most social feeds).
• Consider a “news diet” during the worst of it:
  • 1x daily check-in → then back to data, work, relationships, health.

Your patients don’t make good decisions in a dental emergency when they’re terrified.
Neither do we during a financial emergency.

7. Align your household & practice team

A plan only works if the people around you don’t unknowingly sabotage it.

• Talk with your spouse / partner about your reset strategy:
  • How much you’re committing to debt reduction.
  • How you’ll build cash + bitcoin.
  • What “not panicking” looks like when headlines get loud.
• For your practice, think through:
  • How much cash buffer you want in the business.
  • What expansions/upgrades you won’t do unless they clearly improve resilience or cash flow.
  • How you’ll communicate calmly with your team if things get bumpy.

The goal is not perfection. The goal is to avoid being forced into desperation decisions at the worst possible time.

Bringing it back to Bitcoin

If the “2026 reset” plays out anything like past resets:

• Weak, overleveraged structures will break.
• Trust in fiat and institutions will take another hit.
• People will go searching (again) for something that can’t be printed, diluted, or censored.

That’s where Bitcoin’s design — fixed supply, decentralized, globally accessible — really shines.

But owning Bitcoin in that world is very different from being forced to sell it in a panic because you’re overextended elsewhere.

That’s why the order matters:

1. Stabilize (debt & emergency fund)
2. Accumulate (cash + sats)
3. Prepare (shopping list & rules)
4. Execute (calmly, when everyone else is terrified)

If you take nothing else from this week’s newsletter and the video, take this:

I’ll use upcoming newsletters to go deeper on some of these pieces:

• Practical ways for dentists to build “dry powder” without wrecking their lifestyle.
• How to think about Bitcoin vs. your practice vs. other assets.
• Simple, non-overwhelming steps to get your first sats off exchanges and into self-custody.

In the meantime, watch the video, sit with it, and then ask yourself:

Talk soon,
​Mark​
​The Bitcoin Dental Network

P.S. If you’ve got questions about how this applies to your specific situation (practice sale, retirement timeline, kids, etc.), hit reply and send them. I won’t give you individualized financial advice, but I will use your questions to shape future newsletters and resources.