SOV STACK =
- Bitcoin is money.
- Circular / p2p economies where BTC actually moves between individuals, businesses, and communities.
- Self-custody.
- Non-kyc.
- Coinjoin. Payjoin. Joinmarket
- FOSS.
- Illegal.
- Personal responsibility.
- Threat modeling.
- Backups.
- Drills.
- Inheritance.
- OPSEC as normal behavior.
- Coin control.
- Lightning topology.
- Local-first data.
- Voluntary, bottom up order.
- Contracts, reputation, dispute resolution that doesn't require state law to enforce. no heroes, no saviors.
- Bitcoin as civilizational exit.
- Bitcoin as the kernel of a parallel civilization.
- Peaceful divergence ≠ integration.
- Systems that operate if exchanges disappear, if KYC intensifies, or 'Bitcoin friendly states' flip hostile.
SYNTH STACK =
- Bitcoin is asset.
- ETFs.
- Corporate treasuries.
- Bitcoin only retirement accounts.
- KYC.
- Broker accounts.
- IRA products.
- Custodians.
- Legal.
- Bitcoin = open an account with company.
- Stablecoins.
- Taproot assets.
- Tokenization.
- Vendor dependance.
- Multi-sig w/a vendor.
- Firmware updates pushed by a company.
- Playing nice with regulators.
- Nation state legal tender.
- Securities law compliance.
- NGO 'policy recommendations'.
- Public company CEO's, ETF sponsors, NGO heads, KYC CEO-maxis.
- 'Responsible adults' in the room.
- 'Leaders of the movement'.
- Bitcoin as system reformer.
- 'Bitcoin will make the state more honest, banks more sound, markets more efficient, NGOs more effective'.
- Ambiguous totalizing narrative.
- "Bitcoin fixes governments, Wall Street, foreign policy, human rights".
- Assuming fiat collapse wont mutate into AI + CBDC's + SWFs + ESG control.
- Thinking politicians will eventually capitulate.
Thinking game theory alone ensures Bitcoin 'wins'.
- Friendly courts and treaties.
- Nation state goodwill.
- Regulated banking access.
- New priesthoods.
- 'Responsible' spokespeople.
- Bitcoin is money.
- Circular / p2p economies where BTC actually moves between individuals, businesses, and communities.
- Self-custody.
- Non-kyc.
- Coinjoin. Payjoin. Joinmarket
- FOSS.
- Illegal.
- Personal responsibility.
- Threat modeling.
- Backups.
- Drills.
- Inheritance.
- OPSEC as normal behavior.
- Coin control.
- Lightning topology.
- Local-first data.
- Voluntary, bottom up order.
- Contracts, reputation, dispute resolution that doesn't require state law to enforce. no heroes, no saviors.
- Bitcoin as civilizational exit.
- Bitcoin as the kernel of a parallel civilization.
- Peaceful divergence ≠ integration.
- Systems that operate if exchanges disappear, if KYC intensifies, or 'Bitcoin friendly states' flip hostile.
SYNTH STACK =
- Bitcoin is asset.
- ETFs.
- Corporate treasuries.
- Bitcoin only retirement accounts.
- KYC.
- Broker accounts.
- IRA products.
- Custodians.
- Legal.
- Bitcoin = open an account with company.
- Stablecoins.
- Taproot assets.
- Tokenization.
- Vendor dependance.
- Multi-sig w/a vendor.
- Firmware updates pushed by a company.
- Playing nice with regulators.
- Nation state legal tender.
- Securities law compliance.
- NGO 'policy recommendations'.
- Public company CEO's, ETF sponsors, NGO heads, KYC CEO-maxis.
- 'Responsible adults' in the room.
- 'Leaders of the movement'.
- Bitcoin as system reformer.
- 'Bitcoin will make the state more honest, banks more sound, markets more efficient, NGOs more effective'.
- Ambiguous totalizing narrative.
- "Bitcoin fixes governments, Wall Street, foreign policy, human rights".
- Assuming fiat collapse wont mutate into AI + CBDC's + SWFs + ESG control.
- Thinking politicians will eventually capitulate.
Thinking game theory alone ensures Bitcoin 'wins'.
- Friendly courts and treaties.
- Nation state goodwill.
- Regulated banking access.
- New priesthoods.
- 'Responsible' spokespeople.