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>Have a regime that has monopoly on money
>Create Bitcoin
>Public gains an escape hatch: self-custody, permissionless payments, censorship resistance
>Regime can’t afford to lose monetary control
>Create the problem: poison Bitcoin with spam, shitcoins, ordinals slop, co-opted devs, malware, CSAM, every kind of degenerate garbage stuffed on-chain forever
>Chain becomes bloated, expensive, legally and morally radioactive
>Plebs can’t afford to run nodes, can’t verify, can’t meaningfully self-custody
>People don’t know what Bitcoin is for anymore, what’s legitimate, what’s safe, what’s even allowed
>Sell the solution: “We can fix this problem. It requires OFAC-compliant miners, regulated infrastructure, permissioned custody, and trusted intermediaries to decide which transactions are acceptable. This is the only way to keep Bitcoin usable. This is the only way to keep your bitcoin safe.”
>People are exhausted and just want number go up and payments to work
>They outsource sovereignty to institutions
>Regime regains monetary control, this time wearing a Bitcoin mask
>REGIME WINS AGAIN