Recent Notes
Some see giving away their data as a simple trade-off: convenience in exchange for privacy.
But surveillance can be far more dangerous than that. When data becomes a tool for identifying and targeting civilians, the cost can be life itself.
Consensus is what makes Bitcoin a system of rules, not a system of opinions.
Fiat didn’t just print money, it printed high time preference. When savings melt every year, people stop building for the ages and start building houses that won’t outlast the mortgage. Craft becomes plastic, cities lose their color, and the world turns the same gray everywhere. The world didn’t get uglier by accident. We inflated the future away.
Fiat maxis love Bitcoin, just not the part where you actually spend it. Lightning threatens the whole number go up, never touch it mentality. Better to HODL forever and call yourself a Bitcoiner.
Broken money creates broken incentives. Broken incentives create broken people, broken families, and broken societies. When money can be printed without limit, patience dies, time preference rises, and the future gets sacrificed for the present.
When enough shitcoin narratives are built on top of Bitcoin, the noise starts drowning out the signal. Capital, attention, and talent get diverted toward speculation while genuine Bitcoin projects struggle to survive. Eventually, the builders who actually strengthen Bitcoin are pushed out by those who simply monetize the narrative.
Protect the signal. Defend Bitcoin.
They told you to trust the banks.
They told you to trust the government.
They told you inflation was transitory.
Bitcoin told you none of that.
Big Bitcoin is here to kill maximalism the same way Big Pharma pushed the Pfizer juice.
Big Bitcoin isn’t here to help quantum. It’s here to recreate the gold system: paper claims, custodians, intermediaries, and controlled access.
The escape remains simple: self-custody your Bitcoin and build circular economies. If your money can’t leave the gatekeepers, you never escaped them.
You can detect counterfeit Bitcoin by running a node. Fiat counterfeits itself at the base layer.
If borrowing stopped, fiat would collapse, bcuz the entire system depends on endless debt to keep the money machine alive.
Fiat turns you into a mindless consumer. Always chasing the next thing, buying things you don’t need, with money you don’t have, just to keep a broken economy alive.
Consume. Work. Spend. Repeat.