Before you scoff at Bitcoin, make sure you’re smarter than these guys: • Henry Ford wanted an energy-backed currency to decentralize wealth and weaken the banking elites. • Nikola Tesla believed energy was the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe. • Buckminster Fuller pushed for money measured in kilowatt-hours to drive sustainable progress. • Friedrich Hayek argued for private, commodity-backed currencies long before crypto existed. • Donald Trump was orange before it was cool.

What if China has been the silent Bitcoin bull all along? What if, for the past decade, they've done everything possible to stack quietly—banning miners, attacking exchanges, pushing anti-Bitcoin narratives—just to throw off the scent? What if the real plan is to buy $2 trillion worth of Bitcoin overnight, add it to reserves, and flip the switch—denominating all trade in Bitcoin? The U.S. wouldn’t even notice until Bitcoin ripped past $1 million per coin. By then, it’s too late. The dollar is finished. China is 100 years ahead. They still hold $775 billion in U.S. Treasuries. If they dumped those into a market already strained—like right now, when even the Treasury needs to find $61 billion in buyers in the next two days—it would be chaos. Yields would spike. Liquidity would vanish. And the U.S. would be forced to step in with the printer to absorb it. That would kill the credibility of Treasuries overnight—devaluing them for every other nation holding them. If China wants to make a move, it’s not war or rhetoric. It’s dumping USTs and forcing the U.S. to buy its own debt with printed money—devaluing the dollar as a reserve asset and displacing Treasuries as the global collateral base. Luke Gromen has been warning about this for years. The dollar might survive. USTs might not. Because countries don’t hold Treasuries out of goodwill. They hold them to access the dollar system, to settle trade, and because they’re supposed to be the most liquid, most credible, safest debt instrument in the world. But that all hinges on U.S. creditworthiness. And if China can break that illusion—just once—by dumping the one asset that holds the whole system together? They win.

GM It’s hard to explain what it feels like when NOSTR actually clicks. There's a moment when it stops being just Bitcoin virtue signaling and becomes something real. You notice your need for social media fading. Because this actually feels like a tool. And more than that, a solution. There’s a kind of peace that comes from using something open source. It reminds me of when we believed the U.S. were the good guys. Like checking in on a positive news story in the paper fifty years ago. Open source protocols are the good guys now. And here’s the surprise: Bitcoin works. It works exactly how we hoped it would. Using Bitcoin on NOSTR feels like a nonlinear return on your time—like you’re actually moving toward a real solution to most of what’s broken in the world. NOSTR is also where the most honest questions get asked. And where a calm, focused group of people work through them—because they have real skin in the game. You don’t need to rage-consume NOSTR. You feel better stepping away. Because what’s happening here actually makes you want to think more clearly.

One of the most fitting definitions of Bitcoin is “unstoppable.” “Unstoppable” encapsulates both game theory and a practical element of action. Much like a hurricane is understood to be unstoppable—prompting the pragmatic decision to get out of its way—Bitcoin forces individuals to confront a physical decision. You must make a choice about Bitcoin. However, unlike a hurricane, attempting to run from it will only make things worse.

Founders are a rare breed. They’re the ones who break through the fear of being judged and actually build something. In the Bitcoin circular economy, there’s an arbitrage opportunity, not just in the products, but in recognizing and supporting the people who have the guts to try. Most startups don’t work. And often, it’s not because the idea was bad—but because no one was honest with the founder about product-market fit. Here’s the truth: If you think you have product-market fit, you don’t. You know when you have it. Product-market fit feels like being yanked forward by both nostrils. Your servers break. Your inbox explodes. Customers are mad—not because they hate it, but because they want more. You can’t think about anything else because the demand is overwhelming. Some describe it like wearing a hot dog suit in a wolf pack. Everyone wants what you have. That should be the bar for products in the Bitcoin economy. You can’t fake product-market fit. Not as a founder, and not as a customer. As a founder, you either solve a real problem better than anything else, or you create an experience that changes people’s lives. As a customer, you either feel it—or you don’t. That’s what’s WorthTheSats. The opportunity we have is twofold: 1. Be honest with founders. Help them learn whether they’ve hit product-market fit or not—fast. 2. Support the ones who keep building. Even if the first thing doesn’t work, we should recognize the founder mindset. That savage energy is rare. You can teach product testing. You can’t teach the drive to build. So try products. Give honest feedback. Help founders see where to pivot or double down. That’s how we build the Bitcoin economy—by honoring time, talent, and truth.

Let's turn the world orange. Soak Quest is here to introduce The Best Businesses to their new Best Customers: Bitcoiners First episode out in a week 👀 NOSTR EXCLUSIVE.

Businesses won't adopt Bitcoin until they see that act increasing their sales. It's up to Bitcoiners to be selective where they spend money to change the world. We're the Intransigent minority now.

Sunday Reading: "If you see a fraud and don't call out a fraud, you are a bigger fraud." Wise words from Nassim Taleb. Ironically, Bitcoin has completely proven Taleb wrong—and yet his refusal to admit that, or even re-engage with the topic, is the exact opposite of what he championed in Antifragile. Some might call the refusal to update one’s beliefs after new data… fraudulent. That said, Taleb still offers deep wisdom in other domains. One of his best ideas is that people are fragile, but information is not—a critical frame when separating powerful insights from flawed messengers. Many Bitcoiners are Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness, Skin in the Game, and Black Swan disciples. They know how to extract value from the work even when the author falters. One of Taleb’s most valuable essays, "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority," is a cornerstone for understanding how Bitcoin and NOSTR win. We’ll dive deeper into that claim soon. But for now, as Taleb might say: Unus sed leo — only one, but a lion. Bitcoin and NOSTR don’t need mass adoption. They just need their most committed users to be the most intolerant. That’s how they win.