"Every authoritarian regime in history started by promising to protect people from "dangerous" speech. The power to censor is the power to control. Once speech is restricted, all other freedoms inevitably fall."

Buying a house is more equivalent to buying a car than it is to investing.

"If I wanted to destroy bitcoin I would just fund infinite developers who are very talented and tell them to make it better." - Michael Saylor on op_return

The history of money is a story of centralization. The future of money is a story of decentralization. Don’t be on the wrong side of history.

“There's this background level of structural theft of everybody's purchasing power, which is really just everybody's time and energy is being siphoned away by the money printer.” — The Bitcoin Podcast-

Bitcoin is not just an investment. It’s our peaceful revolution, our moral imperative.

THE TRIFFIN DILEMMA A nation whose currency serves as the global reserve must run persistent deficits, creating tension between domestic stability and global demand.

By Sonny Thang, Vietnam born: America has repressed its shadow for too long. The wars, the coups, the debt, the militarism, the tax cuts for the rich, the collapsing infrastructure, the propaganda dressed as patriotism. All of it denied. All of it externalized. So now it projects. It imagines enemies in every mirror. China. Russia. North Korea. Iran. Venezuela. Europe. Anyone but itself. And tariffs are just the latest projection. A child’s tantrum with adult consequences. You see, an empire doesn’t go mad all at once. It rots slowly. One lie at a time. One war at a time. One delusion at a time. And eventually, the lies become policy, the delusions become doctrine, and the madness becomes normalized. Institutionalized. Legislated. That’s where we are now. A trillion-dollar military. Eight hundred bases. Permanent war. And now tariffs to punish the world for not collapsing alongside America’s mythology. Trump didn’t create this. He channeled it. He gave the madness a voice. But the madness was already there—buried beneath layers of flag-waving and free-market fantasies. He just made it louder. Cruder. More honest. And what’s most disturbing is that no one truly pushes back. Not the press. Not the economists. Not Congress. Not the so-called opposition. Because deep down, they all serve the same illusion: That America is still "exceptional." Still entitled to rule. Still innocent. Still above the consequences of its own behavior. But the world has changed. The myth is cracking. The empire is naked. And tariffs—these absurd, self-harming, inflation-driving, ally-alienating tariffs—are just the scream of a wounded giant who can no longer hide the limp. This isn’t about trade. It’s about identity. It’s about a nation that cannot admit its own economic model—war, debt, consumption, greed—is unsustainable. It's about a superpower having a psychotic break on the global stage, screaming at its reflection while everyone watches in silence. But not all of us are silent. Some of us have lived on the receiving end of this madness. Colonized. Bombed. Embargoed. Sanctioned. Some of us remember when the U.S. called us "the threat"—just before it rained hell on our homes. We learned then what America is only learning now: If you never face your shadow, your shadow will rule you. It will distort your judgment. It will destroy your allies. And eventually, it will consume you. Tariffs won’t save America. Nothing will—until it looks in the mirror and stops seeing monsters everywhere but in itself. But empires don’t heal. They collapse. And sometimes collapse is the first honest thing they do.

Abundance money creates scarce assets, and scarce money creates abundance

Bitcoin is not volatile. It’s perceptually volatile because we price it in USD or in fiat.

When the majority of the world’s freedom money is held by a select few, then it won’t be very free

The human race is fixed. Not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from losing.

“When the people are afraid of their government, there is tyranny. When the government is afraid of the people, there is liberty.”

Fix The Money, Fix The World. That phrase does have a kernel of truth to it, but the reality is the money isn’t fixed yet. A finite supply cap is not the only problem with money. There is the ability for your wealth to be seized, surveiled, controlled. To fix those problems, Bitcoin actually has to scale. We need the network to be accessible to enough people that it prevents coins from accumulating in a handful of massive custodians that are trivially capturable by regulation. Without that, your money will be seizable. It will be surveillable. None of those problems will be fixed. —Shinobi

Credit enables us to build the present at the expense of the future. It's founded on the assumption that our future resource are sure to be far more abundant than our present resource. A host of new and wonderful opportunities open up if we can build things in the present using future income.

How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? you give them cheap loans

Banking evolved into a business that generates returns without risks to bankers  and simultaneously create risks without returns for everyone else.

Bitcoin is a system built entirely on cumbersome and expensive verification so it can eliminate  the need for any trust or accountability between all parties; it is 100% verification and 0% trust.

Academia is where students pay ever -more-exorbitant fees  to enter universities only to be taught by professors who spend very little time and effort on the teaching and mentoring of students, focusing most their time on publishing unreadable research to get government grants and climb the corporate academic ladder.(

This  generation has to work to pay off the growing interest on its debt, working harder to find entitlement programs they will barely get to enjoy while paying higher taxes and barely being able to save for their old age.