*Bitcoin’s advantage is protocol sovereignty and grassroots coordination. The latter wins only if we actually build it. BlackRock thinks it’s building a moat. In reality, it’s setting up the next round of the social-layer war. And like last time, it’s the network with incorruptible rules and stubborn users that wins* View quoted note →

*the game isn’t just about buying coins, it’s about narrative control — pushing Bitcoin into a “safe commodity box” while financializing the layers above it* View quoted note →

*Blackrock is gearing up to tell the world what Bitcoin is and is not. We achieve NOTHING from this project if our money is allowed to remain untethered to Bitcoin as the base layer* View quoted note →

*The attack is to ossify #bitcoin as a pure commodity and store of value* View quoted note →

*history shows it’s always the open network that rewires the empire* View quoted note →

*If someone can shape your attention, they can shape your behavior* View quoted note →

Post-work clarity of thought for the pow crew Cognitive dissonance for the zero sum crew *Fiat minded people tend to perpetuate the zero sum game in all aspects of life… Reason is, they see you getting ahead of them and know that they are on the losing side of the zero sum equation and it makes them uncomfortable.* View quoted note →

👀 *Inelastic systems: Protect the integrity of money, but enslave the debtor. Elastic systems: Free the debtor, but enslave the currency (gradual debasement shared by all). Jubilee principle (biblical): Periodically mandates debt forgiveness without bondage, even in inelastic systems—anticipating the function later achieved by fiat elasticity.* View quoted note →

*Bitcoin… restores that childlike wonder, the awe of seeing the world as if for the first time, while also demanding the discipline to grow into the man I was meant to become.* View quoted note →

*the most pressing danger of fiat money games is that paper bitcoin winds up being rehypothecated*

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@denlillaapan 's latest BM article made Zero Hedge. I just scoured the whole thing and can't find the Stacker News plug: https://www.zerohedge.com/...

*While gold holds its ancient throne, Bitcoin is quietly plotting its revolution* View quoted note →

*living a life full of commitments brings the most joy* View quoted note →

*Your freedom isn’t in a paycheck—it’s in what money can’t touch* View quoted note →

*Scaling used to be the point. Now, small can be the point. AI tools make it cheap to create software for an audience of one — and sometimes, that’s the best possible audience. The real luxury of building with today’s tools isn’t speed, or cost, or even the magic of AI — it’s the freedom to stop. To make something small, useful, and perfectly yours, and not feel obligated to grow it until it collapses under its own weight. In a world obsessed with scale, there’s a quiet satisfaction in leaving good enough alone.* https://derwiki.medium.com/do-things-that-dont-scale-and-then-don-t-scale-9fd2cd7e2156

“When savings stop rotting, life slows into clarity” View quoted note →

*Bitcoin… is a system that lets anyone, anywhere, send money, hold value, and build without permission. It works because people use it. It gains strength through participation. But that promise begins to fade when Bitcoin is reduced to just another speculative asset. One that is hoarded, collateralized, and used mostly to feed fiat outcomes.* View quoted note →

BIS: Given the widespread cross-border use of stablecoins, such safeguards could help to slow the erosion of monetary sovereignty and maintain the effectiveness of monetary policy — They are openly acknowledging that the goal is not to prevent crime, but to keep the fiat scam going.

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AML compliance for cryptoassets [pdf] - Bank of International Settlements \ stacker news

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"We're all capitalists," Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson, said in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box." "We don't want government to intervene and own private enterprise, but this is national security."

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Government's Intel intervention is 'essential' for national security \ stacker news

A government intervention in struggling chipmaker Intel is "essential" for the sake of national security, analyst Gil Luria said Friday, following ...