*Gold's run is a symptom of a dying system. Bitcoin is the cure* View quoted note →

*Nations stacking gold is the last breath of fiat trying to stay alive* View quoted note →

*when money holds its value, parents can plan with confidence* View quoted note →

*Your commitment level determines your threat profile. If you can be compromised, you will be compromised.* View quoted note →

*The adversary doesn’t need to defeat you. They just need to price you. Find the number where you’ll compromise. The threat where you’ll go quiet. The pressure point where principle becomes negotiable.* View quoted note →

*…the fiat operator doesn’t see the system itself as the problem. They see individual data points. Individual market movements. They’re orienting toward symptoms while ignoring the disease.* View quoted note →

*the bigger question is, would you be willing to sacrifice your own wealth for the greater good? Because I can only assume bitcoin would lose a tremendous amount of its value if governments became fiscally responsible* View quoted note →

*On Nostr, Bitcoin exhibits its most fundamental property: programmable liquidity in motion. It doesn’t merely exist on a balance sheet. It transmits information, signals preference, and facilitates exchange without intermediation* View quoted note →

On nostr, *You’re not discussing freedom. You’re forging it. Every note. Every relay. Every zap. Every follow. Every repost.* View quoted note →

*Vince Lanci delivered a sobering assessment of Bitcoin's current trajectory in our latest conversation. Drawing from his decades of experience watching similar dynamics play out in precious metals markets, Vince argued that the US government is attempting to co-opt Bitcoin through the ETF structure. He explained that by creating spot Bitcoin ETFs, approximately 70% of Bitcoin's liquidity shifted from international markets into US-controlled venues. This wasn't accidental—it's the same playbook used with gold futures in 1974. The government doesn't need to own Bitcoin to control it; controlling the liquidity pool is sufficient. Through margin requirements, settlement rules, and regulatory mechanisms, the US now dominates Bitcoin's price discovery. Vince emphasized that this control doesn't mean Bitcoin will fail, but rather that its path forward has fundamentally changed. The US liquidity network is so powerful that even without malicious intent, it naturally becomes the dominant force in any market it touches. For Bitcoin, this means the derivative price now matters more than spot, enabling the same rehypothecation schemes that suppressed gold for thirty years.* TFTC

*It is a move that does sort of play in our favor with helping prevent China from moving into the space that would be open if we did nothing. Argentina does have a wide variety of natural resources that would make investments into it not the worlds worst idea*

Stacker News

Why America just bailed out Argentina with a $20 billion lifeline \ stacker news ~econ

Not sure if this came up here on SN, but I find this move kinda weird and kinda goes against the whole saving-money thing Trump’s trying to push....

*We're all going to work until we die OR build something that works while we sleep* View quoted note →

*The economy isn’t in crisis. It’s just that we’re not at the center of it. It’s engineered to transfer wealth and power upward. The Cantillon Effect isn’t a side effect = it’s the engine of the system* View quoted note →

*From her favorite poem: “To live content with small means; To seek elegance rather than luxury, And refinement rather than fashion; To be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich.” Things Not to Do* View quoted note →

*When security becomes a religion, heresy will be defending your anonymity* View quoted note →

*Fear breeds obedience, and convenience dresses up surveillance* View quoted note →

*when people can’t be spied on, they can’t be easily stolen from* View quoted note →

*grateful for China as a forcing function for the US to get its shit together*

Stacker News

Developing nations rack up $3.9 bln in net debt payments to China a year \ stacker news ~econ

So, as per the Keynesian writers, the solution to excess Chinese debt is...more debt to China [18 comments]

*“ETFs don’t change anything”. They change who holds the coins, how liquidity is mediated, what is easy to regulate, and how volatility expresses.* View quoted note →