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What happened to fixing the money?

Maybe we should stop focusing on the #Bitcoin price.

Fiat trains you to sprint. It addicts you to instant gratification. It breeds CEOs who gut companies for quarterly earnings. Politicians who bribe voters with tomorrow’s debt. Banks that gamble today and collapse tomorrow. The result? A culture of rot. Nothing lasts. Everything is disposable. Bitcoin breaks that cycle. It forces patience. It rewards discipline. It teaches you to build for people you’ll never meet, your children’s children. Fiat builds sandcastles. Bitcoin builds cathedrals.

So the UK just gave up?

Freedom isn’t proven on sunny days. It’s proven when the switch flips. When the grid goes dark. When banks freeze accounts. When platforms silence voices. That’s when you find out what’s real and what’s just marketing. Most “freedom” tools collapse under pressure. Fiat fails. Platforms censor. Gatekeepers obey orders. But Bitcoin still settles. Nostr still relays. The signal still gets through. That’s the difference: they control systems built on permission. We use systems built on math.

Fiat worships quarters. #Bitcoin respects centuries. Fiat breeds short-term thinking: CEOs chasing earnings calls, politicians bribing voters with tomorrow’s debt, banks rolling over risk until it explodes. The whole system is addicted to now. Bitcoin is different. Its rules are fixed for generations. Supply is capped. Issuance is predictable. Halvings tick like clockwork long after today’s politicians and corporations are forgotten. Fiat builds sandcastles. Bitcoin builds cathedrals. That’s the real time preference war.

Do corporate #Bitcoin treasuries make you bullish… or do they just smell like fiat ponzi tactics wrapped in orange? Here’s my take: most of these companies are going to fail. Why? Because they’re not holding Bitcoin from a place of conviction. They’re playing the same old fiat games: issuing debt, overleveraging balance sheets, chasing yield. Same tactics that blew up banks, hedge funds, and “crypto” casinos. Bitcoin doesn’t care about their corporate finance gimmicks. It doesn’t bend to quarterly earnings calls. And it sure as hell doesn’t guarantee survival for companies trying to cover up bad fundamentals with “orange coin go up.” Stacking Bitcoin on a rotten balance sheet doesn’t make you strong. It just delays the collapse. The difference is simple: individuals who stack sats in self-custody will still be here in 20 years. Most corporate treasuries won’t.

#Bitcoin doesn’t need corporate treasuries. Corporations need Bitcoin to stay relevant. Don’t confuse the parasite for the host. Every cycle, suits show up late, buy a few billion in BTC, and act like they invented conviction. They didn’t. They’re just trying to stay alive in a system that’s eating itself. Bitcoin runs with or without them. Blocks keep coming. Hashrate keeps rising. The protocol doesn’t care if a Fortune 500 joins in or not. That’s the beauty: Bitcoin isn’t a stock. It doesn’t need brand endorsements or PR campaigns. It’s neutral, apolitical, unstoppable. Corporations aren’t here to “help Bitcoin.” They’re here because they finally realized Bitcoin is the only lifeboat left. And when the tide goes out, we’ll see who was stacking for freedom… and who was just stacking for quarterly earnings.

U.S government to take an ownership stake in a public listed company. Atlas Shrugged vibes.

#Bitcoin isn't a get rich quick story. It is a stay-rich slowly story.

When your #Bitcoin thesis depends on Michael Saylor’s next issuance, you’re not stacking sats, you’re stacking counterparty risk. Bitcoin was built to remove middlemen. To free you from CEOs, boards, banks, and the rest of the circus. Yet somehow, people cheer when another corporation “buys the dip,” as if their balance sheet is your safety net. That isn’t Bitcoin. That’s dependency dressed up as conviction. Corporate treasuries can dump. ETFs can freeze. Bond markets can implode. None of that changes Bitcoin’s rules, but it can wreck anyone who builds their faith on someone else’s balance sheet. Bitcoin doesn’t care about quarterly earnings or shareholder votes. It just keeps producing blocks, every 10 minutes, no matter what Saylor or BlackRock decide to do. You don’t need a billionaire to validate your conviction. You need keys. You need self-custody. You need to own it yourself. Because stacking sats beats stacking counterparty risk. Every time.

Freedom isn’t voting every 4 years. It’s holding keys no one can take from you. They tell you freedom is a ballot box. But what good is a vote if they can freeze your bank account the next day? What good is “choice” when every option is the same? Real freedom is money outside their reach. Bitcoin in your wallet, keys only you control. And it’s not just money. Look at speech. Platforms ban, censor, shadowban… until you move to nostr, where no one can shut you down. That’s freedom in the digital age: money that can’t be stolen, voices that can’t be silenced. #Bitcoin and #nostr don’t ask permission. They just work. And that’s exactly why they terrify the people who pretend to give you freedom. So the question is: how much of your freedom are you willing to reclaim?

My take on CBDCs. They’ll call it “modern.” They’ll call it “efficient.” But what it really is… is surveillance money. Every purchase you make, every place you spend, every habit you form: tracked, logged, and stored. Not for your benefit. For theirs. They’ll dress it up with buzzwords like “convenience” and “financial inclusion.” But the truth is ugly: it’s about control. Picture this: your paycheck that expires if you don’t spend it fast enough. Your savings frozen because you supported the wrong cause. Your card declining when you try to buy a plane ticket out of town. That’s not money. That’s a leash. Bitcoin doesn’t ask where, when, or why. It doesn’t censor. It doesn’t discriminate. CBDCs are fiat with shackles. Bitcoin is money without masters. Thank god for #Bitcoin.

Your kids didn’t vote for $37 trillion in debt. But they’ll still pay it. That’s $320,000 per taxpayer already on the books. Before a child is born, the state has mortgaged their future. This isn’t “policy.” It’s theft. Politicians buy votes with money that doesn’t exist. Central banks print the difference. Inflation does the dirty work, stealing silently from your savings and your kids’ wages. Every bailout, every stimulus, every war… you don’t pay for it. They do! This is slavery with better branding. Debt is the chain. Inflation is the whip. And the overseers wear suits. #Bitcoin is the first exit; No bailouts. No inflation. No generational theft. If you don’t opt out, your kids won’t just inherit your house. They’ll inherit your chains.

A Central Bank Digital Currency is just fiat with a GPS tracker.

U.S. job numbers are being manipulated to force the FED to cut interest rates. Thank god for #Bitcoin.