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Adam O’Brien
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Inspiring the next generation to reclaim freedom Enable independence '@bitcoinwell' Awaken sovereign individual '@getbasedtv' ⁣ Love Jesus, save in bitcoin
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adam 1 week ago
The last bitcoin will be mined sometime around 2140. The protocol scheduled that before anyone alive today was born. No emergency meeting can move that date, no inflation report can accelerate it, no government can delay it. Try naming one other financial instrument with a
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adam 1 week ago
Saylor is buying bitcoin by the billions and people are still debating whether they should buy a few hundred dollars worth? The gap between the people who understand this and the people still "waiting to see what happens" is going to look embarrassing in hindsight.
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adam 1 week ago
Just launching the btc price LOL
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adam 1 week ago
This is why open source code is so valuable
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adam 1 week ago
When the money supply gets inflated, the people with the fewest assets absorb the most damage. The single mother with $3,000 in a savings account loses more of her real purchasing power than the fund manager with $3 million in equities. Inflation is regressive, and bitcoin is
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adam 1 week ago
People treat "the government will just ban it" like it's a checkmate. China tried. Multiple times. The most powerful surveillance state on earth couldn't stop peer-to-peer value transfer between consenting individuals. If China couldn't ban it, the argument is over.
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adam 1 week ago
Running a node costs less than a Netflix subscription. You download the software, sync the chain, and become a fully sovereign participant in the Bitcoin network, verifying your own transactions, holding your own copy of the ledger, trusting no one. Most people don't do it. But the fact that anyone can is what makes the whole thing work.
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adam 1 week ago
The sat is going to be the unit of account. Not BTC, sats. 100 million of them per coin. You'll buy coffee in sats the same way you buy things in cents today. And the people laughing at that right now are the same people who thought internet shopping was a phase.
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adam 1 week ago
Gold has been "sound money" for thousands of years and governments STILL found a way to confiscate it, ban its ownership, and eventually abandon the standard entirely. That's not a knock on gold specifically but rather a knock on any asset that requires physical custody and can be seized by force. Self custody fixes this.
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adam 1 week ago
My opsec is weak today. Wish my luck crossing the border by ordering this 100% heavy cotton sweater for $69 image
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adam 1 week ago
Banks charge you fees to hold your own money, lend your deposits out at 8x leverage, pay you 0.4% interest on the balance they're profiting from, and then run ads about how much they care about your financial future. The audacity is genuinely something else 😭
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adam 1 week ago
His prompt skills are low key pretty good This is 0 input from me
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adam 1 week ago
The idea that managing your own wealth is somehow “too complex” for a normal person is condescending, and it’s exactly what the custodians need you to believe so you hand everything to them.
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adam 1 week ago
The bitcoin community’s biggest gift to the world is proving that sound money is possible without a central authority. The biggest threat to that gift is bitcoiners acting like the movement is theirs to gatekeep. You don’t own bitcoin network, and it doesn’t belong to the people who got there first. It belongs to ANYONE who wants to opt out of a broken system. Stop making the door smaller.
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adam 1 week ago
STRC just had its best day yet, and I respect what's being built. Bitcoin as the foundation of a new capital markets stack is exactly where this was always heading. My only note: don't stop there. A claim on bitcoin is not bitcoin. The whole point is to hold the thing itself. Self custody is key!
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adam 2 weeks ago
“Bitcoin is just for bad traders” is a new one I heard 💀
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adam 2 weeks ago
A CBDC gives the central bank a direct line to your wallet with no buffer, no intermediary, no protection. Right now there's a layer between government policy and your spending: commercial banks, legal process, institutional friction. A CBDC deletes that layer entirely. You don't have to believe in conspiracies to recognize that's an enormous amount of power to hand ANYONE.
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adam 2 weeks ago
Paper bitcoin, ETFs, funds, custodians, is going to be the subprime mortgage of this cycle. Everyone's going to feel rich on paper until the moment they need to actually move it and realize the instrument they own isn't the asset they thought they had. History keeps rhyming...
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adam 2 weeks ago
People ask me if bitcoin can survive a world war. Bitcoin survived China "banning" it multiple times. It survived exchange collapses, exchange hacks, government seizures, and a dozen market crashes that were supposed to kill it. The question isn't whether bitcoin can survive chaos. It's whether or not your bank can!!
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adam 2 weeks ago
Just a matter of time before it comes back image