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.

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.

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.

My opsec is weak today. Wish my luck crossing the border by ordering this 100% heavy cotton sweater for $69

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 😭

His prompt skills are low key pretty good This is 0 input from me

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.

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.

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!

“Bitcoin is just for bad traders” is a new one I heard 💀

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.

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...

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!!

Just a matter of time before it comes back

Jack Dorsey built a protocol that sends bitcoin over bluetooth mesh networks. No internet. No cell towers. Peer to peer, device to device. Wanna know what bitcoin looks like in a scenario where governments shut down the internet? It looks like that. The people betting against bitcoin's sovereignty because "the government controls the internet" are fighting the last war!!

The Fed was sold to the public as a stabilizing force, a backstop against deflation, a lender of last resort. What it actually built was a system where the people closest to the money printer win first and the people furthest away lose last. This is the Cantillon effect, and it was always going to produce this outcome. Buy bitcoin.

Every company sitting on a pile of cash is holding a massive liability. And within 5-10 years, cash reserves on a balance sheet will look the same way leaving money in a savings account looks today, obviously wrong in hindsight. Holding bitcoin on the balance sheet WILL become the new norm.

There are millions of coins sitting in bitcoin wallets from 2009 untouched, and if quantum computing ever gets close enough to crack those keys, those coins will move. The entire network will see it before it becomes a systemic problem, and the protocol will respond. That's your signal. Satoshi's coins are the canary in the quantum coal mine.

The sun is a mining rig. Wind is a mining rig. Any stranded energy on the planet that used to have no buyer now has one: bitcoin miners. That's the part people miss when they argue about "energy consumption." Bitcoin is the only buyer that can show up anywhere on earth and turn EXCESS power into money. So no, bitcoin isn't an energy "waster".