A Homo sapiens picked up the rare seashell.
A Neanderthal walked past it.
Noticing scarcity is what made us human.
It's the same instinct MONEY runs on.
Age of Abundance
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A daily live show about the monetary transition from fiat to Bitcoin - AI deflation, energy abundance, and the restoration of humanity. Hosted by Ricky Zhang. Live weekdays at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Clips daily.
Where's your attention going?
Toward things that survive AI, or things being commoditized right now.
Algorithmic feeds are a black hole: tighter loops, shorter spans, more extreme content.
Attention is the survival mechanism.
A hardware wallet is only as strong as the randomness that made its seed.
Some shipped with 32 to 72 bits of entropy instead of 256.
That's Netflix password levels of GUESSABLE.
The math you were trusting was never there.
One company owns 4% of Bitcoin.
In fiat that would be systemic risk...
But Bitcoin ownership doesn't buy influence over the rules.
Every attempt to bend the protocol has failed.
On your deathbed, the moments you'll remember are the human ones: depth, presence, being truly seen.
Today you get them in slivers.
The rest of your life goes to outrunning inflation.
Fix the money and presence stops being rare.
Three hours of scrolling. Nothing to show for it.
People are noticing...
Phones are going down.
The attention economy is ending.
What wins next is presence.
Fiat narrows your life to two choices.
Run faster to stay in place.
Or sell your soul.
Bitcoin is stored energy with no debt to repay.
Point it wherever you want.
I catch myself every time I go to hire.
The honest truth: no business owner wants to hire another person.
We want the output, not the person.
AI is what happens when that wish finally has a way out.
Both sides will claim victory no matter what happens.
If the miners signal support, one side calls it a mandate.
If they don't, the other side calls it capture.
People don't rewrite history by mistake.
They rewrite it to protect who they think they are.
Get rich, sure.
We all want that...
But rich in what?
Rich in dollars isn't rich in life.
Bitcoin makes the second one possible.
The dollar is held together by belief.
Belief only holds when people stay confused.
That's why the acronyms multiply.
That's why the talking heads sound dumber every year.
The confusion is the point.
You can't understand a defining moment while you're in it.
You only see it years later.
Being early in Bitcoin isn't knowing the answer: it's being present for the question.
This is the defining story of our times.
It's easy to call Michael Saylor a sellout.
Almost none of us have ever faced fiat incentives in the billions.
Honest answer: I don't know what I'd do in that seat either.
You can't out-willpower money this broken.
You have to change the money.
What will people pay for when AI makes everything cheap?
Not the joke. AI can write that.
The human on stage who makes you feel alive.
When machines do the rest, that becomes the whole economy.
"Just save in dollars" sounds responsible.
It isn't.
Every fiat currency in history has failed - given enough time.
The default isn't safe, it's just slower.
This isn't a monetary collapse.
It's humanity growing up.
We spent our teenage years running up a 350 trillion dollar credit card bill...
The bill comes due: that's what adulthood looks like.
Fear is optional.
Nobody sat you down and told you to buy a house.
The dollar loses 7% a year.
So real estate became the least bad place to store your work.
That wasn't ambition.
It was a hedge against broken money.
Anyone can attack Bitcoin with LLMs.
Anyone can also defend it with LLMs.
Fiat defenders get paid from a money printer - Bitcoin defenders get paid in the money they're defending.
That's why attacks only make it stronger.
Elon and Saylor keep telling the abundance story.
AI drives the cost of everything toward zero...
Neither will say the next part.
The dollar needs inflation to stay solvent.
Abundance on fiat rails ends in collapse.
Bitcoin was never really about money.
Strip it down and it's about truth...
Honesty, cooperation, agency, all words for the same thing.
It's what people build when nobody's lying. Bitcoin was the stupid name for it.