No balls. Only walls. Fiat doesn’t survive because it’s strong. It survives because it’s padded. Every failure is wrapped in: bailouts abstractions committees time delays “temporary” emergency powers There is no necessary evil here. Only systems engineered to never fully fail, because full failure would force accountability. Stablecoins don’t break because of ideology — they break because of physics. CAP theorem doesn’t negotiate. You don’t get consistency, availability, and control at global scale. You get walls. CBDCs aren’t inevitable because they’re good. They’re inevitable because walls scale better than trust. Walls: delay collapse hide damage absorb blame keep normies inside the maze Bitcoin doesn’t promise comfort. It removes the padding. No bailouts. No rollbacks. No committees. No walls. Just settlement. And yes — we tolerate the walls because tearing them down requires effort, risk, and personal responsibility. That’s the real scarcity. No balls. Only walls.