Bitcoin is money that they can't control. More importantly, Bitcoin is money that they can't use to control you.

Of the roughly 775 fiat currencies that have ever existed, none are still running in their original form. Every single one failed. Hyperinflation, devaluation, replacement, collapse. Pick your mechanism. "Backed by confidence" isn't a unique feature of the dollar. It's the stated mechanism of every currency that no longer exists. Weimar Germany was backed by confidence. The Argentine peso (all four versions of it) was backed by confidence. The Zimbabwean dollar, before it hit 100 trillion denomination notes, was backed by confidence. The dollar isn't an exception to this pattern. It's the current iteration of it. Bitcoin's issuance schedule has run without amendment since 2009. The Fed's mandate has been rewritten, expanded, and quietly stretched every decade since 1913. You don't need to work for another failed currency. Bitcoin is money for the people, by the people. Follow for weekly insights on building real wealth with Bitcoin, the kind the Fed can't touch.

Common wisdom: "Index funds will make you a millionaire." True… but maybe not in the way you think. Invest $500/month into SPY at 10% annually: 30 years later → ~$1.1M Sounds amazing. Until you realize: A future “millionaire” may have the purchasing power of someone with ~$466k today. That's $634,000 lost to inflation! Inflation quietly taxes your savings and compounds over time. Nominal gains look good on a screen. Real purchasing power determines your lifestyle. Plan your future in what your money can buy, not just the number attached to it.

Prices are critical information without an economy cannot function

Bitcoin = money that dictators can't stop. Let me translate that for the people in the back who still think their vote matters more than their private keys. Bitcoin is the first monetary weapon in human history that laughs at tanks. You can't bomb a protocol. You can't arrest a blockchain. You can't invade a network that lives everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. Every dictator, every central planner, every empire builder throughout history has had one ultimate power - control the money, control the people. Freeze the accounts. Seize the assets. Debase the currency. Starve the rebellion. That playbook just got shredded. Bitcoin doesn't care about your borders. It doesn't require permission from the party, the politburo, or the pentagon. It doesn't care if you're a dissident in Beijing, a trucker in Ottawa, or a journalist in Moscow who just pissed off the wrong oligarch. 21 million coins. Immutable. Unstoppable. Unseizable. This is the first time in recorded civilization that individuals can hold wealth that tyrants cannot confiscate, cannot inflate away, and cannot shut down - even if they want to. They can ban the exchanges. They can outlaw the miners. They can threaten you with prison. But they cannot stop the protocol. That's not a bug. That's the entire point. Bitcoin is sovereign money for sovereign individuals.

Hidden in the chaos is arguably Bitcoin's greatest adoption story to date. In the middle of a war, a country chose Bitcoin to settle trade. Not gold. Not the dollar. Not stablecoins. Why? Because in the end, the best money wins. Bitcoin is money for all when you need it most.

Buying power of $100 over 92 years: 1934: $100 1944: $76 1954: $50 1964: $43 1974: $27 1984: $13 1994: $9 2004: $7 2014: $5.75 2024: $4.25 2026: $3.90 The dollar lost 96% of its purchasing power. Yet people still defend inflation like it's some natural law of physics. It's not. It's monetary debasement. Study bitcoin to escape this trap.

Have been waiting for this a long time. Another beautiful piece @NickSzabo4 🤝

Are you sitting down? 1970: 8 welfare programs 2026: 80 welfare programs 1970: 1 million illegals 2026: 40 million illegals 1970: $371 billion debt 2026: $38 trillion debt The destruction of America. Incentive drives behavior… Insane.

WTF happened to the American dream?

RIP Aaron

When TSA has been tested, it has failed to stop up to 80 percent of weapons smuggled through security. TSA to this day has never actually prevented a terrorist attack. There is not a single documented case of a terror plot foiled by TSA. On top of that, TSA was formed in response to 9-11, but 9-11 was not a failure of airport security. Airport security had basically nothing to do with it. So while this stand off over TSA funding continues, keep in mind that the agency shouldn't exist and is historically terrible at its job. We should privatize airport security again. Then it can't be used as a bargaining chip by politicians.

Proud to announce our first Lightning Social ⚡ A new monthly Indy Bitcoin Meetup event where we gather at businesses that accept Bitcoin and support them by spending sats. No presentations. Just good conversation, food, drinks, and Lightning payments. 📍 The Rejoicing Vine Winery 📅 April 3 🕔 5–9 PM Join us: meetup.com/indianapolis-bitc…

It’s official! Gov. Braun just signed HB 1042 into law ✍️ Indiana's Bitcoin Bill of Rights is here. Proud to be a Hoosier.

Bitcoin isn’t just Internet Money It might actually be a new kind of power - like a digital weapon or shield that countries can use to protect themselves online. In a Age of AI Agents - we're going to need an effective digital shield! The author of a new paper: "Beyond Money, Hedge, and Energy: Evaluating Bitcoin as Power Projection Technology" evaluates Jason Lowery's 2023 "SOFTWAR" theory that said Bitcoin should be understood as a way to project physical power into cyberspace. Normally, computers run on “rules” and software. But Bitcoin works differently. It uses huge amounts of real electricity and energy to secure its network. That means attacking Bitcoin isn’t just about hacking code - you would have to spend massive amounts of real-world energy and money to overpower it. The paper tests whether that theory was right by looking at what happened between 2023 and 2026. Here’s what actually happened: 1) The United States created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (basically treating Bitcoin like a national resource, similar to oil). 2) Countries like Bhutan secretly mined Bitcoin using hydroelectric power. 3) Over 145 public companies added Bitcoin to their balance sheets. 4) Huge investment funds (like BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF) bought tens of billions of dollars worth. 5) Global Bitcoin mining power (called “hash rate”) hit record highs - even while the price dropped. That’s important. The price of Bitcoin fell about 46% during this time. But governments and big institutions were buying more of it anyway. According to the paper, that suggests they may see Bitcoin as something strategic - not just an investment. The paper says older ways of thinking about Bitcoin don’t explain this behavior: It’s not just money. It’s not just a speculative investment. It’s not just bad for the environment. It’s not just a tech experiment. Instead, the author says Bitcoin may be more like digital territory protected by energy. If you control energy and computing power, you help protect the network. Countries might compete for that power the same way they compete for oil, weapons, or technology. The paper checked nine predictions made in 2023 about what would happen if Bitcoin really was a “power projection technology.” Five of those predictions already came true. One partly happened. Three haven’t happened yet.

It seems Jane Street may have had a long-standing culture that essentially trained crypto scammers, and perhaps also concocted and ran some of the scams themselves. Terra/Luna was a jenga tower waiting for somebody to topple it, and it may have been Jane Street that figured out how to do it. If crypto is not strong and secure against such things, it provides little or no benefit over traditional finance, so I'm not going to cry about this, and perhaps it should even be applauded. The alleged Bitcoin ETF market making "10 am" selling with that liquidity sounds like a considerably more problematic conflict of interest. "Negligent" might be a good way to describe the ETFs who naively trusted Jane Street with this function. Now the once-hot crypto ETFs are draining because of an understandable reduction in trust, not in the coins themselves, but in the way Wall Street "makes markets" for buying and selling them. In finance "everyone is a scammer" -- and you should stop blindly trusting scammers. That is why Bitcoin OGs have long said, "Not your keys, not your coins," "don't trust, verify", and even "trusted third parties are security holes." And when "the market" is so dependent on trusting strangers, especially strangers who still don't actually understand or like Bitcoin all that much, it's also not your "market price." x.com/1914ad/status/20267577…

For the past three years, I’ve been on an educational tour - meeting with Indiana lawmakers in hopes of creating a ‘Bitcoin Bill of Rights’ for all Hoosiers. Today, that idea (HB 1042) officially passed the state legislature and is now heading to the Governor’s desk for signature. iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124…

Howard Lutnick needs to be fired. Les Wexner needs to be indicted. And the DOJ needs to unredact and release every single one of the 6 million Epstein files and investigate everybody who is implicated. This isn’t going away.

Meetup announcement! Our next meetup will be Wednesday, 2/18 from 7-9pm at Keystone Sports Review. Please note the location change. We will be trying out a new venue for when we have guest speakers/more guests. Keystone Sports Review is at 71st and Keystone Ave. We will have the entire upstairs. @RelIrrelvantVIP will be giving a presentation on "How to Use Your Bitcoin Node to be More Private" Free drinks by @megawatthq Talk to them if you're interested in mining. RSVP here: meetup.com/indianapolis-bitc…

Bitcoin is dead.