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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
Governments have a playbook for crushing dissent:
1. Ban social media
2. Freeze bank accounts
3. Throttle the internet
4. Arrest organizers
We just built the counter-playbook.
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
Jun 14
The UK social media ban for under-16s will be circumvented by Nostr, @GrapheneOS, @mullvadnet, @torproject and Linux.
Get in touch if you need help.
Jun 14
🚨 NEW: The UK social media ban for under-16s will be enforced through facial recognition, digital IDs, credit cards, open banking, passports, mobile provider checks or email age estimation
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
Jun 15
Buy Pixel with cash.
Install @GrapheneOS .
Instantly render @Keir_Starmer 's tin pot authoritarianism utterly ineffective.
Easily access Tiktok with your VPN location set to a free and democratic jurisdiction.
Simples.
Jun 15
🚨 NEW: The UK's social media ban for under-16s is set to be enforced at device-level, with Apple and Google forced to verify the age of all users
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TFTC 756 w/ @SullyMichaelvan: "Sentiment is at the worst since 2020. This is exactly what bottoms look like. I am buying Bitcoin hard right now."
We discuss:
⚡ The Bitcoin civil war
⚡ AI stealing the spotlight
⚡ The 4-year cycle broke
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
Jun 5
Bitcoin has pierced the 200 Week Moving Average 6 times since 2016.
1 of those was in 2018.
1 of those was in 2020.
3 of those were in 2022-2023.
1 of those times is today.
You said you'd buy the dip.
The world is giving it to you on a silver platter:
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BTFD.
This is the biggest % fall in a single week for Bitcoin since the collapse of FTX.
The FTX fraud marked the bottom of the bear market in November 2022.
This time? 🤔
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
Jun 5
Biggest short-term holder capitulation in the history of bitcoin.
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
If you're not holding #Bitcoin in self-custody you're holding a paper IOU
That could end up being very painful if you're not careful
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
You can either buy the S&P 500 at all times highs or you can buy Bitcoin down -42%.
This is an intelligence test.
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CBDC = Central bank Digital CONTROL
During the Freedom Tech track at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, @EconWithNick, policy analyst at the Cato Institute, warns that programmable money like central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could give authoritarian regimes new powers to monitor, restrict, and control everyday financial activity.
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
Jun 1
The $MSTR mission creep I always said would come.
Even though Strategy doesn’t need the money, it is conditioning investors to believe that selling Bitcoin to fund dividends and yield is a normal part of the new Strategy playbook.
The result is a structure that normalizes Bitcoin distribution back into the market whenever cash flow is needed to support dividends and yield.
In effect, they’re building the infrastructure for short-term Bitcoin price management while training investors to view it as prudent capital allocation.
A gift to the Financial Industrial Complex.
Bitcoin was designed to separate money from the financial system.
The FIC wants Bitcoin integrated into the same system of custodians, leverage, yield products, and paper claims that dominate traditional finance.
Strategy accelerates that transition by making Bitcoin sales, dividend policies, and yield engineering part of the accepted model.
It is what it is.
Bitcoin can be used by anybody.
But Bitcoin in self-custody is the resistance.
In the long run, the FIC doesn’t want you to own Bitcoin. It wants to custody your Bitcoin, tokenize your Bitcoin, lend your Bitcoin, and issue paper claims against your Bitcoin.
The goal is simple: keep you a paper-Bitcoin slave while they accumulate the real asset instead of you.
Not your keys.
Not your Bitcoin.
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The writers at the @FinancialTimes might learn a thing or two from this post.
May 27
One year ago Financial Times columnist Katie Martin criticized Bitcoin, saying that while her teeth are scarce, they aren't worth billions.
The argument was so hilarious, so remarkably uninformed, and so meme-worthy that no-one took the time to explain why it is is also fundamentally flawed.
So on the one-year anniversary of this take - as a fun exercise I thought I'd unpick the logic so we could see how this FUD stands up to other FUD
TL;DR: equally badly.
The first flaw is a false equivalence between two completely different types of scarcity.
Her teeth are scarce to her.
There are roughly 7 billion mouths on the planet, each containing up to 32 teeth. Global supply: hundreds of billions. Hardly scarce.
The second flaw is that sharing of one attribute does not make two things interchangeable.
They're also not fungible. Her molar is not interchangeable with yours !
They are certainly not divisible, not portable as a unit of exchange, not durable in the monetary sense, and not verifiable by a third party. They can also be replaced by implants or dentures.
Bitcoin's scarcity is absolute, mathematically enforced, globally verifiable, and immutable.
21 million for every person on the planet, forever. No one can produce more. Anyone can verify the cap independently.
The argument smuggles in the assumption that scarcity alone is Bitcoin's value proposition, then disproves that straw man.
Scarcity is necessary but not sufficient.
What makes Bitcoin valuable is scarcity combined with fungibility, divisibility, portability, durability, verifiability, and censorship resistance.
Her teeth have one of those properties (and even then, only to one person on the planet, Katie herself).
Bitcoin has all of them.
It's the same category error as saying "my kitchen table is also a flat rectangle, but nobody calls it a tennis court."
True.
But a tennis court also has a net, regulation dimensions, a standardised bounce surface, and an agreed-upon set of rules.
Sharing one property doesn't make two things equivalent.
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
May 26
Move your savings into an asset you can custody yourself, which you can buy and sell and send peer to peer without state oversight or interference, and which they cannot arbitrarily confiscate from you.
Ideally they shouldn't ever know you hold it.
Choice of asset is up to you
May 25
What’s the point saving your money anymore?
First Reeves wants you to move your savings to Isas now she may have decided “I’ll tax that too”.
This government is determined to make the country go bankrupt. Completely incompetent.
This is why young people are fleeing.
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
May 20
20,000,000 Bitcoin have now been mined.
The remaining 1,000,000 BTC will take 114 years to produce.
Absolute scarcity.
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
That black smoke is the visible cost of running the system. For years they told you that your diesel generator, your car, your electricity use was destroying the planet. They built a whole control grid around that story - carbon credits, ESG scores, social credit tied to energy use. For you. Not for them.
Now watch what happens when the money center needs power. Data centers pulling city-scale electricity, 24/7 diesel backup, and suddenly… no problem. No climate lectures. No fines. No shutdowns.
Why? Because the rules only apply to the people outside the system.
That’s the setup for The Great Taking.
The financial system is being centralized into a control structure. The assets you think you own - securities, bank deposits, even your property through liens and custody chains - are being moved into a system where access is contingent on compliance.
And compliance is determined by the people who control the pipes: energy, data, finance, digital ID.
When they need the power, they turn it on. When you need it, it’s “unsustainable.”
When they need the liquidity, the collateral gets rehypothecated. When you need it, the account is frozen for “review.”
The smoke you see is a signal. It tells you who’s actually inside the perimeter and who’s outside. The Great Taking is about moving everyone else outside, while making it look legal, technical, and inevitable.
So the question isn’t really about the smoke. The question is: where are your assets sitting, and who can turn off the switch?
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
May 18
🔴Rachel Reeves has now raised your taxes to a level Britain has not seen since 1945. The IMF told her today she has hit the limit
Frozen thresholds mean basic rate taxpayers lose an extra £220 a year, higher rate £600. That's a weekly food shop gone, or a month of energy bills, before anything else goes up
700,000 more people are being pulled into paying income tax for the first time, and a million more onto the 40% rate, because thresholds stay frozen until 2031 while wages rise
Total tax take hits 38.5% of GDP by 2030, the highest peacetime level on record. Reeves added £26 billion of tax rises in November on top of £40 billion the year before
The IMF says there is no more room. Their fix is to cut the state pension triple lock and welfare instead. If you're retired, that means a smaller state pension rise every year while everything else gets more expensive
You earn more, you pay more, you keep less. That is the plan until 2031
Follow me to stay informed
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
May 18
In the last year, the world has printed 9.3% more money.
Global M2 money supply has reached $141T in 2026.
When inflation starts to run hotter again, they will blame it on Iran and other proximate factors.
But the root driver is the money printer has been running hot for the last year. Where?
China increased their money supply by 13.6% in the last 12 months. Their M2 is now $50T, making it the largest global driver of fiat inflation.
US growth in M2 is just 4.6% over the last 12 months, making the US comparatively responsible. (But make no mistake, this means your dollars have been debased by almost 1/20th of their value in just a year.)
Since we live in a global economy, we're subject to the aggregate impact of GLOBAL money printing. The US has been accustomed to being the largest monetary base and therefore largely controlling global debasement.
But China's money supply is now 2x as large as the USA's. Your savings are being debased by Chinese monetary policy decisions and you have no control.
Nobody asked your permission. Nobody told you it was happening.
But your savings just got diluted by 9.3% in one year.
Note: I'm currently updating the Global Asset Landscape for 2026 (see prior tweet). It will be out in the next few weeks, stay tuned!
5 May 2025
Global asset landscape - 2025 update!
In 2023, there was $900T of global wealth. Today, that number has grown to $1000T.
THREAD on the key insights of this analysis...
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
Increase their salaries by 2%
Then increase the monetary supply by 8%
Now call “savings” their bank accounts that give them 1%
Then call the “risk free rate” 4% tied to T Bills to trick them into thinking inflation and cost of living is only 2% accelerating only as fast as their salary
Then have riskier debt instruments (IG - junk - private credit) pay 5-8% to make them think they’re outpacing monetary debasement
Then call bitcoin a scam so they will be distracted and stay on the never-ending hamster wheel
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
May 17
The biggest adoption story bitcoin has had in years....
A government using bitcoin not as a parlor trick, but because they actually NEED bitcoin. Their bank accounts get frozen. Their gold gets seized. They need something unconfiscatable, something without counterparty risk.
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₿itcoin Edinburgh ⚡️🟠 🏴 retweeted
Bitcoin has now crossed 20,000,000 BTC mined.
The final 1M BTC will take another 114 years to mine.
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