*when money holds its value, parents can plan with confidence* View quoted note →

*Your commitment level determines your threat profile. If you can be compromised, you will be compromised.* View quoted note →

*The adversary doesn’t need to defeat you. They just need to price you. Find the number where you’ll compromise. The threat where you’ll go quiet. The pressure point where principle becomes negotiable.* View quoted note →

*…the fiat operator doesn’t see the system itself as the problem. They see individual data points. Individual market movements. They’re orienting toward symptoms while ignoring the disease.* View quoted note →

*the bigger question is, would you be willing to sacrifice your own wealth for the greater good? Because I can only assume bitcoin would lose a tremendous amount of its value if governments became fiscally responsible* View quoted note →

*On Nostr, Bitcoin exhibits its most fundamental property: programmable liquidity in motion. It doesn’t merely exist on a balance sheet. It transmits information, signals preference, and facilitates exchange without intermediation* View quoted note →

FT, Alphaville: *putting the gold rally at the door of central bank buying is massively intuitive. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine their central bank was sanctioned and its reserves frozen. European leaders are still chatting about whether they can be seized within the current legal architecture. And so it doesn’t take a genius to see that even a shiny pet rock looks a safer bet than electronic IOUs controlled by your enemies/ frenemies.*

On nostr, *You’re not discussing freedom. You’re forging it. Every note. Every relay. Every zap. Every follow. Every repost.* View quoted note →

*Vince Lanci delivered a sobering assessment of Bitcoin's current trajectory in our latest conversation. Drawing from his decades of experience watching similar dynamics play out in precious metals markets, Vince argued that the US government is attempting to co-opt Bitcoin through the ETF structure. He explained that by creating spot Bitcoin ETFs, approximately 70% of Bitcoin's liquidity shifted from international markets into US-controlled venues. This wasn't accidental—it's the same playbook used with gold futures in 1974. The government doesn't need to own Bitcoin to control it; controlling the liquidity pool is sufficient. Through margin requirements, settlement rules, and regulatory mechanisms, the US now dominates Bitcoin's price discovery. Vince emphasized that this control doesn't mean Bitcoin will fail, but rather that its path forward has fundamentally changed. The US liquidity network is so powerful that even without malicious intent, it naturally becomes the dominant force in any market it touches. For Bitcoin, this means the derivative price now matters more than spot, enabling the same rehypothecation schemes that suppressed gold for thirty years.* TFTC