Is this the fourth turning? Watching the leader of the United States publicly beg the central bank for cheaper money feels like a late stage empire scene, A President shouting about national security while demanding rate cuts is basically admitting the system needs monetary anesthesia to keep the party going. The message is simple make borrowing cheaper, make the numbers look better, push the cost onto savers and future taxpayers, then call it strength. If this is the public script, imagine what the private incentives look like. plus how is the president shilling fucking shitcoins in the middle of a post what the fuck is this nation about?

This pullback is a short term liquidity move, When markets get nervous, money leaves the most volatile assets first, and Bitcoin feels it quickly. Long term holders are not selling, which shows conviction under the surface. This same pattern has happened many times before major upward moves. this dip is a pause inside a larger bullish trend.

Bitcoin is the first asset that lets you settle final ownership while staying pseudonymous. That flips the usual tradeoff privacy or property rights. When both exist at once, every other asset starts to look like a permissioned IOU.

They want you to capitulate and buy their ETFs, their shitcoins, their paper claims on rocks/metals, everything subdued by their power. They don’t want you to accumulate Bitcoin, put it in self custody, run your own node, and have a mining setup. That is the historical fact of following the money. Do with that information what you want. everyone promoting anything else is an enemy and wants you to remain subdue by the system.

The Founding Fathers left us a blueprint to resist the powers, whereby free men might withstand the encroachments of centralized war and the dominion of distant finance. Satoshi left us a tool to peacefully boycott those same powers. It remain only that the people awaken to this truth, and with steadfast courage resolve to act. For those powers are mighty. They possess armies. They command vast resources. They hold, as it seem, all things. but we still have agency (I hope)

Since inception of human memory, time had an invisible leak. You worked. You saved. Someone else issued the money and held the custody. They decided what your time was worth. Then, quietly, something new appeared. For the first time in history, you can store your time in money no one else can print and no one else can hold for you. It’s the first time humans can keep the full value of their hours without permission. Self custody is time. store it?

For 300 years the pattern repeated Central banks fund wars Wars reshape borders Debt replaces gold Institutions enforce the currency Finance absorbs industry Asset managers absorb finance Tech absorbs behavior Bank of England → Federal Reserve → Bretton Woods → IMF → Wall Street → Index funds → Surveillance era Then in 2010, for the first time in history, money appeared that you can hold without a bank, a state, or an institution. That is the historical break. Every system before required you to trust someone to hold your wealth. Bitcoin lets you opt out. A peaceful boycott of a 300 year monetary pattern. Self custody is the only protest available.

The real shift is not who runs the system, but how control moves over time. War finance built central banks. Central banks enabled debt money. Debt money enabled financial markets. Financial markets concentrated into asset managers. Asset managers now influence companies, media, and policy through capital allocation. The form of power changed from guns → banks → markets → data. Bitcoin enters at the exact point where control moved from states to custodians and intermediaries. So the tension is not “Bitcoin vs government.” It is self custody vs financial custody inside a world where capital, not politics, steers outcomes.