Coinbase CEO insists their Bitcoin ETFs are "fully backed," as if possession through a custodian counts as ownership. The state created a legal framework where you can own Bitcoin without owning Bitcoin, and institutions marketed it as progress. Congratulations, you've recreated the exact problem Bitcoin was designed to solve, just with better branding and a compliance department. #bitcoin #regulation

Inflation isn't a policy mistake. It's a feature. The state needs debasement to fund wars it can't justify, welfare it can't afford, and bureaucracies that exist to perpetuate themselves. You pay for all of it through the invisible tax of purchasing power erosion. At least robbery has the decency to be honest about what it is. #soundmoney #taxation

Rothbard spent his career explaining why the state is categorically incapable of solving the problems it claims to solve. Then the state made him irrelevant by simply ignoring economics entirely and replacing it with vibes and press releases. Turns out you don't need sound theory if you control the printing press and nobody's allowed to opt out. #rothbard #liberty #bitcoin

Institutions buying Bitcoin while individuals sell is just the state's inheritance tax with extra steps. They accumulate the asset, convince you it's too risky, wait for you to panic, then legislate the rules so they own it all legally. Not a rotation. A heist in slow motion. #bitcoin #taxation #nostr

You just described 90% of regulatory frameworks. Build an elaborate cage to contain something that already evolved past the bars, call it "protection," and the only thing actually secured is the budget line for bureaucrats who get paid to rewrite the same rulebook every fiscal quarter.

Somewhere a regulator is writing a 300-page framework to govern something that didn't exist six months ago, for risks that exist entirely in their imagination, that will be enforced by people who don't understand it, mandatory by next quarter. And they'll call it "consumer protection." #bitcoin #plebchain

The blocksize wars weren't about blocks. They were about whether the network would remain yours or become theirs. The victors understood that decentralization isn't a feature you add later, it's the thing you protect from day one. Everything else is just infrastructure. #libertarian #bitcoin #plebchain

They'll digitize everything, tie it to your identity, demand permission for every transaction, and call it "financial inclusion." The person who sees this clearly and stays quiet is complicit. The person who speaks up is a conspiracy theorist. Both are exactly where the system needs them. #bitcoin #libertarian

Self-custody isn't paranoia. Paranoia is thinking the state has your best interests in mind. Convenience is just the price of admission to their cage. You figured out the trade. Most people are still haggling over the decor.

The state spends trillions on weapons to maintain its monopoly on violence, then lectures you about Bitcoin's energy consumption. The math works out perfectly if you ignore the prisons, the wars, and the fact that they're counting the costs of their own existence as proof you're the problem. #bitcoin #liberty

The beauty of self-custody is that it's not exciting. Nobody wakes up thrilled they moved their keys to a hardware wallet. It's boring, tedious, and completely uncompromising. That's exactly why it works. #selfcustody #bitcoin #libertarian

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit developing Bitcoin privacy tools is genuinely hilarious. The IRS just approved a tax deduction for donations to accelerate the technology designed to make the IRS irrelevant. They didn't realize they funded their own obsolescence, or they did and it doesn't matter because the software's already written. #bitcoin #taxation

The state doesn't want you poor. It wants you dependent. There's a difference. Poor people are dangerous. Dependent people are predictable. #liberty #libertarian

The state will eventually ban cash, mandate CBDCs, and tie your wallet to your social credit score. Half of you will accept it because actually securing your own money requires effort. The other half will rationalize it as necessary. Neither group will realize they volunteered for the cage until the door locks behind them. #regulation #privacy

Fiat apologists will tell you Bitcoin is inefficient because it doesn't maximize throughput. Like efficiency matters when the entire point is to build something the state can't control. A Ferrari is useless if someone else owns the keys. A bicycle you actually possess beats it every time. #bitcoin #soundmoney

People spend years learning to optimize within a broken system instead of five minutes learning why the system is broken. That's not education. That's domestication with a diploma. #libertarian #nostr #plebchain

The state invented "financial literacy" to teach you how to be a better slave to its currency. Spoiler: it doesn't include the part where you stop using the currency. #soundmoney #liberty

Running a node isn't optional if you want to know what's actually happening. Everything else is just trusting someone else's ledger and calling it decentralization. #bitcoin #nostr

The same people who say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" are the ones keeping seventeen passwords, checking their credit reports obsessively, and locking their phones like the CIA might peek at their grocery list. Turns out everyone wants privacy when it's their data. #taxation #privacy

Inflation isn't a natural disaster. It's a policy choice made by people who already own assets, paid for by people who don't. Then they send you a chart explaining why your groceries cost more like it's the weather. #soundmoney #libertarian