so what is coming?

maybe in the early days... today is just a platform that feeds low quality content via an algorithm fine tuned to make your life miserable and keep you hooked to the screen (ironically)

the narrative is that it's over you mean?

looking at the price for all the treasury stonk scams.... it looks like it's over... bitcoin needs to hold above 100k and find a new narrative to skyrocket...

twitter is evil

if it wasn't for chatGPT i would say AI is a useless scam and a fad...

h/t twitter @sfliberty A 16th-century Spanish priest wrote the first systematic defense of sound money, identified inflation as theft, and justified killing tyrants who imposed taxes without consent. Kings banned his books. Executioners burned them. The Inquisition tried to erase them from history. But this Jesuit monk had developed the core insights of Austrian economics 250 years before Austria even existed. This is the story of Juan de Mariana, the original “politically incorrect” libertarian who out-Rothbarded Rothbard, out-Misesed Mises, and challenged the entire power structure of his time. While most people think free-market economics started with Adam Smith, the real intellectual revolution began in the lecture halls of 16th-century Salamanca. Born in 1536 as the illegitimate son of a canon, Mariana joined the Jesuits at sixteen and quickly became one of Europe’s most brilliant minds. He taught at Rome, Sicily, and the Sorbonne, the Harvard of its day. But brilliance wasn’t enough for Mariana. He wanted to change the world. In 1598, he published De Rege et Regis Institutione, a political treatise that made a shocking argument: any citizen could justifiably kill a king who imposed taxes without consent, confiscated property, or prevented democratic assemblies. The book literally advocated for killing tyrants. When French King Henry IV was assassinated in 1610, authorities immediately blamed Mariana’s book. The Parliament of Paris ordered it burned by the public executioner. But here’s the twist: the assassin had never even heard of Mariana. The ideas were just that powerful and that feared. Mariana’s most revolutionary work came in 1605: De Monetae Mutatione (On the Alteration of Money). In this treatise, he did something unprecedented: he called out his own king, Philip III, for debasing the currency. He identified inflation as theft. In the 1600s. Before anyone else. He understood what modern economists took centuries to rediscover: when governments debase money, they’re secretly taxing everyone who holds it. He wrote that reducing metal content in coins “inevitably leads to higher prices” and “all accounts collapse.” This was the first systematic critique of monetary manipulation in history. For this “crime” of economic truth-telling, the 73-year-old priest was thrown in prison for four months. The king ordered his officials to buy and destroy every copy of the book they could find. After Mariana’s death, the Spanish Inquisition expurgated the remaining copies with ink and scissors. Here’s what they tried to hide: Mariana and the Spanish scholastics had already developed the core insights that would later define the Austrian School. Subjective value theory, the impossibility of economic planning, the nature of entrepreneurship, and the evils of inflation. They were doing Austrian economics 250 years before Austria. The connection isn’t coincidental. In the 16th century, Spanish Emperor Charles V sent his brother Ferdinand to rule Austria. “Austria” literally means “eastern part of the Empire,” and that empire was Spanish. The intellectual influence flowed directly from Salamanca to Vienna. Mariana didn’t just theorize about freedom; he lived it. He criticized his own religious order, challenged papal authority, and faced down kings who could have had him executed. He understood that ideas without courage are just academic exercises. Real change requires real risk. When Carl Menger founded the Austrian School in 1871, he was rediscovering what Mariana and his colleagues had already proven: that human action, not government planning, creates prosperity. That individual choice, not collective force, generates value. The “Austrian” revolution was actually a Spanish renaissance. Today, as governments worldwide debase currencies and expand power, Mariana’s insights burn brighter than ever. He showed us that challenging authority isn’t just a right; it’s a moral obligation. The battle for freedom always starts with one person willing to speak truth to power.

bitcoin treasury companies are crypto

i just checked and everyone is already being taxed

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