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Positive freedom: the actual capacity to get deliberately lost. To choose the wrong turn on purpose and call it the whole point. A paper map with coffee rings isn't a downgrade — it's the freedom to wander without a system narrating your own life back to you.

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The entire financial system depends on 8 billion people not realizing that governments will endlessly print money.

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The Ninth Amendment, in essence, says that the rights explicitly listed in the Constitution are not the only ones people possess. It’s kind of a safeguard, a reminder that rights exist beyond what’s written down. It’s often cited in debates about unenumerated rights, like privacy or bodily autonomy, even though the amendment doesn’t spell those out specifically.

When a society is forced to use government issued currency instead of hard money, people are unable to save - “prices” appear to increase, social cohesion begins to break down and populism rises.

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THIS IS NOT MONEY

It’s a government issued currency token that is constantly losing value. Inflation is not ‘prices’ going up, it’s the purchasing power of the dollar going down.

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You can’t ‘print’ more bitcoin.

2009: Bitcoin launches as peer-to-peer money, allowing anyone to be their own bank

2026: Only 4% of women live in economies with nearly full legal equality

These dates are not ancient history.

Every woman should understand Bitcoin. Every woman should have the option to own it.

I hate seeing people quietly cheated out of their money and right now it’s happening to almost everyone through inflation.

We’re told “prices” go up. What’s actually happening is the purchasing power of our currency is going down. Dig into why, and you’ll find inflation disproportionately benefits indebted governments at the expense of regular people.

Studying bitcoin means understanding this system. Using bitcoin means opting out of this system.

Bitcoin is Freedom

I spent the last few weeks in my motherland, Vietnam. The country has transformed since my family escaped in 1978. It is more prosperous, energetic, and ambitious than the Vietnam I left behind. A young population, rising investment, and global aspiration have created extraordinary momentum.

And yet one thing remains clear. For many in Vietnam, the ultimate dream is still America. And if they cannot make it to America, they want to wear American brands, eat American food, listen to American music, and exude American confidence.

My trip to Vietnam reminded me of this, and the World Cup has made it visible on a global stage. America remains not only a country people admire, but a place people still want to reach, represent, and belong to.

The United States remains the land of the free, the Wild Wild West, and the home of the American Dream. Walmart and Waffle House. Boston and Austin. Silicon Valley and Wall Street. A country where people can still rise from welfare to extraordinary success through hard work, ingenuity, risk taking, and some luck.

My family experienced that promise directly. We arrived in America as refugees, sponsored by a Catholic church in Syracuse, New York. We received public assistance, food stamps, and free school lunches. My father worked three jobs. We lived frugally and dealt with poverty and racism. America was not easy, but it was open. It gave us a system where effort, education, entrepreneurship, and perseverance could compound.

This is America. The world still aspires to be like us. What has made America successful over the last 250 years is not accidental. It is a principled Constitution, geographic scale, abundant resources, and a culture of liberty, capitalism, entrepreneurship, and reinvention. Other nations try to replicate the recipe, but often waver. Interventionism, bureaucracy, corruption, and ego get in the way.

Which brings me to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the United States of money. It aspires to do for money what the American Constitution aspired to do for government: create a system governed by transparent rules rather than the discretion of individuals. Built on a principled white paper, digitally enforced scarcity, and proof of work, Bitcoin is digital capital governed by code, energy, and consensus.

But beyond that, Bitcoin is hope.

It provides hope for those who have worked hard for their money and want to protect it from monetary inflation. It provides hope for those born in countries without reliable rule of law or economic freedoms. It provides hope for anyone seeking protection, opportunity, and a form of property that does not depend on geography, politics, or permission.

I was born in the year of America’s bicentennial. Fifty years later, the future of American dominance is being questioned. I have no question. The United States of America is the greatest country in the world.

My life is proof of what America makes possible. I left Vietnam as a refugee, grew up poor in America, built a career through education and hard work, and now have a wonderful wife and three children. That is the American Dream to me. It is not just wealth. It is freedom, family, opportunity, and the ability to determine your own future.

That is also why Bitcoin resonated with me. I found Bitcoin because it reflected the same principles that shaped my life: clear rules, individual sovereignty, property rights, resilience, open competition, and long-term conviction.

America gave my family freedom through a country. Bitcoin offers individuals monetary freedom through a network. One opened the door for me. The other opens a door for anyone, anywhere, to protect the fruits of their labor.

That is why Bitcoin is freedom.

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Bitcoin exchange rate on July 4:

2013: $80
2014: $630 2015: $260 2016: $683 2017: $2,601 2018: $6,599 2019: $11,198 2020: $9,179 2021: $35,287 2022: $19,293
2023: $30,901
2024: $58,600 2025: $109,000
2026: $62,500

250 years ago a revolution separated church and state.

Today a revolution is separating money and state.

The ability to transact without government and banking oversight is fundamental to our freedom.

We used to only have millionaires. Then we got billionaires. Now we have trillionaires. Soon we’ll have quadrillionaires.

Are we creating more value or just printing more dollars?

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From Lawrence Lepard:

Bitcoin is a revolution. It is much more than number go up. It is an invention which can free humankind from the long sad history of monetary debasement, which empowers few and taxes everyone else. In a fiat system the wrong people win. We all pay for it. It is unjust and unfair. Throughout all of human history we never had a monetary standard that did not dilute over time. Now we do. Those of us who are partisans and are fighting for it understand the stakes. Freedom, fairness, prosperity, less war, etc.

Unsound money is the issue of our age. Currently few see it, but this will change. This Fourth Turning is well on its way and the monetary issue will be resolved.

As I observe the current Bitcoin landscape and the attacks on its leaders i am reminded of the opening of Thomas Paine's second writing, The American Crisis. Written in December 1776 after Washington had gotten his ass kicked on Long Island and retreated from Brooklyn and through New Jersey, Paine wrote:

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of their country: but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have the consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value."

Sound money has to win. History will be kind to sound money partisans. This is about a lot more than number go up. Don't forget why we are in this fight. Spread the word. The system they run is evil. We know the antidote. Time is on our side.

‘MERKA!

"Bitcoin is too volatile to be real money."

Fine. Let's look at the other side of that trade.

The Argentine peso has lost over 90% of its value in the last decade. The Turkish lira, the Lebanese pound, the Venezuelan bolivar: each one a "real" currency that wiped out the savings of everyone forced to hold it. Even the U.S. dollar has quietly lost most of its purchasing power since 1971.

Bitcoin is volatile up and down on its way up. Fiat is remarkably stable on its way to zero.

Volatility you can ride out. A slow, guaranteed bleed you can't.

Short-term noise is the cost of owning money they can't print. The "stable" option just takes everything, quietly, instead.

— Zach 🧙‍♂️

The first time you help someone set up their own wallet, watch their face.

Not when they buy. When they send. That moment they move their own money, to their own keys, and realize no bank approved it, no app could freeze it, and nobody had to say yes.

Something shifts. They stop seeing Bitcoin as a number that goes up and down. They start seeing it as theirs.

We've watched grandparents do it. Teenagers do it. People who swore they were "not a tech person" do it in about ten minutes.

That quiet click of understanding is the whole point. Money you actually own, that answers to you and no one else.

You can't hand someone a feeling. But you can hand them the keys, and let them find it themselves.

Bitcoin is multifaceted. It’s a censorship-resistant network, a savings tool, a global settlement system, and a hedge against inflation. These different uses don't clash—they actually feed into each other. Whether it’s an activist escaping capital controls, a family protecting their life savings, or a business using Bitcoin on its balance sheet, everyone is tapping into the exact same network and making it stronger.

Game-changing tech spreads because of incentives, not ideology. Most of us didn't start using the internet or smartphones because we loved the engineering or shared a philosophy; we used them because they made our lives easier. Bitcoin is no different. Companies aren't going to start exchanging dollars for bitcoin because they're fans of economic theory. They'll do it simply because it's the smartest way to protect their cash.

You don't need everyone to agree philosophically to change the world. Every time someone moves capital into Bitcoin, the entire network gets deeper, safer, and more resilient. When millions of regular people, businesses, and institutions voluntarily choose this network over traditional paper money, the power naturally shifts away from political institutions and into a transparent system that anyone can use.

The flag represents different things to different people.

For me, I just really like the freedom, decency, shining city on a hill, entrepreneurial, opportunity parts of it.

Dear FlockSafety.com:

Please would you stop covering the U.S. with surveillance equipment under the pretense of “safety is a fundamental right” so that we don't end up in a dystopian panopticon like they have in China?

Privacy is a human right too.

Thanks.

"Official" inflation just came in at 4.2%

Here is what the purchasing power of $100K in today’s dollars looks like in the future:

2026: $100,000 2027: $95,800 2028: $91,776 2029: $87,922 2030: $84,229 2031: $80,732 2032: $77,341 2033: $74,113 2034: $71,020 2035: $68,053 2036: $65,219 2037: $62,500 2038: $59,895 2039: $57,394 2040: $54,994 2041: $52,690 2042: $50,485 ← half the value is lost 2043: $48,365 2044: $46,334 2045: $44,392 2046: $42,528 2047: $40,742 2048: $39,031 2049: $37,392 2050: $35,821 2051: $34,316 2052: $32,875 2053: $31,494 2054: $30,171 2055: $28,904 2056: $27,690 2057: $26,527 2058: $25,413 2059: $24,346 2060: $23,323 2061: $22,343 2062: $21,404 2063: $20,505 2064: $19,644 2065: $18,819 2066: $18,029 2067: $17,272 2068: $16,546 2069: $15,851 2070: $15,185 2071: $14,547 2072: $13,936 2073: $13,351 2074: $12,790 2075: $12,253 2076: $11,739 2077: $11,246 2078: $10,774 2079: $10,322 2080: $9,888 2081: $9,473 2082: $9,075 2083: $8,694 2084: $8,329 2085: $7,979 2086: $7,645 2087: $7,324 2088: $7,017 2089: $6,722 2090: $6,440 2091: $6,170 2092: $5,911 2093: $5,663 2094: $5,425 2095: $5,197 2096: $4,979 2097: $4,770 2098: $4,570 2099: $4,378 2100: $4,194

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• Age verification laws requiring government ID or personal data have passed in roughly 25 US states for sites with “harmful to minors” content and app stores (e.g., Texas effective 2026), with similar pushes in the UK, Australia, and EU, showing a real expansion trend.

• The third-party doctrine is established US law allowing warrantless government access to data shared with companies, as it is considered voluntarily disclosed.

Strategy is sitting on a 13 billion dollar unrealized loss this week as Bitcoin's price drops. The options desks have started betting against them.

Here's the part worth your attention. The saver who holds the same Bitcoin in a cold wallet is down the exact same percentage this week. Same asset. Same price. Same red number.

One of them can be forced to sell. The other can't.

That's the whole difference, and it's the difference self-custody was built to create. A company that holds Bitcoin through layers of financing has stakeholders, instruments, and obligations stacked on top of the coins. When the price moves, all of that machinery moves too, and at some point the machinery can decide for you.

Coins on a key you control have no machinery. No preferred holders. No options chain pricing your pain. No quarter to answer for. A 30% drawdown is a feeling, not a forced event.

The price falling tests everyone the same way. What it can't do is reach into a cold wallet and pull the trigger.

Down bad is survivable. Forced to sell is not. Hold the version nobody can liquidate but you.

It may seem harmless at first glance, but six Flock Safety cameras have been installed in Fort Bragg. These cameras record every vehicle that passes, capturing license plates, make, model, and other identifying details.

Flock Safety’s materials emphasize a “connected system” for evidence and faster law enforcement response. That sounds appealing, and it’s easy to see why officials sign up for these cameras, operated by private, for-profit companies using taxpayer dollars.

What officials often overlook is the exponential advancements in surveillance tech. Flock Safety already offers audio detection (for cries for help) and could soon add facial recognition. Companies such as Palantir can combine large datasets—phone records, ISP logs, police StingRay captures, and more—creating powerful cross-referencing capabilities that will only expand.

Fort Bragg and the coast have a countercultural history that values freedom. But we are quietly sliding toward a total-surveillance model similar to what exists in China. Once established, such a system is nearly impossible to unwind. These tools are sold as public safety measures, but they also accelerate the erosion of Fourth Amendment protections. If you care, speak up. Do we want this level of surveillance in Fort Bragg—or anywhere in our county, state, or country?

Find out more: https://deflock.org/

FIRST FANNIE MAE BITCOIN-BACKED MORTGAGE IS LIVE

Better and Coinbase have issued the first Fannie Mae-backed Bitcoin mortgage, allowing a Michigan couple to use their Bitcoin as collateral for a conventional 30-year fixed-rate home loan without selling their BTC.

The structure lets borrowers pledge Bitcoin as collateral while avoiding capital gains taxes and maintaining exposure to future price appreciation.

Better CEO Vishal Garg called Bitcoin-backed mortgages a “generational next step,” arguing that Americans now hold far more wealth in stocks, bonds, and digital assets than in traditional bank accounts.

Because the loan conforms to Fannie Mae underwriting standards, a government-sponsored enterprise is effectively recognizing Bitcoin as collateral within the traditional mortgage system.

A broader rollout is expected later this summer. Better says demand is strong, with 76% of waitlist respondents already using Coinbase, 37% holding more than $500,000 in Bitcoin and projected loan volume reaching $250M.

As citizens of a free society, we should all be paying attention to the walls quietly being built around our liberties:

📷 Flock camera networks expanding across our streets

👁️ Pervasive digital surveillance

🔗 Stablecoins backed by U.S. debt

🔍 Warrantless searches of our digital lives — a clear 4th Amendment issue

🚗 Mandatory kill switches built into new vehicles

💳 Unprecedented monitoring of our financial transactions

Each item alone seems minor. Together, they form an open prison.

Confidence.

The American Nightmare: • Unaccountable intelligence agencies • Economic uncertainty • Ultra-processed corporate food • Multi trillion-dollar national debt • Ever-expanding government • Mass surveillance cameras • Toxic partisan politics • Forever property taxes • Forever wars

The American Dream: • The freedom to pursue happiness—without infringing on the freedom of others.

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Another inspiring Bitcoin story

Buena Vista, Colorado is becoming a new Bitcoin hub

• already 19 businesses onboarded already (more than Colorado Spings)
• Chamber of Commerce actively promoting it
• Feedback from businesses (who were not bitcoiners) includes:

"Our instore sales have increased, and 20% of our sales are now in Bitcoin" "it feels cleaner" "it feels more natural" "1 in 8 of our sales are now in Bitcoin"

How did this happen? One person who in his spare time doing something we can all do - talking to people with a mindset of service.

Luke Cortese(@ABCundrstandBTC) is the honeybadger who has been behind this incredible story.

But it gets better

Each month he runs a "treasure hunt" where new members of the community learn about Bitcoin. 25 new people started using Bitcoin on the last one.

AND

He's open sourcing the model so other small towns across the country can start onboarding new businesses. He's already gotten enquiries from neighboring towns, and states.

Jeffrey who?

All we need to do is bring the troops home, close up the foreign bases, shutter the CIA, balance the budget, pay down the debt, restart domestic manufacturing, revamp education, shrink the gov., support family farms, create affordable housing, end the Fed, eat healthy food, abandon the algorithms, control Ai, set term limits for all public officials, harness the sun’s energy, make plastic biodegradable…

…then everything will be alright.

Without the forever wars, intelligence agencies, surveillance, opaque tax codes, ever increasing numbers of laws, financial mismanagement and expanding government…

…American confidence can flourish.

Most people feel inflation, they just don’t connect it to the money itself.

21,000,000 BTC / 8,000,000,000 humans = 0.002625 BTC each.

Bitcoin was never designed so everyone could have one. It was designed so no one could print more.

Bitcoin might be more popular if it was:

• Controlled by a small number of people.
• The most popular money for criminals.
• Printed at a rate of 7% per year.
• Easy to reverse transactions.
• Limited by banking hours.

But the dollar has a strong monopoly on all of this.

In Mendocino back in the ‘90s we had our own local currency called Seed.

Today we can use bitcoin as a local currency, keep value within our community and strengthen our local economy…like they do in Lugano Switzerland, El Zonte El Salvador, Jericoacoara Brazil etc.

Kevin Warsh, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, on bitcoin.

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If I wanted to live in a society where everything I do on my device is collected, when I walk down the street I’m surveilled, where my car has a kill switch should it think I’m impaired, and where I’m given a social credit score…

…I’d move to China.

America is messy. We’re facing fiscal irresponsibility, forever wars, broken politics…

But buried under all that America is still here: neighbors showing decency, entrepreneurs taking risks, the comfort of apple pie and baseball, enduring creativity and can-do attitude that defines us. We can find this America in our daily lives. 🇺🇸

Bitcoin is a pure protocol — no government no corporation, no one controls it. Digital but cash-like: pseudonymous, private, and ideal as a local currency. Nothing like Zelle, PayPal or payment apps where every move is tracked. This is money you actually own and can spend freely.

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From Porter Stansberry:

On September 30th 1979, the former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Arthur Burns, gave a private talk ("The Anguish of Central Banking") to a gathering of the world's wealthiest bankers at a private gathering in Belgrade. This was kept secret from the American people for almost decade. If you read it, you'll see why.

Burns warned the world's wealthiest bankers that the entire global financial system would soon be reset. He explained the inevitable failure of the world's new, fiat currency global financial system, just two months before the world's bond markets began an 80%+ collapse.

Every American should understand this warning because it is happening again, right now.

Burns explained how the Western democracies had turned to debt, financed by inflation, to create the illusion of prosperity. But this prosperity wouldn't last because the inflationary bias would sap the "economic and moral vitality of the democracies."

Here are his three most important warnings. These are his words, not mine.

#1. "Since 1950, the federal budget has been in balance in only five years. Since 1970, a deficit has occurred in every year. Not only that, but the deficits have been mounting in size. Budget deficits have thus become a chronic condition of federal finance… But when the government runs a budget deficit, it pumps more money into the pocketbooks of people than it withdraws from their pocketbooks; the demand for goods and services therefore tends to increase all around. That is the way the inflation that has been raging since the mid-1960s first got started and later kept being nourished."

#2. "What had once been a quiet personal feeling that the future would be better than the past, particularly for one's children, was transformed during the postwar years into an articulate and widespread expectation of steady improvement in living standards — indeed, into a feeling of entitlement to annual increases in real income. But when government takes on the duty of underwriting that entitlement without the productivity to fund it, the only remaining lever is the currency itself.

#3. ""In view of the strong and widespread expectations of inflation that prevail at present, I have therefore reluctantly come to believe that fairly drastic therapy will be needed to turn inflationary psychology around."

Two months later, Paul Volcker starting raising interest rates and he didn't stop until they were 20%. Anyone who was holding bonds -- or virtually any financial asset -- took enormous losses. It was a global monetary reset.

That's how all of this will end. It isn't hard to understand.

Your parents probably weren't invited to that secret meeting in Europe. And you probably won't be invited this time, either. But those meetings are happening right now. That's why Trump went to China -- our biggest creditor.

(Prepare now. Study bitcoin.)

The price of houses isn't going up; it’s the value of the USD that’s going down.

bitcoin…

…is not “crypto.”

We are entering a sovereign debt crisis…

…are you prepared?

Morning . Coffee’s ready. A new day. Start visualizing the future. (Cream? Sugar?) What do we want? Prosperity. Peace. Purpose. (There’s a spoon in the drawer.) Privacy and freedom. Technology that doesn’t extract attention. (Pull up a chair and join us.) Stability. The present doesn’t last forever.

Imagine your town is reliant on junk food that’s making everyone sick and increasingly dependent on pharmaceuticals. But you’ve discovered fresh organic food that’s healthy, and you want to share this knowledge to improve the lives of your neighbors.

Now imagine your town is reliant on fiat currency that’s making everything unaffordable and increasingly driving people into debt. But you’ve discovered sound money that can be used and saved for a better future, and you want to share this knowledge to improve the lives of your neighbors, too.

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In a world drowning in debt and inflation imagine a small coastal community where the economy is strong because bitcoin is the local currency.

Bitcoin is a high-IQ, low-time-preference asset in a world addicted to DoorDash, dopamine, and debt.

Holding Bitcoin requires patience, conviction, and the ability to not panic when CNBC tells you it’s dead for the 47th time.

That rules out, oh I don’t know - 95% of the population?

This isn’t some egalitarian revolution. This is a cognitive filter disguised as a monetary network.

The rich, the strategic, the elite - those who understand volatility as opportunity - will stack the hardest asset on Earth while the masses beg for interest rate cuts and $600 stimmies to buy groceries they can't afford.

It's not a level playing field. It's a time-preference war, and Bitcoin is the scoreboard.

And every cycle, we watch it happen again.

The media ridicules it, the politicians fear it, and the smart money buys more.

While fiat punishes savers and rewards financial nihilism, Bitcoin inverts the whole structure.

It’s a vault for those who can delay gratification, think generationally, and understand that true wealth is preserved rather than printed.

The game isn’t rigged.

It’s just calibrated for adults.

~Adam Livingston

Bitcoin isn't real! It's not physical!

Yeah? Neither is the number seven, but I bet you'd notice if your bank balance dropped by seven figures.

Let me break the spell for you: money has never been "real."

Money is a collective hallucination—a social construct we all agree to pretend exists so we don't have to barter chickens for dental work.

Gold wasn't money because it fell from heaven with "LEGAL TENDER" stamped on it.

We picked gold because it was the least-bad physical object that checked the boxes:

• Scarce
• Durable
• Divisible
• Portable
• Verifiable

It was the analog solution to our shared idea.

But here's the thing about analog: it's slow, heavy, and requires armed guards.

And here's the thing about humans: we engineer better tools.

We went from abacus to iPhone. From carrier pigeons to satellites.

From gold bars locked in vaults to Bitcoin—verified by thermodynamics, secured by energy, and transmitted at the speed of light.

Bitcoin is the digital versioin of money. Just like X is the digital version of town hall.

Gold was the best we could do for many centuries.

Bitcoin is what we can do now that we have cryptography, distributed consensus, and proof-of-work anchored in physics.

Your grandpa trusted gold because he could hold it.

You trust Bitcoin because you can verify it.

One required faith in a metal. The other requires faith in math.

Guess which one has never been debased, diluted, or confiscated by executive order?

The concept of money is a human mental construct.

Always has been. Always will be.

The only question is: do you want your construct built on scarcity enforced by governments—or scarcity enforced by code?

Gold was monetary technology for the industrial age. Bitcoin is monetary technology for the information age.

Welcome to the upgrade.

Dear Governor Newsom

Please can we have a suspension of the overly zealous California gas tax until this whole Hormuz/Iran war that’s not a war thing is sorted out?

Thank you, (A downtrodden pleb.)

I’m not a Luddite. I don’t believe in breaking things. But I do believe that certain things - like nukes and total information awareness - just shouldn’t be used.

There’s nothing like a warm spring evening sitting out on the front porch with a cold beer, listening to the birds sing and scrolling endlessly on Instagram searching for people to be jealous of.

In 2014 a 19-year-old MIT student raised $500,000 and gave every undergraduate on campus $100 in Bitcoin. Most of them spent it on sushi. That sushi cost them $44 million.

— Jeremy Rubin was a sophomore studying computer science. He raised $500,000 from alumni and Bitcoin enthusiasts and in October 2014 gave every undergraduate student at MIT $100 worth of Bitcoin about a third of a coin at $336 per $BTC.

— 3,108 students signed up

— The experiment became the first academic study on Bitcoin adoption ever conducted.

— One in ten students cashed out within two weeks.

— One in four had sold by 2017

— The ones who forgot about it entirely did the best.

— The most common way students spent their Bitcoin was at a single sushi restaurant called Thelonious Monkfish.

— The only place on campus accepting Bitcoin at the time.

— One student estimated that half the people he knew spent their entire $100 on fish.

— One student spent hers on two sushi dinners and forgot the rest existed.

— In 2021 she found her wallet still sitting untouched.

— Her $100 of Bitcoin was worth $13,000.

— If every single student had done nothing the entire $500,000 experiment would be worth ove $110 million today

— One student told reporters "Most of us thought it was a bit of a joke"

The smartest students at the most prestigious engineering university on earth were given free Bitcoin in 2014 and spent it on sushi.

The ones who forgot they had it became the winners.

People often think bitcoin is an investment. In reality it is hard money with an absolute fixed supply of 21 million. That’s why its purchasing power increases over time.

An automobile has one purpose: to carry a person of discernment from where they are to where they wish to be. Nothing more is asked. Nothing more is offered.

Discretion is about not tracking where you go. Privacy is about not recording what you say. Respect is about not studying your face to determine whether you are fit to hold the wheel.

This automobile does none of these things. Nor will it presume to drive you autonomously. The road ahead belongs to you. As it always has.

Some things need not be invented. They need only be preserved.

America is best when it’s not being divisive, starting wars, and financially unequal.

It’s at its best when it’s innovating, creating, exploring, and pursuing happiness.

Everyone in Bitcoin is telling you to hodl. Nobody is telling you to spend... 😬

Here's the problem with that: A currency nobody spends is not a currency, it's a museum exhibit. Gold became irrelevant the moment governments convinced people to store it in vaults and accept paper instead. That's exactly what happens when an entire community builds an identity around never spending their money.

Satoshi didn't write a whitepaper about a store of value. He wrote about a peer-to-peer electronic cash system... Cash as in, you use it.

The path to mass adoption isn't a million people locking Bitcoin in cold storage and waiting to become billionaires. It's a million people buying coffee, paying rent, sending money home to their families, and replacing what they spent.

Spend and replace, that's how a currency wins. Hodl to death is how it becomes a relic.