Bitcoin Apes Cascais

⚡️The real signal is that fiat currencies rarely need to disappear in order to fail. They can survive for centuries while quietly liquidating the purchasing power of everyone holding them. That is what the chart actually shows. The pound, dollar, franc, yen, rupee, and other surviving units still circulate because the states behind them remained powerful enough to manage the decline. Their names survived. Their real content did not. This is the hidden function of fiat money. It absorbs political promises that cannot be paid honestly. Governments promise pensions, wars, welfare, bailouts, industrial policy, defense, healthcare, tax cuts, and perpetual growth. When the productive base cannot support the total claim, the currency becomes the adjustment mechanism. Nominal obligations remain intact while their real value is reduced through inflation, suppressed yields, financial repression, taxation, and repeated monetary expansion. That is why the most successful fiat systems often look stable. They avoid dramatic collapse by defaulting slowly. The citizen still receives the salary. The retiree still receives the check. The bondholder still receives the principal. The unit still has the same name. The purchasing power inside every payment has been hollowed out. That is the deeper architecture. Currency death is usually understood too theatrically. People imagine wheelbarrows of cash, bank runs, and official replacement. The more advanced form is quieter. The state preserves confidence in the symbol while extracting value through the denominator. The strongest governments can run this process for generations because demand for their currency remains high. Reserve status, taxation, military power, capital markets, legal systems, and collateral demand keep the unit alive long after its measuring integrity has deteriorated. Weak states lose the currency quickly. Strong states monetize the decay slowly. That is why the dollar can remain dominant while losing purchasing power. Global usage and domestic soundness are separate variables. The world may keep using dollars because the alternatives are less liquid, less open, less trusted, or more politically controlled. That gives the United States more room to dilute before confidence breaks. Gold and Bitcoin matter because they challenge the state’s control over the measuring stick. Gold is the old exit from political liabilities. Bitcoin is the new exit from discretionary supply. Neither requires the dollar to vanish. They only require enough people to recognize that nominal continuity is not monetary integrity. The real lesson from the chart is this: Fiat money does not usually die when the currency disappears. It dies each time yesterday’s savings purchase less of tomorrow’s life.

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Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites. 🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements. Today von der Leyen said: "This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children". 💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984. 🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online". 💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different. 🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done". 💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof". 🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source". 💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant. 🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents". 💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust. 🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence" 💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do. 💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive. 💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child. 💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive. 🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed" 💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price. 🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof" 💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution". 💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity. 🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it". 💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely. 💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor. 💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law. 💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content. 🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals. 💡Where this ends 🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever". George Orwell, 1984.

@WalkerAmerica Exactly. Unfortunately most seem to be following the motto "Stay compliant and carry on"

Chat control and a CBDC all in one week — well done, Europe! Now all the EU needs is an “under 16 social media ban” like the UK/Australia (AKA “ID everyone and de-anonymize the internet under the guise of protecting the children”) and they’ll have the totalitarian trifecta: 1. No private free speech (chat control) 2. No public free speech (under 16 ban) 3. No freedom to transact (CBDC) Put all these together and the EU totalitarians will be able to immediately freeze your access to the financial system whenever you share a hurty words meme publicly or privately. Your private communications are no longer private, so you cannot speak freely privately. Your public communications are tied to your real-word identify, so you cannot speak freely publicly. All of this is tied to your access to the financial system, which can be severed instantly while you wait for the Thought Police to arrive at your door and take you to jail for noticing. Lagarde claims they are not getting rid of cash, but I promise you it will be gone before you know it under the guise of "protect kids" or "stop terrorism" / "right wing extremism"

Burger King was one of the few fast food chains who refused to disclose their ingredients They just quietly released them this year and it’s so much worse than anyone could have imagined - 120 ingredients in The Royal Chicken Spicy Sandwich - 85 ingredients in their Whopper The Whopper’s 85 different ingredients include multiple seed oils, processed sugars, preservatives In the bun, you have things like potassium iodate, banned in Europe, UK, Australia, New Zealand. Also in the bun, you have mono and diglycerides, which are a preservative and dough conditioner which cause gut inflammation The Royal Chicken Spicy Sandwich’s 120 ingredients include - Multiple dough conditioners, which can lead to gut issues - Silicone dioxide, the nanoparticles of which may be inflammatory in the human gut, multiple seed oils - A piece of processed chicken coated in flour and food starches, battered, fried in rancid oxidized seed oils - It contains antifoaming agents that are also found in Silly Putty, like dimethylpolysiloxane - 3 different types of sauces, one of which has over 25 different ingredients. “Burger King might just be the worst fast-food restaurant I've ever seen” This is not food. It’s a chemical science experiment engineered to be as addictive as possible No sandwich should ever include 85-120 ingredients

This is Roberta Metsola, the sneaky President of the EU Parliament. She is responsible for the shenanigans surrounding the 3rd vote on the exception clause for chat control. She broke several EU rules, like “there must not be an emergency vote on an issue that is being voted on the second or third time.” Setting the vote on the day when most MEPs return home is another level of trickery. She lines up alongside Mrs Leyen and Kallas in the phalanx of Europe's destroyers.

Capitalism is not the problem and socialism is not the answer. Fiat money is the problem and #Bitcoin is the answer.

BREAKING: The EU is planning to require a passport to access the internet. And they want to block VPNs to enforce it. "The new age verification system cannot be bypassed via VPN." Read that again. A digital passport. For the internet. Enforced by blocking the tools that protect your privacy. This is what the trajectory looks like. - Cash banned above €10,000. - Bitcoin requires ID above €1,000. - Privacy coins banned. - MiCA eliminating 90% of crypto firms. And now internet access tied to your identity. With VPN circumvention specifically blocked. Every layer of digital privacy. Being dismantled one regulation at a time. While America debates zero capital gains on Bitcoin. Europe is building a system where every click, every transaction, every website visit. Is tied to your passport. This is not consumer protection. This is digital authoritarianism. And they're not hiding it anymore.

WATCH: Bitchat Explained: How to Send Messages when the Internet Goes Down The internet can be shut off. Your ability to communicate shouldn't be. @callebtc explains to @frankcorva how BitChat makes communication unstoppable. No sim, no accounts, no internet. Absolute freedom. From the 2026 @MITBitcoinClub Expo. Chapters: 00:56 — The state of Cashu 02:07 — Who's actually adopting ecash and why 03:26 — Ecash as "pocket money" for AI agents 04:50 — BitChat goes global: Jamaica, Iran, Nepal 05:35 — Why "build it and they will come" isn't a law 07:45 — Staying connected during internet shut down 09:00 — BitChat's mesh network 11:32 — Nostr, geohash chats, and going online 12:46 — What's next: open-source AI agents

The UK just banned under-16s from X, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, and Facebook. Bluesky gets a pass. The platform where Labour politicians and legacy media journalists fled after Musk bought Twitter is conveniently exempt. But the real story is not which platforms made the list. It is what enforcement requires. To ban children from social media, the government needs to know who is a child. That means age verification at scale. That means digital ID for everyone. Google is already rolling out Digital IDs to UK Android phones tied to the Online Safety Act. Apple is adding age verification to iOS 26.4. This is not hypothetical. The infrastructure is being installed right now. Age verification does not stay limited to children. It becomes the architecture for a permissions-based internet where you need government approval to speak. Every expansion of state control over speech in the last decade has been sold under the same banner. "Protect the children." Every time. The alternative already exists. Nostr cannot be captured. Signal cannot be backdoored. Bitcoin cannot be frozen. Governments are telling you what they want. Build accordingly.

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If you denominate US GDP in gold instead of dollars, the chart is wild.

🚨 The government made their own devices 100% invisible, so they can force yours to be 100% transparent. Did you know this? 🚨 They dodge the laws they force on you. On us. The people! Do not take this lightly. Every MP is exempt. Every Lord is exempt. Every elite civil servant is exempt. EVERY PARASITE IS EXEMPT! They force the laws on us. They legally shield themselves. Total public surveillance. Total state secrecy. Absolute parasite immunity. The well-funded, ‘professional’ campaigns wrap this up in polite, Ofcom-palatable jargon… we need to stop playing nice and call this brutal hypocrisy exactly what it is: a legal coup against our privacy. If you complain about the length of this post or a 8-minute video, you are part of the problem. No filters and no apologies. Wake up or get out of the way. 🚨 RULES FOR THEE, PRIVACY FOR ME: What you NEED to know! The UK has engineered a digital dictatorship. They demand total transparency from you, while securing absolute secrecy for themselves. This is not a theory. It is written directly into hard law. Here is the brutal, stripped-down truth of how the political parasites legally insulated themselves from the surveillance panopticon they are forcing onto the public. 1. The Divine Right of MPs The Law: Section 26, Investigatory Powers Act 2016 The Privilege: Intelligence agencies cannot touch an MP’s data without a personal, written veto from the Prime Minister. The Tyranny: Your life is subjected to automated bulk surveillance. Theirs is legally untouchable. 2. The Private Internet Loophole The Law: Schedule 1, Online Safety Act 2023 The Privilege: Official networks used by Ministers, Lords, and civil servants are explicitly exempt from client-side phone scanning. The Tyranny: Your personal WhatsApp must be stripped of privacy and screened. Their government-shielded apps are completely walled off. 3. The Unchecked Dictator Veto The Law: The "Henry VIII" Clauses in the Online Safety Act The Privilege: Ministers hold secondary legislative powers to alter and expand exemptions via Statutory Instruments. The Tyranny: If parasite official ever faces a surveillance clause, they can simply rewrite the law behind closed doors without a democratic vote. 4. The Weaponised Wilson Doctrine The Law: Codified Parliamentary Surveillance Protections The Privilege: The police and security services are completely banned from tracking, tapping, or snooping on politicians. The Tyranny: The very individuals voting to turn your smartphone into an informant are constitutionally protected from ever experiencing the consequences of their own votes. 💥 THE VERDICT This is the textbook definition of tyranny. A free society requires a transparent state and private citizens. The UK has completely inverted it. Your private thoughts, messages, and photos are treated as state property, while the parasites have declared their own devices sacred, unmonitored, and completely opaque. They know exactly how dangerous this technology is - which is precisely why they wrote themselves out of it. 📱 Step 1: The Secret Tunnel (The State VPN) When an MP, Minister, or elite civil servant works from home, they do not use standard family Wi-Fi. Their government laptops and phones are hard-coded to connect to a secure Government VPN (Virtual Private Network). 🔒 Step 2: The Legal Loophole Activates The second that VPN clicks on, every single text, photo, and WhatsApp message they send is sucked out of their house and routed through private servers owned by Parliament. Because their data is now flowing through a "public body network," it triggers Schedule 1 of the Online Safety Act. 🕵️‍♂️ Step 3: Complete Invisibility By law, this private state network is 100% exempt from the screening and scanning algorithms forced onto the public. Their devices instantly become legally invisible and untouchable to the state dragnet. 💥 The Naked Truth Your Home: Your personal Wi-Fi pushes your private messages into a public commercial pipeline where the government demands it be scanned and screened. Their Home: Their Wi-Fi instantly flips into a secure, state-shielded fortress. Location does not matter. The ruling class built a private internet for themselves, using a legal and technical bypass to completely dodge the digital panopticon they are forcing onto you. FYI: From 2020, when Civil Servants and MP’s worked from home, the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) mass-distributed pre-configured laptops, secure mobile devices, and hardware to the home addresses of every MP, Peer, and civil servant. They did not need to install private physical servers in individual houses because the devices themselves act as portable endpoints for the state's centralised servers… then, Government IT teams rapidly re-engineered their servers to handle the strain, massive scaling their corporate VPN capability. This allowed every single person in the state machine to plug their official laptop into their home Wi-Fi, click a button, and completely tunnel their traffic back into secure, centralized government servers. So, what shall we do folks!? New MNC (link in bio) campaign to begin VERY soon! But ideas welcome.

Matthew Kratter of Bitcoin University gives one of the best talks on Bitcoin: "If self sovereign adoption took us from zero dollars a coin to sixty nine thousand dollars a coin, all of those flows from BlackRock and the Trumps and Saylor and everything has has only taken us a few ten thousand dollars higher than at this moment." "Instead of looking to the government or Saylor or BlackRock or someone else as our saviors, if you want the price of Bitcoin to go up, you just need to use it as money yourself. You need to because if Bitcoiners aren't going to use Bitcoin as money, I'm not sure who is." "Ask to pay in Bitcoin, ask to be paid to be paid in Bitcoin, because this is how real Bitcoin adoption works. You should be HODLing your sats, trying to get rid of US dollars, whatever your fiat currency is, because this is the money of pedophile rings and forever wars. Don't hold US dollars. And that's the that's the fastest way we get to higher Bitcoin prices is we need to destroy US dollar network effects. And we need to increase Bitcoin network effects. And the way you do that is every Bitcoiner runs a node, gets paid in Bitcoin and tries to buy as much as possible using using Bitcoin."

THE REACTIONS❗️ Just doesn't get better than that... 🙏 ✝️

If you don't have Bitcoin in self-custody, then you are on the wrong side of the wall. (A presentation to treasury company shareholders)

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Facinating take.