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@stackhodler Congratulations 🧡🎉

Baby girl is here, mom is healthy, family is growing. This is the good stuff.

@Conor21m @SimonDixonTwitt It’s a good one also! Must re listen - Jeff has a more purist viewpoint on Bitcoins adoption theory and Simon challenges the roadmap slightly. Different paths / challenges but same outcome ultimately.

@hodleye @SimonDixonTwitt he is yea. I'm fnally getting around to listening to his talk with Jeff Booth now. youtube.com/watch?v=csSlVM…

This is really good. Live on X & YouTube now

@PeterSchiff @BitcoinJunkies Hmmm 🤔- who custody’s & verifies the gold?

@BitcoinJunkies We don't need banks because we can tokenize gold.

🇺🇸 Billionaire Jack Dorsey says we don't need banks anymore because we have Bitcoin.

@namesnik386120 @PeterSchiff @TFTC21 You are & I will. If or when I reach that conclusion I’ll let you know. 🙏

@hodleye @PeterSchiff @TFTC21 So, am I allowed to equally tell you: "Study more, and it will one day dawn on you that Bitcoin is worthless. You can't unsee it afterwards."

Stanley Druckenmiller just told Morgan Stanley that stablecoins will power the entire global payment system within 15 years. He also said Bitcoin "wasn't needed" as a store of value. He's half right and completely wrong at the same time. Stablecoins ARE more efficient than legacy payment rails. The market crossed $315 billion, up $180B since early 2024. Bessent projects $3 trillion by 2030. No debate there. But calling stablecoins the future while dismissing Bitcoin misses the point entirely. Stablecoins are tokenized fiat. They make the dollar faster, not better. They still inflate. They still get debased. They still depend on the same central banks that destroyed 99% of the dollar's purchasing power since 1913. Making a broken currency more efficient doesn't fix the currency. It just helps you lose purchasing power faster. Bitcoin fixes the money itself. 21 million. No CEO. No reserve requirements. No government that can print more when spending gets out of control. Druckenmiller bought BTC around $15,000 in 2020. It's $71,000 today. Nearly 5x on an asset he says "wasn't needed." The payments system needs fixing. But the money needs fixing more.

@SteveHoweNow @PeterSchiff @TFTC21 I don’t need to trust people to use the internet (protocol for connectivity) When you view Bitcoin as a global protocol for money and look at its adoption curve I don’t need trust.

@hodleye @PeterSchiff @TFTC21 Bitcoin has a 100% monetary premium. You have to trust that people will still want it.

@here4gg @PeterSchiff @TFTC21 Backed by the largest globally decentralised supercomputer - electricity / energy ⚡️

@hodleye @PeterSchiff @TFTC21 Backed by nothing that’s the problem

They all have zero impact on the fact Bitcoin is a protocol for money with no single point of manipulation - it’s structure and function is a paradigm shift that offers humanity the best chance of having a neutral money outside centralised control that forces the free market to function as an alternative to the existing fiat based ponzi we are forced to use.

So you trust the people that own insane amounts of BTC and just hoard it...to never sell? You trust the levered products to not undermine BTCs use ? You trust that whatever factors make BTC go up (please tell me what they are, besides greed/FOMO) to continue? You trust the exchanges to work honestly? BTC requires a LOT of trust, hope, and blind faith

@namesnik386120 @PeterSchiff @TFTC21 Just wanting the world to be a better place. Once you understand why & what Bitcoin is - it all clicks, otherwise you’re just shouting at the broken system.

@hodleye @PeterSchiff @TFTC21 No you would just like to get rich by pressing "buy"

@PeterSchiff @TFTC21 But I have trust issues. Bitcoin solves that major flaw.

@TFTC21 That's why the future is tokenized gold. That solves both problems at once. No need for Bitcoin.

@BorisJohnson Your opinion is irrelevant.

I've long suspected Bitcoin is a giant Ponzi scheme and now I'm hearing tales of woe that make me fear I'm right. mol.im/a/15643681

Most modern problems come from broken inputs. Broken money distorts the economy. Broken light distorts human biology. Fix the inputs and the downstream problems begin to disappear.

@PeterSchiff @LarkDavis How can you be so confused about this? - It’s one of the great mysteries 😁

@LarkDavis Now imagine that same bank account where your money loses market value just sitting there. That's also Bitcoin.

Imagine a Swiss bank account where your money actually grows in value just by sitting there. No banker. No government. No inflation eating it alive. That's not a fantasy. That's Bitcoin. The most mental financial invention in human history and most people still think it's a scam.

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Yes - let them fail. The problem is when the system relies on centralised discretion without a hard constraint. If money can be expanded to prevent failure, losses don’t disappear, they’re redistributed through currency debasement = theft through inflation. That’s not free-market discipline.

@hodleye @thecoastguy As long as banks are never bailed out, and especially if everyone knows it, the current system's actually pretty good. economics21st.com/p/money-and-ba…

It’s still all about money - who gets to create it, who gets to control its flow. Everything else, regardless of scale, is distraction.

I agree we need responsible government. My concern is that when the money itself can be expanded at discretion, even well-intentioned governments operate within distorted incentives. Sound money doesn’t replace government - it constrains it. Accountability at the base layer is necessary.

@hodleye @thecoastguy No. We need responsible Govt, one not run by corporations.

I agree power tends to concentrate history shows that. By neutral money I mean money whose rules can’t be changed to favour insiders: supply can’t be inflated on demand, participation is open to anyone, value is anchored to energy, not policy & no central authority can rewrite the system. Not removing competition - just removing monetary privilege. We already have a protocol like this. Most people just haven’t recognised what it is yet.

@hodleye @thecoastguy There is no such thing as neutral money. Bartering is the closest but even then you have to offer something you control for something someone else controls. In the end there will be a group who control the items of barter by either force or law.