matt finerbey

There's been a stealth class war waged against We the People for decades. Wages are stalling. Debt is rising. The dollar is dying. Food quality is dropping but not as fast as birth rates. Calorie access is restricting. Global tensions are tightening. Inflation is hotter than the government will admit, with most of the pain focused on the people who can least afford it. All of it on purpose. All of it undone by Bitcoin. Why are they going after your money? Wealth is the only form of defense we have that can protect our kids, grandkids and (hopefully) everyone they care about from danger. It can even give them opportunity, aka offense. That’s why money matters. It provides protection and the power to make change. This is why money matters to the bad guys, too. Most people think they are simply trying to make money. ...those same people don’t think about how their money loses value every year, constantly. Nor do they think about why their money is becoming worthless, or recognize it's intentional. The elite control the central banking technocrats, the media conglomerates and the governments of the world. They use NGOs and other seemingly charitable vehicles to coordinate globally. They write laws to confine us, enforce them against us, judge us, tax us and print the value of our money away. The plan is simple: the baddies are trying to steal our wealth by creating more money to drive up asset prices (and rents to use assets) in order to funnel progressively more economic energy to themselves. They are using the money printer to create a black hole of inflation in order to drain all our purchasing power to fund their obscene lifestyles. I've been thinking about this problem for close to 15-years. “How do you build wealth faster than central banks are destroying the value of money itself?” I asked myself that question for the first time in 2011 with 3 friends while we worked together to launch a company. It is impossible to get your head around the scale of reckless and entirely unaccountable “credit creation” aka magic money making that happens every day across the world. The elite are doing more than simply keeping themselves warm with the money printer. They are playing offense (getting richer) and defense (making savers and income earners even poorer). Strengthening themselves as they weaken everyone else. Bitcoin ends their class war against the hardworking people and puts power back into our hands. It prevents global security states, forever wars and most forms of corruption, too. No wonder they fear Bitcoin.

Hey everyone, I just YOLO’d my entire disability check, my wife’s OnlyFans tip jar, and the kids’ Christmas fund into Bitcoin again. My ex called it another one of my meth-fueled hallucinations (we have been divorced for three years, so she can stay mad). My cousin Daryl, the one with the neck tattoo of a Confederate flag, said "Hell yeah, brother, we are going to be rich or die trying." I sleep on an air mattress with laser eyes drawn on it in Sharpie. My financial advisor is a half-empty bottle of Fireball and a Michael Saylor YouTube video on loop. If this crashes, I will be selling plasma, eating ramen, and living in my truck again. But if it moons, I am buying the whole damn trailer park, installing a Bitcoin ATM next to the beer fridge, and paying hot single moms in sats to mow my ‘lawn’ (which is just a patch of dirt with a broken kiddie pool). This is the white-trash rebellion against the Federal Reserve. We refuse to eating bugs in their CBDC slave grid. We are getting rich off magic internet money while sipping Natty Light and screaming WAGMI at the moon like the absolute degenerates we are. HODL through the dip, boys. Even if it means pawning grandma’s wedding ring one more time.

Bitcoin has won. Global consensus is that $BTC is digital capital. The four-year cycle is dead. Price is now driven by capital flows. Bank and digital credit will determine Bitcoin’s growth trajectory. The biggest risk is bad ideas driving iatrogenic protocol changes.

The top Bitcoin FUD right now: 1. Quantum (this will not be a threat to Bitcoin in many years. Banks and other infrastructure will be broken before Bitcoin. Devs will make it quantum secure way before it’s broken) 2. Spam (this is a real threat. Bitcoin Core is making it easier to put spam on the blockchain. The best way to fight this is to run Knots/BIP-110) 3. Energy consumption (overblown narrative. Bitcoin increasingly uses stranded and renewable energy, and energy use is what secures the network, not a bug, but a feature) 4. Government bans (historically ineffective. Bitcoin is decentralized, bans push activity elsewhere rather than stopping it. China is a good example) 5. “Better” altcoins (they trade decentralization for speed or features. Bitcoin prioritizes security and immutability, which is the whole point)

Tadge Dryja, the co-inventor of the Lightning Network, just dropped an update on Utreexo, one of the most underappreciated scaling projects in bitcoin. The problem is straightforward. Every bitcoin node that wants to validate transactions has to store the entire UTXO set, every unspent output on the network. Right now that's 11GB and growing. As more transactions hit the chain, as inscriptions and other data-heavy outputs pile up, every node operator has to store all of it. The UTXO set doesn't get pruned like old blocks can. It just grows. Utreexo eliminates the entire UTXO set from your node. Instead of storing 11GB of data, a Utreexo node stores less than 1KB of hashes and still fully verifies every transaction. It's not a light client. It's not trusting anyone else. It's full validation with radically less storage. The tradeoff has always been bandwidth. Utreexo nodes need to download extra proof data to verify transactions without storing the full set. Until recently, syncing the blockchain with Utreexo took 2-3x the data download of a normal node, pushing into terabytes. That problem is now being solved, new aggregator techniques from SwiftSync have eliminated the extra download overhead. The implementation is still being finalized, but the hard part appears to be behind them. Two things worth noting: First, Utreexo is quantum safe. The accumulator and aggregator are built entirely on hash functions, not elliptic curve cryptography. Whatever quantum computing does to bitcoin's signature scheme, it won't touch Utreexo. At a time when the quantum conversation is heating up, that's a meaningful design advantage. Second, Utreexo directly addresses the tension around "spam" on bitcoin. Inscriptions, BRC-20 tokens, and other data-heavy outputs bloat the UTXO set that every node has to carry. Pruning helps with old block data but doesn't touch the UTXO set. Utreexo makes the entire debate irrelevant, if your node doesn't store the UTXO set at all, the size of it doesn't matter. New releases are out for both utreexod (BTCD-based) and Floresta (rust-based, built with rust-bitcoin). Both are in testing mode, not ready for real funds yet, but ready for developers and node operators to try. This is the kind of quiet, foundational work that actually scales bitcoin at L1. No token. No VC round. No press tour. Just better engineering.

Square just omega-candled the merchant bitcoin adoption chart.

Bitcoin is the first asset that made millions of people study: Money History Debt Central Banking Energy Game Theory Computer Science Geopolitics That alone should tell you it’s not just a trade.