An Open Letter to Tucker Carlson

From One Dissident to Another: Why I Believe You’re Wrong on Bitcoin

Dear Tucker,

I’ve followed your work for years. You’ve been one of the few voices willing to push past political theater and speak uncomfortable truths. I don’t say this lightly: you’ve shaped how I view media, power, and institutional decay. In an age of plastic “conservatives,” you’ve had the guts to challenge the regime and admit when you were wrong.

Which is why I was surprised, and honestly a little disheartened, by your recent comments dismissing Bitcoin.

I say this not as a critic, but as someone aligned with your worldview. Someone who believes in decentralization, truth-telling, and individual sovereignty. But on Bitcoin, I think you’ve missed the mark. I want to offer a respectful counterpoint, as someone who also distrusts centralized power and grew up watching the same alphabet agencies wreck everything they touch.

You said Bitcoin was probably created by the CIA, that you don’t know who Satoshi is, and that it could be co-opted by financial elites. I get the impulse, especially in today’s age of control. When you grow up around the intelligence world, you learn to look for hidden strings. You become cautious of anything without a visible operator.

That said, Bitcoin is the first and maybe only system that doesn’t have and doesn’t need a ruler. It doesn’t ask you to trust Satoshi. It doesn’t require permission. It verifies instead of trusting. Its rules are enforced by physics and math, not by men.

If the CIA had built Bitcoin, there would be a backdoor and kill switch. But Bitcoin has none. And we know that because we can read the code. Every update, every transaction, every rule is public and open for anyone to audit. It’s the opposite of a black box.

The elites you rightly criticize, the ones who have rigged the global system, are not embracing Bitcoin. They are building CBDCs, digital IDs, and programmable money alternatives. That is their vision of the future. Bitcoin is not part of that vision. It is antithetical to all of those things.

You know as well as anyone that real power always seeks centralization. Bitcoin prevents that. It doesn’t just resist capture. It makes capture impossible.

It’s not a silver bullet. It won’t solve our cultural crisis or replace moral leadership, but it gives us something rare. It gives us a tool to anchor value in something real. It aligns incentives with honesty and work, not deception and manipulation.

Some of us see Bitcoin as more than money. I personally believe it reflects truth in the thermodynamic sense. It is a system built on sacrifice, energy, and proof. In that way, it mirrors the moral architecture of the world. Even Christ taught that truth must be demonstrated, not declared. Bitcoin works the same way.

I’m not asking you to change your mind overnight. I’m just asking you to look again. Talk to Michael Saylor in depth again at the very least.

The same regime that spies, lies, and censors hates Bitcoin. That alone should make you curious.

Gratefully,

The Signal Horn