Bitcoin doesn’t choose its allies.

It grants access without bias, allegiance, or memory: the purest form of permissionlessness, but that very neutrality is a double edged sword.

What cannot discriminate also cannot defend.

Bitcoin will be used by the righteous and the predatory alike, and it won’t lift a block to stop either.

Its silence will be exploited.

Scammers, marketers, and corporates will wrap themselves in its flag, hoping the brand of incorruptibility rubs off on their grift.

The more they succeed, the more blurred the line between Bitcoin and its shadows becomes.

Paper Bitcoin will flood markets like counterfeit scriptures; indistinguishable from the real thing to the uninitiated.

Unless you’re cold, sovereign, and offline…you won’t know what you hold.

Bitcoin integrates with code, not character.

If there’s a line of integration, Bitcoin flows through it, indifferent to the motives behind the merge.

This makes it fertile ground not just for innovation, but infiltration.

Some parasites will attach themselves not just to Bitcoin’s rails, but to its narrative: using its ethos as a marketing tool, while building private networks that serve opposite ends.

They will ride the back of freedom to repackage control.

And if these systems begin to divert energy from Bitcoin, literal or ideological, the protocol can’t stop them.

Only we can.

So ask:

Can a tool of liberation serve a corporate empire without being co opted? Or is permissionless freedom, by nature, neutral to capture?

In a world where anyone can say Bitcoin, discernment becomes the final layer of security.

Be wary of those who borrow Bitcoin’s image to sell trust.

They may not be building alongside it; they may be building beneath it.