Sudan’s tragedy is enormous.
But Sudan’s tragedy does not generate clicks, capital flows, or geopolitical leverage, therefore the fiat system does not amplify it.
Fiat systems reward whatever sustains the system, not whatever reflects reality.
This is how fiat systems shape collective consciousness.
Bitcoin represents more than digital scarcity. It’s the convergence of fixed monetary rules with open, verifiable settlement infrastructure.
This fusion creates new possibilities for monetary reliability, payment efficiency, and financial transparency.
🔥 Banger if I do say so myself
A Linked in comment in response to me
I mean…..
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Fix the Money yes. But there’s more to it..
Bitcoin fixes a lot.
It gives us better incentives.
Hard money, no printing, no gatekeepers. All beautiful but…
It doesn’t fix:
That empty feeling a lot of people carry around
How leadership became detached from actual people and places
The fact that most of us are just consumers now, not citizens
How work stopped feeling meaningful
Or the low-key fear that drives so many decisions: “If I don’t extract, I’ll be left behind”
Fixing the money is essential.
But it’s not enough.
We still need to:
Rebuild real trust between people, communities, and institutions
Bring humanity back into how we work
Ask the hard question: what’s actually valuable?
Help folks navigate a chaotic world that’s moving way too fast
Fiat’s not just a currency system.
It’s a symptom.
It reflects deeper cracks in our values, in how we lead, in how we live.
Bitcoin gives us a shot at doing things differently.
But if we don’t change how we measure success, what we believe about people, or how we treat each other…
We’ll just rebuild the same old machine.
Same treadmill. Just faster and shinier.
The goal isn’t just fix the system.
It’s be better humans in a better system.
Bitcoin can open the door.
But it’s on us to walk through it and bring meaning back with us.
🔍 1. Money as a Moral Mirror
“Money is not only corruptible but corrupting.”
This isn’t a rejection of money — it’s a call to master it rather than be mastered by it. In Kenya (or anywhere really), the degradation of money (via inflation, state overreach, fiat dependency) leads directly to moral erosion:
• Institutions rot.
• Incentives warp.
• Integrity becomes optional.
In this framing, fixing the money is about restoring virtue — not just economics.
Long weekend. I plan to deep-read these docs to see how off-base their assumptions are.
https://uncefact.unece.org/display/uncefactpublic/Global+Trust+Registry
The Global Trust Registry (GTR) isn’t just about trade.
It’s a cornerstone in a global push to reassert control over money, identity & behavior through digital compliance infrastructure.
Let’s connect the dots.
What is the GTR?
A UN/CEFACT project to anchor digital identities (people, products, businesses) into a global, verifiable registry.
Think: passports for everything—stored, tracked, cross-border, and permanent.
Why now? Because decentralization is breaking the legacy system.
Bitcoin, Nostr, stablecoins, AI—these tools remove the need for centralized intermediaries.
GTR is part of the response mechanism.
GTR isn’t alone. Look at the global landscape:
• FATF = AML rules + identity for all crypto transfers
• IMF = Pressuring nations to pass VASP laws
• EU AMLR = Privacy coin bans, wallet KYC
• CBDCs = Programmable money
• UN GTR = Global trust anchoring
Different agencies. One goal:
Control the protocol layer.
The real motive? Regain control over the foundational layer: MONEY.
If you can’t control money, you can’t control:
• Tax
• Trade
• Borders
• Dissent
• Compliance
Without it, the modern nation-state unravels.
GTR adds the identity layer to this control matrix.
Combine:
• CBDCs (money layer)
• GTR (identity layer)
• FATF rules (compliance layer)
= A global financial panopticon built through “standardization.”
This isn’t coordination by conspiracy.
It’s convergence by design.
Each institution is building a piece of the same puzzle:
Frictionless global control.
But here’s the catch -
Technologies like Bitcoin, self-custodial Lightning, and Nostr don’t need permission.
They route around trust registries, around KYC, and around control.
That’s why this fight matters.
The Global Trust Registry sounds harmless.
But in context, it’s a digital ID backbone for a future where freedom is permissioned.
Don’t fall for the branding.
Final thought:
We’re not just building new tech.
We’re deciding who gets to define trust in the next century.
Open source? Or institutional gatekeepers?
Choose wisely.
Can’t wait to get my hands on some of those 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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OMMMMMEGA……
I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.
The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)
Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)
That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.
Either:
1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.
OR
2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)
While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.
Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.
Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.
Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day. You make a difference with every word, thought and action.
Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.
Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.
The only “yield” we should understand
European corporations are so far behind. I work for a global organisation HQ’d in Germany. 500,000 employees across 6 Business Units. The BU I work for just had a two day retreat celebrating results & workshopping how we could double those results by 2030. Same old “invest in people, new technologies, regions, products…” rhetoric. Everyone knows I’m a bitcoiner but this is an 🍊 💊 that Saylor will have to deliver. Corporations to corporation…
My cousin Saya won gold in BMX for Australia at the Paris Olympics! 🥇
Over breakfast this morning, she’s was asking smart questions about bitcoin.
Please show her how cool the Lightning Network is by sending digital gold to a gold medalist?
smallmacrame85@walletofsatoshi.com
https://x.com/10sportau/status/1819465303270871049?s=46&t=yTIAh0ALifomfty2grV1eA
Done 👌🏾
Visit Arnhem, truly a Bitcoin city with a lot if awareness and merchants accepting sats all around the city
😟 couldn’t make it work & I did Damages s first before Plebstr. I’ll try again later. Still trying to learn how to use all this