Dihydrogen Monoxide!

The average person has no idea how much they actually pay for their house with a mortgage

An example:

Mortgage: $500,000

Term: 30 years

Rate: 6%

Interest: $610,000

Total cost: $1.1 MILLION

The banks won't tell you this

The schools won't tell you this

And it's by design

It's all smoke and mirrors

Real estate is a scam

I remember when you could just buy something once and actually own it.

Photoshop used to be a one-time purchase. Now it’s $60/month.

Microsoft Office? It came with your PC. Now it’s $70/year.

Netflix was $8 for unlimited streaming. Now it’s $20+ with ads.

Spotify, YouTube, iCloud, Dropbox, even note apps like Notion or Evernote—all subscriptions now.

Duolingo locks off lessons behind paywalls. Car companies are turning on features like heated seats with monthly fees.

Even groceries have subscription models now.

It’s not just greed—it’s the result of a system where the money supply keeps expanding.

As dollars lose value, companies can’t rely on one-time sales anymore. They need recurring income just to keep pace with rising costs, wages, and inflated asset prices. Subscription models are a symptom of businesses trying to stay ahead of a currency that constantly loses purchasing power.

This is what happens when money breaks.

#Bitcoin is a fixed-supply alternative. No one can inflate it. That changes everything.

As fun as video games are and all.

I'm getting a bit tired of all the combat focused ones being set in some kind of dystopia or post apocalypse/disaster or war.

I guess if the game has combat it's hard to have anything else unless it's just 1v1 fighting.

You have 30 seconds to talk about Bitcoin.

What are you saying?

Wen Fort Knox audit?

Can’t exist. Or must make assumptions to make this chart.

Why? Need to accoun for number of inputs and outputs. A typical transaction size is roughly 250 bytes. At bitcoin price of $100k, at 1 sat per vbyte that’s 25¢. A thousand fold fee rate would be $250. At $1M bitcoin and 1000 sat/vbyte fee rate, it’s $2500 per typical transaction.

Can’t exist. Or must make assumptions to make this chart.

Why? Need to accoun for number of inputs and outputs. A typical transaction size is roughly 250 bytes. At bitcoin price of $100k, at 1 sat per vbyte that’s 25¢. A thousand fold fee rate would be $250. At $1M bitcoin and 1000 sat/vbyte fee rate, it’s $2500 per typical transaction.

I made a mistake during my Bitcoin lecture last week in the university of Bologna. One I’m not going to repeat. I assumed something. And I shouldn’t have.

Since I was talking about my job, I told the students that a big part of it is debunking myths around Bitcoin...

You know, the usual stuff: Bitcoin is a Ponzi, it’s going to zero, it’s killing the planet. I built like 15 slides for this. I was ready to fight. Ready to debunk every single one of them, one by one.

So I asked them: “What’s something negative you’ve heard about Bitcoin?”

Silence. No one raised their hand. No one mentioned pollution. No one said anything about volatility or scams. These were 22 years old, curious, open-minded, and genuinely there to learn. They didn’t have myths to unlearn.

So there I was, spending the next 20 minutes talking about gas flaring, carbon-negative mining, and all the reasons Bitcoin is not what “they” say it is. But “they,” in this case, didn’t even exist. The only person bringing up those narratives was me.

And that’s when it hit me. All these years in the Bitcoin scene have trained my brain to always be on the defensive. To expect resistance. To anticipate criticism. And that mindset slowly killed a part of the joy I used to feel when I first learned about Bitcoin.

Back then, no one had told me it was bad. I just found it exciting, revolutionary, empowering. My brain wasn’t busy filtering negative takes it was busy being amazed.

That beginner’s energy, that childish awe, that sense of discovering something precious, it’s something I want to reconnect with. I don’t want to be the person who walks into a room full of open minds and immediately starts talking about the bad things people say.

I want to talk about freedom from banks and government, creativity, women empowerment, potential. I’m not saying I’ll stop responding to critics when necessary. But I want to stop assuming that everyone is a critic.

There are way more people out there who are just curious, interested, open to learning, than there are loud contrarians I’ll never change the mind of anyway.

From now on, I want to speak to the curious ones. Not the ghosts in my head.

I made a mistake during my Bitcoin lecture last week in the university of Bologna. One I’m not going to repeat. I assumed something. And I shouldn’t have.

Since I was talking about my job, I told the students that a big part of it is debunking myths around Bitcoin...

You know, the usual stuff: Bitcoin is a Ponzi, it’s going to zero, it’s killing the planet. I built like 15 slides for this. I was ready to fight. Ready to debunk every single one of them, one by one.

So I asked them: “What’s something negative you’ve heard about Bitcoin?”

Silence. No one raised their hand. No one mentioned pollution. No one said anything about volatility or scams. These were 22 years old, curious, open-minded, and genuinely there to learn. They didn’t have myths to unlearn.

So there I was, spending the next 20 minutes talking about gas flaring, carbon-negative mining, and all the reasons Bitcoin is not what “they” say it is. But “they,” in this case, didn’t even exist. The only person bringing up those narratives was me.

And that’s when it hit me. All these years in the Bitcoin scene have trained my brain to always be on the defensive. To expect resistance. To anticipate criticism. And that mindset slowly killed a part of the joy I used to feel when I first learned about Bitcoin.

Back then, no one had told me it was bad. I just found it exciting, revolutionary, empowering. My brain wasn’t busy filtering negative takes it was busy being amazed.

That beginner’s energy, that childish awe, that sense of discovering something precious, it’s something I want to reconnect with. I don’t want to be the person who walks into a room full of open minds and immediately starts talking about the bad things people say.

I want to talk about freedom from banks and government, creativity, women empowerment, potential. I’m not saying I’ll stop responding to critics when necessary. But I want to stop assuming that everyone is a critic.

There are way more people out there who are just curious, interested, open to learning, than there are loud contrarians I’ll never change the mind of anyway.

From now on, I want to speak to the curious ones. Not the ghosts in my head.

A classic brain teaser.