Anyone else get the feeling that the US is about to get a small taste hyperinflation?

Leaders often fail to lead with justice, punishing unfairly and breaking trust, deepening our pain. This fracture pushes us to seek freedom beyond broken systems by mastering our minds and accepting what we cannot control. Yet true freedom also calls for courage to challenge injustice and engage collectively. While the world may fail to lead with honor, strength arises when we balance inner clarity with action, creating new leadership from the people, not just the few.

Our world is built on stories. Laws, money, borders. Imagined rules shaping life and death. Yet beneath lies the raw, physical truth. Matter, energy, time, unchanging and real. Humans suffer not from nature, but from systems we created and enforce. True freedom begins when we see this. That power lies in recognizing what is real and what is imagined. And in daring to rewrite the stories that bind us. Change starts with awareness, and the courage to choose a new reality.

#bitcoin

This made my head hurt.

Please don’t let $WBTC have better proof of reserves than most CEOs provide when talking about their own balance sheets. It’s embarrassing that a tokenized version of bitcoin, issued by a custodian, can demonstrate more transparency than legacy finance. If even wrapped assets are held to higher standards than public companies, maybe it’s time to ask why we accept so little from the people managing trillions.

#bitcoin

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Look, no one is forcing you to provide proof of reserves. That’s entirely your choice. But if you’re the CEO of a company making public announcements about buying Bitcoin for your corporate treasury, the impact of that statement has changed. Without sharing a public key or some form of verifiable proof, it no longer carries the same weight or transparency. The standard has evolved, and expectations have risen with it.

#bitcoin

buenos díaz.

Moving forward, if you're gonna run around screaming your company is buying Bitcoin and holding it “forever,” we're gonna need more than vibes, Laura. We need proof of reserve.

Not your tweet, not your coin. 🧾

Meanwhile, for the plebs: proof of keys is still step one. If you bought Bitcoin and it's still chillin' on an exchange… congratulations, you own a screenshot.

We're not asking you to flex. Just take it out the casino and into cold storage. That’s the whole vibe.

But if you're a CEO making headlines about stacking sats, you don’t get to hide behind "privacy" after publicly announcing a billion-dollar buy. Either show receipts, or stop front-running for engagement.

Exchanges are reporting record-low BTC balances. Samson says we're overdue for 7 figures. I believe him.

Let’s flush out that paper Bitcoin. Call it what it is. 🚽💸

Because real Bitcoin lives off-exchange.

#ProofOfReserve

#ProofOfKeys

#BitcoinOnly

#PaperBitcoinIsLies

A #bitcoin conference where they discourage you to run a node. Because they think what they believe is better than you. Excuse my French, but fuck that!

I’d like to crate a token. It will be pegged to the #bitcoin I could have purchased but didn’t. To the bitcoin I lost in a boating accident. These conferences are becoming too 💩 🪙 for my taste. 😒

When gold was 6102’d, they didn’t need to knock on every door. The institutions holding it complied—to save themselves.

Now those same institutions want your bitcoin. They’ve packaged it in a shiny ETF and told you it’s safe.

But when they come for that bitcoin, do you really think the ETF will resist?

Do you think they’ll stand up for you?

All the signals have been blaring for years.

But the stock market kept climbing, so we silenced our doubts.

Proof of keys? “Too risky,” they said.

But KYC, AML, and the risk of hacks? Somehow that’s fine?

I can’t just “stack sats & stay humble” anymore.

I need the toxic maxis now.

Not the laser-eye grifters hosting shitcoin conferences.

I need the plebs. The ones who self-custody.

The ones not afraid of 12 or 24 words.

This is our shot. Maybe our only one.

Don’t let them convince you that you can’t be trusted.

Don’t hand over your freedom for convenience.

Hold your keys. Be ungovernable.

#bitcoin #freedom

I use to be excited about these #bitcoin conferences. I’ll just wait for the highlights instead.

I find it funny that the same heroes who once said, “You can run any node software you want,” are now the loudest and most upset because some of us refuse to relay spam and have started running the node software that best fits our needs. Why does all of this carry the energy of, “If you don’t run what we say, you’re an idiot”?

I was planning to eventually switch back to Core once this drama blew over. But now, in the spirit of decentralization, I’m choosing to run Knots — even if it’s the wrong move. Why am I not worried? Because I own my keys, I run my own node, and I can switch to any node software I want, whenever I choose.

I’m starting to see that some of you influencers may already be captured. It’s nice that you wrote your books and host your shows, but it blows my mind when your advice stops sounding like #Bitcoin. Take JPEGs on the chain, for example. Sure, it can be done — but why? I’m not upset that they’re there. I’m not even upset that you’re turning Bitcoin into something resembling a shitcoin.

What bothers me is that when we, the plebs, try to steer things back toward the original ethos, we’re seen as the problem.

To remind myself of where we came from, I had to rewatch Magic Internet Money, Banking on Bitcoin, and The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin. I must have missed the part where tagging walls just because you can became a core value.

Hold your keys. Run the node of your choice. Aren’t you glad you self-custody your Bitcoin — and that an ETF isn’t deciding for you?

We’re probably being heavily paper-bitcoined right now, and yet many of you are more concerned about whether we should allow JPEGs. Let that vote be cast through the node you choose to run.

Yes.

GM

CERN can now turn lead into gold. When alchemy becomes reality, gold stops being scarce, supply can grow at will. The process burns vast energy that could be securing bitcoin instead. You can never mint more than twenty one million bitcoin, no lab can rewrite that cap. Put the power where value stays fixed, not where metal gets diluted.

#bitcoin #CERN #gold

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

I get the analogy, but isn’t blindly following what everyone else is doing kind of the definition of being a sheep? Sometimes it’s worth stepping off the beaten path and thinking for ourselves.

Honestly, I’m just happy I run a bitcoin node and hold my keys in cold storage.

Some people will hold an ETF and forget why we #bitcoin.

The Bitcoin software doesn’t auto-update. If Knots ever goes rogue, we’ll move on from that too. This isn’t about picking a winner. It’s about refusing to pretend we have real choice when that choice is being shaped behind closed doors.

Right now, there are more eyes on Knots than ever. Any funny business would be spotted. What’s concerning is that Core has started censoring people when conflicts of interest are pointed out. They say we have choice. But everything that has been said so far points to the illusion of it.

All those Core maintainers. All those eyes. Yet it took someone outside the club to call out what was happening. Changes were being made without community input. People raising questions were being silenced or banned. They won’t censor spam, but they’ll censor dissent.

This isn’t about OP_RETURN. It’s about behavior. About acting like Core is Bitcoin, instead of Bitcoin being the people. One person can slip in changes while everyone else stays quiet, and we’re told to trust the process. That’s not decentralization. That’s capture with better PR.