#asknostr

In 2000, Saddam Hussein did something very few people paid attention to.

He announced Iraq would start selling oil in euros, not U.S. dollars.

Three years later, the United States invaded Iraq.

No weapons of mass destruction were ever found.

But something else happened quietly.

Iraqi oil went right back to being priced in dollars.

Most people call that a coincidence.

I call it a lesson.

In 2009, Muammar Gaddafi proposed something even more dangerous.

A gold-backed African currency — the gold dinar.

It would have allowed African nations to buy oil without using dollars.

In 2011, NATO intervened in Libya for “humanitarian reasons.”

Gaddafi was killed.

The gold dinar disappeared.

Libyan oil? Back to dollars.

Another coincidence.

I’m noticing a pattern.

Go back further.

In 1971, President Nixon took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.

The dollar was no longer backed by gold — only a promise.

By all historical logic, the dollar should have collapsed.

It didn’t.

Why?

Because three years later, Henry Kissinger cut a deal with Saudi Arabia.

The deal was simple:

Sell oil only in U.S. dollars, and the U.S. military will protect the regime.

From that moment on, every country on earth needed dollars to buy energy.

That wasn’t free-market economics.

That was force-backed monetary policy.

Or, more honestly, a protection racket.

And it works — as long as the military can enforce it.

Watch what happens when countries challenge it.

Russia demands rubles for natural gas?

Sanctions. Escalation.

Syria discusses pipelines priced outside the dollar system?

Civil war intensifies. Pipeline never happens.

Iran tries to sell oil outside the dollar?

Decades of sanctions.

I’m not saying these are good governments or bad governments.

I’m saying watch what happens when anyone threatens the petrodollar system.

Once you see it, the pattern isn’t subtle.

SWIFT is not a neutral payment system.

It’s a weapon.

Get cut off from SWIFT, and you’re locked out of global trade.

Russia.

Iran.

Cuba.

Venezuela.

Different politics. Same outcome.

They don’t teach this in school because it’s uncomfortable.

We don’t send 18-year-olds to die for “freedom.”

We send them to protect reserve currency status.

Currency funds the military.

The military protects the currency.

That’s how empires work.

Britain learned this the hard way.

The British pound was the world’s reserve currency for nearly 200 years.

After World War II, Britain lost reserve status.

Within two decades, the British Empire collapsed.

Same cycle.

Dutch guilder.

British pound.

Now the U.S. dollar.

Ray Dalio has been warning about this for years.

Late-stage empire looks like this:

• Military overextension

• Rising debt

• Currency weakening

• Rivals building alternatives

China’s Belt and Road isn’t charity.

It’s about creating debt relationships denominated in yuan.

BRICS aren’t talking about alternatives because they’re friends.

They’re building an exit ramp from dollar dependence.

When the dollar loses reserve status — not if, when — the ability to print money without consequences disappears.

- Then the military contracts.

- Then the empire ends.

- You can call this cynical.

I call it financial history.

Every war in my lifetime had a currency angle — if you knew where to look.

“Freedom and democracy” is the marketing.

The actual policy documents talk about

“maintaining dollar liquidity in global energy markets.”

I’m not anti-military.

I’m anti-bullshit.

If we’re sending people to fight…

We should at least be honest about why.

Hot take: VSCode is a terrible framework for an extensible IDE.

Pour one out for the globers tonight 🥺❤️

They are doing their best

The other thing that people overlook is that many OG’s had weak self custody setups….some of these on chain moves are simply setups changes.

I bet 10%.

Go to Google right now and type in “is we getting” and show me what comes up for you first 💀

Two U.S. Navy Aircraft Lost in South China Sea

Two U.S. Navy aircraft from the carrier USS Nimitz went down in the South China Sea on Sunday in separate incidents only minutes apart.

The first crash involved an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from the “Battle Cats” squadron, which went into the water around 2:45 p.m. during what the Navy called “routine operations.” All three crew members were recovered alive.

Less than an hour later, at 3:15 p.m., a two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet from the “Fighting Redcocks” squadron also went down while flying from the same carrier. Both pilots ejected and were rescued.

Spirituality is to religion as #Bitcoin is to crypto

- nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y

#BitcoinTwitter

Core v30 logic: Filters don’t work, so let’s destroy our reputation trying to force people to stop using them.

LIV golf attempting to appeal to real golf, advertising on Ryder Cup train 😂

Let’s discuss … people absolutely have the right to not vaccinate their children. I’m completely OK with that

but people do not have the human right to send their unvaccinated children to public schools where they are going to infect others. We have seen this repeat throughout humanity and it’s gross.

lets play a game

guess the usd bitcoin price exactly a month from now

sep 26th 2025 - 0414 UTC

closest guess will be zapped 5555 sats

only guesses made within the next 24 hours qualify

(if i think you are a bot you are disqualified)

Timechain info:

Block height: 910,106

Network difficulty: 129.44T

Next difficulty adjustment(est.): 125.20T

Market dominance %: 55.19%

BTC price per 1K sats($): 1.19

24H median transaction fee($): 0.43

#meme #memes #btc #nostr #plebchain #memestr #pleb #laugh #funny #jokes #primal #serioushumour

Title: Wiping properly will

The world doesn’t need your self-sacrifice.

It needs your transformation.

⚡️🚨 NEW - "The unemployment data on entry-level jobs is a call to action. The first signs of the societal disruptions of AI are already here.”"

Paul Tudor Jones: The warning about AI is playing out in real-time, right before our eyes.

As someone who has spent nearly half a century as a professional risk manager, every alarm bell in my being is ringing, and they should be in yours, too

"Amid all the talk about the state of our economy, little noticed and even less discussed was June’s employment data. It showed that the unemployment rate for recent college graduates stood at 5.8%, topping the national level for the first and only time in its 45-year historical record."

> Also why do you hate Russia so much?

Maybe because Putin is responsible for killing 1M+ people in the UA-RF war so far? What, you are applauding him?

It’s a beautiful day to be alive.

⚡️📊 NEW - Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley highlights a contrast in crypto market: #Bitcoin approaching $94k while Google searches for "Bitcoin" remain near historic lows.

He points out this rally isn't retail-driven but fueled by institutions, advisors, corporations, and nations entering the space signaling a significant expansion in the types of Bitcoin investors.