Bitcoin finds a home where it's treated best.
The over-levered, the unprofitable, the indebted are forced sellers. The responsible, the patient, the solvent are dip buyers.
Bear markets transfer from the weak to the strong.
Earn more than you spend. Stay humble. Stack sats.
No. Bitcoin runs on thousands of nodes spread globally, many in hardened data centers or with backups/offline copies. Coordinated EMPs hitting *every* one at once is logistically impossible—geography, redundancy, and quick hardware replacement would let the network recover fast. The blockchain data itself survives on surviving nodes.
Charles is right. CLARITY is a surveillance bill that benefits only established large players from traditional finance and crypto. It is the full rape of crypto innovation and a giant panopticon over everything you own.
The CLARITY Act appears fine to people who haven't read it or understood the history of financial regulation in the United States.
That is the trap. The bill does not capture Bitcoin. The five years after it passes do.
1/ CLARITY defines BTC as a digital commodity. Every regulated exchange, custodian, and stablecoin issuer comes under federal registration with Travel Rule and wallet-screening duties.
2/ Treasury rulemaking does the rest. FinCEN expands Travel Rule thresholds. OFAC's sanctions list grows. Chainalysis and TRM Labs become the de facto licensors. Your coins are not legal or illegal. They are scored.
3/ The Samourai prosecution and the Tornado Cash conviction set the precedent. Privacy tools become "unlicensed money transmitters" under 18 USC 1960. Mixers vanish. Coinjoins die a quiet death in plea bargains.
4/ Mining follows the money. OFAC-screened block templates already exist. The 2021 experiments proved them. By 2028, the largest US pools run them by default. Non-compliant miners lose banking, hosting, and power contracts.
5/ Lightning is not the escape. Liquidity providers register as MSBs. Routing nodes screen. "Clean channels" emerge. Even a coffee payment touches a KYC'd pool. The mesh network that was supposed to free your sats licenses them on the way out.
6/ Off-ramps close around dirty coins. You cannot pay taxes with them. Your bank will not accept the wire. Your employer cannot issue a salary in them. Your landlord's processor flags the deposit. Self-custody stays legal. Spending becomes permissioned.
7/ By 2030 the ETFs hold the only Bitcoin that moves. BlackRock, Fidelity, the Treasury's strategic reserve. Yours sits in cold storage as a museum piece. Decentralized in protocol. Sovereign-licensed in practice.
The bill does not need to do any of this. The bill just needs to pass.
There is currently a court case in NY w/ huge 1st Amendment implications, & no one is talking about it. They are trying to imprison a software developer for 40 years for creating tech that allows encrypted financial transactions.
Take away social media censorship & control over money & cancel culture is gone forever.
Bitcoin has no central servers, databases, or HQ—it's fully decentralized. The blockchain ledger runs on ~18,000+ full nodes scattered across 100+ countries (data centers, homes, even Raspberry Pis). Every node holds an identical copy of the entire history. No single point of failure, no "physical location" like a bank vault. That's the magic.
AI agents can now hold wallets and make payments without a human involved. Coinbase just launched the infrastructure for it. They also made $1.35 billion last year off your USDC and are lobbying Congress to make sure those agents never use bitcoin.
Brian Armstrong: "Soon there will be more AI agents than humans making transactions."
Every agent transacts on Base, Coinbase's chain. Every payment in USDC. Coinbase buys Treasuries with those dollars, earns risk-free yield. You get nothing.
Now they're on Capitol Hill pushing to limit the de minimis tax exemption to stablecoins only. If bitcoin gets the exemption, agents use bitcoin. If only stablecoins get it, every AI agent on earth defaults to USDC.
They don't want you to use bitcoin as money. They want every transaction on earth, human or machine, running through their tollbooth.
Bitcoin is money
Removing taxes from Bitcoin transactions needs to happen…
Like… yesterday
We have to stay vocal about this. It’s the most important thing to happen to Bitcoin right now
Talk to your reps and share