Watch this clip and tell me with a straight face Saylor isn't the worst thing to ever happen to bitcoin since it's inception
We used to stand for something. Now it's nothing but sharks wearing suits whispering to your ear dreams of NGU with no downside risk
If you spend less than 40 hours a week in crypto you almost certainly have 0 edge and you should just buy bitcoin. If you spend more than 40 hours a week in crypto you almost certainly have impulse control problems and you should just buy bitcoin.
Michael Saylor’s vision of co-opting Bitcoin for U.S. supremacy contradicts Bitcoin’s foundational ethos of decentralization.
It is sickening to see such an exploitative agenda from someone who claims to champion Bitcoin.
His proposal to monetize Bitcoin and use U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins globally undermines Bitcoin’s purpose of empowering individuals and communities to escape centralized control.
Bitcoin was designed to challenge systems of financial oppression, not to reinforce them. Stablecoins tied to U.S. sovereign debt create dependency on the dollar and erode monetary sovereignty, especially in the Global South. Saylor’s plan to redirect global wealth into Bitcoin for U.S. benefit is not only ethically bankrupt but also risks alienating trust in Bitcoin’s neutrality.
Bitcoin’s decentralized nature resists co-option by design. It thrives on trust, participation and consensus for the disempowered, providing an alternative to exploitative financial systems.
The U.S. dollar lost its credibility because of decades of greed, exploitation, and manipulation by elites who prioritized profit over humanity. Stablecoins, tethered to this same flawed system, will never replace Bitcoin. Unlike stablecoins, which remain under centralized control and vulnerable to corruption, Bitcoin is decentralized and censorship-resistant.
Saylor’s agenda to strip nations of their monetary sovereignty and enforce dependency on the dollar-backed stablecoin system is not only exploitative but also doomed to fail. The world is rejecting the dollar because it represents the same oppressive systems Bitcoin was designed to overcome.
“I want to remind everyone here today that Bitcoin isn’t just a currency or a technology. It’s a statement: a statement that we refuse to accept the systems we’ve inherited. It’s a declaration that we believe in something better: a world where time is valued, where labor is respected, and where humanity is never devalued.”
The video of my opening remarks at this year’s @AfroBitcoinOrg ⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://t.co/LIzzOZP2xC
@pete_rizzo_ Are we happy now when the state gets stronger? If we won't sell, what does the price in diry fiat money matter anyway? Bitcoin is for the people! Fuck the state, fuck Trump, fuck any politician!
The first time I saw this guy I thought it was just a metaphor for the gluttonous global elite trying to infringe upon our civil liberties and freedoms or whatever like I genuinely assumed this was AI generated or at the very least his features were greatly exaggerated for effect
If you focus too much upon the financial aspects of Bitcoin, it becomes easy to lose touch with the freedom aspects.
What use is wealth if you remain beholden to trusted third parties?
This explanation makes a lot of sense to me - the light-speed adoption of such obviously detrimental policies to long-term societal health could not have come from “stick” incentives alone. It needed powerful “carrot” incentives too, as demonstrated by the overnight explosion of so called DEI “experts” getting away with charging obscene amounts to tell any non-minority they’re de-facto evil over and over. Never underestimate the adaptability of the grift monster and its ability to co-opt and ruin something that originated from good intentions.