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The COLDCARD Q is unlike any other signing device.
Full-size QWERTY keyboard. Large display. Airgapped workflows with BBQR, NFC, and microSD. Built for Bitcoin, and built to verify.
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Back to basics.
Fiat money is fake and immoral.
Humanity is being cattle herded into a debt slavery system enhanced by AI-enabled dragnet surveillance.
Bitcoin fixes this.
If you don't get it, I don't have time to explain it to you. Figure it out.
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We’ve teamed up with @BeansBulletsBTC to give away one of his Game Boy–themed Q cases and a COLDCARD Q.
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SIMON DIXON: "We need people running nodes, owning their Bitcoin in self custody, people that aren't borrowing against their Bitcoin through a centralized structure, people that are going to support different types of innovation that allow for privacy."
"It's still the most decentralized thing we have... I know it will succeed because... It's an escape for elites that still want it as well."
"Do you want to fund death, destruction, war, violence and fund the proof of weapons network, which is Bitcoin in custody?... Or do you want to actually boycott, make the system weaker and at least have a corner of the world that's working on allowing people to be sovereign? Because the only countries that are going to survive in this multipolar world order and not be vassalized into the Financial Industrial Complex are the countries that have sovereign wealth."
"Most of you will be useful idiots that will give more power to the financial industrial complex on the wrong side of a margin call mining fiat currency while they take your Bitcoin and use it as leverage to destroy your pension, bomb more countries and you work for transnational capital."
Bitcoin is suffering because too many Bitcoiners have abandoned every principle they once claimed to stand for, and now bootlick every conman or politician who gives them even a shred of attention.
Every politician has rugged them so far. Every single one.
And still, the next fraud will show up tomorrow, say a few flattering words about Bitcoin, and the same fools will fall for it all over again.
As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.”
Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible.
Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs.
Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point.
While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide.
Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse.
Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way�� of government meddling, is inherently unstable.
Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization.
Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned.
The lesson is clear.
Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property.
Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning.
The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.
🥷@craigraw just shipped Silent Payments receiving in Sparrow Wallet!
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