The Arbitrageur

Find your niche

[maro @ProofofMaro]

The entire US economy right now is 7 companies sending a trillion fake dollars back and forth to each other

[DutchLibertarian @LibertarianDuty]

Milton Friedman recalls the time that Ludwig von Mises called him a socialist.

[Carl ₿ MENGER ⚡️🇸🇻 @CarlBMenger]

November 2022:
#Bitcoin $16k | #Ethereum $2300

June 2025:
#Bitcoin $102k | #Ethereum $2300

Don’t do Shitcoins.

[picdoc581 @picdoc581]

It’s over for retail.
No average Joe is waking up and buying Bitcoin at $100k+.

From here on out, it’s the domain of deca-millionaires, billionaires, corporations, and nation states.
The small guys and gals late to the party?
Left in the dust.

Only those of us with insane conviction bought early and will continue to buy.

Congratulations. You front-ran the big dogs.

[Joe Burnett, MSBA @IIICapital]

“Bitcoin is a bubble. You only hold it so you can sell it to someone else in the future.”

Congratulations, you invented money.

[naiive @naiivememe]

DID YOU KNOW:

To prepare for his role as The Joker, Joaquin Phoenix had to hold Ethereum for 3 years

[Carl Moon 🌙 @TheMoonCarl]

When I see this video, I feel like I deserve the losses I made on Ethereum…

[FiatHawk - Bitcoin is Hope @FiatHawk]

Why the 7 Transactions Per Second Myth Still Misses the Point

Fifteen years into Bitcoin’s existence, one critique still floats to the surface like clockwork: “It can’t scale! Seven transactions per second will never work for 8 billion people!” It’s a line repeated so often it feels like a reflex, a zombie argument that refuses to die no matter how many times it’s debunked. What’s surprising isn’t the criticism itself, but that after all this time, we’re still having the same conversation without addressing the core misunderstanding.

Let’s start with the obvious: Bitcoin’s base layer was never designed to process every coffee purchase, remittance, or online transaction for every human on Earth. That’s like faulting the foundation of a skyscraper for not also being the elevators, plumbing, and electrical systems. The base chain is a settlement layer, a bedrock of finality and security. It’s the rails, not the train.

The real magic happens on top of those rails. Technologies like the Lightning Network, payment channels, and other second-layer solutions exist precisely because Bitcoin’s architecture incentivizes innovation at higher levels. Lightning alone can handle millions of transactions per second, instantaneously and for fractions of a cent, because it doesn’t require every tiny payment to be etched into the blockchain’s immutable ledger. This isn’t theoretical. It’s working today.

But even if we ignore second layers for a moment, let’s ask: How many transactions do traditional systems actually settle per second? Your credit card swipes, bank transfers, and Venmo payments aren’t finalized in real time. They’re batched, delayed, and processed behind closed doors by intermediaries who often take days to move money—while charging fees that dwarf Bitcoin’s. Visa’s oft-cited “24,000 transactions per second” is a marketing metric, not a reflection of actual settlement. Bitcoin’s base layer finalizes transactions in minutes, not days, without requiring trust in a third party.

The fixation on “7 transactions per second” also misses a deeper truth: Money operates in layers. Physical cash, checks, debit networks, and central bank reserves all coexist because no single layer does everything. Bitcoin is building a new monetary stack, one that’s open, permissionless, and secure by design. Demanding that the base layer handle everything is like demanding the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet process your grocery purchases. It’s a category error.

So why does this argument persist? Partly because scaling debates are messy, and nuance gets lost in soundbites. But perhaps it’s also because critics still view Bitcoin through the lens of legacy systems, assuming it must replicate their flaws to succeed. Bitcoin doesn’t need to be Visa 2.0. It needs to be Bitcoin—a system that prioritizes decentralization, censorship resistance, and sound money over the illusion of “efficiency” in broken financial pipelines.

Fifteen years later, the real story isn’t Bitcoin’s limitations. It’s that millions of people are already using it as money, *right now*, in ways that transcend borders and bureaucracies. The network has never been hacked. It has never been offline. It has never failed to settle a transaction. The layers built atop it are evolving faster than critics can update their talking points.

The rabbit hole goes deeper than “transactions per second.” It’s about reimagining money itself—and recognizing that building a new financial system takes time, iteration, and a willingness to think in layers. Bitcoin’s critics are stuck on chapter one. The rest of us are already writing the book.

[Dear Bitcoiner ⚡️ @DearBitcoiner]

BTC is the hardest money ever created—censorship-resistant, scarce, and unstoppable. It protects wealth from inflation, central control, and debasement. In a rigged system, Bitcoin is financial freedom.

[Simply Bitcoin @SimplyBitcoin]

FUN FACT: If you invested $50/week in #Bitcoin and the NASDAQ since 2018, your Bitcoin would have outperformed the NASDAQ by $100K! 🚀

[MTCᵍᵐ @mtcbtc]

Bitcoin wasn’t the first attempt at a digital currency.

It was the last one.

The one - finally - that worked.

[The Arbitrageur @FiatMoneyEnd]

What about the flippening? 😂😂😂😂😂

[Irene Zhao @Irenezhao_]

1st time BTC hits $100k, ETH is at $4k
2nd time BTC hits $100k, ETH is at $3.9k
3rd time BTC hits $100k, ETH is at $3.7k
4th time BTC hits $100k, ETH is at $3.4k
5th time BTC hits $100k , ETH is at $3k
6th time BTC hits $100k, ETH is at $2.7k

[The Arbitrageur @FiatMoneyEnd]

You will be amazed to see how easy this innovative coin from 2012 is. Core wallet, mobile wallet, light Blockchain downloadable in 2 hrs. It may be the next easy tenfold.

[Max Keiser @maxkeiser]

Very few are aware of what’s going on here and the risks involved.

The Yen-carry trade has been the lynchpin supporting global liquidity for 30 years.

If it blows, the credit-freeze of 2008 will look small.

[Patrick Hansen @paddi_hansen]

1/ Yesterday was a prime example of why crypto Twitter (and often crypto media) should not be trusted when it comes to crypto policy. Let's debunk claims that the EU is banning anonymous crypto transactions or self-custodial wallets.

Here is what’s actually in the EU Anti Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR) and what in means for crypto in the EU 🧵

[The Arbitrageur @FiatMoneyEnd]

@PeercoinPPC Peercoin is my bet for a 100x from here (about 36 cents). 12 years history and lots of innovation to come.

[The Arbitrageur @FiatMoneyEnd]

Peercoin is my bet for a 100x. 12 years of history and lots of innovation to come. Cheap AF.

[Peercoin @PeercoinPPC]

Peercoin’s #ProofOfStake difficulty hits another all-time high at 26.30.

Also, the Peercoin Foundation has released its 2023 financial report: https://t.co/AErrxKCCsN #crypto #cryptocurrency

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

#Bitcoin is the Apex Property of the Human Race.

[Peercoin @PeercoinPPC]

@elonmusk Look into@PeercoinPPC. Original Inventor of #ProofOfStake. First sustainable blockchain. 11.5 years old and still actively being developed. Distribution through PoW still ongoing. One of the only non-securities in crypto. Anyone can become a block producing node with a few coins.

[The Arbitrageur @FiatMoneyEnd]

wake the f&€k up