Matthew Zicopula

#Bitcoin Bitcoin education, skateboard, film, music, seeking truth -

[XSpirit @TubeSpirit]

🚨The CIA was studying the human mind, and people are just finding out.

A declassified document tells people to close their eyes, focus on pain, and repeat “55515” until the pain fades. The same files mention sleep techniques, memory experiments, and consciousness studies tied to the Gateway Process.

No announcement. No explanation. Just hidden in the archives until people started digging.

[Jeff Swanson @theswansjr]

"Bitcoin isn't backed by anything."
Let me stop you right there.

Bitcoin is backed by energy. Real energy. Kilowatts. Heat. Physics.
The kind of backing you can't print, fake, or vote into existence at an emergency Fed meeting.

Every block mined is a thermodynamic proof of work. Not a promise. Not a policy. Proof.

The issuance schedule has never been amended by a committee. Not once. Not ever. Because there is no committee.
There's just math. Cold, indifferent, and immune to political theater.

The network is secured by more raw computing power than anything humanity has ever built. Hundreds of exahashes per second standing guard. Every single day.

Now let's talk about what is backed by nothing.
The dollar.

It's is backed by confidence. Specifically, confidence in the institution that printed $6 trillion in two years while telling you 3% inflation was healthy and you should be grateful for the soft landing.

In the same people who can't pass an audit.
Who fund wars with a credit card.
Who promise solvency while sitting on $39 trillion in debt and accelerating.

"Backed by nothing" isn't an attack on Bitcoin.
It's a confession about the dollar.

Follow if you're serious about building wealth they can't print away.

[Simply Bitcoin @SimplyBitcoin]

Bitcoiners,

When the banks froze WikiLeaks, Bitcoin kept Julian Assange alive.

The system spent billions trying to silence him from exposing the truth.

Gatekeepers refused the film despite Cannes and Golden Globe wins.

So Eugene Jarecki went to Jack Dorsey. Jack said, "Just cut them out and take your movie straight to the bitcoin community."

This is how we take back the media. 👇

https://t.co/vYFZvTADct

@jack
@EugeneJarecki

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

"Does anyone else feel like they're just too aware of everything?"

"Money is literally just paper that someone decided is valuable, and we all just agreed."

"I find it fascinating to watch people rushing through their day, stressed about deadlines and status and possessions, completely unaware that they're playing a game they never chose to join."

"They're so caught up in the matrix of social constructs, they never question any of it."

"But once you see it, you can't unsee it."

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Julian Assange warned us:

Digital archives let them erase history with one click.

One day: "Page not found."

The next: "it never happened."

They control what you remember.

Save physical books.

Archive offline.

Don't trust the cloud.

This is how 1984 wins.

[Space Ape @EatDaBugs]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. A FOREIGN PRIME MINISTER just told American media YOUR war isn't over, and casually floated sending YOUR sons into Iran to grab uranium.

NETANYAHU: "It's not over."

"You go in and you take it out."

REPORTER: With what? Special forces from Israel? From the United States?

"I'm not going to talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me, I want to go in there."

"I think it can be done physically."

REPORTER: How long?

"I'm not going to give a timetable."

So a foreign leader sets the mission, dodges the means, refuses a timeline, and YOUR kids fight it. YOUR taxes fund it. YOUR dollar inflates for it.

This is Israel dictating YOUR foreign policy. Reject it. 🟧🦍

[Fiat Archive @fiatarchive]

Bitcoin doesn't require a bank or military to protect it. It instead runs this SHA-256 hash function.

1,100,000,000,000,000,000,000 times per second by computers globally. 💻

[Glimpse @GlimpseMarkets]

The exact moment Jordan Peterson realised that Bitcoin is far more advanced than he ever thought with Saifedean Ammous.

[Matthew Zicopula @MZicopula]

@BTCDailyNotes done

[Matthew Zicopula @MZicopula]

@MrCrypto3706 @MrBitcoinWhalee bc1qk6z4p50wfc9d6946vkddqe4rrtvyl78haj6r9c

[Doc Malik @DocAhmadMalik]

Episode 430 with Simon Dixon
In 2 mins and 39 seconds, Simon explains how the world is run.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

So who runs the United States? - Jeffrey Sachs

[Matthew Zicopula @MZicopula]

@MrBitcoinWhalee Done

[Jeff Swanson @theswansjr]

"Bitcoin can never be a medium of exchange—it's too slow!"

Bitcoin's base layer isn't trying to compete with Visa. It's not a payment rail. It's the settlement layer. The bedrock. The final word.

You know what else is "slow"?

The Federal Reserve wire system. Fedwire shuts down every night like a 1950s diner. International transfers take days. And yet trillions flow through it because finality matters more than speed when you're settling empires.

Bitcoin does in about 10 minutes what banks do in 3–5 business days, without permission, without counterparty risk, and without a compliance gatekeeper deciding whether you're allowed to move your own money.

That's the base layer. Immutable. Uncensorable. Unstoppable.

Now let's talk about the Lightning Network.

You want fast? Lightning processes millions of transactions with near-zero fees and instant settlement. It's Bitcoin's payment rail, and it's already live.

"But it's not seamless yet!"

Neither was the internet in 1995.

• Dial-up screeched like a dying robot
• Email was "too technical"
• Websites were static pages
• Buying things online sounded ridiculous
• Streaming video was unthinkable

And yet here we are, streaming 4K video, running global businesses, and buying dog food at 3 a.m. because the infrastructure evolved.

Lightning is early. So were you when you thought social media (Facebook) was just for college kids.

Dismissing Bitcoin as a medium of exchange because Lightning isn't perfect yet is like dismissing the internet in 1995 because it didn't have Netflix.

The rails are being built. You're not late. You're early.

And you're arguing about the wrong layer.

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

#Bitcoin just keeps crashing 🤣

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

"Slaves owned by the pharaoh of Egypt were required to pay him 20% of their income."

"Fast forward to 2025. The average U.S. taxpayer pays 24.8% tax."

"On top of this, you pay sales tax, property tax, gas tax, and many other taxes."

"The slaves in Egypt were doing better than we're being taxed."

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

THEO VON: “There's a lot of conspiracies out there. And they're not even conspiracies, a lot of them, anymore. They're all coming true … It feels like this awakening.”

[Matthew Zicopula @MZicopula]

@daumenxyz Legend

[Matthew Zicopula @MZicopula]

@EVERYDOTMEME Bitcoin

[Trending Bitcoin @TrendingBitcoin]

This was the exact moment Jordan Peterson realised that #Bitcoin is far more advanced than he ever thought with Saifedean Ammous.