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[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.

[TheLizVariant @TheLizVariant]

Trump should say this exact thing and watch how they react just so he can reveal later who said it first. 🤣

[Compass Mining @compass_mining]

The IRS is literally paying you to buy Bitcoin miners.

100% bonus depreciation = write off the entire cost THIS year.

But here's the catch: miners must be hashing before Dec 31, 2026 to hit your April 2027 tax bill.

Sitting on capital gains? Big tax bill coming?

This isn't tax evasion. It's tax strategy with Bitcoin exposure built in.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Teacher at Manson Northwest Webster (@MNWCougars) in Iowa SCREAMS and LIES to her class about ICE shooting Renee Good.

She scolds the class for questioning the incident, saying that Renee Good "broke no law" and was "murdered" by ICE for following orders, while giving a false account of the incident.

This teacher then tells the students they are "endorsing" the murder of U.S. citizens if they support ICE agents defending themselves.

This is blatant political indoctrination in our school system.

SHE MUST BE FIRED.

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

The Stages of Becoming Orange-Pilled

Stage One: You're Sleeping

You're comfortable. You have a job. A 401k.

You believe in "the economy." You think the Federal Reserve is boring but necessary, like flossing or C-SPAN. You're saving money.

By which I mean: you're watching your purchasing power evaporate in real-time while calling it "being responsible."

You are a debt slave who hasn't checked the chains yet.

Someone mentions Bitcoin at a party. You laugh. "That thing criminals use?" you say. "That internet money that crashed?" Everyone nods. You all agree.

Bitcoin is ridiculous.

You go back to discussing your mortgage - 30 years of indentured servitude at 6.5% interest that you celebrate like Stockholm syndrome.

The system has you. And you don't even know it.

Stage Two: The Itch

Something doesn't add up.

Why do houses cost ten times what they cost when your parents bought theirs?

Why does your salary sound impressive until you try to buy anything?

Why can BlackRock afford to buy every house in America but you can't afford one?

You start noticing things. The money printer memes.

The inflation rates that don't match your grocery bill.

The billionaires getting bailouts while you get budgeting advice.

Bitcoin keeps appearing. In headlines. In conversations.

Like a splinter in your mind. Like the Matrix glitching.

You buy $100 worth as a joke. To say you did it. To see what happens.

The price immediately drops 30%.

Welcome to the fucking arena.

Stage Three: The Rabbit Hole

You were just going to check the price. Just a quick look.

That was six hours ago.

Now you're watching a video about the Byzantine Generals Problem.

Now you understand what "proof of work" means.

Now you're reading the white paper - nine pages that explain how to trust math instead of men - and something in your chest cracks open.

You realize: Every economics class you took was a lie.

Every financial advisor was selling you slavery with extra steps.

The entire monetary system is just confidence game wrapped in acronyms.

You're angry. So fucking angry.

You buy more Bitcoin. Not because the price is going up.

Because you've seen the truth and you can't afford not to.

Your friends are worried.

Your spouse is asking questions.

You're trying to explain that money isn't real but also it's the most real thing and Bitcoin is the only honest ledger in a world of lies and....

...you sound insane. You know you sound insane.

But you also know you're right.

Stage Four: The Zealot

You are insufferable.

Every conversation becomes about Bitcoin. Your family dreads Thanksgiving. Your coworkers avoid the break room when you're there.

You've memorized Saylor's speeches. You quote Satoshi like scripture.

You see fiat debasement everywhere.

In the shrinking candy bars, the subscription fees, the way your parents' generation bought houses on single incomes and now you need three jobs to rent a studio.

You calculate everything in sats. You experience physical pain watching people "invest" in bonds yielding 3% while inflation runs at 7%.

You want to grab strangers and shake them: DON'T YOU SEE? THE WHOLE THING IS A SCAM.

You go through bear markets like Christ in the desert.

80% drops that would make normal investors vomit.

But you? You're dollar-cost-averaging.

You're stacking sats.

You're buying the dip with money you shouldn't be spending because you've calculated that in 2035 this will seem cheap and your only regret will be not buying more.

Your conviction is unshakeable. Your portfolio is red.

Your family intervention is scheduled for next Tuesday.

Stage Five: The Plateau

The mania subsides. Not the belief - that's permanent now - but the need to convince everyone.

You realize: They have to find it themselves.

The orange pill can't be forced down someone's throat.

It has to be swallowed willingly.

You stop checking the price every hour. Then every day. Then every week.

You understand now: Bitcoin doesn't care about your attention. Bitcoin doesn't care about anything. It just produces blocks every ten minutes like the universe's most reliable heartbeat.

You set up your cold storage. You run a node. You become part of the infrastructure.

You're not investing anymore. You're participating in the future of money.

The volatility doesn't scare you. You've seen Bitcoin "die" 400 times in headlines. You've watched it resurrect itself while the dollar dies slowly, quietly, by design.

You're calm now. Eerily calm.

Because you've done the math and the math doesn't lie.

Stage Six: The Acceptance

You stop measuring your Bitcoin in dollars. That's the final step. That's enlightenment.

Because denominating your Bitcoin in dollars is like measuring the sun's brightness using a candle.

You understand now: You're not getting rich. The money is getting poor. Bitcoin isn't going up. Everything else is going down.

The dollar is the shitcoin. It always was.

You've become time-preference incarnate. Low time preference like a sequoia. Like a glacier.

You're thinking in decades now. In halvings. In generations.

While everyone else is playing checkers with their paychecks, you're playing 4D chess with your bloodline's financial sovereignty.

You don't talk about Bitcoin much anymore. When people ask, you share. When they don't, you stack.

You've realized the greatest gift you can give someone is not to convince them about Bitcoin, but to be there when they're ready to ask.

Stage Seven: The Becoming

Here's the secret they don't tell you: Bitcoin changes you in ways that have nothing to do with money.

You learn patience. You learn to do your own research.

You learn to verify instead of trust. You learn that the majority is often wrong and being early feels exactly like being wrong until suddenly it doesn't.

You become ungovernable. Not in an angry way. In a quiet, competent, self-sovereign way. You stop asking permission.

You stop waiting for institutions to save you.

You save yourself.

The journey isn't about getting rich quick. It never was.

It's about getting free slowly.

It's about opting out of a system that was designed to extract your life force one paycheck at a time and opting into a network that runs on mathematics instead of manipulation.

The Truth

You are not the same person who bought that first $100 of Bitcoin.

That person is dead.

They died the moment they understood that scarcity is real and the emperors have no clothes.

What remains is someone who's tasted financial sovereignty and can never go back to believing in fairy tales about stable coins printed by unstable governments.

The journey never ends. Bitcoin is always ten years away from changing everything and always has been.

But you? You're already changed.

You've seen the future.

And the future is ₿.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Michael Saylor says the following US banks are now issuing credit against Bitcoin:

• Citi
• JPMorgan
• Wells Fargo
• BNY Mellon
• Charles Schwab
• Bank of America

[Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC]

Banks in the United States Are Now Officially
Allowed to Buy and Sell Bitcoin for Customers

[Simply Bitcoin @SimplyBitcoin]

Jack Mallers speaks on being pressured from the power elite to not call Bitcoin ‘Money’

“If the truth makes you upset, that says a lot about you, not me.”

[Simply Bitcoin @SimplyBitcoin]

It was rigged from the beginning...

How Jekyll Island changed everything.

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

It is INSANE that this video only has 13 RTs, 74 likes, and 3k views….

Whether you already hold bitcoin or are a precoiner, I highly recommend you take 7 minutes to watch this.

And once you do, SHARE IT.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

BINANCE FOUNDER CZ JUST DESTROYED GOLD BUG PETER SCHIFF IN 30 SECONDS

THIS IS A MUST WATCH!!

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

HOLEE SHIZZLES‼️

Starting next week, 21 Democrat-controlled states will lose federal SNAP funding for refusing to comply with USDA anti-fraud data requirements.

- in the states that did comply, they found 186,000 dead people social security numbers being used

- 500,000 people that received benefits more than twice

- multiple people received benefits in 6 states

- In February, for the first time ever, the Federal Government asked for alls rates to turn over their data to root out the fraud.
—— 29 Red states said yes
—— 21 Blue states said no

“So as of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until they comply.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington

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[jack @jack]

private pick-up your bitkey

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

🚨THE BOMBSHELL CONNECTION BETWEEN JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND JPMORGAN THAT WALL STREET DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE 🚨

Everyone knows the name.

Few know the deal that actually made the monster.

In 2004, Jamie Dimon needed a win. JPMorgan needed a hedge fund arm. The solution? A massive $1.3 BILLION takeover of Highbridge Capital.

But the architect behind the curtain wasn’t a banker. It was Jeffrey Epstein.

Here is the timeline corporate media ignores:

1. THE PAYOFF

💰Epstein didn't just "know people." He personally introduced JPMorgan exec Jes Staley to Highbridge founders Glenn Dubin & Henry Swieca.

For this single intro, Epstein was paid a $15 million finder’s fee.

2. THE GOLDEN GOOSE

After the deal, Epstein became untouchable. He wasn't just a client; he was a rainmaker.

Epstein was a "superclient" with over $200 million in accounts, generating millions in annual fees and ranked highly on internal moneymaker lists.

He funneled billionaires into JPM’s private bank (including Sergey Brin’s $4B+ account). Internal emails flagged him as "invaluable" to the bottom line.

3. THE COVER-UP (2008-2012)

Here is where it gets dark. In 2008, Epstein pleads guilty to procuring a minor. A FELONY.

JPM’s Risk & Compliance team screamed to fire him.

They formally recommended exiting him as a client FOUR SEPARATE TIMES.

Each time? OVERRIDDEN.

Why? Senior executives, specifically Jes Staley, blocked the firing because the revenue flow was "too important."

4. "SNOW WHITE"

While compliance begged to drop him, Staley exchanged 1,200+ emails with Epstein.

They weren’t discussing stocks.

Court documents reveal coded language referencing "Snow White" and other Disney princesses when discussing young women.

Staley even visited Epstein’s private island after the conviction.

5. THE EXIT & THE BILL

They only cut ties in 2013... arguably not for moral reasons, but because regulators finally started asking questions.

Fast forward to 2023: JPMorgan agrees to pay $290M to victims and $75M to the US Virgin Islands.

Total cost: $365 Million.

THE REALITY:

America's largest bank kept a known, convicted child trafficker on their payroll for 5 years after his conviction because he made them rich.

They admitted no wrongdoing. They just wrote a check.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory.

These are unsealed court filings.

[SaltyHodl @THE59CLUB]

Moscow time. Tick tock next block.

[COLDCARD @COLDCARDwallet]

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[CARLA⚡️ @carlabitcoin]

Remember, remember,
the 5th of November

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

I think about this several times per day. 🤣

[Mark Moss @1MarkMoss]

Stacking wealth is obedience

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

Man in NYC with blue hair explains why he didn’t go to the No Kings protest:

“They’re saying they’re protesting kings, but they’re the ones trying to overturn the will of the voters… The protesters call Trump authoritarian, but he’s the one implementing the policies he was elected on. That’s not tyranny. That’s representative government.”

(soberscotty on TT)