You want to learn about #bitcoin?
1. Learn it as digital property, money, and energy - @saylor
2. Learn it as a payment system for BTC and USD - @jackmallers
3. Learn it as a property rights defense system for nations & individuals - @jasonplowery
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@BigCheds Just gotta say - you are one of the most objective voices in this place Cheds - always a clear, unbiased, perspective coming from you that helps others learn from you in an easier way. Thanks sir. Love your livestreams. 🙏
Venezuela Just Proved the Bitcoin Bull Case, And No One Is Paying Attention
Maduro used Tether to move 80% of Venezuela's oil revenue. Billions in sanctions evasion, settled on Tron since 2020.
Then the US made a phone call.
Tether froze the wallets.
Game over.
Everyone's focused on the arrest. The real story is the lesson every finance minister on earth just learned in real time:
Stable coins are a leash, not an escape.
If someone can freeze it, it isn't money. It doesn't solve sovereignty.
First principles:
USDT is dollar plumbing without SWIFT. Faster. Cheaper. Still has a CEO. Still has a compliance department. Still picks up when Washington calls.
This is why USDT adoption exploded, 71-year-old grandmothers in Caracas pay their HOA fees in tether now. But useful ≠ sovereign.
The entire value proposition for sanctions evasion just got publicly falsified.
Now do the game theory:
You're Iran. Russia. Any country hedging against dollar weaponization. You just watched Venezuela's "crypto solution" get shut off like a light switch.
Where do you put reserves now?
USDT? Compromised.
Yuan? Political strings.
Gold? Try settling $500M across borders in 10 minutes.
CBDCs? Same kill switch, government branding.
There's exactly one asset that clears final settlement without asking permission from anyone.
21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No phone number.
This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy.
The most desperate, highest-stakes capital on earth just learned there's only one door.
Price doesn't reflect it yet.
It will.
@CredibleCrypto I have Imprint Coffee Roasters shipped across the country to us every month. Their Honduras whole bean. Our home lattes (w/ the simple Breville Bambino) are my fav in our city thanks to those beans. ☕️
At the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference, I was asked
"How best to respond to the 'Bitcoin uses too much energy' attack vector?"
I outlined 5 simple talking points that any Bitcoiner can use to snap this absurd yet pervasive attack arrow in two.
@CredibleCrypto So appreciate your voice here Cred. Been with you since ‘18 - you’ve always been generous, (overly) patient with people 😆 and super accurate. Your kindness to be here has been really important to my own journey here. Thanks man.
Ok, shake it off! Relax, step aside and let things flow with a clean slate, a clear mindset.
It is just another day in the market, later on you can study where things went the other way for you! Anger, resentment, and despair won't help you.
Be grateful for the opportunity, and NEVER EVER forget again the cardinal rule of trading/investing:
"CAPITAL PRESERVATION ABOVE ALL ELSE".
My BPI keynote, delivered in DC to a hall full of American leaders
"Bitcoin is the Most Important Human Rights Technology of the 21st Century"
Please share with anyone who doesn't think Bitcoin has a use case ✌️
Teach them to think creatively, out of the box. Also to leverage AI.
Own assets that AIs will need, they can take an uncreative job, but if you own a piece of their infrastructure you collect rent on AI productivity.
So buy your kids a little bit of BTC which AI agents will need. That’s their hedge.
Now get them to use AI to build great things. It’s currently not clear if AIs can push the frontiers of known art very far without human creativity.
Even after AI beat the grand master at chess, the best chess player was not AI, it was humans teaming up with AI to beat the AI.