Michael Parenti

Give me liberty or give me dreads | 2025 Contributor: @bitcoinfilmfest @MoneroKon @PizzaDayPrague @powsummit @secondculturecz @Paralelni_polis

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

when you think you understand bitcoin

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

meanwhile a flat white costs you 10 bucks and a corona 15.

[Mark Palmer @MarketPalmer_]

Average 42-inch TV cost by year:

2000: $15,000

2005: $3,500

2010: $1,000

2015: $500

2020: $400

Today: $250

Why aren't all industries like this?

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

bitcoin front ran it, once again.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

🚨MASSIVE DUMP:

$420,000,000,000 wiped out from the US stock market in just 18 MINUTES.

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@stevewfolds @June4th true that, depends on one's own pain tolerance threshold tho

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@stevewfolds @June4th hahahahaha

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

LETS BRING THIS TO SAN FRANCISCO

Czech artist Tomáš Moravec with his urban art installation ‘The Pallet’.

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@stevewfolds hang in there my friend, a couple of weeks and you're good to go again

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

Defi submarine swaps

[Olivia 🎀🇺🇸 @Oliviaiie]

What would you call this ??

[Luke Cannon @lukecannon727]

“Michael, so you own 5% of all Bitcoin & decided you were going to sell some to test the liquidity?"

“That’s correct Dave.”

“And you did this immediately after using up your cash to buy back debt at an 8% discount?”

“I did, Dave.”

“So when you actually did what you said you were going to do, the liquidity test didn't go well?”

“Sadly true, Dave.”

"And you only sold 32 BTC, even though you knew that wouldn't be enough to cover the next year of dividend payments?"

"Yes, Dave."

"So in the process of selling BTC to try & save STRC, you ended up killing BTC, STRC, & MSTR?"

"Very astutely observed, Dave."

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

The $MSTR mission creep I always said would come.

Even though Strategy doesn’t need the money, it is conditioning investors to believe that selling Bitcoin to fund dividends and yield is a normal part of the new Strategy playbook.

The result is a structure that normalizes Bitcoin distribution back into the market whenever cash flow is needed to support dividends and yield.

In effect, they’re building the infrastructure for short-term Bitcoin price management while training investors to view it as prudent capital allocation.

A gift to the Financial Industrial Complex.

Bitcoin was designed to separate money from the financial system.

The FIC wants Bitcoin integrated into the same system of custodians, leverage, yield products, and paper claims that dominate traditional finance.

Strategy accelerates that transition by making Bitcoin sales, dividend policies, and yield engineering part of the accepted model.

It is what it is.

Bitcoin can be used by anybody.

But Bitcoin in self-custody is the resistance.

In the long run, the FIC doesn’t want you to own Bitcoin. It wants to custody your Bitcoin, tokenize your Bitcoin, lend your Bitcoin, and issue paper claims against your Bitcoin.

The goal is simple: keep you a paper-Bitcoin slave while they accumulate the real asset instead of you.

Not your keys.

Not your Bitcoin.

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

not enough of this content on x

[James Walker @jwalkermobile]

Boarding this morning’s flight with my emotional support trout…

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@pmullr I TOTALLY DID. DELETED OT

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@pmullr oh wait... https://t.co/b4WZ6Qn283

[BlackSwanBuyer @d18_rn]

@pete_rizzo_ This was during the FTX crash. See bitcoin at 16k? Idiot.

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@pmullr ????https://t.co/OHM8xGOPDq

[The Bitcoin Historian @pete_rizzo_]

JUST IN: JIM CRAMER JUST SAID HE IS "REEVALUATING HIS PRO-#BITCOIN STANCE"

THE MOST RELIABLE INVERSE INDICATOR ON WALL STREET JUST FLIPPED BEARISH

WE'RE SO BACK 🚀🚀

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@techartist_ link?

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

You scan your face for a private company to put your passport in your phone. Apple started it, Google followed, now Samsung. Soon it's not only airports; it works at a stadium in LA already. Once it's everywhere you're the weird one for not doing it. That's how this stuff gets normalized, one door at a time.

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@stevewfolds @June4th good luck

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@post_polar_ @erikalee i'm going to settle for a book shelf

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@heckerhut @dappcon i'm getting old

decided not to come to dappcon more than two months before the event lol

[Michael Parenti @exiledsurfer]

@KurohKujou then just order soda water, which is classic carbonated water from a tap. nails in your throat instead of micro needles.