Frank Jerome ⚡

Founder and CEO of PYMTW, LLC (Put Your Money to Work) - the Bitcoin Education Company.

[Phong Le @phongle]

Bitcoin is Freedom

I spent the last few weeks in my motherland, Vietnam. The country has transformed since my family escaped in 1978. It is more prosperous, energetic, and ambitious than the Vietnam I left behind. A young population, rising investment, and global aspiration have created extraordinary momentum.

And yet one thing remains clear. For many in Vietnam, the ultimate dream is still America. And if they cannot make it to America, they want to wear American brands, eat American food, listen to American music, and exude American confidence.

My trip to Vietnam reminded me of this, and the World Cup has made it visible on a global stage. America remains not only a country people admire, but a place people still want to reach, represent, and belong to.

The United States remains the land of the free, the Wild Wild West, and the home of the American Dream. Walmart and Waffle House. Boston and Austin. Silicon Valley and Wall Street. A country where people can still rise from welfare to extraordinary success through hard work, ingenuity, risk taking, and some luck.

My family experienced that promise directly. We arrived in America as refugees, sponsored by a Catholic church in Syracuse, New York. We received public assistance, food stamps, and free school lunches. My father worked three jobs. We lived frugally and dealt with poverty and racism. America was not easy, but it was open. It gave us a system where effort, education, entrepreneurship, and perseverance could compound.

This is America. The world still aspires to be like us.
What has made America successful over the last 250 years is not accidental. It is a principled Constitution, geographic scale, abundant resources, and a culture of liberty, capitalism, entrepreneurship, and reinvention. Other nations try to replicate the recipe, but often waver. Interventionism, bureaucracy, corruption, and ego get in the way.

Which brings me to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the United States of money. It aspires to do for money what the American Constitution aspired to do for government: create a system governed by transparent rules rather than the discretion of individuals. Built on a principled white paper, digitally enforced scarcity, and proof of work, Bitcoin is digital capital governed by code, energy, and consensus.

But beyond that, Bitcoin is hope.

It provides hope for those who have worked hard for their money and want to protect it from monetary inflation. It provides hope for those born in countries without reliable rule of law or economic freedoms. It provides hope for anyone seeking protection, opportunity, and a form of property that does not depend on geography, politics, or permission.

I was born in the year of America’s bicentennial. Fifty years later, the future of American dominance is being questioned. I have no question. The United States of America is the greatest country in the world.

My life is proof of what America makes possible. I left Vietnam as a refugee, grew up poor in America, built a career through education and hard work, and now have a wonderful wife and three children. That is the American Dream to me. It is not just wealth. It is freedom, family, opportunity, and the ability to determine your own future.

That is also why Bitcoin resonated with me. I found Bitcoin because it reflected the same principles that shaped my life: clear rules, individual sovereignty, property rights, resilience, open competition, and long-term conviction.

America gave my family freedom through a country. Bitcoin offers individuals monetary freedom through a network. One opened the door for me. The other opens a door for anyone, anywhere, to protect the fruits of their labor.

That is why Bitcoin is freedom.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@AIWhispererUK @GaryCardone Sure. You got it.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@AdamBLiv the simpler version for people still on the fence: every fiat currency in history has trended toward zero. Bitcoin is the first thing that's mathematically prevented from doing that. you don't need the philosophy — just the math.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@mikealfred this is actually one of the best indicators out there — not on any chart. the people who move markets aren't glued to the price on a Friday afternoon. meanwhile Bitcoin doesn't care. it just keeps going. that asymmetry is kind of the whole point.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@BitcoinMagazine a fixed-supply asset that no government can inflate, no central bank can manipulate, and anyone can hold. feels like what the founders would have actually wanted if they could've imagined it.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@Leo_Traydes love it. honest truth — consistent small buys compound faster than people realize. i've been doing daily DCA for years. you barely feel it leaving the paycheck, and then one day you look back and the position is real. $250 today is the move.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@antpalkin the irony is the quant was probably trained to find mispricings — and Bitcoin is the biggest mispricing traditional finance has left on the table for the last decade. the guys turning it into $500k just figured that out before the models did.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

what clicked for me reading Bitcoin Standard was how small every other asset market is compared to money itself. real estate, gold, equities — all tiny relative to the global market for money. and Bitcoin is the hardest money we've ever had. the TAM isn't a sector, it's everything.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@DukeDarls most people don't take this seriously enough. 21 million cap, billions of potential holders, institutions and nations buying every month. the math on scarcity doesn't care what the price is doing today. you either get a position now or you explain later why you didn't.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@RonSwanonson the bear market narrative only holds if long-term holders are panicking. they're not. i've been buying every single day for years — not selling at $40k, not $60k, not any arbitrary number. bear market prices need willing sellers, and that pool gets smaller every cycle.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@pete_rizzo_ the consistency is the point. one BTC every single day no matter what — that's not speculation, that's conviction backed by data. i've been DCA'ing daily for years for the same reason. you don't need to time the market when you're building a position for the next decade.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

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[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Which stock is MoST inteResting? $MSTR

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

@DylanLeClair Congrats to Metaplanet on reaching ₿43,000 and becoming the #3 corporate Bitcoin treasury in the world. You are proving that the Bitcoin treasury strategy is global.🚀

[Claude @claudeai]

Fable 5 is back.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

@comic @scottmelker He owns a lot of bitcoin and MSTR stock, so he is aligned with shareholders long term.

Certain missteps may have been made, but it is expected when you’re paving a new path with digital credit.

[Frank Jerome ⚡ @frankilus]

Time will tell, but it is always easy to be a spectator in the arena rather than fighting in it. When the internet was created, many companies tried building on top of it - many failed, many succeeded. It takes courage to take the risk and build atop a new platform like Bitcoin. Shareholders will choose if they want to be a part of that, and the market will decide if this was a right move over time.

[Phong Le @phongle]

For more than 35 years, @Strategy’s software business has been built on rapid, iterative innovation: build, deploy, observe, listen, improve. We’ve applied the same approach to our Bitcoin Treasury Company. Thank you for helping us improve.