The best time to acquire bitcoin is when normies are convinced that it's 'dead', crypto bros are crying all over the timeline, and nocoiners are gloating, dunking on it, and talking about how it will never hit another all time high.
Do with this what you will.
It took humans thousands of years to come up with a type of money that was decentralized, has a finite cap, and can’t be taken from you…
We’re 17 years in, and most people are trained by propaganda to think it’s some type of scam
Society moves very slow
"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.
People go mental when someone turns off a TV showing a football match, but when they print 80% of all money in history and wipe away most of their wealth they do nothing.
When I truly understood this next fact, it broke my brain:
The largest heist in world history is happening right under your nose.
The theft? All your productivity gains.
Think about it:
1. You're 10x more productive than your grandfather
2. Technology should have made you 10x wealthier
3. Instead, you're working harder for less
Where did the wealth go?
Every breakthrough that should have enriched YOU:
Electrification → Stolen
Automobiles → Stolen
Computers → Stolen
Internet → Stolen
The method: Currency debasement.
They print money. Your purchasing power disappears.
Your productivity gains flow to them.
This isn't economics.
This is organized theft.
Bitcoin fixes this
Europa is a new decentralized VPN marketplace built on Nostr and paid exclusively with Bitcoin.
It launched this week from @callebtc, the developer behind the Cashu ecash protocol.
The concept is simple but the implications are significant. Instead of trusting a single VPN company with a global server fleet, one privacy policy, and one monthly subscription, Europa lets independent VPN operators list their servers on an open directory.
Each operator runs their own infrastructure in their own jurisdiction, writes their own no-log policy, and sets their own price. Users browse the directory, pick an operator, and pay them directly over Lightning or Cashu ecash. The marketplace never touches the money and takes no cut.
After payment, the operator delivers a standard WireGuard or OpenVPN config file. No proprietary app, no custom client. Users import it into the same open-source VPN software they would use anywhere else and connect. When the bundle runs out, the tunnel goes quiet. No auto-renewal, no card on file, no surprise charges.
The reputation system runs on Nostr. Instead of editorial ratings or paid placements, recommendations and complaints come from people in your social graph. Sign in with a Nostr identity and the directory weights endorsements from accounts you already follow. If Nostr is not your thing, ignore the feature entirely and start with the smallest bundle from an unfamiliar operator to limit your risk.
The entire protocol is built on public Nostr events. Operator listings, reputation data, and payment coordination all live on the Nostr network. The Europa website is just one viewer of that data, not the source. Other directories can exist. If Europa makes bad editorial choices, users can leave without losing access to the underlying marketplace. The protocol spec is CC0 (public domain) and the code is MIT licensed.
What makes this meaningful is the architecture. Traditional VPN providers consolidate trust into one company in one jurisdiction. If that company gets acquired, served with a warrant, or breached, every customer is exposed at once. Europa distributes that trust across independent operators. Users can spread their traffic across multiple operators they actually chose rather than trusting a single brand to make every decision for them.
Anyone with a server can become an operator. Anyone with a Lightning wallet can become a customer. No accounts required for either side.
@beegarc_ Pior ainda. Tu pagaste a garrafa. Não só o conteúdo. E agora devolves a garrafa de borla e eles voltam a reutilizá-la e continuam a cobrar o mesmo preço. Será que ninguém entende o esquema??! Este sistema para ser honesto não cobrava +0.10 mas sim devolvia uma % do valor pago.
Fun fact of the day:
If you don't think inflation has been the biggest problem in the world over the last century, you have been miseducated by people who get paid by inflation.
You start reading weird books.
You buy “The Bitcoin Standard” and then “The Fiat Standard” and then you accidentally end up reading Murray Rothbard, and then somehow you’re reading Mises, and then it’s 11:47 PM on a Tuesday and you’re 340 pages into “Human Action” and you’re highlighting passages about praxeology and your wife comes downstairs and asks if you’re coming to bed and you say “in a minute” but you don’t come to bed for two hours because you have just discovered that everything you were taught about economics in college was wrong, all of it, every single sentence, and now you can’t go back, you can never go back, you have been orange-pilled in a way that goes deeper than money, you have been epistemologically orange-pilled, you now believe that John Maynard Keynes was a charlatan and the gold standard was actually fine and the income tax is theft and you can never say any of this out loud at a dinner party ever again.
@BitcoinGambit@imabearhunter Oh really? So tell me about the monetary properties of gold being superior to bitcoin's. I'm waiting on that one from gold bugs forever.. 😂