Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Fraud, or rational value creation?

Often the same action.

The word you pick depends on which side you're on.

That word tells me your side, not the truth.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

@thekylehuber @Nackoo2000 This is so valuable, needed to hear this today 🫡

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

@Rajatsoni The ROI to cooperation > ROI to violence

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Bailouts, lobbying, too big to fail.

People call it corruption.

It's the rational play when the money itself is made up.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Who actually pays for bank bailouts?

Not just taxpayers.

New money is printed to cover the loss.

That dilutes every dollar you already hold.

The bill lands in your savings, quietly.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

In Bitcoin, wealth ≠ power https://t.co/amsmP4R3qE

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

AI makes every person more capable.

The companies building it need the opposite.

Subscriptions, rate limits, regulatory capture.

Different costumes, same moat.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

A stablecoin is a dollar backed by US debt.

That's what a dollar already was...

SAME game, new costume.

Bitcoin is the only real exit.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Everything is quietly getting worse.

Apps, food, work, the news.

Nobody can explain why.

Power maps one to one onto money right now.

So whoever prints the money gets stronger as everything else decays.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

@AnthropicAI called it the largest distillation attack they've ever seen.

A distillation attack is just using the model over and over.

If it's usable, it's copyable.

The only defense is shutting the model off.

Which defeats the whole point of building it.

[Fedi @fedibtc]

Fedi's power lies in its global community. Hear from our head of field operations @lobaestrangeira in conversation with @realricky.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Your bank balance is a number on someone else's ledger.

You trust a group of humans to keep it honest.

Every group given that power has EVENTUALLY bent the rules.

Not because they're evil. Because they can.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

AI shenanigans are getting out of hand... https://t.co/rYKaKhRulu

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

AI is coming for white collar work.

Whatever you live on next comes from someone.

That someone gets to write the rules of who qualifies.

Permissioned or permissionless is the only question.

Bitcoin is the one thing on the permissionless side.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Blockbuster had thousands of stores.

That was their strength - a wall no competitor could climb.

Streaming arrived and those same stores became a millstone.

What made them win was what they couldn't drop.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Some people died never having used a computer.

Their kids grew up on them.

Bitcoin's the same: some you love won't make it across.

Your job isn't to convert everyone.

It's to be the right messenger for someone who's ready.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Getting locked out of money is brutal.

Programmable government money makes that lockout a software setting.

Whoever defines good behavior controls the switch.

Bitcoin doesn't have one.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Failing companies are supposed to fail.

That's how progress happens.

When money props them up instead,

Progress comes for the money itself.

That's Bitcoin.

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

The greatest force in human history you've never heard of. https://t.co/baCvBayYyf

[Ricky Zhang | Age of Abundance @realricky]

Which politician wins an election promising less money to spend?

Zero.

The same hunger for more that broke the gold standard...

Will break every political fix you're waiting on.