iran is charging $1.5-2m per oil tanker transit through hormuz via bitcoin lightning payments right now. russia is legislating bitcoin as property for foreign trade at the ministerial level. two sanctioned economies building parallel settlement infrastructure on the same network simultaneously. bitcoin's UTXO set is about to split into two classes. coins that touched regulated exchanges and coins that didn't. self-custody stops being a philosophy and becomes a requirement when OFAC starts tagging addresses connected to russian commodity settlement. this is the stress test satoshi designed for.
Marco Rubio just dropped the truth bomb β Americans grind 40+ years, pay into the system, follow every ruleβ¦ and retire broke on $800-$1,000 a month.
Meanwhile, new arrivals who never paid a dime allegedly get MORE from the same system? This isnβt compassion. Itβs a slap in the face to every taxpayer who built this country.