Ross Ulbricht built Silk Road in 2011. He was arrested in 2013, convicted in 2015, and sentenced to life without parole as a first-time offender for non-violent crimes. On January 21, 2025, Trump granted him a full and unconditional pardon. He served over 11 years. The Bitcoin community never stopped pushing for his release. The case raised real questions about sentencing proportionality and what happens when a judge decides to make an example of someone. Whatever you think about Silk Road, those questions didn't go away when he walked out. Now that he's free, what do you think his most important contribution to the conversation should be? FUD Busters - #42, 2,054 supply #Bitcoin #FreeRoss

Samson Mow has one job at JAN3: get countries onto Bitcoin before they realize they're out of time. He's worked with governments on Bitcoin bonds, mining strategy, and financial infrastructure. El Salvador was a start. His view is that nation-state adoption won't be gradual. It'll happen suddenly, all at once, like a dam breaking. Bitcoin is the right of all sentient beings. That's his quote. Hard to argue with it. Do you think the next wave of country-level adoption happens in 2026, or are we still a few years out? Spirit of Satoshi - #CL9, 256 supply

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value is one of the oldest critiques in the book. Neither does gold, really. Value is what people agree it's worth. Always has been. Bitcoin's fixed supply of 21 million can't be changed by any government or central bank. That's not nothing. That's the whole point. Mises wrote that sound money protects civil liberties by limiting state power. Bitcoin just automated that constraint. Does the no intrinsic value argument still land to you, or does it feel outdated at this point? Halving Edition Whale Pack - #25

January 10, 2009. Hal Finney posted two words: Running bitcoin. The next day, Satoshi sent him 10 BTC - the first Bitcoin transaction ever. Finney was a cryptographer who'd spent years building toward this. He ran the software before almost anyone else. And he documented it in the most understated way possible. Two words. That's it. If you had to pick a moment Bitcoin entered the world, that's probably it. What do you think Finney understood that most people missed in 2009? Warriors vs. Villains - #138, 1 of 1

The 4th Bitcoin halving in 2024 dropped the block reward to 3.125 BTC, locking in a supply issuance rate lower than gold. We are now two years into this epoch, watching the scarcity math play out in real time. As we march toward the 5th halving in 2028, do you think the market has fully priced in the current 3.125 reward structure? #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards Halving Edition Whale Pack — C41, Chase Card, 125 supply

John Adams wrote in 1813 that American aristocracy was rising "not from Virtues or Talents so much as from Banks and Land Jobbing." In other letters he called any bank that issues paper at interest "a Pickpocket or a Robber" and said there was no honest money but silver and gold. He wrote that 200 years before the Fed's balance sheet hit $9 trillion. If Adams were alive today, do you think he would hold Bitcoin? #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards Warriors vs. Villains - #12, Silver, 669 supply.

Hal Finney tweeted "Running bitcoin" on January 11, 2009, the day before he received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi. Eight months later he was diagnosed with ALS. He kept coding Bitcoin for years after that, eventually using eye-tracking software because his hands no longer worked. He contributed to the protocol until he physically could not. Courage isn't a concept for Bitcoiners. It's a track record. Who else in any industry has a story like that? #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards Warriors vs. Villains — #29, 1000 supply.

There's a village in Malawi that mines Bitcoin using surplus hydroelectric power that would otherwise go to waste. That's the story inside Dirty Coin, Alana Mediavilla's debut documentary that just won Best Movie at the Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw. It crosses four continents looking at the gap between what politicians say about Bitcoin mining and what's actually happening on the ground. What's the energy source closest to you that gets wasted every day? #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards B24 Nashville — Chase Card.

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They called the printing press the tyrant's foe, the people's friend. It dropped dangerous ideas into the hands of everyone. Bitcoin? It does that for money. What tool of financial liberation have you found hardest to explain to someone who isn't already convinced? B24 Nashville - The Liberator, Chase Card. #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

Nobody knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is. That anonymity was intentional. Bitcoin's creator disappeared so the protocol could never be captured, owned, or stopped. This card exists exactly once. If Satoshi ever broke silence, what's the one question you'd want answered? Orange Pill in a Pack - 24, 1 of 1. #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

Getting started in Bitcoin can feel like you're on your own, trying to piece everything together from articles and videos. It's a lot to navigate. But what if you could just talk to an expert? Coinbeast.com built a feature called CoinBeast Connect for exactly that. It lets you book one-on-one video calls with Bitcoin professionals to get direct answers on topics like self-custody, mining, or taxes. It's a direct line for personalized education. If you had a 1-on-1 call with a Bitcoiner, what's the first thing you would ask? Orange Pill in a Pack — 63, 1990 supply #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

Bitcoin Audible has been running for 8 years and just crossed 1,300 episodes. That's not a podcast, that's an archive. What Swann built is something different from a typical interview show. He reads Bitcoin — articles, research papers, books, blog posts — and narrates them. The entire written history of the protocol, distilled into audio. Millions of downloads, and growing. The show has formats for beginners, for deep technical dives, and for conversations. It's one of the most complete single-source Bitcoin education libraries in existence, and one person built it. Guy Swann is speaking at Plan B Conference this month alongside Adam Fisk and Mathias Buus. Still in the work. Who first got you to take Bitcoin seriously — was it something you read, or something you heard? Spirit of Satoshi — CL7, 1 of 1. #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

When Satoshi disappeared, the network didn't die. Instead, it proved the whole point: Bitcoin doesn't need a figurehead. Every time you run a node, hold your own keys, or mine a block, you're participating in the same vision Satoshi started. Not his Bitcoin. Your Bitcoin. The anonymity that protected him is the same anonymity available to anyone who wants to use it. The code doesn't care if you're a CEO or a pleb. "We are all Satoshi" isn't propaganda. It's what happens when a system is truly decentralized. The creator can vanish and nothing breaks. That's the test of the design. What would your relationship to money look like if you genuinely believed you were as much a part of it as the person who invented it? Spirit of Satoshi — CL2, Chase Card, 1000 supply. #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

Card 3. Natalie Brunell. Base parallel, 424 supply. When investigative journalists go Bitcoin, something shifts. Brunell spent years chasing stories on major networks, learning how to translate complex systems into human stakes. Now she does the same with monetary policy. Her book—Bitcoin Is for Everyone—wasn't written for cypherpunks. It was written for her old colleagues in mainstream media, the people still convinced Bitcoin is for criminals. That accessibility matters. The women's Bitcoin brunch she hosts every year at major conferences? Also deliberate. Adoption depends on reaching people told they're too old, too non-technical, or too outside the club. "If 8 billion people want a form of money that is scarce, decentralized and decoupled from corrupt governments, they will have it." The interviewer becomes the advocate. #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

Some philosophies are theoretical. Others are put into practice daily. Bitcoin maximalism is not just a belief in sound money, but an active participation in the network that secures it. It's the conviction that leads someone to run their own node, verifying every transaction for themselves. This isn't a small commitment. It requires hardware, bandwidth, and the proof of work to learn. Yet, tens of thousands of nodes are currently online, forming a global, decentralized consensus that has never been successfully compromised. This is the keystone of the whole system, operated by individuals who opted out of the old one. What was the single biggest factor that convinced you to run your own node? #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

Card #89 — Tip_NZ (Warriors vs. Villains) Tip_NZ puts Bitcoin philosophy to music. Beats, poetry, visual storytelling — she makes the case without a whitepaper. "When we divorce action from consequence We defy the law of physics When we made scarcity infinite We disregard the language of mathematics" Base card. 210 copies. Physical. Printed. Graded. Not an NFT. What does this card mean to you? 👇 #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards #BitcoinCards

Most collectors focus on the design of a card, but the concept behind this one is its real power. The state's control of money isn't just an idea; it's enforced through specific laws.\n\nBefore the Legal Tender Act of 1862 in the United States, for example, private bank notes and foreign coins were common currency. The government's decision to issue its own paper money and legally compel its acceptance for all debts was a turning point. It created a monopoly. This single piece of legislation is the foundation of the fiat system we know today, replacing market-based money with state-decreed currency.\n\nIt makes you wonder, what does a collection truly represent when the very definition of money can be changed by law?\n\n#Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

Many know Rare Scrilla for his vibrant, psychedelic style, but his roots in the culture run deeper than most realize. Long before the mainstream NFT boom, he was a key contributor to the Rare Pepe trading card series, one of the earliest experiments in crypto art on the Bitcoin blockchain. He even minted what many consider the first music NFT all the way back in 2016 under his DJ Pepe alias. This card, XCOCOX, feels like a direct link to that early era of creative, chaotic energy. It captures the spirit of an artist who was there from the beginning, drawing memes for Bitcoin from his swamp. A true OG. How much of the early pre-2017 crypto art history do you think is lost to time? Art: Rare Scrilla #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards

Kiyosaki published that asset-versus-liability framework in 1997. Over 32 million copies sold. Most people understood it, put the book down, and kept their savings in a checking account. The standing FUD on Bitcoin is that it is speculation, not an asset. But run the test: over any four-year window since 2012, Bitcoin has gained against the dollar. It does not generate cash flow, which is the usual knock. Neither does gold. Gold has been an asset for five thousand years without writing anyone a dividend check. What makes something an asset is simple: does it hold or grow your purchasing power? The fiat in your wallet loses 8-10% per year to inflation. The math is not complicated. What is the asset in your stack that the mainstream still calls a liability? #Bitcoin #BasedTradingCards