I predict a strong surge in Freedom technology projects in Europe 🇪🇺 from here on. It is “innovation of last resort”, the only thing innovators can still do on a doomed continent. Everything else will be blocked by rampant regulation. The EU is being destroyed by a badly designed new political system which usually only lifts third rate politicians to power.

Bitcoin can fix this. View quoted note →

On Bitcoin Treasury Companies While it is correct that Bitcoin's progress will need an institutional layer, this cannot and will not be the passive Bitcoin Treasury Company of today. These merely centralise Bitcoin as balance sheet investments, as store of value, in hope of a financial flywheel, which however will peter out when net total inflows stop. It always stops, look at history. The institutions REALLY needed are those which put Bitcoin to work in the real economy, as medium of exchange for trade and industry. This will produce sustainable Bitcoin returns and unlock Bitcoin's monetary premium for a last price increase before stabilising. This needs not some company pushing "digital credit". It needs a decentralised "Bitcoin Credit Money" layer.

Today's electoral party system is to a real democracy what a cargo cult is to aviation.

QUIZ: One of these authors fails to understand the teachings of Austrian Economics on the role of an elastic supply for a stable currency. Who is it? A. Carl Menger B. Ludwig Mises C. Friedrich Hayek D. Saifedean Ammous

In our fiat times, people do not hold gold to use it. They hold it to sell it ultimately FOR money. In the gold age, people did not hold gold to use it. They held it to spend it ultimately AS money. Now think about the coming #Bitcoin age.

As a kid in the 70s, my parents sent me a few times to youth camps in (then) communist countries east of Austria, for affordable holidays. I don't know how commie politicians ever thought that these programs would turn kids into communists. The experience after an initial Stockholm syndrome - individually, they were nice people - made the Western kids aware of the prison-like constant surveillance, the mandatory strict belief system, the run-down poverty of life outside. The weirdest thing was our privilege over local kids as bringers of Western currency: we could shop for Western goods like chocolate and biscuits and cigarettes (!) with Austrian Schillings.

Time to leave. Sad subconsciously expected. View quoted note →

What is it that politicians always want to remove privacy from communication and money? Don’t they know that their children will have to live in tyranny?

In 2026 @Bitcredit Protocol will bring back the private peer-to-peer payment instrument formerly known as "bill of exchange". The e-bill returns with Freedom Technology, payable on unstoppable Bitcoin rails instead of in bank custodied gold, on encrypted Nostr transport instead of state postal services. This will unlock world trade for the Bitcoin circular economy and give Bitcoin its missing currency, its Medium of Exchange. View quoted note →

Cyberspace infrastructure can be eternal if rigorously designed to eliminate access points for meatspace coercion and violence. #Bitcoin #Bitcredit

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An impulse speech by Prof. Richard Werner opened yesterday's Socratic Debate at the Hayek Institute in Vienna 🇦🇹. The “interest rates drive growth” theory is empirically wrong, he showed; rates follow growth, an 'Austrians' agree. Bank credit creation and its allocation decide whether economies boom or bust. Prof. Werner warned that central banks, regulator-driven centralisation, and CBDCs will wipe out Europe’s local SME-lending banks (thousands already gone). The real path to prosperity is many small regional banks directing credit into productive investment, not speculation. Our main point for debate was that Prof. Werner thinks that this can be fixed with the right policy prescription for central banks, whereas I think that the very institution of central banks and their enormous illegitime power will invariably lead to negative economic and political outcomes in time. Central banking and CBDCs are incompatible with free markets and a free society. #Bitcoin shows that money (SoV) creation is a matter for the free market, and #Bitcredit aims to show the same for currency (MoE) creation. Read on. /1 of 2

Bitcoin will be more stable than fiat "stablecoins". This panel has more than meets the eye. Bringing the supply chains onto #Bitcoin is what will stabilise its exchange rate. Proper stable, non-inflationary.

Bitcoin won’t monetise on its own. Trade credit is key, just like during the Gold Age. View quoted note →

Thanks @The Bitcoin Conference for having me. @BitcoinMagazine View quoted note →