Oil just crashed 8%. Markets are celebrating a US-Iran peace deal. Gold is up 3%. Gold doesn't believe the story. Neither should you. Peace can unwind a war premium on oil. It cannot unwind $36 trillion in debt. It cannot un-print the money that funded the last four years of conflict. The incentive to inflate didn't go away, the most recent excuse did. They signed a peace deal. They didn't sign a balanced budget. Stack accordingly.

Most people don't avoid Bitcoin because they think it's a bad idea. They avoid it because they're afraid they'll mess up. Lose a seed phrase. Send to the wrong address. Buy at the top, panic at the bottom. Tomorrow at noon ET, we're spending an hour fixing exactly that. Bitcoin for Beginners. The actual fundamentals: why Bitcoin is a savings tool, how to set up your first self-custody wallet, how to send, receive, and store for the long haul. No jargon. No price predictions. No hard sell. Just the start-up guide we wish we'd had when we started. May 6, 12:00 PM ET. Bring a friend who's been on the fence, this one's for them. Not your keys, not your coins. Tomorrow we make them yours.

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Bitcoin for Beginners

Bitcoin for Beginners teaches the basics of why bitcoin is a powerful savings tool, how Bitcoin self-custody is incredibly safe, and how you can st...

Apple just passed silver as the world's 4th largest asset. $4.17T vs $4.13T. A 49-year-old company just dethroned a 5,000-year-old monetary metal. If that doesn't tell you the old monetary order is being rewritten in real time, nothing will. Bitcoin's coming for gold.

Bitcoin Well bought 31.36 BTC at $113,314 last September. Bitcoin is back above $81K today. We're still down on that lot. We're also still buying. If your treasury strategy can't survive a 30% drawdown, it isn't a treasury strategy. It's a trade.

The crypto industry is "finally embracing legacy finance," they say. You can watch it happen in real time this morning. Kraken just partnered with MoneyGram. The exchange built to route around banks is now plumbing for the largest remittance company on earth. The Senate just cut a bipartisan deal on stablecoin yields inside the CLARITY Act - translation: yes, you can finally earn yield, but only on the rails we license. The people who came here to escape custodians are becoming custodians. The people who came here to escape permission are asking for it. But here's the part most won't notice. Central banks bought a record 244 tonnes of gold in Q1 2026. Quietly. The very institutions that print the paper are hedging against the paper they print. They know. Bitcoin is what you buy when you figure out what the central banks already know. Self-custody is what you do when you realize they're not working for you. Some of us still remember what we were rebelling against. Not your keys, not your coins. Same as it ever was. — Zach 🟧

The Battle for Hormuz just started. Iran fired missiles and drones at US warships this morning. Trump says the Navy will escort vessels through the Strait starting today. If you've been paying attention to the right things, this is the chapter you've been waiting for. 21% of the world's oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. When that flow gets contested, every dollar-priced commodity reprices in real time, and every petrodollar-dependent currency goes on the watchlist. The question stops being "if oil hits $120" and becomes "what does the Fed do when it does?" Here's the part most analysts are missing. Iran spent a decade building Bitcoin infrastructure after being cut off from SWIFT in 2012. The sanctions weren't a punishment, they were free training in how to operate outside the dollar system. Iran is no longer scared of being cut off. They've already been cut off. Meanwhile, Scott Bessent went on the record calling financial infrastructure a tool of national power. The US Treasury has openly described sanctions as a weapon of war. Every nation watching this is doing the same math: what happens when we're the next Iran? Bitcoin doesn't care who wins the geopolitical argument. It just keeps producing blocks every ten minutes. No SWIFT to be cut off from. No correspondent bank to freeze. No reserve to seize. A monetary network at the cargo terminal, the central bank, and the cold wallet - all on the same rails. When the Strait becomes a war zone and the Fed has to choose between fighting inflation and funding a conflict, you'll know which one they pick. They always pick the printer. The only question is whether your savings are denominated in something they can print. Welcome (again) to the PetroSat Era. Not your keys. Not your coins. Not your sovereignty. — Zach 🟧

We just entered the era of the "Assassination Market," and almost no one is paying attention. 🧵

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Diversifying your "crypto" portfolio isn't protecting your wealth. It is just funding a venture capitalist's exit liquidity. The legacy finance world trained you to "diversify" to manage risk. So, you brought that broken fiat mindset into the digital age. But applying Wall Street rules to absolute scarcity is the most dangerous lie in the digital asset space. Here is the reality of the altcoin casino. Buying 20 different altcoins isn't diversification. It is like buying tickets on 20 different sinking ships instead of just taking the one mathematically guaranteed lifeboat. You think you are investing in the "future of tech," but you are actually just bleeding out your purchasing power. You are trading your melting fiat for centralized, unregistered securities masquerading as money. The Wealth Extraction Machine When the inevitable bear market hits, the casino collapses. The altcoins bleed to zero against Bitcoin. This isn't an accident; it is a highly engineered wealth extraction mechanism. The founders and the VCs walk away with your hard-earned capital, and you are left holding useless digital paper. They captured your actual wealth, and you bought their experimental tech equity. Commodity vs. Centralized Equity The fatal error millions make is confusing a decentralized commodity with centralized tech equity. Bitcoin is a proof-of-work protocol. It has no CEO, no marketing department, and no venture capital backers waiting to dump on retail. It is an objective, decentralized reality. "Crypto" is just tech startups printing their own fiat out of thin air. Absolute scarcity cannot be replicated with a token launch. You cannot "manifest" a pristine bearer asset with a shiny whitepaper and a celebrity marketing campaign. There is only one immaculate conception. There is only one immutable 21 million hard cap. The Bottom Line Stop gambling in the fiat spin-off casino. Stop trading your time, energy, and life force for corporate tokens that can be diluted by a developer with a single keystroke. Consolidate your wealth. Secure the hardest asset on earth.

The Canadian government is quietly hoarding Bitcoin exposure while aggressively trying to lock you out. Look at the absolute, breathtaking hypocrisy of the state. Today, AIMCo—a Crown-owned corporation managing nearly $195 billion in Alberta's pensions—just disclosed a massive $219 million stake in MicroStrategy. They are actively using corporate proxies to get exposure to the 818,000 Bitcoin sitting on Michael Saylor's balance sheet. But what did the Canadian government announce this exact same week? A nationwide push to shut down all Bitcoin ATMs. They are using your pension funds to secure their own exposure to absolute scarcity, while systematically destroying the physical onramps you need to achieve self-custody. They do not hate Bitcoin. They just hate you having permissionless access to it. The state wants the asymmetric upside of the Timechain for their balance sheet, but they want you trapped in their melting fiat casino. They are frantically buying up the lifeboats while welding the exit doors shut for the middle class. Watch what they do, not what they say. The sovereign arms race is happening right in front of you. Find an onramp. Take your keys off the board.

The Need to Transition to the Bitcoin Standard

The CFTC just sued the state of Wisconsin for trying to shut down prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. Wisconsin calls it "illegal gambling." The feds call it "exclusive federal jurisdiction." Here's what it actually is: a turf war over who controls the tax farm. Wisconsin isn't protecting you from risk. They're protecting their state lottery monopoly. The CFTC isn't defending financial innovation. They want unquestioned authority to surveil the digital derivatives market. Notice what's completely missing from this conversation. Your individual rights. You're a sovereign adult. You don't need a permission slip from an Attorney General or a federal chairman to hedge your own risk or put your own capital on the line. The idea that the state decides what you're allowed to do with your own property is a fiat illusion. Two bureaucracies are at war over who gets to control your money. Spoiler: neither of them wants you to be free. This is exactly why permissionless infrastructure exists. When you transact on the Timechain, there's no corporate entity for Wisconsin to sue. No centralized server for the CFTC to freeze. Just open-source code, verifiable math, and sovereign individuals. Let the bureaucrats exhaust themselves fighting over the legacy casino. Step outside their jurisdiction entirely.

There's a debate happening on the floor at Bitcoin 2026 right now. Some people are upset that the SEC Chair, the FBI Director, BlackRock, and Eric Trump are all on stage at a Bitcoin conference. They're calling it institutional capture. "Grift." A betrayal of the cypherpunk roots. I get it. But I think it's actually the opposite of a problem. Bitcoin was designed for enemies. That's not a metaphor, it's the architecture. Zero trust. No one has to like each other, agree with each other, or share values. The rules are in the code. You can't cheat. That's the whole point. Satoshi didn't build Bitcoin for people who already trusted each other. He built it for a world where they don't. So when governments, banks, and regulators show up at the table? If bitcoin didn't fail, that was always going to happen. Bitcoin doesn't need their permission to work, but it working is exactly why they're here. The cypherpunks and the suits can both hold Bitcoin. Neither can corrupt it. That's not capture. That's proof of concept.

Jack Dorsey's journey is one of the most fascinating in Bitcoin. Not long ago, people were asking serious questions about whether Twitter, under his watch, was part of the government censorship machine. The Twitter Files answered a lot of those questions. It wasn't a good look. But watch what happened next. He left. He rebuilt. He started saying things like: "There are only three truly censorship-resistant technologies at scale today: Tor, Bitcoin, and Nostr." He launched OCEAN to decentralize mining. He built Bitkey so anyone can self-custody. He pushed Cash App deeper into Bitcoin. He launched BitChat: offline, encrypted, peer-to-peer messaging. He's been one of the loudest voices saying Bitcoin has to work as money, not just a store of value. And he's also just showed us proof of his companies bitcoin reserves. Today at Bitcoin 2026, he's rallying the industry around a de minimis tax exemption so everyday people can actually spend their Bitcoin without a tax event every time. From surveillance questions to sovereignty tools. We don't know exactly what he's going to say today, but we're here for it. 🟠

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We're live right now!! Tyler Stevens @tylerkstevens , CEO of Exergy and the pioneer of hashrate heating, is breaking down how to turn your heater into a Bitcoin miner. This is the sovereign counter-attack to Wall Street's industrial hashrate grab. And it's happening in real time. Join us. 👇

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1/ Your 24-word seed phrase is mathematically unhackable. Which means if you die tomorrow, your family will never see a single satoshi. Millions of people are securing their wealth but guaranteeing their family's exclusion. Here's the reality of the Heirless Vault. 🧵

Every flag has a central bank behind it. Bitcoin is the only pole without an oligarch.