Why America is stuck in a casino economy.

Much of the angst in the national zeitgeist these days centers around economic uncertainty—like it’s just a bad roll of the dice. But dig deeper and the real issue stares you in the face: the money itself is broken. It’s not even money anymore—it’s currency, a system of IOUs controlled by a tiny handful of unelected officials. And surprise: the people closest to the printing press always win the biggest prizes. Everyone else just gets inflation. We’re all playing a global, gargantuan game of Monopoly except the bank can print infinite money for its friends and reset the board whenever it wants. Meanwhile the rules only apply to the rest of us who aren’t on the inside. So study bitcoin. It’s the one asset that finally changes the game: fixed supply, no central banker can inflate it away, no permission required. It’s the exit from a corrupt system. Bitcoin isn’t about getting rich quick, it’s about not getting poor slowly.

YES—we don’t want open borders letting hundreds of thousands enter the U.S. undocumented each year. And YES—we don’t want paramilitary forces in our communities demanding “your papers” (with the occasional “please”). Time for a reasonable balance.

Bitcoin is more than just money. Bitcoin, like a mirror, reflects back the choices we make with humanity’s most finite resource: time. If I value bitcoin because it is perfectly scarce, why wouldn’t I treat my hours with the same reverence?

I don’t have anything to hide… …AND I don’t have anything to say. But I still value my privacy. ~~~ Own and control your digital life. Simplicity, self-sovereignty and privacy.

I just dropped $57 on one large pizza. Even for Mendocino, that’s wild inflation in action. But here’s the real scam: the pizza didn’t get “more expensive” — the dollar just got way weaker. When communities adopt bitcoin prices fall over time as your money gains value.

The future is coming at us fast and furious. Life will change out of all recognition. But then hasn’t it always.

As we kick off 2026 it’s time to wake up to the fact the world doesn’t operate with money anymore, it operates with currency — tokens created as debt and used as a proxy for money. Once you understand this system a lot of the chaos starts to make sense. Study bitcoin.

I used to think the ‘idea’ that is America was in jeopardy after Jan 6, after the financial crisis, after 9/11, after Iran Contra, after Watergate, after Vietnam, after JFK, after The Manhattan Project. But despite all that the idea remains.

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99% of us just want to live quietly, raise our kids, love our people and chase our dreams in peace. So why do we keep tolerating “leaders” who start wars, sow hatred, and treat entire populations like chess pieces? How much longer?

Inflation, often dismissed as a natural economic phenomenon, is in reality a subtle tax on your time and energy. Every hour you work, every ounce of effort you expend, is converted into currency that loses purchasing power over time due to deliberate policy decisions. Study bitcoin.

“Own and control your digital life. Simplicity, self-sovereignty and privacy.” Study bitcoin.

When Europeans arrived, Native American populations were overwhelmed. Now technology might overwhelm traditional American life: neighborly bonds and self-reliance replaced by screens, LLMs and Palantir. Own and control your digital life. Simplicity, self-sovereignty and privacy.

🇨🇭 Lugano, Switzerland has emerged as a rare example of citywide bitcoin adoption, where bitcoin is used for everything from buying coffee to paying taxes, purchasing from local merchant and tuition. Through its Plan ₿ initiative, launched in 2022, residents and businesses can pay with bitcoin via simple QR codes. Unlike credit cards, bitcoin fees are often below 1%. ⚡️ (Mendocino could do the same making bitcoin our local currency.)

Out here you can still live with most of the comforts of modern life… but you don’t have to.

If someone paid me for mowing their lawn in bitcoin and then I went to a local farmer and bought some raw milk with some of my bitcoin. Then say the farmer went to someone else and paid in bitcoin for some orchard grass for some of their horses…only some people would know about these transactions.

Looking for a last minute gift for your kids, your nieces, nephews? When I was a child my aunts and uncles gave me Treasury bonds. But my parents had to hold them, nobody remembered where they went, and of course with inflation they ended up being basically worthless. So here’s what I do today instead. STEP 1 I download a basic Bitcoin wallet app and create a separate wallet for each kid. STEP 2 I send about $50 of Bitcoin into each one. STEP 3 Each wallet has its own seed phrase. I print it out and give one copy to the parents, and I keep one backup. STEP 4 Then I print out the public address QR code, put it in a small picture frame, and give it to the child. So now they can scan it anytime and see their Bitcoin growing… but they can’t can spend it without their grownups’ permission. After that, I deleted the wallet app completely. The Bitcoin is only spendable via the seed phrase safety held by an adult. And every birthday, Christmas, Easter or whenever… I can just send more Bitcoin to that same address. Now they can watch their savings stack up for years.